Addicted to You

[Bad-Boy Heir with a Handsome, Rogueish Edge x Sweet, Soft-Spoken Good Girl with Thorns]

[Two Elite Families | Reunited After a Breakup | Marriage First, Love Later | Size Difference | Hero Is One-Quarter German | She Tried to Run but Couldn't]

Xia Zhiyuan was born into a wealthy family as its second daughter. She was doted on by everyone from childhood, but grew up sweet and well-behaved.

But then she fell for a wild one. Jing Yan Ci came from an equally powerful family. His face was flashier than that of a mixed-race male model, and deep down he was a wild horse no one could rein in. He was ruthless, and nobody in Beijing's inner circle dared cross him.

Only with her would he willingly bow his head.

But she still dumped him. His possessiveness was too much, and often left her unable to breathe.

The day they broke up, he stood frozen in place, like a stray dog abandoned by its owner.

Seven years later, their families arranged a marriage alliance. The day they met again, he sat opposite her in a sharp suit, polite and distant, his smile never reaching his eyes. “Don't read too much into this. It's a marriage of convenience.”

She nodded. Perfect.

After they married, he put everything he could offer right in front of her.

A whole walk-in closet of the season's couture. A Michelin-starred chef moved into their home. When she woke up hungry in the middle of the night, he put on an apron and cooked noodles, blowing on each spoonful to cool it before feeding her. When she came home late, he left a single light on in the entryway and never asked where she'd been. When she didn't reply to his messages, he no longer called her over and over like he used to.

She thought he had really changed.

Until she found a photo album in his study. It was filled with pictures of her.

Her waiting for a ride under an umbrella on a rainy night. Her profile as she raised a glass with friends on a terrace. Her back as she stood on tiptoe to look at a painting in a gallery. The moment she looked back at the airport security checkpoint... Every shot was taken secretly, and each one looked as if he had watched her from the shadows for a long time.

On the last page of the album was just one line, written in a hurried, forceful hand: “I can't keep an eye on her anymore. I want so badly to lock her by my side.”

She fled abroad that very night.

In the dim light of a hotel in a foreign country, he pinned her down on the bed.

Jing Yan Ci stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and turned around. To outsiders, he was the untouchable head of the Jing family. Now he wore a smile, but his eyes were bloodshot, as if something had crushed him.

He took her hand and pressed a cold dagger against his own heart. “I don't want to be like this either, but I love you too much.”

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.”

“Don't leave me. If you're scared, then kill me.”

“But before I die, kiss me first.”

[Reader's Guide]

1. One-on-one, each other's first love | Both pure | Happy ending

2. The hero has a need for physical contact and can't bear to be apart from the heroine

3. She thinks she's choosing a man, but he's had her wrapped around his finger all along

4. The early chapters are sweet everyday life; later, the hero takes a dark, unhinged turn.

Theme: Love makes life more fulfilling