[Mutual devotion + obsessive love + healing and redemption + long-laid plans]
A cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside older woman who’s starved for affection × a powerful, wealthy man who dotes on her obsessively and leads a double life
After Xie Xue hurts herself during a manic episode, she collapses into bed and falls asleep.
In the middle of the night, someone opens her front door. A man enters and expertly tends to her wounds.
[Why did my wife hurt herself again? It breaks my heart.]
[I miss my wife so much. I want to be with her forever.]
[I scared my wife today. I’ll punish myself with ten slaps.]
Xie Xue opens the latest message she’s received. It contains a video.
She plays it. A man is kneeling in a prop room, his muscular back making her blood rush. A leather collar encircles his neck, and he has his back to the phone camera.
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Sitting on a speeding motorcycle, Xie Xue clings tightly to the man who visits her only in the dead of night.
[You’re already this twisted. Are you twisted enough to marry me?]
[Meet me outside the Civil Affairs Bureau at ten tomorrow morning.]
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After Yu’s mother slapped her with a check, Xie Xue chose not to take the money and run.
She used it to buy a house in a quiet village, then locked herself and her son inside.
[No one can tear us apart. You’re not allowed to leave me. We’ll be together for the rest of our lives.]
[Then let’s be together forever.]
[I love you so much. I really, really love you.]
[You’re a lunatic. Lucky for you, I’m one too. I love lunatics.]
Not bad. I like this kind of subject matter. The only drawback is that it's not over yet. Please hurry up 🥺