The Willing Take the Bait

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Coming soon: Dear, Stop Daydreaming and Love at First Sight. Please add them to your reading list!

A top student who plays dumb and hides his real abilities X a charming, free-spirited heiress

The bar glowed with seductive lights.

Someone pointed at the guy in the corner booth, being dragged along by his buddies to help keep up appearances. His white basketball jersey made him stand out, like a graceful deer that had wandered into the underworld.

"Sis, want to try something different? How about him?"

Song Weilai wasn't interested. She hadn't lit her menthol cigarette, instead twirling it deftly between her fingers. She didn't even raise her eyes as she drawled, "You like him? He's yours."

Half a month later, Song Weilai, who'd said she wasn't interested, ate her words.

Swinging her car keys around her index finger, she chased after the male lead, shamelessly begging him to give her a chance. Her fox eyes narrowed into a smile.

"Top student Cheng, you don't have a girlfriend, right? How about we give it a try?"

The boy sat on his bicycle, one white sneaker planted on the ground. His handsome jaw tightened awkwardly, as though this were the first time he'd faced a situation like this.

He turned and walked away.

*

The first time Cheng Xinghe saw Song Weilai, she was dancing provocatively, captivating the crowd as they cheered for her. She was even more dazzling than the lights.

Cheng Xinghe watched her all night, but she never once looked his way.

A beautiful woman is never short of men, but one day she'll get tired of them.

He thought.

Later, the top student put his academic skills to work on seduction. He transformed himself into a fresh-faced, unassuming campus heartthrob and finally caught the attention of the beautiful Song Weilai.

From then on,

the wild fox who lived for the moment was tamed into a big house cat,

and the actor-level puppy dog willingly became a pet kept at home.

When Song Weilai, beautiful and daring, learned the truth, she yelled, "Damn it! He's no pure white deer! He's a wolf cub who's been eyeing me all along! He's not just got me cornered, he wants to devour me whole!"

A story about a wolfish top student pretending to be a puppy to lure a little fox. It looks like you're chasing me, but really, I'm the one seducing you.

[Reading Guide] The heroine likes to have fun, but she's serious about romantic fidelity.

Coming soon: Dear, Stop Daydreaming. Please add it to your reading list!

1.

Rang An is twenty. Her father's seventh-day memorial hasn't even passed when her mother chooses a new husband.

She also gets a stepbrother eight years older than her, who looks at her with gentle eyes and is always proper and well-mannered.

So she uses the worst method possible:

Wearing a red silk dress with straps, she appears in the boy's room with red-rimmed eyes and tearful, misty eyes. She clutches the hem of her dress, then trembles out the words, "Brother, I can't sleep..."

The next day, she ruins her mother's wedding.

Rang An hikes up her dress and walks away without looking back.

2.

Rang An's insomnia grows worse and worse. To save her own life, she has no choice but to see the psychiatrist her best friend calls a doctor with a golden reputation.

The man has casually rolled up the cuffs of his white shirt. His manner is composed and cultured as he looks down at her medical records.

Fortunately, he seems just as calm and acts as if he doesn't know her.

"Goodbye, Dr. Hou. I'll get in touch if I have any problems." After the appointment, Rang An smiles politely and bids him farewell, while privately blacklisting the hospital for good.

But then the man looks up, his gaze as deep and gentle as ever.

He speaks slowly, with a smile in his voice.

"You can call me if you need anything, but don't climb into my bed again."

*

Rang An: Life is full of hardship. I never thought I could save myself.

Hou Xiangyang: I've seen the bleakness and variety of life, and I still love it. Then I met Rang An. You're the only one I love. All my love is yours.

From then on, the mole on the tip of his nose became the mole on his heart.

Weibo: @Jinjiang Jing Huan

Love at First Sight

-Jiang Nan gets dumped. Her ex says he wants someone from a family that matches his own.

Before she can even react,

her boss gets replaced too.

Question: What do I do if my high school crush becomes my boss?

Online answer: Go after him.

Follow-up: He didn't even like me in high school. Why would he like me now?

Online answer: Maybe he's blind.

Jiang Nan: ...

The things you can't have are always the best. When her ex comes back and won't leave her alone,

Jiang Nan points out the window at her ex's dream car, a glossy black Mercedes S-Class.

She lies in an impossibly haughty tone: "See that? That's my boyfriend's car."

Just then, the man walking past stops.

He glances at his car, then lowers his eyes to the woman staring at him in shock.

He braces one hand on the edge of the table and bends down.

Jiang Nan is trapped with nowhere to retreat. She hears her boss, her high school crush, say, "Girlfriend, what are you doing here behind my back?"

Jiang Nan: Wow! My crush really is blind!

-From then on, Jiang Nan embarks on the heroic quest of winning over her crush, following advice from online strangers.

Their suggestions don't follow any usual playbook, but they work remarkably well on her crush.

It's like they are the crush himself!

To show her gratitude, Jiang Nan offers to treat him to dinner.

Online answer: You haven't won him over yet. How can you think about dinner? Could you move any faster?

??

Jiang Nan often wonders which of them is actually trying to win over the crush.

Then one night, Jiang Nan finally "gets a taste" of her crush.

While he's in the shower, she happily sends an update to the online strangers:

I did it, I did it!

You were right, my crush is amazing [shy]

I finally know what adult fun is like!

She sends three messages in a row. The phone beside her rings three times.

The timing is a little suspicious.

Jiang Nan glances over casually and freezes on the spot.

All three unread messages are exactly what she sent two seconds ago.

Every! Single! Word!

Also known as: 101 Ways My Crush Taught Me to Pursue Him

The heroine is a talented beauty who works hard to improve herself.

Both leads are each other's first.

Probably a short story.

Theme: Love can happen at first sight too.