The Wager Scandal

[A cool-headed veterinarian who's crazy on the inside x a calculating, possessive hero]

1. Li Fu stood under a streetlight waiting for a car. The night breeze was cool, and another stranger came over to hit on her.

"Hello. Could I get to know you?" Lu Qihuai asked warmly, a clean-cut smile on his face as he held out his phone.

She tucked back a strand of hair the wind had blown loose and glanced behind him. A few men sat outside a bar, watching them with interest.

"Did you make a bet about me?"

Li Fu immediately saw that she had become the group's "prey."

Lu Qihuai nodded frankly. "Yes."

She asked, "What's the stake?"

He turned his wrist, revealing an expensive watch. "If you turn me down, this goes to them."

Li Fu lowered her eyes and smiled, then took his phone and entered her number.

Lu Qihuai froze for a moment. "You know it's a bet, and you're still giving me your number?"

As he spoke, a car pulled over to the curb.

Li Fu opened the back door and glanced back at him. "I want you to win."

2. In the car, Li Fu stared ahead. A cool voice sounded beside her.

"Lu Qihuai looked pretty happy just now."

Li Fu turned to Huo Yichen, who had just returned to the country that day. "He was more sincere than you."

Huo Yichen's voice was flat and emotionless. "You were pretty happy too, weren't you? The person you've been secretly in love with came to you first."

Li Fu looked away without replying. They stayed silent for the rest of the ride.

The car pulled into her residential complex. She got out, went upstairs, and disappeared from view.

After a long while, Huo Yichen finally spoke to himself, staring out at the dim yellow streetlights. "You two won't work out."

Then Huo Yichen got out, went upstairs, pushed open the bathroom door, and pulled her close. "Afu, why didn't you wait for me so we could shower together?"

3. Lu Qihuai was still standing where he was. Looking at the number he'd just saved in his phone, he typed in a name he'd kept hidden in his heart: "Fufu."

[Huo Yichen's Perspective]

When Huo Yichen was four, his mother brought home a one-year-old girl.

"Yichen, we've decided to adopt her. You'll have a little sister now, so be nice to her."

Huo Yichen came out of the piano room and saw her hiding behind his mother, her grape-like eyes blinking at him.

"I don't want a little sister. Make her leave." Huo Yichen had been indifferent since childhood.

His mother looked troubled, but the next day Huo Yichen changed his mind. "Let her stay."

His mother still looked troubled. She spread her hands and told him, "We've already sent her away."

Years later, Huo Yichen sighed under the moonlight.

"We should have grown up together."

The Hunter's Taming Manual: Veterinarian Li Fu

#The male lead thinks he's the tragic second male lead.

#The second male lead thinks he's the chosen protagonist.

#Who's the gambler, and who's the prey? The play she directs has only just begun.

Reading Guide:

1. Set in a fictional world. One-on-one romance within each phase.

2. Huo Yichen is the male lead. Both leads are inexperienced, and he is three years older.

3. The heroine isn't perfect. At times she's extreme, at times adorable. She has flaws, but that doesn't make her a bad person. Everyone has many sides.

4. The heroine, male lead, and second male lead are not blood-related. The second male lead was once the heroine's mother's stepson.

5. The second male lead falls in love first, and is inexperienced.

Theme: Love on the same wavelength.