1. A delicate, gentle heiress on the receiving end x a sharp-tongued, caustic, avoidant top
3. The top chases the bottom after a breakup.
At twenty-four, Liu Ting met Pucao again.
And fell helplessly in love with her all over again.
They lived together and raised a cat. Pucao was so good to her that Liu Ting thought it must be love.
She confessed to Pucao.
Pucao neither accepted nor rejected her. She only made Liu Ting promise that she would love Pucao forever.
But did Pucao love Liu Ting?
Pucao would go to great lengths to make her happy, but she also turned down Liu Ting's first birthday party for another girl.
Pucao took care of her when she was sick, but lived with other women behind her back.
Pucao knew everything about her, yet told her nothing.
Everything she gave Liu Ting, she could give to someone else. Liu Ting was never her first choice.
Still, Liu Ting couldn't give up. She kept thinking that love could be forced, kept dreaming that she could win Pucao's sincere affection.
But all she got was Pucao's scornful reply.
"I guess Liu Ting and I are friends. I don't love her, and I never could."
"Of course I got close to her because that idiot said she'd love me for the rest of her life. Who says something that disgusting? I just had to have some fun with her."
"You have no idea how stupid she is. She thought I was mad, so she stood in the rain all night downstairs from my place, crying and begging me not to be angry. Look at her, coming when I call and leaving when I tell her to. Even a dog isn't that obedient."
That's right. She was a stupid, love-starved fool, blind to people's true nature. Her love was disgusting.
Then let her go.
The next day, Liu Ting blocked Pucao everywhere and boarded a flight abroad.
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Pucao was just like her name: lowly, tenacious, and driven by the wild stubbornness of a fire that couldn't be put out. She grew up to be a well-dressed beast with a cold, cruel heart.
Everyone called her a lunatic who framed her adoptive father and a monster who killed her own grandmother. She became someone people avoided like the plague.
Curse her, hate her. The world had always treated her this way, and she and the world despised each other.
Until someone held her tight and promised to love her for the rest of her life.
Wow, so there really were idiots in this world who would willingly love a rotten person.
Then I'll accept your confession, trample on your love, torment your body and mind, and drive you mad with careless words.
You chose to love me, after all. This is the punishment for failing to see what kind of person I am.
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When Liu Ting finally left her for good, Pucao still shamelessly went on living.
She turned herself into a parasite, secretly spying on Liu Ting's life, watching her suffer from missing Pucao and cry over their photos.
In the end, she watched helplessly as Liu Ting accepted someone else's confession.
Theme: Loving yourself is the beginning of life