Reckless Descent [Showbiz]

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Story blurb

Song Xiao is interviewed by a magazine reporter.

"Song Xiao, what was your first love like?"

Song Xiao curls her lips into a smile. "I've forgotten all about him."

That evening.

Song Xiao sees the man she'd "forgotten all about" in the parking lot.

Gu Yize's gaze is icy. The cigarette between his fingers flickers. "Have you forgotten me?"

"Mm," Song Xiao says, looking at him without fear.

The man falls silent for a moment. His trembling voice is hoarse. "Didn't you say I was the one you loved most?"

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At nineteen, Song Xiao's life was turned upside down.

First, she was told that she wasn't the Song family's biological daughter. Once a pampered darling, she entered the entertainment industry and struggled to get by as a nobody.

Then a fiancé suddenly appeared, treating her with cool indifference. He thought he hid his feelings well, but she saw right through him.

She took one step forward, and he retreated three.

In the end, she left with red-rimmed eyes and never looked back.

She understood that no one could soften this man's heart of stone. Even the intimacy they had shared might have been part of a carefully planned deception.

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Everyone in their circle knows that Gu Yize, the Gu family's new heir, can't bear to see large areas of red or anything sharp.

But no one knows that Song Xiao is the source of his fear.

He's afraid of her coming close, yet longs for her to heal him.

A stunning fake heiress who specializes in putting people in their place x a reserved, secretly flirtatious CEO with psychological issues

* Both are each other's first love, and neither has been with anyone else.

* Updates every night at midnight. I'll let you know if anything changes.

[Upcoming story] Bite the Moon. Please add it to your collection!

[The next story I'll write]

At five years old, Lin Chuni knew that outside the walls of her lively, bustling residential compound, there was another household.

It was dark and damp there. The house, built of yellowish mud, looked ready to collapse. The cries of a woman and a little boy often came from inside. Whenever they did, the adults would shake their heads and send the children off to play somewhere else.

Years later, when she saw that thin, gloomy boy on the basketball court, she finally understood.

Some people in this world are lost in material excess, while others are desperately trying to survive.

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Ever since he could remember, Lu Zhuo knew he was different. He was a rat living in a filthy sewer.

Dark, selfish, cruel: it seemed every bad word fit him.

He thought he would spend his whole life walking alone in the darkness. Then one rainy day, he saw a tender young girl leaning by the window, smiling at him.

A crack opened in his pitch-black world. It seemed that all the pain forced upon him in this world could finally be forgiven.

There's been a rumor making waves at No. 1 High School lately.

They say Lin Chuni, the school's beauty queen for three years running, has gotten together with Lu Zhuo, the notorious bad student from No. 3 High School.

But when everyone looks at Lin Chuni's round, clear eyes, no one believes the ridiculous rumor.

That is, until one evening a few months later, when someone sees Lin Chuni run out of the woods behind the school with red, swollen eyes and throw herself into Lu Zhuo's arms.

A classmate fears she's being bullied and is about to step in, but then sees Lu Zhuo, the dreaded devil of a man who terrifies teachers and students alike, soften his gaze and gently hold her, soothing her in a quiet voice.

That moon he'd longed for with all his heart finally fell into his arms.

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Theme: Strive to become a better version of yourself.