After Breaking Off My Engagement to Mr. Shen

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[Blurb]

After her family falls into turmoil and her company puts her on the shelf, Jian Ning is informed that she is to be engaged to the head of the Shen family.

Rumor has it the head is named Shen Yangzhou. She's stunning and has plenty of lovers, but unfortunately she's crippled, and her tastes in bed are so outrageous they make people's blood run cold.

Jian Ning: I'm calling off the engagement tonight...

On the day she goes to break it off, Shen Yangzhou doesn't show up. Instead, Jian Ning finds a lionhead cat in a wheelchair, there as her representative.

Jian Ning: ...

A cat? This is too much!

Furious, Jian Ning heads to a bar and has a few wild nights. The mysterious woman she meets is aloof and chaste, with an air of authority. She's perfect in every way.

After their first night together, the woman asks if there'll be a next time.

Jian Ning: We both wanted it. It was just for tonight.

After their second night together, the woman jokes that she wants to be Jian Ning's kept woman.

Jian Ning: Not happening. Don't get attached.

After their third night together, the woman says there won't be another time.

Jian Ning panics: Let's talk about that next time.

The woman keeps asking about her ex-fiancée.

Jian Ning: It's fake. I don't even know her. There'll never be anything between me and anyone named Shen in this life. You're the only one for me, baby.

The woman only smiles. Not long afterward, Jian Ning runs out of money and disappears.

Jian Ning joins a new agency, whose boss also has the surname Shen. When they meet, she realizes the boss is her kept woman!

Her secretary tells her to greet the boss, but Jian Ning can't bring herself to speak.

Shen Yangzhou: What is it? Don't you like calling me that anymore?

Jian Ning: ...

After a long game of cat and mouse, Jian Ning falls for her all over again. Shen Yangzhou confesses first, but Jian Ning turns her down.

There's one more thing she has to do: she needs to clear things up with the Shen family.

At last, Jian Ning meets the legendary head of the Shen family and freezes, her eyes red with anger.

This is too much. That bastard is filthy rich, yet pretended to be a kept woman just to fool her.

Clutching the lionhead cat, Jian Ning cries until she can barely speak: You bullied me. You wanted me to marry an animal.

Shen Yangzhou holds her close: I'm an animal, I'm an animal. Don't cry.

Flirtatious, brazen little boss x calculating, secretly flirtatious big boss

[Coming Soon Blurb]

At her grandfather's request, Yu Yusheng takes an old photograph to a small town to visit his first love, Xu Xiu.

When she was sixteen, she visited the town and teased a five-year-old child there.

At the time, she was upset with her family and cried in despair. The child stood there helplessly, holding an orange in both hands.

She stared at the orange in the child's hands, and the child innocently offered it to her.

Sniffling, she said, "Orange peel is bitter and doesn't taste good. You have to peel it."

The child hurriedly put all their strength into it, like a kid gulping down milk at breakfast, afraid the big kid would start crying again.

She said to remove the pith, so the child did. She wanted to be fed, so the child fed her. She took a bite and immediately burst into tears from the sourness.

The child had never seen anyone react like that and almost started crying too, but held it in. "There, there, big sister. Don't cry, don't cry."

The child came closer, touched her face with a chubby little hand, and gave her a kiss, perfectly composed.

With tear-blurred eyes, she said, "You're so nice, little one. Give me another kiss."

Thinking back on it now, Yu Yusheng blushes. Who would have thought proper Teacher Yu could be like that in private?

When she arrives in town, she and her friends go to try a famous street-side fried rice stall. The cook, Master Xiao Xu, is very young, tall and slender but strong, and quick and efficient at her work.

Master Xiao Xu is busy, and even after going several times, Yu Yusheng never gets a chance to talk to her. Still, she feels like the cook looks familiar.

At last, Yu Yusheng finds Grandma Xu Xiu, and Master Xiao Xu is there too. No wonder she looked familiar: they're related. "Is she your granddaughter?"

Grandma Xu Xiu cheerfully introduces her: "She's young, eighteen, and about to start college. She's my grandaunt."

Yu Yusheng: What?!

The neighbors are stunned by the family seniority.

Yu Yusheng greets her. "Do you remember me?" She means from the fried rice stall.

Xu Chu pauses. "I do. I used to comfort you when I was little."

Yu Yusheng freezes, her earlobes turning red beneath her dark hair. Oh, so it was her, the little one who called herself Big Sister.

Later, her grandfather tells her that he and Xu Xiu are together.

She tells him that she and Xu Chu are together.

Her grandfather reaches for a cigarette. "Xu Xiu's grandaunt?"

Yu Yusheng: "You're still my grandfather. We can each go by our own relations."

Her friend says younger lovers can't be relied on, that they're too immature, and advises her to think carefully.

Yu Yusheng smiles: Master Xiao Xu has known how to treat people well since she was little.

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