The Mad Dog and the Baby Face

[Devoted mixed-race rich-kid school heartthrob x sweet, naturally spacey girl]

A puppy doesn't care whether you're nice to him or whether you neglect him. He'll always be gentle, and he'll always choose you without hesitation.

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Deyuan International High School had a mixed-race heartthrob named Lin Liang. He had fair skin, dark gray eyes, and stood 190 centimeters tall. When he looked at people, his gaze was lazy and arrogant. He was famous for his good looks and wealthy family, while his cold, nasty disposition was just as well known.

When he first met the transfer student Zhang Can, she kept her head down and acted timidly, not even daring to look him in the eye. She was exactly the sort of person he hated most.

They became deskmates, and Lin Liang teased her like she was a panicked little rabbit.

He couldn't stand her perpetually red, tearful eyes, but hated even more that he always thought of her whenever he was hurt.

After being beaten up one time, he clutched his phone, wanting to tell her he was in pain, but afraid Zhang Can would think he was a coward.

Timid Zhang Can sensed something was wrong. She rushed over, stood in front of him, and firmly told his abusive father to stop.

Lin's father knocked out one of Zhang Can's teeth. Lin Liang went mad.

Watching Lin Liang bite back like a rabid dog, Zhang Can was completely bewildered. "L-Lin Liang..."

The tooth was fake.

He knew that, but he still felt sorry for her.

Later, he carefully strung that tooth up and wore it around his neck. He never took it off for the rest of his life.

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Zhang Can was a model good girl, with a baby face and little to say.

She had never seen anyone more handsome than Lin Liang, nor met anyone more unruly and rebellious.

Until she realized that Lin Liang always came to school with fresh bruises. She took him to the rooftop, dabbed medicine on his wounds, and smiled at him.

The vicious dog froze. From then on, he constantly showed her his soft belly.

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The two worked hard at their studies together. The underachiever turned things around, got into a good university, and traded his school uniform for a wedding dress.

Both are each other's first and only partner. The story starts in their final year of high school, when they're already adults, and they get together after the college entrance exams. The male lead is completely pure in both body and heart.

*Puppy-version blurb:

With rivals in love: puppy (baring teeth) (kicking them away) (grumbling)

With women: puppy (rolling his eyes) (strutting past with an arrogant little step) (showing off his dog tag: Zhang Can's dog)

With Zhang Can: puppy (whirling his head around) (pinning her down) (looking left and right) (stealing a kiss) Carry her off! Chew on a bone!

*Comedy-version blurb

Who is it that tears out only the blank pages of a workbook, leaving all the pages with writing intact???

Who is it that kicks someone's chair, then tries to catch them with his foot and ends up breaking his own bone???

Who is it that keeps saying he wants revenge, but acts like a puppy wagging its tail???

Oh, it's the male lead! Then that's fine, he's just a doggy.

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------New serial: Absolute Control------

[Sweet, naturally spacey girl x obsessive, abstinent doctor]

You're here?

Then you can't leave.

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Lin Xian, the heartthrob of Deyuan High School, had excellent grades and a gentle, jade-like nature. His calm eyes seemed to smile at everyone.

Even when the impulsive Su Tian suddenly ran into him and confessed her feelings, he politely turned her down without the slightest impatience.

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Su Tian was the darling of her family. Her parents doted on her, and her older brother loved her more than life itself. Anything she wanted, she could have.

Except Lin Xian.

To get a little closer to him, she went from a lazy couch potato to a hard-working student and got into Lin Xian's honors class.

Just when she thought she had finally caught that star, she heard Lin Xian say to a classmate:

"After the college entrance exams, I'll explain things to her. We're not right for each other."

Su Tian suddenly understood all those looks from Lin Xian where he seemed to want to say something but held back. From then on, she stopped speaking to him.

On the night the college entrance exams ended, the Geminid meteor shower arrived. Lin Xian found her with a telescope. His face was unusually pale, but he still managed a strained smile. "Tiantian, let's go watch..."

Su Tian looked at him innocently. "Lin Xian, your smile looks so fake. Do you really have to smile like that?"

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When they met again, Lin Xian was the youngest attending cardiac surgeon at First Hospital. In her father's hospital room, Su Tian was asking the old man to help choose flowers for her engagement ceremony.

Lin Xian put away his stethoscope. His cool eyes were devoid of emotion as his gaze briefly passed over her face.

Only then did Su Tian realize that Lin Xian had changed.

He no longer smiled or acted gentle. His gaze was cold and distant, and he rejected anyone who tried to get close or show him affection.

The exchanges between the attending physician and the patient's family were brief and dull, and Su Tian's thoughts often wandered.

No one knew how, back then, when the usually cool and self-controlled Lin Xian kissed her, his hands had left her waist bruised all over.

*Male lead's version of the blurb:

Lin Xian had always known he was obsessive, with a pathological need to control everything.

He loved her too much to let her get close, afraid she would get hurt.

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She was always losing things, from shoes to hair ties. She had a lot of stuff and didn't care about it.

Every night, Lin Xian would choose one of her "keepsakes" to sleep with.

His life was orderly, and he didn't allow for surprises.

There were only two surprises in his life. The first was when she came to him.

The second was when she was frightened away by him and left.

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Both are each other's first and only partner. The male lead is a model of virtue, and his secret love finally comes true. He loves the heroine so much it's a little scary.

Theme: Studying hard really does pay off