Lu Suxing has a fiancee.
His fiancee has long hair and a cool gaze. They trained together at the base from childhood. When things were at their hardest, she took a hit for him and once knelt alone in the snow to endure punishment.
Lu Suxing knows she's a skilled fighter and loves him deeply. At least, he does until the day they put on their engagement rings.
With tender affection, he slides the matching ring onto Jiang Xian's finger. The next moment, he looks up to find a cold gun barrel aimed at him.
"Bang!"
Jiang Xian fires without hesitation, shooting him in the chest.
Lu Suxing's heart is badly wounded. His vision darkens as blood pours from him. Other members of the base rescue him, and the Federation's most expensive equipment keeps him alive for half a month before he finally wakes.
His superior tells him that Jiang Xian has defected, fleeing to "White Rose," the illegal research institute that had once broken away from the base.
When Jiang Xian defected, he took every one of the base's classified files, including the core data Lu Suxing had been carrying.
Lu Suxing is punished.
He remembers that when he lay gravely wounded, Jiang Xian planted a foot on his chest. Looking at Lu Suxing's agonized, ridiculous face, he said coldly, "I've never liked you, and I don't want to marry you."
From that day on, Lu Suxing hates him.
He hates Jiang Xian so much that no one dares mention him. Whenever Jiang Xian crosses his mind, Lu Suxing's usually gentle face darkens, and his heart trembles with rage.
How dare he toy with him?
Lu Suxing vows to capture Jiang Xian and lock him up. He'll humiliate and torment him as much as he can, doing everything he once couldn't bring himself to do.
Later, he finally captures Jiang Xian.
Just as his former fiancee lies in his bed, pale and trembling after his humiliation, he receives a video recording.
It documents everything Jiang Xian went through at White Rose.
Only then does Lu Suxing learn that long before he ever laid a hand on Jiang Xian, he had already suffered every kind of humiliation and pain.
He hated the wrong person. He shouldn't have hated him.
But now Jiang Xian lies in his bed, his once-cold, sharp features flushed with fever. After a few violent coughs, he spits up a mouthful of blood. He's gravely ill, barely clinging to life.
He's going to die.
Notes:
1. A refined, smooth-talking old fox who pretends to be gentle, the top × A fierce flower who's lost his memories but not his fighting skills, the bottom.
2. As always, this is the proud, aloof, beautiful, powerful, tragic type. Don't switch the pairing or reverse their roles!
3. The bottom has a few scenes in women's clothing for plot reasons. He fights with his hair in a ponytail.
4. Currently planned as bottom's point of view, though it might change to dual perspectives.
The Xian in baby Jiang Xian's name is the same character as in Siamese cat.
Theme: Families should love one another
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After the White Moonlight Faked Their Death, Everyone Went Mad
Snow on the Mountain, Roses in the Moonlight
After the Coveted White Moonlight Dies
Escape from Utopia
Swimming by the Wild Shore [Not Really Siblings]
After My Disciple Pierced My Heart with a Sword
Who Brought the First Rose?
Only I Am the Pearl
When the Stars Go Dark