[Two Male Leads, Substitute, The Pursuit Turns into a Desperate Plea]
He was Shanghai’s shining jewel. To protect his family, he became the caged songbird of Lu Jinheng, the capital’s young heir apparent.
Everyone said Shen Qingci’s eyes looked just like those of the long-dead woman Lu Jinheng held dearest.
So the young heir kept him in the most extravagant gilded cage and honed him with the cruelest words: “Counterfeit,” “plaything,” “If you can’t imitate him, you’re worthless.”
Shen Qingci lowered his lashes, swallowed every humiliation, and smiled with gentle, broken sweetness.
He played the role of a man deeply in love, tolerating Lu Jinheng’s capricious possessiveness and humiliation without limits. He learned to play the departed woman’s favorite song on the anniversary of her death, and to endure everyone’s appraising, contemptuous looks at banquets.
Everyone sighed that the songbird had been stripped of his pride and thoroughly tamed.
Until the auction that rocked the capital’s social circle. To make his new lover smile, Lu Jinheng pushed Shen Qingci beneath the spotlight like a collectible. “Take a look. How much is this little toy of mine worth?”
Amid the laughter, Shen Qingci lifted his eyes and, for the first time in public, tore away his mask of devotion. His smile was more beautiful than anyone’s as he gently set his glass before Lu Jinheng.
“Mr. Lu, the show is over.”
Later, Lu Jinheng knelt in the pouring rain and searched the entire city, desperate to find the light he had shattered with his own hands.
By then, Shen Qingci had shed his youthful naivete and seized power. From the other side of the negotiating table, he met Lu Jinheng’s gaze calmly.
“Mr. Lu, who’s begging whom now?”
"He thought he had tamed a songbird. He never knew he had set the person he loved most free with his own hands."
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The plot is well written, but why is this book so poorly received? Among the forced love stories I have read recently, this one is good, but the exposure is a bit low, but the plot completion and logic are very good (although I don't like to watch stand-ins, this book is not a typical stand-in, and the subjects have their own subjective thoughts) It would be better if it was more exciting, author, come on!!!
The protagonist is really charming
It looks good, why isn't it popular? 😘😘