"Your hair tie goes perfectly with my cufflinks today."
"Being naughty again? Why are you smiling at other men?"
"Your ankles are beautiful. I just bought a chain, and it would suit you perfectly."
"Poor thing, they made you cry again. Beg me, and I'll help you."
When the last anonymous text arrived, Yu Xia was being teased and bullied by the nasty, bored rich girls at school.
Amid their scornful laughter, a figure approached.
It was Xie Zhixu, the one person at this strictly hierarchical aristocratic academy whom even the arrogant, wantonly unruly young masters and ladies dared not address by his full name.
He stood with an easy, unrestrained bearing. Lowering his eyes, he let his gaze travel inch by inch across her face, then asked calmly, "Do you need help?"
*
Student Council President Xie Zhixu came from a prominent family. He was courteous and well-mannered, and even showed compassion and tolerance toward the desperately poor students everyone else bullied.
Only Yu Xia knew what kind of twisted mind lay beneath his refined, handsome exterior.
Once, she opened a room in his house and found every wall covered with pictures of her:
Her with Xie Zhixu gripping the back of her neck as he kissed her, her with Xie Zhixu biting the tip of her ear...
And,
her curled up at the head of a bed, wearing a slender chain.
*
Years later, they met again in the depths of another winter.
Xie Zhixu was still the darling of the heavens, surrounded by admirers at a technology expo. When he saw Yu Xia with her arm linked through another man's, he merely glanced at her indifferently.
Half an hour later, inside a locked lounge...
He forcibly laced his fingers through hers, then pressed a wet, clinging kiss to her lips. "Got yourself a new boyfriend?"
"Does he know about the mole on your collarbone? That you tremble when it's licked?"
"So naughty... I really should have locked you up back then."
One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending
Theme: Even twisted love is still love
