Parting the Clouds to See the Mountain

Jiang Zhan (top): Calm, composed, and abstinent on the surface, but a sly flirt with a repressed, suggestive side underneath.

Chu Jingshan (bottom): Arrogant and coquettish on the surface, with a soft heart, but actually extremely calculating and devious.

Chu Jingshan is his family's dumping ground. His parents pour all their malice, disdain, and hatred onto him, calling him a rat in the street, a maggot in a latrine, a menace, and a demon come to collect a debt.

His younger sister, Chu Fangyun, only cares about his money and looks down on him from the bottom of her heart.

It's been like this since childhood. He's grown numb to it all, until Jiang Zhan appears.

Jiang Zhan is his sister's darling, his father's ideal son-in-law, and the good man in his mother's eyes. His looks, status, and family background are impeccable. If Chu Jingshan could steal him away, turning the perfect man in their eyes into someone just as shameful as himself, and make their precious daughter taste the pain of having her heart and bones torn out, how satisfying would that be~

He deliberately gets close, showing Jiang Zhan his most broken side to win his sympathy. He plots to seduce him, exposing his most vulnerable side to stir his compassion. Then he throws himself into Jiang Zhan's arms, leaving him nowhere to run.

But Jiang Zhan accepts it all, and grants every request. He stands in front of Chu Jingshan, shielding him from his family's abuse. He takes Chu Jingshan's hand and walks openly into the light.

It turns out Chu Jingshan is the one with nowhere to run.

When Chu Jingshan wants to stand before Jiang Zhan again and love him sincerely, Chu Fangyun becomes pregnant, and soon afterward, both mother and child die.

Only then does Chu Jingshan realize that Jiang Zhan saw through all his schemes from the very beginning, and that the person he loves is someone else.

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Jiang Zhan once saved a man.

The man was covered in blood and on the verge of death. With his last bit of strength, he grabbed Jiang Zhan's hand.

When they met again, that man only wanted to use him.

Jiang Zhan understood his pain and knew his suffering. He didn't mind being a pawn in the man's quest for revenge.

But the man still abandoned him, attaching himself to the more powerful Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao is Jiang Zhan's biological older brother.

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My completed works are The Deputy Spring Soup and The Swamp. Please add them to your collection.

My upcoming work, Defying the Red Dust, is also seeking readers. Blurb:

A believer in fate, an inexperienced little Taoist priest with a pure and sincere heart (bottom)

A sanctimonious, calculating, devious incubus (top)

Zhang Yin fell in love with Meng Yubai before he had ever met him.

His life used to have just one goal: cultivate the Dao and become an immortal. Later, he had just one goal: to be with Meng Yubai.

But Meng Yubai kept him at arm's length, close enough to see but impossible to grasp.

Like a moth to a flame, Zhang Yin offered himself up as a sacrifice. He even risked revealing the secrets of fate to help Meng Yubai defy destiny and change his fate...

The backlash of karma brought on a mysterious, serious illness, and he lost two of his five senses.

He could no longer smell or taste. At his most aroused, he could only stare at the face of the man lost in pleasure because of him. Even when transcending, he could only grit his teeth and endure the torment of burning alive. He could still hear, and begged in a sob, "Meng Yubai, call me, say my name..."

Later, the temple doors were shut forever. He took off his Taoist robes and cut his long hair. His family was gone, and his friends had drifted away. At last, his world contained only Meng Yubai, but he could no longer tell whether he had truly gotten what he wanted.

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Meng Yubai has only two standards for deciding what to do: first, whether he should do it; second, whether there's anything to gain.

He approached Zhang Yin with an ulterior motive, but flirted with him sincerely.

If it was all just an act, why did he stake his marriage on it, even sacrificing his dignity for Zhang Yin? When the truth came out, why did he cut ties with his parents to protect him~

If he was truly in love, why did he show no mercy on the way to achieving his goal, leaving Zhang Yin abandoned by everyone?

And worst of all, he allowed someone new into his life.

Theme: The world does not revolve around one person.