The Desensitization Scam

Zhou Yan and Yao Shujia live across the hall from each other. Childhood friends, they never shared the carefree closeness of other kids. It's as if they were born to be polar opposites.

Zhou Yan is a genius, handsome, and top of his class. He's the pride of teachers and parents alike, surrounded by admirers and shining brightly.

Yao Shujia, on the other hand, is so ordinary: neither clever nor pretty. Beside the dazzling Zhou Yan, she's like a dull, coarse grain of sand.

Yao Shujia is willing to accept her mediocrity, but her parents aren't.

Zhou Yan has seen every moment of her misery and humiliation.

When she's made to kneel in the snow and freezing cold with a test paper marked 80 in her hands, the delicate, handsome little boy stands in front of her, his eyes as lovely as amber glass, and asks innocently, “Yao Shujia, how can you be so stupid? That test was so easy, and you still didn't get full marks.”

She's also secretly heard the haughty boy lean back and tease her lazily, “Yao Shujia gets yelled at and punished at home every day. She can't even do those easy problems. I can hear it all next door, and I'm sick of it. Sometimes I really want to move.”

From then on, everyone sees her as stupid and hopeless at school, a reputation that follows her throughout her student years. No one knows how sensitive and fragile the girl really is.

Yao Shujia hates her parents, and she hates Zhou Yan too. She really does.

She struggles to break free, escaping her family and leaving behind the shadow Zhou Yan cast over her youth.

They lose touch for many years, until their jobs bring them together again.

Zhou Yan is still the golden boy: successful in his career, mature and dependable, with a steady stream of admirers around him. He pays them no mind.

Yao Shujia knows she's ill, and badly so. She approaches Zhou Yan with secret, dark intentions, only to discover that he doesn't mind her deliberate advances. And so they fall into a flirtation, start dating, and move in together, as naturally as any couple in love.

Zhou Yan proposes to her.

“I only meant to desensitize myself and get better. You're the one who insisted on throwing yourself at me.”

After they marry, Zhou Yan's home gains a lady of the house. His wife is gentle and thoughtful, soft-spoken, and always looks at him with such focused attention.

They live together, cook together, bathe together, sleep together, and share the most intimate moments. He loves the life they share, and only then realizes his feelings can burn so fiercely.

Just as he thinks they can spend the rest of their lives together, his wife asks for a divorce. No matter how desperately Zhou Yan begs, she refuses to turn back.

Zhou Yan refuses to divorce her, no matter what, until one day he accidentally sees her chat history with her therapist...

Zhou Yan completely loses it.

He had everything from a young age: success, pride, and arrogance. He had never once lowered his eyes to see the pain of the person who loved him then.

So her love had been disguised as hatred all along.

“The moon in the sky turns out to be nothing special after all.”

A dark-hearted heroine who wants to pluck the untouchable flower just to try it, then toss him aside × a golden boy who falls off his pedestal and hates that he isn't a dog

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Powerful man loses control and turns obsessive | domineering pursuit | brothers fight over her | a story of stealing someone's partner by force | After getting entangled with two gloomy, unhinged men

Cheerful, sunny girl × domineering, brooding old-money heir

Ni Jin only dated once during her four years at university. Her boyfriend was handsome and gentle, and they had a sweet, happy relationship.

It wasn't until senior year, just before graduation, when Qiao Guanyi brought her home to meet his parents that Ni Jin discovered what kind of vast and powerful old-money family her boyfriend belonged to. She had always thought he was merely from an ordinary A9 family.

Qiao Guanyi first took her to meet his eldest brother, the next head of this elite, powerful family.

The moment she met him, she saw his deep, cold gaze.

He really didn't like her.

Ni Jin: I'm doomed. Looks like I can't escape the curse of breaking up around graduation. And I might even get the “Here's five million. Leave my brother” treatment!

Qiao Guanting is the heir to the Qiao family of the capital, a golden boy who has stood at the top of the pyramid since childhood. He easily obtains everything others could spend their entire lives reaching for.

He's overbearing, obsessive, domineering, and recklessly arrogant. If he wants something, he gets it.

He wants his younger brother's girlfriend.

He's wanted her ever since he first saw her. It might be a little difficult.

But if Qiao Guanting wants something, Qiao Guanting has to get it.

Qiao Guanting: “We're all ghosts wearing masks. Why should he be the one who gets to kiss the sunshine?”

Theme: Strive to live positively and head toward the light.