Long Legs, Big Deal

Completed on August 19. [Next book: A Tooth Owed to Him. See my profile, and please add it to your reading list.] Jiang Chuhe is a young mystery writer, brilliant but only able to win fans with his good looks, and a third-generation scion from a wealthy family's collateral branch. His beloved husky gets pregnant by accident and gives birth to a litter of husky pups with legs just a few centimeters long. The culprit is Chen Jiaque's short-legged corgi. Chen Jiaque is an intern editor at a magazine. Jiang Chuhe produces a paternity test. "Take responsibility!" Chen Jiaque feeds the puppies with a bottle and asks miserably, "Do I need to offer a bride price?" "Of course." The next day, Jiang Chuhe produces another sheet, this one covered in a long list of bride-price demands. Chen Jiaque clicks her tongue as she reads it. "I can't afford to marry you." "Then marry into my family." Jiang Chuhe points at her and her dog. "You and your child can move in together." A little scene: Writer Jiang has nothing better to do, so he summons Little Sparrow for the N+1st time. "Mr. Jiang, unless there's an emergency, please don't take up my work hours for personal matters. It wouldn't look good if people found out." Chen Jiaque adds, "Of course, my personal time is fine." "Afraid people will say you're clinging to me?" Jiang Chuhe lowers his eyes to look at his own legs. "Is there something wrong with these legs?" "They're great," Chen Jiaque says sincerely. "Long and straight." "If you like them," Jiang Chuhe says, tilting his head and smiling at her, "you can cling to them all you want. How about that?" A fiercely protective, haughty man x a sweet, obedient girl with excellent cooking skills A lighthearted, funny, and sweet story, with no angst. Coming next: A Tooth Owed to Him. Please add it to your reading list. Everyone says Cen Jin'an is a shrewd man who only cares about profit. Only Xiong Xiaoyan stubbornly insists that he's a foolish, flirtatious fox of a man. That's because Cen Jin'an has a pair of seductive, peach-blossom eyes, and he smiles at everyone. If the other person is a woman, his smile is even brighter, making Xiong Xiaoyan's teeth ache with irritation. Cen Jin'an has his reasons: "You can't hit a man who's smiling at you." Xiong Xiaoyan immediately gives him a slap, half joking and half serious. "I just did." At eighteen, the age when a young man is in his prime, Cen Jin'an saves a scheming little girl, losing one of his molars in the process. He has to get a porcelain crown, but luckily it doesn't affect his looks, and as a grown man, he doesn't care anyway. Xiong Xiaoyan has the tooth made into a pendant and wears it around her neck every day. When someone asks what it means, she says, "A black dog's tooth. It wards off evil." Weibo: @WritingAugust3 Theme: You treat me well, and I'll treat you well. The two of us are the best in the world.