The Scam Backfired

The simplified Chinese print edition of When the Fake Accident Goes Wrong has been retitled Satisfaction. It's now available, and there's a chance your copy may be a signed edition. See Weibo for details. Thanks for your support!, June 8, 2022 Blurb: During the summer after her high school entrance exams, Zhang Ling accidentally bumped into an elderly woman while coming down from a pedestrian overpass. A bag of oranges rolled down the steps from the woman's hands. Zhang Ling hurried down to pick them up, only to find that a scruffy young hoodlum had already gathered them up. Zhang Ling confronted him, but the hoodlum refused to return the oranges and taunted her until she started to cry. Just then, Qiao Jiatong, a high school senior passing by, stepped in to help. He pinned the hoodlum to the ground and gave him a thorough beating, and Zhang Ling finally got the oranges back and returned them to the old woman. From that moment on, Qiao Jiatong took up residence in Zhang Ling's little heart, and her sweet secret crush began. When the new school year started, Zhang Ling saw her new deskmate and was horrified: it was that very hoodlum! His full name was Jiang Yun. Petty and vindictive, he made trouble for Zhang Ling from every angle. One day, he finally managed to make her cry again, and watched helplessly as she went to Qiao Jiatong to pour out her grievances. A few months later, class representative Zhang Ling reluctantly went to Jiang Yun's house to deliver his homework while he was sick. The person who opened the door was the old woman whose oranges had fallen! Zhang Ling: ... Jiang Yun: ... Old woman: ... #MyCarefullyPlannedFakeAccidentEndedUpGoingToTheDogs# One-sided crush → mutual crush Good girl Lingling X bad boy Yunyun Content notes: 1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one romance; happy ending; mainly set at school, with some urban life. 2. A somewhat idealized, realistic-style redemption story, mostly sweet and bittersweet, with a tiny bit of angst. The characters aren't perfect, so please be kind if they're not to your taste. 3. Some cities and schools in the story are fictional, and certain details have been invented to serve the plot. Please don't treat them as real places. Thank you. Coming soon; see the author's page for details. Please add it to your collection: Don't Panic, an urban romance And please add the author's page to your collection too! Sending love~ Weibo: @AuthorHanyan Theme: A story about growing up and changing, fighting for what you want, and learning to let go.