[Next book: Mint-Flavored Secret Crush. Please add it to your reading list, xoxo!]
Shu Yi knows full well that her marriage to Ji Nianchen is merely a contract that will end when its term expires.
So she diligently fulfills the terms of their agreement:
When Ji Nianchen catches a cold, Shu Yi moves all his things out of the master bedroom overnight so he won't infect her.
But the next second, a hand grabs the back of her head, and warm, damp lips seal hers.
Shu Yi's first thought: Oh no! I'm going to catch his cold.
Her second thought: Damn it! That was my first kiss.
Her third thought... Before she can get to that, her body reacts before her mind does, and she flips him over her shoulder.
Ji Nianchen clutches his chest in wounded indignation. "I thought you said you had a crush on me?"
Career-focused wife x devoted husband who just wants to hold her
Super-strong, top-notch fighter x girl with a very unusual thought process
A steel-straight woman with a pretty face and no idea how to use it x an arrogant man who asks himself three times a day, "When will my wife finally figure it out?"
-- Next book: Mint-Flavored Secret Crush --
One sweltering summer when he was fourteen, Xu Chi first saw Su Zhinian in an old alley, dressed up like a doll, as cicadas sang all around them.
The little girl was only seven. She timidly followed the adults, and when she saw him, she suddenly ducked her head.
The next time they met, she was surrounded by a group of children nearly as tall as she was. Her pretty princess braids had been pulled loose, and the ribbons were stained with dirt.
He angrily chased off the bullies, but she didn't even thank him. She simply turned and ran away too.
The third time, the little girl struggled to carry a woven grass basket of fruit and knocked on the door of Grandma Zhang, the deaf old woman who lived across the hall. Xu Chi saw her gesture with her hands, a smile on her lips as bright and healing as the April sunshine.
Years passed. When Xu Chi, now twenty-seven, saw Su Zhinian again, the girl had shed her childhood innocence and shyness, and was blossoming into a young woman.
But Xu Chi didn't know that Su Zhinian had traced his name, on paper, in her heart, through all those years when nobody noticed her, over and over again...
Gentle older boy x sweet younger girl
A secret crush come true
They are young at the beginning, with no romance between them. The female lead suffered from a period of mutism as a child due to psychological reasons.
Theme: Have the courage to pursue your own worth.
