Taming the Wilderness

Notice: The story is complete! Coming soon / available to preorder: "Words of Resentment" and "Sleeping Together." Their synopses are below. If you're interested, visit my author page and add them to your collection. Gentle and resilient x streetwise, eccentric genius The first time Xia Yuan saw Zhou Ye, he was standing on a street at dusk. The orange-red clouds dyed his dark, gleaming eyes a startling, vivid shade. Nervously, she approached him and asked, "Are you free? Could I ask you for a favor?" Zhou Ye looked her up and down, grinning recklessly. "Pay up, and I'm yours." The next time she saw him, Xia Yuan was selling hair flowers on an overpass. Some thugs overturned her stall. Zhou Ye beat them until they were black and blue, snatched back her flowers, and dragged her toward Riverside Park. Xia Yuan couldn't keep running. She clutched a utility pole, gasping for breath. Zhou Ye hoisted her over his shoulder and kept running, cursing as he went. "You're so useless. How are you supposed to keep up with me?" Xia Yuan hadn't planned on following him. But Zhou Ye took her to the fair. And so, in Xia Yuan's memories, the backdrop of that summer was the dazzling fireworks that filled the fairgrounds. - Years later, Zhou Ye no longer sold bootlegs. Holding the hair flower Xia Yuan had left behind all those years ago, he said, "Xia Yuan, you said you'd stay with me forever." Xia Yuan's cool gaze swept across his face. "Zhou Ye, people have to look ahead." "I can't look ahead!" Zhou Ye pinned her beneath him. "If you're not in front of me, where am I supposed to find a future?" Xia Yuan was a kite. Before meeting Zhou Ye, she thought the sky was where she belonged. Until Zhou Ye caught hold of her string. -I wish we could keep talking, and that the fair would never close. One-on-one, both virgins, everyday romance, rekindled love, gifted elites, an inspiring life. The original title comes from Jay Chou's "The Ferris Wheel." Proof of authorship saved on April 3, 2021. "Words of Resentment" Beautiful and composed x willful and detached Before Yan Zhen's father died, he left behind an inheritance that could only be claimed on a specified date, along with an adoption certificate. When the lawyer brought Yan Zhi in front of her, Yan Zhen studied the deaf-mute boy, who was no blood relation to her, with an expressionless face. She couldn't understand why she had to live with this stranger for five years just to inherit the money. Still, for the sake of the inheritance, Yan Zhen got up and said, "Come home with me." At first, Yan Zhi was quiet, obedient, and so gentle that Yan Zhen felt guilty. Later, he grew mysterious and cold, radiating such hostility that Yan Zhen began to fear him. - Yan Zhi was a trapped beast in a quagmire. Once he got hold of something that could keep him alive, he would never let go, even if it killed him. At first, he wanted to drag Yan Zhen into hell with him. Later, he began to find that he couldn't quite bring himself to do it. He was immersed in a dark, silent world. Yan Zhen's smile was the first heavenly sound he ever heard. He never spoke, but she seemed to understand him anyway, offering him tenderness, kindness, and generous compassion. In the dead of night, he wanted to stain Yan Zhen with twilight; In the sunlight, he wanted to return her to purity. Yan Zhi wavered between light and darkness, until Yan Zhen made the choice for him. - Five years passed in the blink of an eye. Yan Zhen took the inheritance and planned to leave for good, but Yan Zhi caught up with her at the airport. He tied her hands in front of her chest with his tie and whispered tenderly in her ear: "Zhenzhen, come home with me." *First comes obsession, then resentment, then hatred. *The only one of the resentful lies I've told in my life is this: I love you. The male lead has psychological problems. He's genuinely awful and messed up. He's pretending to be deaf and mute, so don't expect too much of him. "Sleeping Together" Bluffing X gloomy and disheartened The first time Chi Rang saw Shi Xia, she'd been robbed by her own older brother and was sitting in a filthy puddle in a narrow alley, looking completely wretched. The stains on her pale skirt and the miserable face that looked like it was about to cry both annoyed him. Chi Rang tossed his cigarette aside and called out to the man who was gleefully counting the money. "You do this on my turf without paying protection money?" - At school, Shi Xia was the clever, well-behaved girl the teachers adored and the goddess-level academic star her classmates admired. Her skirts were always spotless and billowing, and her smile always bright and sunny. But as she tried to keep up appearances in front of everyone, Chi Rang suddenly transferred into her class. At the corner of the garbage dump, Shi Xia shoved Chi Rang against the wall and threatened him in a low, grim voice. "Don't say you know me, or else..." "Or else what?" Chi Rang casually lit a cigarette. "You'll stop coming to sleep with me?" Pale smoke drifted across Shi Xia's face. He narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Have I ever told you that you look irresistible in your school uniform?" - Shi Xia was born into a chaotic mire. She desperately wanted to climb out and leave the squalor behind, doing everything she could to make her life clean and bright. But Chi Rang's appearance shattered everything. He's arrogant, outrageous, and utterly brazen. He has the darkness and gloom Shi Xia most wants to escape, yet at the same time, he possesses the warmth and love she longs for most. She wants to get away from him, but she can't bear to lose him. Plenty of people at school are drawn to his dangerously dissolute air, but Chi Rang always smiles carelessly in her direction alone. "I have a lover." "We're perfect for each other." *We belong to the darkness forever, not the beautiful sunrise. *Come sleep beside me. This male lead is a jerk, too~ Theme: Love and growth in adversity, healing and companionship