My Cold, Aloof Ex Lets Me Have My Way

Also known as "No Going Home Allowed"

Pei Yiyao receives an investigative assignment: go undercover as a partner to investigate the business interests of a target company. Before she can make any headway, she runs into her first love at the company.

Officer Pei, already planning to rekindle their old romance: "..."

Xu Yishi followed in Pei Yiyao's footsteps and put down roots in this city, hoping for ten years that they might run into each other.

A conspiracy and their principles stand between them. Once the dust settles, they spend the whole night tangled together.

Xu Yishi's eyes redden at the corners. "You've seen all of me, so why can't I see all of you? That's not fair."

Pei Yiyao clutches her collar in a panic. "How did you know?!"

Xu Yishi sneers. "I was drunk that night, not unconscious. Now let me feel you. One touch and we'll be even."

One touch could never be enough. She wants to make Pei Yiyao cry, all night long.

POV 1:

Xu Yishi never imagined she'd see Pei Yiyao again in her lifetime, let alone more than once.

Xu Yishi: This is so annoying. Why does this woman keep turning up everywhere?

The woman tests the waters, taking things one step at a time, then pulls away without mercy.

Damn it! If I ever trust Pei Yiyao again, I'm a dog.

That night, she lies down and feels the familiar warmth and scent. Where did this woman learn all these tricks?

Pei Yiyao: "You need to work on your stamina."

At five in the morning, Xu Yishi looks at the woman in her arms and grins wickedly. "Want me to work on it some more?"

POV 2:

Pei Yiyao gave up a bright future to join the public security system. Before she had even reported for duty, she was handed a difficult assignment.

"Do you really not understand, or are you pretending? I came to this city for you."

"Can't we go back to how we used to be?"

Torn between her professional convictions and feelings she can't suppress, she runs away.

When the truth finally comes to light, Officer Pei regrets everything.

She moves into the same residential complex as Xu Yishi, watches her from behind the curtains, and engineers one chance encounter after another.

What do pride and appearances matter, as long as she can find her way back into Xu Yishi's heart?

Reading guide:

1. Sensitive, emotionally vulnerable top x max-stamina bottom

2. The present-day story alternates with events from ten years ago

3. The top isn't a complete 1.0, at most a 0.8

4. Both are each other's one and only, from beginning to end

Coming next: "I Really Don't Want to Have an Abstract Relationship with My Wife"

Qiao Zhiyuan returns from studying abroad and somehow ends up married. Her new wife is Lu Tingjue, the eldest daughter of the Lu family.

Looking at her fiancee's photo, Qiao Zhiyuan marvels, "I really hit the jackpot. How could something this good happen to me?"

On their wedding night, Qiao Zhiyuan feels her way into the room. Hearing the breathing beside her, she lies motionless at the edge of the bed. The next morning, she wakes to discover her wife is a vegetative patient who can't even take care of herself!

Oh, this is wonderful! She can rule the roost in this house!

But she overhears the servants chatting and learns that she was sold to the Lu family to bring good fortune to their eldest daughter, and that she's expected to give Director Lu a granddaughter.

After learning the truth, Qiao Zhiyuan can only flee in the middle of the night. She can accept becoming a widow, but having and raising a child is absolutely beyond her. Before she can even climb over the courtyard wall, the steward catches her and smilingly escorts her back to her room.

Qiao Zhiyuan gives in and decides to sell herself to repay her debt. After all, the eldest daughter isn't bad-looking.

Thanks to Qiao Zhiyuan's nightly efforts to "bring good fortune," the eldest daughter really does wake up.

Her first words are: "Your technique is terrible. It hurts!"

Her second: "As wives, we're sexually incompatible."

Mortified, Qiao Zhiyuan runs away from home in the middle of the night. Divorce! She has to get a divorce!

But all the properties in her name are jointly owned marital property with Lu Tingjue. With no other choice, Qiao Zhiyuan checks into a hotel. In the middle of the night, her wife shows up at her door. "This hotel is mine. Did Xiao Yuan come here because she couldn't wait to see me?"

Qiao Zhiyuan stubbornly insists, "We don't know each other well and have no emotional foundation. We'd be better off living apart for now."

Lu Tingjue lowers her brows. "Wasn't the intellectual connection we had in the game enough?"

Mentioning the game makes Qiao Zhiyuan even angrier. "Your affection score for me was always zero!"

Lu Tingjue remains unfazed. "The game was bugged."

That night, Qiao Zhiyuan lies in bed on the hotel's top floor, biting the blanket and regretting everything. Who taught Lu Tingjue these tricks? Will she ever be able to turn the tables?

Theme: Overcome every obstacle just to hold you in my arms