[Arrogant, cocky, obnoxious male lead vs. strong, level-headed female lead]
After his mother died, Liang Luan became moody and unpredictable. Nobody could do anything about him.
When he saw his father find a new partner, he promptly trashed the whole house. In the end, his father transferred him 5 million, and at his grandmother's insistence, Liang Luan went to the countryside for the summer.
A remote mountain region, poor land, and a girl who was always at his grandmother's house.
The first time they met, she supervised Liang Luan as he got his hair cut. His wicked streak got the better of him, and he secretly planned to cut her hair too. Shao Dingyi's eyes went red, but she refused to cry. She pinned him down in the water and beat him up. That was how their feud began.
He wanted to have fun camping in the mountains and insisted Shao Dingyi come with him. Then he got bitten by a snake, and Shao Dingyi saved him with medicinal herbs. Since she had saved his life, he decided he owed her a favor. Shao Dingyi also made a request of him. At the time, he thought she wasn't all that impressive.
Liang Luan's father had told him he was born to rule the world. He was cocky, arrogant, and wildly presumptuous, but he couldn't tame Shao Dingyi at all. So he became even more obnoxious. He thought what he felt for her was a desire to conquer her, but he couldn't stand it when she got close to someone else.
She told him, "I'll treat you like I treat everyone else once you start treating me as an equal."
Liang Luan had thought he could stay by Shao Dingyi's side for a long time, but she was the one who left him first. She simply disappeared. His father's prophecy had failed again, and Liang Luan felt that Heaven itself was determined to oppose him.
The last line in Shao Dingyi's diary on the day she met Liang Luan read: "Then let's give it a try."
Let's see if I can be afraid of you.
She ended her diary with the same words on the day she left Liang Luan.
Let's see if I can forget you.
Before Shao Dingyi came back, Liang Luan swore to the heavens, banging his head on the ground, "I'll get my revenge! You think you know whose love you've won?"
It was actually the love of someone who couldn't have the person he loved.
It was easy for Liang Luan to find Shao Dingyi. After all, even if he wasn't the center of her world, he was still the center of the world.
Shao Dingyi rented an apartment, bought groceries, made friends, went to parties, and did experiments.
Liang Luan even flew to Germany and followed her around for two days, but he wanted to get close to her so badly that he came back again. He had surveillance cameras installed in Shao Dingyi's home. He didn't care about the law at all.
After Shao Dingyi graduated, he waited for her to return to China, but she disappeared again.
Liang Luan found Shao Dingyi again beneath a lemon tree on the Isle of Capri. The air smelled of lemons.
A lemon fell to the ground, and his heart was at a loss.
Liang Luan always called Shao Dingyi a fighting fish, thinking she was violent. Yet the fighting fish was exceptionally beautiful, and he was drawn to her violence, beauty, resilience, and drive.
No matter how great the distance between them was, it didn't matter. After all, they loved each other.
Shao Dingyi said she was cruel, said she didn't love him, said she was cold and hard. But underneath it all was her pride and fear. She feared that when her looks faded, Liang Luan would truly stop loving her. The inferiority and self-pity she had always fought against couldn't be overcome when it came to Liang Luan. So for the first time in her life, she fled in the face of her own pride.
Reader advisory:
This is a story about conquering and being conquered.
The only one who gets tamed is the male lead. It's a dog-training story, and the male lead is like a beagle with boundless energy and destructive power.
The male lead isn't always unlikeable.
The leads are each other's only partners, physically and emotionally.
Theme: Love conquers all
