Taming

Body-double romance | Rental-apartment romance | Bittersweet push and pull | Over-the-top drama | The untouchable beauty bows her head for love

In a dark alley after the rain, Qiao Shian found a man.

He was tall and lean, with a high nose and thin lips, his dark brows and eyes strikingly handsome. He had amnesia.

Qiao Shian gave him an identity and brought him back to her cramped, shabby rental apartment. There was only one small bed, and she pushed him down onto it.

She lied to him and possessed him again and again.

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A lie can bring pleasure, but sooner or later you wake up.

When Zhu Baiyu regained his memories, he had never known anyone named Qiao Shian.

And the photo Qiao Shian had always treasured showed a face almost identical to her own.

That was Qiao Shian's "older brother," but it wasn't him.

Every moment Zhu Baiyu had spent entwined with Qiao Shian, while she treated him as a substitute, suddenly became a nightmare. Zhu Baiyu couldn't accept being someone else's shadow.

The day he exposed her lies, he humiliated Qiao Shian with money. "Take this as rent for the time I stayed here. And never show your face in front of me again."

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Qiao Shian never expected she would run into Zhu Baiyu again.

He lowered his eyes to adjust his watch. His long lashes cast faint shadows on his cool, pale skin. The noise around him seemed to have nothing to do with him. An innate air of nobility set him apart.

So this was what he was really like.

His cold gaze met hers, then turned away.

Their reunion was distant and bleak, like that of strangers, and it pierced Qiao Shian like a needle.

Qiao Shian also looked away and reached out, deliberately clinking glasses with another man with easy familiarity.

Out of habit, she still searched the corner of her eye for the familiar figure, only to find that Zhu Baiyu had already left.

Qiao Shian walked toward her rental apartment through an alley where the streetlights were broken.

A shadow following behind her stretched to her feet.

Qiao Shian's heart clenched. She was about to run when the shadow behind her grabbed her and pinned her against the wall.

Qiao Shian raised her head and glared at him, but the threat she meant to make caught in her throat.

His deep, dark eyes looked straight into her heart.

Zhu Baiyu: "If they're all older brothers, why can't I be one?"

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He wanted to go back.

Being a stand-in was better than... being thrown away by her.

1. A gloomy, manipulative woman x a young master

2. Both leads sexually inexperienced, happy ending

First version of the blurb written on April 5, 2025; second revision on April 15; third revision on October 1. Screenshots saved.

Next book: Beyond Spring

Ye Chunhe had known since childhood that beauty could buy anything she wanted.

Money, fame, status.

Countless people flocked to her, but all they wanted was to greedily capture her and keep her as a canary, taking her out to admire and toy with.

But she grew tired of it. Ignoring the threats, she fled to an unfamiliar northern city.

A carefully planned robbery, a phone and bag with trackers left behind, a pretense of having no money, and a place to stay at the home of a kind, trusting young woman she had just met.

The girl came from a poor family and depended on her brother, who drove a truck.

Ye Chunhe couldn't help feeling sorry for her.

Turning around, she ran straight into a steady, strong-built man opening the door, his sharp eyes momentarily stunned.

Ye Chunhe smiled brightly.

In return, the man looked at her almost with hostility and coldly told her to "get out."

For the first time in her life, her beauty had failed her.

But it didn't matter. A man like him was perfect to be her dog. ^_^

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Chi Xuezhou was the finest weapon stationed in ambush at the border.

Bronzed skin, 190 centimeters tall, eight-pack abs, and a body built like a stud.

He could spin a steering wheel with one hand, and he could hold a gun just as steadily.

He had warned himself countless times:

In the danger-filled jungle, the only person he could ever trust was himself.

But Ye Chunhe...

She was vivid and beautiful, like a flower in spring.

But sometimes, she was also rather foolish.

She was clumsy at seducing people, and too trusting. The smoke from the kitchen would make her eyes turn red. She would complain that the bed wasn't soft enough, asking how anyone could sleep on something so hard.

Yet the corners of her mouth would secretly curl upward.

Neither personally nor professionally should Chi Xuezhou take her in.

Yet he couldn't help throwing himself into the flames like a moth.

He would travel a long way back just to cook for her.

He would save up for ages to buy her an outrageously expensive four-piece bedding set and take her to see wild cherry blossoms covering the hills.

And then there was now.

When a man in a suit reached out to her by force and Chi Xuezhou saw her eyes redden helplessly, the veins in his forehead stood out. Acting faster than he could think, he stepped forward and held her tightly in his arms.

With blood running from his hands, he gently stroked her hair.

"Don't cry. I'll take you away."

"You know, all you have to do is ask."

"I'll do anything for you."

Theme: Being reborn in love