Name: Listening to Zen Night After Night, Desire Awakens with Every Step
Author: A Passing Guest in the Flow of Time

Synopsis

#Tomato's most tempting Buddhist-monk romance#Qipao beauty vs. unhinged monk#Captivity/stand-in/agonizing regret#From Buddha to demon

🩸 The night he snapped his prayer beads, I knew that this Buddha of mine was filthy through and through. 🩸

Everyone says Shen Tingchan is the cleanest man in Beiping.

He devotes himself to meditation in the Buddhist hall and avoids women. Even the prayer beads around his wrist are steeped in sandalwood incense.

Until that night of torrential rain, when he pinned me against the scriptures and crushed a bodhi seed between his fingers.

“Why pretend?” He bit down on my bloodstained qipao and sneered. “Three years ago in Jiangnan, hadn't you already made me break my vows?”

✨ I am Wen Yu, the star singer at the Paramount. My qipao is slit up to my hip, and my lips are as red as blood.

✨ He is Shen Tingchan, the second son of the Shen family, a “holy monk” who has spent years meditating in the Buddhist hall, his prayer beads never leaving his wrist.

Everyone thinks I, a wicked temptress, defiled the monk.

But they don't know this:

On that rainy night in Jiangnan three years ago, he was the one who first slipped open my collar.

And he was the one who personally delivered me into the clutches of a Japanese officer.

I play my hand one step at a time, setting fire to his heart again and again with the most dazzling makeup and the most seductive songs.

Night after night, he listens to Buddhist chants and crushes his prayer beads, kissing the birthmark on my shoulder inch by inch beneath the Buddha's downcast gaze.

“Wen Yu, you are my only sin.”

“So in this life, you can only come with me... and sink into eternal torment.”

Later, I set fire to the Buddhist hall.

As the flames soared into the sky, he pulled my half-burned old photograph from the inferno.

His trembling kiss landed on the charred edges. At last, the man tore off his monk's robes and revealed the madman beneath:

“You won...”

“I was never a Buddha.”

…

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