My Dangerous Husband

[Main story complete] Mixed-race, brooding young heir of Shanghai's elite X sensitive, socially anxious voice actor

Rekindled romance | Marriage before love | Amnesia trope | The heroine fakes her death

Please add The Colors of Spring in a Cage and Love After Conceiving with a Hater to your reading lists. Their blurbs are below.

Blurb: Yu Yin had a passionate romance in high school that the whole school knew about. Their breakup was just as devastating, and the two of them hated each other so much they wanted to strangle each other.

When someone asked why they'd broken up, she thought back to how clingy the boy had been, and how his possessiveness had been horrifying.

For example, even during a ten-minute break between classes, the boy would lean over and make her pet him. She had no choice but to do it. Or if she so much as talked to a male classmate, the boy would stare at her with his dark, feverish, mismatched eyes, making the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. And then there was how she went from reporting her whereabouts once a day to once an hour, until eventually he might as well have been attached to her.

Six years later, she looks at the client she's about to work with and only then learns that the guy she dumped was the sole heir to one of Shanghai's century-old wealthy families.

Yu Yin: ...

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"Miss Yu, if you marry me, then we'll really be married. I'll do everything a normal husband would do with his wife."

At the time, Yu Yin thought Lu Ang needed a marriage and so did she. Neither of them had any other suitable choice, so theirs was an alliance of convenience.

So when she said she wanted a divorce, the man coldly locked the door.

Her eyes widened in disbelief.

"Ayin, did you think I'd come back this time so we could part on good terms?"

Only later did she learn that he watched her livestream every day, bought the apartment next door to hers and became her neighbor, then set up a chance encounter where he could pretend to be down on his luck and win her sympathy, luring her in step by step.

She had no idea that his desk held a photo of her for every day from the time she was eighteen until she was twenty-five, or that a PowerPoint on his computer tracked her daily movements.

She'd been living under his surveillance all along.

He was more dangerous than she'd ever imagined.

Yu Yin wanted to run.

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Lu Ang knew Yu Yin didn't like him and that he should cut his losses, but he couldn't do it. Why should she be allowed to seduce him first, then dump him as easily as if he were a dog?

The first year after they broke up, he tracked her down at the school where she was repeating a year. Yu Yin didn't even look at him.

He thought: Hmph, she's just playing hard to get.

The second year after the breakup, he learned to watch Yu Yin from the shadows.

The third year after the breakup, he spent his nights alone staring at her photos, as if she were right there beside him.

The fourth year... the fifth year...

Then, when the girl was about to go on a blind date, he decided it was time to take her back.

Late at night, the man caressed the tear-streaked face of the girl again and again. Then his hand slid down to her neck and suddenly tightened. "Baby, love me forever and ever. Love only me."

Blurb for The Colors of Spring in a Cage: Liu Ling has an exquisite cage. It's completely empty, and she's always wondered what it's missing. Then, on the first day of college, she sees Song Yanshu, the student council president assigned to welcome her, and realizes what's missing from her cage.

Song Yanshu is as aloof as an immortal, with an air of distance wherever he goes. He devotes himself entirely to the study of antiques, and countless girls have confessed to him only to be turned away with a simple "Sorry."

Gradually, Song Yanshu becomes synonymous with abstinence at Jing University.

After being rejected several times, Liu Ling begins to lose patience. Her father taught her that if she can't have something, she should just take it.

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"Why are you letting me go?"

The man's face was full of disgust. His body still bore the marks of their night of abandon.

He'd been so clingy at night. How could he say something so hurtful now?

Afraid the girl would keep pestering him, the man added:

"Liu Ling, I'd rather die than like you. Stop dreaming."

Liu Ling's heart clenched. Did he really hate her that much?

"If I walk in there on my own, will you finally stop pestering me?"

Liu Ling watched as the man walked in of his own accord, then heard him demand, "Liu Ling, are you satisfied now?"

Liu Ling's heart ached again and again.

It seemed... that's all there was to it.

"Song Yanshu, I won't pester you anymore."

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Later, Song Yanshu stands in the cage of his own accord, his eyes filled with longing. "Master, please * me."

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