Won't You Look at Me?

(Coming soon: Take Me Home, Miss; Raising Kids in an Infinite-Flow World. Add them to your favorites if you're interested.)

[Shameless, scheming, green-tea wolf-dog male lead who can't play for beans VS sharp-tongued, aloof, dog-training expert female lead who's a top-tier gamer]

Lou Duyue, the coldly beautiful head of the Lou family in Jincheng.

Rumor had it she was calculating, ruthless, and capricious, someone no one in the world of wealth and power dared to provoke.

Then a sudden upheaval within the Lou family left Lou Duyue hospitalized after a car accident. Rumors swept through Jincheng, and many were already writing her off. Little did they know that she was bored in her hospital room and had started gaming at her cousin's enthusiastic invitation.

She even picked up a support "little sister" and spent all day in the Rift listening to her cheer her on. "Big sis, you're amazing." "Big sis, you're so good!" "Big sis, cuddle me."

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At first, Lou Duyue thought she'd picked up a cute, clingy, sweet-talking support girl who was just a little bad at the game.

Later, she happened to open her own streaming platform and saw a boy streaming under the same nickname as the support girl she'd picked up, listed among the handsome streamers. He was terrible at the game but great at cursing, feeding the opposing team like an unleashed mad dog, and rattling off a hundred censored words a minute.

After the match, his teammates challenged him to a duel. The boy lazily tilted his head back and scoffed on stream. "What's he acting so cocky for? If he's got guts, he can fight my wife. My wife is the best Yao player in the country."

As the best Yao player in the country, Lou Duyue raised an eyebrow, as if sensing something, and glanced at her phone. A message had just come from the contact saved as [Baby].

[Big sis, someone's picking on me and challenging me to a duel.]

[Big sis, can you play a match against him for me?]

[?]

[Big sis, look at me (T▽T)]

[From the age of sixteen to nineteen, you were always in my dreams.

But no matter how many nights passed, all I could see was your back.

Then I woke from the dream, and at last you turned around and saw me.]

--Jin Taiwu.

Reader's guide: 1. The game is based on Honor of Kings. Slice of life.

2. The male lead is only bad at the game. He's a scheming wolf-dog with maxed-out green-tea skills. His secret crush becomes mutual, and he pursues her with straightforward wolf-dog determination.

3. No online romance. They date in real life. Older woman, younger man, with a four-year age gap.

4. The male lead uses a voice changer and pretends to be a girl, but only for the female lead. He loses his secret identity midway through without realizing it.

Please add my new novel to your favorites: Take Me Home, Miss.

[Sunny, life-loving puppy-dog male lead VS sickly, world-weary female lead who's a brilliant actress and extremely possessive]

The year Chi Qixi turned eight, she saw Jiang Xiannian. She was in a car, and he was by the side of the road.

A tiny boy crouched on the ground, chewing on a steamed bun. His hair was a mess, and his dirty clothes clung to him. He looked like a stray dog with nowhere to go.

She stared at him for so long that her grandfather noticed something was wrong. "Xiaoxi?"

Chi Qixi got out of the car. The pale little girl, as fragile-looking as a piece of jade, stood by the road and calmly asked, "Do you want to come home with me?"

The boy, who had been devouring his bun, froze. He blinked, then nodded firmly. "I do!"

When he was eighteen, Jiang Xiannian was always by Chi Qixi's side. He made her breakfast, helped her with her notes, bought her brown sugar water during her period, and even carried her everywhere, looking after her like she was helpless.

Everyone said the Chi family's adopted son would brave anything for the Chi family's young miss, whether that meant going through fire or climbing a mountain of knives.

But nobody expected that after the Chi family patriarch died and Chi Qixi took control, her very first decision would be to kick Jiang Xiannian out of the family.

Years later, when she was twenty-eight, Jiang Xiannian had made his way back into elite society through his own efforts. At Chi Qixi's birthday banquet, guests filled the venue. He was now strikingly handsome and radiated nobility, drawing everyone's gaze the moment he appeared.

Jiang Xiannian walked up to Chi Qixi and, out of habit, straightened her skirt as he had years ago. Under her appraising gaze, he bent down and asked softly, "Miss, can you take me home?"

She was silent for a long moment, then nodded. "All right."

Theme: Seize your opportunities to succeed.