How Did Mr. Qi Turn into a Dog?

📢 Next up: "Mimi [Second Chance Romance]". Blurb below 👇🏻

◎ Childhood friends | Reunited from the very first chapter | Dog-training romance | Bickering enemies

◎ Pretends to be a cold, aloof big shot ✖️ Sees right through him but doesn't say so

Blurb:

Advertising department manager Xiang Shuyi received an ultimatum: if she couldn't land another major ad campaign, the entire department would be restructured.

Under tremendous pressure, she had to win over the famous industry ice king, President Qi, who was said to be picky and difficult to please.

The lights at the business dinner were dazzling as she pushed open the door.

The man in the seat of honor was toying with his wineglass. At the sound, he looked up, his features cold and hard, his whole demeanor warning others to keep their distance.

Xiang Shuyi stopped in her tracks.

It was Qi Mian, the childhood friend she'd dumped.

Before he even opened the folder, he rejected it on the spot.

"I'm not investing." His gaze was cool, his words concise. "The concept is stale. You've made no progress."

She looked up and caught him rubbing his earlobe without thinking.

Xiang Shuyi lowered her eyes, suddenly wanting to laugh.

Long time no see.

Why was her puppy pretending to be a grown-up?

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After Qi Mian returned her proposal unchanged for the tenth time, Xiang Shuyi closed the folder with an expressionless face.

She'd given him an inch, and now he thought he was something special?

Man or dog, she wasn't going to put up with this high-and-mighty boss anymore.

She turned on her heel and went off to enjoy herself for ten days.

Only afterward did Qi Mian realize that maybe he'd gone a little too far.

The tenth version of the proposal was actually pretty good, he thought. When she came back, he could graciously tell her they could move ahead.

At the dinner ten days later, Qi Mian held a glass of wine and had already planned how to casually bring up the partnership.

He'd be nonchalant, as if it were no big deal.

A mature man should be magnanimous, after all.

He strode steadily toward Xiang Shuyi in the corner. Through the crowd, he saw her laughing and clinking glasses with a young man. Her eyes sparkled as she spoke with a bright smile.

"Mr. Wang, you're too kind! What President Qi? I barely know him."

"I'll be counting on you to look after my ad campaign from now on~"

Qi Mian's steady stride came to an abrupt halt, and his wineglass tipped with it.

The clear liquid poured down his custom-made suit, soaking him to the skin and chilling him to the bone.

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That night, in the fire escape.

Someone spotted President Qi, who'd worn a dark expression all evening, pinning a woman firmly against the wall.

His breath was scorching, all his composure from earlier gone. "Shuyi, who was that guy just now?"

"A client." Xiang Shuyi raised an eyebrow. "President Qi, are you going to police that too?"

"I'm younger and more energetic than him, richer than him, and I knew you more than ten years before he did!"

His voice tightened, his composure barely holding as he teetered on the edge of a breakdown. "Did he ever copy out a hundred lines of text for you as punishment? Did he ever buy you underwear? Does he know that every month, on the fifth day, your period hurts so much you curl up? Did he..."

Qi Mian's Adam's apple bobbed. A trace of vulnerability crept into his voice.

"Can he kiss as well as I can?"

"Shuyi, I can wait. I'll wait until you've forgotten his kisses, and then..."

"Wait until I forget?"

In the dead silence, Xiang Shuyi suddenly laughed. She grabbed his tie and pulled him down.

"Qi Mian."

"The one who dragged me in here just now and bit my lips like a madman..."

"Was that a dog?"

Everyone: "!!!"

Weren't they supposed to be enemies? How did President Qi become a dog?

🐶 Reading Guide 🐶

1. One-on-one romance, both leads virgins, happy ending.

2. The leads are childhood friends. The male lead is a few months older than the heroine, but that doesn't stop him from loving to call her "sis," hehehe...

3. The male lead is stubborn and sharp-tongued at first. Later, his clingy, sulky, jealous-tea side explodes!

4. The heroine didn't dump him the way you dump someone after a breakup. They hadn't dated yet when they were young~

🏠🏠🏠

"Mimi"

Blurb:

In the three years Xin Mi was with him, Zhuo Yan received quite a few of her deliveries.

Sometimes it was a new outfit of hers mistakenly sent to his office. Sometimes it was her skincare products, shipped to the wrong phone number.

She was always like that.

All her sharpness went into her work, leaving her everyday life a mess. When she placed an order, she'd always click the old default option without thinking.

His address. His phone number.

Whenever he reminded her, she'd laugh on the phone, sounding surprised and a little playful. "Oh, I messed up again... Can you hold on to it for me? I'll pick it up this weekend~"

He'd just smile. He never got truly annoyed.

That rainy night, at 11:47 p.m., the doorbell suddenly rang.

A local courier delivered a small, lightweight package. The recipient's name on the label was Xin Mi, and the only note read: Urgent.

Zhuo Yan stood in the warm light of the entryway, his fingertips touching the cool, rain-damp paper bag.

It made sense.

If this was another careless mistake of hers, like the countless times before, he could understand.

He'd leave it somewhere visible in the entryway and wait for her to come by. Then, as she bent to look at it, he'd gently gather her into his arms from behind, his breath brushing her ear as he murmured in a low, even voice, "Didn't Mimi promise last time she'd stop being so careless?"

She'd half-turn in his arms, lifting her lashes, a mischievous yet unguarded smile curving her lips. "What if I don't? You're always there to bail me out."

But all those casual deliveries and acts of understanding, all that affection and unspoken familiarity woven into their daily lives, had depended on two clear conditions.

If what had been mistakenly delivered this time wasn't that box in a size he couldn't use.

If they hadn't already broken up a year, six months, and three days ago.

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Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads virgins, happy ending.

2. To be added.

Theme: Childhood friends reunited