Fake Naivety

People in the procuratorate and police force had all heard one thing or another about Prosecutor Yu and Officer He. Though both were young, they worked together with perfect chemistry. Whenever they teamed up on a case, they got twice the results with half the effort.

But somehow, the two of them couldn't stand each other. Outside of work, they clashed in every setting, always giving each other the cold shoulder.

One day, the two teams got together for dinner. Everyone was having a great time, and after a few rounds of drinks, they started playing Truth or Dare.

"What was your ex like?"

Everyone thought Yu Youzhi would take a drink instead of answering, but she did.

"Bad-tempered, always looking down her nose at people, arrogant and conceited, and in desperate need of a reality check, "

She could write an 800-word essay just listing her ex's faults, and still not be done.

A colleague asked curiously, "But if you were into each other in the first place, they must have had some good qualities, right?"

Yu Youzhi thought for a moment, then grudgingly replied, "They were pretty handsome."

The bottle spun to He Mingcen.

He rattled off an equally long list of faults: "Two-faced, fake, dark-hearted, "

Asked about their good qualities, He Mingcen was silent for a moment, then said coolly, "They look all right."

Their colleagues saw through it but didn't call them out. Put simply, those two were both hopeless hotties.

*

Later, after everyone had drunk too much, a colleague got up to use the restroom and accidentally caught the two of them arguing in the hallway. The argument went like this

"I'm dark-hearted? Your whole family is dark-hearted!"

The man gazed at her drunken state, leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, and sneered. "I have a bad temper? Who's the one who can't be placated for a whole week after one argument?"

Colleague: "..."

I think I just discovered a huge secret.

[Everyone kept saying the original blurb was awkward. How about now, folks? Is it smooth enough?]

-No one knew that in those youthful days, they had given each other all their innocence and passion. The irony was that now, it seemed only he was still lost in the love they'd shared.

Brooding, self-righteous fraud x sweet-faced, scheming fake bunny

A story about a haughty young master who keeps saying, "I don't love you, I don't love you," while his body is still madly in love~

The story is told in flashbacks, with the school and city plotlines running in parallel. Chapters with school scenes will be marked with an *.

Reunion after years apart, rekindled love, and a heaping helping of old-school melodrama.

Special thanks to reader Di Jiu Yinfu_Le for providing the character illustrations of the male and female leads~

Theme: Justice will not be absent