Don't Be Ridiculous

[Complete] [Pre-release: The Heart-Pounding Game, please add it to your favorites @v@]

Tang Jiu officially met Xi Zui in college at a bar called "Drunk on Life and Dreams."

Standing at the top of the stairs, she accidentally discovered his secret: he was pretending to date someone.

When he caught her, she said cautiously, "I won't tell anyone."

He merely gave a nonchalant "Oh," then offered to help her put on her necklace.

No one knew how fast her heart was beating when his fingers brushed the skin of her neck.

Later, after his fake relationship with the girl ended, he asked Tang Jiu to pretend to be his girlfriend instead.

Once they were "together," Tang Jiu kept reminding herself to stay in her place, burying her unrequited love deep inside.

Every moment, she fought to keep her feelings from showing.

Then came his birthday. She drew the forfeit "kiss someone of the opposite sex here," and assumed he wouldn't agree.

To her surprise, he picked up a rose petal from the table and laid it over her lips.

The next moment, his lips pressed against hers, and they shared their first kiss through a rose petal.

Her heart pounded so wildly she thought she might go crazy.

Later, during a bar game, the man drank one penalty shot after another for her.

Drunk, he backed her into a corner, braced one hand against the wall, and nipped at her lips.

His breath, tinged with alcohol, muddled her thoughts, but she couldn't escape his hold. In a hoarse voice, she said, "Xi Zui, stop messing around."

He only became more audacious, and she reminded him again, "We're only pretending..."

But the man leaned closer, his lips against her flushed earlobe, his warm breath stirring her heart. In a low voice, he said, "Who says we're pretending? From now on, it's real."

*The drink isn't intoxicating. People intoxicate themselves.

"Only after drinking do you know the strength of wine; only after loving do you know the depth of love." - Dreams and Poetry

Good Girl x Beloved Son of Heaven

-Pre-release: The Heart-Pounding Game

When Le Siyin went to a bar seeking inspiration for a perfume, she met a man.

He was refined and aloof, with an upright bearing. Girls crowded around him, but he remained unmoved.

Warm and cool lights shifted across his striking, deep-set face and his exceptionally flirtatious eyes, a silent temptation.

Their gazes met, and the air between them turned suggestive. Le Siyin fell in love at first sight.

The next day, after finding the inspiration she wanted for her perfume, Le Siyin left a bottle of perfume behind so he wouldn't feel he'd gotten the short end of the deal. She added a note: "A reward for you."

It wasn't until the next day's trending news that Le Siyin learned the man she'd flirted with was none other than Qi Huo, head of the Qi Group.

Everyone knew the current head of the Qi family was a force to be reckoned with, yet also an ascetic "monk" with nothing but his good looks and wealth.

But Le Siyin refused to believe it.

The second time they met, she went up to flirt with him, looking at him with a smile and making no secret of her intentions. She asked bluntly, "How about being my boyfriend?"

As expected, he answered, "No."

The third time they met, Le Siyin went up to him again. "Qi Huo, how about we play a game?"

"Give me a hundred days, and I'll make you fall for me."

This time, Qi Huo didn't refuse.

*

At first, Qi Huo agreed to play this game only to get out of an arranged marriage.

After signing the marriage agreement, he didn't take the hundred-day game seriously.

The girl in front of him was certainly beautiful, but she wasn't his type.

He never expected that from the very start of their heart-pounding game, he would fall into her trap.

After countless flirtatious advances and teasing, he sank deeper and deeper into the trap, gradually becoming infatuated with her and addicted to her.

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Later, when the hundred-day deadline arrived, Le Siyin ended their heart-pounding game as promised.

After their engagement ended, she was at the bar flirting with a new target when Qi Huo suddenly appeared and pulled her into an empty hallway.

Breathing unevenly, Le Siyin could clearly smell the strong, intoxicating whiskey on his breath.

The man's lips slid from her collarbone up her neck, then came to rest by her ear. His voice was husky and sexy with a hint of drunkenness: "Now that the game has started, you're responsible for seeing it through with me."

Le Siyin: "I'd be honored."

-Being the one I've set my sights on is extremely dangerous.

Flirtatious Perfumer x Refined, Abstinent CEO

Theme: Making dreams come true