After Eating at a Conveyor Belt Hot Pot Place Beside My Ex

[The print edition of Mint Snow is now available. Weibo: @Shi Chunbai] ■ Sharp-tongued, sensual rich handsome guy x goofy, dramatic, naturally adorable girl ■ Urban setting, with college flashbacks throughout | Reunited lovers | Bittersweet push and pull After coming alone to a big city to make a living, losing her job, and getting cheated on, Ming Que reached the darkest point in her life. On the day she got dumped, a blizzard hit. Short on money, she ducked into a conveyor-belt hot pot restaurant known for its low prices. The weather was awful, but the restaurant was packed. By the time she had waited so long she was nearly faint with hunger, a staff member finally found her a seat squeezed between other diners. The seats were so close together that their arms brushed. As soon as Ming Que sat down and turned her head, she found herself face-to-face with Lou Yuzheng's dark eyes. The man wore a black turtleneck. His fingers wrapped around the rim of his cup were long and slender, and he looked at her with a cold, sidelong glance. At that moment, Ming Que discovered that life had an even darker point: the Pro Max version. That was when you ran into the rich third-generation ex you had dumped while you were already at rock bottom. Ming Que knew that look of Lou Yuzheng's all too well. It clearly meant he wanted to beat someone up. She wanted to die on the spot. With a sheepish smile, she said, "If you want to settle accounts, fine... but can you let me finish my 'dumped meal' first?" After a long pause, Lou Yuzheng raised a hand and pointed at her. "Bring her another plate of meat." Ming Que: "..." Thanks, I guess. 2/ After that, Ming Que kept running into him whenever she went to eat hot pot, and they always happened to sit next to each other. Feeling guilty because she owed him for the way she'd treated him, Ming Que ended up sharing meal after meal with him. The first time, he said, "My family went bankrupt. This is all I can afford." Ming Que sighed and painfully paid for an extra serving of meat for him. The second time, he said, "My lease is up, and I have nowhere to sleep tonight." Ming Que reluctantly volunteered, "My landlord has another room... I can introduce you." Watching the boss pretend to be broke while slipping discount coupons to this beautiful customer, the two servers huddled together, dumbfounded. "...The boss has lost it." The day Ming Que exposed all of Lou Yuzheng's lies, she hurled a string of angry words at him. After she had finished venting and felt better, he sent her a single message: [So why did you ask to break up back then?] *A guy in IT who owns lots of restaurants x a nail artist starting her own business ※Readers who want an invincible female lead, beware! If you want a heroine who resists everything and takes on the whole world from the very first chapter, this isn't for you. This is a modern urban romance fairy tale, with a heroine who grows over time. Things will get better and better. ※Both are each other's first love, and both are inexperienced; they are each other's only ones, body and soul. The male lead has not been in a relationship since their breakup. The heroine's boyfriend at the beginning is just a disposable character. ※Let's keep discussion reasonable. Comments that are hostile or excessively critical of the heroine will be deleted. Writing style is a matter of personal taste; if it's not for you, stop reading in time. ※For other content warnings, see the author's note in Chapter One. Special thanks to the cover artist: Ze Zhi Please add my next book, Rain Tonight, to your reading list! ■ Fierce, cocky capital-city big shot x timid, foolish beauty ■ A chance encounter, beating up the childhood sweetheart | Reunited lovers | Mutual healing | Shameless, sappy romance The Shao family has been wealthy for three generations, and both sons of this generation are exceptional men. Everyone knows Shao Lin and Shao Hexin are brothers on good terms. But later, because of Tong Yunqian, they nearly stopped being brothers. -- Tong Yunqian was born with dulled senses and poor hearing. She was slow and silly, with nothing but a pretty face. Though the rich young men and women let her hang out with them, few of them truly liked her. On top of that, she made no secret of her admiration for Shao Hexin, which made everyone look down on her even more. Yet Shao Hexin, a man surrounded by admirers, treated her somewhat differently. So plenty of people secretly made things difficult for her, but Tong Yunqian never realized it. She only smiled and let them bully her. Until Shao Hexin's older brother, Shao Lin, returned from abroad. Compared with the cheerful and gentle Shao Hexin, Shao Lin had a reputation among the neighbors as a rotten seed from birth: antisocial and violent by nature, destined to become a menace. Yet he was a brilliant young man with a forceful manner. Everyone feared him and kept their distance, but still wanted to curry favor with him. Someone gave Tong Yunqian a terrible idea, telling her Shao Hexin respected his older brother most, so getting on Shao Lin's good side would make it easier to win Shao Hexin over. Just as everyone waited for Tong Yunqian to offend Shao Lin and get dealt with, someone saw Shao Lin, who could hardly be bothered to say more than a few words, hold Tong Yunqian on his lap and coax her. The man pressed close to her ear, played with her hand, and coaxed her with all the patience he had: "You can hit me or curse me, just don't refuse to kiss me." "If you didn't hear me, I'll say it again." Tong Yunqian avoided his intense, unwavering gaze and shook her head like a fool. But her flushed red face had already given everything away. *The author's personal fantasy project. I've declared its shameless romance style in advance, so I get one free pass on criticism. √ *The heroine's dulled senses and hearing impairment are acquired conditions. They will improve a little. Theme: Life is a spiral, rising again after hitting rock bottom time and time again.