[Marriage first, love later + extreme push and pull + madness and imprisonment + groveling redemption + both leads are inexperienced + HE]
(A clear-eyed Black Lotus heroine and a possessive, obsessive, and unstable hero)
Also known as: “After Falling from His Pedestal, the Cold CEO Drops the Act and Becomes a Dark, Deranged Obsessive”
(PS: The story really gets going in Chapter 13.)
In Jin Gang,
everyone says the marriage between the Lin and Gu families was forced by the Lin daughter, and that the Gu heir never wanted it.
But what was the truth?
Someone else was the one who couldn't let go.
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In the third year of their marriage,
Lin Xiangwan drops her sweet-and-naive act and reveals her true Black Lotus nature.
The divorce papers bring her revenge to an end, but mark the beginning of Gu Yucheng's relentless pursuit.
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At the start of the story, Gu Yucheng is distant and cold. But after being proven wrong again and again, he goes from disdain to wanting nothing but to possess her completely.
Later, when the divorce papers are laid before him, he loses control.
“That's right, I'm a madman, a madman who can't live without you!”
He uses her guilt to lock her back at his side.
Later still, he goes mad with jealousy and imprisons her on an island.
“You once said... I was like a lonely island. That's fine by me. At least I want you and me to be the only ones on this island.”
The island rises and falls with the tides, as love and resentment intertwine and ebb and flow.
