Hedgehog

[Redemption] [A Reformed Playboy] [Rekindled Romance] [Beijing's Playboy vs. Cool, Rebellious Girl]

"Fierce passion, finding a way out when all seems lost"

Shen Zongjing was a notorious Beijing playboy, wild and dazzling, one of the city's best-known young masters.

Li Yan was cool and aloof, weary of the world, living like a hedgehog.

They moved in different circles. Their only connection was the university forum when they enrolled, where their names once appeared one above the other.

#Shen Zongjing / Top Student in Astronomy at Jing University#

#Li Yan / Incoming Students List#

Until a basketball tournament between B City's universities.

Countless people in the stands chanted Shen Zongjing's name.

Outside the court, there were only two people.

Shen Zongjing pinched the burst bead in his cigarette between two fingers. With a click, the ends of Li Yan's hair brushed the scratch on his collar.

"Shen Zongjing, I really liked that outfit. You ruined it."

"I'll pay you back."

His phone vibrated. It was his friend, and also Li Yan's maternal half-brother, Zhou Hao.

"Where are you? Picking up girls?"

The chamber clicked shut, and their breathing turned into a soft, tangled rhythm.

Half a minute later, the earring she'd left behind last night was back with Li Yan. She lowered her head to put it on while Shen Zongjing held his cigarette and drawled lazily, "Picking up your sister."

"I long for someone to love me fiercely until death, knowing that love is just as powerful as death."

Jeanette Winterson

Here are some books by my lovely wife:

I Didn't Know You Had a Crush on Me by Jin Yu | Complete | Two top-tier stars | Mutual pining

Hear Your Heartbeat | Faux siblings | Rekindled romance

Coming next: Storm Season

[Redemption] [A Reformed Playboy] [Rekindled Romance] [Stealing His Brother's Girl] [Childhood Friend vs. New Arrival] [Beijing Playboy x Cool, Rebellious Girl]

At a campus mixer, a classmate pointed to Li Zhi in a white dress and teased Zhou Xiaoliang: "Your childhood sweetheart."

A few steps away, Zhou Xiaochen bit down on a cigarette. In a black T-shirt, he had all the energy of a spirited young man. He glanced over, nonchalant.

Zhou Xiaoliang asked Li Zhi if she wanted to leave with him.

She shook her head obediently. "I have something to do."

Half an hour later, the band's performance ended, and countless people in the crowd shouted Zhou Xiaochen's name.

Outside, there were only two people.

In storm season, the air was damp with rain mist, their breaths entwined.

With his bass slung over his back, Zhou Xiaochen asked lazily, "What are you mad about?"

Li Zhi tied her hair up, her earlobes damp and red. The wind lifted the ends of her hair, brushing the scratch on his collar. "You got my dress dirty. You can make it up to me for last night."

Everyone said that apart from the mole beside his Adam's apple, Zhou Xiaochen looked just like Zhou Xiaoliang.

Their personalities were worlds apart. One was wild and dazzling, the other cool and self-possessed. But to outsiders, they seemed like devoted brothers.

So devoted that Zhou Xiaochen brazenly stole his brother's girl and helped him win over his childhood sweetheart.

Ongoing novel: Born to Drown

Beijing's elite circle | Faux siblings | She runs, he pursues | One-night stand to real relationship | Mild coercion | Cultured scoundrel from a wealthy Beijing family x gentle, sweet girl who knows how to lure men

At fourteen, at her lowest point, Meng Ying was brought to the Zhou family by her mother and became Zhou Siyi's stepsister, unrelated by blood.

Zhou Siyi was an arrogant, aloof golden boy. She was a quiet, well-behaved top student. She knew they were worlds apart.

At a party, a friend pointed to the scratch on his neck. "Your brother's cat is vicious."

Meng Ying nodded obediently.

No one knew that on a hot, humid terrace, a young man would bend down and rub his long, pale fingers over her damp, red earlobe, then lazily remark:

"You're quite the scratcher."

"And quite the biter, too."

She was a little liar who deceived people and stole their hearts. And beneath Zhou Siyi's golden-boy facade, he was no good man either.

What Meng Ying and Zhou Siyi had was a fair exchange.

She borrowed his influence, and he wanted her.

Beijing's elite were all betting on when Zhou Siyi would get tired of her and abandon the pampered cat he'd kept at home.

No one expected Meng Ying to be the one to ask to leave.

On a stormy night, she backed away step by step until she had nowhere left to go.

Zhou Siyi's voice was cold as he threatened her, one word at a time: "Are you coming to me on your own, or do I have to bring you over?"

Theme: Finding a way out when all seems lost