Be Good, Let Me Hold You

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There’s a saying at Zhenming High School: “If you want to be somebody, be Sheng Qin.”

Top of his grade, cocky attitude, handsome face.

During summer vacation, Sheng Qin accompanied his best friend Lu Ming to his goddess’s piano awards ceremony.

At first glance, Sheng Qin spotted the well-behaved, flustered girl accepting her medal.

Lu Ming nudged him. “Brother Sheng, what do you think of my goddess?”

Sheng Qin replied nonchalantly, “She’s average.”

Not as good as my partner.

Sheng Qin had a partner in his gaming group, and she was everyone’s goddess.

Her gameplay was top-notch, and so was her game sense. She was just a little cold, and no one had ever seen her.

*

After school started, a new transfer student joined Class 1 of Grade 11. She was none other than his best friend’s little goddess.

The girl was quiet and shy. She stuttered when nervous and blushed whenever anyone teased her.

And she was scared of him.

The day exam results came out, her eyes turned red. For some reason, Sheng Qin got irritated, so he slapped his perfect-score paper down on her desk, meaning, “Ask me if you don’t understand.”

The girl’s eyes instantly welled up with tears.

Sheng Qin thought, She cries way too easily. What a nuisance.

Later, Sheng Qin got completely drunk at a celebration banquet for their competition.

He put an arm around Lu Ming, his eyes fierce. “You have to choose between your buddy and your goddess.”

Lu Ming called his goddess, crying.

The next day, the school belle shyly stopped Sheng Qin and asked him, “I heard you like me?”

Sheng Qin raised an eyebrow, his tone indifferent. “Who are you?”

The school belle said, “Didn’t you tell Lu Ming you liked me?”

Sheng Qin: “...?”

It had all been a misunderstanding.

He turned around and saw the girl standing not far away, fidgeting with her hem.

Sheng Qin left the school belle behind and strode over, explaining in a bit of a panic, “She’s trying to scam me. I don’t know her.”

That evening, Sheng Qin messaged his gaming partner: I like someone.

The goddess replied coolly: Congratulations.

*

During a break in evening study hall, the classroom briefly lost power.

Ruan Xi held her breath. Just as her hand was about to touch Sheng Qin, she quickly pulled it back.

Liking Sheng Qin was Ruan Xi’s carefully hidden secret.

[Bonus Scene]

The whole class had a karaoke party after graduating from high school.

The power suddenly tripped, plunging the private room into darkness.

Someone gently put their arms around Ruan Xi. A warm, familiar scent lingered beneath her nose.

In the dark, Sheng Qin drawled lazily, “Why are you hiding? No hiding allowed.”

After the party, Sheng Qin held Ruan Xi’s hand in one of his and messaged his gaming partner with the good news in the other.

Then he heard a ding from Ruan Xi’s phone.

Ruan Xi opened it, and Sheng Qin saw the message he had just sent lying on her screen.

Sheng Qin: ?

Cocky top student x shy, sweet girl

P.S.

One-on-one romance, first love for both, happy ending, sweet romance. The male lead and his gaming partner are comrades-in-arms.

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Clumsy Rose

Ming Ran is the wealthy heiress of Zhenming, someone no one dares cross. She’s rich, powerful, and willful.

Chu Yuan is a well-known special-admission student.

Extremely poor, extremely clever, extremely aloof, and always wearing old clothes and shoes washed pale with wear.

And yet Ming Ran fell for him.

A young girl’s love is ardent and intense, haughty and impossible to refuse.

After an accident killed both her parents, Ming Ran went from princess to Cinderella.

Chu Yuan merely looked at her coldly as she stood there, helpless and bewildered. “This is your comeuppance.”

Only then did Ming Ran realize he hated her.

Later, she disappeared.

*

Ten years later, Chu Yuan became a business prodigy who could reshape the entire corporate world.

He was nearing thirty and still unmarried, claiming to be a confirmed bachelor.

No one knew that he often dreamed.

In his dreams, a radiant girl, beautiful as a rose, would proudly take steamed buns from her schoolbag and coax him, calling him, “A Yuan.”

They had been his favorite childhood food. She had gone to great lengths to find the shopkeeper, who had long since closed up, and begged him to make a basket.

When he woke, he smoked all night. The dream’s repeated calls of “A Yuan” still rang in his ears.

At an art exhibition, he looked at a woman’s self-portrait and his eyes reddened.

Everyone in their circles said she was an artist backed by the Huo family head, and also the future Mrs. Huo: Ming Ran.

That night, Chu Yuan drank until he suffered gastric bleeding and had to be rushed to the hospital.

At the celebration banquet for the exhibition, people saw Chu Yuan pull Ming Ran into a nearby lounge.

A commotion erupted inside, startling everyone into breaking down the door.

Under the shocked gazes of the crowd, Chu Yuan was a disheveled mess, his eyes full of pain as he pleaded, “Ranran, I regret it. Please come back to me.”

Ming Ran pushed him away, her manner cold. “Mr. Chu, you’re too late to ask.”

Later, as he lay entwined with her, he begged her to say, “I love you.”

Ming Ran scoffed. “Mr. Chu, we each get what we need. There’s no point talking about love.”

Willful, dazzling artist x restrained, unhinged rising tycoon

Pre-release: Overly Obsessed [Marriage Before Love]

Everyone in Hong Kong knows that a down-and-out girl is engaged to the second young master of the Yan family.

After her family was ruined and her parents died, the Yan family took her in.

Three years ago, Second Young Master Yan threatened to kill himself to force the engagement to be called off. The media raced to report it.

But not a single detail about the people involved ever got out.

“Miss Rong” is the hottest haute couture design studio in the country over the past three years. Its director, Rong Yun, has won countless fans with her exceptional designs and stunning looks, and is as popular as a star.

At a livestreamed gala, she appeared in a tight black dress that showed off her waist, earning her the nickname “the ultimate in sultry temptation.”

Unexpectedly, the livestream was cut short. Rumors spread that a top-tier star had confessed to her on the spot, only for a man so handsome he seemed unreal to take her away with a cold expression.

Someone at the event recognized him as the head of the Yan family, Yan Xingzhou.

Online commenters said, “Impossible!”

Yan Xingzhou was married and famously virtuous. Besides, the Yan family was one of the most powerful in the country. Even eight hundred Rong Yuns couldn’t compare.

In the room, Rong Yun sank into the cushions, pressing against the man’s shoulder to stop him from continuing.

“Mr. Yan, we’re only married by contract. The contract period is over.”

The man pinned her hand to a spot on his chest, where a faint mark lay.

He leaned closer. “When you held me down and bit me at home last month, why didn’t you think about our contract then, hmm?”

Rong Yun: “.”

Later, people noticed a ring on Rong Yun’s ring finger, and speculation ran wild.

A competitor deliberately smeared her, hinting that she had seduced Yan Xingzhou for favors.

That day, Yan Xingzhou unexpectedly agreed to speak to the media, even showing off his wedding ring on camera.

“I designed this for our third wedding anniversary. My wife doesn’t like wearing rings. It took a lot of coaxing to get her to put it on.”

The gossip-loving public noticed that his ring was exactly the same as Rong Yun’s.

“Mrs. Yan, I want to place the sun, moon, and stars in your hands.”

Irresistibly handsome, devoted husband x sultry haute couture designer

[Bonus Scene]

A video surfaced.

At a lively banquet, Second Young Master Yan confessed his feelings to Rong Yun. “Yunyun, I was wrong before. I shouldn’t have called off our engagement. I really do like you now.”

Rong Yun said calmly, “You were wrong. You should be calling me Auntie.”

Second Young Master Yan: “But you two...”

A tall, stern man stepped forward and pulled Rong Yun into his arms, looking down at Second Young Master Yan. “Well? Aren’t you going to call her?”

Under his own younger uncle’s imposing presence, Second Young Master Yan lowered his head in frustration and called her, reluctant and resentful.

The whole internet erupted. Rong Yun was the former fiancée Second Young Master Yan had dumped?!

Online commenters: “Shocking! A woman gets dumped, then marries her ex-fiancé’s uncle?”

Completed sweet romances: Going Viral on a Work Variety Show with a Top-Tier Star; After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Was Forced to Win Over the Tyrant

Theme: Love helps people grow.