The Mob Boss Is a Character in a Painting

Name: The Mob Boss Is a Character in a Painting
Author: Edamame Lover

黑老大是画中人物

by Edamame Lover (爱吃醋毛豆)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 169k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Modern Romance High-Concept
Updated: 1d ago
Source: Fanqie

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On a winter night when they were eighteen, Du Hechi hauled Shen Ningyuan out of the frozen river. Kneeling on one knee, he sneered, “If you’re fine, why keep going near the river? Trying to get yourself killed?” Shen Ningyuan shivered and looked up. “I wasn’t...” “Weren’t you?” He scoffed. “Want me to throw you back in and let you test the water temperature?” Everyone in the village said he was a thug who’d even hit his own father, and Shen Ningyuan believed them. Six years later, Shen Ningyuan returns home and sees him shot, collapsing outside the courthouse. An old painting, lost and then found again, brings the man from a year ago out of its canvas. Leaning against the window, he gives her a lazy glance. “What are you afraid of? I don’t eat people.” She grits her teeth and shoots back, “Du Hechi, don’t get too cocky! I’m not afraid of you anymore!” Later, she discovers that if she holds his hand and touches the painting, she can travel between two time periods. They return to the year Du Hechi is twenty-six and work together to find the real culprit. One late night, he looks down at her and asks, “Shen Ningyuan, if I’m not a bad man, will you give me a chance?” But the painting is burned by the culprit, and the two timelines return to their separate paths. He goes back to his own time. Three years later, he has become a superstar, his life still shrouded in a mystery no one can solve.

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