Summer Green Rose

I'm writing White Sugar Trap next. Please add it to your reading list.

(Serialization began on December 4, 2021)

Xu Ying has won countless awards as a rising star, yet people still gossip about her looks:

"She's really so plain-looking."

"She's even kind of rustic. Anyone else think so?"

"I'll say it outright: she's not someone you'd want to look at too closely. Is there anyone in the industry who could be interested in her?"

Xu Ying has never cared about any of this. Whenever she sees the comments, she just smiles and lets them go.

But after she joined a dating show called The Comings and Goings, everyone realized she was unbelievably popular with men. Every male guest on the show showed her the occasional hint of concern.

The low-key CEO Cheng Yuanzhuo draped his coat over her.

The newly popular top-tier star Ke Song got up early to cook for her.

The cold prince Ji Lin went out of his way to buy her flowers.

As the show became a huge hit, online discussions grew just as heated.

Xu Ying laughed when she read the comments. Should she tell them that all these men were her ex-boyfriends?

The only thing that unsettled her was that all those ex-boyfriends were signaling that they wanted to get back together.

Xu Ying shook her head firmly and turned to Jiang Zhenyuan, the one male guest she didn't know well. She would rather fake a contractual couple pairing with him than get back together with an ex.

After the show ended, she naturally assumed she and Jiang Zhenyuan would go their separate ways, but he acted completely out of character. "Didn't I tell you that I really like you?"

Content warnings: twins, the man pursues the woman after the breakup, toxic.

"The Little Thing About Xu Ying Actually Being a Mary Sue"

#Female lead is inexperienced; male lead is not#

Preview of White Sugar Trap

Before meeting Qiao Cizhen, Gu Manchun was a laid-back, apathetic person. She wanted nothing and seemed like a pushover who let others walk all over her.

But the moment she saw Qiao Cizhen, she changed completely. He became something she had to have, and she was determined to make him hers.

Qiao Cizhen was baffled. Gu Manchun was known among their classmates as a good-hearted person, but around him, she was a demon who appeared once in a millennium.

At first, Gu Manchun only switched their seats. But later, she nearly took control of his entire life.

Yet Qiao Cizhen never said he loved her. Gu Manchun thought he must not be satisfied, so she let him go.

When she was alone and heartbroken, Gu Manchun comforted herself with the thought, "He'll be better off without me."

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When she saw Qiao Cizhen again, he had become the subject of everyone's gossip. They all said he was aloof, proud, and hard to approach.

Gu Manchun was surprised. Qiao Cizhen had never been that kind of person.

But soon, while attending a banquet together, Gu Manchun heard that Qiao Cizhen had left early to see the person he loved.

Gu Manchun laughed bitterly. It seemed he really was doing fine without her.

After the banquet, Gu Manchun walked home through the winter snow, only to find a man with hair that had turned half white waiting beneath her apartment building.

He looked up and said angrily, "Who said you weren't going to the banquet today and would be home early? That bastard!"

Gu Manchun smiled. "Qiao Cizhen, am I the person you love?"

Qiao Cizhen came over and embraced her, snow and all. "Silly. Who else could it be?"

#Braving the snow together, growing old together#

Happy ending. The male lead is inexperienced.

Theme: Embrace who you were and welcome who you will become.