Tame Flames [Matriarchy]

Originally titled Mad Dog. Both leads are virgins. My next novels, soon to be started: Reincarnated as the Male Lead’s Sugar Daddy, the Scummy Love Interest, and Taming the Wild Rose (Female-Dominated Society). The reverse harem, male competition, and female-dominated society novel She Is the Moon in the Clouds is complete. Everyone thought she was a pathetic backup option. The campus goddess of A University, famous for both her looks and her abilities, was actually the backup option of A University’s notorious playboy. She could personally hand him protection before he went to a hotel, watch without batting an eye as her lover acted intimately with someone else, then carry him out of a karaoke room when he was dead drunk. She would wait in the rain outside his dorm, all because of some careless remark he’d made without a second thought. She never competed, never fought, never felt jealous. With a smile in her eyes, she watched him fool around and act indifferent. She was endlessly tolerant and gentle. ...Just as everyone said, she loved him with all her heart. Shen Jinlin believed it too. After taking a drag on a cigarette, he would lift his chin arrogantly and breathe the smoke into her face, eyes hazy, then watch the adoration in her eyes. He would deliberately test his lover’s limits, to see if she would get angry. He was arrogant and brazen, living as freely as a flame. He didn’t spare his life when racing, then hid in her arms like a victor. He was a mad dog with a vicious bite. How pitiful. ...But he was only a toy indulged by a hunter, even smugly thinking he had the upper hand. Fu Mingluo loved his face. He was a stand-in for the person she’d loved when she was young. That face, eight parts alike, could make all her reason go up in smoke. She liked it so much. Fu Mingluo hid her infatuation. She put up with his capriciousness and unreasonable tantrums. She loved his face and voice, liked the way he looked when he was asleep, and adored the softness and fragrance of his hair when she embraced him. The only thing she didn’t love was him. When the day came that a scar appeared on his face, erasing the last trace of the person she loved, Fu Mingluo turned away without hesitation. She even smiled as she made an offer to another similar-looking young man, her voice gentle and soft, and asked: “Would you go out with me?” Shen Jinlin watched her delight in someone else, watched her give another person the affection she’d once lavished on him, watched her and someone else call each other beloved. He watched her act as though he meant nothing to her, ignoring him like a complete stranger. Jealousy blazed in Shen Jinlin. Pain churned in his chest, and with reddened eyes he approached her, unusually lowering his defenses to plead with her in a hoarse voice. “...Don’t be mad anymore. Could you hold me?” Jealousy burned in his chest. He tried everything, crying and begging for her pity, just to make her look at him once more. He never imagined he was only the shadow of a man she’d never met, and that all her affection was false. From beginning to end, it had all been a ridiculous lie. Resentment and love churned within him, and he became a mad dog through and through, even begging for pity over the slightest bit of intimacy, his eyes filled with a sweet, infatuated love. If she didn’t love him, he would love her twice as much. He would do anything, as long as he could have her. He was a diseased mad dog, glaring at every man and woman who came near her, baring his teeth as he guarded the tiny scrap of tenderness he had left. Terrified that he would never receive her love, he cried and trembled, clinging to the hem of her clothes as he begged in a hoarse voice. “Please, love me a little...” “Just a little. I’m not greedy.” Fu Mingluo was a little bewildered. She slowly bent down and wiped away his tears with her fingertips. Her gaze was gentle and puzzled, like a god who pitied all mortals. “Don’t even think about it. I will never love you.” Everyone is messed up. A cold, ruthless heroine who is gentle on the outside and cold within X an arrogant, reckless, deranged hero desperately starved for love 1. Both leads are virgins. Men can get pregnant. What the male lead does in the blurb is something he did to tease the heroine as part of a bet with his friends. He’s actually very proper, desperately starved for love, has a cleanliness obsession, and hates women touching him. 2. Both leads have issues with their thinking and mental states. The male lead has bipolar disorder and is mentally unstable. The heroine doesn’t love him at all at first and couldn’t care less about him personally. The reason she listens to him so much is simply that she wants his face, while she provides emotional support. She thinks it’s a fair deal that benefits them both. 3. Writing and reading are for entertainment. This is a niche story written to satisfy my own tastes. I love the push and pull of troubled relationships, tangled love and hate, and bitter resentment. I wrote this purely for fun. Please don’t attack it if you don’t like it. Click away, and we’ll both be happy. Hope to see you at the next crossroads w 4. Check the pinned comment for specific content warnings. Theme: Put others before yourself and strive to be a civilized pioneer