Rose Soda

[My new novel, A Long-Standing Scheme, is currently updating. Little cuties, feel free to visit my author page and add it to your favorites!]

When Shen Manyu goes to the hospital for a follow-up, she meets a spinal surgeon with a beautiful back.

When she sits down and the doctor turns around, their eyes meet, and she realizes:

Holy crap, it's her ex-boyfriend, Fu Sinan!

Shen Manyu stares at him in his white coat, and after a long moment manages to choke out, "Long time no see."

Fu Sinan merely gives her a cool glance, then turns away to fill out her electronic medical records.

Shen Manyu curses him under her breath. That bastard is exactly the same as he was five years ago.

Half a month later, Fu Sinan attends her best friend's wedding as a groomsman and is constantly approached by women.

Her best friend pats Shen Manyu on the shoulder. "Your Fu Sinan is still just as popular as he was back then."

Shen Manyu looks up at him, his brows furrowed and his manner cold enough to keep people at a distance. "And still just as much of a bastard."

Her best friend laughs. "I'll bet you ten Long Island iced teas that he still likes you."

Shen Manyu smirks. "Then you're bound to lose."

When they broke up, Fu Sinan said he never wanted to see her again for as long as he lived.

But after the wedding, Fu Sinan picks up Shen Manyu, who's drunk from helping fend off the toasts.

He covers her legs with his suit jacket and rests her head against his shoulder.

His voice is low. "You're still as much trouble as ever."

That night, Shen Manyu pins Fu Sinan down in the car.

Her eyes hazy, she mumbles drunkenly, "You're someone else's dog now, Fu. You're not mine anymore."

Fu Sinan pulls her close and covers her lips with his, silencing all her resentment and sadness.

#There's no one else. You're the only one for me.#

#From the moment Shen Manyu entered his life, bright and sweet as a special rose soda,

Fu Sinan was hooked, and he could never quit.#

[Currently updating~]

A Long-Standing Scheme

Just after Ni Qingyun's new movie comes out,

a gossip account breaks the news that she's still hung up on her married ex-boyfriend and won't stop pursuing him.

They even include a photo of her gazing at him longingly on set.

Ni Qingyun posts on Weibo: "With my looks, aren't young hunks the better choice?"

She adds a gorgeous, confident selfie with a seductive edge.?

But just two days later, Ni Qingyun trends again for allegedly sleeping her way to the male lead role.

Ni Qingyun: I'd love to, but none of them are attractive enough.

Newly crowned Best Actor Cheng Jiyan has it all, except he's a little too cool and proper.

That's what Ni Qingyun thinks, too.

Until Cheng Jiyan corners her in an elevator. "I heard Director Ni is looking for someone to offer himself to her?"

Ni Qingyun hurriedly waves her hands, about to explain, when she hears him laugh above her.

She looks up and meets his gaze.

"How about me? Am I good enough for you?"

Later, fans uncover Ni Qingyun's secret account

and discover that she's been a fan of Cheng Jiyan for three years.

Ni Qingyun: I've had a crush on him for years.

Fans also discover that the male lead is the founder of the ship's fan group.

Cheng Jiyan: I've been plotting this for a long time.

[Coming soon: I Run a Cram School in the Underworld]

In life, Jiang Shufan was a math teacher at a tutoring center.

After dying suddenly, she arrives in the underworld and is told she must pay social insurance for two years before she can apply for reincarnation.

The quality of her next life depends on how much money she has saved in the underworld.

Jiang Shufan is assigned as an intern at Meng Po's office.

She discovers that every position there requires an exam.

The pass rate for the Meng Po qualification exam is five percent.

Jiang Shufan takes one look at the quadratic equations and sequence problems. Meng Po can make her soup with ease.

The pass rate for the ghost officer qualification exam is seven percent.

According to the ghost officer who brought her to the underworld, the exam includes pursuit and meeting problems? Solving triangles? With those skills, you can dodge ghost traffic jams anywhere and pick people up quickly and conveniently.

Even opening a shop requires an exam.

Diminishing marginal costs and maximizing marginal benefits? Economic and mathematical models?

Jiang Shufan slaps her thigh. I know how to do all this!

Too bad no one can hold multiple jobs, so she'll stick to what she knows.

Jiang Shufan opens a tutoring center.

At first, it only offers training for people taking civil service exams in the underworld.

But more and more people start showing up, with an ever-wider variety of needs.

Before long, it becomes a comprehensive school offering civil service exam prep, ghost vehicle driving lessons, business training, basic education for child ghosts, and much more.

She only meant to earn enough for reincarnation.

She never expected to become a principal, the richest person in the underworld, and president of the underworld's chamber of commerce.

Most absurdly, the Underworld Emperor establishes an education department for her, and she has to serve as the underworld's first education minister.

#I just want to get a good next life.#

#I transformed the underworld.#

#The Underworld Emperor is a menace.#

Note: There won't be a lot of math content. It's mainly the start of the career storyline.

Theme: No matter how time passes, love never fades