After the Arrogant Fake Young Master Was Abandoned

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When Ning Zhenyu's true identity was exposed, his father and brothers drove him out of the family. All the affection he'd known before no longer counted, and he was handed over to Xie Heling, the man whose identity he had stolen and whom he could barely stand.

He resisted to the death and tried to elope with his first love. Full of hope, he was betrayed by that first love and sent back to Xie Heling.

Xie Heling wielded immense power. Others envied Ning Zhenyu for being cherished by him, but Xie Heling was neither particularly kind nor especially cruel to him.

Ning Zhenyu just couldn't accept it.

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Xie Heling was thirty percent insincere and seventy percent rotten to the core, enough to make anyone despise him completely.

The good news was that outsiders said Xie Heling was easy to get along with, even graceful and kind.

The bad news was that this impeccably dressed, good-natured gentleman especially loved to torment him.

When Ning Zhenyu was at his lowest, Xie Heling remarked, "A beauty like you is hard to find twice."

When Ning Zhenyu planned to run away with his first love, Xie Heling maliciously speculated, "What will you do if someone as devoted as you gets dumped?"

And then it came true.

The first love Ning Zhenyu had thought so pure and noble stood before him with a humble posture, too ashamed to look at him, yet repeatedly asking Xie Heling for favors. His heart turned cold.

Xie Heling lifted his chin and opened his collar. He was clearly delighted, but still pretended to comfort him. "Let it go. He's not the right man for you."

Ning Zhenyu had stolen someone else's identity for twenty years and had long been prepared to face revenge and humiliation.

But he really was fed up.

Being slept with was one thing, but why did the person sleeping with him have to be such an infuriating bastard?

* Impeccably dressed beast of a gong x stubborn, sharp-tongued beauty of a shou. Both are each other's first.

* Contains lots of coercive seduction, forced relationships, and unequal power dynamics. The gong is awful, and the two leads can't stand each other at first. Read with care.

* An alternate setting. Anything goes.

* An extremely melodramatic story with a happy ending.

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Xiao Jingze was once a carefree, laid-back disciple of his sect, one of its top cultivators. He followed a casual, go-with-the-flow approach to cultivation. Then he failed a breakthrough, severely damaged his cultivation, and lost all hope of advancing. So he used his connections to enter the selection for attendants to a cultivation clan.

He was soon chosen by the heir of a cultivation clan and taken as his bedmate.

The once lofty top disciple had cast aside his pride and willingly put himself beneath someone else. People scorned him, but Xiao Jingze accepted their judgment.

This future leader, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, was a stereotypical sword cultivator, obsessed with the sword and going into seclusion every few days. When he emerged, he would remember Xiao Jingze and sleep with him.

After more than a century of slacking off and muddling through, Xiao Jingze had finally restored his foundation. He hoped they could part on good terms, so he asked to return to the outer sect to continue cultivating.

Qi Shen emerged from seclusion and heard that his bedmate had gone on an assignment. He didn't react. But when the assignment dragged on indefinitely and Xiao Jingze disappeared, he finally asked about him. The answer was that his bedmate had run away.

He flew into a rage: Who said we could part on good terms?

Upcoming novel 2: Pretending to Be His Fiancee, Then Faking My Death. Please add it to your collection~!

The day before the Sword Venerable emerged from seclusion, the little mute he'd kept by his side to warm his bed lit his new clothes on fire and silently burned to ash.

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Ran Chaoyin was born with a disability. He couldn't speak, and he was destined to die young.

He had lived alone in the water for a long time, until one day he found a badly wounded man among the wreckage of a great battle.

He dragged him home and cared for him for two days, but the man's injuries were too severe to treat. Ran Chaoyin had been ready to give up when he accidentally discovered the man's secret: he had a heart refined from a rare heavenly treasure.

It could save Ran Chaoyin from his suffering and the fate laid out for him.

Greed took hold of him. He did everything he could to save the man, intending to make him repay the favor.

But when the man woke, he had regressed into a boy who remembered nothing, and his heart was barely beating, as if it could stop at any moment.

So Ran Chaoyin had no choice but to communicate with gestures and struggle through life in the mortal realm with the boy, carefully keeping him alive.

He didn't realize that the boy's gaze was gradually changing.

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Many years ago, Chu Heng awoke badly wounded with only a little mute by his side.

He had lost all his memories. The mute knew nothing when asked, and only silently stayed by his side and cared for him.

Chu Heng had a terrible personality, but after spending so much time together, he couldn't help falling for him.

Everyone gossiped that they were a pair of star-crossed lovers who had eloped. Chu Heng was secretly delighted, vaguely remembering that he seemed to have had a fiancee.

So it seemed only natural to assume the little mute was his wife.

Why else would anyone take such devoted care of him while he was badly wounded?

Even if it wasn't true, Chu Heng thought, it didn't matter. The little mute liked him, so of course he had to take responsibility.

When he asked about it, the little mute met his burning gaze and didn't deny it. He only lowered his head obediently, as if he didn't dare look at Chu Heng.

Chu Heng would never admit how pleased he was at the time.

Then one day, the heavens shifted, and former fellow disciples came to investigate and exposed the truth. Only then did Chu Heng learn that the mute was a demon, and that he wanted the heart refined from a rare heavenly treasure.

The little mute really wasn't his fiancee.

He had come to kill him.

Chu Heng's expression slowly darkened. He bent down and gripped the little mute's neck, squeezing so hard he nearly crushed it, but got no response.

In the end, he said nothing and took him away.

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Ran Chaoyin was brought back to the immortal mountain and became Chu Heng's bedmate.

Everyone said Chu Heng was repaying the debt of saving his life. Only Ran Chaoyin knew it was revenge.

He had picked up someone he should never have desired, given in to a greed he should never have felt, and tried to escape the torment of his curse.

But what he should never have let himself do was wish, even for a moment, that they could stay together forever.

At last, he found a way to escape. He would no longer be trapped at Chu Heng's side. He would burn away without a trace.

Ran Chaoyin thought Chu Heng would be satisfied.

But he didn't know that Chu Heng had gone mad.

Theme: There is always a way out of hardship.