Dark Crown

Puppy-boy romance / obsessive male lead / Korean-inspired setting / chaebol school / 1v1, both sexually inexperienced / happy ending

Heiress × “good little puppy”

[Only daughter of a top chaebol, Pei Zhijing VS seemingly innocent but secretly wicked illegitimate son, Cen Jinxi]

Blurb written on August 18, 2026

Blurb One:

Pei Zhijing, the only daughter of a top chaebol, hated illegitimate children more than anything.

When she was fifteen, her mother died, and her scumbag father brought home his mistress and illegitimate daughter, who took over her shares.

More than the division of the family fortune, it was the superiority ingrained in her bones that made her despise people like them.

Cen Jinxi was the illegitimate son the Cen family had just brought home. By chance, he caught the seemingly haughty Miss Pei crying over a photograph of her late mother when she thought she was alone, and she caught him watching.

He quickly became the thorn in the heiress’s side.

Cross Pei Zhijing, and the days ahead won’t be easy.

At the school cafeteria

Cen Jinxi accidentally spilled soup on Pei Zhijing’s shoes.

Pei Zhijing crossed her legs and told him to lick them clean.

After the meal, though, she had the housekeeper bring her a new pair of shoes.

Her reason: “A puppy licked them. They’re wet, filthy, and disgusting.”

At the villa hotel

The moment Cen Jinxi entered the room, he heard sounds that were impossible to describe.

Pei Zhijing stared at the big screen, where her fiancé and another woman were entwined, and laughed.

Cen Jinxi: “Why are you watching this filthy stuff?”

Pei Zhijing: “Obviously, I’m familiarizing myself with the positions my fiancé likes.”

Cen Jinxi felt inexplicably irritated. As he applied medicine to the heiress’s wound, he stared at her face, with the screen’s ambiguous sounds in his ears, and became aroused.

Pei Zhijing watched him with amusement.

Seeing his face flush with shame and anger, she laughed.

“Illegitimate sons really are lowly.”

Pei Zhijing was intensely possessive of everything she owned.

That went for things, and for puppies, too.

One morning, she saw her puppy with her illegitimate half-sister.

Furious, she locked him on the rooftop and punished him severely.

Then she put a collar on him.

It was engraved with a capital “P.”

That was the Pei family emblem, and Pei Zhijing was the family’s sole heir.

The heiress touched his reddened cheek.

“Learn from me. From now on, only listen to your owner and don’t wag your tail at anyone else.”

By chance, Cen Jinxi sought the heiress’s protection and became the sweet little pup who followed her everywhere.

Everyone thought he was nothing more than Pei Zhijing’s plaything.

Until the day Pei Zhijing really did get engaged to her older brother.

On the first floor of the villa, the chaebol guests gathered, clinking glasses and trading pleasantries.

On the open-air balcony upstairs, Pei Zhijing’s hair was a mess, and the pearls around her neck had been roughly torn apart.

Cen Jinxi held her by the waist, keeping her from collapsing as her legs went weak.

He nipped at her earlobe, grinning like a bad dog.

“Your voice is so loud. Want to call them all up to watch us do it?”

“Does your brother know I’ve made you cry?”

Blurb Two:

Pei Zhijing’s status as her older brother’s former fiancée made Cen Jinxi feel deeply insecure.

His possessiveness came close to pathological.

After Pei Zhijing inherited the family business, she inevitably had to attend business dinners.

Lots of shameless men tried to seduce his beautiful heiress.

He knew their despicable tricks all too well.

He had come up the same way.

Whenever Pei Zhijing went out to entertain clients, Cen Jinxi video-called her once every hour.

At first, she thought it was just a fun couples’ game.

But as time passed, she grew impatient with his possessiveness.

This time, she turned off her phone.

She was overseas, after all. Cen Jinxi couldn’t get to her.

When she got back, she could buy him a few gifts and smooth things over.

Her puppy was very obedient.

But she had clearly underestimated just how shameless Cen Jinxi could be.

She returned to the hotel slightly tipsy, only to find Cen Jinxi waiting beside her bed with a basin of foot-washing water. She didn’t know how long he’d been there.

A considerate househusband? As if.

The calmer the sky, the fiercer the storm to come.

There was a huge mirror in the room.

In the mess, it was impossible to tell who was the tainted pup.

Cen Jinxi turned her face back when she tried to look away.

He made her look into the mirror.

The same collar was now around her neck.

“Baby, learn from me. From now on, only listen to your owner and don’t wag your tail at anyone else.”

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Reading guide:

1. Fans of the male lead, stay away. Our girl will always be on top, and the male lead has no dignity in front of her.

2. 1v1, sexually inexperienced couple. The heroine is a little crazy and doesn’t like her fiancé. She has never slept with anyone but the male lead.

3. None of the characters in this story are entirely good. People aren’t simply good or evil, so please read with an open mind.

4. A self-indulgent story written to indulge the author’s kinks, with intense emotions.

5. The setting is fictional, the school system is original, and all characters are adults.

Theme: Study hard and keep striving