After I Forgot My Archrival, He Started Acting Strange

A sharp-tongued, clingy, tsundere boy X a bright, lively ray of sunshine

Xi Xianguang and Gu Jiayu had been sworn enemies for eight years.

One day, Gu Jiayu lost her footing and fell from a wall. The one who caught her was none other than Xi Xianguang, who had always been at odds with her.

At first, he was secretly pleased, thinking he could use the chance to tease her. He spoke with a mocking grin:

"Gu Jiayu, I saved you today. How are you going to thank me?"

The angry retort he expected never came.

The girl looked up and softly said, "Thank you, big brother. What would you like?"

Xi Xianguang's face turned bright red. "How can you call me big brother?"

Gu Jiayu remained calm. "Am I not allowed to?"

Xi Xianguang felt something was off. "Gu Jiayu, I'm thirsty. Pour me a glass of water."

Gu Jiayu obediently did so.

Then he asked, "Gu Jiayu, tell me, what's my name?"

But Gu Jiayu shook her head. After all these years of knowing each other, with so many people in the world, she had forgotten him and only him.

He pretended not to care, reassuring himself nonchalantly:

"So what if she forgot? I don't care."

But inside, his emotions churned, and night after night he tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

Why him? Why was he the only one she'd forgotten?

Gu Jiayu was the one who had lost her memory, but Xi Xianguang was the first to lose his composure.

When their tutor kept Gu Jiayu behind to copy out a text, Xi Xianguang took over the task, insisting, "Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not interested in you. I just can't stand to see a sick person get punished."

Later, Xi Xianguang realized his eyes were useless. He couldn't bear to see Gu Jiayu cry, frown, or smile at another man.

He stayed up all night, feeling his heart pound, and knew he was doomed. He had fallen for Gu Jiayu.

Once he understood his feelings, Xi Xianguang started fighting to win her over, while also fending off anyone who tried to steal her away.

One day, a young heir to a prince's estate fell in love with her at first sight. The next, a cousin who had been promised to her since childhood appeared.

Xi Xianguang spent every day on guard against them. The only time he dared to complain to Gu Jiayu was when he was drunk, and then he'd whimper, "Jiayu, I like you so much. What about you? Could you love me just a little more?"

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A flirtatious, sweet-on-the-outside, scheming heroine X a calm, clear-eyed hero who falls deeply in love

Xue Hanyin wasn't sick.

Her claim that she had come to the capital for treatment was a lie. What she really wanted was to stay at the Zhou residence and win Zhou Shiqing over.

Born into a prestigious family, Zhou Shiqing was disciplined and courteous, always the very picture of a refined gentleman. The young noblewomen of the capital all vied for his affection, but no one had ever won his heart.

Zhou Shiqing's life had gone smoothly. He thought he could plan for every eventuality and read everyone around him, but he alone fell into Xue Hanyin's hands.

Xue Hanyin set her plan in motion, luring him closer step by step until his gaze lingered on her. Beneath a rockery late at night, his eyes dark, he saw through her disguise. "Cousin Xue, did you come to the capital for treatment, or do you have another agenda?"

She deliberately arranged for Zhou Shiqing to overhear her talking to her maid. "As for Cousin, naturally, I'm playing hard to get."

Zhou Shiqing understood, but when he saw her deliberately avoiding him and respectfully calling him "Cousin" in front of everyone, behaving with impeccable propriety, an inexplicable, wicked possessiveness stirred in him.

He knew she had ulterior motives and was deliberately seducing him. So why did he care so much about her?

It was a trick other people had used long ago. So why was he still losing his head over her?

He had meant to watch coldly and wait for her little performance to end, but instead he heard she was bedridden, gravely ill.

Thinking this was another old trick to play hard to get, he paid it no mind. Then her maid delivered a letter: "Cousin is as noble and refined as an orchid and jade tree. I am but a humble willow, and know I could never be your equal. I hope you will find a suitable match elsewhere."

He read it in silence. After she left, he watched coldly as the candle flame consumed the paper. In all his life, this was the first time anyone had toyed with him like this.

She had schemed at every turn, making him yearn for her, keeping him restless and anxious, until he willingly gave her his heart. But once he had fallen for her, she sent him a letter of farewell and told him to find someone else.

Absolutely not. He wouldn't let her go.

Late at night, Zhou Shiqing knelt by her bed. "Cousin, how can you be so cruel, to toy with me until I can't sleep night after night?"

Theme: For sixteen years, my heart was still as water. Then she came, stirring up a thousand waves