Come Into My Arms [Showbiz]

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When Li Wantong was sixteen, she fell in love with Xu Hanxing, one of her father’s students. She had just entered show business, radiating a bold, dazzling beauty and an unmistakable edge. Xu Hanxing, on the other hand, was a cool and reserved young man, like an immortal untouched by the world, spending countless days and nights in a medical laboratory.

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Five years later, Li Wantong still loved him. For his sake, she softened her sharp edges, wearing simple dresses and looking pure and innocent. After working up the courage to confess, she watched Xu Hanxing roll a string of Buddhist prayer beads between his fingers and smile with serene detachment. “It would be unethical to go after my mentor’s daughter. Besides, I’m planning to become a monk.”

Li Wantong cried her heart out, then left with her head held high. In a fiery red dress, she thrived in show business. In a movie, she leaned toward the collar of a leading actor’s shirt, her vivid red lips drawing near.

Until one late night, a drunken Xu Hanxing cornered her against a wall... She held a hand over his approaching lips. “Weren’t you going to become a monk?”

“The abbot said I still have worldly ties, so I can’t.”

Warning: the male lead will have to grovel to win her back.

Dramatic actress on the rise × chaste, outwardly gentle but secretly ruthless, powerful doctor (A showbiz story. The male lead never became a monk; he simply had a Buddhist heart.)

Next story, Stop Pretending With Me, blurb:

A new transfer student arrives at Huhang High School. She’s delicate and adorable, with a soft, sweet voice and a pair of misty eyes that inspire instant sympathy.

When she walks down the hallway with her schoolbag, the boys watching nearly get so excited they bring the ceiling down.

At that moment, Yu Zhiyan has just spent the night at an internet cafe and is trying to catch up on sleep. The noise gets to him, and he kicks a desk.

The whole room falls silent.

No one dares mess with this guy.

Yu Zhiyan frowns irritably, then suddenly locks eyes with the transfer student standing outside the classroom.

Tsk.

She really is pretty... and somehow a little familiar.

Tao Su blinks. “Classmate, you shouldn’t swear.”

“...”

Everyone covers their faces. She’s offended Yu Zhiyan on her first day as a transfer student. That poor little girl is done for!

And sure enough, Tao Su gets bullied by Yu Zhiyan. He hides her homework, steals her schoolbag... and even tears up the love letters she receives.

“Tao Su.”

Yu Zhiyan likes trapping her in his arms and demanding fiercely, “Why pretend to be such a good student?”

She doesn’t get angry. She just smiles sweetly and obediently, nothing like the “Tao Su” he thought he knew.

Later, he starts protecting her. Yu Zhiyan is so fiercely protective that everyone at Huhang High School knows not to mess with Tao Su.

During the summer before senior year, Tao Su turns down Yu Zhiyan’s confession at his coming-of-age ceremony.

Only then does Yu Zhiyan realize that Tao Su has been pretending ever since the day they met...

After that day, Yu Zhiyan leaves with a broken heart. Four years later, they meet again.

Tao Su engineers one chance encounter after another, only to be met with Yu Zhiyan’s cold sneers. He silently wonders, Tao Su, when are you going to show your true colors this time?

Until one day, Yu Zhiyan can’t take it anymore. He pins her tightly in his arms. “Tao Su, when are you going to stop pretending?”

Tao Su’s gaze is full of ambiguous affection, like a little fox baring its belly to someone it trusts completely. She rests a finger on his uniform and softly coaxes him. “I’m not pretending this time. I really do like you.”

Tao Su has only one card to play: she knows he loves her.

A sweet, seemingly innocent girl who’s good at pretending and secretly manipulative × a tough, delinquent-looking pilot who’s secretly pure-hearted

Reader’s guide:

Content warning: The heroine is imperfect and always puts her own interests first. Both leads say one thing while feeling another.

A reunion after a long separation, rekindled love

Theme: Freedom and dreams