[Angsty romantic drama x painful pursuit after a breakup x extreme push and pull x nonstop snark]
For three years, Li Que was Lu Xiao’s perfect assistant, all for the money. Then he realized that the way the young heir of Beijing’s elite looked at him was growing more and more unhinged, his possessiveness nearly out of control. Li Que promptly handed in his resignation, ending things cleanly with money paid and services rendered.
To make him come back, the usually arrogant Lu Xiao wrenched the steering wheel at an underground racetrack, sending his sports car crashing in a blaze of destruction. He hoped that a bloodied, self-sacrificing act would soften Li Que’s heart. But Li Que hated him for treating his life like a game. “I wish I’d never met you,” he said coldly, draining half the life out of Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao went off to Southeast Asia, enduring a life amid gunfire and bullets while desperately suppressing the urge to go looking for him.
A month later, he heard that someone at Li Que’s new company had slapped him, and flew home that very night.
When they met again, Lu Xiao was covered in the stench of blood. Eyes red, he stamped the person who’d bullied Li Que underfoot, like a mad dog guarding its food.
This time, he wanted neither pride nor dignity. He wanted only Li Que.
Standing on his victim, he glared viciously. “I’m right here. Let’s see who dares lay a finger on Li Que.”
Then he turned to Li Que, his hostility vanishing, his voice gentle and ingratiating. “Why are you frowning? Is your stomach hurting again? Don’t be mad. I’ll get you some medicine.”
[Content warning: Neither character is perfect, and both have had relationships with women.]
