The Butterfly Goes Straight, and the Teasing Senior Gets Hooked

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[Blurb]

Everyone says Ye Qizhou, a new student at Shanda University, is a bona fide flirt.

The reasons: She flirts everywhere and changes her tune faster than she turns a page.

The flirt herself is browsing around her family's supermarket when someone spills yogurt all over her.

The young lady is about to blow her top when she looks up and sees a beautiful woman. Even more striking than her face are her reserved yet indifferent eyes. "Sorry, I'll pay for your clothes."

The woman speaks in a cool, lovely voice.

The combination of her voice and her looks hits Ye Qizhou like a double blow. Ye Qizhou changes her tune immediately: "It's nothing, don't worry. I didn't hurt you, did I?"

When the semester officially starts, Ye Qizhou is lucky enough to get a double room. She walks in with her bag and discovers that the beautiful woman she bumped into is now her roommate, an upperclasswoman.

Blindly confident, she thinks it's only a matter of time before she gets the cool, secretly passionate senior to fall for her. She does her utmost to play the devoted good girl in front of her.

She thinks she's got the senior so flustered she can't handle it. Who knew the woman would simply accept her advances and calmly advise:

"Stop acting for now and go to sleep. The neighbors will come knocking."

Ye Qizhou: "?"

The flirt gets taken down by her prey in a flash.

In the middle of the night, Ye Qizhou pushes her luck and slips into the senior's bed, only to have her ear yanked hard.

The senior asks coldly, "Are you ever going to stop?"

Ye Qizhou is completely at ease and insists on seeing things through. The senior's eyes grow hazy, and she looks on the verge of tears. But what she says is, "You're so clumsy, and you're not very good at this either."

Her carefully crafted persona crumbles, the story is almost over, and the little butterfly who thought she had victory in the bag becomes a drowned rat.

All she can do is stare with damp eyes and protest in a tiny voice: "Senior, you're so hard to win over. I think I'll give up."

At last, the senior stops being sarcastic. "Why do you think you were the only one who found it so hard while we were chasing each other?"

"It seems you never realized that I wanted to pursue you too."

She saw genuine feelings laid bare in a free-spirited soul, and couldn't help wanting to offer her own in return.

"I give up. Your plan worked."

"I've taken the bait."

Love grows deeper through hardship, but hardship comes at a terrible cost.

In the fourth year after parting from Ye Qizhou, Lin Yuji finally understands this, consumed by worry and longing.

When they meet again by chance, they can't stand each other, but pretend to be strangers, as if all the love and hate they once shared could simply be erased.

A romantic, bittersweet fireworks festival gives them another chance to rekindle their love.

Only when tears mingle with their embrace do they discover that they parted because they cared too much about each other.

The years they lost through a senseless misunderstanding will naturally remain a lifelong regret.

Lin Yuji confessed first last time. This time, Ye Qizhou is the one who asks her to stay.

Who cares more about whom? No one knows.

"We've already lost so many years. Do you still want me, Senior?"

After all this time, some people are still just as foolish as ever.

"Ye Qizhou."

"Do you really think our reunion was an accident?"

*Both leads are each other's only partners

*Goes from campus life to the working world, about half and half

*Some mutual pining, with each thinking it was one-sided

*The second half has a little heartbreak, then a very big reconciliation!

*Mischievous but inexperienced flirt x cool, secretly passionate senior with a taste for teasing

Please check out my new novel, Please Be More Careful, Teacher!

Stubborn photographer with a strong offense and weak defense x calculating, flirtatious private tutor; age gap, younger woman pursues older woman

[Blurb]

Ji Qu gets drunk and spends a wild night with her sworn enemy, someone she's disliked since childhood.

What neither of them expects is to run into each other at a blind date a few days later.

Liang Qian is perfectly calm, her eyes brimming with flirtatious warmth. "My blind date set us up at the same place, then didn't show."

Ji Qu laughs in disbelief. After a few seconds, she can't help asking, "Why did you come to a blind date?"

Liang Qian fires back, "What gives you the right to ask me?"

When they meet again, Liang Qian has become a private tutor for Ji Qu's younger sister.

Ji Qu's mother eagerly puts their hands together. "Liang Qian has kindly agreed to come tutor your sister. You two should catch up properly, and stop bickering like you used to."

Kindly agreed? What a sacrifice.

Ji Qu pulls her hand away and puts on a polite smile. "Hello, Ms. Liang. Long time no see."

"Long time no see."

As Ji Qu listens to her mother praise Liang Qian to the skies, she thinks dryly, Mom, she's my ex-girlfriend.

The fact that they'd dated is the biggest secret between Ji Qu and her sworn enemy.

After the lesson, the house is empty.

Ji Qu and Liang Qian kiss. When they finally come up for air, Ji Qu asks, "Is this part of your lesson? What trick are you trying to pull this time?"

Liang Qian wipes her lips. Her expression is unreadable, but she isn't flustered in the least.

"No tricks. A student's parent made a request, and I didn't want to refuse."

After all, you started it, didn't you?

Ji Qu lowers her eyes, about to retort, but Liang Qian stops her with a breathless murmur. "You're so curious... I'll start thinking you've fallen in love with me again."

What a silver tongue.

Ji Qu immediately shuts up.

Her younger sister advances to the next school, and their parents go abroad on vacation. The huge house no longer needs a private tutor.

Liang Qian looks at the luggage piled by the door and asks coldly, "Are you kicking me out?"

The question hits Ji Qu right where it hurts, and she replies in a detached tone, "Do I need to keep a liar around?"

She hadn't actually meant to kick Liang Qian out, but her words were misunderstood. She can only sigh at how little trust there is between them.

Liang Qian knows she's misspoken, so she can only find another way to please Ji Qu. As they give and take, she learns that neither of them can stay apart.

They're still going to be entangled.

Ji Qu can't suppress her feelings, but she also can't stand the torment of their past.

In the end, she surrenders and warns Liang Qian not to lie to her again.

If it weren't for that one lie, they wouldn't have gone through all that madness in the first place.

The lie was awful, and yet it bound them together.

Liang Qian lowers her eyes and puts on a meek expression. "I promise I won't lie to you. We'll be honest with each other."

Ji Qu believes her again.

In return, she's willing to be more open too.

*Both leads are each other's only partners

*They are childhood friends with a bit of an age gap

Theme: Return sincerity for sincerity. Who loves more truly?