Biting Back

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Bian Ying’s father remarried. His stepmother brought along a daughter whose biological father was unknown. She took her mother’s surname, Yun Bian, and the character for Bian in her name was the same as the one in the Bian family name. Bian’s father doted on her, and rumors spread throughout the city that Yun Bian was his illegitimate daughter.

Bian’s father told Bian Ying to take good care of Yun Bian. “We’re family now.”

Bian Ying looked at Yun Bian, a strange mocking smile crossing his face. “You little bastard.”

A DNA report showed that Yun Bian was not Bian’s father’s biological child.

But neither was Bian Ying.

Rain poured down as Bian Ying was turned away at the gates of the Bian residence. His father no longer wanted to see him.

As they faced off, an extended Rolls-Royce slowly pulled up beside him. The window rolled down, revealing Yun Bian’s face. A hint of ambiguous pity colored her limpid eyes.

The guards all thought she was going to comfort Bian Ying.

Only Bian Ying knew what she wanted to say. But with other people around, to maintain her innocent and harmless image, the little white rabbit with a mouth full of fangs silently mouthed his old nickname back to him, letter for letter: “L-i-t-t-l-e b-a-s-t-a-r-d.”

*They are biological father and daughter.

*The male and female leads are not registered in the same household.

*My upcoming novels, Can’t Avoid the First Day and Testing the Limits of Getting Back Together, are open for advance follows.

Can’t Avoid the First Day

At seventeen, Xu Tinglang and Zhong Er appeared together in a film. Though they only played a supporting couple, they unexpectedly became a huge hit.

Afterward, Xu Tinglang became a star in both film and television, with his top-tier star status impossible to shake.

Zhong Er, meanwhile, was unconventional and willful. Wherever she went, she set off fierce fan wars, and the most controversial thing about her was her frequent rumored romances. Xu Tinglang, the one who suited her best, had missed his chance at romance back then, and they never crossed paths again afterward.

When a film announced that the two would be working together again, the whole internet erupted. The “Sea Queen, Stay Away from Handsome Men” camp and the “Please Get Married Right Now” camp went to war online.

Zhong Er gleefully fanned the flames with a line that seemed aimed at Xu Tinglang: “You can avoid the first day, but you can’t avoid the fifteenth.”

Halfway through filming, the media tried to subtly ask how their relationship was progressing. Xu Tinglang denied everything three times over:

“We’re just colleagues.” “We’re not close.” “I’m focused on my work.”

One of the two leads personally pushed the ship, while the other personally sank it.

The shippers: “Damn, what a roller coaster. Who are we supposed to believe?”

On the wrap party night, big news came out of the production: the leads had added a kissing scene without permission.

Reliable sources also claimed that Xu Tinglang had made the first move.

That day, Xu Tinglang specifically opened a personal Weibo account and posted two updates in a row:

“Fifteen.”

“Actually, I couldn’t avoid the first day back then, either.”

#I can eat my words and face-slap myself, but I won’t let my wife lose face#

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Zhong Er used to think Xu Tinglang had never truly cared for her. Her unrequited love had made her, a lithromantic, pine for him for years.

Sometimes she missed him, sometimes she hated him, and just like that, many years passed.

Xu Tinglang used to think Zhong Er was just a playgirl at heart. He was merely the one she loved most among all the people she fell for, and the only one she never got the chance to dump among all the people she left behind.

He was the youth of countless people, but his own youth belonged to Zhong Er, ever since she casually drank from his straw and took a sip of his drink.

“My youth was a turbulent era that roared and wept, an era that bowed to no one. But with just one glance, you took all of it away.”

A lithromantic is someone who does not want their romantic feelings reciprocated. If the other person returns their feelings, they stop liking them, and may even develop an aversion to them.

Theme: Even in adversity, remain strong and persevere