He Comes Like an Evening Breeze

[Revised many times; the pirated and official versions are quite different. Please support the official version. T.T Weibo: @Jinjiang Suisui Wuyang] From the heroine's perspective: pretending turns real X from the hero's perspective: secret love becomes mutual After her boyfriend cheated on her, Nan Zhi put the Valentine's Day gift she had never managed to give him up for sale online. The description read: [My boyfriend passed away before I could give this to him.] The courier who came to pick it up was an arrogant jerk who couldn't care less about the gift. He looked at her meaningfully, then asked a question: "You said your boyfriend died. How did he die?" "..." "That was pretty rude of me to ask, huh?" Nan Zhi nodded, thinking, So you do know it's rude. The man leaned back lazily, tapped the index finger of his right hand against the table twice, and looked perfectly at ease. "So how did he... pass away?" * On the first day after Nan Zhi broke up with him, Xu Yiwen wasn't worried at all. He declared confidently, "She's soft-hearted. She won't be able to let go." But the news that Nan Zhi had found someone new spread across the school forum before long. Xu Yiwen panicked, finally realizing that he couldn't live without her. On the day he heard Nan Zhi was getting married, he rushed to the Civil Affairs Bureau with injuries all over his body. But what he saw was Nan Zhi leaving the bureau with her new love. The man pinched her cheek, looking intimate with her. That man was his cousin, and his biggest rival: Feng Yi. Feng Yi put an arm around Nan Zhi's shoulders, his expression calm, yet his whole bearing bristling with defiance. "You're hurt this badly. You didn't need to come congratulate us in person. I suggest you just send the money." *That day, Nan Zhi didn't know Feng Yi well yet, so she had no idea he'd been coveting her for years. *Black-hearted, seemingly sweet college student (Cultural Relics Appraisal and Restoration) X laid-back, free-spirited bar owner (his other two hidden identities are still under wraps) *Both are each other's first and only partner; happy ending; lighthearted, silly, sweet romance! See the author's profile for other completed works: After I Matched Outfits with a High School Classmate on the Subway 1. After being tricked into a blind date, Shu Yao ran into Chen Ye, a high school classmate she hadn't seen in seven years, on the subway. Back then, her best friend and his buddy had been all lovey-dovey, leaving the two of them stuck sitting opposite each other in awkward silence. And now, something even more awkward happened: They were wearing matching outfits. Fortunately, Chen Ye didn't seem to remember her. Shu Yao was secretly delighted and was about to grab her bag and run when someone suddenly walked by. The person hesitated, stopped, and looked them over. Then, eyes widening with delight, they exclaimed: "You two are still together?! Matching outfits are so romantic! I believe in love again!" Shu Yao: "...?" 2. Faced with all kinds of blind dates, Shu Yao chose to propose instead of asking for help or begging to be let off the hook. "I have no expectations for marriage. I just want my mom to be happy. Since that photo of us in matching outfits has become a couple's photo, and you need this too, why don't we work together?" Chen Ye leaned casually against the table and asked, "What do you like about me?" Shu Yao improvised with a straight face. "Your occasionally unpredictable mental state. It's pretty charming." "..." Chen Ye agreed. His reason was that he admired people who were exceptionally good at insulting others. 3. After getting married, the two treated each other with polite respect. Shu Yao always thought she was the first one to fall in love in their marriage. Until much later, at a get-together, they played Truth or Dare and one of Chen Ye's friends was asked about the most ridiculous thing he'd ever witnessed. Without hesitation, he pointed at Chen Ye. "A year ago, in the middle of the night, he sent me ten voice messages in a row bragging that he was getting married." The other friends were astonished and pulled out their phones to demand, "How many people did you send those to?" "Not that many." Chen Ye leaned back lazily and added with some regret, "Too bad my dog doesn't have a phone." Shu Yao: "..." How could a dog use a phone? Shu Yao glanced at the cheeky man beside her. Oh, wait. Maybe it could. After My Notes Synced to His Phone 1. The man who was technically her husband, Li Sui had decided, was the sharpest-tongued person she'd ever met. When a man tried to hit on her and asked her out for a walk: Zhou Jinghuai: "Sorry, she's already walked the dog." When her mother nagged them to have a baby: Zhou Jinghuai: "I got a vasectomy." Her mother: "Why?" Zhou Jinghuai: "They had a limited-time 20% discount. You can't pass up a deal like that." When she stood up for their puppy: She: "Why were you so cold to it at first?" Zhou Jinghuai: "It was a little ugly." She: "What about me? Was I ugly then too? Why were you cold to me?" Zhou Jinghuai: "No, that was simply because I had no manners." Whenever his words made her furious, Li Sui liked to use his name in place of some disposable villain in her drafts, giving herself a moment of happiness. One late night, as usual, she typed the opening of her new book into her phone's notes: "Zhou Jinghuai! I'm going to kill you!!!" She never expected a few more words to appear beneath it the next day: "Pile on plenty of dirt. I get cold easily." Li Sui: "...?" 2. After discovering that her notes were synced to Zhou Jinghuai's phone, Li Sui began deliberately ranting in them every now and then. Until one get-together, when Zhou Jinghuai was made to "let everyone present look through his phone for one minute," and her notes were exposed. Friend: "Men with sharp tongues always get fat in middle age." Zhou Jinghuai: "She's just reminding me to watch my figure." Friend: "Men who love drinking, I might as well have married a dog." Zhou Jinghuai: "She's saying I'm much better than a dog when I'm not drinking." Friend: "Men who get jealous, I'll pay for your VIP stay at the psychiatric hospital!" Zhou Jinghuai: "That means she's willing to spend big on me. Would your wife do that?" Li Sui leaned close to his ear and murmured, exasperated, "Could you pick a time when I'm not there to shamelessly say things like that? I'm afraid people will think two completely different people can't sleep in the same bed." A friend spotted them whispering and asked curiously, "What are you two talking about?" Zhou Jinghuai took her hand and said cheekily, "She said she wants to share a bed tonight." Li Sui: "..." Theme: Be brave enough to be yourself