A Mint-Flavored Secret Crush

My neighboring novels, Married Life Spoiling and Wild Branches, are both complete!

The campus heartthrob, Shen Yundu, was the school's star: handsome, from a prestigious family, cool and aloof, noble and distant. Countless girls were infatuated with him, but he never took an interest in anyone.

Her birthday happened to fall on the same day as another girl's.

That day, the other girl was at a warm, luxurious mountain villa, surrounded by flowers and applause, as her friends wished her well. She was as happy as a princess.

Meanwhile, the birthday girl was stuck in a pitch-black cave, so cold her fingers had gone numb.

The boy who should have been at the villa had been dragged into the mess with her, and they were trapped together.

Perhaps he'd never seen a girl have such a miserable birthday. Even someone as aloof as him felt a pang of sympathy.

His collar hung half open, showing off his alluring collarbones. He curled his lips lazily. "Make a wish with me, Shuyu."

The cold wind blew in through the cave entrance. Her nose and neck felt icy, but her fingertips were growing warmer.

He said, "I'll grant you anything."

Sadly, even when they parted, she never had the courage to voice her wish.

-

Later, at a bar.

Shuyu lost a game and had to ask a specific person for their phone number.

She made her way through the crowd and held out her phone. In a gentle voice, she asked, "Sir, could I have your contact information?"

Under the bar's dim, flickering, suggestive lights, the person didn't move. The man sitting lazily beside him suddenly looked up, revealing a face so beautiful it could enchant the world, so familiar that Shuyu's heart trembled.

The man glanced at her coldly, stubbed out his cigarette with one hand, took her phone, and lowered his eyes. Nonchalantly, he said, "He's had too much to drink. I'll do it for him."

He personally put someone else's number into her hand.

She had been the one to ask for it, yet when she got it back, her eyes were red.

In the bar's hallway, the man stopped her. With one hand in his pocket, he tipped up her chin carelessly and watched her tears fall. He gave a soft laugh. "How pitiful."

She sobbed and shook off his hand, trying to leave. He pulled her back, pinned her shoulders against the wall, and toyed with her hair, his eyes amused. "What's the rush?"

Shuyu bit her lip and said nothing.

He stared at her, then suddenly laughed with careless amusement. "Baby, what I said back then still stands."

My completed novel next door: Wild Branches

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Upcoming novel: Waiting for You to Fall in Love

The second male lead takes the lead / His secret crush comes true / The scumbag chases his ex, but fails to win her back

[Synopsis]

Sheng Ying got dumped.

On her birthday, she didn't get a proposal from her boyfriend. Instead, she found out he was flying to America to see his first love.

Only then did she learn that he'd pursued her because she looked like his first love. Since he couldn't have the woman he loved, he'd gone after her instead.

Seven years of love had turned into a complete joke.

Boyfriend: "I'm sorry."

Sheng Ying's fingers trembled. "What do you mean, you're sorry?"

Her boyfriend replied calmly, "She's sick. I have to stay with her. Give me some time. I'll come back and marry you."

Without a moment's hesitation, Sheng Ying blocked his contact information. She didn't want to make a fool of herself.

Her grandfather was seriously ill, and his greatest wish was for her to find a good partner.

Sheng Ying had given up on romance. If she had to get married, she might as well go all out.

Before setting off, she drank to work up her courage, then steeled herself and went to find Shen Yanzhou.

The noble, languid man leaned against the wall and looked down at her, his expression nonchalant. A cigarette rested between his lips as he toyed with a lighter in his palm, looking both alluring and roguish.

The tipsy little drunkard's face was flushed as she stammered, "I heard you need a wife to deal with your elders. How about me? I'm pretty, sweet-talking, a fairy who descended from heaven, and absolutely adorable!"

The man raised an eyebrow, amused. "Sure."

The next day, Sheng Ying woke up to find she was married. She was stunned.

-

Later, her ex-boyfriend regretted everything and hurried back from America, arriving at Sheng Ying's apartment.

He hadn't expected the man who answered the door to be dressed in a bathrobe, his black hair still damp. It was obvious what had happened in the apartment not long before.

Her ex-boyfriend's expression darkened. "Why are you here?"

Shen Yanzhou found the question rather amusing and scoffed. "What's wrong with me being at my own wife's place?"

Ex-boyfriend: ...

Sheng Ying had always thought she and Shen Yanzhou were merely in a partnership.

Then one day, he told her, "If I didn't like you, why would I have waited all these years?"

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