Climb the Ranks by Waiting for Your Chance

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My completed novel, Midsummer's Desire: A roguish, bad-boy playboy from Beijing's elite circles x a pure-hearted heiress. Two wealthy families, old lovers reunited!

A dazzling, spoiled heiress x a carefree heir

Childhood friends from two wealthy families | Marriage before love | The fake second male lead takes the lead

1.

Cheng Yeqing is the most spoiled and domineering heiress in Beijing's upper circles. With an excellent family background and plenty of talent, she's as proud as they come.

Chu Yizhou, the second son of the Chu family in Beijing, is famous for his carefree ways and wild lifestyle. He has a willful streak, and if he sets his sights on something, he'll find a way to get it.

They grew up in the same compound. As children, neither could stand the other, but eventually everyone in their circle noticed that Chu Yizhou had infinite patience for Cheng Yeqing. He could be a troublemaker all he liked, but he better not lay a finger on their heiress.

2.

After Cheng Yeqing completely broke things off with Chu Yiyu, Chu Yizhou put his plan to take his place into motion.

On their wedding night, Cheng Yeqing picked fault with him at every turn.

Seeing right through her little tricks, Chu Yizhou leaned in with an intimidating air.

"You could just say you don't like me, you know. Why nitpick so much?"

Cheng Yeqing met his shadowed gaze and answered defiantly, "It's good that you understand. I could never like you."

Chu Yizhou held her gaze, curling his lip in a mocking smile.

"You're so tough. You say you don't like me, and you mean it. Teach me sometime, will you? How'd you get bones that hard?"

3.

Later, Cheng Yeqing, with her ironclad resolve, still went soft as water in Chu Yizhou's arms.

Having gotten exactly what he wanted, Chu Yizhou leaned close and whispered wickedly:

"Cheng Qingqing, why don't you try being tough again?"

"Let's see whose bones are harder, yours or mine."

Back in high school.

Cheng Yeqing was taken by Chu Yizhou to see the first trophy he had won with her help as his tutor.

She also found the third engagement ring hidden in the base of the trophy.

Eleven years of secret love, two years of open love.

Waiting for your chance takes endless patience and a love deep enough to last.

You need both.

[Little Scene]

One day after they got together.

Chu Yizhou put an arm around his wife. "Qingqing~"

Cheng Yeqing shrugged. "Go away. I'm busy."

"Oh, Qingqing~"

Unable to shake him off, Cheng Yeqing leaned over and gave the corner of Chu Yizhou's mouth a perfunctory kiss.

The next second, Chu Yizhou looked overwhelmed with joy.

Chu Yizhou touched the corner of his mouth. "Whoa, so forward today?"

"Isn't that what you wanted?"

"I was calling you Qingqing."

"...Chu Yizhou! If you still can't tell the difference between the 'n' and 'ng' sounds, don't come see me again!"

Chu Yizhou tried again, undeterred. "Qingqing, kiss me~"

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* Both are each other's first love, both are virgins, HE

* The leads' names were inspired by the phrase "a leaf on a light boat"

* Neither lead is a pushover

* The heroine pursued the hero's older brother in college, but they never dated

* Blurb screenshot from December 15, 2022

--- Midsummer Blurb ---

Blurb:

On a quiet night,

a Koenigsegg was parked by the roadside.

Inside, a man held a cigarette between long fingers and smoked casually.

The woman in the passenger seat leaned over and pointed out the window, her voice sweet. "Young Master Jin, look. There's a couple kissing over there."

The man raised an eyebrow and glanced over. Sure enough, a man and a woman were kissing beneath a streetlight.

The woman was both pure and sexy, and, as luck would have it, exactly his type.

He narrowed his eyes playfully and gave her a few more looks.

The woman in the passenger seat asked meaningfully, "Young Master Jin, do you want to kiss her?"

The man laughed lazily. "I do."

"Then go kiss her," the woman beside him urged, flattered.

He exhaled a ring of smoke, then turned his head to glance over again, a low laugh escaping his throat.

"If I went over and kissed her, wouldn't she slap me?"

"...Huh?"

Before leaving, Bo Zhongjin turned to look at the woman beneath the streetlight once more, his gaze growing even darker.

-

Later, Bo Zhongjin finally got to kiss those luscious red lips he had wanted.

He insisted on taking her to that very streetlight, recreating the scene he had witnessed that night.

He kissed her again and again, then demanded, his tone firm: "Xiaxia, who kisses better, me or your ex-boyfriend?"

"Think carefully before you answer."

Content warnings:

1. Both leads are virgins. The heroine has had an ex-boyfriend and has kissed him.

The hero reforms his playboy ways.

2. He has been plotting this for a long time and makes the first move.

3. Inspired by an internet joke.

Theme: Be yourself, and allow yourself to be both good and bad.