Rose Paper

[Short story, not contracted]

She is a rose with shimmering scales, and a sheet of white paper, pure and translucent as fresh snow.

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Fair-skinned, beautiful heiress vs. cool, aloof, abstinent criminal police officer

When Meng Jingni was eight, she was kidnapped. After she was rescued, Wei Yinxian began staying by her side as her personal bodyguard. He was ten that year.

For the next fifteen years, his tall, handsome figure was always behind Meng Jingni.

Later, when the Meng family fell into ruin, Meng Jingni left Wei Yinxian behind and vanished overnight.

She didn't appear again until four years later.

Meng Jingni was still the celebrated beauty of the classical music world, while Wei Yinxian had become captain of the city's criminal investigation squad.

On a small summer night, Wei Yinxian knocked on the bedroom door of Meng Jingni's little Western-style house.

Wearing a white bathrobe, her exquisite features framed by the doorway, she smiled. "Why do you keep knocking on my door in the middle of the night?"

Wei Yinxian's gaze was deep as it swept over her slender neck and bare shoulders, partly concealed by her robe. He replied casually, "There's a crackdown going on, so we're conducting routine inquiries."

"What does Officer Wei want to ask this time?"

His tone was flat. "I want to find out why Miss Meng treated me like a fling and then tossed me aside back then."

"..."

Later, in the warmth of a room, he stripped away her shimmering scales and spread her out like a smooth sheet of white paper.

Childhood sweethearts, reunited after a long separation.

This story may be about their everyday bickering, their ambiguous push-and-pull, and the times she gets mad and he gets jealous...

In a word: the heroine is heartless, while the hero is devoted to her.

Thesis: Unity, friendship, and peace