[Paranoid, cold Alpha who reads too much into everything × Enduring, resilient, honest Omega | Angst before bittersweetness | Not a conventional substitute romance]
Luo Jinchen says I have to spend my whole life paying him back for what I owe him.
He hates me, so he keeps me by his side, reminding me day and night: You are alive only because you look exactly like your brother. Your face is your crime.
I really do owe him. I really am in the wrong, so I have never argued with him. Even though I always seem to go along with everything, his prejudice against me remains as solid as a rock. In his eyes, everything I do is a calculated trick.
I merely wipe away a tear in secret, and he thinks I'm trying to seduce him. After he drinks himself into a stupor, I kindly leave him a note reminding him to warm up some honey water, and he thinks I'm being nice for no reason, with ulterior motives. He even thinks that a little parrot, a gift someone gave both of us, is a bargaining chip I'm using to manipulate him.
Once his prejudice takes root, he can find fault with and vilify everything I say and do. I can't defend myself...
But I don't know that beneath his deep-seated harshness lies an old wound that has never healed. Only when layer after layer of curtain is torn away do I finally see the softness and obsession he refuses to show anyone.
[Reading note] An intricate first-person narrative | Restrained, slow-burn beginning
Theme: Love is the attraction between souls.
