Mutual Hunt

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A ruthless maniac at first, later pretending to be the gentle type (the male lead is a stand-in for the woman he once loved) x a woman with ulterior motives who pretends to be innocent (the female lead is sweet on the outside, ruthless within)

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This novel

Her perspective: She falls for Liang Qingyue at first sight and successfully seduces him.

His perspective: He uses himself as bait, patiently luring her in.

Liang Qingyue went out for a smoke. At the corner of the rooftop, he heard someone talking.

He glanced over. A woman with her back to him was holding her phone up for a video call. On the other end was a blue-eyed, blonde-haired woman, and the two were speaking English.

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A puzzled voice came from the phone. "Yuwen is already considered an excellent man by everyone in our lab. He's even chosen a Chinese name and is ready to travel a thousand miles for love. You're not moved at all? Are you racist?"

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The woman with her back to him was slender and graceful. Her voice was gentle, with a lazy laugh in it. "No. I just don't like him."

The person on the other end clearly couldn't understand and pressed her for an answer. "Then what kind of person do you like?"

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"Hmm..." Her leisurely, smiling voice gave nothing away. "I guess I like people who ignore me."

The other woman paused, then swore. "You're crazy."

That made her laugh, bright-eyed, coquettish, and uninhibited.

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Liang Qingyue wasn't in the habit of eavesdropping. He finished his cigarette and left.

In April, at the bustling elevator lobby of Binhai Tower, Liang Qingyue recognized her from just one sentence.

The kind who likes people who ignore her, huh?

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Then he had better be an honest little fox.

So Liang Qingyue spun a web. The bait inside was himself, the man who ignored her, with a little fruit of flirtation left for her to guess at. He waited for the little fox to walk into the trap.

Jiang Zhizhi had always been accurate about herself: greedy, lustful, lazy, and thoroughly ordinary.

She had little sense of morality and not much of a sincere heart. Nothing mattered more than doing what she wanted.

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When she met Liang Qingyue, he was distant, guarded, and seemed to be holding himself back. And yes, he ignored her.

He was perfectly to Jiang Zhizhi's taste.

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Since she had nothing better to do, Jiang Zhizhi decided to tease him.

She wanted to see whether flirting with a restrained, cold, dangerous man was as much fun as flirting with a cold-blooded beast.

At a barbecue stand on a summer night, she wore the mosquito-repellent watch Liang Qingyue had brought to soothe a little kid.

The beer went down nicely. She lounged in her chair, lazy, carefree, and audacious.

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She squinted at Liang Qingyue, who was peeling shrimp with gloves on, and gave him a seductive whistle.

Like a street tough who collected protection money and flirted with young women.

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Liang Qingyue turned his head. Calmly and naturally, he raised his hand, leaned over, and made a pressing motion behind her in midair.

Jiang Zhizhi looked confused. "What are you doing?"

Liang Qingyue answered with a perfectly straight face, "Your tail's sticking up too high. I'm pressing it down for you."

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He wasn't just handsome. He could press down a tail, too.

An unignorable kill notification rang in Jiang Zhizhi's mind.

[First blood!]

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Everyone in the business world knew that the head of the Liang family was ruthless, decisive, and, moreover, unscrupulous.

So when the prey's value far exceeded the limits he had set, Liang Qingyue didn't mind entering the game himself and using himself as bait.

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A biotech mogul posing as an obscure C-list starlet x a cold-blooded tycoon with a double dose of abstinence

Free-spirited and uninhibited x a refined scoundrel

A fairy tale for the real world.

A heads-up: The heroine is so overpowered it's ridiculous. She's stunning and fierce, so don't read if that's not your thing.

Also, all the specialized biology knowledge in the story is included for plot purposes. Professionals, please don't take it too seriously.

Blurb written: 2023-03-31

Theme: At the prime of your life, be fearless and passionate.