After My Childhood Sweetheart and I Had a Bad Ending

Xia Yan and Lu Jinian grew up together, and their friends teased them that they would eventually become a couple. Whenever they were teased, Xia Yan would blush and sneak a glance at Lu Jinian. The aloof, brilliant, handsome young man was cold to everyone else but indulged her alone, so all of Xia Yan's girlish dreams became centered on him.

At nineteen, she finally worked up the courage to confess. Lu Jinian gave her a faint smile and patted her head, which she took as a yes.

But their happiness didn't last. In little more than a year, the boy next door had become President Lu. Most of the time, he frowned when he saw her, and each day he treated her more coldly than the last. Her disappointment kept building until, on his birthday, it finally burst.

A whole day of unanswered calls, the female secretary who showed up uninvited and whom he shielded behind him, and his impatient, "Have you had enough yet?"... Xia Yan finally woke up.

Her old dream shattered. Eyes red, she left in disarray, but with resolve.

*

Three years later, Xia Yan returned to Pengcheng. At a reception, she smiled brightly and danced with another man, her movements graceful and her presence dazzling.

With a dark expression, Lu Jinian nearly lost control as he pulled Xia Yan away from her dance partner. To the sound of the waltz, he held her captive in his arms and asked in a hoarse voice: It's been three years. Can you stop this now?

Xia Yan looked at the domineering man before her and found the whole thing absurd. Her smile was sweet and lovely. "You're joking, Mr. Lu."

When the dance ended, she pushed him away and took another man's arm.

Lu Jinian's usually proud, cool face seemed to go pale for an instant, but he quickly regained his composure. He thought: She's only throwing a tantrum.

Unfortunately, this time he was wrong. After repeatedly catching her sharing an umbrella with another man on a cozy rainy night, then feeding him intimately at a restaurant, Lu Jinian's confidence shattered. He could no longer keep his cool.

He knelt before her with flowers and a diamond ring in his hands, his eyes shattered. "Yanyan, you said you would marry me..."

Xia Yan looked at him calmly. "Mr. Lu, how can you take something we said as children seriously?"

A proud, aloof male lead who loves her without realizing it VS a beautiful, confident, slightly fussy female lead

One-on-one. Each other's first love, a groveling pursuit after the wife leaves, no switching male leads, happy ending.

No unsolicited writing advice, please. This is a fictional modern setting, so please don't nitpick the country, geography, policies, and so on!

My next book, "What a Damn Coincidence!" Add it to your favorites if you're interested. Here's the blurb:

After graduating from film school, Qu Yan became a C-list actress by playing supporting roles in several hit dramas, thanks to her classmate and best friend Ouyang Yue, whose luck with getting lead roles was off the charts. With Ouyang Yue helping her out, Qu Yan could lie flat: She didn't want to work hard anymore.

But things didn't stay that way for long. One day, her best friend's lead-role luck seemed to run out. Not only did her career start to decline, but she also ran into one crisis after another at work and in her personal life.

At a reception, Qu Yan saw her friend being harassed by a sleazy director. Clutching her champagne glass, she hurried over, only to bump into a handsome, aloof man after just two steps, spilling champagne all over his custom designer suit.

Rong Jingyao glanced down at the stain and frowned impatiently. He had just gotten the call ending his engagement, and now a woman had thrown herself at him, using such a clumsy ploy.

Qu Yan put on a bright smile. "I'm sorry, I'll pay for..."

He gave her a cold, mocking smile, then turned and walked away.

Qu Yan's almond-shaped eyes widened. "...Do you have any manners?"

*

Qu Yan got a desperate call from Ouyang Yue and learned that someone had drugged her at a hotel, so she hurried over to help.

After going to great lengths to rescue Ouyang Yue and take her to another room, Qu Yan stepped back outside and ran into Rong Jingyao, who had also been drugged and was flushed red.

Rong Jingyao tugged at his tie and laughed coldly. "So it was you."

Qu Yan: ...

It wasn't me. Don't look at me. I have no idea.

*

After running into each other again and again through one coincidence after another, Rong Jingyao finally found himself unable to stop falling for this woman. Then he realized that she didn't have him in her eyes at all.

With a dark look, he blocked Qu Yan's way. He had barely begun to speak in a cold voice, "If you weren't planning to seduce me..."

"Darling!" The beautiful woman before him, with her delicate features, cut him off.

The man's ears suddenly turned red. His eyes lit up, and he was about to say more when he saw Qu Yan reach past his shoulder and wave enthusiastically at Ouyang Yue in the distance. Qu Yan had been calling her darling.

Rong Jingyao was so angry he couldn't get another word out.

A proud, arrogant entertainment company president VS a lazy actress who only wants to protect her best friend. One-on-one, fun and sweet romance, happy ending.

"Going Back to an Ex Tastes So Good": A groveling pursuit story where the female lead is foolish and the male lead is a jerk at first, but later she nearly makes him cry. Here's the blurb:

Pei Yin woke up to find his childhood sweetheart Qiao Qiao lying beside him. She was wearing his T-shirt, her long, fair legs exposed, and the sight made his eyes swim.

His hangover immediately made his head pound.

Qiao Qiao woke up and complained shyly, "Brother Yin, you tore all my clothes last night..."

"Qiao Qiao!" Pei Yin cut her off. Seeing the joy in her eyes, he said seriously, "Last night was an accident. I've always thought of you as a little sister."

Qiao Qiao froze, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Pei Yin felt a surge of frustration. With a dark expression, he said, "If you insist that I take responsibility, I can..."

"Who wants you to take responsibility!" Qiao Qiao cried as she ran off.

Her unrequited love and first love both ended on her twenty-first birthday.

*

At twenty-six, Qiao Qiao was exactly Pei Yin's type. A pure look in her eyes concealed a seductive charm, and she was so beautiful she could make anyone swoon.

Pei Yin watched her, then fell straight into the trap she'd carefully laid for him.

He became infatuated with her, fell in love with her, proposed to her, and then was abandoned by her.

As Pei Yin begged her desperately, his eyes red, she clung to his shoulders and whispered in a soft, delicate voice, "I remember you once said you never go back to an ex."

Qiao Qiao let go of him and smiled sweetly. "Neither do I."

*

A former playboy turned devoted, wolfish lover VS a beautiful, sultry woman who loves to play the field

Theme: Love must be mutual