Absolute Control

[Sweet, Naive Airhead Girl x Mixed-Race, Obsessive, Abstinent Doctor]

You came?

Then you are not allowed to leave.

*

Lin Xian, the campus heartthrob of De'er High School, was an excellent student, gentle as jade, and his calm green eyes seemed to smile at everyone.

Even when the impulsive Su Tian barged into his life to confess, he politely turned her down without a hint of impatience.

*

Su Tian was the apple of her family's eye. Her parents doted on her, and her brother loved her more than life itself. There was nothing she wanted that she couldn't get.

Except Lin Xian.

To get a little closer to him, she went from a carefree slacker to a hard-working overachiever and made it into Lin Xian's honors class.

Just as she thought she had finally reached that distant star, she heard Lin Xian tell a classmate:

"After the college entrance exams, I'll make things clear with her. We're not right for each other."

Su Tian suddenly understood all those looks Lin Xian had given her, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself. From then on, she never spoke to him again.

On the night after the exams, the Geminid meteor shower arrived. Lin Xian found her with a telescope in hand. His face was unusually pale, but he still managed a strained smile. "Tiantian, let's go watch..."

Su Tian looked at him innocently. "Lin Xian, your smile looks so fake. Do you really have to smile like that?"

*

When they met again, Lin Xian was the youngest attending physician in the First Hospital's cardiac surgery department. Su Tian was in her father's hospital room, asking the old man to help her choose flowers for her engagement ceremony.

Lin Xian put away his stethoscope. His cool green eyes held no emotion as they swept over her face.

Only then did Su Tian realize that Lin Xian had changed.

He no longer smiled or acted gently. His gaze was cold and distant, and he rejected anyone who tried to get close or show him affection.

The attending physician's conversations with a patient's family member were dull and lifeless, and Su Tian kept losing focus.

No one knew how, back then, when the usually cool and restrained Lin Xian kissed her, his hands had gripped her waist hard enough to leave it bruised.

*The male lead's version of the story:*

Lin Xian had always known there was something wrong with him. His possessiveness toward her was beyond normal.

He loved her too much to let her get close, afraid she would get hurt.

She was always leaving things behind, from shoes to hair ties. She had so many belongings and never cared about them.

Every night, Lin Xian would choose one "keepsake" to sleep with.

His life was orderly, with no room for surprises.

There were only two surprises in his entire life. One was when she came to him.

The other was when he frightened her away and she left.

*

Both leads are each other's first and only. The male lead is a model of gentlemanly virtue. His secret love comes true, and he loves the heroine almost frighteningly much.

[The characters' actions in this story do not represent real life, and fictional characters do not represent the author's values.]

-----Next book: Wild Dog and Cherry-----

[Devoted, Tough Boxer x Sweet Cherry Childhood Friend]

The wild dog used to think only about filling his stomach. When the cherry ripened, he could no longer look away.

*

Zhou Muyuu had been rebellious and untamed since childhood. Nearly two meters tall, he looked lean in clothes and muscular without them. His face was heaven-sent, hard and sharp, with deep-set eyes beneath thick brows and lashes. A small, faint scar over his right eyebrow cut through its arch.

He started boxing at eight and had been at it for ten years.

*

Xu Ying was the best-behaved child in the neighborhood: adorable, considerate, and good at school.

No one could understand how such a well-behaved little girl ended up following the unruly Zhou Muyuu around every day. Even when he made her cry, she would stubbornly hold out a bottle of water and ask him to drink.

*

During the day, Zhou Muyuu walked Xu Ying to school. At night, he took her along to the boxing gym. After working up a sweat, he would rest his strong arm on the edge of the ring and grin with his handsome, untamed face. Xu Ying would sit nearby and do her homework.

Xu Ying had no parents, and she was used to chasing after Zhou Muyuu. He was never nice to her, but he gave her all the money he earned boxing and took care of her.

Even though he was only a year older.

Zhou Muyuu thought Xu Ying would follow him forever, always holding back tears as she dabbed medicine on his battered face and rubbed medicated oil into the bruises on his chest and stomach.

That was until the college entrance exams ended and the girl left to study in a big city.

He had no one to care for him anymore.

*

A year later, Xu Ying saw Zhou Muyuu near her school. Remembering how coldly he had treated her, she turned and walked away.

Zhou Muyuu stepped in front of her. His brows and eyes were cool and distant as he bent toward her, grinning through clenched teeth. "Little Cherry, I nearly killed myself getting into this club. You see me and run?"

He put out the cigarette in his hand and gripped the back of her neck. "Come with me."

In a cheap rented room, rough knuckles clasped her delicate, impossibly thin fingers. Zhou Muyuu lowered his face, his smoke-roughened voice hoarse and low. "Yingying's gotten skinny. I need to fatten you up."

"Call me that again, Yingying."

*Doggo version:*

Doggo: (baring his teeth) (looking terrifying) Don't call me that!

(turns around) (can't bear to leave) (secretly wagging his tail) (looking pitiful)

When hugging Cherry: (afraid to touch this, afraid to touch that) (very careful)

In the end, he just glares at her fiercely and leaves it at that.

When someone else pursues Cherry: (He's gone mad!) (The cherry's been crushed!)

*

The world means nothing to me. You alone are my faith.

Both leads are each other's first and only. From schooldays to success, this childhood-friends romance is a bowl of sour-sweet plum soup. The male lead is very pure and has never even held a woman's hand.

Theme: Study hard. It really does help.