The Sharp-Tongued Little Cutie and Her Grumpy Doctor

(If you don’t like it, don’t read.) He is the canary he carefully keeps, and the one vulnerability that makes him lose control. Perhaps every cage is first built from tenderness. Lin You, an online novelist who grew up an orphan, is sensitive and insecure, yet is kept at home by Jiang Chen, a favored son of heaven. He craves the warmth and protection Jiang Chen gives him. Jiang Chen controls everything, from the taste of every meal to his social circle. He claims him with forceful possessiveness, yet speaks the clumsiest words of love. Then, during a bout of cold war, Lin You hears Jiang Chen chuckle to a friend: “He’s useful to me. He’s very obedient.” Every mask of false peace shatters. Lin You leaves with his suitcase, thinking he can cut off their unequal relationship. But the man who had always looked down on him is panicked for the first time. He chases after him in the middle of the night, struggling to stay calm as his voice trembles: “Who said I was keeping you?” “Lin You, what I’ve given you was never charity. It was favoritism, a love even I never expected to feel… I can’t live without you.” When the canary decides to fly away, the keeper who built the cage finally understands: It was never money or power that held the other captive. It was his own heart, already lost beyond return. [Reader’s Guide] · Possessive Gong with a sharp tongue and a soft heart × sensitive, insecure, quick-witted Shou who grows into himself · Chasing-his-wife-to-the-crematorium | Class differences | Mutual healing | Bittersweet everyday life · From a “kept lover” misunderstanding to “I can’t live without you,” love learns how to respect.