Delicate and Wild

[Next up: Neon Love. Please add it to your reading list!]

The bar Ye Qisen invested in took a serious hit to its business. When he investigated the reason, the employees hemmed and hawed. “We heard the new B&B next door has a proprietress with a tiny waist, long legs, a sweet tongue, a pretty face, and even better cocktails.”

Ye Qisen scoffed and decided to go see for himself.

He pushed open the white picket gate next door. The woman reclining in a wicker chair wore a red dress against her pale skin. Her voice was as proud as a peacock’s. “Our businesses will both suffer if we compete. Why not let me make you my boyfriend, sir?”

Ye Qisen froze for three seconds, then gave a scornful laugh. “What kind of ridiculous dream is that?”

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A month later, the woman leaned against the doorway of the studio, wearing the suit he’d left behind last night. Her voice was soft and seductive. “Boss, want to take some boudoir photos?”

The man stared at her for three seconds, his voice husky. “Sure.”

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An hour later,

In the room, Xin Wu was mortified as she was told to pose her body in all sorts of positions. She turned to glare at the fully dressed, perfectly proper man standing in the corner. “I thought we were taking photos!”

“Didn’t you say you wanted boudoir photos?” His Adam’s apple bobbed as Ye Qisen stepped forward and held her ankle to adjust her pose. In a perfectly serious tone, he instructed her, “Spread your legs a little wider.”

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Hong Kong-style beauty & chaste photographer

“Some encounters are truly astonishing, like the day I met you.”

-The final line is from Zhang Zhenyue’s “Xiao Yu.” Please contact me for removal.

Next up: Neon Love

1. Chu Yang always thought Shen Zhi was with him because he was handsome.

His face was what he’d been most proud of all his life, so when Shen Zhi invited him out, he accepted without a moment’s hesitation.

He thought they were made for each other. They both judged people by their looks, and they were both after each other’s faces.

2. After a year of happy, easygoing companionship, the guy Shen Zhi had a crush on broke up with his girlfriend. Chu Yang looked at Shen Zhi with her arm around a man who looked seventy percent like him, and laughed in fury.

When Shen Zhi said, “I don’t know him,” Chu Yang leaned against the wall with his arms crossed and reminded her lazily, “You didn’t say that last night.”

He said, “Shen Zhi, don’t be heartless.”

3. Chu Yang had been proud and arrogant since childhood. The day he found out Shen Zhi was using him as a substitute, he thought he would never forgive her.

A couple of days later, Shen Zhi proved that all she had to do was beckon with a finger, and he’d come crawling back like a lapdog.

And he’d offer her every last bone he had without holding anything back.

[The main story is told from the female lead’s perspective. The male lead is a substitute, and the female lead has an unattainable first love. There’s a bit of the male lead chasing the female lead. He acts arrogant, but he’s a lovesick puppy underneath. Male-lead fans, beware.]

Theme: I caught the light of my youth, and we ended up together