A Gentle Kiss, A Surrendered Heart

Mi Qingqing is a student sponsored by the Jiang family. Smart and quiet, with a gentle nature, she’s the well-behaved child every adult adores.

Jiang Xiwang is Nancheng’s notorious second-generation rich kid: reckless, unruly, and the sort of guy even the dogs can’t stand having around for half an hour.

Mi Qingqing doesn’t like Jiang Xiwang, but she puts up with him out of gratitude to the Jiang family.

But Jiang Xiwang doesn’t see it that way.

When his friends find out, every one of them tells him not to let this good thing go to someone else.

Thinking of Mi Qingqing, Jiang Xiwang scoffs. “I’d go for a plain little thing like her? Sorry, not interested.”

*

Mi Qingqing blossoms into a beautiful young woman, and more and more boys start pursuing her.

The Jiang family parents ask with concern, “Qingqing, what kind of boy do you like?”

Jiang Xiwang claims he isn’t interested, but he still leans in to listen.

That very day, Young Master Jiang goes to the dentist, telling the doctor his back molar hurts.

*

Later, Jiang Xiwang seems to have been bewitched.

When his friends invite him out, he shows up in casual clothes, looking so fresh and clean it’s almost unbelievable.

They tease him for being an old cucumber painted green, and he shoots back, “What do you know? My girl says she likes good dogs.”

His friends stare at him, baffled. Are you sure she just means a good dog?

*

Mi Qingqing accepts someone else’s invitation.

Who would have thought that night, the frantic Jiang Xiwang would corner her by the door of her room?

Grinding his teeth in anger, he says, “Mi Qingqing, you heartless woman!”

Mi Qingqing: …

Just as she’s about to push him away, Jiang Xiwang instantly turns into a human koala, his voice deep and magnetic.

He coaxes her softly, “Qingqing, sweetheart, could you stop paying attention to other men?”