Listening to Opera

"Listening to the Opera": A cool, handsome general x a bewitching opera performer. A power couple.

Blurb: Outside the courtyard gate, atop the stage, Hou Boxu saw Huai Liu for the first time and thought this "young lady" singing opera was incredibly beautiful. Marrying Huai Liu became his lifelong wish. As the years passed, Hou Boxu defied his family's objections and insisted on coming to ask for Huai Liu's hand.

"Who are you looking for?" asked a young man as he opened the door, with half his makeup removed.

"I..." Hou Boxu felt flustered as he looked at his future brother-in-law. He scratched his head. "I'm looking for Miss Huai."

The young man gave him a strange look but said nothing.

"I... I'm here to ask for her hand."

"My sister has never left home. You haven't even met her, and you're already asking to marry her?"

"She... never left home?!"

"I don't care whether you're a man or a woman. Now that I've taken a liking to you, nothing will change that."

"Give it up, Young Master. I don't have time to play around with you. If you want to fool around, find someone else."

"Huai Liu, I... I'm going to the battlefield..."

Dressed in a bright red opera robe, the young man turned his head and asked, "So what?"

"Could you... would you..."

"How long will you be gone?"

"I don't know."

The young man pressed his lips together. "Hou Boxu, if you come back alive, I... will marry you."

"Really?!"

"A gentleman's word is as good as gold!"

Deep in the opera house, the spring air was warm and the blossoms were in full bloom. The beauty of the whole city paled beside the performer's faint smile. Soon, artillery fire and conflict erupted everywhere, and the Japanese pirates' attack tore their connection apart. When they met again, they stood on opposite sides of the battlefield.

"General Hou, I've heard so much about you." That greeting was like a magnet, binding their fates together once more. On the battlefield, fortunes shifted.

Self-recommendation: The Nth Day of Chasing the Aloof Top Student

Qi Yang, a troublemaker and school bully at A High, has had a crush since ninth grade on Lu Sheng, the school bully and top student at the neighboring school. He even secretly added Lu Sheng on QQ and set him as a special follower. But years passed, and Lu Sheng's posts and status updates remained at zero. All his carefully laid plans went down the drain.

Then a piece of news shook City A: Lu Sheng, the godlike student who's been at the top of the rankings for years, was repeating a grade! He transferred to A High!

Lu Sheng of B High, aloof and reserved, had planned to focus on his studies. He never expected that after just over a month, he'd also acquire someone who wanted to study him! No, someone who wanted to pursue him.

To win Lu Sheng over, Brother Qi tries every trick: changing seats, asking for help with questions, and even coming up with the idea of tutoring him!

"New classmate, do you want tutoring fees?"

"??"

"Not enough? How about a kiss?"

"Get lost."

When ice meets fire, will it melt, or disappear without a trace?

Reading Guide:

1. After they get together, Lu Sheng discovers that Qi Yang, usually such a flirt, can do everything from acting cute to playing pitiful to asking for kisses and hugs.

2. Qi Yang uses all sorts of schemes while pursuing Lu Sheng, gradually revealing his scheming side.

3. Lu Sheng has mild mysophobia and OCD, but his younger boyfriend eventually cures him completely. As for how, well... you know.

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