[Not-quite-incest / coercive love / tragic, all-consuming romance]
A love-crazed psychopath / a cowardly, timid girl
[Who cares if the world ends or a flood sweeps everything away? Without you, who cares about tomorrow?]
[I love you more than anyone in the world, but you don't even know.]
Blurb:
On the day Xie Ling gave a speech, his stepfather and mother were there as investors, seated in the front row with the school administrators. Jiang Tang sat among the students with her roommate, the most meek and unremarkable face in the crowd.
Xie Ling came from a powerful family and was the darling of everyone around him. With his refined, aloof face, he had countless admirers at school. The moment he stepped onto the stage, a commotion rippled through the audience.
Excited chatter surged around them like a tide.
Even her roommate, who had seen him many times, couldn't help shaking Jiang Tang by the arm, eyes shining. "Your brother is so handsome! If he didn't look like some untouchable, chaste beauty, I'd totally make a move!"
Jiang Tang forced a stiff smile and hurriedly pulled up the collar her roommate had tugged aside, covering the dense marks of kisses on her neck.
As she watched her brother give a speech as an exemplary student, his bearing pure as a gentle breeze and bright moon, she suddenly remembered that night. She had jolted awake from a dream to find the darling of everyone's eyes, the brother who had always been cold and hated her, sitting by her bed. He had pressed and toyed with her lips, again and again, threatened her with their mother, and forced her to be with him...
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Everyone said that cold-hearted Xie Ling was a doting brother. Her roommate envied her for having such an outstanding, considerate brother, and her mother was glad that she and Xie Ling got along so well as siblings.
But in the dead of night, when no one knew, he would enter her room, night after night...
He would sit her on his lap, affectionately pinch her cheek, and ask with a pleased smile, "I can grant you one wish. Tell me, should I let you go?"
Jiang Tang's heart raced. She looked at Xie Ling, startled and overjoyed, but when she saw the chill beneath his smile, she was so frightened that she swallowed the words she had almost said.
When she stayed silent, Xie Ling's patience ran out. Smiling, he began to count down. "Ten, nine, eight..."
Though she knew it could well be a trap, Jiang Tang still summoned her courage and tearfully whispered that she wanted to leave.
As soon as the words left her mouth, Xie Ling bit her neck hard. She trembled, but he only chuckled and gripped her chin. Each word was deliberate: "I was lying, Tangtang. Even if you die, you'll die by my side."
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Later, Xie Ling was ready to give up everything he had in China: his fame, status, and family, just so he could take her abroad and marry her. On the day they were to leave, Jiang Tang ran away, betrayed him in the cruellest way, and disappeared without a trace for three years.
One day, her fiance took her to meet the mysterious tycoon behind a company acquisition. Jiang Tang pushed open the door, and the smile on her face froze the instant she saw the familiar, nightmarish face at the head of the table.
Her fiance, who knew nothing, took her by the hand and introduced her with a beaming smile. "Mr. Xie, this is my fiancee, Jiang Tang."
*University campus + city life
*The leads are not blood relatives and are not registered in the same household
*For those who like twisted, intense love
*SC/HE
*If you don't like the characters failing to cut their losses, please refrain from writing advice or insults
Theme: When you meet the person you love, don't say the opposite of what you mean
