Stars on a Princess Dress

A cool, sharp-tongued, secretly passionate man & a fiery, flirtatious beauty Both are inexperienced in love + love and hate + push and pull Jing Lan was a blazing fire, while Xie Zhuoyu was a solid block of ice. They were born to clash, could barely stand each other, and were always at each other’s throats. Both were forces to be reckoned with, yet they lived under the same roof and had to see each other’s hateful faces every day. At school, they were strangers secretly competing against each other. At home, they were enemies. * One summer night, they moved to the countryside to stay at Grandma’s house. When the air conditioner broke, Xie Zhuoyu had no choice but to climb into Jing Lan’s bed. They lay side by side, turned toward each other across the darkness, their silhouettes faintly outlined. “Xie Zhuoyu.” “Yeah?” “Did you sneak a kiss from me this afternoon?” In the still bedroom, moonlight spilled through the old window. Their breathing intertwined, and tension simmered between them. After a long silence, Xie Zhuoyu’s quiet confession came through the dark: “I did.” The air slowly grew flirtatious and thick with tension. Her lashes trembled as she met his unguarded, feverish gaze. Their breathing caught, and they could no longer manage to speak. There was no hiding it, and no need to. The moment their lips met, ice and fire became one. They traded the harshest words and the fiercest kisses.