Drawing You Into a Shojo Manga

After graduating from college, Cheng Luoyue found her ideal job in Yuewan Town.

Far from the city, with beautiful scenery and friendly neighbors, everyone here was content to take it easy. Cheng Luoyue adored life in this little town.

Young Cheng: I'm going to work two jobs at once, save up to buy a house, and settle down in this ordinary little town!

But one day, Cheng Luoyue suddenly discovered that...

Auntie Li, the neighbor who was always bringing her fresh vegetables, was the founder of a hotel chain;

Teacher Song, driven speechless every day by his elementary school students, was the second young master of a wealthy family;

The farm owner who could wield a knife and butcher pigs herself was a movie queen who had abruptly retired from the screen twenty years ago;

Even the taciturn fellow who blushed whenever he spoke was a famous manga artist.

So was she the only ordinary person here?! Cheng Luoyue sighed at the sky.

"No," said an elementary school student riding by on a bicycle. "You're the inspiration for the heroine of the year's most popular girls' manga, Sister Cheng."

Cheng Luoyue: ?!

Shen Kang, who went by the online name Kan, began serializing comics online at eighteen. His debut work topped the charts that year, and its sales record stood for three whole years.

Kan's comics mainly focused on young people pursuing their dreams. They were passionate stories with legions of fans, but some people criticized him for leaving female characters out of his comics.

"Not every comic needs important female characters!" many fans would say.

But Shen Kang knew that this was indeed a part he wasn't good at.

At twenty-four, Kan hit a creative slump and decided to delay the release of his next work.

At the same time, he created a secret identity to seek inspiration and challenge himself, and began an irregularly updated girls' manga.

It was called The 18 Rules of a Working Girl.

Energetic wage earner x mildly socially anxious manga artist

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Coming soon in my column: Suddenly, Spring and Summer

At a class reunion, someone brought up the glorious tale of Lin Xunxia confessing her love in public at their high school graduation ceremony.

"Everyone in the school auditorium heard about it. They said Xunxia was outside holding a bouquet of roses when she confessed."

The speaker watched the two men seated on either side of Lin Xunxia with a curious look.

They looked exactly alike, both handsome and extraordinary.

The one on the left had an air of nobility and coolness in his eyes. He seemed courteous, but was actually difficult to approach.

The one on the right had a lazy, carefree bearing. When he looked at someone, the corner of his mouth lifted, and his gaze flashed with sharpness.

What had happened back then was so sudden that no one remembered which of the twin brothers Lin Xunxia had confessed to.

"That's all in the past." Lin Xunxia smiled candidly at the mention of those days.

Her expression was relaxed, as if everything had passed and they really were nothing more than ordinary old classmates now.

*One-on-one romance

Theme: The spirit of the working class