Return to the Nest

When Gu Niao was thirteen, she went out in a pretty princess dress and brought home a stray dog. At first, the stray only knew how to bite people. But she was patient. She taught him how to disguise himself and how to love others. She just forgot to teach him gratitude. When they met again, they were worlds apart in status. She had become an actress in the entertainment industry, while he was a Wall Street financial tycoon, refined on the surface and viciously ruthless behind closed doors. Gu Niao naively thought that even though she had left without a word back then, they were still adoptive siblings with no blood relation. After all, she had once treated him so well. Her on-screen boyfriend got into trouble and was facing prison time. With nowhere else to turn, she swallowed her pride and went to him. "Brother, please help him." The first word Gu Niao had taught him was kindness. She thought he might at least try to live up to it. By the floor-to-ceiling window, the man stood with his back to her, his handsome face shrouded in shadow, his expression impossible to read. When he heard her words, he laughed. "I let him hang around you alive for so long. Tell me, was I kind or not?" - One day on a film set, a sharp-eyed staff member noticed that the leading actress, Gu Niao, got into an understated, mysterious luxury car between takes, and couldn't help gossiping. Someone in the know kindly explained: They used to be adoptive siblings, so he often came by to visit her on set. They were as close as blood relatives. In a secluded corner of the parking lot, Gu Niao sat on the man's lap, biting her lip as her skirt lay in a rumpled mess. So much for being close. She wished she could kill him. But the man paid no heed to the hatred in her eyes. He pulled his hand away and casually brushed a tear from the corner of her eye with his fingertip, speaking in what he considered a very reasonable tone. "If you take the initiative just this once, I won't come next time. Hmm?" For those who betray him, Gu Yanchao usually offers only two possible endings. The first is death, in which case he can let bygones be bygones. The second is that they stay alive. He will then keep them firmly within sight for the rest of their lives, leaving them no chance to betray him again. Unfortunately, Gu Niao is the second kind. Because he can't bring himself to strangle her, he can only tie her to his bed. Content warnings: 1. Old-school melodramatic coercive romance, with a strong retro feel. The entertainment-industry plot takes up little space. 2. The heroine becomes pregnant later in the story. She does not run away with the baby, and the male lead raises the child. You can treat this part as an extra. 3. The male lead has an antisocial personality and is extremely obsessive. The author is a normal person, so don't attack the author. 4. Both leads are each other's only partners, and it has a happy ending. 5. Please stop calling the author intellectually deficient over certain plot choices. They're there for the story, and the author isn't an elementary school student. Please add my next book, Seven Years of Fog, to your collection~ #How to Get Back Together with Your First Love, Your Beloved White Moonlight. Cool and independent heroine * devoted, aloof young master Blurb: He Xingyan had a charmed life from the moment he was born, the very definition of a heaven-blessed favorite. His only problem was figuring out how to spend all his money. At a friend's birthday party, someone said that Si Yunwu had returned. Everyone fell silent at once, anxiously looking toward the figure in the corner. The hand holding a wineglass came to a stop. In the shadows, the man sitting on the sofa curled his lip and scoffed dismissively. "Do I look like a dog to you? Going back for scraps?" As soon as the words left his mouth, his phone vibrated on the table with a WeChat message. [Are you free to get married sometime soon?] - The first foolish thing Yunwu did after returning to her hometown was offend the ex-boyfriend she'd dumped in high school. The second was to disguise herself on WeChat as "AAA Free-Range Duck Eggs from the Countryside" and stalk his Moments, only to get caught. The third was to get so overwhelmed by her family's pressure to marry that she somehow ended up proposing to him over WeChat. After sending the message, she regretted it and was just about to unsend it when he replied instantly with a question mark. [?] She hadn't even finished typing "I'm sorry" when he called, seemingly to make sure her account hadn't been hacked. Through the faint static, his low, pleasant voice sounded lazy and calm, as if he were asking where she wanted to eat tomorrow. "Which marriage bureau, and what time?" Dogs don't go back for scraps. He does. Also known as: The Young Master and His Years as a Simp. Theme: Love can make a person whole.