Summer's Joyful Tail

[Print edition available] [Childhood friends | He has a secret crush on her | Cool on the outside, warm on the inside, and sweet × secretly clingy, cool guy] On a sweltering summer night, the power went out at the villa. Cen Yan was a grown man, yet he was afraid of the dark. Jin Zhao hugged a pillow and squeezed in beside him. Half-asleep, he lifted the wrist resting by his ear. Perhaps he had never imagined a girl's hand could be so slender. As he turned her delicate wrist over and over, like someone who had never seen anything so novel, Jin Zhao finally snapped and asked, "Are you a pervert?" By the middle of the night, Cen Yan was drifting off. Half-asleep, he felt a pair of soft, boneless hands exploring his clearly defined abs. He caught the slender wrist he'd been playing with moments earlier and took a deep breath. "Are you a pervert?" #Hmm? How is that not the case? # * A sweet little story about everyday college life. Both leads are each other's first love, and it's a clean romance. * Female lead in the acting department × male lead in the directing department. Not an entertainment-industry novel. (There are a few scenes involving filming before the story goes premium, but none afterward.) [Coming soon in the author's collection] [Title: Embracing the Moon] Sang Xian had always secretly loved his older brother's girlfriend. The day they broke up, he excitedly had a drink, then sent an anonymous email to the whole school to celebrate: Zong Yue has finally broken up!!! It came with a little person doing a 360-degree spiral spin. Now everyone knew that the cool, gorgeous substitute teacher, senior Zong Yue, had split from the boyfriend she'd dated for years. Zong Yue was at home with a face mask on when she saw the email. Her shadowy eyes glinted ominously, and the black mask made her look like a vengeful ghost in the night. "Who? Who did this??" The stunt had left her humiliated. The usually composed Teacher Zong was so furious she couldn't sleep all night. She ground her teeth in anger. "Which little bastard did this? I'll wring his dog's head off when I find him!" The next day, she asked her cousin, a computer science prodigy, to investigate. He couldn't be bothered, so he passed the task on to someone else. Zong Yue knew Sang Xian was her ex-boyfriend's younger brother. The two stared at each other, and she felt conflicted. "Find the person for me, and I'll make it worth your while." Little bastard Sang Xian: "OvO...?" * Possessive puppyish young man × capricious, mischievous older woman * Older woman-younger man romance, three-year age gap. The female lead has experience; the male lead does not. * Secret crush in the early part, making a move later [Title: A Rose Leaps into a Sea of Blossoming Hearts] The night Jiang Ni was driven home by her boyfriend, he stood by the window, unable to make sense of his feelings. He watched for as long as they stayed in the car. * Dispirited, carefree, beautiful older woman × sunny troublemaker who has his eye on her * College girl × energetic high school boy * He has a secret crush on her. Older woman-younger man romance, three-year age gap Theme: Building a better life together