After Kissing Someone I Hate

[Pride and Prejudice] [Sharp Tongues vs. Stubborn Denial] [From Dislike to Love]

#Cold, aloof man loses his composure, falls in love without realizing it, then pursues his wife#

During Qingming Festival, Qin Shiyue runs into a rich young man in Arc'teryx gear at her family's ancestral graves.

In a vast stretch of mountains, mistaking someone's ancestors for your own is understandable. She kindly reminds him, "You've got the wrong grave. These are my family's ancestors."

But he has already knelt and bowed.

Uncle Qin teases, "Since you've bowed to our ancestors, you have to become our son-in-law!"

But the two of them don't get along at all.

He's preoccupied with having found the wrong grave, while she looks down on people who make that mistake.

She rejects him without a hint of politeness. "Liang Yefan, I have no desire to get married first and fall in love later with you."

Then she takes the opportunity to mock his prim, suited-up appearance. "Who are you trying to impress by acting like some domineering CEO?"

He replies coolly, "At least I'm doing better than you, coming back from studying abroad and failing to find a job."

At the same time, he sees her smiling with crinkled eyes as she eats sweets. He can't help frowning. He really can't understand why she has to show off her charm every chance she gets.

2.

After learning that Qin Shiyue is Miao, Liang Yefan decides to keep his distance from her.

In late spring, she makes pumpkin flowers stuffed with meat, simmers thick pea soup, and cooks rice with acacia blossoms. When summer begins, she buys a basket of bright red lychees, gathers tender pagoda tree leaves, and makes sea-salt lychee ice and cold noodles with pagoda leaves...

Though everything she makes looks and smells delicious, Liang Yefan still refuses to try it. What if he accidentally eats something and gets cursed with a love spell?

Not long afterward, he goes to the airport to pick up his eldest brother, who's returning to the country. The three of them unexpectedly run into one another, and he discovers that she's the woman his brother has never been able to forget, the one who got away.

Liang Yefan's prejudice against her grows even stronger.

Of course. His brother was easily fooled by that sweet, smiling face of hers.

3.

Qin Shiyue asks her friend, "What's it like to kiss someone you hate?"

Her friend looks at her suspiciously. "You kissed someone?"

Qin Shiyue touches her reddened lips, remembering how, in the middle of an argument, Liang Yefan grabbed her wrist and suddenly leaned down to kiss her deeply.

But before kissing her, he had said he hated her.

He hated that someone else had fallen in love with her first.

[By the time my dislike reached 100%, I had fallen for you.]

Sharp-tongued, naturally adorable bunny 🐰 x aloof, arrogant, and scheming fox 🦊

Scenery-and-sticker artist x heir to a mooncake company (a younger man with an older-man vibe)

· Slow-burn food and cooking / family life / everyday comedy / both are each other's first

· The heroine is Miao, the hero is Han; domineering CEO x adorable girl

· The love-spell talk is only teasing; the protagonists obey the law

Theme: Let beauty flourish together, with all ethnic groups holding close together like pomegranate seeds