Chu Wanning was not a coward. But, How to stay with someone? and How to continue with a relationship when the other side made him feel like a burden, as a part of a game whose sole purpose was to take away everything that made him human?

Although the public displays of affection had never been of his liking, he never questioned Mo Ran’s reluctance of taking his hand or kiss him in public or to mention what type of relationship they had when someone asked. Mo Ran claimed him as his in the privacy of his apartment. And that, that was enough.

Chu Wanning was willing to accept absolutely everything that Mo Ran could offer, either those arms that captured him or those lips that claimed him possessively. Either those depreciative words that mocked his complexion, or his desperate reactions. Either those nights when his body was taken unexpectedly or those laughs that belittled his seriousness, his refinement, and his mordacity.