In the Palm of His Hand

After his mother dies, Jing Ci is taken in by a kind uncle and brought to the Chu family.

The legitimate heir despises him for his unknown origins, and from the moment Jing Ci returns to the Chu household, he becomes a target for the heir and his friends to bully.

He endures their abuse, hoping to escape someday, until he meets Su Huaiyan, who rescues him from the darkness.

Just as he begins plotting to run away with the man he loves, He Lin, with whom he once made a mistake, demands that Jing Ci serve him until He Lin gets tired of him.

Of course Jing Ci refuses. He never imagined that this refusal would bring him the greatest pain of his life.

When He Lin sees the disappointment in Su Huaiyan's eyes, he uses Su Huaiyan to threaten Jing Ci once again.

A contemptuous smile hangs on He Lin's handsome face as he presses his lips to Jing Ci's ear and says, one word at a time, "You don't want him to have his future ruined and die here, do you?"

In a daze, Jing Ci gives himself to He Lin, hoping He Lin will grow tired of him.

But He Lin seems determined to keep him forever. For many years to come, Jing Ci cannot escape his grasp.

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He Lin is a monster, devoid of emotion and utterly lacking in empathy.

After a night with Jing Ci, whom he'd hated since childhood, he thought he wouldn't care at all. He never expected to feel a strange possessiveness toward someone for the first time.

But it doesn't matter. Controlling the weak, helpless Jing Ci is easy, and everything is proceeding as he expected.

Until one day, he sees Jing Ci kissing another man,

and the tender, loving smile on Jing Ci's face is something He Lin has never seen directed at him.

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Jing Ci becomes He Lin's most secret desire. Just when everyone thinks He Lin will eventually grow tired of him,

only He Lin knows that Jing Ci has long since taken him firmly in the palm of his hand.

When Jing Ci merely furrows his brow, He Lin can only bow his head and submit.

Reading and content warnings:

1. Lots of melodrama. The scum top, He Lin, is awful, and I'll be the first to say so, but he's a virgin.

2. The scum top is purely evil and can be treated as a villain.

3. The bottom is not an illegitimate child and has never loved the scum top. He's only ever loved his white-moonlight love interest.

4. The white-moonlight love interest ends up with the bottom (they also sleep together along the way).

Upcoming novel with a similar premise: "The Pitiful One Forced Into a Possessive Love Is Reborn"

Synopsis:

Chu Chu is the illegitimate child of the Xie family.

After his mother dies, Chu Chu is brought to the Xie household by a father he's never met.

The sons of the legitimate wife despise him for his unknown origins, so Chu Chu becomes the twins' little servant, bullied and toyed with every day.

The older twin looks at him coldly and says he's a little slut just like his mother, or he wouldn't be so pretty;

The younger twin treats him like a doll, playing with his body, making Chu Chu wear girls' clothes, and forbidding him from playing with anyone else.

Chu Chu doesn't belong to them like a doll.

The twins' friend also has a pair of brothers. The older brother is gentle and kind, slipping Chu Chu candy and coaxing him to sleep. The younger brother is gloomy and unpredictable, staring at Chu Chu ominously and demanding that their father give Chu Chu to him.

Chu Chu likes the older brother, but before he can even finish college, a villain takes him home and locks him up, filling him up day after day.

At last, Chu Chu can't take it anymore. He runs away again, determined to elope with the older brother and never again be locked up by those people.

As he flees, they chase after him in a car. Chu Chu's hands shake and shake, and finally he drives straight into the sea. The car is wrecked, and everyone dies.

When Chu Chu opens his eyes again, he has returned to the time when he first started middle school.

At this point, the villains haven't yet revealed their other desires and intentions toward him, so Chu Chu proceeds with great trepidation, doing his best to keep them at bay.

At last, he gets what he wants. A few years later, Chu Chu and the older brother are together and about to walk down the aisle.

But just then, one after another, those people recover their memories of their previous lives.

Chu Chu can't stop crying. He doesn't want the prison of his previous life. He doesn't need those filthy, lustful words of love, nor lavish jewels or other people's reverence.

Most important of all, he doesn't love them.

Content warnings and reading guide:

1. Self-indulgent, wicked, dark-fantasy food from an author with evil tastes. The poor, fragile beauty gets bullied.

2. In their previous lives, the love was forced from beginning to end. The bottom died, and the villains couldn't go on without him, so they killed themselves too (though that hardly counts as a suicide pact).

3. All the tops have extreme, abnormal possessiveness.

4. The bottom is not an illegitimate child and is not related to the twins, otherwise I couldn't write this.

5. There are too many potential triggers to list, so that's all for now.

Theme: Stay strong and never give up.