Who Is the Real Prey?

Weibo and Xiaohongshu: Guan Zhong Is Always 100 Jin

1.

At first, Zhou Yiting was Zhong Qing's boss. She would get reprimanded whenever she made a mistake, and she was afraid of him.

Later, his role changed. If she didn't do as she was told, she would be punished, and she became even more afraid of him.

Meeting Zhou Yiting was the story of Zhong Qing's life: a life in which she was both tamed and redeemed.

Zhou Yiting had always felt that in his utterly dull life, Zhong Qing was his finest creation. Sweet and obedient, she became a vessel for his base desires and unspoken affection, and he was willing to sacrifice his soul for her.

2.

Zhong Qing was born under the unluckiest star. Her father didn't love her, her mother didn't care for her, and she was poor, insecure, and sensitive. Her senior and boss, on the other hand, was one of the chosen few: born into a prominent family, aloof and untouchable, with a sharp tongue and a life of absolute ease.

Life was so unfair. She was insanely jealous.

At first, the chosen one couldn't stand the sight of her.

“Bookworm.”

“Are you really that stupid?”

“Just freeloading until you die.”

If I can't afford to offend him, I can at least stay out of his way. Zhong Qing wisely kept ten meters between herself and Zhou Yiting.

But then, one day, the aloof beauty suddenly started keeping an eye on her, and he was incredibly strict.

“At my place, disobedience comes at a price.”

“You must be completely honest with me.”

“I won't accept any refusal or questioning. Can you do that?”

Zhong Qing had never felt that anyone cared about her, not once in her life. With Zhou Yiting, she found a strange sense of security. He was stern, domineering, and intensely controlling, but he was also the one who pulled her out of the mire time and again.

She began to depend on him, trust him, and obey him. Until she had walked right into the web Zhou Yiting had spun for her, handing him complete control over her.

Only then did she finally understand.

He was a paragon in public, but a monster in private.

3.

Zhong Qing thought she had done a good job hiding her feelings for Zhou Yiting, until one day, drunk, she somehow found the nerve to answer his teasing questions.

He promised her a New Year's gift. Gazing at the handsome man before her, she put on her most obedient expression and said the most outrageous thing.

“I want to… kiss you. Just once. May I?”

She thought she was doomed.

But on the other end of the sofa, Zhou Yiting merely curved his lips and patted his thigh.

“Come here. Sit down and kiss me.”

Later, when he teased her, he said without a trace of shame, “Weren't you the one who came on to me first?”

4.

Zhou Yiting had always known he wasn't a good person. He was twisted, despicable, and fiercely possessive. His excessively respectable life forced him to hide these true feelings beneath a polished facade.

Then one day, he realized that his silly little junior seemed awfully easy to bully. She was like a blank page full of potential, and he couldn't help wanting to dirty it.

His carefully restrained desire to control and destroy her began to surface, little by little.

And her? Even when she was terribly upset, all she could do was look at you with pleading eyes. Even when she cried after being bullied, she would still cautiously burrow into your arms.

She brought out the vilest desires in him, and he spoiled her until she was completely beyond his control. The more she was like that, the more he wanted to make her cry even harder.

What a heavenly gift.

She should belong to him, bound by him and protected by him.

5.

As a committed bachelor, Zhou Yiting had always been perfectly clear-eyed about what he was like in a relationship: he was no good.

His attitude toward Zhong Qing was equally straightforward.

Find the prey, keep it in sight, approach it, tame it, devour it.

But looking back,

he was the one who lost control,

he was the one driven mad with jealousy,

and he was the one who kept breaking his own rules and principles.

So,

who was the real prey?

Content warnings:

1. The male lead is awful and seriously twisted.

2. The male lead is powerful and the female lead is weak. Because of their significant status gap, the female lead is meek at first.

3. Written for the author's own enjoyment. If it's not your thing, don't read it.

4. If this is your thing, just enjoy the show. Thanks!

Theme: Break free from constraints and grow in a healthy way.