Madness

P1

Jiang Jing once saved a brooding, rebellious boy.

After that, he became her little shadow.

He was sullen and quiet, with a cold, sharp gaze. Even as a mere shadow, he was enough to make people's hearts race.

Jiang Jing grew afraid, so she asked her father for help and had the boy sent to the most remote place, where he was left to fend for himself.

Everyone thought he was dead.

But no one could have imagined it.

Five years later, the mad dog everyone feared would come back just before her engagement.

"Now that you see I'm still alive, are you disappointed?"

The slender waist of the girl was pinned against the vanity, rocking violently. Beneath the man's gray-blue eyes was an almost crazed smile. "Too bad."

"I've caught you again."

P2

Gu Yan had always known he wasn't normal.

Combative, cold-blooded, violent.

He first met Jiang Jing in a narrow alley amid a heavy snowfall.

The underground fighting ring had no use for losers. He slipped off the ring and was tossed outside, left to cling to life on the cold bluestone pavement.

Snowflakes fell in soft flurries. Only a pure-white girl knelt beside him, her fingertips gentle.

He clung to life as she bent down to look at him.

Amid endless darkness and bloodstains,

he lifted his eyes and saw the moon.

The princess was born in a tower. She and a wretch like him were worlds apart, like clouds above and mud below, impossible to bridge.

But Gu Yan felt a mad urge.

To drag her down.

Or send her up to the heights.

At first, he was more inclined to the former, so he bared his bloodthirsty fangs and pressed closer, step by step.

But in the end...

The girl's voice trembled as she begged for mercy.

"Could you... let me go?"

But he lowered his head and hid his sharp teeth.

"Don't be afraid of me."

"And don't... leave me again."

One-on-one, happy ending

[Ivory Tower Princess X Possessive, Obsessive Mad Dog]

Theme: Following your heart