Love-Sick with a Secret Crush

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Blurb:

"A little sugar with a crematorium-style grovel"

Everyone at Linchuan No. 3 High School knew that Xie Liu was Lu Zheng's loyal sidekick.

She skipped class and went online with him, and lit his cigarettes for him.

She was willing to be bad right alongside him.

Until the day before finals in the second semester of their sophomore year, when one of Lu Zheng's buddies cornered Xie Liu and confessed, asking her to go out with him.

Flustered, the girl looked toward Lu Zheng, who was leaning against the wall nearby and lighting a cigarette.

He glanced at her too, his peach-blossom eyes half-lidded as he smiled. "Why are you looking at me? Say yes or no already. Don't keep my buddy waiting."

Only later did Xie Liu learn that Lu Zheng had been secretly in love with a senior girl for five years.

He could never love anyone but her.

After that, the sidekick named Xie Liu was never seen at Lu Zheng's side again.

One of his underlings asked what had happened.

The boy furrowed his brow slightly, blew a smoke ring, and chuckled. "That girl? Maybe she finally came to her senses and went back to studying."

"She was never one of us anyway."

After the college entrance exams, Xie Liu went abroad.

They met again years later at a high school reunion.

Someone saw Lu Zheng holding Xie Liu on the bathroom counter.

Reeking of alcohol, he leaned toward her, his peach-blossom eyes shining as his voice broke with tears. "Xie Liu, you were so cruel. You left without looking back... I searched for you like a mad dog for five fucking years!"

Xie Liu's response was faint. "Mr. Lu, there's no need for this. We have different paths and can't walk together. We're not meant for each other."

Lu Zheng choked on his words, then frowned. "Different paths? I could tear yours apart and rebuild it in a minute. Do you believe me?"

*This time, even if I die, I'll die on the path where you're by my side.*

[Reading Guide]

*The author is throwing herself into melodrama and angst. Read with caution. You can't please everyone, so if it's not for you, please move on.

*Both leads are each other's only ones. A little sugar with a crematorium-style grovel.

*Please don't comment on pirated copies. Leave a clean space for readers of the official edition and the author.

*Blurb written on 2020.10.29, with a screenshot saved as proof.

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-Cool, aloof bad boy & proud, cunning girl

-Love at first sight / secret love comes true / reunion after years apart / getting back together

At university, Shen Ciwu was very much in love with Cheng Xueshi.

He was the campus heartthrob at Nanchun University, a forensic science prodigy, a heaven-blessed favorite, and as pure as snow on a mountaintop.

Naturally, countless people pursued him.

So Shen Ciwu had to take an unconventional approach: she started with a game he played in his spare time.

After three months of wearing him down, Shen Ciwu finally became Cheng Xueshi's in-game partner.

But on the day they were supposed to meet in person, Shen Ciwu accidentally overheard Cheng Xueshi's roommate ask him, "Are you really going to break up with that girl as soon as you get back?"

"Isn't that too soon? It feels kind of cruel."

The boy leaning in the corner, surrounded by smoke, was hard to make out. Only his clear, cold voice held a trace of indifference. "Then I'll wait a while."

At that moment, the smile on Shen Ciwu's face gradually disappeared, and her heart turned cold.

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Before long, Shen Ciwu took the initiative and broke up with Cheng Xueshi.

The boy froze for a moment, his voice cold and deep, tinged with disbelief. "Why?"

Shen Ciwu forced herself to stay calm and looked up into his eyes. Wanting to preserve some dignity, she made up an excuse on the spot. "As my boyfriend, you've never satisfied my needs."

He stared at her for a moment, then furrowed his long brows in solemn concentration. "What needs? Tell me."

Shen Ciwu: "..."

Cheng Xueshi leaned closer, lowering his head until his thin lips were a breath away from hers. "Holding hands and hugging, or kissing and sleeping together?"

Then the boy added, "From now on, I'll satisfy all your needs."

"So, Shen Ciwu, your reason for breaking up doesn't hold up."

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Later, Shen Ciwu and Cheng Xueshi still broke up.

When they met again years later, she learned that Cheng Xueshi, always as cold as snow and a world apart from everyone else, could also be so shameless as to pin her in a corner and demand a kiss. When she was nearly out of breath, he pressed his lips to her earlobe and teased her in a low, breathless voice. "Four years apart, and your kissing is still awful."

"Cheng Xueshi was snow on a mountain peak, while Shen Ciwu was a winter fog that shrouded him. Later, the winter fog lifted, and the mountain snow knew spring."

-Both leads are each other's only ones. Forensic pathologist & journalist.

-The premise has been changed. Blurb revised on 2023.12.10, with a screenshot saved as proof.

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★From campus to city / both leads are each other's only ones / secret love / healing / reunion after years apart / getting back together / showbiz / sweet romance

★Cold and world-weary vs. gentle and warm

On a rainy night after the college entrance exams, the boy Huo Yu stood alone outside the gates of Sunshine Orphanage.

The torrential rain soaked through his white shirt, threatening to break his ramrod-straight back.

He looked even more wretched than the stray dogs passing by.

Creak

The orphanage's rusty iron gate opened from within. A girl holding a clear umbrella appeared in his rain-blurred vision, wearing a brand-new, expensive dress.

She stopped three paces away. Casting off her usual gentleness and warmth, she looked at Huo Yu coldly. Her voice was even more bitterly cold than the midsummer downpour. "Huo Yu, I never liked you."

That night, Huo Yu went home and fell unconscious, burning with a fever for three days.

When he woke, he heard that Ji An'an had been adopted by a couple from abroad. She had gone overseas to live with them and would never come back.

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They met again years later, on a film set.

Huo Yu, a Grand Slam-winning Best Actor, found fault with the new screenwriter's script at every turn.

Even his manager, who knew him best, found it strange. "Yu, did you know that screenwriter, Ji An'an, before?"

At the time, Huo Yu was reading the script's only kissing scene, and his thoughts began to wander.

He remembered the night of Ji An'an's eighteenth birthday, when rising floodwaters from the heavy rain had trapped them in a hotel...

"Yu?" His manager called more firmly.

Huo Yu's thoughts were interrupted. He came back to himself, looked at his manager with eyes cold as a frozen lake, and answered in a flat, icy voice. "I don't know her."

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Ji An'an thought the unspoken agreement that she and Huo Yu would pretend not to know each other after their reunion would last until they finished working on the film.

After all, time had passed and everything had changed. Huo Yu was already a married man.

But on the night before they were due to shoot the kissing scene, Huo Yu knocked on her door.

He had just showered and was wearing a black bathrobe, his short hair still dripping with water. His eyes, cold as a frozen lake, were intimidating.

Ji An'an's heart raced for the first time in years. Her voice trembled. "It's so late... Is something wrong?"

"Rehearsing the scene," the man replied coldly.

Then he closed in, one hand expertly gripping the back of her head, and kissed her without warning, forceful and rough, like a whirlwind...

Ji An'an had no time to think. Her sense of right and wrong made her push and hit him, but it was useless.

He pushed her inside, shut the door, pinned her against the cold wall, and kissed her again and again...

Just like the night of her eighteenth birthday, when they had been trapped in the hotel.

Only when Ji An'an began to lose her strength and her legs buckled did Huo Yu catch her with his strong arm. He bit her earlobe, his voice rough and hoarse, almost a command. "Stand still. I'm not done kissing you."

[Reading Guide]

*From campus to city, both leads are each other's only ones / secret love / healing / reunion after years apart / getting back together / showbiz. The main tone is sweet romance.

*The male lead is cold and world-weary at first, then becomes possessive and obsessive. The female lead's primary personality is gentle and warm, while her secondary personality is fierce and cool. The heroine has a dissociative identity!!!

*During their years apart, after their relationship fell apart, the hero had a marriage of convenience with another person in the industry. They were mutually beneficial, and he was already divorced when he reunited with the heroine. They were simply waiting for the right time to announce it publicly.

*More details may be added later. Blurb written on 2023.7.15, with a screenshot saved as proof.

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A recommendation for my lovely readers looking for something to read: my completed novels!!!

"Zero-Degree Moonlight" - She has a secret crush on him, then they marry before falling in love. He goes from feeling nothing to loving her deeply. A daily-life romance about a straight-laced ice prince falling for someone.

"Xu Xu Tu Ta" - He has a secret crush on her and has been plotting for a long time.

"He's So Into Her" (part of the "Zero-Degree Moonlight" series) - He has a secret crush on her, childhood friend wins, marriage before love, and a scumbag fails to win back his wife.

"Let My First Love Go to Hell" - The second male lead wins. A sweet campus romance where the gentle, devoted newcomer defeats the childhood friend who refuses to admit his feelings.

"Unparalleled Gentleness" - The male lead arrives too late, and the second male lead is his substitute.

"May I Have a Star" - Older woman/younger man romance, with a flirtatious senior and an aloof junior, a little sugar about a seductress leading a deity astray.

"A Sweet Gift for Me" - A sweet university romance, part of the male-lead-arrives-too-late series, with a male lead who secretly loves the heroine.

...There are plenty more completed novels. You can browse my author page and pick one yourselves, my lovely readers~

Theme: A beautiful romance should be uplifting and full of hope.