Testing the Waters

[My next novel will be My Senior, Hold Them Off! I'll Go On Ahead. Feel free to visit my author page and add it to your collection!] 1 Xia Liuyi is a cicada in summer, meditating on a treetop inside her hollow shell. She thought those painful memories were behind her, and that time would smooth away the scars that remained. But then Chen Xiuran came, bringing love and hate, and tore open her scabbed-over wounds. Only then did she realize that the wounds, though they looked healed, were festering. Memories surged back, one by one. He was the last glimmer of light in her dark life, but she had extinguished it with her own hands. The only memory left of that summer was the bite mark Chen Xiuran left on her shoulder. "Xia Liuyi, you lied to me." As much as she hurt, she hurt him even more. 2 Everyone at Chen Group knows that their new partner company has an employee named Xia Liuyi who keeps trying to seduce their big boss. They scoff at the idea. How could an ordinary human possibly get her hands on their cold-blooded snake of a boss? Until, at one annual company party, they saw their usually aloof boss pin Xia Liuyi against the hallway wall, gripping her waist as she bit into her neck. "Xia Liuyi, what are you after this time?" The woman in her arms writhed like a beautiful snake. "You, Chen Xiuran." 3 When they met again years later, Chen Xiuran had learned to be cold and ruthless, decisive and merciless. But she had never learned to forget Xia Liuyi. Countless times, she had warned herself that Xia Liuyi was a liar and that she could never warm her heart. But she couldn't control herself. Xia Liuyi's effect on her was like tetanus: once the incubation period passed, it drove her mad. And every kindness she showed Xia Liuyi came from the heart. She was willing to lose herself for her. ** "I was once a dim and ordinary person. You gave me a sky full of stars." [Reader's Guide] /One-on-one romance /Soapy drama /Not exactly fluffy /Guaranteed happy ending /Mutual healing /School life and city life /Completed novel: A Taste, No More - Theme: Two people testing each other