She Smells of Sweet Tangerines

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Blurb:

Chen Zhu likes Jiang Qiaoshu. To everyone else, Jiang Qiaoshu is a cool, aloof, beautiful CEO, but to Chen Zhu, she is a soft, sweet older sister.

She is rational and calm, clever and decisive.

But Chen Zhu knows those are just her armor.

Whenever her sister looks out the window and says, "I don't," she is lying.

Like on the day they broke up.

Later, when Chen Zhu appears in front of her sister again, it's at a business event.

Jiang Qiaoshu shakes her hand with professional formality and cool politeness, saying, "Long time no see."

In the hallway, Chen Zhu wants to give them another chance and asks, "Do you still like me, Sis?"

Jiang Qiaoshu gazes out the floor-to-ceiling window. "I don't."

Chen Zhu smiles. "You don't, huh?"

*

Jiang Qiaoshu first met Chen Zhu in a bar in an old town.

Her long, straight black hair fell past her shoulders, and her blunt bangs framed a dark dress. She hummed as she played guitar, like a mischievous girl.

But this girl wasn't exactly well-behaved. She could argue with a granny one moment and take on several grown men the next. She was decisive and knew what she loved and hated. It seemed there was nothing this young woman couldn't or wouldn't do.

Except break up with Jiang Qiaoshu.

That day, a typhoon brought pouring rain. Chen Zhu clung to Jiang Qiaoshu, tears in her eyes, refusing to let go. In a low voice, she pleaded, "Sis... are you giving up on your Xiao Zhu?"

Before meeting Chen Zhu, Jiang Qiaoshu saw herself as cold by nature, and believed neither in marriage nor in love.

After meeting Chen Zhu, she learned that raindrops could sound cheerful, the sky could be clear blue, and green tangerines could be sweet.

It seemed she had grown a vulnerable spot.

Blurb for Scheming:

The day Ye Ci took charge of the Ye Group, she also became the head of her stepsister Lin Hanyou's laboratory.

She had always hated Lin Hanyou for taking everything that should have been hers.

Yet she had to put on a humble face and cater to her every need, day and night.

There was only one reason for all that flattery and pretense: to get her hands on a certain piece of chip technology Lin Hanyou possessed.

Lin Hanyou, the youngest professor at the SI+N Laboratory, was cool and completely in control when dealing with the domineering Ye Ci.

One moment she played hard to get, the next she kept Ye Ci guessing, and then she acted coy and helpless.

She knew perfectly well that Ye Ci was only being nice because she wanted something. But wasn't Lin Hanyou's careful planning also a scheme of her own?

[Coming next: She Announced Her Breakup and Set Her Dog Free. Please add it to your reading list!]

Before the age of eighteen, Wu Weizhi had always considered Liang Yuan her best friend.

The friendship they'd built since childhood fell apart over a scumbag.

On the day they fell out, Liang Yuan posted on her social media: "Officially announcing a breakup on one side only. Setting my simp free."

They met again in a temporary dorm room at university, where their styles clashed.

Wu Weizhi grumpily turned down Liang Yuan's offer to make her bed. "I haven't forgotten. Back off!"

Liang Yuan didn't say a word to her for three days.

In the end, Wu Weizhi gave in. She found Liang Yuan jogging on the track,

wrapped her arms around her waist like a koala hugging a eucalyptus tree, and burst into tears.

"I've already stopped being mad at you, so why are you still ignoring me?"

[Cool, aloof top student x flirty crybaby]

[Pre-release historical girls' love novel: Plaything]

The day blood stained the streets and the country fell into ruin, Princess Jingzhen was married off to a rebel warlord who commanded his own troops.

The price she paid with her own body bought more than a brief reprieve for her little brother's throne. It also cost the life of her closest friend, Xiao Qingyu, who had supported her since they were children.

Outside the pavilion ten miles away, she wore a married woman's clothes. Heavy makeup could not hide her bruises.

Yet she smiled and said, "Qingyu, stay alive, and wait for your chance."

*

Xiao Qingyu thought she had died. She should have died the day her entire family was slaughtered, but somehow, she survived.

She swore that from then on, Xiao Qingyu would live only for Jingzhen.

[Defying fate, wine-bearing wanderer x princess willing to burn everything down]

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