Honey to One, Poison to Another

Before opening this cafe at Qingbei University, Tang Xin had never imagined that one day her former campus crush would show up among her customers.

Tang Xin was both delighted and worried. She asked her best friend, "He's in his fourth year of a direct PhD program."

"Do you think I have any advantages?"

Her best friend answered with complete confidence: Advantages? You've got money!

Every morning, before arriving at the lab, Lu Junyi had a habit of stopping by the coffee stand for a cup to wake himself up. He was pretty lucky, too: every day, he managed to catch a deal like "50% off your second cup" or "Your sixth cup is on me, rounded down."

As time went by, he started to get suspicious of the latte art that seemed to be made just for him and the proprietress's eager smiles. He wasn't the sort of man who got a kick out of hitting on married women, was he?

Tang Xin: ???

This reunion isn't going the way I wanted it to, is it?

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Tang Xin thought she had done a perfect job of pretending in front of Lu Junyi, cultivating the image of a sunny, upbeat, ambitious good girl.

But after a brief lapse in judgment at the celebration banquet, Tang Xin entered the hotel like rain after a long drought. Before she could even make it to the center of the dance floor in her showstopping outfit, she was caught red-handed.

A jacket was thrown over her, wrapping her up from head to toe.

"I-I came to do market research on this place's coffee beans. That's why I asked that DJ a few questions."

"I-I'm not cold. You wear it."

Lu Junyi looked at the person before him.

Wrapped in his jacket, she revealed a small, fair face, flushed with drink.

Her cheeks were pink, her hair was a little mussed from the jacket pulling at it, and her eyes held a fawn-like panic.

"Tang Xin."

Tang Xin cursed herself in secret. Damn it, why had nobody told her Lu Junyi was coming?

Before her brain could even process things for another 0.01 seconds, a shadow suddenly fell over her face.

The person now standing zero distance from her

was Lu Junyi.

"Barista romance" *100% sweetness* "I will always succumb to a gentle male lead" "The female lead is my precious baby"

-Love is the resonance of souls and minds. To me, you are the most special piece of candy in the world.

This is a story about parting only to meet again and fall in love once more.

Reading guide:

A sweet, everyday romance // Both leads are virgins, happy ending, one-on-one romance //

Completed novel: "A Thousand Gold Pieces, Yours" // The story of Tang Xin's older brother and sister-in-law

[Upcoming Novel]

//"Listen to Me"//

Everyone was surprised when Li Jinqiu and Du Fanyi, who were always at each other's throats, suddenly stopped arguing.

Not only did they stop arguing, but Young Master Du became clingy, sticking his nose into everything Li Jinqiu did.

Every day, he'd block her way and put on a serious expression. "Li Jinqiu, you're meeting me today, too."

And so a new piece of campus gossip appeared: Those two must have secretly gotten together.

Bickering rivals, campus romance is so lovely.

Li Jinqiu had no idea what had gotten into Du Fanyi.

But she would never forget what he said to her on graduation day: "Get lost."

"Don't ever see me again."

-

Li Jinqiu saw Du Fanyi again on a summer night when she was thirty, looking utterly disheveled.

Du Fanyi still spoke in his usual teasing tone. "Li Jinqiu, how did you end up like this?"

Then he picked her up and took her back to his home.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Du Fanyi frowned at the silent woman before him.

"Never mind. You don't have to say anything."

"From now on, I'm looking out for you around here."

-

The Du Fanyi Li Jinqiu first knew had the whole world and the galaxy revolving around him.

She fell into his orbit, and after that, she could never quite escape.

When she met Du Fanyi again, Jinqiu had to admit that from the past to the present, he had always kept her at a disadvantage, trailing behind her at a measured distance with that same old possessiveness. "Li Jinqiu, you're meeting me today, too."

Du Fanyi firmly believed that nothing was impossible. Anything he wanted to do, he could surely succeed at.

But when it came to winning Jinqiu over, it seemed he had never figured out the trick, from childhood to adulthood.

"Li Jinqiu, why are you avoiding me?"

A stubborn movie star who only cries in front of her audience and Du Fanyi × a powerful investor who only lets himself go in front of Jinqiu //

Currently drafting, please add it to your wish list // The timeline includes their student years and working lives // A sweet, healing coming-of-age story with no angst //

Theme: Grow toward the sun