Black Swan

Blurb 1

When Bai Luyao was sixteen, she danced The Dying Swan on tiptoe, graceful and elegant. Each leap stepped straight into Chu Ge's heart.

Love wound around them and blossomed as Chu Ge held Bai Luyao's slender waist tight, letting out a long sigh, helpless yet tender.

At eighteen, the fearless, unruly Chu Ge obediently let Bai Luyao smooth the tousled hair from her forehead. With gentle affection, Bai Luyao told her, "Be good. I'll wait for you to finish your studies and come home. You compose the music, and I'll dance to it. How about it?"

Lost in that tender gaze, Chu Ge left without a worry.

But when she returned four years later, she learned that Bai Luyao was about to get engaged to her older sister.

Burning with betrayal, Chu Ge was determined to take Bai Luyao back, even if she had to steal her away.

There was no more white swan. No more stage. No more tenderness.

The music playing by her ear was the piece she had composed for Bai Luyao with her own hands. Chu Ge held her captive by the waist, glaring fiercely into her eyes as she struggled to catch her breath. In a low voice, she ordered, "Dance. I said keep going."

Blurb 2

In Chu Ge's memories, her family was fractured and rife with betrayal and schemes.

Her older sister, who shared the same mother but had a different father, was the only warmth in her childhood.

She grew up happily under her sister's care, spoiled into fearing nothing. No matter how much trouble she caused, her sister always cleaned up after her.

Then, at sixteen, Bai Luyao came along, and Chu Ge began to rein in her spoiled ways. She would take Bai Luyao by the hand and stand before her sister, blushing as she listened to her sister tease them.

On the day she left to study abroad, Chu Ge looked at her beloved and her dearest sister, who had come to see her off, feeling both reluctant and content.

But just four years later, everything turned to ashes.

Her sister took Bai Luyao by the hand and stood smiling before Chu Ge. In a gentle voice, she said, "Chu Chu, this is your future sister-in-law."

The moment Chu Ge's eyes reddened, all the beautiful memories of the past vanished.

She wanted revenge on Bai Luyao.

She wanted to grip her by the throat and demand to know why.

She wanted to bite her fragile lips and watch her cry.

She wanted to make her lose all composure, to leave her a disheveled mess on the stage she loved most.

Blurb 3

From childhood onward, Bai Luyao's life had been plotted and arranged by others.

She had never fought for anything for herself. Even when her heart skipped a beat, she could only suppress her feelings.

She knew that someone like her didn't deserve love.

Everyone called her cold, mechanical, and heartless, as if she weren't a living person.

But when Chu Ge stood with a hand on her waist, smiling at her, Bai Luyao slowly closed her eyes. She knew she could never escape again.

She defied the duties and mission imposed on her since childhood, willing to make the whole world her enemy.

But in the end, everything she had shattered when Chu Ge said, "I don't want you."

The flames of love had already caught fire. The white swan of old was gone, and she had been stained with the imposing darkness everyone feared.

No matter how high her status or how ruthless and terrifying she seemed to others, Bai Luyao's eyes would still redden as she clutched Chu Ge's hand and begged through childlike sobs, "Please don't leave me..."

Theme: People must strive and work hard. Only by becoming strong and self-reliant can they uncover the true nature of things.