The Failed Engagement Cancellation

[Coming soon: See the blurb for Don't Use a Kitty Knife to Flirt with Me at the end.]

Miss Xin has known since her school days that she would marry the young master of the Qi family, her childhood friend.

Unfortunately, they are also classmates.

The more people tease them, the less the two parties to the arranged marriage can stand each other. Xin Ge keeps threatening to "break off the engagement," but she can't resist his good looks.

On the night of her twentieth birthday party, she finally did what she should have done, and what she shouldn't have done, too.

Afterward, she stubbornly said, "It was nothing special."

To her surprise, the other person was even more stubborn: "It was just so-so."

Later, Miss Xin really did leave behind a letter breaking off the engagement and disappear without a trace. The Qi family's young master, who had always acted superior to everyone, became the laughingstock of high society.

Four years later, Xin Ge returns to her hometown and takes a job as a planner for a dress-up mobile game. Her former fiance has become a famous fashion designer.

Asked about being "dumped" in the past, Qi Wenxian sneers coldly: "There were no feelings involved. I don't care. It doesn't matter."

A cross-industry collaboration brings the former ill-fated couple together again...

She tries to avoid him, while he pursues her relentlessly, practically wearing the words "desperate to marry" on his face.

After falling for someone's provocation, Xin Ge gets carried away and finally decides to go register their marriage.

The car heads straight for the civil affairs bureau.

She mocks Qi Wenxian for planning it all along: "You keep your household registration book in the car?"

To her surprise, he coolly fires back: "Don't you have your household registration card on you, too?"

Years apart.

Still stubborn with each other, as if they can read one another's minds.

Refined scoundrel x clear-headed, resilient woman

Fashion designer x dress-up game planner

* 1v1, happy ending, bickering, and a love story between two stubborn people who refuse to admit their feelings

* Modern workplace and school-day flashbacks, with a reunion from the very start

* The professional details of the workplace are fictionalized

[Coming Soon: Don't Use a Kitty Knife to Flirt with Me]

Miss Baili has thrown away her eighteenth profile for an arranged marriage match.

Her friend is stunned. "Seriously? You don't like Shao Boru either? He's from an old-money family in Wucheng, with a solid fortune and a great income!"

She raises an eyebrow and shows 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 me?"

"He owns a villa in Ziyu Manor!"

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

Her friend falls silent for a moment. "I heard Shao Boru keeps seven cats in his villa! They're all round, sweet, adorable, and well-behaved! A few of them are celebrity cats who've been in magazines and TV dramas!"

"Do I look like..."

Baili Yu, a cat lover, suddenly falters.

I do.

Two days later, word spreads through Wucheng's high society that the Baili and Shao families are about to arrange a marriage.

The proposed groom says he has seven children.

Baili Yu says she's happy to become a mother without the labor.

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They marry just to appease their elders. After the wedding, Baili Yu and Shao Boru agree not to interfere in each other's lives and to split up whenever either of them finds true love.

Onlookers sigh: Those fake spouses both have tempers. Getting along with each other must be a nightmare.

Some even claim to have seen Miss Baili sneaking out of the mansion alone before dawn with a cat carrier on her back, wiping away tears as she went. It looked like she'd been wronged by her husband and was planning to steal the cats and run...

A friend calls and patiently advises her, "If things aren't working out, get divorced sooner rather than later."

At the time, Baili Yu is lying on a double bed in Ziyu Manor with her seven little brats, numbers one through seven, in her arms. She furrows her brow and says helplessly, "I asked a divorce lawyer. The cats won't be awarded to me."

Before she's even finished speaking,

a well-defined hand reaches over, rudely hangs up on her, and coaxes the cat clinging to Baili Yu away as well.

Shao Boru pulls his wife close.

Even a lofty young master has moments when he has to beg in a soft voice: "For the sake of the seven kids, don't bring up divorce again."

Theme: In love, opposites have a way of bringing each other to heel.