* A greedy, timid, avoidant sweetheart x a creepy, brooding, yandere trust-fund heir
* Touch starvation x severe separation anxiety
* Mildly coercive love / powerful man lowers his head / getting back together after a breakup / secret identity revealed / intense push and pull
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During her year as an exchange student at Princeton, Shen Shiwei met a man.
He was a beautiful, refined mixed-race man, exceptionally handsome, courteous and well-mannered. But he came from a tragic background, and had only managed to seize the chance to study abroad thanks to a full scholarship and several part-time jobs.
Other than being poor, he had no flaws.
His looks bewitched her. She became interested, approached him first, and grew addicted to his touch.
They began dating.
Their physical compatibility made her more and more satisfied with the relationship. Hugs, kisses, and intimate contact were her cure-all, and she was practically addicted.
Six months later, Shen Shiwei suddenly realized that he was a lunatic with a sky-high need for control and possessiveness.
The night she decisively broke up with him, the cold, hard barrel of a gun touched her soft neck. He held her in his arms and let out a low, eerie laugh. "Baby, if you say those two words again, I'll die right here in this bed."
"And besides," he said with a smile, his cool fingertips, roughened with calluses, stroking her trembling skin, "can this body of yours really live without me?"
The girl trembled in his arms. He kissed the tear-stained lashes over her eyes.
"Good girl."
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What she didn't know was that he hadn't been born poor at all. He was the eldest son of the Lester family, one of the most powerful aristocratic families on the East Coast. He was immensely influential, a man who lived at the very top of the pyramid.
Her homeland was so vast that she thought if she returned home, there was no way he could find her.
The fiancé her family had arranged for her had been secretly in love with her for years. Shen Shiwei thought perhaps she could try having a normal relationship.
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One day, a month later, she turned on the projector and curled up on the sofa, ready to enjoy a movie.
The projector malfunctioned. The white screen crackled with static and filled with garbled characters.
She was about to restart it when a dense wall of text suddenly appeared on the screen.
She leaned closer to look. All the blood in her body turned to ice, and she froze on the sofa, unable to move.
A figure emerged from the dark room. Smiling, he wrapped his arms around her from behind and whispered in her ear like a ghost, "My good baby, it's been so long."
The cross on his chest, the symbol of a believer, pressed coldly against the side of her trembling, delicate neck.
She remembered that the cross had been stained with blood.
"Watching the movie I invested in? Have you been missing me so much you can't sleep?"
"And who gave that useless thing permission to touch you?"
On the huge screen, red words on a black background burned into her trembling eyes.
[I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you, baby]
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* The male lead is creepy and twisted, with severe separation anxiety. He's a thoroughly rotten seed, a mad dog through and through. The female lead has touch starvation and is physically addicted to him, but refuses to give in emotionally. Expect intense push and pull and mildly coercive scenes. The male lead is devoted to her in both body and heart.
* The female lead and the second male lead will hold hands and kiss, but they won't sleep together.
* The setting is fantastical and exaggerated, not grounded in reality. Please don't compare it to real life.
* The blurb was screenshotted and documented on 11/15.
Theme: Uphold the right values