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🏰Gloomy younger puppy x fake bad girl with an unexpected soft side
Obsessive man x bad girl (obsessive men deserve to be toyed with by bad women...)
#instant attraction / second-chance romance / younger man / friends-to-lovers
One day, a friend asked curiously, “You’ve been back in the country for years. You’re still hung up on that girl?”
Xi Wenxiao smiled without answering.
“That doesn’t make sense. You’re just looking for someone...” his friend said, puzzled.
Exactly.
He was just looking for someone. How could he not find her?
But a relationship, of course, has to be mutual.
Of course he had to wait for her to come back on her own, like a good girl.
All he had to do was make her understand that
when it came to pleasing her,
no one
could do it better than him.
[The backstory]
Xi Wenxiao had no umbrella. On a rainy night, he ran from the subway station back to his apartment, soaked from head to toe in ten minutes.
The apartment was pitch-black. The door to the room across from his was closed, with no light showing beneath it.
She wasn’t back yet.
He shut his own door, as usual, and had just come out of the shower, bare-chested and drying his hair, when the living room light suddenly came on.
Someone stood in the entryway, drenched from head to toe, long hair plastered to her face, water dripping from her jaw.
She didn’t seem to care.
She kicked off her shoes and walked barefoot into the apartment, casually taking off her soaked coat and tossing it onto the washing machine. As she passed him, a strong smell of alcohol hit him.
The girl staggered like a full-fledged drunk and looked ready to collapse at any moment.
...And then it happened, just as he’d expected.
Xi Wenxiao reached out and caught her. Before he could ask anything, she stepped onto the slipper on his foot. Her wet dress pressed against his abs, cool and soft.
Her slender arms curled around him.
“What are you doing?”
His voice was a few degrees lower than usual, though the hand around her waist didn’t let go.
Lu Linghan leaned on him for a long moment before tilting her head up slightly. Beneath her damp lashes, her eyes gazed at him hazily.
She leaned in, her lips brushing the corner of his mouth.
*
The next morning, she woke up aching all over, her head spinning.
Oh no, why was someone holding her?
Had she been mistaken for a teddy bear? Clearly, sharing an apartment with a guy was not safe at all.
She’d never even considered having a one-night stand with someone younger than her.
As she pondered this, a fuzzy head nuzzled against the back of her neck. Only then did she realize how good he smelled.
Xi Wenxiao: You have to take responsibility, big sis (∩_∩)
Lu Linghan: ⊙︿⊙
(First draft: 2026.3.10)
(Revised: 2026.9.21)
Tips:
1. Both leads are each other’s only partner. [Content warning: This is based on the author’s personal preferences 🌚 It’ll probably focus on the two of them, with maybe a little non-consensual sex (or maybe none), and no pregnancy plot.]
2. The title was inspired by Li Yuchun’s “See You at the Next Intersection.”
3. Includes original worldbuilding. I want to write something unconventional, so please don’t project real life onto it, make baseless accusations of plagiarism, or offer unsolicited writing advice.
Theme: Be kind to yourself
