Scheming

Next up: She Announced She Was Freeing the Dog When We Broke Up and Plaything

Blurb:

The day Ye Ci took back control of the Ye Group, she also became the person in charge of the lab where Lin Hanyou worked.

She thought she had always hated Lin Hanyou most of all, the woman who had changed everything about her.

And yet she had to put on a humble, eager-to-learn act, fawning over her day and night.

There was no other reason. All that attentiveness and playacting was just to get a certain chip technology from Lin Hanyou.

Lin Hanyou, the youngest professor at the SIN Lab, faced Ye Ci, who was cold in appearance and even colder in person, with calm confidence and ease.

One moment she would play hard to get, the next she would feign reluctance, then she would act coy and helpless.

She knew perfectly well that Ye Ci was only being nice to her because she wanted something. But wasn't her own careful scheming also a kind of plot?

In the past, Lin Hanyou was always the one to ask, "Xiao Ci, are you cold?"

When they met again later, Ye Ci clung to Lin Hanyou pitifully, begging her not to let go. She said, "Lin Hanyou, I'm so cold..."

[Lin Hanyou's perspective: The lucky one who got to be together with her after ten years of unrequited love

Ye Ci's perspective: Waking up after ten years of failing to understand her own feelings]

[Devious, lovesick CEO younger sister X Cool, alluring scientist older sister]

Next up, She Announced She Was Freeing the Dog When We Broke Up:

Before she turned eighteen, Wu Weizhi always thought Liang Yuan was her best friend.

Their friendship had started when they were little, but in the end they went their separate ways over a scumbag.

On the day they fell out, Liang Yuan posted on her feed: "Officially announcing our breakup unilaterally. Setting my simp free."

They met again in a makeshift dorm shared by students from different universities.

Wu Weizhi flatly refused Liang Yuan's offer to make her bed. "I hold grudges. Get away from me!"

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

In the end, Wu Weizhi gave in. She caught Liang Yuan out running on the sports field,

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

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

Later, a misunderstanding drove them apart.

They met again three years later, beneath the dim lights of a bar. Wu Weizhi pointed disdainfully at her lips, signaling for Liang Yuan to pour her a drink. "President Liang, if you're asking for a favor, you need to act like it."

Liang Yuan leaned down and kissed her. "I'm asking you."

"...Huh?" Wu Weizhi was completely stunned by the kiss...

Liang Yuan, drunk out of her mind, pulled Wu Weizhi into her arms and murmured, "Say you aren't mad at me anymore. Say it... Please..."

[Top student, aloof beauty X Flirtatious crybaby]

Plaything blurb:

On the day blood stained the streets and the kingdom was on the verge of collapse, Commandery Princess Jing Zhen was forced to marry the rebel who had amassed an army of his own.

The price she paid was not only a brief respite for her younger brother's throne, but also the life of Xiao Qingyu, her dearest friend, who had stood by her side since childhood.

At the pavilion ten miles outside the city, Jing Zhen wore a married woman's robes. Even heavy makeup could not hide the scars all over her body, yet she smiled and said, "Qingyu, stay alive, and wait for the day we meet again."

In an age of chaos, human lives were worth less than grass, less than dogs and pigs.

More than a hundred members of the Xiao family were slaughtered. Xiao Qingyu was the only one left alive.

She thought she had died, that she should have died the day her family was massacred, but somehow she had survived.

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

*

The Central Plains were torn apart, warlords fought for supremacy, and the people suffered terribly. Yet there was one lofty pavilion, a haven of peace in this troubled world, called the Taiping Pavilion.

Its master was called Yulang, an uncanny person whose gender was hard to discern. She killed without mercy, a fine blade in this chaotic age.

By then, the Commandery Princess Jing Zhen no longer existed. Jing Zhen had become an actress reviled by all.

When Jing Zhen proved her resolve by taking her own life, Yulang of the Taiping Pavilion sat beside the Bridge of Helplessness, weeping as if her heart were breaking.

Why was Yulang crying? Were they even close?

But when Jing Zhen awoke, she found that Yulang had a face identical to Xiao Qingyu's. With tears in her eyes, Yulang looked up at Jing Zhen and said, "From now on, you must live only for Xiao Qingyu, too."

Theme: Face life with optimism.