Name: Sensual Pain
Author: Meng Shu

Synopsis

Xu Wu is eighteen, a young woman living in a nursing home. She has waist-length black hair and is lonely, intense, and fond of all things strange.

The old folks like to call her names: Goth Girl, Witch, Sweet Pepper, Little Rat.

On a summer night in July, she went to buy insulin.

In a cramped alley, she saw a young man lazily smiling at a bunch of street toughs, then getting beaten to the ground by them.

She turned and went into a convenience store to pick out a pack of cigarettes.

Just as she was about to pay, a long, thin hand smeared with blood and mud reached out and took a pack of Nanjing cigarettes.

Then she heard a mocking voice: "You watched and then ran off?"

Xu Wu glanced at him, her gaze falling on his hand. As if possessed, she said, "Should I take responsibility, then?"

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Chen Du isn't afraid of dying, and he's a hoodlum to the bone.

Anyone who doesn't call him a pain in the neck must have been fooled by his looks.

But when he meets Xu Wu, who is willing to fall, he kisses her wrist and says, "Go. Don't come back."

Later, he goes to find her.

He says, "Shall we sink together?"

Xu Wu: "Sure. Let's see who dies first."

-Our will to live lies in the pain of digging into the bone-

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.Goth Girl x Bad Boy

My next book will be Shattered

Time was shattered too, into one piece, then two, then three, impossible to put back together.

Later, she met another boy shattered to dust in a psychiatric hospital. His name was Shen Liqing.

He was pale, beautiful, and calm. She could see the mad soul he was trying to hide.

She found someone to secretly buy her a pack of cigarettes, then, under the lingering effects of her medication, hid in Shen Liqing's private room to smoke.

He didn't refuse or stop her. He was always drawing.

She often sat beside him, looking out the window. Sometimes she would take a drag, suddenly drop to her knees, grab Shen Liqing by the collar, and kiss him.

Then she would quietly watch him cough as if he were about to die.

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One day, during a break, she asked him, "Want to escape?"

A lunatic capering around and performing an exorcism squeezed between them. He turned his gaze toward her. "Want to kiss?"

Avoiding the eyes of the staff, Shi Ye shoved him against the wall. "Kiss me first, Shen Liqing."

-We are broken to pieces, so let's run away-

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.Fantasy Girl x Multiple Personalities

Coming soon: Destruction

Li Zhan's eighteenth year was shrouded in darkness, with dead ends at every turn.

She didn't care. She chose to waste her time, never wondering whether she'd live to see tomorrow.

Until that day.

On a rainy night, Li Zhan was waiting for someone.

By chance, she saw Xie Feng, the class president who was always gentle and disciplined, grinning viciously at a group of gangsters and getting into a fight with them. In the end, he even came out on top.

Li Zhan enjoyed the show so much she stood up her friend.

When only Xie Feng remained, she walked over with an umbrella, crouched beside him, and smiled sweetly. "Who would've guessed, class president? You've got a wild side."

Xie Feng's gaze was cold and deep. He grabbed her chin and pulled her closer. "Li Zhan, I've got an even wilder side. Want to find out?"

Li Zhan laughed unconcernedly. "Sure."

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Xie Feng was trapped by his circumstances all his life, with no freedom.

His gentleness and kindness were a facade. His madness and cruelty were the truth.

By chance, he got involved with Li Zhan, the girl everyone called the queen of the school. He willingly entered the game, kissed her lips, and silently told her, "You are freedom."

Later, Li Zhan went abroad.

When they met again, he asked, "Are you leaving again?"

Li Zhan: "Depends on you."

-Silent rescue, as devastating as destruction-

| Reader's Guide |

.Fallen Girl x Boy on a Pedestal

Coming soon: Ruins

Zhi Yan had been deaf and mute since childhood.

Then, by chance, she met a bastard.

The bastard saved her. With a lollipop in his mouth, he grinned shamelessly and spoke each word slowly: "Can't call for help? Can't run, either?"

On the day they parted, she looked at Zhou Zong and hurriedly signed with her hands.

He said nothing and pushed her away.