[Small-town story × rekindled love × possessive romance × unhinged male lead × female lead who’s awful without realizing it]
Can’t keep up with the cutthroat college entrance exam competition in Hangzhou? Her parents ship Yu Haitang off to her snowy hometown in Heilongjiang to prepare for the exams. On her very first day at her new school, she sets her sights on Shen Si, an icy top student with stunning looks and a reputation for brutal fights.
She keeps flirting with him. “Hey, you’ve got snow on your eyelashes.” All she gets in return is a frosty, “Stay away from me.”
Yu Haitang only gets bolder with every setback. When osmanthus cakes fail to lure him to her desk, she trades him tutoring notes for the chance to walk home with him. Then he gets hurt fighting for her, and she licks the blood from the corner of his mouth, smiling like a temptress. “Can I kiss you now?”
At last, the ice melts, and their love blazes out of control. But just before the college entrance exams, an offer from a prestigious university overseas suddenly arrives. Shen Si smashes a glass in the tattoo parlor, his eyes bloodshot. “If you leave, don’t ever come back.”
Eight years later, she returns from America, and he’s now a renowned psychiatrist. He looks cool and restrained in his white coat, but when he pins her against the office wall, he reveals the ferocious tattoo on his waist: a snake coiled around a begonia, just like the possessive love that has sunk into his bones.
“Yu Haitang,” he murmurs with a dangerous breath, biting her earlobe. “I told you, if you dared to leave, don’t come back.”
