A Sinful Love | An Irreparable Broken Relationship | Pure Hatred
[Unhinged, neurotic, resentful gong x vain, willful succubus shou]
The story begins on a winter day, when the chill of spring still lingers.
Frozen half to death, Shen Zhiyi hid in an alley and caught sight of Jiang Baichuan passing by.
A young scholar, every inch an aristocrat.
That was Shen Zhiyi's first impression of Jiang Baichuan.
And at first sight, he spitefully thought how wonderful it would be if this man rotted in the mud alongside him one day.
So later, he seduced the gentleman everyone in the capital praised, then betrayed him.
He wanted neither fame nor fortune. He only wanted to drag Jiang Baichuan down to hell with him.
In the space of a single day and night,
a noble gentleman sank into the mire, while a vain little villain climbed into the arms of someone more powerful.
Shen Zhiyi climbed his way up over the bones and blood of the man he'd left behind, and from then on lived in fine clothes, good food, and splendor. No one seemed to have an easier time walking this path to power, paved with the sacrifice of a lover.
But five years changed everything. The crown prince whose favor he'd secured was deposed, and Shen Zhiyi went down with him.
With disaster impossible to escape, Shen Zhiyi was overcome with dread.
His fate came in the form of a second imperial edict:
"Shen Zhiyi, secondary consort to the crown prince, is to enter the palace as a consort."
But when he left the Eastern Palace for the inner palace and the grand red veil was lifted, the man before him wasn't the ailing old emperor. It was Sui Ren.
The powerful eunuch known as the Nine-Thousand-Year Lord.
Unmatched in beauty, with the bearing of a celestial being.
Shen Zhiyi stared at that face, then shuddered despite himself.
This was no Nine-Thousand-Year Lord. It was the young gentleman he'd spent countless nights with five years ago.
Reunited with an old lover, and retribution came at last.
When young Jiang Baichuan was studying at the academy, he met a beautiful person: the servant of someone he despised.
Back then, all he could think was how beautiful he was. So beautiful. Beautiful beyond compare.
Later, he climbed into Jiang Baichuan's bed. Only then did Jiang Baichuan discover that Shen Zhiyi's beauty was laced with poison, and utterly addictive.
Once you were exposed to it, there was no cure.
Even later, after Shen Zhiyi treated him so cruelly, he still couldn't give him up.
[Content warnings]:
1. Neither lead is sexually inexperienced.
The shou is not sexually inexperienced in front, but is in back; the gong is sexually inexperienced both before and after.
2. Everyone is a villain.
Don't feel sorry for any good person. The next moment, they might turn bad. And don't hate any bad person, either. The next moment, they might turn good.
3. Written to indulge the author's tastes: the love and hate between a villain and a gentleman. Told across two timelines, past and present.
Theme: Food is precious and hard-won.
