A Little Tenderness

#Lazy and aloof beauty x refined scoundrel

Qi Yan is a rising star in the finance world. Everyone in the industry knows him as an elegant, humble, aloof man who keeps himself chaste, with a mysterious background.

Some say he's the young master of an influential family in the capital, a man nobody dares cross.

No one knows that this business tycoon has kept a beloved first love in his heart for years.

Meng Lingxue is a C-list actress, indifferent by nature, with a slender, graceful figure and beauty enough to turn heads. Yet she's constantly caught up in rumors and scandals.

She often hears her assistant talk about President Qi, about what a gentleman he is and how far beyond reach.

She only curls her red lips and gives a soft, mocking laugh. "How naive."

With no other choice, Meng Lingxue is forced to attend a drinking party.

The man at the head of the table smiles with refined elegance, as if watching prey draw closer, step by step...

"A-Xue, you have no heart."

He kisses the beautiful, snowy-white butterfly bone on her back. She can't help shivering as she hears him call her name again and again, his voice tender and affectionate.

That very night, the male guest who had a dispute with Meng Lingxue is blacklisted across the entire internet.

Everyone speculates about the powerful benefactor behind Meng Lingxue.

Netizens beg for someone to dig up the truth, but the marketing accounts that investigate are soon trembling with fear.

2. Meng Lingxue knocks away the hand gripping her slender waist and smiles with lazy radiance. "President Qi, I hear people say you're not interested in sex?"

The man's thin lips brush her earlobe, his voice low and husky. "Do you really have no idea whether I'm interested, Mrs. Qi?"

Not long after, an explicit photo spreads across the internet: in a parking garage, a handsome, refined venture capital tycoon holds a woman in his arms, pressing her against a car window as they kiss tenderly, unable to part.

Later, the man who once dominated the top business negotiation tables with ruthless decisiveness sets aside his pride and air of nobility, pleading humbly: "A-Xue, can you please not leave me?"

3. Qi Yan comes from a distinguished family, is handsome, and is every teacher's favorite and every classmate's model student.

Gentle and composed, humble and courteous.

No one knows he has a severe lack of empathy and mild alexithymia.

Only Meng Lingxue has seen him take off his school uniform and become cold and ruthless in a dark, cramped alley.

--"I've lost the ability to love, except for you, only you." The End of the Affair

#Both are each other's first and only, happy ending

#Rekindled love, with school-day flashbacks

--★★Coming next: The Whole World Is Mine When I Have You★★--

#Soft, adorable bunny x cool, scheming childhood friend

#Sweet childhood-friends romance / bedtime treat / updates promptly at 9:00 p.m.

1. Yingning High welcomed the top scorer in the city's high school entrance exam. He was brilliant, impossibly handsome, and had enough secret admirers to form a line all the way to England.

But the top student had a cool, distant face and rejected girls with cutting words, leaving no room for hope.

Then a sweet girl started following him around like a clingy little tail.

Everyone thought she didn't stand a chance.

Until one day, someone spotted the top student doing homework with her in the library. The girl chewed on her pen, looking frustrated.

The top student raised an eyebrow. "Can't solve it? Call me big brother and I'll teach you."

The girl answered sweetly, "Big brother."

In the next moment, the top student ruffled her hair, a doting smile appearing on his normally indifferent face.

Everyone: ...Unbelievable.

2. At university, Lin Jinnian was famous in A University's law school for his icy expression and sharp tongue. He was also the captain of the campus basketball club, tall and long-legged, and outrageously handsome. Yet the girls in his department all kept their distance.

As his roommate put it, the guy was a lost cause, destined to be alone forever!

Then one day, after winning a game, his teammates came to Lin Jinnian's home for dinner and caught him pinning a cute girl against the wall. The girl was even wearing his pajamas.

The next second, the captain shut the door with a cold expression.

Outside, everyone looked as if they'd been struck by lightning.

A friend sent him a voice message: "What is going on?"

Lin Jinnian lit a cigarette, looking relaxed. "My fiancée. We were born on the same day, in the same month, in the same year. Our parents arranged our marriage before we were even born."

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Roguish and mischievous x sweet and obedient, mutual devotion, rekindled love

School and city life, 3:2

--Description captured on November 19, 2021--

Theme: Study hard and keep improving.