📘 A willful, down-on-her-luck heiress x a prickly male high schooler, a flower on a high peak 📘
Older woman/younger man | Both unhinged | Constant clashes | County town | Light ensemble cast
*Typos haven't been fixed, and the text hasn't been edited. It probably won't be revised later, either.*
Tang Yan was kicked out by her family during the New Year holiday. Barefoot, she walked along the road and passed a noodle shop.
"Hello, I don't have any money with me. Could I pay later?"
The boy inside wore a short-sleeved shirt. He glanced at Tang Yan's flaming red hair. "No."
Tang Yan, still in her pajamas, turned and left.
A gust of cold wind blew, revealing Wen Yan's smooth forehead.
The owner of the noodle shop finally returned. When he saw Tang Yan about to leave, he froze. "Are you Ziyun's daughter?"
Tang Yan was stunned. Ziyun was her mother's name.
The owner said, "You really look just like your mother."
That day, Tang Yan finished a bowl of spicy ginger soup made by Jiang Zhi.
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Tang Yan became a tutor for the group of high school seniors.
But she and Jiang Zhi still clashed, unable to stand each other.
One day, the boy snapped, "Hey, do you know that your mom was the one who dumped my dad?"
Tang Yan sniffled and rasped, "I didn't know. Hey, could you make me a bowl of ginger soup?"
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Winters in the north were long, and Tang Yan's cold dragged on and on. Through the freezing days, it was her sworn enemy's bowl after bowl of ginger soup that kept the chill away.
At the end of spring and the start of summer, Tang Yan left and returned to the south. She no longer needed ginger soup.
One day, the boy went all the way to Tang Yan's city to see her, but Tang Yan's boyfriend appeared with her.
Jiang Zhi asked through his tears in the wind, "Didn't you say you'd wait until I finished my college entrance exams?"
Tang Yan shrugged with her hands in her pockets and gave a wicked smile. "Sorry, I never promised to."
/Blurb archived on April 10, 2026
/The heroine is absolutely not a truly kind and virtuous person / They hate each other at first / Readers with strong character preferences or purity preferences, read with caution
/Interlocking pieces / Love to the death / Unhealthy romance / Madwoman vs. madman
Theme: Walk out of that shadow together
