A Sultry Heat

● Next up for preorder: Behave, Relax

Two years ago, on an island, seventeen-year-old Xia Zili found a disheveled stranger.

He was handsome, mysterious, and unruly. He left a deep impression on Xia Zili.

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Two years later, Xia Zili got into Tingcheng University. While working part-time at an upscale banquet hall, she ran into that man again.

This time he was dressed in a tailored suit, surrounded by the elite and utterly beyond her reach. She heard he was Hua Xing Group's head: Hua Guchen.

She remembered that when he left, he had told her to come to him if she ever ran into trouble. Did that offer still stand?

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In Tingcheng's upper circles, Hua Guchen was infamous. He was ruthless and smiled with a knife hidden behind his back. He especially disliked women, and nobody dared send one to his bed.

But one day, a beautiful, dazzling college student suddenly appeared at his side. He paid off her enormous debts, gave her luxury cars and mansions, and offered her connections and resources.

Everyone thought she was his kept woman.

In reality, Hua Guchen was simply repaying the kindness she had shown him when he was down on his luck.

Of course, Xia Zili was special to him, and he indulged her every whim.

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Later, Xia Zili grew bold, teasing him in secret. One day, she went too far and crossed Hua Guchen's line.

He was still smiling, but his eyes held emotions he could barely restrain. "Looks like I've indulged you too much."

That night, the magnificent magnolia blossoms on the balcony were battered by the torrential rain.

Xia Zili cried on and off all night.

A beautiful college student saddled with huge debts x a seductive, ruthless tycoon

* Volume One: Rebellious high school girl x down-and-out young master [slow burn, skippable]

Volume Two: Hot-blooded college girl x powerful tycoon

* Also known as The Down-and-Out Tycoon's Tale of Repaying a Favor

* Repaying a favor / secret love comes true / powerful man falls / reunion after years apart

Next up: Behave, Relax, expected to launch in May

Reunited after seven years, she becomes friends with benefits with the man she's had a crush on for years.

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The year they graduated from high school, Song Lianyin had worked up the courage to confess to Jiang Yanchuan, but he coldly rejected her, and they had no contact after that.

Seven years later, at a high school reunion, the class beauty brought it up again. Song Lianyin laughed dismissively. "I'm over him."

Jiang Yanchuan only smiled and said nothing.

But before long, they became friends with benefits.

Jiang Yanchuan was as gentle and cruel as ever. "You can end this relationship whenever you want, but not while we're in bed."

Song Lianyin was carefree. "Sure."

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One day, Song Lianyin's ex asked her to get back together, and she said she'd think about it. When she returned, she told Jiang Yanchuan she wanted to end their arrangement.

Jiang Yanchuan was just as casual. "Sure."

But one night, on the snow-white bed, when her ex called, Jiang Yanchuan abandoned his usual gentlemanly restraint and threatened her. "Hang up, or I'll let him hear what we're doing right now."

"You're a bastard."

On the surface: elegant goddess of a teacher, and a mature, abstinent doctor

In reality: a cunning, flirtatious vixen, and a scheming sadist

Kinks:

* The heroine has a smoking-hot figure and seductive eyes. She uses little tricks to entice the hero, appearing like a reserved goddess when she's really a fox-spirit temptress.

* The hero starts out as an untouchable ice prince, but later turns into a sadist. I love seeing an untouchable ice prince brought down from his pedestal by love, haha!

#ReunionAfterYears #SecretLoveComesTrue #MendingABrokenRelationship #StealingTheLoveOfAnother #TrueFeelings #

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