A Cool Mint

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Spoiled heiress x charming, scheming fox

A cool mint candy

melting, sharp, intense, and addictive

An aloof, abstinent male lead, a pedantic old scholar x a fake green tea, truly awkward female lead, a drama queen

Old scholar meets drama queen: one repressed, one flirtatious.

Everyone knows that Z University's new philosophy professor is refined and abstinent, never cracking a smile. Once he puts on his glasses, who would dare say they love him?

Everyone knows that Z University has a famed campus belle who's a master of the art of flirtatious innocence. Handsome heartthrobs and aloof, domineering men alike are all utterly captivated by her green tea act.

Of course, nobody connects the two. One pursues the meaning of life, while the other chases the latest fashion. There's no way either would be interested in the other!

Then one day, they both saw a ghost in broad daylight!

The masterful campus belle clutched a copy of Principles of Marxist Philosophy and walked up to the podium, stopping the aloof professor as he was about to leave.

Looking innocent and pitiful, with a tear in the corner of her eye, she spoke in a delicate yet stubborn voice: “Teacher, everyone else knows everything, but I don't know anything. All I know how to do is spend money... But I really want to study hard, too!”

The professor frowned at the overpowering green tea act.

Everyone thought the aloof professor would turn and leave without a second thought. Instead, he raised a hand, patted her head with the loving kindness of an elder, and said, “As long as you're willing to work hard, there's nothing you can't learn.”

The masterful campus belle looked up in excitement. “Really?! You'll teach me?!”

The professor smiled with refined grace and patted the book in her hands. “Confucius said education should be for everyone. Start by copying out this book on Marxist philosophy.”

The campus belle was so startled that she dropped the book. “What?!”

When you have a stage in your heart, awkwardness isn't awkward. It's your stage presence.

He was making her copy out a whole book on Marxist philosophy from the start. Just how deep was his love for her?!

But later, Xu Linli discovered that her stage presence was truly dazzling!

In plain terms, a master of the art of flirtatious innocence went charging full speed down the road to awkwardness, turning over and over so spectacularly that even her mother wouldn't recognize her!

Much later, the aloof professor was still the aloof professor, while the campus belle renowned for her flirtatious act had long since become a campus legend.

One day in class, a student finally asked the question that had been bothering them for ages: “Teacher, why is your copy of Marxist Philosophy handwritten?”

The aloof professor's deep, bright eyes suddenly glinted. He looked down at the handwritten book in his hands, his gaze instantly filled with tenderness. In a low, hoarse voice, he said, “This is a love letter my fiancee copied out for me.”

I changed the title and blurb a little, but the recipe is still the same!

Thanks for the support, cuties. Enjoy reading!

Original blurb date: 2020.8.18

Limited-Time Seduction blurb:

#The second male lead wins after the groveling arc#

1. Fu Yao has loved Pei Yunqing since kindergarten. Everyone agrees they're a match made in heaven: childhood sweethearts from equally well-off families.

But the night before their engagement, Fu Yao sees her supposedly perfect match, that bastard, walk into a luxury presidential suite in an intimate embrace with his secretary, the very one he works so closely with.

Fu Yao immediately tries to storm in and catch them in the act, but a fox-like, seductive man grabs her wrist. “Don't interrupt their fun.”

Fu Yao stares at the hand gripping her wrist, a hand so beautiful it's almost unreal. “The scumbag in there is my boyfriend. What do you want?”

Ye Yansen looks at her with long, flirtatious eyes, unruly and full of affection, as if all the world's charms can't compare to a single glance from him. “You just called him a scumbag. How can he be your boyfriend?”

Fu Yao: “...”

That makes a lot of sense. I have no response.

“Do you know the best way to deal with a cheating scumbag?”

The man's soft, husky voice sounds like a bewitching melody. Fu Yao seems enchanted, staring at him, unable to say a word.

Ye Yansen's eyes crinkle with even deeper amusement. Raising an eyebrow, he says gently, “How about letting the second male lead win after the groveling arc? Here's my card. Call me anytime.”

“?!”

Fu Yao looks down at the gold-plated card, which looks surprisingly real. Do they offer professional services for groveling arcs now?

2. At the engagement ceremony:

Fu Yao looks at the man she's loved for fifteen years and asks with a sweet smile, “Do you love me?”

Pei Yunqing is startled, but he has no time to think it over. He answers directly, “I do.”

“Then what do you love about me? Or let me put it this way: do you love me, or do you love my money?”

Fu Yao's words from the stage plunge the venue into an awkward silence. Pei Yunqing is so shocked that he panics and grabs her arm. “Fu Yao, stop messing around!”

Fu Yao struggles to get free. “I'm not messing around! I don't love you. I love your uncle! I'm getting engaged to him!”

The best way to get revenge on a cheating scumbag is to get engaged to the illegitimate uncle he hates most!

But who can explain why that professional groveling-arc consultant is walking onto the stage? And why is he calling himself “Uncle”?!

Fake refined young lady, true spoiled heiress x charming, scheming fox

I use every trick in the book just to get a little closer to you.

One-line summary: Meet the charming fox who acts like a lovesick puppy!

Original blurb date: 2021.5.16

Theme: Love walks beside us on the road to the light.