The Grape Beauty’s Dormant Period [Showbiz]

#Cool, gentle female doctoral student × shy, sweet actress #New upcoming story, The Runaway Love-Struck Fool. Please add it to your collection: [Cool, detached, rational, frail floral artist × fierce, clingy, silly beauty who designs cheongsams] In her senior year of high school, Gu Cang met Jiang Zaiyu, the new transfer student in her class, on the road. The breathtaking beauty, who rarely spoke or smiled, was hiding by the roadside, crying. Her eyes were red, yet she tried to stay composed. Gu Cang’s heart gave a little leap, and something like a grapevine took root in her heart. At her friend’s urging, Gu Cang planned to slip a love letter and some of Jiang Zaiyu’s favorite grape gummies into her desk before graduation. But in the end, she was too timid to deliver them. The grape gummies melted in her drawer, and not a single word of the love letter ever saw the light of day. Later, Gu Cang became a doctoral student at an agricultural university, where she spent six years studying grapes. Jiang Zaiyu became a famous sweet-and-spicy actress in the entertainment industry, with fans everywhere. Her mixed-heritage beauty earned her the nickname “the grape-type beauty.” Later still, Jiang Zaiyu came to the university to film a drama, drawing crowds of students. In the lab, Gu Cang secretly clenched her fingertips. She hadn’t planned to join the crowds, but then her junior, a master’s student, heard that Gu Cang and Jiang Zaiyu had gone to high school together and begged her to pull some strings and get an autograph photo. After her junior promised to run errands for her for a month, Gu Cang gathered several boxes of freshly harvested grapes from her lab and, steeling herself, went to see her former first love and secret crush. - Jiang Zaiyu recently received grapes from Gu Cang: strawberry-flavored, milk-flavored, rose-flavored... grapes. Everyone knows Gu Cang likes grapes. They say she studied agriculture in college, then specialized in fruit trees during her master’s, and kept researching grapes for her doctorate. So after her debut, she secretly decided to brand herself as a grape-type beauty. That’s not too much to ask, right? [Bonus scene] Jiang Zaiyu came to see Gu Cang but lingered beneath a tree, unable to approach, fidgeting shyly. Gu Cang asked, “Did you run out of the grapes I gave you last time?” Jiang Zaiyu turned her head to look at the scenery, then at the tree. Her curled lashes trembled. “No, I just... came to ask about your guest role in the show...” “Did you agree?” Gu Cang held her breath. “Not yet.” Jiang Zaiyu’s ears instantly turned bright red. Her shoulders shifted slightly as she bit her lower lip. “That scene... is a little unusual.” Jiang Zaiyu looked over, her amber eyes glimmering: “It’s... mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.” Gu Cang nearly forgot how to breathe. -In the end, Gu Cang became Jiang Zaiyu’s first on-screen kiss. -They filmed the mouth-to-mouth scene from thirteen different angles, and while Gu Cang was asleep, Jiang Zaiyu secretly kissed her fourteen times. “When you meet the person you love, you never get tired of them. The more you love them, the more you want to keep loving them.” -The grape-type beauty: sweet, soft, and fragrant, with plenty of juice and a rich flavor. Easy to get hooked on. [Reader’s guide] 1. Mostly from the seme’s perspective (Gu Cang’s), but with a leaning toward mutual top/bottom roles. 2. Most of the school scenes are told in flashbacks. 3. The plot comes first. Please don’t compare the characters’ professions to reality too closely. I politely decline any writing advice. 4. This isn’t a purely sweet story. Feel free to drop it without telling me. 5. This isn’t entirely an entertainment-industry story, but please, please don’t base any part of the entertainment-industry sections on real people. Weibo: @DefinitelyNotSkippingUpdates, Du Dudu. May post story-related updates. Upcoming story: The Runaway Love-Struck Fool [Cool, detached, rational, frail floral designer × fierce, clingy, silly beauty who designs cheongsams] [Title and blurb will be revised before publication] Cui Qizhen is a sickly beauty. If she doesn’t chew her food thoroughly, she throws up. If someone coughs near her, she’ll catch a cold the next day. Her bag is neatly stocked with alcohol wipes to disinfect her phone at any time, and her wardrobe is lined with rows of white shirts. Chi Qingcheng is a silly, spoiled princess. Her parents dote on her, and her sister pampers her. She only eats peeled shrimp, only rides a bicycle if someone else pedals, only wears clothes someone else has folded, and her wardrobe is full of rows of sexy camisoles and custom cheongsams. They should have been able to keep out of each other’s way. But, unfortunately, they’re sworn enemies. Chi Qingcheng can’t stand Cui Qizhen’s perpetually cold expression. She says Cui Qizhen is so pale she looks ready to cough up blood, like a gloomy ghost. Cui Qizhen can’t stand Chi Qingcheng’s constant grin. She says Chi Qingcheng has nothing but water in her head, like an idiot’s egg. Until one day, after a class reunion, Cui Qizhen wakes from a nightmare about passionately kissing Chi Qingcheng, nearly out of breath. Then she sees Chi Qingcheng’s lipstick marks all over the white shirt she took off last night, and Chi Qingcheng’s camisole neatly laid out by her bedside. Still half asleep, Chi Qingcheng mumbles, “You said you’d love me for a hundred centuries last night. You can’t take it back.” Later on: Cui Qizhen becomes love-struck. If Chi Qingcheng doesn’t peel her shrimp, she won’t eat. If Chi Qingcheng doesn’t pedal the bicycle for her, she won’t ride. If Chi Qingcheng doesn’t take off her white shirt, she won’t take it off. She won’t even take it off to sleep. Chi Qingcheng becomes love-struck too. When Cui Qizhen goes away on a business trip, she cries in her mother’s arms, red-eyed, sobbing, “What do I do? I miss my Qiqi so much.” If Cui Qizhen won’t help her get dressed, she simply won’t wear anything. She giggles and burrows into Cui Qizhen’s arms, kissing her here and there, then contentedly leaves her own signature lip prints on Cui Qizhen’s white shirt. “You have to love me for a hundred centuries every day!” Theme: Always face life with passion and hope.