Zhou Zhou had a dream. In it, he was still in college, smiling with carefree abandon. But when he woke up...
All he could see was endless darkness.
He took a part-time job at a bar to pay off his father's enormous gambling debts, and by chance caught the eye of one of the creditors. The coldly handsome man pressed a cigarette butt against the back of his hand, then pinched his chin with his other hand and smiled.
"You're good-looking. Be mine."
From then on, Zhou Zhou's life was completely severed from what it had been before. He fell in love, then grew disappointed. In the end, all he had left was helplessness and silence.
Because the man told him:
"We're destined to be entangled with each other."
But eventually, the sun was finally willing to shine on him and pull him out of the abyss.
A young man who claimed to have come for him entered his life. He cradled Zhou Zhou's face and told him earnestly:
"You're not unloved."
"I love you. I love you so much."
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Chu Qiu wrote old-fashioned melodramatic romance. Even in an era dominated by sweet, wholesome danmei, he remained true to his style.
In the outline for his new novel, Escape with No Way Out, the setup was that a powerful heir from a wealthy family, the protagonist on the receiving end, fell in love at first sight with the stubborn, aloof protagonist on the giving end, then forced him into a relationship. For the plot to work, the protagonist on the giving end had to suffer as much as possible. But as he wrote, Chu Qiu found he couldn't go on.
Because he...
seemed to have fallen in love with the protagonist he'd created, Zhou Zhou.
#Wait, am I crazy? Why did I pair Zhou Zhou with a piece of trash like that?#
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Then one day, the half-ruined outline suddenly became reality, and Chu Qiu, the author, received one good piece of news and one bad one.
Good news: He could meet Zhou Zhou in person.
Bad news: The story had already reached the part where Zhou Zhou was being forced into a relationship.
Chu Qiu: Let go of my Zhou Zhou, hey!!
Theme: Of course you deserve to be loved
