1. After a car accident, the top loses the hearing in one ear, and his memories regress by a year.
When he opens his eyes, he sees a long-haired beauty with porcelain-white skin in the hospital room. The man's dark green eyes sweep over him. Even with a cold, expressionless face, he's stunning.
“We're lovers.” Learning that the top has lost his memory, the beauty suddenly smiles. “You have to hurry up and remember me, boyfriend.”
The top looks at the person before him, his heart filled with complicated emotions. Since he fell in love at first sight the moment he woke up and saw the beauty, he doesn't doubt the bottom's identity.
Then the bottom says sadly, “You had your accident because we fought. You couldn't take being with me anymore.”
2. Later.
The top gradually realizes that the bottom has an almost pathological possessiveness and need for control.
Wherever he goes or whoever he meets, the bottom keeps close tabs on him, refusing to let even the smallest detail slip by.
At the same time, the bottom indulges the top in everything. No matter how unreasonable his demands, the bottom agrees without question.
The top never doubts this passionate, almost grotesque love.
Until one day, the top learns that the bottom has a younger brother who is seriously ill. He also sees a successful donor match report in the safe in the study. The donor on the report is none other than himself.
Once his memories return, the top finally understands that the bottom has been lying to him all along.
They aren't lovers at all. Their affectionate relationship during this time was nothing but a carefully woven lie.
The bottom's extreme possessiveness, his slow, patient indulgence, his sweet words, all of it was meant to deceive the top into willingly matching as a donor for his younger brother.
3. The night is deep and dark.
The bottom is startled by how unusually frantic and violent the top has become. He tries to stop him, his words coming out in broken gasps, but the top grabs his wrist and pins it hard above his head.
With tears blurring his vision, he watches helplessly as the top removes his hearing aid, then lifts him up in his arms.
The top's voice is cold, each word measured. “I'm sorry. From this point on, whatever you say...”
“I won't be able to hear it.”
4. Later, the truth comes out.
The castle, dark and lightless, is a gorgeous yet icy gilded cage that traps both the bottom and the top inside.
The top reaches out with icy fingers and strokes the vulnerable pulse in the bottom's neck. Whispering with hatred, he says, “I hate you.”
“I hate you so much...”
The bottom has always known this day would come. Even at a disadvantage, he feels no fear. Instead, he calmly taunts him: “But what can you do about it?”
The top has thought of many ways to take revenge on the bottom. But now, looking at the bottom's indifferent face, he suddenly changes his mind.
He will imprison the bottom, who doesn't love him, by his side forever and make him taste the anguish of spending a lifetime with someone he doesn't love.
The top knows that more than he hates the bottom for deceiving him, he hates that the bottom never loved him at all. He also hates himself for being so stupid: even knowing there was no place for him in the bottom's heart, he still sank into a false love like a fool.
* Content warnings:
* The bottom isn't a virgin.
* A cold-hearted, long-haired CEO bottom x a straightforward, devoted puppy top who turns dark later (details to be decided, and the top's characterization may change).
* The bottom won't chase after the top to win him back, and the top will keep his kidney in the end (.).
* Angsty 1v1, no top swap.
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