Falsely Well-Behaved

★ Upcoming novels: I Want to Cheer You Up and Drowning in My Love

★ Blurb:

The transfer student, Ruan Xingluan, had soft brows and delicate eyes. She was sweet and adorable.

Even the girls in her class said she was pretty.

Only He Xu lay face-down on his desk, not even looking up. With an impatient expression, he said:

"She's not pretty! I don't feel a thing! I'm blind!"

After school, Ruan Xingluan followed him home. He Xu snapped, "Don't follow me. You're annoying!"

So Ruan Xingluan silently walked away.

Ten minutes later, He Xu felt guilty and went back to find her. He saw with his own eyes as Ruan Xingluan effortlessly knocked two thugs to the ground, dusted off her hands, and strode away.

He Xu cursed, "Sweet and adorable, my ass! Damn it!"

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From the day He Ren brought Ruan Xingluan into the He family, He Xu disliked her.

She was too guarded. She probably couldn't be tamed.

Later, He Xu racked his brains trying to get close to her.

In the middle of the night, he sneaked into her room and pinned her against the door. His gaze was burning, his voice hoarse as he said:

"I heard that blockhead who's top of the grade confessed to you too. Did you say yes?"

★ Blurb for I Want to Cheer You Up:

Shen Cen is a newly hired physics professor at A University. His voice is cool and detached, and he looks refined and chaste. His students both respect and fear him.

The first time Hang Tian filled in for someone in his class, Shen Cen caught her red-handed.

After class, Shen Cen took her to his office.

Shen Cen asked her, "Why did you fill in for someone?"

Afraid he'd get angry, Hang Tian quickly explained, "No, I just like Professor Shen's class."

Shen Cen chuckled. "Really? I teach Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. You can come to all of them."

To keep up the lie, Hang Tian sat in on his class for an entire semester.

When finals came, Shen Cen asked her, "Do you still like it? Once next semester's schedule is out, should I tell you again?"

Hang Tian: "..." Can I take that back now?

Professor Shen had been single for twenty-eight years. The students at A University all thought he was so picky that he would never find a girlfriend.

But one day after class, the usually composed Professor Shen hurried out.

He gently coaxed the girl by the door:

"I'll explain what happened that day when I get home. Don't be mad, okay?"

The students in class: "???"

Hang Tian: Filling in for a friend and running into my neighbor. / Turns out my neighbor is a professor. / How long do I have to keep sitting in on his class?

Shen Cen: My neighbor is so cute!

A sweet, well-behaved comic artist x a fake aloof professor

Blurb for Drowning in My Love:

1.

When Yan Le was sixteen, a quiet boy moved into the compound. He was taciturn and never played with the other children. Everyone in the compound called him a weirdo.

Only Yan Le made a point of talking to him after school every day. With both persuasion and force, she brought him home to eat, draw, and do homework together...

Whenever she got the chance, Yan Le would pinch his cheek and giggle like a fool. "So soft. You're adorable."

Zhou Yibai would look at her with disdain, but he never pushed her away.

Later,

Yan Le graduated from high school, and her family sent her abroad. She didn't even get to say goodbye to Zhou Yibai. She cried for hours on the plane.

2.

Seven years later, Yan Le returned to China and became a teacher of British and American literature in the foreign languages department at A University.

One day, a film crew came to shoot on campus.

Yan Le spotted the striking young man in the crowd at once. She watched the whole scene from the sidelines. The boy from her memories now shone like a star. Even without saying a word, he could draw everyone's attention.

Yan Le met his eyes. Zhou Yibai glanced at her coldly, as if he didn't know her.

Yan Le's heart sank.

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One day, when Yan Le came home after class, Zhou Yibai was waiting downstairs, his expression gloomy. As soon as she approached, he grabbed her wrist and gritted out a threat: "Try leaving me behind again."

3.

For countless nights afterward, Yan Le heard Zhou Yibai calling her name in her dreams. Even in his sleep, he held her tight.

Yan Le held him close as tears fell despite herself.

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