A Secret Crush With Your Name in It [Showbiz]

[The main story is complete! Thank you for keeping me company. Bows, then one more little ad asking you to add my ongoing campus romance treats, Mad Dog Kisses Summer, and the upcoming treat, Playing Good [Campus] to your reading lists. Cute heart hands~]

Wen Gu joined a reality dating show featuring ordinary people.

She was the fourth female guest, and her total screen time was shorter than the dog’s. Yet the show, which had been quietly attracting little attention, suddenly became a hit.

[Ahhh! I’m so here for that sweet face!!!]

[Miss Wen is so badass, I love her! That sweet, innocent green-tea look paired with her queenly, take-no-crap personality is such a wild contrast. I’m obsessed!]

[Wait, isn’t she that famous top-tier star’s notorious anti-fan leader? She actually had the guts to go on a reality show under her real name?]

When the internet dug up Wen Gu’s main account and discovered she was a hater of rising heartthrob He Zhixin, the two strangers who had never crossed paths appeared together on the show.

The production team stirred up trouble, asking He Zhixin, who had never had a dating rumor since his debut, to choose one of the four female guests as his girlfriend.

He Zhixin lifted his eyes with an indifferent gaze. His eyes were so still that everything in the world seemed as insignificant as a grain of sand. He looked at Wen Gu, keeping every flicker of emotion from showing. "I don't have a type. But if I had to choose, it would be someone the opposite of Miss Wen."

Wen Gu smiled sweetly, dimples blooming in her cheeks, soft and unbearably endearing. "What a coincidence. I like men who are the opposite of Mr. He, too."

She paused briefly, then stunned everyone with her next words.

"Especially men who are all talk and nothing else."

The biggest lie I ever told was the moment we met again, when I played the coward against my own heart.

*

Wen Gu had always thought He Zhixin didn't like her that much. Maybe he had only gotten together with her because she was the first girl who dared to provoke him.

Until she accidentally saw the fortune slip He Zhixin had left behind before returning to lay life as a monk.

It held only a few words, but every wish was for her.

You are the only rebellion in my life of rules and Buddha's lamps.

[The haughty queen who gets more stubborn the more she loves] Wen Gu and [the aloof superstar who would fall from Buddha's grace if you told him you were in hell] He Zhixin. Each other's first love, reunited after a breakup, sweet romance~

----Here's the blurb for my ongoing campus romance treat, Mad Dog Kisses Summer. Bows in gratitude, please add it to your reading list!----

On the day Ku Xia returned to her old school to repeat her final year of high school, having transferred out of an elite school amid rumors that she had deliberately hurt someone and falsified her grades, Pei Qiye was onstage receiving an award for taking first place in the citywide exams.

The boy stood in the silent shadows, his coldness at odds with the noisy crowd gazing up at him.

Asked to share his study tips with visiting students from a rival school, he said only, coolly, "The competition is too weak."

"Damn, what an arrogant jerk! Who knows if his scores are real? It's not like his school has never faked results before. That 'genius girl' who was just exposed online graduated from there, didn't she? Genius, my foot. She's more like a cheating hack."

The boy had never cared about his reputation.

He picked up the trophy he was about to throw away and hurled it at the people who were pointing at Ku Xia and jeering at her without restraint.

Blood still stained the corner of his mouth. When the dean of discipline rushed over, he ignored the dean's anguished reprimand and punishment for fighting in public despite being a student the school had honored. He simply raised his clear, unruly eyes and smiled gently at her. "Sis, now we're the same."

This was the second time Ku Xia had seen him.

But the way the boy looked at her was as if he had known her for years.

No one knew that the dark summer ten years ago, at a psychiatric hospital,

held a past of hers known only to Pei Qiye.

She was a bright moon fallen into the mud, and he was a mad dog who had always been lost in the abyss.

Later.

In a small town thousands of miles away, where they had parted and could not meet, a typhoon raged. The young man's soaked figure in the darkness was as sincere as he had been in his youth. The wild pride that had never been tamed was willingly broken, and his voice, low and restrained, was hoarse with emotion. "Sis, can you let me in?"

"I could even be your dog. I'll do anything, as long as you let me stay by your side."

Ku Xia once thought that, because of the limitations she was born with, she would never be able to get close to this noisy, chaotic world.

Until the boy stood on a dazzlingly bright stage. Through the deafening screams of the crowd, his gaze landed on the platform in the corner where she alone sat, fierce and unwavering. "Sis, I see you."

Pei Qiye, I see you, too.

I see only you.

The world was noisy and pale to her, but he was the only vivid color in her eyes.

[Disgraced, socially anxious autistic genius girl] Ku Xia X [a fake ice mountain with a hidden, unhinged side who never reforms] Pei Qiye. Each other's first love, no love rivals, no melodramatic misunderstandings, sweet romance, an unconventional older-girl-younger-boy relationship with only a small age gap.

-----Here's the blurb for my next BL campus treat, Playing Good [Campus]. Cute begging for your reading-list adds starts here!-----

Two famous rival high schools in Xilin were "merged."

After the merger, the bottom-ranked big shot from one school and the perennial top student from the other were assigned to the same dorm room.

Song Yuan was leaning against the bathroom wall when his new roommate, who was colder than the air conditioner, came in. He didn't move. "Want to talk?"

The boy glanced up at him, his gaze light, long lashes hanging down as if in disdain.

Song, a big shot who rarely showed kindness, had only brought humiliation upon himself. He scowled and treated the other boy like air from then on.

Song Yuan never thought his new roommate, who had never even bothered to speak to him, felt anything for him beyond what he might feel for a stranger.

Until one evening during study hall, a teacher accused him of smoking. Cigarette butts scattered on the floor, though no one knew who had left them, were irrefutable proof. Too lazy to argue, he was about to take the blame.

The boy stepped in front of him. "I smoked."

That night, Song Yuan dreamed of Ling Yang all night.

When he woke up, Song, the big shot, climbed into the other boy's bed.

*

Ling Yang had a secret hidden deep in his heart.

The silent, arrogant top student was actually a socially anxious person with hearing loss in his left ear.

So he couldn't hear what Song Yuan, who sat to his left, said to him.

He once thought no one would ever find out.

Until that night, when Song, who hadn't gotten into trouble in ages, picked up a brick and was about to smash it into the guy. He turned sideways and spoke softly into Ling Yang's good right ear. "Dare to go wild for once?"

Like a blazing sun breaking through the ice.

The boy, who had always followed the rules and never crossed the line, got into the fiercest fight of his life in his school uniform.

As dawn broke, a breeze carried a tender whisper to his ear. "Can you hear me now?"

I never heard the way you looked at me in the dark, or the countless whispers buried beneath the ruins.

But from this moment on, I can always hear the unending heartbeat of your love for me.

Fate gave me countless trials, and I will carve the abyss into a sky-blue jewel and give it to you.

[An outgoing, cheeky big-shot bottom who used to be a green-tea rich kid, top] Song Yuan x [The ice-cold persona is just an introvert's protective shell, bottom] Ling Yang. Sweet romance, each other's first love~

Theme: I have never stopped loving you