A Tender Trap

★ Powerful man bows his head x his prey ★

★ Long-planned pursuit | Stealing someone's love | Rivalry between men | Stealing someone's girl ★

#You are the rose I've been waiting for a chance to pluck#

The night Nan Ju first met Gu Shenli, a storm knocked out the power at the villa.

Drunk after dinner with friends, Nan Ju mistook him for her boyfriend, Song Yuanzhou, and hugged him from behind, running her hands over his pebble-hard abs.

His intoxicating hormones filled the air.

The man's dry, burning palm gripped her wrist. His voice was cool and husky. "You're Nan Ju, right?"

"..."

"You've got the wrong person."

In her panic, Nan Ju fell and knocked herself unconscious. When she awoke in the hospital the next day, she learned that the man was the powerful business tycoon who struck fear into the business world, as well as Song Yuanzhou's maternal uncle.

The next time they met, Song Yuanzhou had asked Gu Shenli to pick her up. Blushing, Nan Ju didn't dare look back. "Sorry, I got into the wrong car."

"You got into the right car."

His deep, magnetic voice came from behind her, stopping her escape in its tracks.

At the time, Nan Ju had only one thought about him: they belonged to two different worlds.

She had never even gotten a good look at his face.

-

Nan Ju had always thought she and Song Yuanzhou would make it to the altar.

They had been each other's first love for five years, and she'd given him her whole heart. But even so, he couldn't escape his family's control.

On the day they broke up, Song Yuanzhou gave her a bank card and tried to persuade her to become his secret lover.

Nan Ju slapped him and bought a plane ticket abroad the next day.

As she left the airport, she nearly fell. A gentleman courteously caught her. "The ground is slippery. Be careful."

She looked up. His features were gentle and composed.

A beauty mark at the corner of his eye gave him an air of tenderness. His elegant, steady presence and striking looks made it obvious he came from a privileged background.

It was hard to say who fell first, but Nan Ju didn't turn down this brief affair.

He was composed and mature, far more considerate and patient than Song Yuanzhou, a lover without a single apparent flaw, but a lover all the same.

Nan Ju didn't want to repeat the past, so after a brief spell of happiness, she left without hesitation.

She thought they would never meet again.

Then, at a company banquet, she watched as he took his seat amid endless flattery.

The impeccably dressed man glanced at her, his emotions unreadable. "She can't drink. Don't force her."

Nan Ju suddenly understood. The man who had spent all night entangled with her abroad, and personally hung up Song Yuanzhou's calls for her, was Gu Shenli.

He had planned everything from the start.

He had been slowly plotting to win her over.

That night, Nan Ju was still caught by him.

In a dark hotel suite, Gu Shenli murmured seductively into her burning ear. "You say you're moving on, but no matter how you turn it around, you end up back by my side."

-

Gu Shenli had once fallen for a girl.

In a remote border town, he was injured on a mission. The first thing he saw when he woke was her young, delicate face. "You're finally awake?"

They met again at the Museum of Broken Relationships. She cried over old mementos, each tear landing on his heart. Later, she became his lawful wife.

Nan Ju never thought a cold-hearted man like Gu Shenli could have much love to give. That was, until one day after they married, she found the farewell letter he'd written while serving in the military years ago. Her childhood nickname was clearly written as the recipient.

[Bonus Scene]

After Song Yuanzhou was dumped, he was miserable every day. Drunk and out of his mind, he went looking for Nan Ju again.

He had no idea that just on the other side of the wall, Gu Shenli, who had beaten him to her, was kissing Nan Ju passionately.

A knock at the door interrupted them.

Blushing, Nan Ju tried to push him away, but Gu Shenli held her firmly on his lap. He bit her ear and murmured in a low, wicked voice, "What, are you going to leave me and go out there to be his little aunt-in-law?"

-

Both virgins, one-on-one, happy ending

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Next book, So You're Really Hungry: childhood sweethearts / mutual pining / reunion after years apart / marriage before love --

[Bold heroine x scheming scoundrel]

#My crush of six years has come back from the dead#

One day, after work,

Pei Suya was already in a bad mood, and then she saw her former crush playing a sweet couples game with his girlfriend in their mutual friends list.

The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she got.

She simply deleted all of Shen Yique's contact information and cut him out of her life for good.

But three days later, when she logged back in,

Shen Yique, who'd been lying dormant in her friends list for six years without saying a word to her, sent her a friend request.

: ?

: Did you delete me on WeChat?

#Expanded blurb#

1. Her grandmother's eightieth birthday brought a "special guest" to the house.

When Pei Suya got home from work, she saw Shen Yique sitting primly on the sofa, on equal footing with her cat.

Looking at her "old friend," whom she hadn't seen in years, Pei Suya asked the question from the depths of her soul: "What are you doing in my house?"

Shen Yique was perfectly composed, just as bright and charming, and just as infuriating, as he had been as a boy. "Grandma said your cat wants to date. I'm taking it home so it can mate with mine."

Pei Suya: "..."

As if she'd believe that.

Sure enough, after dinner, Shen Yique leaned against the balcony with his hands in his pockets and looked at her calmly. "I'm thinking of buying a place here. Can you help me out?"

Pei Suya: "I don't have any money."

Shen Yique: "I do."

Pei Suya: "Then what do you want?"

Shen Yique: "A wife."

Pei Suya pointed at the door. "Get lost."

2. Everyone thought Pei Suya and Shen Yique would be best buddies for life.

They grew up in the same neighborhood. Shen Yique had excellent grades and a handsome face. He was unquestionably a brilliant young man, as well as Pei Suya's role model and spiritual leader.

He gave a speech onstage, and she took pictures.

He played basketball, and she cheered.

He fought with punks, and she charged in with a brick, bleeding from head to toe.

She was his most loyal sidekick. Even Pei Suya herself believed that, until she saw Shen Yique with his girlfriend.

Yellow maple leaves fell around them. For the first time, Shen Yique's intelligent, distant eyes softened for a girl. In that moment, Pei Suya's girlish dreams came to an abrupt end.

She finally realized that this long, unrequited love had been a one-woman show.

After crying so hard she could have been a statue in a fountain, Pei Suya took stock of herself.

She had to find a way to forget that bastard.

So she started dating, too.

Over and over again.

3. At a college get-together, Pei Suya got completely drunk. That was the night she gave Shen Yique her first kiss.

Shen Yique thought he was going crazy.

He actually didn't want to pull away.

What drove him even crazier was that Pei Suya forgot about it as soon as she kissed him, then happily went on dating one boyfriend after another.

It wasn't until she broke up with her ninth boyfriend that Shen Yique realized he couldn't keep sitting around doing nothing.

He had to come up with a plan.

To be Pei Suya's last boyfriend.

Both virgins, one-on-one, happy ending

The male lead has no girlfriend.

The male lead isn't a local, and must get married to buy a house.

Theme: Love should be open and honest.