Infamous

★★★ Dog-blood drama | Enemies in love | A rotten man's sincere love | Everyone's a villain | An eye for an eye - Free to read in full. The companion novel in the Lu Li series is now underway. If you're interested, please check it out on my profile! Back when superstar Gu Jinsheng refused to take over the family business and had just returned to China to make his debut, he hired an assistant named Xiao Cheng. Xiao Cheng seemed gloomy, but he was truly beautiful. His taste was terrible, though, and he was always wearing a baseball cap that hid his face. But Gu Jinsheng loved teasing him. Xiao Cheng was so much fun. All it took was a little eye contact, and he'd blush and stammer over his words. In the artists' dressing room, Gu Jinsheng would sometimes prop his chin on his hand and watch Xiao Cheng bustle around, thinking to himself: This guy can't actually have a crush on me, can he? A nobody of an assistant, daring to covet a superstar adored by everyone? Know your place. Gu Jinsheng was the sort of man who wanted it all. No matter how nasty a thought was, he never held on to it for more than three days. After that night of drinking, a tipsy Gu Jinsheng was in his van when he specifically asked Xiao Cheng to take him back to the hotel. The door clicked shut. Gu Jinsheng sat on the edge of the bed, unzipped his pants, and planted the gleaming toe of his leather shoe on the other man's shoulder. "Take off that hat." "Open your mouth." "Don't know how? Want me to teach you?" * Gu Jinsheng couldn't quite remember how Xiao Cheng eventually quit. It was probably because he'd wanted a proper relationship and an explanation for that brief taste they'd shared that night. "You only touched me with your mouth once, and you think you can ask me to date you? You want to ferry me around on that beat-up electric scooter of yours and leave me out in the cold?" "I don't date. Give up, Xiao Zhang... No, Xiao Cheng. That's your name, right?" "Change out of those tacky clothes. And stop wearing that huge hat every day. I can't even see your face. What a waste of a pretty face." Not long after, Xiao Cheng disappeared completely. Good. He'd only been an insignificant passerby to begin with. If they weren't seeing each other, Gu Jinsheng couldn't even remember what Xiao Cheng looked like. Until two years later, at a private club. Among all the distinguished guests, Gu Jinsheng took just one look to pick out a man. The man was the CEO of a publicly listed entertainment company, dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, with an exquisite profile. When their eyes met, the man's gaze was full of flirtatious ambiguity, at once distant and inviting, resisting and yielding. "Mr. Gu, it's our first time meeting. I'm Lu Yingcheng. Pleased to meet you." As they shook hands, Lu Yingcheng deliberately squeezed his hand. At first, Gu Jinsheng didn't understand what it meant. But later... When Lu Yingcheng kept him pinned beneath him day and night. When Lu Yingcheng stood over him and locked him inside the house... "My superstar of the universe, back then you thought I was tacky, poor, and beneath you. You said I didn't even deserve the right to love you." "Now..." Lu Yingcheng leisurely removed his watch, stepped closer, and patted the cheek of the man before him. "Tell me, am I good enough to make you cry?" Only then did Gu Jinsheng realize, too late and in despair: He'd managed to hook his own comeuppance with a single glance, amid a sea of people. A superstar playboy villain bottom x a darkened, returned CEO top Gu Jinsheng (bottom) x Lu Yingcheng (top) #The superstar playboy thought he'd found an interesting new prey, never realizing he'd provoked the old enemy who'd been thinking about him for two whole years I remember you said you never date. You're right. This isn't dating. Gu Jinsheng, this is punishment. Reading guide: 1. After being driven to desperation by piracy, I'm making the whole novel free, not putting it behind a paid subscription or monthly membership. I'll write whenever I feel like it and update whenever I can. It's free, so please, please don't look for pirated copies online. Support the original. This one's free! (crying) 2. They only went a little further than a taste two years ago. They didn't actually do it. They absolutely do not switch roles. HE. 3. Gu Jinsheng is a shameless playboy and a villain. This is a story of twisted love and a rotten man's sincere feelings, with both of them equally messed up and devoted. Xie Shiyao and his husband make guest appearances. Gu Jinsheng is loyal to his friends but awful to his lovers. He's promiscuous early on but faithful later, and his husband is pure in both body and heart. If Gu Jinsheng gets on your nerves early in the story, you can read The Brotherly Bond next door first. Little Gu has already been thoroughly tamed in that one. But even if you haven't read it, it won't affect your enjoyment at all. 5. (Important) Not suitable for readers who are strictly devoted to either role. The plot is dense, so skipping chapters is not recommended. Archived: 2025.12.11 The next novel in the companion series, Wanton, is now open for preorders. Still enemies in love, still with an older partner, still a straight man turned bottom, still dark and twisted, still wildly melodramatic, still a storm of love and hatred, still a very dominant bottom, still a top with a bit of a ghostly vibe, still an unhealthy, mutual descent into madness, still unable to live without each other. (Yes, that's right. It's the twisted fantasy of my evil personality.) ★★★ Dog-blood drama | Enemies in love | A storm of love and hatred | A rotten man's sincere love | Modern setting (building up a backlog, please add it to your favorites) Rich second-generation heir Lu Li had enjoyed a smooth life from the moment he was born. His family owned the biggest golf course in the area, he had more sports cars than he could count, he was handsome with a roguish edge, and he debuted as the center of a boy band. And on his back, hidden along the groove of his spine, he had a tattoo in the shape of an entire spinal column. Starting at the nape of his neck, it followed the line of his real spine, vertebra by vertebra, fitting perfectly all the way down until it disappeared at his waist. Whenever he walked the red carpet and his shirt collar slipped down half an inch, a glimpse of the tattoo would appear. The shamelessly flashy Lu Li was convinced he had more than enough resources to do whatever he pleased, including squander other people's sincere feelings. Until the day his father was sent to prison, his family went bankrupt, and he was left facing a quiet industry blacklist and two hundred million in debt. With no money to repay it, Lu Li lost his head and panicked like an ant on a hot pan. Luckily, outside the loan company, he saw Zhou Yu leaning against a Ferrari with his hands in his pockets, smiling at him. * Zhou Yu had once truly loved Lu Li. When they were schoolchildren, Lu Li would often bring him breakfast, then take him to play pool after school. At an age when he didn't even understand what love was, Zhou Yu could only see Lu Li's electrifying eyes. Lu Li, perceptive as he was, saw right through that hazy admiration. He took advantage of it. What started with Lu Li ordering Zhou Yu around like a lackey gradually turned into a campaign of abuse. "Crawl over here." "Get down on your knees at my feet." "What, Zhou Yu? You got a problem with that?" Looking down at him, Lu Li gripped Zhou Yu's chin. "Come on, look up at me. Take a good look into my eyes. Baby, is this the first time you've realized how cruel I can be?" That year-long ordeal cost Zhou Yu many things. Most of all, it made him lose his birth mother forever. In the pouring rain, a bruise Lu Li had given Zhou Yu darkened the corner of his mouth. Alone in the world and an orphan, Zhou Yu inherited the two hundred million his birth mother had left him that rainy night. * Two years later, Zhou Yu moved into a bamboo hut near a temple. Each day, he devoted himself to worshipping Buddha, fingering prayer beads, and copying sutras. He buried his hatred beneath the ancient Buddha and the dim lamp, ate vegetarian food, wore long robes, took online classes, and lived alone. Everyone thought he'd let go. Until someone pushed open the door of that bamboo hut. "Just help me out. There's a golden opportunity to make Lu Li's life worse than death. Zhou Yu, are you in?!" Zhou Yu didn't answer. He only stared coldly at the Buddha statue before him and sat there all night. At dawn, the sound of prayer beads snapping rang through the room. Sandalwood beads scattered across the floor. Zhou Yu swept his loose hair back, put on a tailored suit, ground the beads under his leather shoes, and picked up his Ferrari keys. At eight in the morning, a white Ferrari F12 pulled up in front of a tattoo shop. The tattoo artist had never met a young man with a presence as striking as Zhou Yu's. "Hey, you're here for a tattoo this early?" Zhou Yu looked down and smiled. "No." "I'm getting a pearl inserted." For my dearest enemy. Baby, all beings are equal. From today on, welcome to my hell. A gorgeous, shameless, rich playboy and villain bottom x a seemingly ascetic but constantly relapsing, domineering top Lu Li (bottom) x Zhou Yu (top) Is this the first time you've realized how cruel I can be? That's odd. You can take the bead, so how come you just can't take my love for you? Reading guide: 1. There are school-life scenes early on. The bottom doesn't have long hair, but he wears a wig for a magazine cover after he becomes an adult and instantly turns into a long-haired beauty. 2. The bottom is the male star who wanted to sleep with our Jinsheng in Notorious (the center of his boy band), and the older brother of Lu Ming, who kidnapped Xie Shiyao in The Brotherly Bond. The previous protagonists will make guest appearances, but you can absolutely, absolutely, absolutely enjoy this story without having read the others. Theme: Be a good person, no matter what