That Sickly Young Man

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This novel passed review, but the outline is a mess, and I'm a bit on the verge of a breakdown. I don't want to end it badly, so I'm writing a new story while revising this one. Read at your own risk. It's currently at 20/88 chapters. I'll post them all at once, then finish the story.

Blurb:

A sickly girl who pretends to be proper vs. a flamboyant peacock who's genuinely purehearted

Chang Yu is waiting to bury someone.

She is a mayfly, yet speaks as if she could swallow the heavens, foolish and ridiculous.

The imperial physician says she will die soon.

Chang Yu watches coldly, waiting in eager anticipation.

But winter passes...

She doesn't die. She even manages to survive through spring.

Chang Yu begins to pay attention to her.

She is hardly ever conscious.

The days pass, one after another. Soon, the winter jasmine blooms again in the imperial garden. This is already her second year in the palace.

Another winter comes.

An assassin strikes at the Eastern Palace during the birthday celebrations, and she is accused of plotting against the Crown Prince.

In the bitter northern wind, through the fine flakes of snow, Chang Yu clearly sees her give him a slight smile.

It looks both innocent and provocative.

Chang Yu knows.

She has come alive.

Author's note:

My writing is amateurish and melodramatic. The version that passed review has many flaws. No other content warnings.

The special chapter differs from the main story. Take note.

#LongtimeScheming #YandereFiction #DarkPossessiveness #SecretlyInLoveAndTemptingHim #RestrainedYearning

Bright, bold, good-natured screenwriter x insecure, gloomy, unhinged anesthesiologist

Chen Tizhou has a secret he has kept hidden for years.

Fang Zhishan.

In his first year of college, his father died, and his mother remarried and started a new family. The people there wouldn't let her have anything to do with her past again. So Chen Tizhou, part of his mother's "past," was inevitably the one she cast aside.

"..."

To be honest, it made little difference.

Even if his father had lived and his mother hadn't left, Chen Tizhou's life wouldn't have been much better.

The way things turned out now was, in its own way, a chance for peace and freedom.

And yet that same year, in the endless darkness of his nineteen years, he encountered the first, and only, ray of light ever to reach the depths of his heart.

"..."

Fang Zhishan was always surrounded by people. Chen Tizhou knew all too well that she had no need for his tiny, insignificant love.

During their two years at university, unbeknownst to Fang Zhishan, Chen Tizhou quietly shut himself away in the deepest darkness. From under the shadows where no sunlight could reach, he secretly watched this radiant sun, which would never shine kindly on him.

She had a boyfriend.

He came from a wealthy family, did well in school, and had a good personality.

She seemed to like him a lot.

When she was with him, she was always smiling.

Their relationship was steady.

They didn't get mad, argue, or break up.

Chen Tizhou knew how worthless he was. He didn't even have the right to get close to her.

He despised and loathed himself for being so useless.

After graduation, Chen Tizhou didn't dare look into anything about Fang Zhishan anymore.

He buried his desire for her deep in his heart, but time could not make it fade. In the days he couldn't see Fang Zhishan, his longing grew more intense with every passing day.

Until one day, in a life of nothing but tedium, at a tedious job, in the middle of a tedious...

The moment the elevator doors opened,

Chen Tizhou's heart gave an uncontrollable, violent lurch.

At that same moment, the heart in his chest, numb from beating day after day, cramped and seized up.

"Chen Tizhou, are you trying to seduce me?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm hooked."

Theme: Stand on your own feet and push against the current.