[Read with caution: old-school melodrama]
[Reader Advisory]
1. The heroine is tormented first, then the hero.
2. One-on-one, both leads sexually inexperienced.
3. Contains old-school melodramatic tropes!!!!
4. Open ending. Read with caution if that's not for you.
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The Sleepless Harbor
When Pei Du was seventeen, Xu Liuzheng took him in for a year at someone's request.
"Don't go astray."
That was Xu Liuzheng's only condition for him.
Pei Du was stubborn to the bone. He couldn't learn to bow his head, and never took her words to heart.
He still gathered his friends around him, rode his motorcycle along silent roads in the middle of the night, and changed the girl on the back seat every day.
Everyone watched him with cold eyes, treating him like a lump of mud and waiting for him to be discarded.
Even he was waiting for the woman to run out of patience.
Later, every time he fell, she crossed the mud and pulled him back up, again and again, without ever tiring of it.
From then on, Pei Du developed the base desire to draw the moon into his arms.
At the end of his seventeenth year, he shocked everyone.
The proud and aloof Pei Du actually put on his school uniform without complaint, traded his motorcycle for a bicycle, and went from a bar regular to someone who always sat in the front row of the classroom, becoming the good student she wanted him to be.
The night after the college entrance exam was his eighteenth birthday.
In a rare moment of indulgence, he kissed her while drunk.
The next day, she unilaterally cut off all contact.
He went from a dog kept at home to a stray abandoned by the roadside.
-
Years later, they meet again on a film and television project.
Xu Liuzheng comes as agreed to sign a contract.
Just as expected, someone else snatches the role.
After all, she has a terrible reputation in the industry and no connections. Anyone can take a shot at her.
As she is about to leave, someone stops her and offers her a contract with generous terms.
Apparently, the investor personally requested her.
Xu Liuzheng tightens her grip on the contract.
That man's background is unfathomable, and people speak of him with great caution. Why would he help her?
When she learns he's at a drinking party, she goes to thank him.
The investor sits in the shadows, his gaze drifting over her.
His elegant fingers hold a cigarette, and his tone is flippant and cold. "Is that all you're here to do, say thanks?"
Xu Liuzheng stands where she is, watching him flirt and joke intimately with his girlfriend. Through the drifting smoke, his occasional glances are calm and unreadable.
She holds back, then holds back some more, before striding over and snatching away his cigarette. "Don't you want to keep your lungs?"
The room falls silent.
Pei Du is momentarily stunned. His eyes shift with tumultuous emotion, as if suppressing something, before finally settling into cold mockery. "What gives you the right to control me?"
Xu Liuzheng's dark lashes tremble slightly. She lowers her eyes.
-
Pei Du is waiting.
Waiting for Xu Liuzheng to regret abandoning him.
But then he hears that she has taken in someone new.
-
In an old apartment building, the lights are dim.
Xu Liuzheng comes home from work.
In the darkness, a click sounds, and a feeble flame flares to life.
She turns in confusion and is pulled into a cold embrace.
The newcomer presses close to her ear, his voice eerie and distant, with a hint of gritted teeth.
"Taking him in? Is he as obedient as I am?"
Theme: Treasure the present.
