Roaring at Dusk

[Upcoming novel: Don't Use a Cat Dagger to Flirt with Me. Please add it to your reading list.]

Tu Yu was surprised to discover that a handsome, perfectly built new server had started working in her university cafeteria. Hoping to score a few extra pieces of meat with every meal, she doted on him, and gradually fell for him...

He's so down-to-earth, so upright, so honest! He's nothing like those other men, all lies and schemes!

Tu Yu decided to make the first move.

After moving into a rental near campus, she finally got her man.

But looking at the gourmet ingredients on the dinner table, a different kind every day, Tu Yu couldn't help but wonder: Wasn't her boyfriend so poor he picked up cigarette butts and wore knockoffs?

Where was he getting the money for all this meat?

And whose Maybach was that parked downstairs?

*

Gao Yu always thought his young girlfriend was hard to please.

Limited-edition handbags? She didn't care.

Vows of eternal love? She paid no attention.

Fortunately, he could still take off his suit, put on an apron, and make her delicious food in all sorts of ways.

Then that stopped working, too.

So he had no choice but to...

Wear nothing but an apron and make her delicious food in all sorts of ways.

Rich young chairman's son who pretends to be poor and gets found out x sunshine-loving foodie girl

* University life with a little workplace romance

* Age gap and height difference

* One-on-one romance, happy ending

[Synopsis for upcoming novel: Don't Use a Cat Dagger to Flirt with Me]

Miss Baili tossed aside the details of her eighteenth arranged-marriage candidate.

Her friend was shocked. "Seriously? You don't like Shao Bairu either? He's old money from Wucheng, with a solid family fortune and a great income!"

She raised an eyebrow and showed off her limited-edition handbag and luxury car keys. "Do I look like I need money?"

"He's so handsome, too!"

"Do I look like I don't have handsome men chasing after me?"

"He owns a villa in Ziyu Estate!"

"Do I look like I can't afford to live in a villa?"

Her friend fell silent for a moment. "I heard Shao Bairu has seven cats at his villa! They're all plump, adorable, and well-behaved! A few of them have even been in magazines and TV dramas!"

"Do I look like..."

Baili Yu, a cat lover, suddenly ran out of words.

I do.

Two days later, rumors spread through Wucheng's elite circles that the Baili and Shao families were about to arrange a marriage.

The prospective groom said he had seven children.

Baili Yu said she was perfectly happy to become a mom without going through childbirth.

*

They married to appease their elders. After the wedding, Baili Yu and Shao Bairu agreed not to interfere in each other's lives, and that either could leave at any time if they found true love.

Onlookers sighed. The fake couple both had fiery tempers, so living together was bound to be rough.

Some even claimed they'd seen Miss Baili sneaking out of the mansion alone at dawn with a cat carrier on her back, wiping away tears as she went. They suspected she'd been mistreated by her husband and was planning to steal the cats and run...

Her friend called and patiently advised her, "If you're unhappy, just get a divorce already."

At the time, Baili Yu was lying on a double bed at Ziyu Estate, with her seven little troublemakers, numbered One through Seven, in her arms. Frowning helplessly, she said, "I asked a divorce lawyer. The cats won't be awarded to me."

Before she could finish speaking,

a long-fingered hand reached over and abruptly ended her call, then coaxed the cats off Baili Yu.

Shao Bairu pulled his wife close.

Even the haughty young master had a moment when he had to plead. "For the sake of the seven kids, don't bring up divorce again."

Theme: You will always meet the right person