1. Le Xinglan has two boyfriends.
Yu Rang has spent years navigating the business world. He is considerate and impeccably mannered, gentle and restrained, but in private he is domineering and insatiable.
Whatever she does, whatever she wears, whatever expression she makes, even how she moves in his arms, she has to do as Yu Rang says.
Le Xinglan feels like a bird he keeps in a gilded cage. Her wings are growing stronger, but she still cannot spread them.
Keep someone locked up long enough, and rebellious thoughts are bound to take root.
After several failed attempts to escape, Le Xinglan has no choice but to trade one year of freedom for a lifetime.
2. And so, in the romantic city of Spring, she meets Lin Yiyan.
It happens on a rainy night. She is indulging herself, hazy with drink, when her foot slips and she falls into a warm embrace.
He is a handsome, tall nineteen-year-old college student, broad-shouldered and long-legged. When he smiles, his dark eyes gleam like stars in the night, wild and untamed. With one arm, he lifts her securely into his arms.
Later, he likes holding her with one arm in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, biting her ear as he asks in a hoarse voice, "Do you like it this way, sis?"
He is young, after all. He has stamina and patience, and he even considers her feelings.
Yu Rang would never do that.
He only grips her by the throat, then kisses away her tears amid the blissful, overwhelming rush of oxygen deprivation. When he stops, he leans close to her ear and says, "Open your eyes. Look at me."
3. Le Xinglan always thought that with the north and south so far apart, mountains and rivers between them, their lives would never intersect.
As long as she played her cards right, no one would ever find out.
Until that rainy night, with tea steam curling through the air and the lights dim, when the two men came face to face under the same roof.
They were brothers...
Real brothers...
Real brothers, with remarkably similar natures.
Easy to invite in, impossible to get rid of.
Well, she's screwed...
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Younger, scheming puppy-like lover / older, intensely controlling daddy versus rebellious, unruly little wildcat
Archived on 2024-8-10
Theme: To use things without being used by them
