Summer Night Escape Plan

[Please add my upcoming novels Night Flight and Mistimed Rewind to your collection (≧ω≦*)]

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As the new school year approached, Qu Luo suddenly felt like she couldn't understand the mind of a teenage boy.

Her childhood friend Ye Shuyang was not only moody, but inexplicably moved his desk to the last row on the first day of school, changing them from deskmates to seatmates in front of and behind each other.

But it was fine. She soon got a new deskmate: Ke Jin, a transfer student who looked like a real jerk and impossible to get along with.

Ye Shuyang pressed a hand to his pounding chest and looked away from Qu Luo's gaze.

He was sure he must be possessed.

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The night was thick with fog.

When Ke Jin walked Qu Luo back to her alley, she ran into Ye Shuyang beneath the streetlamp at its entrance.

He seemed to have been standing there for a long time, damp mist clinging to him.

"Were you waiting for me?" She walked closer and tilted her head slightly. Her gaze brushed past the brim of his cap, pulled low, before finally settling on him.

But she didn't get an answer from him. Instead, she heard a voice behind her: "Qu Luo."

She instinctively started to turn around, but felt the fingers gripping her shoulder tighten until they hurt a little.

At the same time, two voices sounded by her ear.

"See you tomorrow. Don't forget to bring me the hat."

"Mm. I've been waiting for you for a long time."

In the dim, murky light, Ke Jin turned away.

Only Ye Shuyang noticed that Qu Luo's favorite hair tie was on Ke Jin's wrist.

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It was only after they started dating that Qu Luo discovered Ye Shuyang was a clingy guy with a heart steeped in jealousy.

On the day a cold snap arrived, he caught her by the wrist and pulled her into his arms.

His muttered words sounded both coquettish and aggrieved.

"I'm still jealous. I'm dying from it, so hurry up and comfort me."

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◆ A conceited, pure-hearted childhood friend x a mischievous childhood friend who's slow to realize her feelings x a gloomy, world-weary newcomer

◆ Childhood friend beats newcomer | School life with a light ensemble cast (the newcomer has a meaningful role, not just a walk-on)

◆ The leads won't have intimate interactions before adulthood

◆ One personal setting: high school students are not divided into science and humanities streams

[Upcoming Novel 1] Night Flight

◎ Partners-to-lovers | Some coercion | Male lead goes crazy for love | Angsty, sweet romance

◎ A tsundere, flirtatious fake good girl x a brooding, possessive young master

The Zong and Wu families had always been at odds. Wu Rui, the gentle and obedient younger daughter of the Wu family, had been warned by her elders many times not to have anything to do with the Zong family.

Especially not with Zong Baiye, the only son of the Zong family.

Wu Rui obediently agreed.

She hated guys like him, arrogant and aloof to everyone, relying on a handsome face and a privileged background.

Yet the moment she turned around, she began secretly entangling herself with him in the dead of night.

"Zong Baiye, we agreed not to leave bite marks." She reached back to push him away. "Why are you still biting? Stop it..."

She tried to get away, but he held her by the waist and pulled her back into his arms, trapping her against him. His kiss was fierce. "Why run? Be good."

The day her family arranged a marriage match for her, Wu Rui told Zong Baiye they should end things.

The man couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids. He answered briskly and coldly, "Suit yourself."

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On the night she ended a date with her fiance, she came home drunk and unlocked the door by memory, only to discover that she'd habitually set her destination to Zong Baiye's home.

Wu Rui gave an awkward smile and drank the hangover soup he handed her.

When she woke up again, the endless ocean stretched outside the window, and she was in a manor somewhere in Italy.

Zong Baiye was sitting on the sofa beside the bed, staring at a tablet.

"What are you watching?" Wu Rui leaned closer. The moment she saw the screen, her pupils contracted.

A funeral was taking place in the live video. The black-and-white portrait showed her smiling as a little girl.

Zong Baiye looked up at her, a smile playing on his lips. "How do you like it? A livestream of your funeral."

"Everyone thinks you're dead. Now you belong to me completely."

Wu Rui opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Even as fear filled her, she felt a strange flicker of excitement.

[Upcoming Novel 2] Mistimed Rewind

[Sweet-faced but secretly ruthless x cold and heartless | Male replacement]

Meng Yuqing had been an actress for years, but never managed to gain much popularity.

Not only did she have a face that looked incapable of love, she also seemed incapable of love on screen, so people were always criticizing her acting.

Tan Shiyue was refined and dignified, a young man of great promise and a well-known heir in Hong Kong City.

To escape an arranged marriage, he married Meng Yuqing at a young age.

At first, he believed that their marriage was a mutually beneficial arrangement with no love involved.

Until one night at a banquet, Tan Shiyue stepped away for a while.

When he returned, he heard his friend gossiping with Meng Yuqing, asking when she'd fallen for him.

The man paused, then stayed where he was.

A moment later, he heard her hesitate before replying, "I can't remember. It must have been a long time ago, before I met him."

Her friend took her hesitation for shyness. "So it was a secret crush?"

Meng Yuqing smiled and didn't deny it.

That night, he held the exhausted woman as she slept, contentedly brushing the hair from her cheek before smiling and kissing the corner of her eye.

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But later, Tan Shiyue received a camcorder.

Its low-resolution footage recorded Meng Yuqing's everyday life with another man, the two of them in love.

It also captured what she looked like when she loved someone, a side of her he had never seen.

And the man's profile looked very much like his.

Watching the camcorder, Tan Shiyue felt his reason slip for the first time.

Meng Yuqing's acting had been so good that she'd fooled everyone, including him.

On the day Meng Yuqing was secretly photographed with a male costar and rumors of an affair spread, she saw Tan Shiyue, who should have been abroad at the time.

In the dim room, his expression was unreadable, but his tone was casual. "Isn't one face that looks like mine enough for you?"

Tan Shiyue rarely paid attention to her costars, so before this secret photograph was taken,

he hadn't known the man at the center of the rumors had a small mole on the right side of his nose, just like him and the man in the camcorder footage.

Meng Yuqing looked up in shock. "...What?"

"You can only be mine." He held her chin, gently rubbing it with his thumb. "Whether the rumors are true or not, he'll disappear."

Theme: About companionship and courage.