The top is a genius PhD in the medical field. To make a breakthrough in a research project, he leads his team to southern Xinjiang for fieldwork, but gets separated from them and wanders into a primeval forest.
Deep in the woods, he meets a beautiful young man, who takes him to an ancient Miao village. The youth wears an elaborate, gorgeous dress, with butterfly-shaped silver ornaments adorning his long hair. His eyes are like polished jade, his face like peach blossoms. He smiles brightly and sweetly calls him "gege."
The youth grows more clingy by the day. Before long, he tugs at the top's arm and pleads, "Gege, I like you. Stay here and be with me forever, okay?"
The top knows perfectly well that this is a flirtatious, dissolute butterfly, yet he can't stop himself from falling into its sweet trap. He agrees to stay for a while.
Until one day, deep in the village, he discovers a dungeon holding dozens of outsiders who don't belong there.
They have no names. Every one of them is called gege.
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The bottom likes anything beautiful.
As a child, he collected pretty bugs. As an adult, he collects handsome men.
Some of those men are willing, others unwilling, but he keeps them all in the Miao village with his gu worms.
He chooses one at random each day to dote on, depending on his mood.
One day, he meets the most beautiful and most special collectible he has ever seen.
As he has done before, he plants a love gu in the top.
But this time, his gu worm has no effect.
Worse still, the top discovers the "collectibles" he had gathered before.
He is taken away from the Miao village and locked in a "dungeon" he doesn't recognize.
The top kisses the butterfly-shaped birthmark on his back as he injects him with a drug. The bottom crawls wildly across the bed, crying and repeating the promise he once made to the top: "I love you... I'll be with you... forever."
The bottom doesn't know what the drug is. He only knows that his body becomes more and more dependent on the top.
Eventually, the moment the top touches him, he cries out and gets wet. When the top is away, he can only hug the shirt the top deliberately left behind and breathe in the man's scent to ease the restless ache in his chest.
The top has planted a real gu in him, and he will never be able to escape for the rest of his life.
[Sweet, flirtatious, clingy little charmer on the surface, but a venomous beauty underneath bottom x pure, aloof flower on a high peak at first, then a deceptively gentle, deranged top]
Reader's Guide:
1. The top is sexually inexperienced, the bottom is not; the bottom is a player.
2. Both the top and bottom are crazy, and neither is mentally well.
3. One-on-one pairing, not a multiple-partner story.
4. There is coercion later on, but the bottom always holds the emotional upper hand.
Theme: Love should be faithful