Note from December 9, 2023 / screenshot saved
Pei Shenjin is the most unusual figure among E City's elite.
He controls the family businesses of half the capital's most powerful clans. He has refined, elegant features, but a sinister, vicious temperament. His long brows and deep-set eyes look like those of a scholar, but even his smile sends a chill through people. He is exceptionally skilled at ruthless tactics that turn a desperate situation into an advantage.
Mr. Pei has done many insane things.
The most jaw-dropping was when he blocked the road with his expensive Koenigsegg on E City's most congested overpass, then stood over another man, grinding his face beneath his shoe as a dense ring of camera flashes went off around them.
A storm was brewing.
Raindrops as large as beans came down in a dense torrent, streaking through the air like needles. Yet he calmly looked into the car, studying the girl's pale, delicate face and her clear, round eyes filled with fear.
"A Zhi,"
the man's voice was warm and unhurried, full of patience:
"I don't think you'd want to elope with a dead man."
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Wen Zhi first met this man three years ago.
At the time, Pei Shenjin was twenty-seven and stood beside her father, dressed in a refined, scholarly shirt and trousers. His smiling, flirtatious eyes were exceptionally beautiful as he greeted her gently and called her A Zhi.
There couldn't be a more good-tempered person in the world than Pei Shenjin.
And Pei Shenjin was always good to her. Whatever she wanted, he gave her: her favorite antiques, the glass candy she loved to eat, the certificates and awards she most wanted.
Even if something belonged to someone else, Pei Shenjin would take it and give it to her.
Until the third year after she abandoned Pei Shenjin.
The Wen family was destroyed overnight in an act of revenge, leaving the family shattered and scattered. She was brought before the culprit and met the man's clear yet cold, flirtatious eyes. A chill ran through her, from skin to bone.
"A Zhi, have you missed me over these three years?"
Pei Shenjin gazes at her with boundless longing, his eyes as if he wants to swallow her whole. One hand binds her around the waist, while the other takes her hand, making her grip a sharp fruit knife with him.
His thin lips hover beside her ear.
He points the knife in her hand at his heart and slowly applies pressure. The tip pierces his shirt, and bright red blood seeps out.
Wen Zhi's hand trembles with fear, her whole body shaking.
"Either tell me you missed me,"
the man says slowly, his tone gentle and indulgent, as if coaxing her, but more like a threat:
"Or kill me."
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Pei Shenjin believes:
The best way to deal with a selfish little girl
is to be even more selfish than she is.
* When summer dies, every lotus dies for love.
--Yu Guangzhong+
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Possessive love and taking by force
The male lead is a frail scholar early on, then becomes a deranged obsessive. The heroine's character is undecided.
Theme: Only sincerity can lead to a healthy relationship.
