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[Willful, spoiled heiress × passionate, lovestruck puppy]
While gaming, Shi Qing was matched with a terrible teammate in the alumni section. Furious, she switched to an alternate account and added him, ready to fight fire with fire.
She never expected him to misunderstand and send her a handsome photo, harassing her with the message: “Want to date online, little sis?”
Shi Qing: ? Why is it him?
The photo showed Lu Zhiyu, the popular young master at their school, who was good-natured, academically gifted, and always surrounded by admirers.
Hah, he doesn’t know I recognize him.
He dares act up from behind a screen? She’ll teach him a lesson.
Shi Qing: Sure^-^ Let’s meet up first.
/
After playing basketball, Lu Zhiyu felt someone tap his shoulder. A girl looped an arm around his neck.
He stumbled, and his first kiss disappeared on the spot.
Lu Zhiyu: ? No, wait
She said she had come to meet him in person. “My name is Shi Qing. I’m your girlfriend from online, from the dance department.”
The girl waved her phone. The photo on the screen was of his little-known twin brother, Lu Fayou.
Lu Zhiyu froze. His brother had just gotten a new girlfriend, and he had met her.
It wasn’t the girl standing in front of him.
With so many people watching, he couldn’t bring himself to tell the truth and hurt Shi Qing.
Unable to think of a better solution, he impulsively went along with it. “Let me take you to dinner.”
/
Lu Zhiyu kept wondering how to tell Shi Qing the truth and break up amicably.
But one day, he suddenly no longer wanted to let her go.
After meeting Lu Zhiyu in person, Shi Qing was willful and spoiled, making a scene at every turn.
Meanwhile, Lu Zhiyu became more and more serious about her, turning into the perfect boyfriend.
Shi Qing was getting ready to call it quits and break things off with Lu Zhiyu without warning, just so he could feel what it was like to be hurt. Then one day, she met his twin brother
Wait, the person she’d matched with wasn’t Lu Zhiyu?!
Shi Qing fell silent.
How embarrassing. She had to run.
/
Shi Qing disappeared without a word. After one of her performances, she was just about to take off her ballet costume in the empty dressing room when Lu Zhiyu, who had heard the news, pinned her against the wall.
His eyes were dark, his voice low and husky. He gripped her wrist hard enough to leave red marks. “Qingqing, if you’re going to provoke me, you have to take responsibility.”
A staff member knocked on the door. “Is anyone in there?”
Lu Zhiyu hooked a finger into the tie at the back of Shi Qing’s costume. His warm, heavy breath brushed her ear. “Want me to let them in and show them what we’re doing?”
Reader’s guide:
1. They are not really dating online.
2. There is no cheating.
3. The leads are the same age and each other’s first love.
First posted on October 23, 2025
Last revised on December 21, 2025
Coming next: Marrying Cecilia. Please add it to your collection~
Blurb
Yu Youzhi, a once-popular writer of domineering CEO romances, has hit a slump in her career and been dumped by her boyfriend.
She earns only a few hundred yuan a month. Her mother urges her to change careers as soon as possible, get married, and live the “normal” life elders expect.
Yu Youzhi makes up a male lead from one of her novels. “I want to find someone like this: earns a hundred billion a year, has a PhD, speaks five languages, is cold and quiet, and buys me a little island in the Pacific on a whim.”
She’s sure there’s no way she’ll find someone like that.
A week later, her mother calls. “I’ve arranged for you to meet someone this weekend. You’d better follow through.”
Yu Youzhi: …?
Could her domineering CEO novels actually be realist literature?
/
Sitting in an expensive restaurant for a blind date, Yu Youzhi watches as Liang Cishen takes the seat across from her.
The man has sharp features and an elegant, aloof air. He wears a custom suit, and the expensive cuff links gleam with a cold, keen light.
She recognizes him. He is the head of the Liang financial conglomerate, a man who can turn the world upside down with a flick of his hand, and whom everyone curries favor with.
They belong to completely different worlds. Their only connection is that when she was at university, she tutored Liang Cishen’s distant cousin, a younger girl who was a real handful.
Yu Youzhi asks carefully, “Mr. Liang, did you… sit at the wrong table?”
Liang Cishen raises his eyes to her. “Yu Youzhi, which island in the Pacific do you like?”
Yu Youzhi is stunned. Liang Cishen’s tone is casual. “Marry me under a contract, and I’ll give it to you.”
Yu Youzhi: “Um, could I take the cash instead?”
/
“Yu Youzhi’s Diary of Observing a Domineering CEO After Marriage”
Day 5: We married because we each needed something. Neither of us will fall for the other. So why does Liang Cishen come home so early every day…?
Day 10: Huh? When did he add a clause to the marriage contract saying we have to chat three times a day?
Day 20: Wait, a domineering CEO should wake up in a huge bed that’s 200 square meters. Why does Liang Cishen insist on squeezing into the little bed in the second bedroom with me? Is he crazy = =.
Day 30: (Class reunion, blank)
Yu Youzhi is dropped off downstairs by the campus heartthrob she once had a crush on. She finds Liang Cishen waiting for her in the living room and finally realizes something is wrong.
The man grabs her wrist and pins her in a corner. “Zhizhi, Auntie said you wanted to find a husband like the male leads you write. Was there something you left out?”
Yu Youzhi: ?
Liang Cishen leans close, his hot breath against her ear. “Possessive and jealous.”
/
Yu Youzhi always thought her relationship with Liang Cishen started developing after they got married.
Until one day, she finds a photo of herself tutoring on his phone.
And at the time, she was still with her ex-boyfriend.
It turns out even someone like Liang Cishen, standing at the very top of the pyramid, can have a secret crush he can’t put into words.
When she discovers his secret, the man isn’t embarrassed. But after the lights go out that night, he treats her wickedly, then leans close to her ear and says, “Zhizhi, the first time I saw you, I knew we’d end up like this.”
[Bonus scene]
Yu Youzhi finds her touch again, and her new book becomes a huge hit. On a whim, she writes a bunch of spicy bonus chapters to thank her readers.
She never expects to discover one day that Liang Cishen is following her story on his computer.
Yu Youzhi: !!!
That night, she confronts him, both embarrassed and angry. He pulls her onto his lap, his voice husky and heated, a wicked smile in his tone. “Zhizhi, you know all these tricks. Why have you never told me?”
Yu Youzhi: #Actually, I still like you better when you’re cold and ignore me like the CEOs I write# Wait, Liang Cishen, I came to settle the score, stop kissing me, #
A heroine who talks a big game on paper × a cunning male lead who planned it all long ago
Older man / eight-year age gap / marriage before love
The heroine only ever held hands with her ex-boyfriend
The heroine’s pen name is Cecilia, after the heroine Cecilia in Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo
Theme: Love calls for sincerity.
Or is it a childhood sweetheart if line? Qingqing was too small when she was a child.
I want to see the cp of gamers using Qingqing and Xiaolu! The forum comments are ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Damn, I really like this book! But I think the heroine's baby should have more sense of deservingness
You can still watch some extras now. I want to watch more about the daily life of living together.
I want to see the forum comments about Sora and Tin Soldier.
Oh, I thought there was still the second update today
[Orange candy] I got it [Orange candy] I got it [Orange candy] I got it
Finished 99! Reluctant to say goodbye
Wuwuwuwu This is the first novel that I followed from the beginning to the end. I feel so sad to finish it🥹😭
Woo woo woo, it's over and I can't bear to leave it.