No Embracing

[Reader warning: This was the author's practice work when they first started writing, and it has a lot of problems. Read at your own risk qaq]

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The blurb for the upcoming novel "Hidden in Spring" can be found in my profile. Add it to your reading list! The blurb for this story is below.

Blurb for the upcoming novel "Hidden in Spring":

Xie Qing is notorious in business circles for his ruthlessness. His life plan is flawless. He seems gentle and refined, but when he gets vicious, he doesn't hesitate to scheme against even himself.

1.

Something happened to Song Tang's family, and they decided to send her to live with a friend.

That day, Song Tang looked at the young man before her and, for a moment, thought she was seeing things. Her expression grew complicated. It was him?

The thought of living with this person from now on made Song Tang feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

When Xie Qing saw her, his expression remained calm, as if they were meeting for the first time. His voice was equally indifferent, as though he couldn't spare even one extra word. He only said, "Hello."

We'd already slept together, and he still acted so superior.

For the first time in her life, Song Tang wanted to tear off someone's mask and watch him fall from his pedestal, reduced to someone whose emotions were stirred only by her.

2.

Everyone knew that Song Tang and Xie Qing didn't get along. Even though there was that history between them, whenever they met, they acted like strangers and were extremely cold to each other.

Until one day, someone walked into the wrong place and saw the two people rumored to have a poor relationship embracing.

Looking closer, they saw Song Tang clutching Xie Qing's collar, looking aggrieved, her voice laced with an allure she herself didn't know she had. "How can you hold back so well? Are you impotent?"

The next second, the man pressed her down, his voice low. "Aren't you the one who knows best whether I can perform?"

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Blurb for this story:

Wen Yin is infamous in business circles for his ruthlessness, unpredictability, and obsessive cruelty. But no one knows that even someone like him can fall for another, just like any ordinary person.

1.

As a child, Wen Yin did whatever he pleased. He hated one particular person, the "other people's kid" everyone talked about, so he put them on his list of sworn enemies and secretly plotted to beat them up.

He heard that his nemesis's family had adopted a little girl, supposedly to be his younger sister.

At first, Wen Yin didn't care about the news, thinking his nemesis had merely acted on a whim.

Until he saw the adopted little sister with his own eyes. She was tiny, not even half his height. His nemesis said something that made her laugh.

Wen Yin's gaze lingered on the dimples that appeared when she smiled. His fingers curled slightly. His expression gave nothing away, but somehow the air felt much heavier.

2.

On Chen Mian's coming-of-age day, she saw her brother holding hands with a sweet, delicate-looking girl and taking her shopping.

She stood behind them for a long, long time, but her brother never noticed her.

Heartbroken, Chen Mian sat alone beneath a streetlamp and sobbed.

A shadow fell over her. She looked up.

A familiar black-haired man stared at Chen Mian with a shadowed gaze, like a lone wolf that had been lurking in the dark for a long time: gloomy and cold.

Chen Mian instinctively sensed danger.

Just as she was about to run, the man lowered his eyes and looked down at her with a careless air, as if he didn't mind her intrusion. "Look at this. Where did this little lost bunny come from?"

3.

Chen Mian and he became friends again, and she moved into his villa.

He treated her wonderfully. Whenever he saw something novel while he was out, he always brought some back for her. He even remembered to bring her a taste of any food she'd casually mentioned wanting to try.

But how could she keep living at a friend's house forever?

Chen Mian went to say goodbye to him.

Unexpectedly, the beast that had lain in wait for so long suddenly opened its eyes as if something momentous had happened, exuding a terrifying aura.

Obsession filled the man's eyes. He slowly approached Chen Mian and revealed a side of himself he had never shown before.

"You're leaving me again?"

"I won't allow it."

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Chen Mian would never know that through countless days and nights, Wen Yin held a thin photograph and thought of her. But whenever he remembered that her bright smile was meant for someone else, jealousy drove him mad.

He thought, I was the first to arrive. Why should someone who came later get ahead of me?

He was determined to be the third party.

After all, you have already forbidden us from embracing.

Reading guide:

1. Happy ending, daily updates, both leads are each other's first and only partners. There are misunderstandings, but they're resolved quickly. The blurb's events happen later in the story. All place names are fictional.

2. The story starts in childhood. They're childhood sweethearts, and the early part is more slice-of-life. There are about five or six chapters of school life, but not much. A change in the title indicates a time jump. Later on, it's a sweet romance with a love rivalry. No one else writes this kind of story, so the author had to write it themselves. The writing during the serial run depends heavily on the author's mood. It will be polished after completion.

3. The blurb was written in October 2022, and a screenshot has been saved.

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