Reckless and Unrestrained

★★★ Angsty melodrama | Hateful lovers | Love amid a sea of hate | A terrible person with a genuine heart | Everyone is unhinged Lu Li, a rich second-generation heir, is quite satisfied with his life. His family owns the largest golf course in the area, he has countless sports cars in his name, and he was born with a handsome face that has a touch of roguish charm. The moment he debuted, he became the center of his boy band. And hidden in the groove down his back is a tattoo shaped like an entire spine. Starting at the nape of his neck, it follows the curve of his actual backbone, vertebra by vertebra, fitting perfectly as it winds down and disappears at his waist. Whenever he walks the red carpet, his shirt collar slips a little at the back of his neck, revealing a glimpse of the tattoo. Flashy, shameless Lu Li is convinced he has more than enough privilege to do whatever he wants, including squander other people's sincere feelings. Until the day his father is sent to prison, his family goes bankrupt, and he is left facing an industry-wide blacklist and two hundred million in debt. With no money to pay it back, Lu Li panics, running around like an ant on a hot pan. Luckily, outside the lending company's offices, he spots Zhou Yu, hands in his pockets and leaning against a Ferrari, smiling faintly at him. * Zhou Yu once sincerely loved Lu Li. Back when they were kids at school, Lu Li would often bring him breakfast, and take him to the pool hall after class. At an age when he didn't understand what love was, all Zhou Yu could see were Lu Li's sparkling eyes. And Lu Li, sharp enough to see right through him, noticed that hazy admiration for what it was. In the end, Lu Li took advantage of it. At first he treated Zhou Yu like a lackey, but little by little, it turned into outright bullying. “Crawl over here.” “Kneel at my feet.” “What is it, Zhou Yu? You have a problem with that?” Lu Li looked down at him and pinched his chin. “Come on, look up at me. Look closely, into my eyes. Baby, did you only just find out how cruel I am?” That six-month ordeal cost Zhou Yu many things. Most of all, it cost him his birth mother forever. As rain poured down, a bruise from a beating darkened the corner of Zhou Yu's mouth. Alone in the world and now an orphan, Zhou Yu inherited the two hundred million his mother had left him that rainy night. * Two years later, Zhou Yu settled in a bamboo cottage near a temple. Every day, he devoted himself to prayer, fingering his prayer beads and copying sutras. He buried his hatred beneath the Buddha's watchful gaze, ate vegetarian food, wore long robes, took online classes, and lived alone. Everyone thought he had let it go. Until someone opened the door to that bamboo cottage. “Just help me out. There's a golden opportunity to make Lu Li wish he were dead. Zhou Yu, are you in?!” That day, Zhou Yu stared coldly at the Buddha statue before him and sat there all night. At dawn, as the temple bell rang, the sound of prayer beads snapping echoed through the room. Sandalwood beads pattered across the floor. Zhou Yu swept his loose hair back, put on a tailored suit, ground the beads beneath his leather shoes, and picked up his Ferrari keys. At eight in the morning, a white Ferrari F12 pulled up outside a tattoo shop. The tattoo artist had never seen a young man with such an extraordinary air. “Hey, getting a tattoo this early?” Zhou Yu lowered his head and smiled. No. I'm adding an unforgettable surprise for my dearest enemy. Baby, all beings are equal. From today on, welcome to my hell. A beautiful, vicious, many-sided seducer who gets away with murder x an ascetic who falls into darkness, breaks his vows, and turns into an obsessive top Lu Li (bottom) x Zhou Yu (top) (Later on: a bottom who runs away x a deranged top) “Did you only just find out how cruel I am?” “That's strange. You can swallow the beads, so why can't you swallow my love for you?” Reading Guide: 1. Two madmen fall in love. The early chapters include school-life scenes. The bottom doesn't have long hair, but wears a wig for a magazine cover as an adult and instantly becomes a long-haired beauty. 2. The bottom is the boy-band center who wanted to sleep with Jin Sheng in Infamous, and the older brother of Lu Ming, who kidnapped Xie Shiyao in Brothers in All but Blood. Characters from the previous novels will make cameos, but you absolutely, absolutely, absolutely don't need to have read them to enjoy this one. 3. (Important) Not suitable for readers who are devoted to either character. The bottom has a sexual history before and is chaste afterward; the top is chaste throughout. The characters aren't perfect, and everyone is unhinged. It's wall-to-wall melodrama and outrageous twists. If you're not a fan of melodrama or have a low tolerance for it, please stay away. I won't be responsible if it wrecks you, QAQ. Here's the blurb for a completed novel in the series. If you're interested, check it out in my author page! Brothers in All but Blood Xie Shiyao, chairman of the Yaoshi Group, has a troublesome younger brother who haunts his every step. From the day they met, Lin Zhuyi and Xie Shiyao wanted to kill each other. They smashed cars and framed one another, made false accusations, and tried every trick in the book. In the end, Lin Zhuyi used his cruelest trick to force Xie Shiyao to flee to America for four years. They met again at their father's funeral. Amid rows of black umbrellas, Lin Zhuyi stood alone in the rain in a fitted black suit, the familiar hearing aid hanging from his pale neck. Lin Zhuyi said he had lost his memory. He couldn't remember anyone in the world; he remembered only Xie Shiyao. He looked so innocent and pure, and asked Xie Shiyao to take him home. Xie Shiyao only sneered inwardly. Lin Zhuyi was a naturally brilliant, rotten-to-the-core schemer. This so-called amnesia had to be some little trick the brat had cooked up. Until one day, while Xie Shiyao was in a tender moment with someone else at his own hotel, the door opened. Lin Zhuyi appeared in the doorway and said calmly: “Hello, I'm his younger brother, Lin Zhuyi.” “My brother, is he good in bed? Did you enjoy yourself?” Xie Shiyao locked Lin Zhuyi inside the house and installed surveillance cameras everywhere, all to find proof that he was faking his amnesia. But Lin Zhuyi stood calmly in front of the cameras, stripped off all his clothes, and smiled up at him. “Hi, big brother.” “Do you like my body?” At last, Xie Shiyao understood that Lin Zhuyi had faked his amnesia just to cling to him. It seemed he wanted something more than simply being his little brother. And sure enough. One day, the act ended and the fangs came out. Lin Zhuyi stopped pretending to have amnesia and stopped acting innocent, revealing every bit of his aggression. On a bed covered in golden bells, Lin Zhuyi traced Xie Shiyao's cheek, Adam's apple, and neck with icy fingertips. “Four years, 1,461 days, 35,064 hours. Every day, I asked around to find out how you were living it up. How dare you... forget me completely?” “You made me fall for you, abandoned me, and left without a word. Big brother, I really do hate you.” Lin Zhuyi leaned over him. The bells rang as he pulled off his tie and bound Xie Shiyao's wrists, then slowly removed the hearing aid from his right ear. “Xie Shiyao, call out louder.” “I can't hear you, big brother.” “I can't hear you...” - Two years later, Lin Zhuyi returned from Britain in a designer suit, a rising star in the investment world. At a business banquet, Xie Shiyao stood on the red carpet beneath the glittering lights. A young celebrity beside him stared, transfixed. Then the elevator doors opened, revealing Lin Zhuyi in a designer suit. His gaze passed over the young celebrity fawning over his brother. The young celebrity asked curiously, “And you are...?” Lin Zhuyi reached out and put an arm around Xie Shiyao in full view of everyone, resting his chin on Xie Shiyao's shoulder. Looking up at the other man, he smiled, beautiful and dangerous. “His ex-wife.” A powerful, beautiful, tragic queen of a bottom vs a sly, gloomy, obsessive ghost of a top Xie Shiyao (bottom) vs Lin Zhuyi (top) Theme: Always do good deeds and build up good karma