Bold and Unashamed

[Complete] [The next book is She's a Little Sweet. The next-generation story is up for presale: Professor Wen's and Xixi's son Ji Chen's story, Deliberately Sinking (Ji Chen x Cheng Yi).] When Ji Xi was fourteen, still living in Germany, a foreign exchange student came to stay with her family. The boy was gentle, aloof, and indifferent, and called her father "Teacher." Then she found out that her parents had asked him to keep an eye on her picky eating, her grades, and even her Chinese! Later, Wen Liang left Germany. She clutched his sleeve, eyes brimming with tears. Wen Liang bent down and pinched the tip of her nose, not particularly gently. "I'll email you, okay?" After that, he vanished without a trace. She pressed her lips together, opened her diary, and wrote a few words without expression: Wen Liang is dead! - Professor Wen Liang, who recently returned from abroad to join a university, is cool, refined, aloof, and taciturn, universally known as the untouchable beauty. After a research conference, Wen Liang's friend dragged him to a nearby film studio. As luck would have it, the crew was looking for a German dialogue double for the male lead. He held a fountain pen and finished the shoot. Then his gaze swept over the female lead's dialogue double, and he froze completely. The strikingly beautiful, familiar-looking young woman glanced at him. "Brother, have you really sunk so low that you're working as a dialogue double?" Wen Liang's expression remained impassive as he looked away. "Mm." After the shoot, the young woman disappeared. His friend explained, "I think she's an agent, famous for being aloof and gorgeous." "Is that so?" he said thoughtfully. He remembered the day he left Germany, when the young woman had been drinking and kissed his Adam's apple, murmuring, "Brother, don't fall for anyone else, okay?" He had answered hoarsely, telling her to behave. That night, his friend sent him a video of the young woman filling in on a variety show. Her makeup was immaculate as she appeared on screen, and the host teasingly asked, "Teacher Ji, is your first love still around?" Ji Xi stared straight into the camera, bright and poised. "First love? Oh, he's dead. They say that when the police arrived, there wasn't even a body left." The comments flooded with sympathy. Wen Liang: "..." - Ji Xi fills in as a judge on a variety show about a certain Starry Sky Project, and her beauty makes her a frequent fan favorite. After the final episode wraps, a young heartthrob boldly flirts with her. "Teacher Ji, what kind of man do you like?" She stares straight into the camera, her red lips curving slightly. "I like Wen Liang." The heartthrob raises an eyebrow and smiles. "What a coincidence, I'm Wen Liang's type. How about me?" She replies expressionlessly, "You won't do." Until one day, one of the artists under her agency forgets to turn off the camera after a livestream, and Ji Xi wanders into frame, completely unaware. A cool, refined man with his shirt sleeves rolled up appears on screen, handing the beauty a packet of cold medicine. His voice is cool and clear. "Don't you dare secretly pour it out." The beauty frowns and says, "Oh." The viewers: ??? A student at a certain university: Holy crap? Isn't that Professor Wen Liang, the professor we worked so hard to bring back from abroad? That night, Ji Xi appeared on Weibo. "Hi, everyone. This is Wen Liang." @Wen Liang And amid a flood of comments saying, "Holy crap, that was a pun all along," the man who was supposedly so dead that not even his body remained replied on Weibo: "Sorry, I've come back from the dead." @Ji Xi [Upcoming series: She's a Little Sweet] When Yu Yue was six, the young master of the Lu Group next door was brought back. Someone told Yu Yue that he was dangerous and she should stay away from him. Yu Yue obediently nodded, then secretly climbed over the wall. The boy had pale skin and exquisitely sharp features. He looked over at her. She shivered in fright and fell onto the lawn beside him. She blinked her foxlike eyes, then held out the candy in her arms. "Here, big brother. It's sweet." The year the old master died, Lu Chu was driven out of the Lu family. Eleven-year-old Yu Yue clutched his clothes and cried so hard she could barely breathe. The boy slowly bent down, his sickly face sharp as he stared at the Lu family behind her. He said quietly, "Yueyue, do you believe that one day these people will beg me to come back?" Yu Yue stared at him, confused. Years later, Yu Yue lost a bet and was forced to pretend to be her childhood friend Zhao Shang's girlfriend at the Lu family home. She smiled warmly and graciously, her foxlike eyes curving beautifully. Then she saw the person slowly coming downstairs and froze. The man wore a black shirt with the collar slightly open, silver-rimmed glasses, and a pale, sickly face. His eyes were slightly upturned. Frail and indifferent, he looked like a demon. Zhao Shang instantly stood at attention. "Hello, Uncle." The man's gaze passed over the girl with her curved foxlike eyes. Behind his silver-rimmed glasses, a flash of menace flickered in his eyes. As Yu Yue passed the study, a hand suddenly clamped around her wrist, and the man pinned her against the bookshelf. "Break up." Yu Yue: ? The man removed his glasses with one hand and lowered his phoenix eyes. "Be good." He wasn't worthy of her. One day later, Yu Xiaoyue was held on the man's lap. After taking every advantage of her, he whispered in her ear, "You really are sweet." I once fell into the abyss, and you pulled me into the warm sunshine. His unique sweetness must not be desecrated by the vulgar. - Lu Chu is a renowned name in venture capital. Not only because he's shrewd and ruthless, but because of his looks. The man is tall and long-legged, with skin so pale it looks sickly, slightly upturned phoenix eyes, and an imposing, refined air. His black shirt is slightly open, his suit jacket conceals a trim waist, and silver-rimmed glasses rest on his nose. He looks like a well-mannered scoundrel. Both chaste and seductive. Women flock to him, but he's always been alone. Before long, however, a girl with strikingly delicate features appears at his side. She looks underage. The girl has curved, foxlike eyes and calls him "Uncle." Everyone understands. She's the powerful Lu family's niece. So they treat her with great warmth, too. Until one day, just before a banquet is about to begin, Lu Chu is nowhere to be found. His assistant and business partners search anxiously. As they pass the stairs, a man's low, husky voice comes from behind a door. One of the business partners hurriedly reaches to push it open, but the next moment the man's voice grows clearer, edged with anger. "You slept with me and then ran?" "Yu Yue, you really have some nerve." The business partner's hand trembles. The assistant reacts quickly, pulling him away. As they turn to leave, the girl's voice comes from the room, tinged with tears. "Then what do you want me to do...?" The man's voice grows even hoarser. "Take responsibility." The assistant thinks he's going crazy. His boss has gone crazy, too. [Calculating, sickly, villainous tycoon x sweet-talking, soft, spoiled little troublemaker] He planned it all along. Childhood friends, more or less. Each other's first love. 1. This blurb was first posted on 2021-05-09. It may be revised, but the changes won't be major. 2. The sickly but ruthless Lu boss takes his time getting closer; the sweet-talking, soft, pampered Yu Xiaoyue is a little troublemaker. [Next-generation story: Deliberately Sinking] A new doctoral researcher joins the chemistry institute at Jiangbei University. On his first day, his looks instantly earn him the title of the institute's belle. At a gathering in a quiet bar, a friend drags Cheng Yi over to see the new belle and whispers, "What do you think?" Cheng Yi glances over and freezes. Researcher Ji Chen is refined and noble, with striking features and slightly upturned eyes. He's cool and dazzling. Far too familiar. Before the man can look over, Cheng Yi quickly lowers her eyes, hugs her computer, and retreats into a corner, offering her assessment in earnest. "He looks like a top-tier playboy." Her friend glares at her. "Don't insult my idol." Cheng Yi ducks her head and obediently shuts up. She waits until it's over, then Cheng Song walks out with her computer. Her friend cries out, "Xiaoyi, the institute belle!" Cheng Yi says, "Huh?" and looks up. In the twilight, a young man leans against the entrance to the club, his features cool and beautiful. His gaze is dark, his emotions unreadable. Cheng Yi pauses, then turns and runs. Suddenly, someone grabs her wrist and pulls her into the stairwell. The institute belle gives her a look, laughing in exasperation. "Cheng Xiaoyi, tell me." "Did you dump me, or did I dump you?" When Cheng Xiaoyi was one, she grabbed the pretty, delicate older boy from next door to her aunt's house during her first-birthday grab ceremony. When she was finally old enough to attend the same elementary school as him, he skipped grades and entered the affiliated high school of Zhongbei University. Cheng Xiaoyi worked hard all the way through school. After getting into the middle-school division of the affiliated high school, she found out that the boy had skipped grades again and been specially admitted to the country's best chemistry university, where he was doing a combined bachelor's, master's, and doctorate program. Later, when Cheng Yi was preparing for the college entrance exam, she gritted her teeth and got into the same university, only to find that the boy, already a legend at the school, had followed his advisor to a national chemistry research institute. Cheng Yi: ... Life is short. You have to know when to give up. Ever since, every novel by the author writing under the pen name Deliberately Sinking has featured a second male lead with the looks of a top-tier playboy. Cool, delicate features, and a genius character. But he always ends up alone for the rest of his life. Readers can't help feeling sorry for him: Please, author, give our genius second male lead a chance! He's handsome, fit, and smart. If you don't care about him, we do! Aaaaaah! Six months later, the author replies. "I did. He's very fit." Readers: Holy crap? Holy crap! - The poker-faced chemistry PhD Ji Xiaoshen x sweet-talking, even sweeter novelist Cheng Xiaoyi - First posted on 2022-02-03. It may be polished later, but the overall plot won't change. Theme: Let's work together to build a harmonious society.