[Yiping, I’m Not a Good Person]

When she advances, he retreats. When she retreats, he goes mad. She seems like a sweet, peachy glutinous rice ball, but in truth she’s a schemer with flexible moral standards. The male lead knows full well that the female lead is selfish and only using him, yet he still falls madly in love with her. She is Lu Yiping, and has never been anyone else. Everyone knows about her romance with He Shuhuan, but the secret surrender in the dead of night comes from the doctor of music He Shuhuan personally entrusted with her care. Caught between Yiping and Ruping, He Shuhuan is at a loss. After yet another argument, Yiping is so distraught that it takes a toll on her health. He asks Yin Chu, an old family friend who has always been restrained and proper, to look after Yiping’s health and soothe her frayed nerves. But this act of entrusting her care slowly gives rise to an intimacy that crosses the line. In the eyes of outsiders, Yin Chu is utterly pure, a doctor of music respected throughout Shanghai. Only Lu Yiping knows that Yin Chu kept himself chaste all his life, and it was with her that he became tainted. Yin Chu wants to be a saint who observes propriety, but he wants even more to be hers. The day the two of them finally put the past behind them, He Shuhuan completely lost it. “Yiping is the woman I love!” Holding her, Yin Chu replied lazily, “Not anymore.” “What do you take her for?” Yin Chu: “Your sister-in-law.” “You were the one who brought her to me and begged me to take care of her.” Yin Chu had never once humbled himself in his life, until Lu Yiping dumped him without warning. The man who had always carried himself with noble dignity gripped her wrist and knelt by the bed, the corners of his eyes bloodshot. “You lured me onto this improper path, and now you’re bored?” “Lu Yiping, even when you toy with people’s hearts, you never see things through.” “You once said you wanted a gentleman of impeccable manners to kneel and bow before you.” “I’m willing now. I’m only asking you to pick me back up…”