Mutual Provocation

My upcoming novels, Has President Ling Turned Over a New Leaf Today? and The Campus Heartthrob With the Deep Voice Gets Grabbed Again, are waiting in my collection. Click to check them out. Blurb: During the summer before his second year of high school, Qi Ming Yu meets the newly crowned provincial top scorer by chance while traveling with a tour group. The two team up for bungee jumping, horseback riding, rock climbing, and scuba diving. That night, they even share a standard hotel room. After the new school year begins and the classes are reshuffled, Qi Ming Yu discovers a familiar face sitting beside him. It turns out the “provincial top scorer” is not only in the same grade, but is also a bona fide academic slacker. After seeing his “hypocritical deskmate” buy milk tea for the school belle, his own younger sister, Qi Ming Yu flies into a rage and grabs him by the collar, throwing him into the sandpit on the sports field. “So you pretended to be the top student just to get close to me, all so you could hit on my sister?” As they spend more time together, Qi Ming Yu gradually realizes his deskmate is a strange guy. He's clearly best at politics, history, and geography, yet insists on staying in the science stream and scraping the bottom of the grade rankings. He has the face of everyone's dream boyfriend, yet ignores every hint of interest from girls. Then, at a friend's birthday party, the little oddball gets drunk and confesses in front of dozens of straight male friends. “The person I've always liked is you.” - After his father died, Jin Chen turned down his mother's offer to take him abroad and chose to stay in his hometown on his own. It wasn't only because all his memories of his father were there, but also because he'd met a boy who was special to him. After a year of unrequited love, an accident makes him blurt out his secret in front of everyone. Torn by conflicting feelings, he still chooses to leave without saying goodbye. After transferring schools, Jin Chen switches from science to humanities and takes the top spot in his grade for the first time. On the day the rankings are posted, a top student who has also switched from science to humanities joins the class. He casually picks up the ranking sheet, stares at a certain name, and smiles at the curious crowd. “Let me tell you the story of how the great Jin Chen seduced me and then ran away.” - Qi Ming Yu x Jin Chen Rational, scheming, all-around cool guy, always talks things through before throwing a punch, powerful top Gentle and easygoing, filthy rich, buys whatever he wants when he doesn't get his way, pampered bottom [The reading guide is in the author's note of Chapter One] Upcoming novel: Has President Ling Turned Over a New Leaf Today? Disciplined, cool-headed top, former military doctor who has seen death, wears a white coat and loves no one High-powered, multiple-personality bottom, scion of a tycoon and darling of heaven, triumphant in love and ruthless in business - During an activity with his parkour club, Ling Xuan collides with a passerby and injures him. After a single breathtaking glance, he can't get the man out of his mind. He mobilizes his friends to search high and low, and finally manages to uncover the man's identity. A retired professional seventh-dan Go player: He places his stones and plans his game with a calm, detached expression. Even with a bandage wrapped around his wrist, he can defeat his opponents without giving them a chance to fight back. Chief engineer at a medical research institute: He spends twenty-four hours a day immersed in projects with his research data in hand. He speaks no more than three sentences, and remains indifferent amid a crowd of admirers of both sexes. A top-tier star member of a famous fighting club: Once a revered expert who took on twelve opponents alone and swept through the entire gym. In private, the gym's newcomers call him the ultimate test of skill. His bad friends all advise him, “Stay away from that icy flower on the mountaintop if you value your life.” Ling Xuan refuses to be discouraged. “What color of sack do you think someone like him would like?” * After his family summons him home from the military, Liang Zhao throws himself into his new job, day after day, cold and indifferent, until a difficult neighbor in his early twenties moves in across the hall. By day, the young man wears a scholarly expression while discussing finance research with his graduate advisor. By night, he changes into a hot outfit and shows off his tricks on a longboard down the street. He's both well-behaved and wild, but only goes completely out of character around Liang Zhao. [I'm super nervous on my first day as an intern, and it feels like everyone's avoiding me. I'm upset. Liang, please be nice and take me out to dinner tonight.] One day, Liang Zhao gets another message full of complaints. Hearing that a certain “intern” has been getting knocked around as he starts out in the world, he softens and drives to the financial conglomerate's headquarters to pick him up. The receptionist manages to smile professionally despite being distracted by the man's stunning looks. “May I ask if you have an appointment with our President Ling?” Liang Zhao: “...” Theme: Keep your passion alive, bravely strive forward, and turn the thorns along your path of growth into starlight.