The Retired Soldier King and His Sweet Southern Girl

Name: The Retired Soldier King and His Sweet Southern Girl
Author: Bai Zhe

退役兵王糙汉与南方娇软妹子

by Bai Zhe (白柘)

Status: Completed
Length: 100k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Workplace & Marriage
Updated: 1y ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

(Mutually faithful, one-on-one romance: a rugged former special forces soldier and a sweet, gentle girl from the south)

Cheng Ye was once the king of the special forces. He was wild-looking and lived a rough, carefree life. After leaving the military, he started a renovation crew.

Ruan Ruan was just like her name: sweet-looking and gentle by nature.

What kind of story will unfold when a soft-spoken southern girl meets a rough northern man?

Former Special Forces Soldier × Heiress to a Pastry-Making Family | A Clash of Ironclad Grit and Sweetness

Cheng Ye, a wolfish former soldier from the north, is still haunted by the roar of battle in his dreams.

Ruan Ruan was raised in the water towns of Jiangnan and carries on the tradition of an intangible cultural heritage: pastry-making.

When a tough man still smelling of gunpowder barges into a century-old shop scented with osmanthus, a sweet battle of protection and healing begins.

🍰 He Doesn't Fit In

He uses a military knife as a carving tool, a military entrenching shovel to stir red bean paste, and supervises the proofing cabinet as if it were a biological weapon... Cheng Ye's "military-style management" sends the old masters' blood pressure soaring, but cuts the waste rate by 300%.

🌌 She Sees Through His Pain

Red icing can trigger his PTSD, so Ruan Ruan develops a starry-blue pastry called "Night Traveler," infused with soothing lavender. When he wakes in a panic on stormy nights, a pair of flour-dusted hands is always there to guide him toward a gentle dawn.

🗡️Crisis Strikes

The Yamamoto Group's corporate spies, a missing ancestral recipe, and the secret of the dragon-and-phoenix pastries left behind by his grandmother…

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283Reads · 30 days

19.2kReads · all time

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