He Destroyed Me, Yet Says He Loves Me [Republican Era]

This book will be contracted starting with Chapter 23 this Friday. Three chapters will be released on the day of signing. Thank you, my dears, for your support! Sending love, and please add it to your collections! A fictional Republican-era setting: a handsome, pale-skinned, mentally unstable young master gong x a kind, resilient, wheat-skinned young shou. A contrast in skin tones, a mild groveling arc, a bittersweet romance, and not too angsty. Blurb: Yun Yun lost both his parents young and was raised by his second uncle. He lived with the servants at an estate outside the city. One day, Yun Yun came across a disheveled, pregnant man with a slightly swollen belly. People said he was the fiance of the son of the Xie family, the most powerful family in Jincheng. Yun Yun was surprised. Was nobody taking care of him? Yun Yun shared some food with him. After that, the man often followed Yun Yun around, waiting for him to share more food, and he got his way every time. On a stormy day, the pregnant man came again, this time with a car behind him. A man got out, covered in injuries. When he saw the pregnant man, he smiled with vicious malice, like a man-eating rabid dog. He kicked his fiance to the ground and laughed. "So that's why you didn't come home. You found a good Samaritan. What kind of trash can't a do-gooder like you find a way to save?" The man grabbed his fiance by the head and forced it into the muddy water. As he did, he said, "Weren't you supposed to live and die with me? Can't you even put up with this little bit of suffering? Who's going to come save you?" Then he turned his smiling gaze toward Yun Yun. Yun Yun froze. The man was vicious, but for some reason, he saw even more despair in his eyes than in those of the pregnant man on the ground. Yun Yun ran into the downpour, shoved the man away, and helped the pregnant man back to his pharmacy. Xie Xiao watched him lead the man away and laughed wildly in the rain, like a madman. When he had laughed enough, he got up and left in a sorry state. Then he heard footsteps behind him. An umbrella appeared over his head, and a packet of medicine for his wounds was pressed into his arms. The person handed him the umbrella, then ran off in a panic. After that, Yun Yun never saw the pregnant man again, nor the man who was like a rabid dog. Later, his second aunt accepted a large betrothal gift and married him off. Blindfolded as he was carried to the wedding, he saw no festive lanterns or wedding procession along the way, only a small, shabby house far from anywhere. It was even worse than the estate where he had lived before. A hideously cut paper character for