A Heartthrob in a Foreign City

Originally titled: Non-Stockholm Syndrome Lover and The Most Popular Man in the City of Crime Dijia Bao is a city with a high crime rate. When Wen Liang first arrived to study abroad, he ran into bank robbers. His quiet student life was never the same again. First came the initiation at an American university fraternity, then a kidnapper who fell in love at first sight, while Dijia Bao's most vicious criminals watched him from the shadows. To get his life back on track, Wen Liang had no choice but to outwit the villains and endure a chaotic, troublesome existence. Reader's Guide: 1. Set in a loosely fictionalized foreign country. The shou is a beautiful young man with the allure of an Eastern Adonis, and a magnet for perverts. 2. International student shou x powerful gong, older man/younger man and a size difference. The relationship is coercive early on. 3. The pacing gets a little shaky in the middle and toward the end. Please consider skipping these sections: * Chapters 23–29: American Horror Story cut scenes * Chapters 37–48: The plot goes in all sorts of wild directions * Next volume: As one reader put it, “The cannon fodder's lives flowed away like piss, and the NPCs vanished into thin air between laughs.” 4. Inspired by False Alarm/Rain Is Still Falling, with references to The Town and Inside Man, among others. Currently updating: Horror Anthology: Do B-Movies Need Happy Endings? and Quick Transmigration: Today's Heartthrob Is Taking the World by Storm Again. The next story may be: Playing the White Moonlight in Japanese, Korean, and American TV Dramas. Sauron, Lord of Mordor, spent most of his power forging the One Ring. It could bewitch the heart and amplify greed, and anyone who wore it would develop a pathological obsession with it. Who knew the Ring would turn into a beauty! This beauty has a fatal allure, especially for villains. He can always disguise himself as seemingly harmless prey, patiently waiting for the so-called hunter to take the bait. The Lord of the Rings: A beauty born from the Ring bewitched a host of heroes. Its master laughed in satisfaction, unaware of just how adoringly he gazed at the Ring. A Song of Ice and Fire: The Mad King Targaryen forcibly married a beauty. The great lords gossiped, but fell silent when they saw the new queen at the tourney. After the Mad King was killed, the usurpers turned their eyes toward the late king's widow. The Godfather: Don Vito Corleone had his wild days when he was young. Years later, on his youngest daughter's wedding day, his rebellious son brought home his lover. But all Don could see was his handsome former lover, unchanged after all these years. Reader's Guide: 1. As everyone knows, melodramatic dramas are full of tangled relationships, and Western melodramas are an even bigger mess. All the romances are thrown into one pot. 2. Men and women alike love the Ring. Who could possibly not love the Ring? Theme: Goodness and beauty will triumph