[Possessive, coercive romance + over-the-top melodramatic Mary Sue fiction + clear-eyed surrender + cool, villainous heroine + dark, twisted love + Beijing elite families]
[Campus romance at first, then coercive urban romance; a true broken relationship that may not be mended, featuring a wicked heroine]
Everyone at St. John’s knew that scholarship student Jiang Zhao had a crush on the young heir of the Sheng family.
But on a humid summer night, unknown to anyone, the refined young man dropped to one knee and reverently kissed the girl’s cold fingertips.
“After graduation, be with me.”
The girl curled her lips, but the smile never reached her eyes. Her rising voice was sweet as honey.
“Sure.”
Later, news that shook all of Beijing’s Fourth District broke: the young master of Beijing’s elite had been sent to prison, and Jiang Zhao had vanished without a trace.
*
Jiang Zhao had only just returned to the country when her boyfriend brought her to a tech summit. Of course, she never imagined she would see Sheng Tingzheng again.
Her boyfriend spoke to him in a hushed, barely contained rush of excitement, introducing the product his company was about to launch in hopes of securing a place at this lavish gathering of the elite.
He probably never imagined that...
In the private lounge, its doors tightly shut, his girlfriend was pinned before a mirror by the Sheng heir, a man so aloof he seemed to desire nothing at all.
With his mask of hypocrisy torn away, he ravaged everything about her like a vicious wolf.
Sheng Tingzheng turned Jiang Zhao’s face toward him, almost grinding his teeth as he stared her down.
“The shade your boyfriend picked is far too light, Miss Jiang. Even your tears don’t make it show.”
[Emotionally detached, cold carnivorous flower X hypocritical, cruel, real stray dog]
