At the start of the new semester, rumors about Wen Li and Pei Yibai's relationship were spreading like wildfire.
Pei Yibai was the campus heartthrob, famous for his stunning looks. He came from a wealthy family, had a perfect physique, and was cool and distant toward everyone. He hardly ever spoke, yet in his sophomore year, he started showing up everywhere with Wen Li, a new student.
Some classmates teased Wen Li, asking what tricks she'd used to win over this unattainable beauty.
Wen Li looped her arm through her boyfriend's and smiled sweetly. "He's so easy to pursue, senior."
He glanced sideways at the dimples in her cheek and said nothing.
That night, those dimples filled with tears, which his thin lips kissed away, one by one.
The young man's body was burning hot, but his voice was as cool and clear as ever. "Do you know what you did wrong?"
"I-I know," she sobbed, arms around his neck, her trembling tears still falling. "I shouldn't smile at them, and I shouldn't call you 'senior' in front of other people. You're my boyfriend."
He lowered his eyes and kissed the wet, reddened corner of her eye. "Mm."
Pei Yibai was nothing like the refined, aloof man he seemed to be.
He had a ravenous appetite for intimacy, kissing her hard and bringing an intense passion to bed.
He was terribly jealous and wouldn't let her get close to anyone else.
He had anxiety and couldn't go more than three minutes without a reply to his messages.
He craved physical contact, utterly addicted to her warmth and scent. He had to hold her every night to fall asleep.
As their relationship went on, Wen Li grew physically and emotionally exhausted. The excitement of her first love was gradually replaced by the fear and unease that came with every passing day.
Pei Yibai's possessiveness grew more intense by the day. After four years together, he had taken over every aspect of her life.
In her senior year, Wen Li received an offer from a major company in another province and sent him a text saying they were breaking up.
She threw away her SIM card, deleted every way he could contact her, and boarded a plane that night.
She didn't dare break up with Pei Yibai face-to-face.
She was afraid she wouldn't be able to leave.
*
Three months later, Wen Li passed her company's probation review and officially began her new life.
That same month, a new CEO arrived at the company. He was reserved and strikingly aloof, and rumors said he was the chairman's biological son.
Her colleagues gushed to Wen Li, "President Pei is the ultimate in cool and celibate. When he puts on that tie, just thinking about him any more feels like a sin."
Wen Li's legs trembled, and the fresh bite mark at her waist throbbed faintly.
Last night, in the CEO's office lounge, that tie had bound her hands together all night. No matter how much she cried and begged, he wouldn't untie it.
The man was as cool and expressionless as ever, unmoved by her soft pleas for mercy. Even his breathing stayed steady, terrifyingly so. But the heavy, unquenchable desire in his eyes nearly drowned her.
Wen Li's nights were tangled with erotic dreams and nightmares.
Every dream showed Pei Yibai's face.
*
Pei Yibai was easy to pursue. He was hooked the first time he saw Wen Li.
Between him and Wen Li, he had always been the one to claim her.
A bright, gentle smile like hers should belong to him alone.
Not long after they started dating, she stopped smiling. She cried, begged, and trembled with fear, trying to leave him again and again.
It seemed she only liked his looks and his aloofness. She couldn't accept his soul, his baseness.
Then cry.
Even her tears belonged to him alone.
◆ Both are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance
◆ Sweet, gentle girl × cool and obsessive man
[Cries at the slightest scare, timid and spineless × stone-faced, cooks for her, and is a love-addled mad dog]
Theme: Love others and love yourself
