Lowly and Inferior

My precious readers, please add this to your favorites~ Bittersweet romance | Push and pull to the extreme | The hero regrets it and fights to win her back Early: aloof top student × beautiful campus belle and playgirl Later: suit-wearing, violent, possessive and obsessive powerful man × bewitching beauty, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted ambitious woman Blurb: How would you describe Xu You’en’s madness? Perhaps the way she held a shard of glass to her own throat to frighten someone. How would you describe Tan Yuli’s madness? Perhaps the way he stopped at nothing to get Xu You’en, the deceitful woman. Tan Yuli of Class 1, Grade 11 at Nanshan High School was handsome, rich, and good at studying. Xu You’en set her sights on him. And so they became more than friends, but less than lovers. In the sweltering heat, a standing fan whirred in the idle shop. Xu You’en teased him, “You’re so small?” On a dark autumn night, the two of them ate instant noodles softened in a pair of wooden bowls, sitting at a wooden table on wooden chairs. On a busy street, Tan Yuli drove Xu You’en around in his sports car. At a dim stairwell, Tan Yuli rested his head on Xu You’en’s shoulder and kissed her when she wasn’t paying attention. Xu You’en wanted to enter the entertainment industry, so Tan Yuli made her a wildly popular star. Her enormous posters could be seen everywhere in public, and she spent several months on the 3D naked-eye screen in the city center, which cost sixty thousand a minute. Xu You’en was beautiful and flamboyant, impossible to find fault with. Like a mandrake flower, she hid deadly poison beneath her beautiful exterior. Online, people called her a rising star. But her star soon faded. * The capital was rainy in August, damp and hot. In the stream of traffic, Xu You’en stood by the roadside smoking, waiting for a taxi. After all these years, her life was still a mess, and she was sinking ever deeper into the mire. Then a black car pulled up. The window rolled down, revealing a familiar face. The man glared at her with a fierce, hateful look. Xu You’en realized: he was back. One night, Tan Yuli pinned Xu You’en against the wall and squeezed her cheek, saying each word slowly and deliberately. “Did you think it was fun, treating me like a dog back then?” Xu You’en curled her lips. “What? Are you going to get revenge on me?” Tan Yuli sneered. “You’re already in such a miserable state. Do I even need to get revenge?” “Xu You’en, you trample on other people’s sincere feelings. You’ll never get what you want.” Later, Xu You’en learned what it meant to “never get what you want.” The thing Xu You’en regretted most in her life was getting involved with this man, wild and vicious to the core. He was good at acting, and even better at psychological manipulation. He could make sure you’d never be able to leave him. He was always pretending to be devoted. “You’en, if you want to leave, take me with you.” The truth was, they were the same kind of people: vile, shameless, and lacking in morals. They enjoyed playing with others as if they were in the palm of their hands, only to finally pronounce from on high, “I won.” My misfortune is that I love you more fiercely than I love life The Red and the Black 【Reader’s Guide】 *This is entirely fictional. Do not compare it to real life!!!! Do not compare it to real life!!!! *Two lunatics get together. Read on if you can handle that. Both leads have painful family backgrounds. The story spans their school years and adulthood in the city. *Both leads are each other’s first and only; happy ending. *They truly hate each other, and truly love each other. Hate lasts longer than love, but there’s a little more love than hate. *The leads are imperfect and have flaws! *Both leads suffer. Don’t call it abuse of the heroine or abuse of the hero. *There will be a little bit of entertainment-industry plot, very little. *This is written to suit my personal tastes. Please don’t offer unsolicited writing advice. *The author is terrible at writing blurbs, but the actual story is great! Theme: Live well, and make the most of life