I Can Smell You

Upcoming stories: Summer Sleep, Unaware of Dawn (modern romance) and Just Lie Down, I'll Save You (fantasy danmei). Their blurbs are below~

Blurb:

#My wish is to call you and smell your familiar scent.#

Synesthesia, a rare mental disorder.

Su Mi was one of the "lucky ones" to develop this condition in her second year of high school. From then on, she could smell the environment where a voice was made just by hearing it.

This unusual condition led Su Mi to meet her longtime crush by chance: Hang Mao Food Journal, a top 100 food creator on Bilibili.

As they spent time together, she discovered her crush's secret: he had no sense of smell. She also discovered the white moonlight he'd treasured in his heart for years, and that their relationship was growing increasingly ambiguous.

Su Mi asked her friend anxiously, "Tell me... why would a man be so good to you when he already has a white moonlight in his heart?"

Her friend, filled with righteous indignation, gave her answer without hesitation: "A scumbag! Definitely a scumbag!"

Su Mi looked at the "scumbag" in front of her. He had deep, smiling eyes and slender, pale fingers. He was great at cooking and knew how to pamper cats.

She kept telling herself to stay clearheaded and calm, but at the same time, she fell deeper and deeper under the spell of his tender words.

Until she woke up in the "scumbag's" bedroom and found a printed screenshot from a video, framed and set out on display. It showed a boy and a girl, both young and innocent.

Su Mi pointed first at herself, then at the girl in the picture, her face full of confusion and disbelief.

The "scumbag" raised an eyebrow. "I've been looking for you for seven years, and you forgot all about me." His gentle smile could no longer hide his mischievous side.

"You don't mind if I 'punish' you a little, do you?"

A sweet, lively food editor with synesthesia and a slightly melancholy side x a gentle, aloof food creator with no sense of smell and a slightly mischievous side

#Your voice smells like white sandalwood.

#Your smile tastes like sweet cake.

Reader's Guide:

1. 1v1, each other's first love, happy ending

2. Mutual pining, slow burn. I hope to make this a cozy, healing little confection~

3. Fictional modern setting with lots of original worldbuilding. Everything serves the plot.

4. Take the cooking scenes and food reviews with a grain of salt. The author can't cook at all, lol...

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Upcoming story: Summer Sleep, Unaware of Dawn

#The whole school knows Qiu Xiao likes Xia Mian. Only Xia Mian hasn't noticed.#

Childhood friends / younger man, two years younger / boy has a crush on girl

There's a saying at S High: "If you have a problem, go to Sister Xia." That's Xia Mian. Not because she's some kind of miracle worker, but because she's well-known for her warm heart and her sense of justice.

Though she was given a delicate girl's name, Xia Mian never had the build or personality of a delicate girl. When the kid next door was bullied, she stepped in and chased away the older kids, even though they were a head taller than her. When the kid next door got hurt during training, she kept a cool head and carefully bandaged him with what she'd learned in first aid class. When his parents scolded him for making a mistake, she stood by him, taking the blame and covering for him from start to finish.

Since they were kids, Xia Mian had always thought the boy next door was frail, sickly, and listless. Aside from being a fast runner, he was just a kid who needed others to look after and protect him.

Until the day Xia Mian got injured on the court and Qiu Xiao easily scooped her up and carried her to the infirmary. Only then did she suddenly realize that the little boy she'd once protected was now a tall, handsome young man.

She stared at him, stunned, unable to look away.

"Sis," Qiu Xiao lowered his head and smiled at Xia Mian in his arms. "Had a good look yet?"

A slow-witted, justice-driven tomboy x a cynical, scheming puppy with smiling eyes

Reader's Guide:

1. 1v1, each other's first love, happy ending

2. He has a crush on her at first, then they pine for each other

3. Younger man and older woman, two-year age gap

4. Most of the story takes place in high school. They won't get together before adulthood and graduation from the college entrance exam.

Upcoming story: Just Lie Down, I'll Save You

#For you, I have died and returned to life hundreds of times.#

#For you, I stake everything on staying alive.#

Mutual salvation / younger man, 12-year mental-age gap / time loops

As the saying goes, a bodyguard who doesn't want to be an assassin isn't a good agent.

Qing Dao was an exceptional agent who had "retired" from working as an assassin and spent over six years diligently working at the thankless job of bodyguard.

But one day, while on a mission, he died in the line of duty while saving a child who wasn't the target.

Qing Dao thought he could finally put an end to his joyless life, but the ruthless organization kept exploiting its workers even after death.

He was forced to join a project called the "Rekindling Plan," traveling through time and space to save people who were meant to die.

Qing Dao: Damn this heartless organization. They make us "work overtime" even after we're dead...

During one Rekindling Plan mission, Qing Dao had to save Wei Ming, one of the plan's founders.

In the eyes of outsiders, Wei Ming was a brilliant, composed genius scientist. In Qing Dao's eyes, he was childish, obsessive, sensitive, and even downright crazy.

Qing Dao treated Wei Ming like a younger brother, but the way the other man looked at him grew stranger and stranger...

Qing Dao: "Forget about me."

Wei Ming: "Fine. I'll forget you today, then kill myself tomorrow."

"Can you stop being so insane?!" Qing Dao frowned. "Can't you live a decent life without me?"

"No." Wei Ming's answer was firm. "I live so I can see you. I live today so I can see you tomorrow. I lived all those years because I believed I would see you again someday."

Wei Ming's tall figure loomed over Qing Dao, his voice hoarse and low. "Since you saved me eight years ago, you have to take responsibility for me."

"..."

Qing Dao kicked Wei Ming in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

The next moment, several bullets tore through the spot where Wei Ming had just been, and a burst of gunfire rang out beyond the window.

"Only the Jade Emperor himself would have to take responsibility for you!"

Qing Dao pulled out his pistol and moved beside the window. He glanced back at Dr. Wei, who was sprawled on the floor, and smirked. "Just lie down. Wait here, and I'll come save you."

With that, he climbed out the window with one hand.

A ridiculously strong bodyguard who acts cavalier but is sharp-tongued and soft-hearted, as the bottom x a calm, rational scientist who is deeply devoted, obsessive, and unhinged, as the top

#A story about two people striving to stay alive for each other.#

Reader's Guide:

1. 1v1, each other's first love, mutual salvation, happy ending

2. The bottom is 12 years older than the top in mental age

3. The top is very obsessive and extreme, not a perfect character

4. Soft science fiction by a liberal arts student. Please be kind.

Theme: Love and food are the only things that must never be forsaken