So What If I Have a Crush on You!

A quick teaser for my upcoming novel, Why Take It Back If You Like Me? The blurb is at the end.

[Childhood sweethearts are, perhaps, the ones who hold on to your childhood and your hand, walking gently through life together.]

Jiang Jinhuan and Jiang Yuqing were childhood sweethearts and playful rivals, at each other's throats whenever they met.

But somehow, the little brat she'd beaten black and blue as a child grew into a graceful, handsome young man, and Jiang Jinhuan's heart began to race whenever she saw him.

She fell for Jiang Yuqing without telling a soul.

Just three days after starting university, Jiang Yuqing was named one of Jiang University's most handsome students, surrounded by admirers.

In a panic, Jiang Jinhuan gathered her courage, bought him the limited-edition shoes he'd wanted for ages, and planned to confess at his birthday party.

That day, he was chatting with a friend, their arms slung over each other's shoulders.

His friend asked, "Jiang Yuqing, you let Jiang Jinhuan get away with everything. Do you like her or something?"

Jiang Yuqing replied, "Come on. I wouldn't feel a thing even if I kissed her!"

Jiang Jinhuan spun around in a huff and put the shoes up for sale on Xianyu that very night.

She went back to being just an ordinary friend, but Jiang Yuqing soon began to regret what he'd said.

One time, Jiang Jinhuan got drunk, wrapped her arms around Jiang Yuqing's neck, and kissed him. After kissing him like a little flirt, she even pursed her lips deliberately. "Didn't feel a thing."

When she sobered up, Jiang Jinhuan seemed to remember nothing. It seemed that only Jiang Yuqing couldn't stop thinking about that kiss.

Later, Jiang Jinhuan worked up the courage again and messaged him: "I have a crush on someone. I want to confess to him."

Jiang Yuqing thought she'd fallen for someone else. He stared at the screen for a long time before replying, "Oh, a confession? Go for it~"

Seeing his utterly indifferent reply, Jiang Jinhuan's eyes dimmed.

But who could have guessed that an hour later, she'd get a message from Jiang Yuqing: "Come downstairs. I'm outside your dorm."

[Notes]

1. The hero is pretty clueless at first, so clueless that you worry every day someone will beat him up.

2. Both leads are virgins; sweet romance, with no intimate scenes before they come of age.

3. 70% anti-piracy setting, 48-hour window. Hope you enjoy reading!

1. Recommending new novels by friends:

Ye Weiran, The Moon Winks: I Tamed the Big Shot with a Puppy Temper.

Ling Yan, Radiance: Cool girl x the real deal, a story about how enemies became lovers!

[Blurb for Why Take It Back If You Like Me?]

A man like Lu Jitong seems born to stand out.

With refined good looks and a gentle, courteous manner, he is like a pine tree atop a mountain, cool and resilient, with an unyielding spirit.

He turned down every girl's advances and seemed to care about nothing but his studies.

Throughout her youth, Lin Jianqi filled her draft paper with Lu Jitong's name.

She confessed three times and was rejected three times.

Lu Jitong tapped Lin Jianqi on the head and replied in a lazy drawl.

"What are you thinking? Focus on your studies."

"If we get into the same university, we'll get together."

So Lin Jianqi, who ranked near the bottom of her class, started working herself to the bone. After two years of studying day and night, she finally got into Huai University.

The moment Lin Jianqi received her acceptance letter, she rushed over to Lu Jitong's house, beaming with carefree brilliance like a rose in full bloom on the street.

"Lu Jitong, you were right. Studying really is more important!"

Studying was way more interesting than dating! She had to keep working hard and aim for the top of her major!

Lu Jitong raised an eyebrow and patiently waited for her to say the part about them getting together.

But he waited and waited.

He saw Lin Jianqi working on problems with the handsome guy from the math department.

He saw Lin Jianqi run into the student council president at the library.

Lu Jitong, usually so humble and polite, got so angry that he dragged Lin Jianqi out of the library.

"Lin Jianqi, you can't go back on your word."

"We agreed that if we got into the same university, we'd get together."

[Blurb for Peeping at the Moon]

On the first day Chen Yuwei returned to Nancheng, she fell in love at first sight.

The music in the bar blared, the crowd swayed, and everyone was having a great time.

A man sat alone in a booth, sitting ramrod straight and strikingly handsome. His shirt was buttoned all the way to the top, and he calmly turned down every woman who tried to hit on him.

Chen Yuwei had always liked men who were proper and restrained like that.

She sashayed over and raised her glass. "Hey, handsome. Want to exchange contacts?"

Without even looking up, Zhou Xubai replied unhurriedly, "Miss Chen, aren't we already friends on WeChat? Besides... didn't you say a proper ex should be as good as dead?"

Chen Yuwei looked bewildered. An ex? Which ex of hers?

That night, Chen Yuwei spent the whole night searching through six phones, but couldn't find the man anywhere.

*

What Chen Yuwei didn't know was that on the very first day she returned, Zhou Xubai had moved in next door.

The man shed his daytime reserve and refinement, yanked off his tie in a fit of rage, and spent the night by the window, greedily watching her from afar.

2022.1.16

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