The Truth of Roses

Cheng Yaoyao was a third-rate writer and a player. To find inspiration for her new novel, she flirted with the kid next door. The kid, Shan She, was gorgeous. He'd skipped grades all the way through school and excelled at everything. At A University, he was famous as an aloof beauty on a high peak. Shan She was gentle and considerate, clingy and great in bed. He loved wearing white shirts and smiling, and when he did, dimples appeared in his cheeks. He gave Cheng Yaoyao endless inspiration. When they dated, Shan She was invested in both body and heart. Cheng Yaoyao, though, stuck to the player code: there was always someone more obedient waiting next. Once her novel was finished, she hurriedly dumped Shan She. The gentle, refined Shan She learned to smoke and drink, stopped wearing white shirts, and became cynical, treating relationships with frivolous indifference. He became the exact opposite of who he had been before, and, by coincidence, exactly the kind of man Cheng Yaoyao liked most at the moment. Cheng Yaoyao fell for him again and rushed to win back her old flame. Less than six months after they got back together, Shan She was dumped again. After that, the former physics prodigy switched to medical school and spent every day studying human organs, looking into a hundred ways to die for love. Feeling she'd sinned terribly, Cheng Yaoyao decided to go talk some sense into Shan She. Then she discovered the following things at his house: 1. A whole room full of criminal case files 2. A computer playing Detective Conan 3. An anatomy chart hanging on the wall 4. Her photograph After keeping a fish pond for so many years, Cheng Yaoyao had never met anyone like Shan She, whose strategy was to take them both down together. She was a little panicked. Reading Guide 1. Player queen of the dating pool X innocent campus heartthrob 2. The synopsis was screenshotted, and the screenshot definitely predates yours. Don't plagiarize or pick fights over similar ideas. Theme: Take love seriously