The Person I Like Has Someone They Can't Forget

Please add my other ongoing story, The Lover at Number 16, also known as Your Girlfriend Is Pretty Great, to your reading list!

As a devoted admirer of beautiful faces, Xiang Lai has only two daily activities: 1. Painting. 2. Using the money she earns from painting to support all kinds of gorgeous, two-dimensional wives in her games, embracing them all and living the dream!

That is, until she meets Wei Jun, a woman whose looks and aura hit her right in the heart.

Why bother with two-dimensional characters anymore?

Xiang Lai confidently goes right up to her: Hey, honey!

She invites Wei Jun to dinner, saying she wants to thank her for helping her find a book.

Wei Jun arrives on time, impeccably made-up and walking with elegant poise. But she barely says a word throughout dinner, and even accidentally knocks a glass off the table.

Xiang Lai understands. Wei Jun is just a little socially anxious.

She tells Wei Jun, looking pitiful, that she has lost her job and asks if she can work at her company.

Without a second thought, Wei Jun arranges for her to report to her own company. But whenever they run into each other on the way, Wei Jun deliberately avoids eye contact, her expression distant.

Xiang Lai understands. Wei Jun doesn't want people to know she got the job through connections.

Then Xiang Lai accidentally twists her ankle.

Wei Jun furrows her delicate brows, scoops her up in her arms, and rushes her to the hospital. But just as Xiang Lai is happily thinking Wei Jun might have feelings for her, Wei Jun pushes her back into the friend zone.

Xiang Lai... no longer understands a thing.

Wei Jun is sometimes close, sometimes distant, at once seeming to draw near and pull away. Xiang Lai can't figure out whether she's interested in her.

Finally, one day, Wei Jun can't hold back and confesses: "I like you."

But by then, Xiang Lai has realized that Wei Jun has always kept another unreachable white moonlight in her heart.

There's only so much room in a heart. Xiang Lai is possessive and particular, and has no intention of sharing it with anyone.

She swallows her bitterness and decides to strike first. Putting on a carefree smile, she says goodbye to Wei Jun: "Ms. Wei, this was all for my creative work. I've finished gathering material, so let's end things here."

On the day she leaves, a torrential rain falls, as if on cue. She leaves the city in a thoroughly wretched state.

Xiang Lai decides to close her heart for good and return to her hometown to inherit the family business and run a guesthouse.

She can hike, paint from life, and get back to raising her two-dimensional wives. What could be better?

But her peaceful days don't last long. Someone comes right to her door.

It has been a while since they last met, and the woman seems to have lost weight. Her long black hair cascades down, and the shadows half veil her lovely features.

When their eyes meet, intense yet restrained affection rises in her dark eyes.

"Hello," Wei Jun says softly from the doorway, gazing at her and speaking each word carefully. "I'd like to stay here."

[Clingy, coquettish illustrator + double-standard, devoted tax accountant]

One-on-one from beginning to end. It is love at first sight, and a long-planned pursuit.

My next story, The Lover at Number 16, is coming soon. I hope you'll support it. XOXO!

Blurb:

Feng Shujia has been Shu Qing's secret lover for three years. She watches Shu Qing claim in public that she's single and promote her on-screen pairings with other people. Each time, Feng Shujia is disappointed, then comforts herself by thinking that Shu Qing loves her.

Then she gets a chance.

Shu Qing asks her to join a dating show as an ordinary person. They can date on the show, and if they go public this way, the fans might take it better.

Feng Shujia joins, overjoyed. But Shu Qing brings her flowers one day, then goes on a date with someone else the next. Eventually, she even tells her, "Jiajia, I love you, but I have to spend more time with other people to boost our popularity."

After Shu Qing gives her hope and disappoints her again and again, Feng Shujia finally asks to break up, whether or not it is just for the show.

On the show, the guests have to send a secret admirer text to one of the other contestants. If they choose each other, they get to go on a secret date. If not, nothing happens, and no one finds out who chose whom.

Heartbroken and ready to quit the dating show, Feng Shujia chooses not to pick Shu Qing on her last night. Instead, she randomly chooses Qu Xiyao, whose personality is downright strange.

That night, she receives a text from the production team: Congratulations! You and Qu Xiyao chose each other. Tomorrow, you'll get a special secret date!

Feng Shujia: ??

Shu Qing thinks Feng Shujia is just throwing another tantrum like she always does, using a breakup to threaten her. After finishing a date with a rich heiress, she knocks on Feng Shujia's door.

But the moment it opens, Shu Qing sees her own half-sister... Qu Xiyao.

Qu Xiyao's hair is wet, and she's wrapped in a bath towel. She raises an eyebrow at Shu Qing. "Looking for Jiajia? She's asleep. Come back tomorrow."

[Scumbag's ex gets her comeuppance, and the wolfish new love interest takes her place]

Theme: Make the most of your youth and bravely do what you want