My childhood sweetheart never notices that I like her.
Watching her smile for other people, watching her heart beat for them, makes me want to
lock her away in a world with only me.
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In everyone's eyes, Shen Zhaozhao and Mu Shiyuan are a match made in heaven.
She has always thought Mu Shiyuan was the most perfect childhood friend in the world.
He's gentle, patient, and always there when she needs him. He's her safest harbor.
Shen Zhaozhao thought they'd be best friends for life.
When the pressure from her parents to get married became too much, she turned to Mu Shiyuan for help. "Pretend to be my boyfriend to get them off my back."
He ruffled her hair and smiled without a single flaw. "Sure."
Later, she met a handsome, cool-headed boss at the company, and developed a crush on him.
She dressed up and eagerly told Mu Shiyuan, "I'm going to confess my feelings!"
"But first, help me clear up the misunderstanding. We aren't really together."
Mu Shiyuan fell silent for a moment, then slowly curled his lips into a smile. "Sure."
But she didn't expect that, when he went to explain, he'd firmly thread his fingers through hers right in front of the cool boss.
"You didn't misunderstand. We're together."
That night, Shen Zhaozhao angrily demanded, "Why did you lie?"
Mu Shiyuan calmly countered, "How do you know I was lying?"
Her heart raced, and she reflexively argued, "We're too close. I don't feel that way about you at all... I don't like sunny, gentle guys like you."
"Then what kind of guy do you like?"
She made up the opposite kind of man. "Someone who crawls around in the darkness, loves me so much he's sick, and is possessive enough to force me into a relationship. Just not someone like you!"
As soon as the words left her mouth, Mu Shiyuan reached out and pinned her in a corner.
He easily held her wrists above her head. His eyes, always full of laughter, were now dark and deep, churning with a possessiveness so intense she'd never seen it before.
He lowered his head, his breath hot against her ear, his voice low and dangerously husky:
"Now..."
"Do you feel something?"
That night, she finally discovered Mu Shiyuan's true nature.
He wasn't some gentle, refined childhood friend next door.
He was a complete and utter
madman, already addicted to her.
Oblivious little white rabbit X gloomy, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-within
Theme: You are the love I risk everything for.