Swaying Summer Nights

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Friends-with-benefits-to-lovers trope / strangers in public, fooling around in private / gorgeous secretary x aloof CEO

Bai Liyao was born captivatingly beautiful, with a waist so slender you could encircle it with one hand. Though she was simply doing her job as a secretary, people were always spreading rumors that she and her direct superior, Sheng Linsheng, had to be having an affair.

She complained to her best friend in private: Anyone who dated him would be cursed with eight lifetimes of bad luck.

Those people only saw his stunning face. They didn't know Sheng Linsheng had inherited the family business while being besieged by his peers, and that he was ruthless and exacting. He had never once lowered his standards because of her looks.

She tried hard to put an end to the rumors, but then an accident happened, and she slept with her boss.

After getting a taste for it, she gave up resisting and kept up their ambiguous relationship.

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At a company retreat, behind a thin door, a hand pinned both her wrists.

His cool voice was tinged with desire as he lightly bit her red-hot earlobe.

Someone pounded on the door. Bai Liyao's eyes reddened as she tried to beg for mercy, but he covered her swollen lips with his hand.

"Quiet." He pinched her trembling waist, his voice icy. "I'm only kissing you. Why are you shaking?"

...Nobody had mentioned that a boss whose every cell seemed to scream abstinence would be such a good kisser.

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Just as Bai Liyao had grown used to their days of acting like strangers in public and having no official relationship in private, Mr. Sheng, who ought to have kept himself apart from worldly affairs and minded his own business, suddenly switched the meeting room's projector between presentations.

A clumsy doodle wallpaper appeared on the big screen.

A colleague who was good at sucking up said with a smile, "The little one's drawing is lovely."

Sheng Linsheng replied unhurriedly, "It's my fiancee's."

A deathly silence fell. Everyone turned to look at Bai Liyao.

Bai Liyao, the supposed "fiancee," blushed as she looked at the wallpaper he'd asked her for a few days ago.

Why was everyone assuming she was the fiancee? Were they really that obvious?

The next second, Sheng Linsheng said, "I'm still courting her. I'm waiting for her to give me a title."

Then he glanced in her direction.

...She was about to become the very "unlucky girl" she'd talked about.

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Pre-collection for a story in the same series: Woven Like Silk, Sweet Like Honey. See the notice below for the link~

A summer-night series story, a blended family, faux incest, no romantic development while the relationship remains in place

A gorgeous, spoiled brat x a gentle, calculating older brother who knows how to handle her

Song Mianzhi had been spoiled by her family since childhood. She was bad at school, had a short temper, and was even more playful. She routinely took advantage of her beauty, and had known how to use her looks since middle school.

None of it worked on Rong Xianyu. He was three years older and had the title of her older brother, so he was always trying to control her: no staying up late, no dating young, and not even hotpot unless it was mild broth!

Song Mianzhi was sick of his self-righteous "I'm doing this for your own good" attitude.

She thought he was missing a love debt, and generously decided to help him pay it off.

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His little sister suddenly became so obedient.

She stopped staying up late and skipping class. She called him "big brother" in a sweet, gentle voice and said, "You're my favorite person."

He frequently received photos she'd sent by mistake: wearing skimpy camisoles that revealed large expanses of snowy-white skin. Her lipstick marks appeared on his shirts, and when she wore them, they barely covered her upper thighs.

Her bright eyes seemed to see no one but him.

He accepted every bit of it and recorded each detail in his heart.

Song Mianzhi thought she was the hunter and that he had already fallen into her trap.

The day she sprang the trap, she dressed up with deliberate care, wearing red lipstick, big waves, and a red gown. Under the dinner table, she brushed her toe against his leg.

Sure enough, he couldn't hold back. When their mother went to wash the dishes, he asked what she was really trying to do.

Thinking she'd won, she smiled. "Big brother, don't you think it's gross for siblings to date?"

Rong Xianyu, who should have been heartbroken, slowly took off his glasses, gripped the back of her neck, and kissed her as if he had lost control.

"Gross..." Song Mianzhi weakly tried to push him away, still refusing to give in.

He kissed her more deeply, parting her lips and slipping his fingers beneath her hem.

"What are you doing... gross..."

Song Mianzhi was kissed senseless, yet still had to worry about their mother coming in and catching them.

"Had your fun?" Rong Xianyu brushed her side, watching her melt into his arms.

"If you think it's so gross, then who was crying last night and begging for more?"

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