Huh? Weren't You Supposed to Be a Genius? Why Are You a Quail?

Name: Huh? Weren't You Supposed to Be a Genius? Why Are You a Quail?
Author: Third Young Master Bai

欸？说好的天才呢？怎么是鹌鹑？

by Third Young Master Bai (白三公子)

Status: Completed
Length: 121k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Billionaire CEO
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[Rise to success + substitute + female growth + redemption + healing + yandere + competing male suitors]

Treated as a bargaining chip for her father's marriage alliance and scolded by her grandmother as “loose and improper,” Pi Liying's life seemed wrapped in gilded shackles. At university, she was a hugely popular online singing sensation, but in real life she could only hide in a small apartment, staring blankly at design drafts and unfinished scripts.

Then her song “The Cage” became a sensation. Its line about “the taste of rust in a silver spoon” struck a chord with countless people and completely turned her life around.

A sudden leak from the apartment above brings an unexpected visitor to her door: Shen Xingci, now a rising star in the gaming world, was the boy she had encouraged six years ago with the words, “The rain will eventually stop.” His eyes glitter as he says, “I’ve come to keep my promise.”

Her first love, Huo Lingbai, unexpectedly returns, but his habits and the smallest details about him are strange. What secret lies beneath his burning possessiveness?

Su Muze, gentle and refined on set, always carries a cloth doll and blushes at the tips of his ears whenever he touches her. Behind his tenderness lies an unspeakable trauma.

Then there is Wen Yanzhou, the aloof inheritor of a woodworking tradition, who helps her shape her life's interlocking joints with the words, “Light can grow in the cracks.”

Family pressure, the mystery surrounding her first love, the truth behind her mother's disappearance... With the key in her hands, Pi Liying swears to smash open this cage! Only when she transforms an unfinished building into a warm “coexistence space” does she realize that the painful scars of the past will eventually become medals that light the way forward.

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