Playing the Good Boy

Xu Nian is an English major studying in the United States as an exchange student. While she's in class, her phone keeps chiming and buzzing with notifications, driving her crazy!

Her boyfriend, Yu Yanqiao, is five years younger than her, a sweet little North American mixed-race darling.

He looks sweet, and he's soft and affectionate on the inside. He's incredibly smart, knows how to make people happy, and, unlike his coolness toward everyone else, he's ridiculously clingy. Lately, his Chinese has improved by leaps and bounds. If she hadn't gotten used to it, the sheer wall of messages would have made Xu Nian's temples throb and her sanity plummet.

They've only been apart for three hours.

[Do you have class today too?]

[...I want to hug you and kiss you so badly. I miss you so, so, so much. I want to lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you, lick you.]

[I want to see you so badly. Reply to me, reply to me, reply to me. Hey, where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?]

[Are you still mad because I wouldn't let you go yesterday? ...Please don't ignore me. I swear I'm really good!]

[Pay attention to me, okay?]

[Is it because your student said something again? That damn b*t*h.]

[Please forgive me... I was wrong, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get mad. It's all because Niannian keeps ignoring me.]

[You can't ignore me!]

[Don't ignore me. You can't do this!!!]

[…No, I'm so sad. You keep ignoring me.]

[So you really were in class.]

[Hehe, I love you so much. You're so good, looking at my messages.]

Looking at the densely packed messages, Xu Nian's eyelid twitches wildly. She doesn't know how to reply and feels like she can hardly breathe.

Xu Nian: [I'm not ignoring you.]

Xu Nian: [I'll come find you when class is over.]

A commotion comes from across the room.

Xu Nian looks up and sees Yu Yanqiao taking the empty seat across from her. He still has that exquisitely pretty mixed-race face, sweet smile, and harmless look.

"Aha, found you!"

"If I didn't get to see you soon, I'd be really mad!!"

If I can't find you, I'll go crazy.

If you hide from me, I'll go even crazier.

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I love you so much that I'm completely lost in this love that makes me feel so intensely alive. I once wondered if I should eat you, so you'd belong to me forever.

-- Yu Yanqiao.

A highly intelligent heroine who can crack codes and toy with people, a venomous snake x a clingy, sinister male lead who acts obedient but is actually a handful.

* The male lead has snake-like traits.

* Everyday romance and mystery-solving.

Please keep in mind:

1. Set in a fictional world. The heroine is highly intelligent but low on stamina. Romance-focused, with a training-and-mystery-solving daily life, including dog training. Enjoy the heroine's beauty and the delicious romance, and don't hold her to impossibly high moral standards (in bold, please)!!! Reading this story means accepting all of the heroine's flaws, and accepting that the male lead has had his feelings toyed with before!!!

2. Both leads are virgins and each other's first love. The couple is the best in the world. The male lead is good at pretending to be obedient but really isn't, and he's especially clingy. He needs to cling to the heroine to feel secure, and he'll go crazy if he can't.

3. A romance-focused writing exercise. Written purely for my tastes. Written for my perverse sense of fun.

Blurb finalized on 2025.11.27 and registered.

Theme: Becoming a better person