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Poker-faced, adorable heiress x charming on the surface, calculating heir
Two wealthy families | Both are tsundere | Childhood friends on the warpath, marrying first and falling in love later
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Young heiress Chu Ying has no interest in inheriting the family fortune. Instead, she stubbornly pursues an unprofitable career as a model.
Unfortunately, she is told she has to choose between her career and love.
She decisively gives up on love and leaves the arrangements entirely to her family. But she never expected the person chosen for her marriage would be her childhood friend, Gu Yunzhou.
Still, it's not that surprising. They've been friends for over twenty years, so Chu Ying knows exactly what he's like.
In front of their elders, he's a paragon of virtue, gentle and thoughtful. He can discuss five thousand years of history and the latest advances in technology. All through school, he was the only one whose name ever appeared in the top spot in the city's rankings.
Chu Ying is different. She's a beauty and a popular figure at school, always surrounded by a lively crowd of boys wherever she goes.
Their paths are too different for them to get along, so she could have simply kept her distance from Gu Yunzhou.
But the infuriating thing is, he reported her for dating before she was allowed to!
And he reported her both to the school and to her family!
How awful!
She hadn't even managed to start dating anyone!
Her plan to pick out a handsome guy before she got caught was nipped in the bud. Now Chu Ying is under close watch, with a strict no-boys policy wherever she goes.
Except for Gu Yunzhou.
In the end, he secured a reputation as a mature, level-headed young man by reporting her early signs of misbehavior, while Chu Ying was branded as someone too immature to know better, who wanted to date too young.
Now her parents won't even let her go out unless Gu Yunzhou is there.
He's practically her guardian╰(‵□′)╯
But there's nothing she can do. Gu Yunzhou is beloved by their elders, and everyone has nothing but praise for him.
Ha! What a two-faced, black-hearted lotus!
From now on, Gu Yunzhou is her number one nemesis!
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When it became clear she couldn't get out of the marriage, Chu Ying had no choice but to lay down four rules with him: "We'll be courteous to each other, put on a show for our parents, you do the housework, and don't interfere with me."
Chu Ying: "Agree to that, and we can get our marriage license tomorrow."
Gu Yunzhou merely answered lazily, "Sure. Whatever the young lady says."
Their wedding night.
Chu Ying bit her lip and pushed at the culprit, groaning, "Gu Yunzhou, have you no shame? You'd even sleep with your nemesis!"
The man smiled. "If we're nemeses, wouldn't I be living up to my name if I took advantage of you?"
"Or... were you expecting me to go easy on you?"
"..."
Her parted lips let out a quiet plea for mercy. The next second, he readily went along with it. "Sure."
Gu Yunzhou furrowed his brow in feigned confusion. "But I'll have to try it out."
His measured words came slowly, and his deliberately wicked tone grew more and more brazen:
"Just what do I have to do to count as going easy on you?"
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Later, Chu Ying happened to discover that a former classmate from high school had become a fellow model.
There was one more familiar face at the photo shoots. Seeing that striking, almost bewitching face in the crowd, Chu Ying was momentarily spellbound.
During a break, Chu Ying suppressed the slight flutter in her heart and snapped coldly, "You're always hanging around here. Is your company going bankrupt?"
The man leaned against the wall, his expression cool and calm. "He used to pursue you."
Chu Ying was just about to follow his gaze when he distracted her and grabbed the back of her neck.
A warm kiss landed softly between her brows. Gu Yunzhou's voice was so quiet it was almost inaudible. "Haven't you realized yet..."
"That I've liked you for a long time."
*2025.11.26
----Next up: Stars Are Asleep----
Insomniac x sleep coach
Arrogant, stubborn tsundere vs sweet-faced little fairy
01
Yu Qiao has suffered from insomnia for years. After his mother tricks him one day, he has no choice but to honor their agreement and let a sleep coach move in.
Shi Mo charges by the hour for sleep-coaching sessions.
Yu's mother says, "The money's no problem."
She'll not only pay into a dedicated account, but the longer Shi Mo stays, the more she'll pay.
To make automatic payments easier, Shi Mo specifically installs the smart check-in system newly developed by the Yu Corporation.
Its boundary of precision is Yu Qiao's bedroom door.
Her client is sharp-tongued and difficult, but luckily Shi Mo has a sunny disposition. Her remarkably cheerful service wins him over!
After her first sleep-coaching session, Shi Mo spends several minutes calculating how much she's earned, reluctant to leave the house.
Then inspiration strikes: What if the sound of the door wakes him up?
Take one step back and lose your cash cow. Stay one more night and money keeps rolling in.
Who wouldn't want to earn money in their sleep?
With that in mind, Shi Mo happily sneaks back to the living room sofa.
The next morning, Yu Qiao wakes up and discovers Shi Mo spent the night at his home.
Putting her overly ingratiating attitude together with this, he understands: She really does have ulterior motives toward me.
Later:
Yu Qiao: She won't be comfortable on that sofa. We need to add a cushion.
Later still:
Yu Qiao: It wouldn't be a problem if she wanted to sleep in my bed.
02
The sleep coach's daily solicitousness is more or less to Yu Qiao's liking.
Thinking of how much Shi Mo "adores" him, Yu Qiao decides to graciously accept her "confession," which she is still preparing to make.
But it turns out her "true love" is someone else, and he was the one who introduced them.
Everything Shi Mo does for him is because she loves the one he's involved with. Yu Qiao is in charge of writing the new album for the famous singer Yan Lang.
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The petty, grudge-holding Yu Qiao takes it out on an innocent bystander. His new compositions are all lovelorn ballads that have absolutely nothing to do with the brief, and he tosses out a snide remark: "An emo track, tailor-made for you."
When asked if a breakup is why he's changed his style so drastically, he acts smug and stubborn. "I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."
"There's been some major progress between us."
"Major progress?" Yan Lang teases his immature colleague. "Did you kiss?"
Yu Qiao, who had only just managed to hold hands with her after an accidental touch, blushes with embarrassment. He raises his cold brows and scoffs without mercy. "You're so forward."
"..."
Who could have guessed that just a few days later, after finally making progress, he'd call up someone to show off again.
"Just letting you know," Yu Qiao says, enunciating every word. "I..."
"Have kissed someone."
"Try not to be too jealous."
"..."
03
Just as Yu Qiao's sleep starts improving and Shi Mo's successful assignment nears its end, the day she is supposed to say goodbye arrives.
But she still doesn't clock out.
Two days pass, and a troubleshooter for the app's malfunction calls Shi Mo. To his surprise, the young master himself answers.
Yu Qiao's voice is edged with the displeasure of someone just woken up. Just before hanging up, he says only, "I'm sleeping. Don't make a sound."
"..."
[Little skit]
Once he has something to brag about, Yu Qiao's energy grows boundless.
Whenever he shows signs of behaving badly, Shi Mo gets ahead of him and puts him to sleep.
It works remarkably well.
So Yu Qiao comes up with a way to fight back:
At first, just hearing her voice makes him sleepy. Gradually, he uses a grip on her wrist and deep kisses to keep her from making a sound.
But every now and then, he lets his guard down on purpose, deliberately fanning the flames so he can hear her other, sweeter voice.
* The daily love-brain antics of a master of self-delusion
Theme: Those who never forget will eventually be answered.
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