The Abandoned Dog Effect [Rekindled Love]

Also known as "The Top-Tier Singer She Loved and Left"

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Content warnings

The hero is fragile, unwell, and depressed. There are lots of scenes where he cries and the heroine comforts him. Whether that's your thing or not is up to you!

The hero suffers physically | Reunited after a breakup | Puppy-like lovesick hero | Obsessive | Happy ending | First sexual partners

An arrogant, scheming, fragile top-tier star x a sincere, gentle, sunny ordinary girl

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The first time Zhao Youci went with her mother, who worked as a nanny, to the Chen family home, the lady of the house pointed to the lonely little figure by the windowsill:

"Cici, he only seems cold. He's actually a good boy... I'm asking you, please keep him company, okay? The other children won't play with him."

Chen Chunian was sickly, and everyone at school said his mother was a mistress and that he was an unwanted bastard his father had abandoned.

She timidly looked over and met the boy's gloomy, uncertain gaze.

Later, something happened in his family. After several days without seeing him, she found him so thin and haggard that it broke her heart. He grabbed her hand and pleaded pitifully:

"I don't want to be left here alone. Please, stay with me, okay?"

Zhao Youci nodded sympathetically. Behind her, the boy's tear-streaked face curled into a secret smile.

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Everyone knew Chen Chunian couldn't live without Zhao Youci.

He turned down a fortune for her and broke with everyone, but when they were left destitute and at the end of their rope, she left without a word and vanished for five years.

The Chen family still remembered the first thing Chen Chunian said when he awoke, barely clinging to life in his hospital bed:

"...Where's Cici?"

The usually stubborn, quiet boy cried as if the world were ending. Several people couldn't hold him back as he threatened to kill himself unless they found Zhao Youci. Then her voice came through the phone:

"Chunian, don't make me feel guilty anymore. Please let me go."

The call's dead tone soon faded, and the boy fell silent too.

3

Five years later, they unexpectedly met again.

He chased after her, abruptly blocking her with his car and asking why she had come back.

"Who do you think you are?"

"Am I garbage? You pick me up when you want me, then toss me aside when you don't?"

She fled, wanting nothing more to do with him.

But later, it was he who grabbed her sleeve:

"I never said I wouldn't lend it to you."

The top-tier star, cherished by so many, stood before her with red-rimmed eyes and a trembling voice:

"Why... do you still not want me?"

"In five years, did you never regret it? Not even once?"

4

After they broke up, Chen Chunian fulfilled their shared dream of making music, standing onstage and shining brilliantly. Zhao Youci was genuinely happy for him, and more than ever believed breaking up had been the right choice.

As long as he was doing well, that was enough, even if she was no longer by his side.

Then a diagnosis of severe depression landed in front of her.

The bloody scars hidden beneath his sleeves, countless medications in his drawer, and all those plane tickets to her city.

"Zhao Youci, I hate you so much."

"I miss you. Come back."

She regretted it. She had been wrong. She had been so presumptuous, and he had been hurt so deeply.

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Bonus scene

"...Mm, that's enough. Let's take a break."

Zhao Youci pushed Chen Chunian away, begging him to stop. Seeing how upset and dissatisfied he looked, she comforted him with a kiss:

"I'll agree to anything you say... Please don't be mad, okay?"

Chen Chunian didn't speak. He took revenge by putting her index finger in his mouth and gently biting it with his teeth.

His voice was muffled. "Zhao Youci... I hate you so much."

"...Should we get back together?"

"Getting back together... sure."

"So you've forgiven me?"

They clung to each other, their sweat mingling and clinging to their bodies. Chen Chunian's eyes were still flushed with desire.

"Not in this lifetime."

While teasing him, Zhao Youci plaintively told him how difficult the past few years had been, hoping he would understand and stop holding it against her.

After a long while, Chen Chunian buried his face in her neck. A damp patch spread as his bitter voice reached her:

"What about me?"

"Zhao Youci, you're just as selfish as ever. Did you... ever think about me?"

He clamped his teeth over her lips and kissed her as if taking revenge. His kiss was rough and urgent, as if demanding to know whether she understood how he had survived all those years she had left him behind.

He had come up with countless excuses for why she disappeared without a word, but the truth was that she had willingly left him. There was nothing he could do.

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A clumsy little fox of a girl x a refined, mature older man

Content warnings:

1. The heroine has low morals and is shallow and money-hungry.

2. The hero has a below-the-knee amputation and will not recover.

3. The hero has no sexual history; the heroine does.

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Tang Xueji accidentally met a rich man. She didn't want to work hard for a living anymore, so even though he was older and disabled, she was determined to seize her chance. She played the part of an innocent girl as she approached and seduced him.

At first, he was every inch the gentleman, treating her with polite warmth. More importantly, he took her to hotels that cost fifty thousand a night, gave her wine bottles worth two hundred thousand, and casually showered her with gifts worth more than she had spent in her entire life. Tang Xueji got a taste of the good life and never wanted to return to being poor.

Later, she accidentally saw his amputated limb and rushed to the bathroom to vomit. But she could only overcome her fear and pretend she was perfectly happy to please him.

She was young, beautiful, and healthy. She thought it was only natural that he would fall in love with her.

But he only looked at her coldly. His words left her frozen in place. "Miss Tang, do you think I should feel ashamed of myself just because I'm disabled?"

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you're not the first person who's tried to get into my bed."

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Chen Jinnian saw through the girl's impure motives at a glance. She put her petty little tricks on full display while assuming no one else could see through them. He let her think she was fooling him, spending money just to toy with a pet.

Young girls always loved dressing up to look mature, not realizing how childish and naive they were. They pretended to be worldly and sophisticated, provoking everyone around them.

Even a rabbit will bite when cornered, and even a materialistic woman has a pure place in her heart untouched by the world.

Pointing at his lower leg, she declared passionately:

"Forget losing one leg. If I had as much money as you, I'd gladly lose both my hands too! Sure, your situation is miserable, but your suffering isn't more significant than anyone else's! You don't get to look down on me like you're so much better!"

But it was also she who said, as if it were nothing:

"You're so far above everyone else that even though you're disabled, nobody looks down on you. The only one who's ever looked down on you is yourself. Chen Jinnian, you're not as strong as you think, are you?"

He knew she was vulgar, materialistic, and shallow, but she saw right through him, toyed with him, and drew close to him all the same.

He had spent his whole life looking down on others, but for the first time, she made him feel deeply inferior.

Theme: Keeping each other company