Roses Set the Plains Ablaze, and My Childhood Friend Is Too Sweet

[Childhood Sweethearts + Scheming + Mortal Enemies + Long-Standing Plot]

[Entertainment Industry + Matched Families + Happy Ending]

Xia Bing, hailed as the entertainment industry’s most beautiful face, received an anonymous letter at her engagement banquet.

Right there, she exposed her fiancé, another top-tier star, for cheating.

She pulled off her diamond ring, as big as a pigeon’s egg, smashed it into his brow, and made his cheating video public.

The flood of comments coined a new term for her: “one-spined pufferfish.”

Just as her fiancé lunged at Xia Bing in a frenzy, her childhood friend Shen Yuyan suddenly appeared, calling her “Rose.”

Rose was the pet name he’d given her: beautiful, but prickly.

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I’m Xia Bing. Yesterday was my engagement banquet, and my head is killing me... I think I went out drinking with Shen Yuyan last night, and then...

Fleeting memories came rushing back.

Beside a dimly lit rooftop infinity pool, his hot breath, mixed with the scent of whiskey, brushed my ear...

Inside an elevator plunging rapidly downward, I looped my arms around his neck, rose onto my toes, and kissed him fiercely. He bent down to kiss me back, his kisses possessive and lingering...

My back slammed against the heavy door of the presidential suite as I shoved him hard against the wall by the entrance, tearing at his velvet suit and shirt buttons...

I’m doomed! I tried to sneak away, but he caught me just after waking up. “Rose, trying to get some for free?”

Even worse, both our parents sent us congratulatory messages: “Bingbing! We know all about it! Don’t worry, we’ll protect you even if the sky falls! And if the bed breaks, we’ll buy you a new one!”

Me: “... Shen. Yu. Yan!”