A Beautiful Dream on a Pillow

Tao Meng first met Gu Chen at the most famous song hall in Harbor City.

At the time, he sat in the center of the front row, leaning toward the woman beside him to whisper something.

In the half-dim light, he radiated careless charm.

The eldest son of the Gu family was a passionate, charming man and a wonderful lover. He drifted from flower to flower, but never spoke of love.

When Tao Meng was with him, their relationship was at its deepest. Gu Chen even fell out with his family over her.

“I’m not afraid of going to hell. I just want to marry her.”

Tao Meng had a beautiful dream.

Unfortunately, a playboy would always be a playboy. Gu Chen’s scoundrel nature was etched into his bones.

He would always love the thrill of someone new.

The day they broke up, Gu Chen wrote her a check for an enormous sum.

“I like novelty. You’re too well-behaved for me.”

The money was meant to end her hopes, keep her from clinging to him, and set him free.

Later, as life took its twists and turns and feelings grew tangled, the heartless man fell in love, while the passionate man became devoted.

Gu Chen began seeking her out again and again, but Tao Meng never once looked upon him with favor.

Until one night, when he knocked on her door again. The person who opened it was Tao Meng’s older brother, Yan Qingyu.

The man’s short black hair was mussed, his pajamas hung loose, and several suggestive scratches ran from his neck to his collarbone.

He exuded decadent sensuality.

Gu Chen froze.

Yan Qingyu gave him a mocking smile. “Gu Chen, my sister and I are the ones made for each other. You’re nothing.”

[Bonus Scene]

Gu Chen believed neither in Buddha nor in the so-called supernatural.

But in the end, he knelt devoutly before the gods filling the sky, begging Tao Meng to look back at him just once.

He wanted to tell her that he truly knew he had done wrong.

#It turned out Tao Meng had always been the one in control, high above it all#

PS: “A Beautiful Dream” refers to the male lead, Gu Chen. Meeting Tao Meng was the beautiful dream of his life.

The line “I’m not afraid of going to hell. I just want to marry her” is from A Touch of Green.

[Content Warnings]

1. The male lead is not a virgin and is a playboy.

2. The female lead gets a happy ending, but the male lead does not. He chases after her, but fails to win her back.

3. The second male lead takes the female lead’s place beside her. He is a virgin in body and heart, and is her older brother, Yan Qingyu.

4. The female lead and her older brother are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household.

Coming Soon 1: The Dog-Taming Game

Blurb:

As a child, Zhao Zhian fell in love with Lin Jingzhuo at first sight, without knowing her place. She stuck to him like a dog following its owner, and Lin Jingzhuo looked her up and down, sneering that she was an ugly duckling.

Later, she grew up and stopped liking Lin Jingzhuo. Now she only wanted to use his influence to secure a bright future for herself.

Zhao Zhian worked tirelessly for him, taking care of every little thing until Lin Jingzhuo began to see her in a new light.

He smiled faintly. “You really like me that much?”

At twenty-three, Zhao Zhian no longer understood what it meant to like someone. All she could think about was:

Make money, support a college boy, become a rich woman.

But she knew how to please him. Lowering her eyes, she coaxed him: “Mm. I’ve always loved you deeply.”

Then Lin Jingzhuo gave her a familiar sneer.

*

Lin Jingzhuo was the youngest son of the Lin family, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Wherever he went, luxury cars followed him and admirers surrounded him.

He had never liked Zhao Zhian. He thought she was drab and forgettable, and she was always following him around.

He found her unbearably annoying.

But he still allowed her to act that way.

Until one day, Lin Jingzhuo heard her confess to him, “I’ve always loved you deeply.”

On a whim, he decided to toy with her.

Lin Jingzhuo told Zhao Zhian to pursue his older brother.

Zhao Zhian obediently did as she was told.

As it turned out, she not only won him over, but planned to marry him, too.

That night, Lin Jingzhuo drank himself into a stupor and sat silently outside the wedding suite all night.

Afterward

With every “Sister-in-law,” Lin Jingzhuo lost himself a little more.

Coming Soon 2: Rose's Fangs

Blurb:

Zhong Yaxin was Dongzhu City's Xie Huaicheng's woman.

On her wedding day

She and her husband, Xie Huaicheng, paid their respects to their ancestors in a lavish ancestral hall filled with sandalwood incense.

The heavy gilded doors swung open. Black-clad bodyguards filed in and lined up in two rows.

Shen Yinan wore a perfectly tailored lead-gray suit and held a black-and-gold dragon-carved cane. He walked unhurriedly toward the newlyweds.

At the time, Xie Huaicheng had an arm around his wife's waist. “Yaxin, this is Master Nan.”

Shen Yinan had mismatched eyes. When he looked down at her, his gaze was dangerous and amused.

He called her, “Sister-in-law.”

That was the day Zhong Yaxin met the ruthless, notorious Master Nan of Dongzhu City, the man Xie Huaicheng feared most but could do nothing about.

He was also the difficult target she had been tasked with approaching and winning over.

Zhong Yaxin had a secret quirk: a “craving for money.”

She needed the satisfaction and security that came from having lots of money in her bank account. Otherwise, she would feel depressed, anxious, and panicked.

Unfortunately, she was a bit dim and had no talent for making big money. On top of that, she had a stunning face that practically screamed ambition and aggression.

Everyone thought she was clever, including Xie Huaicheng.

So

One sunny day, Xie Huaicheng approached her and promised her more money than she could count, on two conditions.

1. Pretend to be married.

2. Approach and win over Shen Yinan.

Zhong Yaxin happily agreed, transforming overnight into a sister-in-law.

She could have whatever she wanted.

Shen Yinan, whom everyone respectfully called Master Nan, appeared to be second-in-command, but in reality, he was the one who called all the shots.

On the day of the ancestral rites, he met Xie Huaicheng’s new wife:

A young woman with nothing but beauty and a rather empty head.

He saw through everything but said nothing, letting Zhong Yaxin rack her brains, tear her hair out, and try every way she could think of to get close to him and win him over.

Of course, even fishing for a silly fish requires bait, doesn’t it?

Until

Xie Huaicheng was defeated and could no longer afford to pay Zhong Yaxin to win Shen Yinan over. Naturally, their sham marriage fell apart, too.

Zhong Yaxin had already been devoured by Shen Yinan, bones and all. She sobbed as she wiped her tears.

“I only wanted money. Why is that so hard?!”

“I even got myself mixed up in this, sob.”

Shen Yinan embraced her from behind. His black shirt hung open, revealing a glimpse of his firm, taut chest and suggestive scratches on his neck.

He held her fingers and brought them to his lips, lowering his head to kiss them one by one. “Stay with me, sweetheart. I’ll make you the person in charge, and I guarantee you’ll never run out of money.”

Later

Zhong Yaxin really did take the coveted position of person in charge.

And Shen Yinan, the famous Master Nan of Dongzhu City, stood by her side, becoming her most loyal fang.

Theme: Never let down someone who loves you