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Male unrequited love / The male lead fights tooth and nail for her / Taking advantage of someone while they're vulnerable
Next book: After Anonymously Harassing My Trash Ex, blurb below ↓
1.
The first time Shi Yuan realized something was off with her boyfriend was when she went to visit him after Team GB won.
The brash, unruly young man refused to bow to anyone, yet he always gave in to Shi Yuan.
Shi Yuan thought things would stay that way, until she kept hearing him complain about Fu Qinghuan, the only woman on the team. From his descriptions, she could tell Fu Qinghuan was lively, vivacious, and bold, the complete opposite of her own reserved, boring self.
The two were always at each other's throats, arguing endlessly.
Their friends teased them for being a bickering couple, and Zhou Yu assured her he had absolutely no feelings for Fu Qinghuan.
The evening he stood her up, rain poured down in torrents. Raindrops pounded the ground, kicking up a mist of white spray.
Shi Yuan stood beneath a bus shelter and watched a girl run into the night with her boyfriend's jacket over her head.
She thought stumbling upon what looked like her boyfriend cheating was humiliating enough, but then her high school classmate Chen Yuzhou, whom she hadn't seen in years, witnessed it too.
After all this time, he was still as slick and polished as ever.
She had planned to pretend she didn't know him, but he was just as sharp-tongued as he had been years ago. He gave her a meaningful look and said, "Looks like your boyfriend's gone out to play."
Shi Yuan: "..."
Did she really need him to point that out?
2.
When Shi Yuan asked to break up, Zhou Yu didn't take her seriously.
He and his teammate Fu Qinghuan had done nothing wrong. He saw her as a close friend, and he was sure Shi Yuan would realize that and eventually come back to him.
A few days later, a teammate forwarded him a post claiming Shi Yuan and Chen Yuzhou were living together.
Zhou Yu scoffed. He didn't believe it.
Then he heard that Team GB, the veteran team that had retired, had switched to game development and hired a talented illustrator who created all the characters herself.
At the launch event, Zhou Yu saw Shi Yuan onstage, confidently and brightly describing her creative inspiration. Only then did he realize how far away from him she had gone.
Zhou Yu got dead drunk at a bar, then, like he had as a teenager, lingered beneath Shi Yuan's apartment building, a pathetic mess, begging her to forgive him.
A window slid open, and Zhou Yu looked up in delight.
Chen Yuzhou gazed down at him. The man leaned back lazily, revealing scratches on his neck, his expression arrogant. "Make one more disturbance and I'll call the police."
"Whenever you look at me, my heart swells like a spring tide."
Next book: After Anonymously Harassing My Trash Ex
Love scammer x aloof beauty
Jiang Shu came from a good family, was handsome and fit, and had made a name for himself at a young age. He was brash and unruly.
Few people knew he had a shameful romantic past.
In high school, he fell for a girl.
He adored her and was obsessed with her, doing whatever she asked and obeying her every word.
His friends mocked him, saying a simp like him would never get a happy ending. Jiang Shu scoffed and didn't care.
Then, a month into their relationship, just as he was head over heels, she suddenly dumped him and disappeared without a trace. He stood in the rain all night and never saw her again.
Only then did he realize that a simp's comeuppance could come awfully fast.
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The next time Xia Wenyen saw Jiang Shu was at an academic exchange conference at Rong University.
He was the golden boy, adored by everyone. She was a miserable college student worrying about her thesis.
He was still as slick and polished as ever, surrounded by admirers.
The man who once did everything she asked now looked more tenderly at a dog than at his ex. He had probably forgotten their old history, stale as yesterday's leftovers.
Seeing how well he was doing made Xia Wenyen lose her appetite and toss and turn all night.
After staying up late to finish work, Jiang Shu's phone kept ringing at three in the morning.
[Wanna compare?]
[Whose is bigger?]
[#Cartoon*Minion#]
Much later.
Jiang Shu: Where there's a will, there's a way. I just wasn't devoted enough as a simp.
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