Half a Love Poem

[Proud dodder flower × devoted, terminally lovesick yandere]

That night, rain poured down. In a hidden corner, the dim light couldn't make out the other's face.

The boy pressed a slender index finger to his lips and smiled seductively. "Shh, don't make a sound."

When the teacher outside the door asked where she was, Shang Yuning instinctively clung even tighter to the person before her.

A tug-of-war between sincerity and pretense, schemes and manipulation woven together. Shang Yuning led the boy on, feeding him sweetness after using his heart for her own ends.

Then, in the year he loved her most, she broke up with him, gave him the silent treatment, cut off contact, and went abroad, vanishing completely from his world.

*

Six years later, on a street in Berlin, Cheng Che carefully engineers a chance encounter.

Caught between reason and instinct, the two get married.

On a night when heavy snow shuts down the roads, he makes his way through the blizzard, step by step, to reach her.

Shang Yuning brushes the snow off his clothes, her fingertips tracing the silver buckle at his waist. "Cheng Yucheng, stay with me tonight."

One night of tenderness is followed by a sudden, brutal divorce.

*

After returning from her studies abroad, Shang Yuning follows her elders' advice and starts looking for a marriage alliance.

Her ex-husband, Cheng Che, is aloof, sharp-tongued, dull, and boring. He's not even under consideration.

Yet somehow, he ends up winning her hand.

One night after they sleep together, the bathroom is filled with mist, unable to conceal the restless turmoil in his flushed eyes.

Cheng Che grips her hand and crouches, half-kneeling. "All these years apart, did you ever think of me?"

When she doesn't answer, he sinks into self-mockery. "I did. Countless times."

His thin lips press kisses to her knee. His tender voice is laced with a chilling smile. "I'll lock you up and keep you by my side forever."

Theme: Be true to your heart