Forcing Myself on a Frail, Sickly Beauty [Rekindled Romance]

Five years ago, Shen Yiqing pushed away his boyfriend, whose family background was a mystery, and climbed aboard a big director's ship. Five years later, Shen Yiqing is mired in trouble, while his ex-boyfriend, Chi Yue, now one of the industry's top producers, returns to the country. Everyone wonders how Chi Yue, now powerful and ruthless, will take revenge on the heartless man who left him. No one expects Shen Yiqing to be placed under the highest level of protection right away. "This year, I'll give you the best resources, the best team, an assistant, a nutritionist, and even..." Chi Yue pushes a sponsorship agreement across the table. "I'll personally manage your disastrous life." "But Shen Yiqing, a year from now, I'll take it all away." The cruelest revenge is to raise someone to the heavens, only to shatter them with your own hands. If Shen Yiqing were smart, he would stay far away. But the person before him says softly, "All right, Chi Yue." Shen Yiqing has beautiful eyes, with a faint redness at the corners. As he gazes at Chi Yue calmly, he is as gentle and reserved as he was back then. Chi Yue's nails dig into his palm until it breaks the skin. - Shen Yiqing has gotten thinner. That is what Chi Yue thinks as he leaves marks on him like a rabid dog. The pain and hatred of being abandoned for five years are like a hole that can never be filled. In the most primal way, every night and everywhere, he punishes the person he once cherished so much that he didn't know how to care for him properly. No matter how humiliating the treatment, Shen Yiqing seems able to endure it, biting his lip. Was this how he had lived all these years? Chi Yue never dares ask. He just keeps biting the back of that fragile, pale neck, his eyes red as he says from behind him, "Shen Yiqing, when I get tired of playing with you, aren't you worried about how you'll get by a year from now?" Shen Yiqing only smiles, saying nothing. Because he has only a year left to live, too. *Happy ending. He won't really have only a year left, probably. He's the sort of sickly beauty who gets better but never fully recovers, never dies, and has a flare-up every now and then, leaving the gong consumed by regret, worry, and heartache. *The shou wasn't sick when they broke up. There was another unavoidable reason. *Both are each other's first. No one else. *Couple dynamic: [Shou] A gentle, broken, understated, delicate beauty [Gong] Powerful and influential, a lunatic who kneels before the wall to repent to his wife Theme: As long as there's someone you want to see, you're never alone