Once, There Was You

Once, There Was You

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Everyone knew Qi Tianyu - the calm, untouchable pretty boy of our school. No one saw the alleyways, the silent screams, the bruises under long sleeves... until a video leaked. Disappearing from the world, he finds unexpected company in a classmate he barely knew. Through grief and fragile healing, their bond deepens - but some things are too good to last. A haunting story of love, loss, and the blurred line between reality and madness.
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Xu Chenglei is a man forged in violence and silence, a survivor of a world that chewed up the weak and made monsters out of the strong. Born into a brutal underground system where life was a currency and love a liability, Xu learned early that emotion was dangerous-but he never forgot how to feel it. Not completely. Powerful, cold, and precise, Xu moves like a blade honed for war-disciplined, lethal, and unreadable. He wears gloves not for style, but necessity; the touch of skin brings him pain, memories, or worse. A past trauma-deep, unspoken, and unresolved-has carved into his nervous system a psychosomatic aversion to touch, leaving intimacy a battleground instead of a comfort. Still, he holds himself with unwavering control, a king in a fortress of his own making. And yet-beneath the armor-there is grief. Guilt. Memory. A boy once dear to him who chose death so Xu could live. That sacrifice haunts him, not as a ghost, but as a debt. Now, at twenty-nine, Xu is powerful enough to own anything, yet emptier than ever. When Liang Weiyang-a sickly, sharp-eyed teenager who eerily resembles his long-dead friend-is sold into his care, Xu is shaken. He tells himself it's coincidence. He tells himself it's pity. But what stirs in him isn't pity. It's a hunger to protect, to atone, to keep this boy safe in a way he couldn't before. It's a slow, unraveling tenderness-a kind of love that terrifies him more than any blade. Xu doesn't know if Liang is a second chance or a punishment. All he knows is he will destroy anything that threatens him. Even himself. ---

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