[Self-Esteem Issues, Cold-Faced Ghost, and Laundry-Day Underwear Fiction]
Spoiled heiress x insecure, paranoid man living under someone else's roof
At odds with each other, they fall in love through hatred.
When everyone, including him, knew she hated him, liking her became an unspoken addiction he had to bear alone.
When Duan Fei was thirteen, his mother died of an illness. Cheng Yuanqian, an old friend of his mother's, took him in.
From a country cottage to a villa in the provincial capital, there he met Cheng Yanxin, a proud and radiant heiress as delicate as a porcelain doll.
Cheng Yanxin's mother died of depression years ago. The rumor was that it was because Cheng Yuanqian had always loved someone else, his unattainable first love. And now, her father had brought that woman's son into their home.
Cheng Yanxin hated this so-called first love, and that hatred extended to Duan Fei.
She mocked him, taunted him, and despised him... She tried every way she could think of to drive him away.
From the age of thirteen to twenty-eight, he had grown into a force to be reckoned with, becoming a rising star in business.
People came and went around him, some pursuing him, others seeking his help. Only one person's gaze remained just as it had been more than a decade ago.
All those years she acted like she hated him, he acted like he hated her too, as if that were the only way to preserve what little self-respect he had left.
But his heart seemed always to betray him.
Through countless days and nights, he was trapped in an impossible fantasy, caught in an unspoken addiction to one person.
When she got engaged, he thought it was finally time to get over her.
Unexpectedly, a car accident left them stranded in a mountain village. When she opened her eyes, she stared at him in a daze and slowly called him, "Husband?"
She seemed to have lost her memory.
And she mistook him for her husband.
Stranded in a mountain village, Cheng Yanxin opened her eyes and saw her husband first. He didn't deny that he was her husband, though his attitude toward her was strange.
He seemed to dislike her, yet he did her laundry and cooked for her, staying by her side around the clock to take care of her.
Her husband was handsome, with a very alluring figure. Sharing a bed with him made Cheng Yanxin's thoughts run wild, but whenever she got close, he reacted strongly and wouldn't let her touch him.
After Cheng Yanxin flirted with her husband for the 108th time, he finally snapped. Pinning her hands down, his eyes red, he made her swear.
"Cheng Yanxin, say you won't regret this. Say that once we get out of here, you won't abandon me. Swear it, and I'll let you sleep with me."
Theme: Loving you is beyond my control
