Gu Nanxi

The Xie Family all studied law, possessing the fine qualities expected of a scholarly family. Xie Shang too had them: elegance, deep learning, a Fragrance Connoisseur versed in classics, also skilled in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting.
But he was mad, capable of reciting the scriptures while holding a Buddha statue, as well as breaking people's hand and foot bones, very gentle, yet very cruel.
Xie Shang didn't become a lawyer but opened a pawnshop instead, where you could pawn anything as long as the story was compelling.
One day, someone came to the pawnshop and told a story:
In Fragrant City, there was a family with the surname Wen, where daughters took their mother's surname. The daughters of that family could cast spells, the kind that bewitched men, leaving their lovers either buried with them or taking vows of celibacy; in short, either dead or destined for a lonely life.
Xie Shang's uncle had died in Fragrant City, which is why he accepted this particular pawning business.
Bewitched, confused, thrilled, deeply in love, but love unattained, and a pain so intense it made life unbearable. — This was the script Xie Shang had prepared for the deaf boy Wen Changling.
In the end, it was Xie Shang who ended up with this romance-addled script.
Wen Changling: Are you surprised, Mr. Xie Shang?
(This isn't a book transmigration story, it's a contemporary sweet romance. The 'script' in the book title implies deliberate plotting.)

He is Lovestruck in the Revenge

Wen Changling stayed in the bathroom for nearly half an hour until Xie Shang came to knock on the door.


She opened the door and let Xie Shang come in.


Xie Shang went over to turn off the faucet that she forgot to close while daydreaming. There were glass cups, a lighter, water, and the hard porcelain tiles in the bathroom, and maybe it was because he was too jumpy, but he thought all these items were unsafe.


The lighter was placed on the washbasin by Wen Changling; she must have been fiddling with it in her hand as there were water droplets on it.


"I was going to find your cigarettes, but I didn't find any."


"There are no cigarettes at home, I am quitting." Xie Shang didn't have a heavy smoking habit to begin with, and recently, since Wen Changling had been coughing, he didn't want to expose her to second-hand smoke and had not touched them anymore.


282: Xingxing seduces, Gu Kaiyun takes by force