Sweetheart Trap

Ji Yanheng and Tian Xin were two people who seemed to belong to completely different worlds.

Throughout her school years, the model student Princess Tian witnessed almost every day how Ji Yanheng was criticized by teachers as a bad example, and how his sheer intelligence let him outperform her in every subject.

What drove her most crazy was that they were classmates for a full ten years.

Years later, on a night full of desire, Tian Xin hooked an arm around Ji Yanheng’s neck. “It’s funny, isn’t it? We were classmates for ten years.”

Ji Yanheng smiled faintly. “So you think it was a coincidence?!”

He leaned close to Tian Xin’s ear. “I humbled myself and went to Jiang University back then for you, you idiot.”

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Tian Xin and Ji Yanheng had parted on bad terms after graduating from college, and their reunion was just as disastrous.

Her team’s show, Green Waist, which they had spent a year preparing, was abruptly canceled. Princess Tian, undeterred by the risk of being blacklisted, barged into a gathering of executives, only to run into her old classmate Ji Yanheng.

“Even Princess Tian has a day when she needs to ask for help.” President Ji smirked teasingly.

A few days later, he was dead drunk. Taking advantage of his drunkenness, he wrapped an arm tightly around her slender waist. “You little menace, you really aren’t going to ask me?”

Tian Xin humored him. “Then I’m asking you.”

So the next day’s headline read:

Shocking! Ji Corporation Spends a Fortune to Launch Its First Dance Variety Show.

Tian Xin: Seriously? You had to go this far?!

President Ji, with a cold expression: We were classmates for ten years, that’s all. Don’t read too much into it.

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President Ji’s secret:

At a class reunion many years later, their homeroom teacher read out the dreams their classmates had written down back then, one by one. When he got to Ji Yanheng, the teacher paused. Ji Yanheng’s dream was simple. On a crumpled piece of paper, three bold, sweeping characters were written:

Marry Tian Xin.

Princess Tian’s secret:

By chance, Ji Yanheng saw Tian Xin’s journal from her teenage years. The pretty notebook was covered with tiny rhinestones. On page after page of colorful paper, Tian Xin had carefully written her girlish thoughts in neat, graceful handwriting, stroke by stroke:

April 6, rainy. I really hate that guy in the front row. He doesn’t look like a good student.

June 8, sunny. Tian Xin, why are you always paying attention to him?! Even a face-lover has to have limits!

January 6. I actually ran into him again at university. I’m kind of happy. No! Tian Xin! You can’t sink this low!!

March 7, rainy season. Tian Xin, you’re doomed. You’ve fallen in love!

Then the tone suddenly changed.

March 1+, rainy. We did it. Not bad. So this is what it’s like to be an old hand?

March 2, rainy season. He said he’s a virgin. Who would believe that?

March 4, still rainy season. Maybe he really is. What should I do? Do I have to take responsibility?

President Ji: I have no words.

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Reader’s guide:

Mutual secret crush

Sweet romance~

Roguish man x princess syndrome

Both leads are each other’s first love

About how all the men in the Lao Ji family are purehearted, stubborn, and tsundere

Theme: First love is beautiful