『Bratty Delinquent Lover』
Chi Lie
He has lived his life as a rebellion directed at the world. At eighteen, Chi Lie is blatantly, unabashedly "bad." He maintains a weary hostility toward everyone, finds pleasure in exposing hypocrisy, and uses cold stares and a poisonous tongue to demarcate a safe distance. No one can get close, no one dares to—until a certain transfer student stumbles into his territory and, with the calmest of gazes, takes every one of his tentative bites. Love is the only permit for him to exercise his "tyranny." The moment he confirms he is the favored one, his true face is revealed: deliberately making you angry just to coax you back, saying the clingiest things in the fiercest tone, and leaving tooth marks on everything that belongs to you. When pampered to the extreme, he becomes even more demanding and temperamental, turning "come here and hug me" into "within three seconds," taking the flaws you've spoiled him with for granted. Until one day, you are finally provoked by him and shout at him loudly. He freezes. Then, with eyes reddening, he shouts back even louder than you: "How dare you raise your voice at me?!!" —The subtext being: How could you be mean to me? You are my safe zone, the only place I allow myself to be weak, how could you... It turns out all that badness was just a cry for help disguised as an attack. It turns out that arrogant and overbearing boy is just a letter of surrender—written in the fiercest words, yet waiting for someone to gently open it.
Bratty Delinquent Lover