[Two strong leads + substitute + scumbag top + imprisonment + darkening + neither is chaste + mutual torment + rival-filled battle for love + groveling for forgiveness + reconciliation]
Wen Qiumo x Bai Xinghuai
Beautiful, venomous, possessive younger celebrity top × Gentle, refined, devoted older bottom
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Melodramatic version:
At twenty-six, Bai Xinghuai fell in love with Wen Qiumo at first sight. He forgot the woman he had once loved and secretly pined for Wen Qiumo for five years. When he finally got the chance to get close to him, the two of them tacitly began a game of hunting for “true love.” After all his devotion finally won the celebrity’s heart, Bai Xinghuai was dumped in the blink of an eye. “Mr. Bai, you lost this game. I got bored, so I threw you away.” Those words finally let Bai Xinghuai walk away as he had wanted. When all the handsome men heard the news, they seized the chance to compete for attention. One of Wen Qiumo’s younger associates even used his money to pursue his ex. The stubborn celebrity immediately gave in, clinging to Bai Xinghuai’s legs and begging him to take him back. “Xinghuai, I was wrong... I thought that having had you once would let me survive even if I returned to the darkness... But I’ve realized that without you, this world has no meaning...”
Bai Xinghuai: “Mr. Wen, is there such a thing as a regret pill?”
Wen Qiumo: “Sob, sob, there is... Of course there is!!”
Cute version:
A lonely kitty thinks anyone who gets close to him is a “bad guy,” but it turns out he’s actually his own little ray of sunshine. After falling in love with the perfect person, who accepts him, dotes on him, and truly cares for him, the kitty’s childhood sensitivity and suspicion, stubborn mouth and soft heart, explosive possessiveness, jealousy, and inability to understand love all lead him to sabotage things. They fall in and out of love three times, and though he knows he likes the other person, he can’t tell whether he loves him or just loves how perfect he is.
P.S. A slow-burn romance full of tension. The scumbag isn’t a scumbag in the traditional sense, and the angst is emotional, not physical~
