"My Youth, I Fed the Dogs", also known as: "Gardenia Blossoms". This is a story about a "toxic relationship."
It attempts to answer a question: Why would a sane adult forgive a person who has repeatedly hurt him over and over again?
The answer lies in those seemingly insignificant details - her adoring eyes, her fragile tears, her just-right show of weakness, her irresistible dependence. This is not a simple "male protagonist is stupid and female protagonist is scumbag", but a carefully designed PUA in the name of love, and an intricate power game between the perpetrator and the victim.
At the same time, this is also a story about "dignity". When a person stakes all of his self-worth on a relationship, his dignity becomes hostage in the hands of the other person. Lin Zhou's tragedy is not only that he fell in love with someone who is not worthy of love, but also that he forgot himself in love.
