Only I Can Make You Cry

Blurb 1:

On her way home from school, Xia Guoshi happens to run into her neighbor, A Qiao, whom she's met once before.

With gentle eyes and brows, A Qiao asks, "Have you gotten used to living here since you moved in? Is anyone at your new school picking on you?"

She thinks it over seriously. "My classmates are nice, and so are the teachers. They even specifically warned me that there's a boy named Meng Xingqiao at the other campus who's really bad news, and that I should stay far away if I ever run into him."

A Qiao: "..."

One day, a group of thugs corners her in an alley.

As she looks on in panic, her eyes reddening, the usually kind and well-mannered A Qiao knocks them all to the ground with a dark expression, his movements swift and ruthless.

"No one touches someone who belongs to me, Meng Xingqiao. Not a bunch of trash like you."

She hears him say this.

Extra scene:

After a fight.

Xia Guoshi looks at the wild and arrogant Meng Xingqiao before her, unable to reconcile him with the refined neighbor she'd always known.

But she never expected Meng Xingqiao to shed his disguise outright, revealing the obsession and possessiveness he'd always hidden beneath his gentle exterior.

Then, with a dangerous smile that makes her heart race, he grabs her face, though his touch is surprisingly gentle.

"Remember, I'm the only one who gets to make you cry."