Pain and Itch (Vol. 4)

葡萄vJul 2025

Rating 3.5

Word count: 214K words
Chapters: 58

Summary

Whose youth doesn't rot? After witnessing my boyfriend cheat on me with an older woman, I gave myself to Ye Hansheng. He warned me: "Shen Huo, I'm the buyer and you're the seller—between us there is only a transaction." But I broke the rules of the game. To love him, I was willing to lose everything! But he didn't love me. I traded the best years of my youth for a dream of entangled love and hate! Someone tried desperately to rescue me from the dream. But I let myself sink, falling deeper again and again, until I could no longer pull myself out! When I woke from the dream, I found that I was not the only one covered in wounds...

Editor's review

This volume continues the aching narrative of "youth that rots," using first-person confession to lay bare a relationship that begins as a transaction and ends in loss of control. After witnessing her boyfriend's betrayal, the heroine gives herself to Ye Hansheng, who long ago drew the line that "between buyer and seller there is only a transaction"; she breaks the rules anyway, sacrificing everything for love without receiving an equal response. The story's readability lies in that paradox of willing self-destruction and clear-eyed struggle: someone tries desperately to rescue her from the dream, yet she sinks again and again, until she wakes to find she is not the only one wounded. Emotionally intense and psychologically detailed, it suits readers who want an unglamorized youth romance with a sting. As Volume 4, the character relationships and accumulated emotional grievances build on earlier installments; new readers may feel disconnected from the tangled history. The subject matter involves betrayal and emotional harm, so readers who prefer light, sweet comfort reads should choose carefully.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who enjoy aching youth and angsty romance narratives
Readers comfortable with first-person inner confession and high emotional intensity
Those interested in unequal relationships and themes of self-struggle in love
Readers who have read previous volumes and want to follow the characters to their outcome

Not a good fit for

Readers who prefer light, sweet stories without harm
Those sensitive to cheating and emotional manipulation
New readers who have not read previous volumes and may struggle to follow the relationships

Reading tips

Read the previous volumes first, or at least familiarize yourself with the character relationships from the first three volumes, to enter this volume's emotional arc more easily.
Treat the heroine's account as an emotional thread rather than the whole factual picture, and watch for details of the power imbalance between her and Ye Hansheng.
The emotional intensity is high; read in segments and take breaks after heavy passages.
After finishing, revisit the transactional premise at the opening and compare it with the wounds at the end to better grasp the relational cost the story conveys.

版权信息
192：生日
193：威胁
194：陌生号码主人
195：硫酸真相
196：怀疑
197：疯了
198：心寒
199：闹闹有问题
200：还有脸来
201：死缠烂打
202：闹闹不见了
203：别骗我
204：你配不上
205：我的底线
206：叶子的哭泣声
207：鸡蛋碰石头
208：你还要我怎样
209：翻墙偷跑
210：跟踪
211：离家出走
212：此生有你足矣
213：叶寒声老奸巨猾
214：叶寒声什么都知道
215：内鬼
216：季庭予找帮忙
217：关系匪浅
218：不讨人喜欢
219：心理准备
220：沈惑是最大股东
221：无条件配合
222：最后的忠告
223：陈洁来了
224：好没好
225：为什么换医生
226：鸿门宴
227：陈洁站起来了
228：你不配
229：离婚
230：干脆报警
231：没有心的人
232：放过她
233：改变决定
234：没有生育
235：属于我们的故事
叶寒声番外篇
突然闯进我的视线【1】
突然闯进我的视线【2】
突然闯进我的视线【3】
突然闯进我的视线【4】
突然闯进我的视线【5】
突然闯进我的视线【6】
突然闯进我的世界【7】
突然闯进我的视线【8】
突然闯进我的视线【9】
突然闯进我的视线【10】
突然闯进我的视线【11】
突然闯进我的视线【12】

FAQ

Can I read Volume 4 without having read the first three volumes?

You can, but this volume is a later part of a long story, and the character relationships and emotional grievances build on earlier events. Jumping in directly may leave you disconnected from the entanglements among the heroine, Ye Hansheng, and the person who tries to "rescue her from the dream." It is best to learn the previous volumes' plot or read them first.

Does the romance have a happy ending?

The available material only goes as far as the heroine waking from the dream and finding she is not the only one wounded; the final outcome is not stated. What is certain is that the relationship begins as a transaction and is full of inequality and harm. Read for the experience of the journey rather than assuming a sweet ending.

What does the title "Pain and Itch" have to do with the content?

Together with the question "Whose youth doesn't rot?" and a tale of entangled love and hate, "Pain and Itch" points to those youthful emotional experiences that sting yet are hard to let go of. The heroine keeps sinking even knowing she will be hurt—exactly this paradoxical state of pain and itch existing together.

Is this book suitable for light bedtime reading?

Not really as light, sleep-friendly reading. The story involves a boyfriend's cheating, a transactional relationship, and the struggle of self-destruction, with a heavy and intense emotional tone. If you read before bed, keep to short passages to avoid going to sleep with heavy emotions.

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About the author

葡萄v Author

Grapev is an author writing in the field of modern romance. Public information about this author is limited, and five works can currently be confirmed. The representative work, Pain and Itch, is presented in multiple volumes; the library holds the complete four-volume edition as well as individual volumes one through four, indicating that this is a long-form story the author developed at length and advanced volume by volume. Judging from the available bibliographic information, Grapev's writing stays within the modern romance genre. The number of works is modest and the subject matter relatively concentrated, suggesting that the author continues to work within this category and tends toward serialized storytelling. The multi-volume structure of Pain and Itch also shows a habit of developing character relationships and emotional entanglements over an extended narrative. Because details such as dates of birth and death, nationality, and English name are not recorded, no further introduction to the author's personal background or creative history is possible; readers can currently understand the author's writing only through the works themselves.