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[My new novel is now serializing. Please check out and add to your favorites: Like a Dream in the Bloom of Youth]

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Xie Yichuan, born into a family of auctioneers, is a hopeless romantic of the highest order.

She started falling in love early, loved from afar, loved openly, and spent twelve years trying to win over the neighbor boy, who was six years her senior.

But one day, he announced that he was in a relationship. With an ocean between them, she suffered an instant heartbreak and began drinking her sorrows away.

Until she met a man at the gym who looked a little like her first love...

The hopeless romantic decided to cut loose for once. She went all in on the money-will-win-you-over approach, planning to lure a stand-in lover and ease the pain of years spent chaste and pining for someone who didn't love her back.

But although her stand-in lover was poor, he had lofty ambitions. He wanted money and a car, and even wanted her to buy him an aircraft carrier.

He was prickly and sour-faced, and a smile from him was worth a fortune. He was even harder to win over than the real thing.

He Qi, the runaway eldest son of a business magnate, had retreated to his ancestral home, only to be handpicked at the gym he ran and made the dedicated personal trainer of a ditzy, wealthy, and crazy young lady.

He'd refused at first, but she was rich and foolish, repeatedly scheming to seduce him. She was also overflowing with bodhisattva-like compassion and insisted on helping him out of poverty.

A little game turned into real feelings. The cold-faced young master fell into a trap and became a lovesick puppy, launching a sweet and sickening romance with the ditzy, wealthy hopeless romantic.

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In short, the author is hopeless at writing blurbs!

A wealthy heiress's difficult first love, and a story of a stand-in lover becoming the real thing.

A beautiful, rich, proud peacock of a woman + an arrogant, straight, fake phoenix of a man = two hopeless romantics

--------- [The Hopeless Romantics' Guide to an Improper Love] -------------

Blurb [The main story is complete] [Read this before diving in]

Childhood sweethearts - relationship-focused - slow burn - the male lead is working desperately to steal her away

Part One: Proper and serious - youthful warmth and heartbreak (the author admits it: this isn't sweet)

Part Two: Not proper at all - a battlefield for winning her back (the male lead drops the act: sweetness galore)

[Blurb]

Let love survive, and remain faithful through life and death.

Yin Yiyi still loves, deeply and fiercely, the person with whom she has no future.

Even if one day the waters of the world are replaced, and no longing can be sent to Wushan again.

[Part Two: A Little Scene]

A text message came to Song Zhen's phone from a female classmate.

Female classmate: I know you have a girlfriend, but I still really like you.

The man held out his phone to the woman, looking pitiful.

Song Zhen: I really didn't flirt with her. It's all because of this face of mine, everyone likes it too much. What should I say to her?

Yin Yiyi: (I've never seen anyone this full of himself.) Do you have no shame?

Song Zhen: (He sent a voice message straight to her.) My girlfriend wants to know, do you have no shame?

[Author's Note] 1. Both leads are virgins + happy ending + not mutually exclusive virginity + please heed the content warnings. 2. A faux-lighthearted sweet romance + old-fashioned writing style. 3. Enjoy the sweet parts, and take your medicine when you need to! 4. If it's not for you, click X. We'll meet again if fate wills it.

Theme: Let love survive, and never regret your youth!