Dating Is No Match for Research

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Novel blurb

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When her research funding runs out, Xia Ying, who has been buried in research, has no choice but to take time out to work part-time.

She pulls all-nighters on in-person translation jobs, sneaks fake liquor into banquets while working as an online translator, serves as the mascot for a brain-teasing livestream show, plays the pretty face on variety shows, and has to fend off all sorts of people making advances under the guise of job offers... She's run off her feet!

Thanks to her sky-high IQ and stunning looks, Xia Ying quickly becomes famous, with one job offer after another. She no longer has to work as a translator for that certain someone who always wants to get handsy with her, either~

Just as she's earned enough cash and is ready to announce to her gullible fans that she's leaving showbiz, she gets caught dating the city's newly crowned richest man?

A rumor breaks: The lovestruck billionaire broke his leg and loiters outside her door every day. Is Mu Zezhi pursuing her relentlessly, or did Xia Ying climb the ladder and then kick it away?

After being sprayed with pepper spray for the umpteenth time, a gossip reporter finally gets the inside scoop:

I'm leaving showbiz. I'm not dating. I'm going to do research!

Everyone erupts: President Mu got dumped!

(II)

How hard can it be to win over a top student who's devoted to research?

Mu's firsthand experience: I can limp around in front of her with a broken leg and she won't even look at me. All she cares about is running experiments :)

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A stunning PhD student who really does research VS a seemingly aloof, secretly clingy CEO.

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Warnings: 1. The author isn't a researcher and isn't involved in fan circles, so the related details aren't academically rigorous.

2. A slow-burn, slow-sweet romance with some goofy humor. The early plot is more prominent, and the sweetness gradually ramps up later.

3. Why is the cover this color? Hehe (just kidding, we're not going to make it that obvious).

Please support Xiao Pu's next novel, Getting Close to You Really Is for the Money!

Su Hua is genuinely poor. After getting into an expensive art university, her stepmother drove her out of the village, so she knows she'll have to rely on herself to stay in school and avoid starving.

At the cafe where she works part-time, Su Hua witnesses a wealthy woman telling a girl who is sobbing uncontrollably, "Leave Gu Fan, and this check is yours. You two aren't right for each other."

The girl takes the check, wipes her tears, and leaves!

Su Hua is stunned. So things like this really happen in the city?

She watches discreetly for a long time. The rich heirs go through women faster than they change clothes, and Su Hua is confident she can be one of Gu Fan's temporary flings.

Besides, she won't "borrow" much, just enough to cover tuition. She'll pay it back someday!

After she takes the risk of approaching Gu Fan and gets him to agree to be her boyfriend, the wealthy woman comes to see her too and hands her a bank card.

Su Hua is thrilled. She's finally got the money.

Then the woman says, "Take good care of my son. Here's ten million as a welcome gift. Spend whatever you like!"

Su Hua: "?"

#This isn't how I imagined it going#

#Ma'am, I wasn't trying to date your son#

(A sister story to Getting Close to You Really Is for the Money! Please add it to your collection~ Yes, it's about the woman who was sobbing as she took the check.)

He Jin is obsessed with writing novels and has far too small a social circle. At last, her exasperated parents kick her out to experience the real world, landing her a job as a receptionist right outside the CEO's office at Shengrao Media Group.

Luckily, an entertainment company is a hotbed of melodrama, and He Jin has a blast gathering material. In the end, her copyrights are snapped up for sky-high prices!

Unexpectedly, rumors start that she's dating CEO Gu Fan? Poor He Jin has never even spoken to him.

Even Jianghua Media, their rival, has repeatedly offered exorbitant sums to buy business information from her. The most cunning of them all, Jianghua's CEO Fu Yan, always manages to get the right answer from her vague replies, leaving her in a cold sweat.

What can He Jin do?

When a wealthy woman appears and offers her a check to leave the CEO, He Jin takes it and says through her tears, "I love the CEO, but if you won't bless us, I'll leave him."

The news of the breakup spreads like wildfire. Everyone laughs at her, while He Jin looks heartbroken on the outside and overjoyed inside as she gathers her things to go home and work on her draft!

But just as she reaches the door, Fu Yan is there, looking furious enough to blow Shengrao to smithereens.

While He Jin is still standing there dumbfounded, he grits his teeth and says, "What's there to cry about a breakup for? Be with me, and I'll multiply that check by a thousand!"

He Jin, with her pockets full after selling her copyrights: "?"

Please add my upcoming novel, Submitting Love Letters~ Coming after next

Jiang Ruoling transferred back from overseas and became the school's "love-letter courier."

She has never failed to deliver a love letter for a classmate she likes the look of. She's hugely popular at a school that cracks down hard on young romance, while the student council sees her as a thorn in its side.

Before long, Jiang Ruoling gets a new order: deliver a love letter to student council president He Yufeng.

She declares, "I'd sooner ruin my reputation and jump from here than deliver a love letter to He Yufeng, with his drooping eyes and stiff, serious manner!"

Later, Jiang Ruoling takes a liking to another classmate, quits the business, and spends every day following him around, praising him as more handsome than a god. She even writes him a love letter before she knows his full name.

But a few times, when "Xiao Feng" takes the letters, he stuffs them into his schoolbag without even looking, as if afraid of getting caught and thoroughly disgusted by them.

Jiang Ruoling can only feel heartbroken in secret and focus on her studies.

As the college entrance exam approaches, she's delivering a love letter for the last time when she's caught red-handed.

The boy sees who's arrived, calls out, "He Yufeng!" and immediately runs away.

But the person Jiang Ruoling sees is clearly "Xiao Feng," his face dark and every bit as stern and stiff as the rumors say.

Caught in the act, Jiang Ruoling tries to run, but her way is blocked.

Thinking she's fallen for someone else, He Yufeng snatches the letter. His face is gloomy, but his words come out stiffly:

"I'm confiscating the letter... From now on, every letter you write can only be for me! A man with no backbone like that doesn't deserve you."

Jiang Ruoling: "?"

Theme: Career and love can support and advance each other.