Both leads are virgins / domineering possessiveness / coercive pursuit / older man
(Male lead) Obsessive, passionately devoted X (Female lead) Cool and self-possessed white lotus
Everyone knew Jiang Yanzhou had the peculiar habit of looking at a painting every night before falling asleep.
But no one knew that the painting in his room was a self-portrait of his younger brother's fiancée.
One late night, in the studio at Meilin Villa.
The girl in the painting stood before an easel, focused as she mixed her colors.
She was quietly immersed in a golden glow, as cool and aloof as the crescent moon in the sky, noble and beautiful.
Jiang Yanzhou stood beneath a tree, watching her through the floor-to-ceiling window.
His usually stern features were filled with tenderness and affection he could hardly conceal.
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Jiang Yanzhou never claimed to be a gentleman.
At the Jiang family's succession banquet, he invited her to paint in front of him.
Shu Ran couldn't refuse. In the glass conservatory he'd arranged, she painted "Atop the Green Mountains."
When she laid down the final stroke, he approached in a black suit, tall and straight as a pine, with a clean-cut silhouette and a commanding presence.
He stopped in front of her and offered her a bouquet of white camellias. His movements were composed and steady, less like a gift than a silent coronation.
"Miss Shu, I like you."
Shu Ran jolted backward, her spine hitting the easel. Her paintbrush clattered to the floor.
She clenched her trembling fingertips, but couldn't hide the alarm in her eyes. "Mr. Jiang, you should understand the relationship between us."
Jiang Yanzhou's lips curved, madness and possessiveness surging in his eyes. "I don't understand."
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Only Shu Ran knew what Jiang Yanzhou, so cold and abstinent in public, was like in private.
He helped her escape her shackles, then pinned her in a corner night after night, taking her again and again.
He leaned close to her ear, his voice seductive. "I know better than he does how to cherish you."
Shu Ran had always thought she was the first to lose her heart in their tangled relationship.
She had no idea that his love for her had endured in quiet devotion for decades.
#Ten years are enough to transform a city. But I am still trapped at the point where I fell in love with you.
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October 3, 2025
Theme: Break the rules and love without restraint.
