After Returning to My Hometown, the Young Boss Started Flirting with Me

Unemployed pastry chef returns to her hometown × young owner of a traditional pastry shop

Sweet bedtime fluff | Small-town fiction | Everyday life | First love for both, 1v1

[Blurb]:

Tong Yan had returned to her small hometown after giving everything she had to make a place for herself in the big city.

Small towns were so boring.

Every day, Tong Yan did nothing but sit in a rocking chair and sun herself, or stand at the end of the street with a sausage, teasing the cats and dogs.

One day, a traditional pastry shop opened at a street corner.

The young owner was not only cute, but had a cute name too: Tang Su.

The first time Tong Yan walked in, the young owner's watery eyes were red as she softly called Tong Yan "big sister."

Those words melted Tong Yan's heart.

From then on, Tong Yan's dull small-town life had one more entertaining pastime: teasing Tang Su.

As a Western pastry chef, Tong Yan had never liked sweets.

But she discovered that the shop's salted egg yolk pastries were delicious. They were sweet and melted in her mouth, and one bite was enough to get her hooked.

[The characters aren't perfect. They have both strengths and flaws. If this isn't to your taste, feel free to stop reading.]

-- (Blurb written on 2025.10.09. It may be revised later, but the character settings and core content will remain unchanged.)

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[Advance blurb]:

Everyone at Qingyu No. 1 High School had heard two names: Ning Can and Lin Zhiyue.

As the top student in Science Class 1, Ning Can's name and figure were always seen alongside Lin Zhiyue, the top student in Humanities Class 1.

The honor rolls at the school gate, award ceremonies for exam results, and the role models teachers held up when lecturing their students...

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One day, an immature and weird first-year boy hit a wall with the top student. Then he ran into the good-natured academic ace in the cafeteria.

He figured that since the academic ace and the top student showed up together as a pair every day, they must know each other.

So he watched the academic ace sniffle from the spiciness, her nose bright red, as she drank the lemon water he'd bought. After a moment's thought, she said, "Lin Zhiyue? We aren't close. We've never even talked."

The boy had to pay for another cup of lemon water, then slunk away dejectedly.

Ning Can ate the lunch Lin Zhiyue had brought back for her from outside while drinking the boy's lemon water. She thought, This is such a pain.

Sigh. When would Lin Zhiyue realize just how lovable she was?

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That night, in a dimly lit little room, two girls sat opposite each other doing their homework.

Ning Can was biting her pen cap, completely absorbed in her work.

Across from her, the girl who usually hated being disturbed poked her arm.

Lin Zhiyue seemed to have encountered a difficult problem. She stared at Ning Can and asked, "Are we not close?"

Ning Can froze. "Huh?"

Lin Zhiyue's long, delicate brows drew together. She bit her rosy lower lip and asked again, "Even though we sleep together every day, we're still not close?"

The pen cap snapped off in Ning Can's mouth.

In a pitch-black room,

the two of them lay beneath a warm blanket, sharing the same pillow.

Lin Zhiyue's fingertips traced Ning Can's back through her pajamas. Her breath brushed Ning Can's ear as she murmured, "Are we really not close?"

Ning Can curled up trembling, like a little shrimp dropped into a pot.

She was red from head to toe.

Theme: Stay true to yourself and be brave enough to love.