I Haven't Made It Up to Her Yet

[VB: Qiao Zijie on Jinjiang. New book, Love-Deprived, now open for preorders. Please add it to your collection!]

[Recommending my friend’s book, The Performance Class Wants to Die Together with the Detective Again Today]

[Unrequited love becomes mutual, a two-way salvation, with an atypical groveling arc]

Yu Xi’s thirteenth year was bleak, gloomy, and numb.

She thought she was like a mushroom growing in a corner, quietly thriving in the damp before slowly rotting away.

Until she met Shen Qingsui.

The boy was gentle and warmhearted, so excellent he was beyond reproach. He was the figure the girls in class secretly watched from the corners of their eyes during lessons, and exactly the kind of person Yu Xi hated most and envied most.

Then Yu Xi was forced to become sworn siblings with the person she hated and envied most.

From then on, he looked after her like a younger sister, while Yu Xi developed feelings for her “older brother” that she should never have had.

A girl’s feelings can be both secret and impossible to hide.

It was like a mushroom in a corner, destined to rot, one day seeing the precious flowers and plants carefully tended inside a greenhouse. Suddenly, it began to long for a longer growing season and more time together.

The day she decided to stay away from Shen Qingsui, Yu Xi blocked his contact information and drank herself into a stupor.

The usually composed and restrained girl took her best friend’s hand, too heartbroken to speak. After a long silence, she finally broke down, her eyes red as she asked, “What’s wrong with me? Why doesn’t he love me?”

She paused, swallowed back a sob, and forced out an ugly smile through her tears. “Forget it. It doesn’t matter anymore.”

Shen Qingsui was a highly sought-after catch in their circle.

He had a gentle, captivating face, and when he smiled, his alluring peach-blossom eyes curved slightly, beautiful enough to enchant anyone.

What was more, he was young, wealthy, capable, and admired for his skill and influence. His resume was nothing short of dazzling.

Countless women wanted to have a casual fling with him.

Yet beneath his easygoing exterior lay an icy, deep-seated indifference. No one had ever managed to get close to him.

Rumor had it that he had been dating his childhood sweetheart for years, which was why he kept himself chaste and never fooled around.

Later, after a certain banquet, someone saw him by the entrance with an arm around a slender girl in a red dress with white hair. The girl cursed him as she tilted her head back and bit hard into the side of his neck.

The dim yellow light fell across the handsome profile of the man. He let the girl bite him fiercely, helped her put on his overcoat, and rubbed her head as he coaxed her softly. “It’s my fault. Please don’t leave me.”

Liking someone means being careful and tentative. Favoring someone means making it obvious.

A cool on the outside, warm on the inside, seemingly well-behaved girl × a warm on the outside, cold on the inside man who appears gentle

[Atypical groveling arc]

One-on-one romance, no exes anywhere in the story

The leads have no romantic relationship before adulthood

The main story hasn’t changed. I’m terrible at writing blurbs, and revising it nearly made me cry. My dear readers, please bear with it.

The final line of the blurb is adapted from something online.

The people on the cover are used with permission.

Everything in this story is fictional. Please don’t argue.

Preorder: Love-Deprived

Shi Jingfeng saw Wen Lai for the second time in a coffee shop.

He and his blind date witnessed a dramatic scene of someone catching their partner cheating.

In full view of everyone, the young woman splashed a cup of hot coffee in the scumbag’s face, spat at him, then walked away with her head held high and chest out, like a victorious general, brimming with pride.

But as he drove away, Shi Jingfeng happened to see her sitting beneath a bus-stop sign by the roadside, eyes red, face flushed from stubbornly holding it in, without shedding a single tear.

Shi Jingfeng wanted to pursue Wen Lai, but she rejected him without hesitation. “I’m not dating. I’m not interested in humans.”

In all his life, Shi Jingfeng had never heard such a creative rejection before. He couldn’t help turning his head and laughing aloud.

Later, when Wen Lai was hosting a well-known alumnus at her school, she saw a familiar face and her hand shook, spilling half a pot of tea all over the man. Her senior sent her out with a stern expression to buy clothes and apologize to the guest.

When she came running back with the clothes, only Shi Jingfeng was in the room.

The tea had dampened the man’s white shirt, faintly outlining his lean, fluidly defined muscles. He looked at her with an almost-smile. “What do you say, Miss Wen?”

Wen Lai blurted out, “Poverty cannot corrupt me.”

#If other people have it, my princess should have it too, including love#

Fiery beauty × seductive fox

Both leads are each other’s first, five-year age gap, female lead has avoidant attachment

Theme: Freedom, equality, and independence. Embrace a healthy future.