Story blurb:
Portrait artist Ruan Xinshu takes a commission from a big client.
The client's request is simple: a full-body portrait.
The client's additional request is outrageous: they want to be nude.
Ruan Xinshu has never received such a strange request before, and she starts judging the client before she's even begun painting.
"This person must be incredibly narcissistic."
The day of the consultation.
Ruan Xinshu arrives at the luxury apartment where the big client lives.
A little while later,
the client calmly loosens the silk scarf around her neck, revealing her cream-colored skin, then smiles and looks up at Ruan Xinshu.
Her gaze is seductive.
Just one look from her makes Ruan Xinshu shiver.
A familiar scent hangs in the air, stirring up memories Ruan Xinshu shouldn't be thinking about.
She flees toward the door. "I... I'm not going to paint you."
The scarf slips from Chu Yu's hands and falls to the floor. Her tone is calm. "Is that so? Then, Teacher Ruan, give me back the deposit. I'll get someone else to paint me."
It's hard to say whether it was the word "deposit" or "someone else" that set Ruan Xinshu off.
Ruan Xinshu turns around and sits back down.
"...Fine. I'll paint you."
Chu Yu looks at Ruan Xinshu and smiles. "Teacher Ruan, how can you paint me if you don't look at me?"
"Look at me." Chu Yu's voice is like a whisper, and Ruan Xinshu accidentally drops her brush.
Low-key, introverted, dog-like portrait artist Ruan Xinshu X cool, gentle, flirtatious career woman Chu Yu
1. Not ABO.
2. A reunion after a breakup.
3. One-on-one romance.
4. Sweet story.
5. Includes a little of their school days.
Also known as: "My Scheming Ex-Girlfriend's Tricks," "The Portrait That Never Gets Finished," "What I Think About While I Paint," "My Cunning Ex-Girlfriend," and "Wrapped Around Her Finger"
Coming soon: "Listening Comprehension Under Fire"
Fang Yufei's teacher, Song Suxing, was once the most dazzling person on the field.
She was calm, composed, and flawless, with judgment as precise as a machine, yet not a trace of unnecessary emotion. She seemed like a genius born to win.
She was a star in the night sky, the goal every competitor looked up to.
Just standing there made people want to get closer.
Fang Yufei had a difficult personality.
She used every trick and scheme she could think of to hang around her teacher, Song Suxing, and finally managed to pluck that lofty star from the sky.
Just when Fang Yufei thought they would go on like that forever, Song Suxing dumped her without warning.
No explanation, no time to prepare. It was the greatest defeat of Fang Yufei's life.
After they broke up,
no one expected Fang Yufei, once the least ambitious of them all, to become the youngest and most renowned tactical master.
Meanwhile, Song Suxing, once hailed as a star player, was blinded while saving someone at the height of her success. Her team cast her out like a piece of rubbish.
When word that Song Suxing had gone blind reached Fang Yufei, she was taking apart her equipment. She paused, then gave a soft laugh.
"...She deserves it."
Later, a competition spanning an entire continent began, and Song Suxing returned to the battlefield.
Fang Yufei had expected to enjoy the spectacle. Without the power she once had to look down on the world, Song Suxing would surely be scorned and ridiculed.
She wanted to see her proud teacher bow her head, regret what she'd done, and get trampled into the mud.
Until one day, she really did see Song Suxing standing in the shadows.
Sunlight fell across Song Suxing's face, one half cool and pale, the other half dim.
In the face of someone else's taunts, Song Suxing's lashes trembled slightly, but she said nothing.
Fang Yufei silently watched the faint shadow cast by Song Suxing's eyelashes beneath her eyes.
By the time she came to her senses, she had already knocked down the insolent speaker and ground every one of their fingers beneath her foot.
"You think you can call her 'blind'?"
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Later, Fang Yufei pinned Song Suxing into a corner, watching her hold back her voice with self-control, her lashes trembling lightly.
"Teacher, you really deserve it," she said.
You deserve it for being so heartless, for leaving without a single explanation.
You deserve it for not liking me, for not even sparing me a glance.
You deserve it, you deserve it, you deserve it for... losing your own eyes to save someone who wasn't even yours?
So you deserve it.
You deserve to come back to me.
Later, Fang Yufei used tactics to rebuild a throne atop the ruins, allowing Song Suxing to once again look down on all her rivals.
She wanted the whole world to know:
A star is a star. It never falls into the dust.
She is a true legend, and her story has never ended.
Petty tactical master, cold and indifferent in public but possessive and protective in private, yandere dog-like top Fang Yufei
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Precision instrument, cool star player, self-possessed and restrained mentor bottom Song Suxing
Theme: Face difficulties head-on and keep moving forward.
After My Beloved Moonlight Master Told Me to Go Undercover
Listening Comprehension: Real Questions from Wartime
Not Convinced
Collusion
The Gentle Guidance of My Senpai
The Flirtatious Omega Wants to Run After Seducing Me
After Marrying a Ghost Bride
Forced into a Whirlwind Marriage After Marking My Omega Commander
Transported to the High School Days of an Iceberg Omega
This story is the first one I read by the author, and I have read it several times. I like this so-called fishing story. The one that stood out to me the most about this story was the lemon slice. Taste is an important feeling in the human body. The amazing feeling you have tasted once will leave traces on the body. When this feeling is entangled with other more profound feelings, they will form a memory. Memories will be repressed, and feelings can be controlled by reason, but feelings are feelings. They will dominate the human body through emotions, causing the body to behave contrary to rational choices. Even though I know I can no longer like this person, my elders said it would be painful, and I continue to be in pain, but the feelings of being with him will not stop, even if this feeling is not pure happiness. It is a mixed sexual experience that combines masochism and hers. How do you recognize and accept this mixed feeling? This is probably the dilemma this story wants to resolve, which is Ruan's situation. There was no interference from pheromones here, and Ruan knew exactly what was wrong with him. The feeling of being too happy and too painful cannot be easily suppressed. She began to fight against it, but her body always betrayed her. She couldn't control her legs. In fact, she couldn't control her feelings that she still liked Chu. Finally she gave in and accepted. I personally think this acceptance is very possible. The author spent a whole book just to present the possibility and credibility of this process and the final result. My second favorite point is the misty atmosphere in the story. It seems that the place where they live is always damp, cold, and misty. It rained or snowed several times during the transition. The weather is always bad. The studio is also dark and unclear. This is actually an externalization of feelings, or projection. Perhaps it is not that transformation always occurs in the wind and snow, but that the alternating and coexisting feelings of hot and cold, joy and pain are similar to the feelings brought by these wind, snow and fog, and the wind, snow and fog can also enhance and exaggerate. I also really like the birthday episode. Chu, who was dressed up carefully, saw Chu turning around under the street light, and Ruan accidentally sent him to the subway station, accidentally got on the subway, and followed Chu home. This beautiful mood of first love is all in these details. Also in those physical contacts that are not fearful or repressive. There is no kissing and neglecting each other, and there is no tortuous and long process of self-recognition. Everything is smooth, natural and beautiful. It happens silently, unfolds silently, and ends silently. Before being interfered by Chu's family, the surrounding environment did not interfere too much with this relationship. Ruan's father and friends all remained silent. These details give Nguyen's conflict and final acceptance in the present tense sufficient psychological dynamics. Therefore, what Chu thought actually does not require the author to spend too much pen and ink. The author has informed the readers that she has been interested in Ruan since the first meeting. When she had the opportunity to have further contact with Ruan, she immediately took action and used all the methods at her disposal to let Ruan choose her. Her determination is from the beginning to the end. This determination has not faded due to the obstacles of her family, but has only been temporarily restrained. Her ex didn't just come to fish for Ruan now, she started from the moment they met. In other words, there are contradictions and conflicts, and the interesting point to explore is not Chu, not the sun. Although Chu does not speak, and the author also calls her cold, she assumes the function of the sun in this story. She is responsible for warming the person who has been hurt with her constant confidence and heat, letting it thaw and warm it up again. What can be imagined is that the character Chu should be stronger than Wen. She was also adopted and experienced a relatively cruel childhood and youth. But perhaps the family was not completely broken, and the father provided some support. But why she can continue to love someone is the same as why Jiang can continue to love Wen. Like many other similar characters in CP, there is actually no very reasonable psychological motivation, except for love at first sight. But that's generally not the point of this kind of story. Very beautiful details of first love, very detailed mood layout of awkward people falling in love, very charming sun. The language is also appropriately restrained and clean. The author has come up with so many interesting variations on a poorly written basic setting. Looking forward to more stories! Looking forward to being adapted into a radio drama!
Non-readers, I just found out that someone whose account was stolen bought this article. JMS checked to see if their account had been logged in from other devices. Laji Jinjiang didn't give any prompts. It took half a year to find out if the account was stolen. JMS who is short of money after seeing this comment, please pay attention, don't buy a half-price account on Taobao (holding your hand on your forehead and smiling bitterly), this should be of good quality, the only one with a full order from a stolen account.
I flipped through it and found that I had read Iceberg O. I vaguely remembered that I was a little reluctant to finish it, but I really liked this book. I couldn't tell that it was written by the same person. I think it was almost the most touching novel among the many Lily novels I have read. There are no bloody twists and turns and climaxes, only narrated stories and a realistic sense of daily life. However, this does not mean that the article is boring. On the contrary, I feel that the emotions are very sincere and strong. There is no grand or dramatic plot, it is just like feeling how the person who loves you loves you in your daily life, or how you love the other person with devotion, simple and sincere. The emotions are written very delicately, including Xiao Chu's determination, Xiao Chu's complicated feelings when facing her parents, her guilt towards Xiao Ruan, her regret after the breakup, etc. (There are too many that I can't list them all at the moment). Even if Xiao Chu chose to break up many years ago, I still believe it. Because she is determined, some people say that Xiao Chu dared to go back to Xiao Ruan only after his father nodded in agreement, but I think what Xiao Chu's father said more liberated Xiao Chu and let her know that even if she is not perfect, not excellent or even disappointing, she can still be loved. In addition, I especially like Xiao Chu's dream in which Xiao Ruan gave her a lot of flowers. I really instantly felt that Xiao Ruan lit up Xiao Chu's life and how important she was to Xiao Chu. But when Xiao Chu woke up from the dream, there was nothing. That light was given up by Xiao Chu himself, and it was replaced by a real... In addition, Xiao Ruan's conflicting and tumultuous emotions when facing his ex-girlfriend who he broke up with inexplicably many years ago, that he clearly likes but doesn't want to like or get hurt again, are also well described. Not only Xiao Ruan's thoughts are repeated again and again, but also through Various plots, behaviors (such as the lemon slice part) and words are used to convey Xiao Ruan's struggle and uncontrollable feelings, which is particularly good. Every time Xiao Ruan is anxious and irritable, I also think "Ah, what does this damn ex-girlfriend want". However, I feel that the description of Xiao Ruan's anger and sadness towards Xiao Chu when he abandoned her is a bit thin, and the portrayal of Xiao Ruan's feelings after being broken up and after the breakup is a bit lacking. This book is very close to reality. When I first read the ratings, I found that some people said that the writing was poor. I was still trembling. But it turned out that I couldn't stop reading it. In fact, there are many things I like about it but I can't list them all. I have no words to praise more. Thank you to the author for writing such a good article so that I can read it.
I really like this passage after re-reading it! Every time I look at you, I look at you for a long time. Sometimes I expect you to raise your head and find me looking at you. At this time, if you ask me why I look at you, I can tell you that I like you.
What turns out to be the end? Still not satisfied
It's a super good book. I cried when I read the part about the reasons for breaking up. I thought the writing was very delicate. I read Professor Wen's book a long time ago and loved it so much that I reread it many times. When I saw the title of the book, I felt very attracted to it. Only after reading the comments at the back of this book did I realize that it was the same author. No wonder I keep falling in love with it. Hahaha. I like it very much! Highly recommended!
After reading three books by the author, I feel that the author does not like writing long novels very much. This article is the most sour, but I feel like there are quite a lot of details that can be added in this book. There are 6 characters in the three books, all of whom have different designs and styles. The characters did not collapse in the later stage, which is actually quite commendable. Come on! Looking forward to your female ghost
Very realistic, I like it very much I don't really want to write a long review, because I really feel that they don't need embellishments, they are very complete.
It's really great, and the reconciliation is actually very natural. The reality is actually like this, there are not so many things to abuse, but in fact, the emotional journey of the two people in the process has been very abusive.
It's very well written. I really like this kind of reunion. I don't understand why some people keep calling it "The Crematorium for Chasing His Wife".