Pain and Itch (Vol. 1)

葡萄vJul 2025

3.5

Word count: 197K words
Chapters: 96

Summary

Whose youth doesn't rot? After witnessing my boyfriend cheat on me with an older woman, I gave myself to Ye Hansheng. He once 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'd rather lose everything! But he doesn't love me. I traded the best years of my youth for a dream of entangled love and hate! Someone tries desperately to pull me out of the dream. But I let myself sink, falling deeper again and again, until at last I can't pull myself out! When I wake from the dream, I find that I'm not the only one covered in wounds...

Editor's review

Volume 1 of Pain and Itch opens with an impulsive choice made after witnessing betrayal, pinning the relationship between Shen Huo and Ye Hansheng to a "buyer and seller" transactional frame, then letting the heroine break the rules herself. The narrative does not shy away from the rot of youth: self-debasement, repeated sinking, being covered in wounds—these words create a reading experience where pain and itch coexist. Putao v's style leans toward emotional flow, driven by first-person-style burning monologues, with a high density of entangled love and hate, suited to readers who can accept gray emotional territory. The value of this volume is not in offering a model of healthy relationships but in writing concretely the psychology of "knowing it's wrong yet unable to stop." While reading, focus on the motives behind each of the heroine's choices rather than measuring them with a moral ruler; be mentally prepared for plots involving transactional relationships and one-sided giving. As the first volume of a series, it is closer to the entrance of a dream, with the truth after waking left for later.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Romance readers who enjoy painful youth and entangled love-hate themes
Readers who can accept gray emotional relationships and imperfect protagonists
Readers who prefer emotional-flow narrative and burning first-person monologues
Readers who want plots of transactional relationships turning into true feelings yet repeatedly frustrated

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting a healthy romance model or a sweet-pet direction
Readers who feel uncomfortable with plots such as cheating and transactional relationships
Readers who prefer light, stress-relieving reading with low emotional cost

Reading tips

First accept the setup that this is a "dream," and treat this volume as an entrance rather than a complete answer.
Pay attention to Shen Huo's psychological motives each time she breaks the rules; it is more rewarding than judging right and wrong.
Slow down at emotionally intense points to avoid being carried straight through by the burning monologues.
After finishing, look back at Ye Hansheng's "buyer and seller" warning and see how it is overturned later.

版权信息
001：亮瞎了我的眼
002：有点懵圈
003：滚出去
004：泥菩萨过江自身难保
005：他叫叶寒声
006：飞上枝头变凤凰了
007：狗改得掉吃屎吗
008：高端大气上档次
009：闹出人命
010：打了叶寒声
011：差点被整死
012：敢动手这辈子瞧不起你
013：森林大作战
014：被打
015：耍花招
016：纠缠不清
017：纠缠不清
018：纠缠不清
019：纠缠不清
020：纠缠不清
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066：纠缠不清
067：纠缠不清
068：纠缠不清
069：纠缠不清
070：纠缠不清
071：好想哭
072：在一起
073：出老千
074：被人摆了一道
075：拍卖游戏
076：叶寒声跟美女聊天
077：你当我是什么
078：依依不舍
079：露营
080：变本加厉
081：信不信我掐死你？
082：差点面目全非
083：是不是惹上不该惹的人了？
084：同归于尽
085：沈惑我警告你
086：跟我在一起让你这么煎熬？
087：乖乖待在我这儿
088：跳楼
089：叶子是谁？
090：调侃叶欧巴
091：叶寒声是撩妹高手
092：沈惑你这个妖精
093：长裙女人来袭
094：女人的直觉
095：你喜欢她吗？

FAQ

Is this book a sweet-pet novel?

No. The material clearly mentions elements such as transactions, cheating, self-debasement, and being covered in wounds; the overall direction is painful youth with entangled love and hate, not light sweet-pet reading. If you expect low-conflict sweet reading, this book may not suit your taste.

Is the heroine Shen Huo's character too passive?

She does indeed make an impulsive choice at the beginning after witnessing her boyfriend cheat, but the material emphasizes "I broke the rules of the game" and "to love him, I'd rather lose everything," showing that she has an active line of breaking the transactional frame. While reading, pay attention to the parts where she makes active choices.

Can I read a complete ending in Volume 1?

The material only covers Volume 1, and the ending says, "When I wake from the dream, I find that I'm not the only one covered in wounds," suggesting the truth has not been fully revealed. It is recommended to treat it as a series entrance; later developments require continued reading.

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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.