Addicted to You

Shen Qingli was in love with Gu Heng for eight years without telling him. They slept together once, and afterwards she asked him to pay her for the night, which is the part she came to regret most. He came back for more of it. The nights went on, and in daylight he passed her like a stranger. Then an engagement was arranged for him, and Shen Qingli cut it off between them. She thought that was the end of it and that they could part quietly. Instead he took her back to the Gu house in Beijing. Old grudges in that family surfaced while she was there and the household came apart in a single night. Gu Heng, hurt, sent her away from it. After that he kept turning up wherever she had got into trouble, pulling her out of one thing after another, while she went on assuming she was a plaything he could put down whenever he wanted.