*A scoundrel's genuine love is the most lethal thing of all
1.
Jiang Jie was a rotten person. Everyone in the neighborhood knew it.
Some people were rotten on the surface, others rotten to the core.
Jiang Jie was rotten through and through.
He'd been hauled into the station eight times in a year, each time for a different reason, and often beat his own father badly enough to put him in the hospital.
He had no preference when it came to sex, acted recklessly, had no principles, and loved making money.
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Jiang Jie was busy. How busy?
He could spend one night moving between the rooms of three different women.
Plenty of women were captivated by his wicked, wild, aggressive bad-boy streak.
When someone approached him first with a suggestive air,
he would smile agreeably. "Sure."
"How much? Name your price."
The other person would stare at him in astonishment, clearly taken aback.
He raised an eyebrow, impatient.
"What? Didn't you bother asking around?"
"I'm not free."
2.
Shen Liyue had to take medicine from the day she was born. She was frail and slow-moving, and never took part in school sports.
Like everyone else in the neighborhood, she heard all the outrageous stories about Jiang Jie, then kept her distance.
She was just a little puzzled: why did she run into Jiang Jie every time she went to the piano room?
3.
Jiang Jie was vicious and ruthless, covered in rust.
But when Shen Liyue was lying in the hospital, Jiang Jie paid the massive surgery bill with money he'd extorted from the local gang boss.
After that, the gang boss relentlessly hunted him down, refusing to let him go.
Every time Jiang Jie came to see her at the hospital, he was in a hurry and looked battered.
4.
All the money Jiang Jie had made through every crooked means imaginable over the first twenty years of his life was exchanged for a heart, which was put into Shen Liyue's body.
He said, "Money is dirty. A heart is clean."
5.
His biological father said, "Jiang Jie, you were born bad."
He'd been given a name meaning a life as insignificant as a blade of grass.
His life was as fragile, brief, and worthless as a withered weed by the roadside.
Shen Liyue thought for a moment, then asked him, "Jiang Jie, have you ever tried mustard?"
It tasted slightly bitter, often with a spicy, fragrant note. It sharply stimulated the taste buds, yet was utterly unique.
When mustard powder is moistened, it gives off a distinctive fragrance.
Some people can't even stand the smell, while others absolutely love it.
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Jiang Jie was a rotten person, but he had a sincere heart for Shen Liyue alone.
Born bad x fragile gardenia
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*1v1, happy ending, both pure (there's more to the blurb)
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*I want to write a male lead who is strikingly vivid, tenaciously alive, morally dubious, and struggling on his own.
He is black all over, and the only spot of white is the gardenia in his heart that never fades.
That one spot of white keeps him from being purely and utterly bad.
[Blurb screenshotted on 2024.5.1]
Theme: Sincerity is precious
