My Favorite Girl Insists She's Straight

My new novel, After Moving In with the Cool-Headed Principal, is currently updating!

The blurb is at the very bottom. If you’re interested, little darlings, please visit my profile ^ ^

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While traveling abroad to follow her favorite star, Cen Xi fell in love at first sight with Ling Qingyi, whose looks and figure were exactly her type.

Fate was on her side. On a packed flight, of all people, she just happened to fall into Ling Qingyi’s soft embrace.

When they came across someone having a heart attack at the airport, the two helped together. Cen Xi immediately got familiar and called her “big sis.”

A few days later, she coyly pleaded, “I’m all alone overseas, and I get a little scared sleeping by myself. Big sis, could you... could you sleep with me?”

Ling Qingyi glanced at the enormous bed and replied thoughtfully, “Little sis, you booked a king-size room.”

2.

Ling Qingyi thought of Cen Xi as a little sister she’d happened to meet along the way. She was sweet, pretty, and treated Ling Qingyi very well.

When Ling Qingyi needed volunteers for her research project, this little sister was the first to volunteer.

But she was far too clingy. Whenever they were doing research, she’d sneak a kiss on Ling Qingyi’s cheek when the others weren’t looking.

A kiss was fine, since they were both women. But she always had to ask, “Can I kiss you again next time?”

Ling Qingyi: “You’re wearing lipstick. Don’t kiss me again, or someone will see and think I’m gay.”

Cen Xi bit her lip, her gaze trembling. “Aren’t you?”

3.

One time, in the dim stairwell of a top-tier hospital, Cen Xi couldn’t help kissing Ling Qingyi.

Ling Qingyi was startled, but when she felt the young woman’s soft, sweet lips, she couldn’t bring herself to push her away.

After a night of passion, Ling Qingyi looked at the marks on her neck in the mirror, ashamed and regretful. She texted Cen Xi: [Sorry, I’m straight.]

Then she immediately blocked and deleted her, all in one go.

Cen Xi, busy preparing a surprise for their next date: ?

4.

One morning, several years later.

Ling Qingyi was nursing a hangover and murmured, “Xiaoxi, please don’t leave.”

Cen Xi got dressed and tossed out a parting remark as she left. “Dr. Ling, please behave yourself. I remember you saying you were straight.”

Photographer & orthopedic surgeon

Seven-and-a-half-year age gap

Happy ending

[This was written after signing. I didn’t hold back, and the writing is quite direct. Chapters 50–52 contain fairly serious domestic violence. Please don’t read if that’s a problem!]

New novel blurb below

After Moving In with the Cool-Headed Principal

The first time Yun Qishi skipped class by climbing over a wall, she mistook a strange woman standing at the intersection for a friend and got handsy with her. “Baby, you smell so good~”

The next day, she saw the principal’s photo newly posted on the school bulletin board and realized it was the same woman from last night!?

Who would’ve thought it would happen again?

Yun Qishi climbed over the wall once more, only to be caught by that woman.

She didn’t resist or make excuses, immediately owning up. “Principal Ning, I know I was wrong...”

But it didn’t help. Her guardian was still called in.

After meeting with Principal Ning, her aunt asked her, “Would you be willing to live with Principal Ning?”

Yun Qishi: ?

It turned out that her aunt and Principal Ning were old friends. Her aunt described Principal Ning this way: “Like a clear pool, cool and aloof on the surface, with hidden hot springs bubbling beneath.”

She was afraid. She thought she’d made a terrible first impression on Principal Ning, and that Principal Ning would hate her.

Later, she moved into Principal Ning’s home, where Ning Ji took care of her for three years.

Just as her aunt had said... Principal Ning was a woman who was cold on the outside but warm inside, gentle as water.

There were countless things to love about Principal Ning.

She gave Yun Qishi warmth and taught her how to grow.

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After the college entrance exams, Yun Qishi finally confessed her feelings.

Before that intoxicating, bittersweet, tender summer could come to an end.

Ning Ji came back to her senses and spoke coldly. “Yun Qishi, what we’re doing is immoral. I promised your aunt I’d take care of you until you came of age. Now... you can move out.”

Yun Qishi didn’t plead with her. She moved out of Ning Ji’s home, and from then on, drifted through life alone.

Many years passed, and she never again found herself able to love anyone.

She couldn’t forget, and couldn’t let go of, the woman who had left an indelible mark on her life.

She thought the woman had long since forgotten her and built a family of her own.

Perhaps their time together had been nothing but a youthful dream.

Until many years later, when she saw the woman she’d never been able to forget again.

Candlelight flickered. She saw a faint blush spread across the woman’s eyes, and heard her breath come in little gasps.

The tide kept washing over her...

Yun Qishi’s emotions surged. She lowered her head and bit hard into the little cloud-shaped mark over the woman’s heart. The woman beneath her couldn’t stop herself from trembling.

Yun Qishi stroked the cloud as if it were a brand, feeling its warmth and the beat beneath it.

“Principal Ning, wasn’t this improper? Wasn’t it immoral? Then why did you have me tattooed over your heart?”

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.