The Swamp

Cheng Yan (top): A spoiled, scheming playboy who seems cruel and heartless but is actually down-to-earth and devoted in love, a poor thing

Mo Fan (bottom): A gentle, devoted beauty who is actually completely unhinged and the group's powerhouse

Love-hate story / HE / rekindled love / melodrama / unrequited love

Mo Fan became Cheng Yan's bona fide secret lover, and he did so willingly. In this life, he had only ever loved one person. Even though that person now had a wife and child and mostly used him; even though that person had once ruined his studies, destroyed his career, and nearly killed him.

When Cheng Yan's wife and child returned from abroad, Mo Fan was sent back to Beijing. Only then did he abruptly wake up from this twisted, immoral relationship. "Cheng Yan, do I even look like a person anymore? Please leave me with this last shred of dignity."

Mo Fan, already hopelessly entangled, didn't understand: it wasn't Cheng Yan who wouldn't let him go, it was himself.

Five years ago, Mo Fan was a student at a dance academy. One night, while working a side gig, the mask on his face accidentally fell off. One glance was all it took for Cheng Yan to take an interest in him. Before long, Cheng Yan used underhanded tactics to get him into bed, but he spared no expense, doting on and cherishing Mo Fan.

Cheng Yan pushed Mo Fan into making a film for a business partner. Unexpectedly, the partner set a trap and abused Mo Fan. At the same time, Cheng Yan received word that he had to return to Hong Kong immediately.

Abused, despised, and abandoned, Mo Fan, broken to the very limit, trampled on Cheng Yan's dignity with the cruelest words he could find.

Believing that if he couldn't have something, he should destroy it, Cheng Yan floored the accelerator and sent Mo Fan to his death.

Reader's guide:

1. The relationship is not exclusive.

2. Both the top and the bottom have mental health issues.

3. The top is presented as married with a child, but that is only a facade, not the truth.

4. Some place names in the story are real and some are fictional. The events and characters are entirely fictional, so please don't read them as real or scrutinize them for accuracy.

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Jiang Zhan (top): Calm, composed, and restrained on the surface, but actually a flirtatious, quietly sensual type

Chu Jingshan (bottom): Arrogant and spoiled on the surface, soft-hearted underneath, but actually extremely scheming and dark-minded

Chu Jingshan was his family's garbage bin. His parents poured all their malice, disdain, and loathing onto him, calling him a rat everyone wanted dead, a maggot in a latrine, a menace, a demon come to collect their debts.

His younger sister, Chu Fangyun, cared only about his wallet and looked down on him from the bottom of her heart.

It had always been this way since childhood. He had grown numb and stopped caring, until Jiang Zhan appeared.

Jiang Zhan was his sister's darling, his father's ideal son-in-law, and the perfect man in his mother's eyes. His looks, status, and family background were beyond reproach. How satisfying would it be to steal him away, turn the perfect man in their eyes into someone just as hidden and shameful as himself, and make their precious daughter taste the agony of having her heart and bones carved out?

He deliberately got close, showing Jiang Zhan his most broken side to win his sympathy. He plotted to seduce him, exposing his most vulnerable parts to stir his compassion. Finally, he threw himself into Jiang Zhan's arms, leaving him nowhere to run.

But Jiang Zhan accepted everything and granted every request. He stood in front of Chu Jingshan to shield him from his family's abuse, then led him forward openly and proudly.

It turned out that he was the one with nowhere to run.

When he wanted to stand before Jiang Zhan again and love him with all his heart, Chu Fangyun became pregnant, and not long afterward, both mother and child died.

Only then did Chu Jingshan realize that Jiang Zhan had seen through all his schemes from the very beginning, and that the person he loved was someone else.

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Jiang Zhan once saved a man.

The man was covered in blood and on the verge of death, but still used the last of his strength to grab Jiang Zhan's hand.

When they met again, the man wanted only to use him.

Jiang Zhan understood his pain and knew how much he had suffered. He didn't mind being a pawn in the man's quest for revenge.

But the man still abandoned him and latched onto the more powerful Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao was Jiang Zhan's biological older brother.

Theme: Love yourself before you love others.