Caged Fish

Original title: After We Broke Up, the Mad Actress Clung to Me and Made Me...

Main story complete [Updates at midnight every night] Chapter 25: The groveling redemption arc begins

Cool and deranged, sickly beauty bottom with a sex addiction (Tan You) x gloomy, insecure orphan top (Lan Jingli)

The day Lan Jingli arrived at the mountain villa, snow fell thickly on the black grass.

Her manager spoke gravely. Her benefactor had won the Best Actress award, retired from the entertainment industry, and inherited the family business. She was ruthless, aloof, and abstinent, so Lan Jingli had to serve her carefully.

Lan Jingli's mind wandered until she caught sight of the frail woman beneath the bodhi tree.

She had a stunningly beautiful face that could ruin a kingdom. The red mole on the tip of her ear was seductive, like a flame burning in the snow.

Lan Jingli's gaze grew unfocused. The woman looked so much like the older girl she had secretly loved and never forgotten.

Tan You smiled faintly and fell silent. Lan Jingli knew she had been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time.

That night, beneath the warm curtains of the bed, the woman clung to her passionately. At the height of their love, she called softly, "Jingli."

The woman was gentle and considerate, and when she was in a good mood, she granted every request. They would fall in love, get engaged, marry, and stay together forever.

Lan Jingli thought that was how it would be.

Until Lan Jingli learned that Tan You was going to get engaged to her "first love." She ran to Tan You for confirmation, only to receive this reply: "Jingli, I thought you could handle this kind of game."

It turned out that in Tan You's eyes, Lan Jingli was no more than a lowly actress, a cheap vine flower to be used and discarded.

How could a goddess perched high above remember the fate she once shared with someone so lowly?

Later, at a concert, Lan Jingli spoke with emotion and a catch in her voice. She said she was entering a new stage of life and would marry her beloved girlfriend. She invited her girlfriend onstage to sing a newly written love song with her.

Tan You sat in the VIP section. Hearing that Lan Jingli dared to publicly propose, her heart raced, though her expression remained calm. She smiled scornfully, thinking that her little fish was getting ahead of herself and would never leave her.

She rose gracefully to leave, but the very next second, she heard Lan Jingli say her girlfriend's name.

It wasn't hers.

Tan You went cold all over, her eyes frighteningly red.

Much later, on a cold, damp spring night, the peerlessly beautiful woman, as pristine as a bright moon untouched by the mortal world, traveled thousands of miles to a remote mountain village, just to beg Lan Jingli to look at her once more.

The rose cage Tan You had carefully built for Lan Jingli ended up trapping Tan You herself.

Content warnings: melodrama, a very long groveling redemption arc, Tan You is genuinely deranged, abusive control, sex, mutual physical and emotional purity, happy ending, no partner switching. My take on the entertainment industry, no celebrity fandom, no real-life inspiration.

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