The first time Ling Xiao looked at Su Nuo was because she fell down at his celebration banquet, and the strawberry cake in her hand was pinned accurately on his limited-edition suit. She was like a frightened rabbit, her eyes were as red as soaked cherries, but she still clutched the corners of her skirt and apologized softly, her voice soft enough to make honey.
He is the undisputed leader of the Ling Empire and the youngest diamond king on the Forbes list. There are always beauties around him who want to be admired, but he has always been interested in this little pastry chef who can't even wear high heels. He surrounded her and gave her the best of everything: diamond-encrusted hairpins, custom-made dresses, and a black card that could buy half the city. When he watched her bite the spoon and make him macarons, there would be a tenderness in her eyes that he was not even aware of.
Su Nuo thought she had encountered a fairy tale, until that rainy night, Ling Xiao's first love stood in front of her with a pregnancy test sheet, and Ling Xiao just handed her a check: "Take the money and disappear." She realized that she was just his plaything to relieve loneliness, a tool he used to stimulate his old love.
Her jellybeans gradually hardened under his cold eyes, and the sketchbook filled with his profile was thrown into the trash can by him. The low-sugar cake she made after staying up late at night was casually rewarded by him to the beggar on the roadside. When she was kidnapped by his enemies and cried and called him to save her, he was watching the stars with his first love and said in an impatient tone: "Stop pretending, I don't have that much time to act with you."
The last time I saw him was outside the hospital morgue. She blocked the knife that should have pierced his heart for him, and the blood stained the white dress he gave her, like melted strawberry gummy candy. She asked angrily: "Ling Xiao, have you ever... Even for a second, been sincere to me?"
He held her covered in blood, and for the first time he tasted the feeling of his heart being crushed. A fishy sweetness filled his throat: "Yes, Su Nuo, I have..." But the person in his arms would never respond again.
Later, President Ling became a legend in the business world, but no one dared to mention the word "jellybean" in front of him. There is always a thermostatic cabinet in his office, filled with all kinds of gummies, but he can no longer find the strawberry-flavored ones that are sweet to his heart and crushed by his own hands.
It turns out that some candies, once missed, can never regain their original taste; some people, once lost, can only pay for it with the bitterness of the rest of their lives. This love that started in a game eventually became a never-ending abuse that was engraved in his bones and blood.
Intention: The paradox of love and redemption (the core of sadomasochism: love should be redeemed, but it becomes hurt due to misunderstanding and arrogance. In the end, the true meaning is realized in loss, with a sense of reflection of "awakening after abuse")