Iris Letters

Highly recommend my friend Fang Heshan's The Vulgar Dictionary. Synopsis below.

Rekindled romance, opens in the city | Childhood friends | Pregnancy after a steamy night | Slightly coercive romance | Rival suitors and a battlefield of love | Bittersweet and sweet

When Ming Hui was five, her parents died, and she was adopted by Old Master Pei. She grew up alongside Pei Zhanning.

Pei Zhanning is the prized eldest grandson of the Pei family, heir to the Fenglin House, the most handsome boy at Xijing High School, and a top-tier star student and hot nerd. In the eyes of outsiders, he is cool and chaste, an unattainable flower atop a lofty peak.

But only Ming Hui has seen the extreme madness hidden beneath his chaste exterior.

When she was twenty, beneath a flower-patterned window as snow fell, she rose onto her toes. In her line of sight were Pei Zhanning's thin, red lips, tilted in a roguish smile as he waited for her, completely at ease.

Without hesitation, she pressed her lips to his.

A pigeon's whistle startled her. Like a frightened deer, she broke free of his embrace and looked around in panic.

Pei Zhanning laughed at her and reached out to pull her back by the nape.

"Don't worry. They don't know, and they can't see us."

The Pei family had no idea that the two of them had done the kind of things only a man and a woman could do.

Life is fleeting. They broke up.

After a brief period of being out of step, the two returned to their proper paths.

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After they reunite, Pei Zhanning appears in her hotel suite and pins her against the wall to kiss her.

"You owe me this, Yanyan."

That night, she believes she has repaid everything she owed him. But she never expected that one passionate night would leave her pregnant, her belly growing more prominent by the day.

She doesn't want Pei Zhanning to know the child is his, so she hides it from him desperately.

Beneath the moss-covered gray tiles and whitewashed walls, Pei Zhanning twists her arms behind her back and stares into her, as if he can see into her heart.

"Yanyan, tell me the child is mine."

"Say the child is mine."

"Say the child is mine."

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Ever since she got pregnant, Ming Hui has felt a gaze clinging to her from behind, cold, damp, and sticky.

At her wedding to Zhao Xihe, that gaze finally breaks through the wall.

Pei Zhanning stands tall and elegant. His gaze passes over the arched flower columns, bright and intent, lingering on her face for a long, unashamed time. It leaves her feeling deeply unsettled.

In full view of everyone, the man's voice rings out like thunder from a clear sky as he tells Zhao Xihe, "If you stop the wedding, I'll consider performing Old Master Zhao's surgery."

Zhao Xihe curses him in fury. "You're violating the Hippocratic Oath. You're no doctor!"

Amid the uproar, Pei Zhanning remains unmoved, advancing toward Ming Hui step by step.

"Yanyan, you're not allowed to marry him."

"Hate me if you want. Despise me if you must. I won't let go again."

He pins her to a pillar of shame with his gaze, leaving her nowhere to run.

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One year later.

On a stormy night, the baby sleeps soundly, one chubby leg kicking free of the swaddling. Its plump little foot is wrapped in a long sock.

Pei Zhanning smiles faintly, supporting his daughter's tiny foot in his large palm and gently tucking it back into the swaddling.

Ming Hui watches, her eyes moist. He draws her over, his long fingers brushing her reddened eyes, tender and full of longing.

"Our daughter really takes after you. She loves kicking off the covers."

He takes her slender hand and guides it to the taut muscles of his bare chest, his expression full of adoration.

"The night we conceived her, you kicked me right in the chest. It hurt."

It wasn't only his chest that hurt.

She thinks he must have been in pain for so long, bearing the original sin of loving her, his wounds rotting and festering, with no choice but to tend to them alone through the long nights.

She was an inflammation in his body, recurring year after year, refusing to heal.

At last, at the age of twenty-eight, he recovered.

Reader's Guide:

1. Both are sexually inexperienced, and the story has a happy ending. The female and male leads are not on the same household register. Before adulthood, the male lead is listed on his parents' register, while the female lead is listed under the grandfather's subordinate. As adults, they each have their own separate household register.

2. The female and male leads are not related by blood, and both know this. Everyone around them knows they are not related either.

3. The female and male leads do not date while underage. Their romance begins after the female lead turns twenty.

4. The female lead's marriage to the second male lead is a marriage of convenience. He knows about her situation and fully agrees. The female lead is not dating two people at once.

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Synopsis: The Vulgar Dictionary

Hong Kong entertainment circle | Powerful man bows his head | Possessive daddy figure | Explicit and wholesome in equal measure | Rekindled romance | Height difference | Five-year age gap

A cool female student, gentle outside and strong within x a refined, depraved, darkly obsessive and unhinged tycoon

At an alumni reunion, He Feifei sees Qi Shengyuan again.

The business world's new golden boy, worth hundreds of billions and born into a prominent family, according to everyone.

A man who commands respect not only in Beijing and Hong Kong, but across much of Southeast Asia as well.

The senior beside her sees He Feifei staring and leans in to warn her:

"Don't let that handsome face and kind smile fool you. He's notorious for his ruthless tactics. Don't provoke him, or he'll devour you without leaving a bone."

Little does the senior know that ten minutes later, in a secluded corner, the man who had been chatting and laughing just moments ago will be gripping He Feifei's chin with a cold expression, forcing her to meet his scrutinizing gaze.

"Who was that man just now? You smiled at him a little more than you did at me."

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The first time He Feifei seeks him out is aboard his four-deck luxury yacht.

Night has fallen over the choppy waters of the Strait of Malacca. The man looks languid and relaxed, playing with a cigar between his fingers as he taps his knee.

"You've got guts. Sit on my lap, and I won't throw you overboard to feed the fish."

He Feifei will regret her impulsiveness that night countless times later.

Qi Shengyuan is a bona fide madman.

For work, she casually complains that a certain popular actor is a show-off.

The next day, she sees in the news that the man has been completely blacklisted.

Terrified, she asks Qi Shengyuan about it.

He answers lightly:

"I got rid of someone you hate. Isn't that nice?"

Later, she secretly searches, "What do you do if you get involved with a mad dog you can't shake off?"

Without warning, he snatches away her phone, worth six figures, and casually tosses it into the sea through a porthole.

She trembles so badly she can barely stand, but he smiles and pulls her onto his lap, producing a pair of slender 13-centimeter heels covered in top-grade diamonds and gently helping her put them on.

But He Feifei knows that his gentleness is only a facade.

She finally leaves him for good and hides somewhere he could never lay a hand on her, gradually building a stable life.

On the night of her first blind date,

she opens her front door only to find a familiar figure blocking her way completely.

Qi Shengyuan strokes her slightly rounded belly with his large hand.

"Feifei, you're carrying my child. Where else do you think you can hide?"

- The female lead's name is taken from Cao Cao's poem "Journey Through Bitter Cold": "Few people dwell in the mountain valleys, and snow falls in a gentle flurry."

- One-on-one, both sexually inexperienced, happy ending

- The setting is entirely fictional. Please don't read it as a reflection of real life.

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Theme: Once you make a choice, accept the consequences and take responsibility.