A Guide to Taming Love

Fu Xiangchen has a crush on his subordinate, Qi Xu, without realizing it, until she tells him she's quitting and going back to her hometown to get married.

He sees her post on a dating app: "Looking for a client to train at home, billed by the hour. Travel expenses extra for distances over 5 km."

...She... is into that kind of thing?

Fu Xiangchen opens her chat and sends her a message:

"Male, 28, 188 cm tall, PhD from MIT, CEO of a well-known company, decent-looking, no bad habits, owns a house and a car, no relationship history. Can you train me?"

Back home, Qi Xu opens her unread messages.

Huh????

%*&@ What kind of pervert is this!

*

After Qi Xu leaves, he follows her to Switzerland.

She looks sternly at the man she just slept with, then dumped without a second thought, and says, "We don't know each other."

Fu Xiangchen frowns in displeasure. Lowering his voice, he tugs open the collar he'd buttoned up perfectly, revealing the black, subtly patterned choker she bought for him.

"How can we not know each other? Aren't I your little dog?"

-Reading Guide-

* 1v1, both virgins, he's secretly in love with her, and they play a sweet game of mutual testing and seduction.

* The heroine's side job is being a proper dog trainer. It's all a misunderstanding.

* Treat the office romance as science fiction. Though it doesn't really feel like work.

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#Dissociative Identity Disorder | Male Lead Suffers | Wife-Chasing Crematorium

Li Suyi has always been well-behaved. The only outrageous thing she's ever done was steal a kiss from her boyfriend of one year, a man who had never even held her hand.

Wen Chentai is aloof and chaste. He keeps his kisses restrained and refuses to cross the line before marriage. Even on their anniversary, all she gets is the cold message: "Not coming home tonight."

She can't help thinking in despair: how is that any different from the way he treats the cold corpses on his dissection table?

After three years of dating without feeling even the slightest hint of love, she finally works up the courage to break up with him.

That night, she is cornered in a cramped stairwell by her ex-boyfriend's other personality.

With the same face, Cheng Yanlie looks at her with an expression she's never seen before.

"The sofa? The bathroom? The kitchen? The underground garage? In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows? Or... the stairwell? Let's try something Wen Chentai would never do."

Like a troublesome wild dog, he nips her earlobe, then buries his face against her neck to sniff her. His whole body trembles with excitement.

"He'll never find out."

...Will he?

*

Wen Chentai knows that her falling for someone else is his comeuppance. He has no chance of winning unless he pretends to be another personality, imitates that personality's passionate love for her, learns its way of kissing, and becomes the kind of man she likes.

But he never expected that, just as he finally put a ring on her finger, the other self would seize control of his body.

Trapped in a lightless corner, all he can do is watch them share a bed, forced to share the other personality's sensations of her.

Wen Chentai has no other choice.

He's afraid. When Li Suyi learns the truth, she'll timidly clutch his clothes and, with a trembling voice, say something even more cruel:

Tell him to disappear. Tell him to give Cheng Yanlie back to her.

The usurper even taunts him:

"You stole this from me in the first place."

"When she called you by my name, you enjoyed it too, didn't you?"

-Reading Guide-

* Male lead is a virgin; he has dissociative identity disorder. Alexithymic, wild and unhinged like a stray dog x an earnest heroine. The other personality is essentially the second male lead and gets a fair amount of page time. A love rivalry with one's own self, fighting for control of the body or reaching a compromise; at heart, this is a love triangle. I wanted to explore the heroine's uncertainty about which one she truly loves, so please approach this unusual subject as a non-heroine-centered story. [Important]

* Wife-chasing crematorium. [Important] The male lead suffers, suffers, suffers! He has alexithymia and can't express his feelings, though he truly loves the heroine. But after enough disappointment, she really will leave him and fall for someone else. [Important]

* The male lead has very poor social skills. He loves her but doesn't understand love or know how to love. In short, he's not exactly normal, and he'll use extremely ruthless means to get what he wants. Readers with strong moral sensibilities should proceed with caution!

Theme: Dogs are humanity's loyal friends, and every living being deserves to be treated with kindness.