1.
Stay alert. This is a cage.
Those were the words Yi Longxue wrote in her diary every day.
At sixteen, she was given to the Fu family like a gift. Everyone said she was lucky: a girl from a humble family had caught the eye of the Fu family’s only son, who was her age, and he doted on her like she was the apple of his eye.
After several years as childhood sweethearts, she abandoned her family and ran away when she went to university, enjoying a carefree life for a while.
When she had no choice but to return, the man who had once been so domineering he seemed invincible had changed completely.
He was gentle, refined, and attentive, showing no trace of resentment despite the way she had abandoned him.
He almost made her lose herself in him.
2.
A dragon’s world has only two kinds of things: those worth plundering and those without value.
To Fu Bai, Yi Longxue was clearly the former.
But she was tired of struggling against the dragon and hated sharing its lair.
So he might as well pretend to be a gentle, jade-like prince, and make her willingly walk into the grand cage he had woven for her.
Unfortunately, a dragon is still a dragon.
3.
As the snow slowly melted, one corner of the cage came into view. She grew wary and tried to flee.
Only to discover she had been inside all along.
But perhaps she had been born free.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away. It is better to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. -- The Gospel of Matthew
Reader's Guide:
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.
2. A possessive, coercive romance, inspired by an idea I had a long time ago.
3. The male lead is a lunatic early on. He reins himself in a little in the middle, then gets even more unhinged later.
4. The leads do not have an intimate relationship before reaching adulthood.
I may revise the blurb later if I think of anything. This version was saved as a screenshot on February 5, 2024.
Theme: Stay alert. This is a cage.
