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Secret Crush #Redemption #Healing #Reunion After Years Apart

A composed fairy from the ivory tower VS a proud, insolent dragon guarding the tower

Yan Huan and Chen Luosheng had known each other since childhood. They were practically childhood sweethearts.

That is, until Yan Huan was forced to go on a blind date. There, she ran into Chen Luosheng, whom she hadn't seen in years, and asked him to help her out by pretending to be her date.

In a bar awash with shifting lights, his silver-gray hair and smiling eyes, complete with dimples, made him stand out.

After all these years, he seemed just as flamboyant and carefree as ever.

Yan Huan approached Chen Luosheng with a sincere request for help.

The result:

Chen Luosheng refused like a pampered lord: He wouldn't scare off her admirers, and he had no time.

After Yan Huan tried every argument she could think of, Chen Luosheng finally agreed. As if he were considering her feelings, he said, "When you find someone you like, Miss Yan, just let me know. I won't pester you."

Before long, Chen Luosheng said, "If you want to marry me, don't just show your intentions with eight sedan chairs. You need to propose properly. I'm not interested in someone who just flirts with me verbally."

Seeing Yan Huan suddenly act indifferent, Chen Luosheng said, "Yan Huan, you know you have to be persistent when pursuing someone, right?"

//One has ulterior motives, the other pretends to be demure.//

Upcoming Story, My Quietly Watching You Pretend to Be Good

#Mutual Scheming #Mutual Teasing #Redemption #Healing#

In high school, Xia Muqing's family adopted an orphan. The new arrival got perfect grades, had perfect character, and was beautiful. Even Xia Muqing, who had always been the model child everyone else was measured against, was overshadowed.

It was the first day of the new school year.

In a narrow alley, a well-behaved-looking boy in a school uniform deftly pinned a gang of thugs to the ground and made them beg for mercy.

Then he indifferently tugged at his torn collar, covering the vicious scars and the curse-script tattoos crisscrossing them.

His practiced movements, vicious scars, and curse-script tattoos seemed at odds with his pale, obedient-looking face, as if they belonged to someone else's body.

Perhaps Xia Muqing had been staring too intently. Jing Che noticed her in the distance and instinctively hid his bloodstained hands. Slowly straightening up, he put on an innocent expression and said in a gentle, quiet voice, "Sis, they all ganged up on me. It really hurt."

He sounded utterly pitiful and brazenly outrageous, as though Xia Muqing were blind.

But Xia Muqing played along perfectly, nodding and taking Jing Che to the hospital.

Inside, though, she was intensely curious about his behavior, and began keeping a long-term observation log.

Having grown up around her family's work, she knew studying a subject required immense patience. To ensure she recorded his behavior completely, she never disturbed the subject himself, and played along by maintaining the pretense that he was well-behaved.

Jing Che hadn't thought much of it. Since she wasn't exposing him, he was happy to keep acting. It wasn't as if he had anywhere else to go.

That is, until Jing Che accidentally opened Xia Muqing's notebook on the habits of defective animals...

A defective animal? Him?

Hah.

Jing Che deliberately let his mask slip again and again, but Xia Muqing acted as usual.

He couldn't help admiring her. What a good observer: so patient and accepting.

But she also piqued his interest. He began testing the limits of her patience, step by step, without holding back, wondering when she would finally lose it.

He stopped restraining himself. His wild nature was on full display as he became a brazen aggressor, with Xia Muqing as his target.

But Xia Muqing wrote all this off as the subject entering mating season...

To ensure her records were complete, she looked at Jing Che, standing so close, acting intimately, his gaze fixed on her lips... and dutifully rose onto her toes, meeting his lips...

Theme: Love life