Sweet Kiss

This story is also titled Love in Peach Blossom Village. [A gentle, healing, sweet romance with a slow pace and a touch of farming]

Coming soon: Married at First Sight to a Professor. Please add it to your reading list. The blurb is below~

Gu Xu's first twenty years went smoothly. By the time she graduated from college, she was already a top-tier star online, with tens of millions of fans. On her twenty-second birthday, it all turned to an illusion.

She caught her girlfriend cheating with her best friend, but her girlfriend turned around and blamed her.

Gu Xu wiped away her tears and headed to a little village to clear her head.

*

Word online was that mega-influencer Gu Xu had run off to recuperate in a remote village with poor internet after being unable to cope with her breakup.

With their cash cow Gu Xu gone, her ex-girlfriend and best friend decided to coax her into coming back. They expected to find her in tears, but were stunned by what they saw:

Who was that kissing a woman in a white coat under the peach blossoms?

Didn't they say you had to date for a month before holding hands and a year before kissing?

*

Gu Xu did spend a brief time crying her eyes out. She hid in her cramped room and shut herself away.

When she was hungry, Zhou Lu cooked for her. When she was sick, Zhou Lu treated her. When the power went out and she was afraid of the dark, Zhou Lu even slept beside her. And when Gu Xu took the initiative to kiss her, Zhou Lu didn't pull away. Her response was just the right kind of gentle.

Later, Gu Xu returned to the public eye, livestreaming from the little village. Under her lead, the previously unknown village quickly became famous online, and the locals escaped poverty and prospered. Gu Xu became the local tourism ambassador.

Fan club: "That's our good girl!"

When fans asked if she'd gotten over her heartbreak, Gu Xu simply pulled Zhou Lu, who was adjusting her internet connection backstage, into the frame and gave her a very audible kiss on the cheek.

"I've long since forgotten about it. Don't bring up the past. My girlfriend will get jealous."

Then the topic exploded online!

Her fans went wild. Their girl finally had a sweet romance!

Her down-and-out ex: "You didn't say that when Gu Xu and I were together!"

Her down-and-out best friend: "I hate this!"

Fan club: "Cheaters, get lost!"

Gentle village doctor x pampered beauty influencer (both have their flaws)

[Her tenderness eased all her hurt and anger.]

Married at First Sight to a Professor

Fake-ice-cold professor & socially anxious beauty student

Yan Mingshu was beautiful, just like her name suggested. Unfortunately, she came from a poor family and had bad luck. Her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and they even wanted to marry her off to a potbellied tycoon for a hefty bride price.

Unwilling to accept her fate, Yan Mingshu decided to find someone to marry through a matchmaking service.

To her surprise, her first match was her former university professor. She had graduated only a year earlier, and had been deeply impressed by the gentle, patient professor.

Yan Mingshu was so nervous she didn't know what to do with her hands and feet.

The other woman smiled and called to her, "Mingshu, may I call you that?"

Yan Mingshu placed her hands primly on her thighs, fingers bunching up the hem of her white dress. She lowered her head and said, "Y-yes."

*

The Shen family had strict rules. Shen Junlan was gentle and proper, but no one but her knew how strong her desire was. Her powerful sense of morality meant she wouldn't be intimate with anyone until after marriage.

While screening potential matches, she took one look at her former student Yan Mingshu and fell for her.

*

When they discussed their respective expectations for marriage, Yan Mingshu said awkwardly, "I need a million-yuan bride price."

Shen Junlan smiled. "That's fine."

"What do you need, Professor Shen?"

"I only need you to fulfill your wifely duties."

Yan Mingshu squeezed her own palm, blushed, and said, "All right."

She thought that without love, the least she could do was be a good wife.

After they married, faced with Professor Shen's frequent demands, Yan Mingshu finally understood what those so-called duties meant.

Theme: Don't give up pursuing and longing for the good things in life because of temporary misfortune.