My Scheming Friend

[The cover has the original title. I like it too much to change it.]

Chi Feixia has been dumped again. She calls her longtime friend Sheng Yulan to cry about it.

"Why did she break up with me? What did I do wrong? Why does every relationship of mine go so badly? Does Heaven think that a beauty like me has to suffer before sending the Fairy Zixia to sweep me off my feet?"

She gets an idea and decides to get back at her ex. "How about pretending to be my girlfriend? I want her to know that giving me up was the biggest mistake of her life!"

Sheng Yulan's voice on the other end is unusually calm. "Get a grip. Heaven doesn't have time to deal with trash."

In the end, Chi Feixia convinces Sheng Yulan to pretend to be her girlfriend so she can show off in front of her ex.

There's just one thing: Sheng Yulan takes everything seriously and always wants to do it perfectly. Even a couple's photo for her social media has to look just right.

Chi Feixia is a little troubled, but she's the one who suggested it. Sheng Yulan is just taking it too seriously.

Every one of Chi Feixia's relationships starts in a blaze of glory and ends in misery. Her longest lasted only six months, and her shortest just three days.

Chi Feixia and her friend Sheng Yulan reach a conclusion: maybe she just doesn't love them enough. The other person is always so forward that she can't bring herself to refuse. After all, a beauty like her is loved by everyone, even flowers bloom at her arrival. She's practically a Mary Sue and a heartthrob. It's only natural.

Sheng Yulan: [Wake up.]

Chi Feixia: [Oh, right. I forgot about you. I wonder what kind of person our Yuyu will like. I've already looked at several bridesmaid dresses. I'm just waiting for you to get married.]

Sheng Yulan: [You won't get the chance to wear one.]

Chi Feixia is shocked. Does Sheng Yulan plan to be alone forever?!

One day later, Chi Feixia wakes up to find Sheng Yulan has already left for work.

She stays home to clean and finds the notebook from Sheng Yulan's student days, the one she gave her.

Only a few pages at the beginning have been filled. After that, there is a simple sketch of a girl dozing with her head on a desk.

[My Summer]

Energetic, chuunibyou young heiress x obsessive, calculating hunter

A lovely story recommendation:

The Butcher's Daughter Next Door Has a System by Sheng Si Qi

Tao Yao has a beautiful face that makes her look too delicate to do anything for herself.

But don't be fooled by appearances!

She can slaughter a 300-jin hog all by herself.

Her family sells her to a drunk butcher she's never met. But just a second after she arrives, the drunkard trips over his own feet, falls straight into the village pond, and dies.

Some gossiping busybody calls her a husband-killer.

Tao Yao wipes her gleaming butcher's knife and smiles like spring. "Wow, that's... great!"

From then on, she tends her butcher shop and little courtyard, sharpening her knives and celebrating the single life.

Ye Conghan is a legendary heroine of the martial world and the young chief of Frostfrost Stronghold.

She's tired of fighting and killing, and just wants to find a beautiful place to lie down.

At first sight, she takes a liking to the empty house next door to Tao Yao's. It's peaceful. More importantly, Miss Tao looks as if she's stepped out of an ink painting of Jiangnan.

Ever since the cheerful heroine Ye moved in, Tao Yao has had a System, and its prompts never stop:

Ding!

"Give Ye Conghan a bowl of water. Reward: one fresh front leg of pork!"

Ding!

"Ye Conghan eats at your place. Reward: one secret braising recipe!"

Tao Yao looks at the System's rewards, then at Ye Conghan, who keeps coming over to borrow soy sauce, return bowls, watch her slaughter pigs, or enthusiastically help sharpen her knives, and thinks life is pretty good.

But then...

One sunny afternoon, Ye Conghan accidentally finds a densely written sheet of paper:

[Give Ye Conghan a bowl of water]: Reward, one pork front leg. Checked.

[Invite Ye Conghan to stay for a meal]: Reward, one braising recipe. Checked.

[Let Ye Conghan pat your head]: Reward, two fresh pig kidneys. Checked.

[Make Ye Conghan a pot of love-filled pig trotter soup]: Reward, one whole pig. Checked.

Ye Conghan: ...???

With a bang, Tao Yao comes through the door, humming and carrying her butcher's knife, only to be stopped by a figure radiating murderous intent.

Ye the heroine braces one hand against the wall and holds up the incriminating list of rewards with the other.

"Tao. Yao."

"Yes?"

"That pot of love-filled pig trotter soup you made me!"

"Was it because you care about me, or because you wanted that [one whole pig]?!"

Martial arts fanatic, jealous as a crock, love at first sight, restrained and self-controlled

X

Career-minded, naturally flirtatious, love that grows over time, slow to realize it

Theme: Become self-reliant and make yourself a better person.