Ying Cong has a secret.
He has kept it for years, living a double life.
In public, he's a frail, sickly, aloof top student and campus heartthrob. In private, he's a "living corpse," cut off from the world and living in darkness.
He thought he'd go on living this way until death finally came for him, but then a transfer student stumbled upon his secret and wouldn't leave him alone.
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Shi Fei is the infamous mad wolf of the Shi family. Outsiders fear him, his own father hates him, and his grandfather wants to tame him.
He is used to hiding behind false affection, watching the crowd from a distance. He thought he was the only one living this way, until he met Ying Cong.
In a dim alley before the school term began, he was punched hard. He thought he'd found a hot-tempered school bully who could match him blow for blow. Then the term started, and that same bully turned out to be a sickly top student who gasped for breath after every few steps and only came to class once every half month.
Shi Fei: Hah, someone's even better at putting on an act than me! I have to tease him and see what happens.
He never expected to tease himself into falling in love.
They say a proud wolf would rather die than be tamed by force. Thousands of years ago, it was the wolf that chose to approach humans, taming itself into a dog.
They also say the aloof cat has yet to be fully tamed. For thousands of years, cats have allowed humans to approach and keep them company, taming themselves from wildcats into house cats.
When a mad wolf meets a sick cat, one is bound to tame himself, and so is the other.
A mad wolf who seems sunny and cheerful but is actually cold and ruthless, top x a sick cat who seems frail and aloof but is actually self-destructive, bottom
A school story
Theme: Love is a process of mutual self-taming.
