Heartbreak Lock

Huo Jue had a strikingly pale, cold face, with such beautiful features that one look was enough to make him unforgettable. But his personality was truly awful, and whenever Yu Ruo tutored him privately, she had to work hard to keep her temper under control.

But Huo Jue didn't seem to want her to do that.

He said she was boring. Once, he even pinned her against the door and asked maliciously, "Are you this boring in bed, too?"

Yu Ruo was so embarrassed and angry that, for the first time, she lost her temper in front of him and slapped him.

Huo Jue froze for a moment. But after she turned and left, a dark light surged in his black eyes, and his thin lips slowly curled up.

The confrontation kept them from contacting each other for several days.

Yu Ruo was furious whenever she thought about it, but just as she was about to leave town, she received a message from Huo Jue. It was only three words: "Come see me."

Yu Ruo ignored him.

A few minutes later, he sent her a photo. "Are you coming to see me or not?"

The moment Yu Ruo saw the photo, her face turned bright red, and she hurried out of her apartment complex.

Under a plane tree, Huo Jue wore a black windbreaker and leaned lazily against a sports car, scrolling on his phone. Only when she approached did he look up and say, "Happy? I came to pick you up myself."

Yu Ruo couldn't smile when she thought about the photo. She said helplessly, "Don't do that again."

Huo Jue leaned close, grinning wickedly. "Do what? Hold your underwear and..."

Yu Ruo didn't let him finish. She pulled him into the car.

-

Yu Ruo still ended up dating Huo Jue, but a normal boyfriend probably shouldn't be like him.

Huo Jue was far too possessive, so much so that it made Yu Ruo uncomfortable.

She tried to talk it through with him, but Huo Jue wrapped his arms around her waist, buried his face in her shoulder, and said, "But I just can't live without you."

Driven to misery by him, Yu Ruo told him that if he kept this up, they would break up. A flicker of pain crossed Huo Jue's beautiful eyes, but he quickly smiled and said, "All right, I'll do whatever you say."

Yu Ruo thought he had really let her go, but she never expected that it had all been part of a trap he had set.

Before long, Yu Ruo found him in a bar.

Alcohol had reddened the corners of Huo Jue's eyes. He lounged on the sofa, his gaze on her inscrutable, but his tone was still as nasty as ever. "What are you to me now, coming here to beg? My woman, or... my sister-in-law?"

-

Huo Jue had once seen a photograph in his older brother's bedroom.

Beneath a sunlit golden mountain, Yu Ruo smiled radiantly, the sort of smile that made anyone fall for her at first sight.

But she rarely smiled like that around him.

If she wouldn't smile, so be it. Making her cry beneath him was satisfying, too.

He thought his brother must never have seen her like that.

Only he had. He was madly in love with it. Every time, he couldn't help licking the tears from the corners of her eyes, then entwining his fingers with hers as he whispered in her ear, "You can forget about leaving me in this lifetime."

* Cruel, unhinged playboy x gentle, radiant sweetheart

* Angsty melodrama. The male lead has separation anxiety and loves her obsessively.

* Includes coercive romance. If that's not your thing, don't read. This is just a romance novel, so please don't apply it to real life.

* Blurb written on 26.7.27 and saved as a screenshot.

Theme: Love makes life beautiful.