Gu Mo and Song Jiao were childhood sweethearts with a deep bond, but after they married, Song Jiao rarely appeared in public.
Gu Mo didn't like other people seeing his wife. He wanted to hide her away and keep her all to himself, and he wanted her to devote herself entirely to him.
He wanted to melt her into his body and never be parted from her.
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I'm currently writing A Tender Warmth. Please add it to your reading list. Here's the blurb:
Cool and detached heroine x male lead who pretends to be gentle at first, then becomes genuinely unhinged
Song Nuan was cool and reserved, and rarely got close to people. But her exceptionally beautiful face attracted plenty of admirers, and it was common for people to slip her notes on the street.
Being beautiful yet poor was a misfortune. More than a few wealthy playboys wanted to pluck this flower from its lofty heights.
Shen Shiqin was a refined scion of one of the top families in the capital. Yet he had none of the arrogance or haughty airs you'd expect. He was gentle and courteous, and everyone who spent time with him felt as if a spring breeze were blowing. People praised him as a gentleman of the modern age.
No one would have expected that these two, who barely interacted in public and seemed quite distant from each other, were inseparable in private.
At the dining table, he chatted and laughed with everyone. Under the table, though, he pressed his long leg against her calf by the chair leg, gently rubbing back and forth.
On the second-floor balcony, the fluttering curtains hid their figures. She braced herself against his chest, gripping his collar until it was wrinkled, and recalled their less-than-pleasant first meeting.
The first time, he brought flowers for her roommate and mistook her for someone else. She smiled and helped him deliver them to her roommate.
Later, they met beneath a streetlight. Song Nuan had just returned from a bar, reeking of alcohol. Perhaps in keeping with his gentlemanly nature, he warned her, "Don't let the city's splendor blind you."
Song Nuan's smile vanished, anger rising in her heart. He thought she was selling herself! She looked at Shen Shiqin, an unusual shadow passing through her eyes.
What to do? She was angry... so she decided to weave a net to ensnare him...
They were together for three years, and no one knew about their relationship. They had never become part of each other's lives.
After seeing with her own eyes the fiancee the Shen family had chosen for him, Song Nuan felt hollow for the first time and remembered the bouquet that had almost been delivered to the wrong person.
The wife Shen Shiqin wanted must be like the woman who was supposed to receive those flowers!
She could see his hesitation, and she didn't want to be the choice he made after weighing the pros and cons. Besides, their relationship had begun in a shameful way, born of the damp darkness in her heart. She smiled as she always did. "Shen Shiqin, you're nothing special after all. Let's part on good terms."
Shen Shiqin, who was always composed, initially thought she was joking. But when he saw how serious she was, he said quietly, "All right."
Shen Shiqin had a family background and looks beyond compare. He had always followed a set path, and had long imagined his future partner: a woman from an equal family, elegant in manner, virtuous and gracious.
But from the moment he first met Song Nuan, he stopped acting like himself. As time passed, he understood himself less and less. Then Song Nuan asked to break up, and he thought he could return to the path he'd always planned to follow. It seemed he had lost all reason... He only wanted to keep her trapped by his side.
In other people's eyes, he was as gentle and refined as jade, with the bearing of a gentleman from the Wei and Jin dynasties. But only he knew that wasn't true.
It was all an act, and the first person to see through him was his Xiaonuan.
This is a story of pride and prejudice.
One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced
Content warning: The roommate plotline has more to it than meets the eye.
The relationship between the leads is normal, and the heroine did not come between the hero and her roommate.
I want to write a story about a man who abandons all his principles after meeting the heroine.
Blurb saved on April 20, 2025
Theme: Find your true self
