Don't Toy with the Untouchable Beauty

*They steal each other away, a game of pursuit between a young couple

Xie Lingxun hated Nian Yinyin because she was crazy.

The girl was pretty, but far too timid. Whenever she looked at him with her big doe eyes, they fluttered and darted, making her feelings painfully obvious.

Whenever his friends teased him about the most cherished young lady of the Nian family, Xie Lingxun would shoot them a cold look, silencing them at once.

Even when Nian Yinyin was exposed in front of everyone as a fake heiress and shed pitiful tears, she failed to move him in the slightest.

From then on, everyone knew that the eldest son of the Xie family had a heart of stone, impossible to sway.

Until one day, he gave one extra glance to the real heiress, who had been lost for years.

He woke in a dim, shabby room.

His hands and feet were bound, his body veiled in sheer gauze. An iron chain was fastened around his neck like a dog's collar, its end stretching away into the darkness...

Xie Lingxun jerked his head up, staring at her in disbelief.

The girl emerged slowly from the shadows, with raven-black hair and red lips. Her wide doe eyes glistened.

She clutched the chain and smiled, bewitching as a demon. "Do you love me or not? Speak."

*

As the most sought-after son of a high-ranking official in the capital, and the heir to a peerless aristocratic clan, Xie Lingxun had barely left that room before someone made a move against Nian Yinyin.

Before long, Xie Lingxun received a long letter of apology from her. In essence, she claimed to have two souls in one body, that what she had done to him was an episode of her illness, and that she had long since forgotten it all.

Just as Xie Lingxun was preparing to go to the Nian residence and make her "remember" everything, someone told him: Nian Yinyin had thrown herself into the river.

*

Of course, Nian Yinyin was still alive. She had not lost her memory, and there was no such thing as two souls in one body.

She had done it all herself.

She had wanted to do it from the first moment she saw Xie Lingxun.

But she was afraid he would take revenge, so she simply left.

When she saw Xie Lingxun again, he had become a powerful minister high above everyone else, in charge of the empire's prisons and punishments, harsh and ruthless. He had completely forgotten their wild past.

Nian Yinyin happily put on her wedding dress and hurried toward her new life, only to be knocked unconscious by a cup of wine at the wedding banquet.

When she awoke, she was in a secret chamber.

Nothing here had changed. It was as if someone had carefully maintained and tended to everything. Beside her, a sleeping figure lay in wait like an indescribable giant beast, immense and terrifying.

Nian Yinyin tiptoed away, only to trip over the chain and fall. Tears blurred her vision from the pain.

Xie Lingxun, who had woken at some point, stared down at her with loose black hair and a cool gaze. At the same time, he slowly pulled the chain in his hand back, drawing the slippery little fish into his arms.

Xie Lingxun gathered the girl's hair in his palm and slowly lowered his head. He spoke softly in her ear: "Nian Yinyin, if you don't love me, then die."

Terrified, Nian Yinyin had no choice but to cling to him and act coquettish, pretending to love him so the man surnamed Xie wouldn't kill her.

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A clingy, affectionate girl who actually turns and leaves, while the one being clung to is the one who can't let go

Soft, helpless cutie x cold-faced, arrogant man

Xie Lingxun: Sorry, I'm the crazy one.

Theme: Life