The Stray Dog and the Cherry

[Love-Struck Tough-Guy Boxer X Sweet Cherry Childhood Friend] Complete

The stray dog used to think only about filling his stomach. When the cherries ripened, he could no longer look away.

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Zhou MuyU had been rebellious and unruly since childhood. Nearly two meters tall, he looked slim in clothes but was all muscle without them. His face was a gift from heaven, cold and sharp, with thick brows over deep-set eyes and a small scar on his right eyebrow that cut across its arch.

He started boxing at eight. He's been at it for ten years now.

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Xu Ying was the best-behaved kid in the neighborhood: sweet, sensible, and good at school.

No one could understand why such a well-behaved little girl followed the incorrigible Zhou MuyU around every day. Even when he scolded her until she cried, she would stubbornly hold out a bottle of water and beg him to drink.

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Zhou MuyU walked Xu Ying to school during the day, then took her along to the boxing gym in the evening. After working up a sweat, he'd rest his strong arms on the edge of the ring and grin with his handsome, rebellious face, while Xu Ying sat nearby doing her homework.

Xu Ying had no parents and was used to trailing after Zhou MuyU. He was never nice to her, but he gave her all the money he earned boxing and took care of her.

Even though he was only a year older.

Zhou MuyU thought Xu Ying would follow him forever, always with tears in her eyes as she applied antiseptic to his battered face and rubbed medicated oil into his bruised chest and stomach.

Then the college entrance exams ended, and that girl left for a big city to study.

Now there was no one left to care for him.

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Half a year later, Xu Ying saw Zhou MuyU near her school. Remembering how coldly he'd treated her, she turned and walked away.

Zhou MuyU blocked her path, his expression cool and distant. He leaned toward her with a gritted-teeth smile. "Little Cherry, I fought tooth and nail to get into this club, and you run the moment you see me?"

He stubbed out his cigarette and grabbed her by the back of the neck. "Come with me."

In a cheap rental apartment, rough fingers clasped her painfully slender ones. Zhou MuyU lowered his face, his smoke-roughened voice husky and low. "Yingying's lost weight. I need to fatten you up a little."

"Call me that again, Yingying."

*Doggo-style blurb:

Doggo: (baring teeth) (looking terrifying) Don't call me that!

(turns back) (can't bear to leave) (secretly wagging tail) (looking pitiful)

Holding Cherry: (afraid to touch her here or there) (being extra careful)

In the end, he just glares at her fiercely and gives up.

When someone else pursues Cherry: (going crazy!) (Cherry's getting crushed!)

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The world means nothing to me. You're all I believe in.

Both leads are each other's first and only. From campus days to success and fame, this bowl of childhood-friend plum soup is tart and sweet. The male lead is pure and has never even touched a woman's hand.

The boxing rules in this novel are based on internationally accepted standards, but the eligibility and age limits have been relaxed a little. In this fictional setting, clubs with the proper qualifications are allowed to hold boxing matches.

-----Next book: "Good Morning, Coach"----

[Muscular Hunk Coach X His Little Darling]

Xu Yaoyao first met Qin Hexue at the training gym of her younger brother's basketball team. She'd been sent to bring her brother some clothes, so she waited on the sidelines.

A huge shadow suddenly fell over her. Xu Yaoyao craned her neck and saw a man's strong jawline and bobbing Adam's apple.

The man was two meters tall, broad-shouldered and muscular, dressed all in black. His face was handsome but fierce, and he had the intimidating air of a gang boss. Xu Yaoyao wondered if he was one of the players' fathers.

By coincidence, Qin Hexue looked at the dazed girl, who was under 1.6 meters tall, and assumed she was one of the players' girlfriends.

Qin Hexue asked, "Who are you here to see?"

Xu Yaoyao pointed to her brother, who was passing the ball. "Xu Yangyang."

That night, Xu Yangyang, who was hopelessly attached to his big sister, called her in tears. He said the new coach seemed to have it in for him and kept glaring at him as if to say, "You dare steal my wife?"

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At their first meal together, Qin Hexue's scowl frightened Xu Yaoyao into silence.

Meanwhile, Qin Hexue was thinking: She's so cute. I want to kiss her to death. Would kissing her on the first date be too soon?

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The man is ten years older than the woman. Both leads are each other's first and only. Sweet! Don't read if you have a fear of huge things =-=

Theme: Fight hard, and the world will cheer for you.