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College campus | Flirtatious push and pull | Sweet romance | Secretly calculating male lead x bright young woman
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At eighteen, Yan Jiaxia was a dazzling, free-spirited heiress from Beijing's elite circle. Raised in the lap of luxury, she was beautiful and carefree, and no one could control her.
Jiang Huaili was a poor college student sponsored by the Yan family: an excellent student, cool, and reserved.
The night they first met, rain fell in the humid summer air.
A boy was walking Yan Jiaxia home. The flirtatious mood beneath the umbrella was hard to make out. Yan Jiaxia glanced up and saw Jiang Huaili standing on the balcony. She smiled lightly, her foxlike eyes rippling with feeling.
Yan Jiaxia's father said to Jiang Huaili, who was staying at their home, "When you have time, help me keep Xiaxia in line."
The young man responded politely and gently. Yan Jiaxia looked up and saw that he was tall and lean, with calm, deep brown eyes. A black mole on his Adam's apple shifted faintly as he swallowed, and his cool temperament was like the moon.
He was pretty handsome, but looked like a bookworm.
Who knew what he was like behind closed doors...
Intrigued, Yan Jiaxia began flirting with him and ordering him around for fun. He warmed milk for her, woke her up, skipped class to buy her medicine, and fixed her computer every time she broke it, but always kept to his boundaries and never went a step further.
The young heiress got bored and gave up, no longer paying attention to him. Before long, other boys were flocking around her again. But one night, when she came back from a bar after midnight, a hand dragged her behind the door.
Jiang Huaili's thin lips pressed into a straight line, his eyes dark and intense as he curved them into a smile. "Is that your new boyfriend tonight?"
Her cheeks were flushed from the alcohol, and her delicate brows curved up.
"What, jealous? Are you better than him?"
The young man gazed at her for several seconds. The feelings in his heart finally broke through, and he spoke in a hoarse voice: "Then let's find out."
He hadn't expected his flirtatious game to go so far, but Yan Jiaxia was pulled into the room.
From then on, in private, her almond eyes would be flushed red, and he would have her completely under his thumb.
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Jiang Huaili was admitted to Tsinghua University through its recommendation program. A top student in the computer science department, he was cool, quiet, and distant, an untouchable beauty on a high peak to many girls.
Yan Jiaxia was a top student at Tsinghua's Academy of Fine Arts. She had studied dance since childhood, and her naturally striking, radiant beauty made her the goddess of many boys' dreams, yet far beyond their reach.
No one could have imagined that these two would ever have anything to do with each other.
Then, at the university's New Year's Eve gala, Yan Jiaxia stunned the crowd with a dance. After the show, boys bearing flowers chased her backstage.
Everyone wanted to congratulate her and went looking for her. They pushed open the door to a half-closed dressing room and saw, beneath the dim lights, the aloof Jiang, the top student who never got close to girls, holding Yan Jiaxia tightly in his arms. He gripped the back of her neck and bent down to kiss her passionately.
His tall frame nearly enveloped her completely. He kissed her deeply, unable to hide his jealousy, his breath hot and low. "Baby, who said you could tell me you liked me and still accept flowers from other people?"
Everyone: ??!!!
After they were caught that night, Jiang Huaili wrapped his arms around the girl in his embrace. Facing the crowd's gossip and the disgruntled looks of his rivals, he declared his claim without hesitation:
"Yan Jiaxia is my girlfriend."
True love begins with losing control, with an irresistible fall.
[The bright heiress who gets caught and disciplined after flirting] vs. [The secretly calculating male lead who focuses on studying by day, then throws caution to the wind at night]
Tips:
1. Both are each other's first and only. The male lead is full of surprises: cool on the outside, but full of intense love inside, and he spoils the female lead in every way~
3. The female lead doesn't go bankrupt. The male lead gets rich despite their class difference. He's a super loyal puppy type.
4. There will be crossovers with Silent Heat and Marriage Contract in the Dark Room. Third revision, June 27, 2026. The phrase "True love... fall" is from Maurice Blanchot.
Theme: Become a better version of yourself for the person you love.
