Strawberry-Flavored Heartbeat

[Mutual Pining] [The Playboy Turns Over a New Leaf] [A Reunion Years in the Making]

On the first day of school, Wen Yining was seated next to a classmate who looked like trouble: cold, silent, and always sleeping with his head down.

Gradually, Wen Yining figured out how to get along with her new deskmate: praise him enthusiastically. When she complimented his drawings, he smiled like a child who'd just been given candy.

Wen Yining realized that beneath her new deskmate's sharp exterior was a delicate flower yearning for a gardener's care.

As luck would have it, she, Wen Yining, had sworn as a child that she would grow up to become an excellent teacher.

The girl told him herself, "Everyone is born with their own gifts. There's no ranking them as better or worse. The way you draw is natural and pure, and I really like it."

Shen Rui was suddenly reminded of an evaluation he'd received many years ago from a senior teacher. The verdict had been a single word: incorrigible.

As he gazed at the not particularly beautiful drawing in his hands, the naturally unruly boy's eyes were clear, as if a spring rain had just washed over the world.

But she said there was no such thing as being better or worse than someone else.

There was a light in the girl's eyes.

-

Even in an era when love letters were out of fashion, Shen Rui still received quite a respectable number of them.

No one would have guessed that in an abandoned school bathroom stall, the famous campus heartthrob who'd moved through a crowd of admirers without so much as a speck on him would bend down and plead pitifully with a girl.

"Deskmate, please."

His voice was hoarse, almost bewitching.

Reunited after years apart.

His career was dazzling, his hair now dyed a striking gold, with studs along his ear cartilage. He'd shed the awkwardness of his youth and changed in so many ways. Seeing her, he could barely suppress his feelings, yet he said lightly, "I don't know you."

To his surprise, the girl played along. "Today is my first time meeting Mr. Shen."

Mr. Shen raised his handsome brows. "And what do you think of me?"

"You're breathtaking."

"I swear, I haven't met anyone this punchable in twenty years."

"..."

A veteran actor in the entertainment industry once described Shen Rui as the person in show business who seemed least like he belonged in show business.

No dating scandals since his debut. The only time he made a splash was because of his mom.

As time went on, even the paparazzi couldn't be bothered to stake out Shen Rui anymore.

But recently, they kept seeing him constantly in the company of a beautiful woman who wasn't in the entertainment industry.

A deeper investigation revealed that the woman's identity was no ordinary one: a third-year student at Dongling Normal University, a rising Gen-Z illustration prodigy in China, and the winner of the gold prize at an international illustration competition.

@GoldenEntertainment: We don't believe it.

@SnowstormWeekly: We don't believe it.

@.Shen Rui.: Fine, I'll come clean. This is my wife.

*&#%#*+;%!?! The whole internet went from exploding to crashing

A traditional Chinese-style illustrator vs. the muse he'd been plotting to win over for years

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Coming soon: "The Black Lotus Tears Apart the HE Script"

Wei Liang was filming a drowning scene when she transmigrated!

And she became the hapless heroine she'd been playing.

The Script: [You must follow the original plot, or you will never win the male lead's love.]

Wei Liang: "???"

Wei Liang: "I just want to get rich."

Later, she gave away her entire fortune to rescue Jin Xing from death row, then said stubbornly, "Once you've made it, you'll pay me back every last coin."

Later still, he really did make it. On the day he ascended the throne, carts of gold were delivered to the Wei residence. But as she stared at the two letters written in the emperor's own hand, she lost herself in thought.

One was a divorce letter addressed to her.

The other was his marriage contract with the vicious supporting female character, Fei Qingqing.

"Wei Liang, we're even now."

I'd imagined turning around the idiotic HE ending between us.

I'd also imagined that going my own way might not end happily.

But I never, ever imagined

that he wouldn't love me.

One sunny day, the young emperor grabbed her hand as she packed her things and begged desperately, "A Liang, don't go. I was wrong."

Money is precious, but love is worth more.

If you meet a black lotus, you can have both.

A tyrant has been thoroughly wrapped around a black lotus's finger.

[An Unruly Transmigrator] [An Abstinent Male Lead]

Jin Xing was the only prince with a different surname in the history of the Yin Kingdom.

He wielded immense power, defied convention, and was cold by nature.

His older brother feared him like a demon, while his grandmother cursed him to never find peace in the afterlife.

How could someone like him believe in gods or Buddhas?

Yet during a heavy snowfall that year, he knelt before the Buddha and prayed that his girl would enjoy a lifetime of peace and good health.

Theme: May you and I, may we have a bright future.