How to Tame Your Ex-Boyfriend, the Client

Shen Yan is a beautiful painter praised by the outside world as gentle as jade. When his mother gets cancer, he is forced to give up painting to raise money for her medical bills and takes a job as a personal assistant to a wealthy family.

On his first day in the household, he meets Ji Huali, the family's illegitimate son.

Ji Huali kneels on the ground, covered in bruises and dressed in rags, looking utterly pitiful.

Unable to bear seeing him suffer, Shen Yan helps Ji Huali in secret and tutors him. When Ji Huali is punished by being denied food, Shen Yan gives him a piece of bread.

They rely on each other, and their feelings begin to change.

When Ji Huali is eighteen, he confesses his love to Shen Yan.

Shen Yan looks into Ji Huali's eyes and asks:

"Will you behave?"

"Of course."

But his stepmother discovers them. To keep his job, Shen Yan chooses someone else and abandons Ji Huali. They break up, then meet again years later.

The young wolf has grown fangs. Ji Huali holds Shen Yan's contract over him and cuts off his funding, keeping him by his side as if with a leash.

Looking down at him, he says, "We won't stop until one of us is dead."

As if taking revenge for Shen Yan choosing someone else and abandoning him years ago, he forces Shen Yan to become his personal assistant, keeping him by his side twenty-four hours a day.

Shen Yan thinks Ji Huali is going to make his life miserable.

Instead, Ji Huali treats him like a child. He has to report when he eats, and get permission before making phone calls. Shen Yan looks at him, amused.

"Didn't you say we wouldn't stop until one of us was dead?"

"I love you, so I'll call it off."

Shen Yan thinks life will go on like this.

The wolf he thought was obedient bares his fangs. Because Shen Yan interacts with someone else, he even tries to alter Shen Yan's memories.

Shen Yan slaps Ji Huali across the face.

"I don't want you anymore."

Blurb for the next novel, coming soon: The Frail Blind Beauty Wants to Kill the Emperor

Gu Min was born blind and sickly. Abandoned by his family, he lives by one principle: if he can stay alive, he will; if not, he might as well die.

But the one thing he hopes for in this life is to have his eyes cured before he dies.

Ji Qingzhen is a man of noble standing who controls the palace's precious medicinal herbs.

So Gu Min steals his jade pendant to get close to him.

The powerful aristocrats hoard the herbs and refuse to show off their skills, after all.

To earn Ji Qingzhen's trust and get those herbs, Gu Min treats a plague. When Ji Qingzhen is afflicted with a deadly poison, Gu Min can still cure him. Even in wartime, he dares to fly through the air on his frail, sickly body to reach Ji Qingzhen.

Ji Qingzhen, a proud man from a powerful noble clan, holds him close. "...Gu Min, don't scare me. What will I do if you die...?"

Gu Min is stunned. "...Who said I was going to die?"

Only then, held in Ji Qingzhen's arms, does he realize that someone can care about him, even though he was born blind and abandoned by his parents.

Ji Qingzhen, born into a powerful noble clan and of exalted status, has been fooled by Gu Min three times.

The stolen jade pendant.

He thought he'd caught a thief.

The poison in his body was cured.

He thought he'd caught a miracle doctor.

The last time, when he reacted to Gu Min,

Ji Qingzhen finally realized that the person he'd caught was actually his wife.

But Gu Min was born sickly. Ji Qingzhen dotes on him, protects him, and takes meticulous care of him, yet Gu Min still gets seriously ill every three days and mildly ill every two. With no other choice, Ji Qingzhen sits by Gu Min's bed. "If you die, I'll die with you."

When Gu Min falls ill yet again, Ji Qingzhen rushes three thousand li to a temple.

"With my blood,

I pray my wife may live a hundred years."

Theme: Live well.