Claiming Her Palm

#Puppyish Boy X Cool, Elegant Older Woman#

When Huo Yan was thirteen, a little girl suddenly came to live with his family. She was the same age as him, but much shorter, petite and slim, with fair, soft-looking skin.

The girl told him to call her "A Shi." He was a smart-mouth, so he liked calling her "Shorty A Shi" or sometimes "Silly A Shi." Once, when he gave her cold medicine, he coaxed her by calling her "Good Girl A Shi."

Later, A Shi's whereabouts were exposed, and her father's creditors came to take her away. Huo Yan's father died protecting her, and his mother was pushed off a cliff.

When Huo Yan, left with nothing, finally found A Shi, the police were helping her into her parents' Mercedes to take her home. He chased the car for several kilometers, but didn't get to see her one last time.

When Huo Yan was eighteen, a mute transfer student joined his class. She was breathtakingly beautiful, tall, and always cool and distant around the eyes. She had been the top humanities student at her previous school.

She wrote her name on the blackboard: Shi Yubing, or A Shi.

There was only one empty seat in the class. The teacher hesitated, not wanting the transfer student to sit with a troublemaker on her first day, and asked if anyone else was willing to sit with Huo Yan.

Huo Yan leaned back against the desk behind him, legs spread in a lazy pose. His gaze rested on the girl's misty, serene eyes at the front of the classroom as he crushed the mint in his mouth, hatred seeping into his bones.

In the silent classroom, a boy's voice rang out, icy and contemptuous. "Shi Yubing, I'm giving you three seconds to get over here. Three, two..."

At the time, no one would have believed that, years later, through countless long days and nights, Huo Yan would kiss Shi Yubing, lace his fingers with hers, and whisper tenderly in her ear again and again, "Huo Yan loves his precious A Shi most of all."

[You were the words I didn't mean when I was young, a reflection in the water I could never reach, day after day.]

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A little skit:

During the off-season, the players of professional League of Legends team FUG were streaming a five-person ranked match. They were one player short, and fans spammed the chat asking them to call Xiao Su and wake him up to play.

Mid laner Pike hadn't finished his solo queue game yet. Playing as he spoke, he called out on speakerphone, "Hey, Huo Yan, you up? Hurry, we're one short for the five-man team."

"Give me a minute." The deep voice on the other end was nasal, as if he hadn't woken up yet.

"What are you waiting for?"

"For me to soothe my little queen first..." Before his teasing, affectionate voice had even finished, a soft, lazy, annoyed girl's voice came through: "Damn it, Huo Yan, you're lying on my hair. Move..."

That day, #FMVP'sLittleQueen shot to the top of the trending topics.

Note: FMVP: Finals Most Valuable Player

Note: There are no intimate scenes between the leads while they are underage.

Coming soon: Winning My Heart. Please add it to your reading list:

On her nineteenth birthday, Lu Ran became Gu Feifei, the Gu family's real daughter in A City, switched at birth years ago.

At the height of her good fortune, she became a pawn in the marriage alliance between the Gu and Shen families.

At a singles party the day before the engagement, their rich young friends couldn't stop praising Shen Lie's beautiful, pure-as-jade fiancée.

Only Shen Lie sat in a corner, half-drunk and sneering. "What's so great about her? She's like a tender flower bud with no charm."

Later

A friend called Shen Lie to ask him out. "Hey, Lie, are you done with surgery? Come out and hang out."

After a while, an unexpectedly sweet, soft voice came through the phone. "Dr. Shen is busy. He has to help me with my thesis."

Everyone in the private room: ?

The friend said, "Sister-in-law, put Lie on the phone."

Shen Lie took the phone. His voice was low and husky, as indifferent and unapproachable as ever. "No need to ask me. Whatever my girl says goes."

Everyone in the private room was stunned: The iron tree is blooming???

After hanging up, Lu Ran tugged at the hem of Shen Lie's white coat and pouted coquettishly. "Shen Lie, let me go. I really still have a thesis to write..."

The man smiled faintly, pinched her still slightly chubby cheek, and lowered his head to coax her gently. "Sweetheart, why don't you tell me what you get out of pretending to be the Gu family's heiress?"

"???" Lu Ran was so startled she nearly fell off her chair.

Shen Lie's smile vanished instantly. He turned and shut the office door. As the lock clicked, he lowered his deep voice. "Lu Ran, right?"

Shen Lie, not easy to fool, vs. Lu Ran, who plays the pig to eat the tiger

Genius surgeon x campus beauty who is always rushing to finish a thesis, an undergraduate, master's student, and doctoral student (the heroine is always studying)

Coming soon: Troubling My Heart. Please add it to your reading list:

Ten years ago, Song Zhi wrote in her elementary school diary: "My brother came home, and he brought back a super-duper handsome friend. That person smiled and said hello to me. He said, 'Hi, kid. My name is Lu Zeshen.'"

Ten years later, the Song and Lu families arranged a business marriage. Lu Zeshen was so bored at the engagement ceremony that he fell asleep, just as Song Zhi happened to see him.

Song Zhi lifted the hem of her dress, bent down, and stole a light kiss on the man's cheek. In a soft voice, she said, "Lu Zeshen, you're mine now."

She turned to leave, but the man hooked an arm around her waist and pulled her back into his embrace.

Lu Zeshen propped his head up with one hand, his eyes half-lidded, his dark eyes smiling faintly. His low, lazy voice sounded nonchalant. "I didn't hear you. Say it again."

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Professor Lu Zeshen is the campus heartthrob of A University: noble and cool, abstinent and taciturn. The female students go wild when he simply rolls up his sleeves in class.

Once, a student posted a short video of Lu Zeshen teaching on Douyin. It quickly got tens of millions of likes.

The top comment read: [Professor Lu, stop writing on the blackboard. Write on me instead.]

One day before class, a student used the classroom computer to play a live performance of Song Zhi's new song.

In the video, Song Zhi had rainbow-colored hair, a killer figure and an angelic face. Wearing a sexy, bold stage outfit, she sang and danced under the spotlights.

When Lu Zeshen entered the lecture hall, the video had one minute left.

To everyone's surprise, he didn't immediately shut it off. Instead, he leaned against the lectern and watched the last minute with the students.

A student in the front row noticed the long-fingered hand Lu Zeshen had resting on the desk and the ring on his left ring finger. "Sir, your ring looks like the one Song Zhi wears!"

Lu Zeshen didn't even look up. He answered calmly, "There isn't another ring like this one in the world."

The student: "No way, no way. Do you mean the one our Zhi Zhi wears is a knockoff?"

Lu Zeshen glanced sideways. His expression behind his glasses was calm, with just a hint of helplessness. "I mean, she's your professor's wife."

The students: "...Hahahahahahaha." What a funny joke.

The students didn't believe him, until someone dug up the fact that Song Zhi was the account behind the top comment on Lu Zeshen's viral Douyin video. The story then shot to the top of the trending topics...

Please add my upcoming stories to your reading lists. Thanks, everyone! Kisses~

Theme: Growing together