Where Tenderness Knows No Place

Gentle and composed heroine × handsome troublemaker, a secret crush comes true [Blurb] Wen You recently moved into a new rental, and her new landlord turned out to be a senior from her high school. He rarely stayed there, and Wen You was good at fortune-telling. Whenever she accurately predicted which day he would come back, she would tidy up the place. Well, not just tidy up. She would also light incense, arrange fresh flowers, and dress up carefully, so her senior would think she looked this beautiful and polished every day. Until one day, Wen You predicted that her senior would have a romantic encounter and bring a woman home that night. Feeling down, she locked herself in the bathroom and drowned her sorrows in alcohol. That evening, a woman really did show up at the door. She was a blind date Yun Shen's mother had forced on him. On his way home, Yun Shen messaged Wen You and asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend. Wen You was drunk and out of it, so she replied with a string of baffling reaction stickers. Yun Shen arrived home soon after and knocked on Wen You's door. The girl was wearing nothing but a camisole nightdress, her delicate figure veiled by the thin fabric. Barefoot, her eyes were red at the corners, and her whole body seemed to radiate a damp, feverish heat. Yun Shen's gaze stilled. His Adam's apple bobbed. “Do we have to take the act this far?” Wen You had no idea what he meant. A moment later, the man chuckled softly and raised an eyebrow. “I think... it looks pretty good.” - Wen You was one-quarter mixed-race and had inherited a pair of dark blue eyes from a distant ancestor. As a child, the neighborhood kids often threw stones at her and mocked her, saying she was a monster. Then one day, a real “monster” appeared on the street, with blood-red eyes and a vivid green tongue. The children were so scared they fled in every direction and never dared bully Wen You again. Later, Wen You and her “monster” big brother attended the same middle school, then the same high school. He had long since forgotten who Wen You was. His life was always busy, and he had never paid attention to the admiring looks around him. Wen You once thought she would keep her feelings buried forever. Until she changed jobs and needed to rent a new place. Her best friend recommended a perfect apartment, though the landlord was supposedly difficult, bad-tempered, and rude. Could she put up with that? So Wen You went to a mountain temple reputed to be remarkably accurate and drew a fortune stick. When the fortune-teller interpreted it, the message told her to look up at the sky. Above her, a peach tree bloomed in all its radiant splendor, its branches bursting with flowers like a brilliant cloud of rosy light. [Reader's Guide] 1. The hero is arrogant and a bit of a rascal. The heroine has had a crush on him for years. A sweet, everyday romance. 2. The heroine's fortune-telling is accurate but stays within the bounds of reality, with nothing supernatural involved. [Coming soon: My Kid Can't Possibly Get a Two] [Blurb] Ming Can, an honors student at a top university in her second year, found her biological son from more than a decade in the future on the street one day. The boy was five, adorable, and well-behaved. Ming Can already loved children, so she quickly accepted the reality of her future son having transmigrated to the present. As for the child's father, Ming Can didn't want to get involved with a stranger, so she simply pretended he didn't exist. Six months later, after all her hard work, Ming Can got her son into elementary school. On a math test worth 100 points, her son somehow scored a whopping two. The lifelong pride of top student Ming Can shattered. For the first time, she asked about the boy's father. “Sweetie, tell Mommy honestly.” “Is your real dad, by any chance, intellectually disabled?” - Her son told her his father's name. It sounded familiar to Ming Can, but she couldn't remember where she'd heard it. Until one day, Ming Can went with a friend to a lecture at A University. Her friend introduced her to the university's brilliant scholar, who had won so many scholarships his hands were cramping. “Do you remember Senior Chi Xiao? He was the top science student in our year.” At the sound of his name, Ming Can's heart skipped a beat. She looked up and, sure enough, saw a handsome face that resembled her son's by about thirty percent. The famously aloof academic star took the initiative to shake her hand. “Junior Ming Can, it's been a long time.” Ming Can couldn't remember when she'd met him. With a hint of disdain, she gave his hand a quick touch. “Are you really the top science student?” “Are you sure you passed on your own?” Senior Chi: ...? Theme: Keep a childlike heart forever