After Moving in With My Ex-Boyfriend

[Cool, Aloof Girl x Handsome, Cocky Young Master]

Their first meeting after reuniting.

Tang Yue was carrying her sick cat to the vet and was about to enter the elevator when she ran into Lu Zhuoyan, walking a mighty-looking hound.

Separated by the crowded throng and the dog, they stood facing each other with calm expressions. His gaze traveled upward, his whole bearing radiating pride from his eyes to every strand of hair.

Her gaze dropped, and she looked away, wishing she could find a crack in the floor to disappear into.

Their second meeting after reuniting.

In a bizarre bar, under flickering lights, Tang Yue wore a flight jacket and tight jeans. Her fingers danced across the bass strings, and her eyes were cool and distant.

Lu Zhuoyan lifted his eyelids, unhurriedly picked up a glass, and rubbed his fingertips along its rim. The passion in her eyes had once bloomed for someone else. He had seen it, but never possessed it.

He watched her accept the rose the waiter brought over.

The waiter told her, "It was sent by a customer downstairs who claims you once led him on and abandoned him."

Tang Yue turned her gaze toward him.

Lu Zhuoyan looked back with a faint, ambiguous smile. "A rose for you. Happy birthday, my ex-girlfriend."

After that.

Someone claimed his home had flooded during renovations and he had nowhere to go, so he asked to stay in half her place, just like before. She agreed.

One day, the cat and the dog got into a fight.

Lu Zhuoyan stroked the injured face of his hound, soothing and lecturing it at the same time. "I taught you at home to let the cat win. That's how she lets me stay here. How could you talk back? It's so small, so soft..."

The hound hugged its face, scratched by the cat, with its front paws and whimpered miserably.

Tang Yue stood behind the door, silently holding the cat that had won yet another battle. "Why are you always bullying it?"

[You are the only light in my dull, ordinary life. Light can disappear, and so can you.]

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Reading Guide

1. He has a secret crush on her.

3. Reunited after a long separation.

5. The leads are flawed people.

7. This novel has a 70% advance-lock policy.

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A Clichéd Orange

Sweet-talking, ruthless luthier x innocent-looking, secretly dark-hearted bad-boy lead singer

On the day Zhu Erxia confessed to Ji Yingjia, Ji Yingru fell off the stage and was hospitalized with a broken bone.

Ji Yingjia was gentle to everyone, but merciless to her.

After she confessed, Ji Yingjia decided to go abroad. Before leaving, he told her with the air of an elder, "I've taught you personally for seven years. We've been both teacher and friend. Today I'll teach you one last thing: forget me and start living again."

He rejected her, then even asked her to visit his younger brother in the hospital.

Though Zhu Erxia and Ji Yingru had been at each other's throats since childhood, she still peeled a rotten banana for him beside his hospital bed.

The injured man's sense of taste was shot, too. He glared fiercely at her as he ate the entire banana.

Zhu Erxia regretted coming to see him.

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Later, another regrettable thing happened, on a rainy night.

That day, Ji Yingru sat in his car, straightening his shirt cufflinks over and over. His gaze passed over Zhu Erxia in the rain and the little girl she was holding by the hand.

Zhu Erxia had spotted him long ago. She asked the little girl, "That guy has a foul mouth and thinks a lot of himself, but he's good-looking. How would you like him as your dad?"

The little girl stared blankly at the man in the black car.

In the end, Ji Yingru opened an umbrella, drew them beneath it, and silently stood against the wind to shelter them from the rain.

His long fingers moved slightly as he tilted the umbrella toward them.

His peach-blossom eyes met Zhu Erxia's astonished gaze. He leaned closer, his voice carrying its usual casual indifference. "I don't care whose child she is. It's enough that you're her mother. Marry me, Zhu Erxia."

Theme: Discovering the most ordinary love and tenderness in life.