Love Is a Serious Mental Illness

Name: Love Is a Serious Mental Illness
Author: GREAT Li

爱是严重的精神病

by GREAT Li (GREAT离)

Status: Completed
Length: 209k Words
Genre: Two Male Leads
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

A restrained, poker-faced CEO top × a gentle, resilient employee bottom

In everyone else’s eyes, Zhou Shengzhi is the cold-faced CEO of the Zhoujin Group. At 28, he’s iron-fisted and never shows mercy.

His childhood friend, Jiang Zhaoyang, is 25 and a lowly copywriter at Zhoujin Group. Gentle, tough, and short on money, he’s the softest target in everyone’s eyes.

At work, Zhou Shengzhi insults him like a devil: “You’ve got three months. If you can’t do it, get lost.”

In private, he begs with all the angst of a tragic hero: “Let’s try dating.”

At the height of their passionate romance, Jiang Zhaoyang discovers Zhou Shengzhi’s arrangement with his father. It turns out their love was nothing but a wager: “If I can make Jiang Zhaoyang fall for me within three months, I win. If I lose, I’ll accept the marriage my family has arranged.”

Jiang Zhaoyang handed in his resignation and disappeared into the crowds heading north.

Only then did Zhou Shengzhi realize he’d won every negotiation, but never learned how to ask someone to come back.

Two years. Seven hundred and thirty days.

He waited through countless dusks downstairs, never daring to approach. He only said, “I was afraid you’d think I’d given up.”

TIPS:

Dual male leads, open ending leaning toward a happy ending (they reunite on a snowy night after a two-year promise);

Office romance, three-year age gap, a teacher-student power imbalance turns into a mutual journey toward each other;

“Those eyes you’re afraid of, I’ll shield you from them.” The most heart-tugging promise in the whole story.

[Some people spend twenty years learning to let go. Others spend two years learning to wait. And Jiang Zhaoyang finally understood that the lake was wonderful because someone believed in him first.]

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6.7Score

112Shelves

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