Chu Yuan has a secret no one knows: he's extremely looks- and body-conscious, and he likes being kept in line.
So his boyfriend has to be handsome, tall, well-built, and able to keep him under control.
Unfortunately, all the handsome guys who have pursued him over the years have been a little too eager to please. Chu Yuan isn't into that.
Until one day at the swimming pool, he meets his senior, Gu Shubai, emerging from the water...
Broad shoulders, a slim waist, an eight-pack, a pair of impossibly long legs, and a snug pair of swim trunks that make Chu Yuan blush. He's practically a top-tier man straight out of a comic.
And that cool, distant look when he asks Chu Yuan to move aside? The very picture of a dominant man who keeps strangers at arm's length.
One glance is all it takes for Chu Yuan to react.
What could be more satisfying than winning over an icy male god?
Even after Chu Yuan gets to slide down the abs of his male god like a playground slide, he still feels all those years of playing the eager puppy were worth it. Not only did he win the male god over, he also became the only one in this aloof flower's heart and mind. Gu Shubai doted on him for seven whole years.
Over those seven years, Gu Shubai spoiled him more and more, treating him like a child, while Chu Yuan found life increasingly dull.
Turns out the ice-cold act was only for everyone else.
Gu Shubai was perfect in every way: born into a wealthy family and exceptionally capable.
But once the passion faded, all that tenderness and indulgence became not only something Chu Yuan took for granted, but something boring and stale.
Even when Chu Yuan deliberately picked a fight, Gu Shubai would only rub his head and say, "Stop acting up, you little tyrant."
Chu Yuan likes his male god, but not the version who cooks and does laundry for him, always wearing that same gentle expression.
He won't even spank him hard.
Sure, his senior is great in bed, but even the most extravagant banquet gets old if the menu never changes.
Chu Yuan starts drinking all night with wild young guys and dancing salsa with handsome mixed-race male models.
After all, Gu Shubai will dote on him no matter what.
Until one night, after getting drunk at a club again, Chu Yuan waits until the early hours of the morning for Gu Shubai to call and come get him, but the call never comes.
Furious, he goes home, only to find no one there. He rushes through the rain to Gu Shubai's office, where he sees him holding an umbrella for the company's new art director and offering to take him home.
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"Yuanyuan, you really need to be taught a lesson."
[A Timid Yet Flirty Beauty x A Beloved White Moonlight Forced to Become a Sadist]
*Older love interest, rekindled romance, pursuing the husband, happy ending, bittersweet but mostly sweet
Theme: Keeping a romance exciting means trying new things with the person you're with, not repeating the same old routine with someone new. The beginning of love is when you stop liking someone.