Fireworks and Flirtation

"Complete"

Huo Qinghan, the young master of the Huo family, has always been a headstrong playboy, indifferent to women.

Yet the old master of the family insisted on hiring him a female bodyguard: cool, fair-skinned, beautiful, and capable.

At first, Huo Qinghan paid her no mind. Then, little by little, he started to care.

Who could have guessed that once he let down his guard, he'd fall so hard he'd hit rock bottom?

A week after Pei Yan disappeared, Huo Qinghan finally accepted that he'd been played.

The young master was so furious his eyes turned red. He swore he'd dig up the whole earth if he had to, but he would find her.

They met again at an auction.

Pei Yan wore a black pearl-velvet dress, elegant and vintage. When she greeted him, her polite smile was cool and distant.

Only after someone introduced them did Huo Qinghan learn that she was the eldest daughter of the Pei family, and the fiancee whose engagement he had recently broken off.

In the parking garage, Huo Qinghan pinned Pei Yan against a car, gripping her chin so hard his fingers dug in. His eyes were full of menace. "Playing me?"

He looked ready to make her pay dearly, but Pei Yan leaned in and brought her red lips close to his ear, taunting him. "I already played you. Got a problem with that?"

After a long silence, the man suddenly rested his head against her neck and murmured hoarsely, "Then play me one more time. Just don't leave this time, okay?"

This is probably a story about a devil-may-care rich playboy constantly getting played by his fiancee :)

Groveling to win her back / absolutely sweet romance

#A fleeting spark of desire, a moment of abandon and illusion.

#If that's how it has to be, I'll burn myself up loving you.

Weibo: @Mu La Le

*The bonus story for Pei Xiu and Huo Songyu is in the author's collection, Universal Gravitation.*

-Please add the upcoming story, Thorn Kiss-

When Duan Xiheng was seventeen, he stayed with the Ruan family.

The first time Ruan Sumo saw him, her girlish feelings grew wildly, like weeds.

Unfortunately, the boy was living under someone else's roof. He was aloof, taciturn, and not much for conversation.

Ruan Sumo was always pestering and teasing him, trying to get his attention. Even a little thing like a loose shoelace was enough for her to call him over.

And every time, the tall, pine-straight boy in his school uniform would silently bend down and tie the spoiled girl's laces for her.

He was always so obedient, but he didn't seem to like her much.

Ruan Sumo's secret crush came to an abrupt end when Duan Xiheng graduated and went abroad.

She never expected that years later, they would meet again because their elders had arranged for them to marry.

The boy had grown into a man, immaculate in his suit, proud and aloof. But when he faced her, he was just as silent as before.

After marriage, their relationship was cool during the day, occasionally passionate at night, and never quite hot or cold enough to change. That was, until Duan Xiheng found the love letter Ruan Sumo had written in high school but never sent.

Ruan Sumo thought he would mock her for once having had such a humble, unrequited crush, despite always acting so high and mighty.

But he merely returned the unopened envelope in silence and said nothing.

That night, for the first time, Duan Xiheng stopped behaving like a gentleman. After having his way with Ruan Sumo, he buried his face in the hollow of her shoulder and said with relief,

"Good thing he was blind."

Ruan Sumo: ?

Why are you insulting yourself?

Spoiled x restrained

Mutual pining / marriage first, love later

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