Kiss Me One More Time

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One time, when Ming Qing was drunk, she accidentally kissed her best friend's younger brother.

The boy's first kiss was stolen without warning, and his normally fair face instantly turned bright red.

His mind went blank. He pushed Ming Qing away and fled.

The next day, after sobering up, Ming Qing had completely forgotten about kissing someone the night before. She didn't even apologize.

But from that day on, Ji Xinglang often dreamed of her when he slept.

On countless sultry summer nights, the boy's sweaty back damp and sticky, he'd murmur Ming Qing's name as he woke from his dreams.

Later, Ming Qing's family arranged a marriage for her. The night before her engagement party, she threw herself a bachelorette party.

When she stepped out of the private room halfway through, Ming Qing spotted Ji Xinglang squatting by the wall outside, a newly lit cigarette between his lips.

She reached out and took the cigarette from his mouth. "No smoking."

The scent from the woman's fingertips swept over him, rousing the intense love buried in the boy's bones.

Ji Xinglang suddenly grabbed Ming Qing's slender wrist, stood up, and moved closer.

The boy lowered his eyes, gazing at her with an addictive, greedy look. Holding her wrist, he pleaded in a soft, aggrieved voice, "Sis, kiss me one more time."

But Ji Xinglang didn't even wait for Ming Qing to answer. He simply cupped her face and lowered his head to kiss her, leaving no room for refusal.

[Flirtatious and sexy x sweet as a kitten, fierce as a wolf]

- The male lead has graduated from high school and is over eighteen.

- Older woman/younger man, with a five-year age gap.

- The heroine is forced into an arranged marriage, but it doesn't actually happen.

- Cover character designs based on Jiuxiangcun-Wuzhen.

[Please add my next unrequited-love novel, Dreaming of Spring, to your reading list. Here's the blurb:]

At the age of seven, Meng Chun lost both parents in an accident.

Orphaned, he was taken to Shencheng by a friend of his father's, who raised and cared for him.

From then on, Meng Chun became Meng Jin's brother in name only.

When Meng Jin started her senior year, the school required students to live on campus, with one day off each week.

One morning, just after Meng Jin stepped into the classroom, a boy who shared a dorm room with Meng Chun said to her, "Meng Jin, Brother Chun was talking in his sleep last night. He called your name several times!"

Hearing that, Meng Jin asked Meng Chun curiously, "What were you dreaming about?"

Meng Chun calmly lied, "That someone was bullying you."

Another boy from Meng Chun's dorm teased him with a laugh. "Brother Chun is such a siscon! He can't stand seeing Meng Jin suffer even the tiniest bit, not even in his dreams."

He indulged and doted on her in every way. Everyone thought he was just a siscon.

But no one knew that he loved her.

After the college entrance exams, Meng Jin was about to go abroad.

The night before she left, Meng Chun gave her the Xinhua Dictionary he'd used for years.

Much later, while leafing through the dictionary, Meng Jin happened to notice that he'd circled two characters in it: "Meng" and "Jin."

Her name.

- First school life, then urban life.

- Actor who later becomes a director x female talent agent.

- During their school days, he secretly loves her. As adults, the feelings are mutual.

- The male lead's surname was already Meng. It just happens to be the same as the heroine's.

Theme: True love conquers all.