This Is Damn Well Love

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When Xie Tiao was thirty, the Xie family was at the height of its power, while the Jiang family was on the verge of bankruptcy. Xie Tiao took over the Jiang family's failing business and, along with it, Jiang Wang, the Jiang family's young master.

Outsiders liked to call their relationship coercion and forced seduction.

But Xie Tiao was convinced this was damn well love.

Until one day, Xie Tiao died of an illness. He fell asleep on a cold operating table and woke up beneath soft silk sheets, only to open his eyes and see his naked lover.

Still groggy, Xie Tiao was kicked out of bed by the little brat.

"Who said you could get in my bed? Get out!"

Xie Tiao glanced at the old photo of the two of them on the bedside table.

Xie Tiao: ?

Whose bed did you say this was?

On the first day after being reborn, Xie Tiao was thrown out by his former lover, now his employer. The security guard at the gate was even badmouthing him.

"Did you hear? After that Xie guy died, Jiang went crazy and found a man who looks just like him to keep as a stand-in at his villa!"

Xie Tiao crouched by the gate and pondered for a moment before reaching a conclusion.

This little brat sure knows how to have fun.

Who am I standing in for? Myself?

*

When Jiang Wang was eighteen, his mother died in a car accident. His good-for-nothing father planned to abandon him and run off with the money. To protect the last of his mother's inheritance, Jiang Wang sold himself and the Jiang family as a package deal to the wealthy businessman named Xie.

Outsiders liked to call their relationship a business arrangement doomed to fail.

But Jiang Wang was convinced this was damn well love.

Until, after being torn apart by death, they reunited, but his lover, back from the dead, refused to acknowledge him.

"Wouldn't it be better to leave it here? Do we really have to go down that same road again?"

Utterly despairing, Jiang Wang decided to go crazy, and managed to get himself admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

After Jiang Wang fell ill, his memories regressed to when Xie Tiao had first brought him home.

At that time, Jiang Wang was all sharp edges, like a wild wolf that could never be tamed.

Xie Tiao was completely unaccustomed to this. His friends also felt sorry for Jiang Wang, accusing Xie Tiao of not knowing how to love and reminding him of all the years Jiang Wang had suffered.

Xie Tiao refused to accept that. There was nothing in this world he couldn't do.

He walked into the hospital room, sat down beside the bed, hesitated for a long time, then shut his eyes and took the plunge. "I'm your lover. Call me hubby."

Jiang Wang froze, then exploded. "Didn't we agree I wouldn't have to sell my body?"

Xie Tiao was instantly on high alert.

After a long pause, Jiang Wang pressed his lips together, his ears turning red. "That's a separate price."

Friend: "..."

You two really are a broken pot and a cracked lid, made for each other. Just make do, all right? Can you even get divorced?

Content warnings:

1. Neither the top nor the bottom is entirely normal. Both are extremely possessive, with full-on gloomy, obsessive ghost-boyfriend vibes.

2. The feelings are emphatically mutual, and the bottom has a slight tendency to attract everyone.

3. Both are sexually inexperienced. One-on-one, happy ending.

Theme: Grow toward the sun.