Flirting with Summer

*My other ongoing novel, Wildcat, is now available!

#Blurb

The cold, domineering third uncle x the gentle, sweet beauty from Jiangnan

The Xia family goes bankrupt, and Xia Fu, once the richest heiress in South City, is left penniless.

At her engagement banquet, her fiance shows up with his pregnant mistress in tow, turning Xia Fu into the biggest laughingstock of all.

She leaves the hotel with a heart as good as dead.

Then she runs into someone.

The black window of a Rolls-Royce slowly rolls down, revealing a stern face in the back seat, with fair skin and dark red lips.

The immaculate line from his jaw to his Adam's apple is both restrained and sensual.

Xia Fu blinks, recognizing the person her scumbag fiance fears most of all:

his own third uncle, a ruthless, domineering man who always gets his way.

Two months later.

Gu Qingyu regrets everything and knocks on the door of his former fiancee's home.

A tall, upright man sits on the sofa, wearing a suit and radiating an imposing air.

Seeing him, the man gently closes the book in his hand and says casually, "You're here? Come meet your third aunt."

As he speaks, a young woman approaches with graceful steps. She gives him a knowing smile and looks him up and down. "Nephew?"

Everyone thinks Gu's third uncle and Xia Fu are just making an equal exchange.

One wants her beauty, the other wants revenge.

But one day, someone sees the coldest, most heartless third uncle of the Gu family crouch down in public and personally tie the little lady's untied shoelace.

His fingers are long and clean, his movements gentle. When he finishes, he looks up and smiles indulgently at her.

"Let's go."

"Be more careful next time."

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1. Cold, domineering third uncle x gentle beauty from Jiangnan, with a ten-year age gap.

2. Starts at the end of July. A sweet summer treat, HE.

--My other novel, Wildcat, is now available: a proud heiress from the city vs. a country hoodlum

"He's like a wildcat who wants to be petted but is afraid to let anyone pet him."

Li Ren is a wildcat prowling the lowest rungs of society. His father beats him, and he makes a living fighting alongside his maternal uncle. He drifts through life, unable to see a glimmer of light.

Xu Tong is a delicate little flower raised in a greenhouse. After her family is struck by sudden tragedy, she moves from a big city to a small county town, lost and terrified, and gives up on herself.

Xu Tong still remembers the day they first crossed paths.

The sun was shining.

But he stood in the darkest alley, his black T-shirt outlining his tall, solid frame, still carrying the lean build of a teenager, as he pinned a thug against the wall.

Hearing footsteps, he turned around.

He spat out a bloody mouthful, his gaze shadowy.

The young man was handsome, flamboyant, and defiant. His dark phoenix eyes tilted upward, and everything about him said, "Don't mess with me." He was brimming with menace.

But the longer Xu Tong looked at him, the more familiar he seemed.

He reminded her of a black stray cat she'd adopted as a child.

It used to fight other cats for territory in the alleys just like this. It was beautiful, but ferocious as could be.

"Meow?" she couldn't help murmuring to him.

Li Ren: ?

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Later.

Many years later, on the day Li Ren became champion.

They returned here and sat beneath the eaves where they had once watched the rain together.

"You know, I've always thought you were a lot like a little stray cat I adopted. You were so fierce. Whenever I picked you up, you'd run away. You wouldn't let me pet you at all, and you were always snapping at me. QAQ"

"Mm." The man rested his head on her lap, a cigarette that hadn't been lit between his teeth. He turned his eyes away from her and answered in a low, hoarse voice.

"So you think you are one, too?" Xu Tong scoffed, recalling, "No, you're much fiercer than it was. Once, when I was asleep, it actually jumped up beside my pillow and gently brushed against my face. It was so sweet~"

Before she could finish, she caught the dark look Li Ren instinctively shot her.

Xu Tong was stunned, then blushed. "Don't tell me you did that too..."

Theme: A woman must be independent to be loved.