So Professor Huo Really Does Love Cuddles

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[Story blurb]

A new tenant moved into the house: someone she knew, Professor Huo from the Institute of Technology.

Everyone said Professor Huo was charming and alluring, elegant and gracious, patient with people, and easy to get along with.

There was just one thing. Rumor had it she hated physical contact, and would give you a cold look at best, or slap you at worst.

After hearing that, Xia Jing took it to heart.

When the other woman reached out to shake her hand, Xia Jing, with her extreme nearsightedness, couldn't see her.

When she tried to hug her, Xia Jing dodged like a monkey.

When she tried to touch her face, Xia Jing covered her whole face in black mud mask.

Finally, Huo Lixue asked, "Do you dislike me?"

Xia Jing blurted out, "No, no, I don't dislike you! Liking someone means getting close, and loving someone means holding back the hand that wants to touch them!"

Huo Lixue looked at her. "You love me?"

That night, Huo Lixue knocked on Xia Jing's door.

She walked in, and Xia Jing held her close. Moonlight spilled over Xia Jing's flushed face as Huo Lixue ordered, "Kiss me."

Xia Jing clutched her blanket, not daring to move.

Huo Lixue hated how wooden she was, and smiled. "Didn't you say you loved me?"

Xia Jing: "I admire you. I like you. I don't love you!"

Huo Lixue kissed her, squeezing her fingertip as her words disappeared between their lips. "Then you don't have to hold back the hand that wants to touch me."

No one knew that the dignified Professor Huo, despite her extreme mysophobia, suffered from an uncontrollable craving for physical contact, a contradiction that tore her apart.

After meeting Xia Jing again, she was still the only person Huo Lixue would let touch her.

She didn't need Xia Jing to be gentle or to love her. She only needed her to satisfy her craving. She could even teach Xia Jing how to pursue other women and how to fall in love, giving her everything a caring, understanding older sister could, except love.

But she didn't know that Xia Jing truly loved her, had loved her since they were young, and that love could embrace all kinds of things. Xia Jing didn't care that Huo Lixue had once been her mother's lover.

Only after Xia Jing really left did Huo Lixue's eyes turn red with panic. "Didn't you say love means holding back, that you don't dare to touch? You left me, so that means you still love me, right? You have to love me!"

Devoted younger woman x mysophobic Professor Huo with an uncontrollable craving

#Huo Lixue was never Xia Jing's mother's lover. It was a misunderstanding. #

#Rekindled romance#

[Upcoming story blurb]

Ming Xi had been married for three months, but couldn't remember what her wife, Ji Shinian, looked like.

Aside from seeing her on the day they got their marriage license, she'd lived alone in a mansion since the wedding. Her only responsibility was to attend family gatherings on behalf of her powerful wife.

Her wife was a woman of few words. Whenever Ming Xi messaged her, she would transfer her money, so Ming Xi kept checking in every day.

Her devoted-wife persona became known in their circle, and people pitied her for her unhappy marriage.

Three months later, now a wealthy woman, Ming Xi decided to divorce and enjoy her freedom. It was a loveless marriage of convenience; all they needed was the elders' approval. At yet another family gathering, a graceful, luxurious-looking woman asked, "Who's bullying you?"

Ming Xi burst into tears. "Shinian... wants to divorce me..."

Everyone froze, then looked in unison at Ji Shinian, who was sitting nearby drinking tea.

The woman whispered, "Go talk to her."

Who was this woman? She looked familiar, but Ming Xi didn't know her. The light was too dim to see her face clearly. Could she be an important figure in the Ji family?

If so...

"Sis," Ming Xi began to sob, "I love her, but she only comes home in the middle of the night for that, and she even says my breasts are too small. She's a bird in flight, destined never to stop for me..."

Ji Shinian's brow twitched, her expression unreadable. "Come home with me. Can we talk this through?"

"Shinian doesn't like me bringing people home," Ming Xi said, staying in character. "How about we go to your place?"

*

Ming Xi thought her powerful wife was genuinely busy. She hadn't even shown up for the divorce. At a party celebrating her newfound single status, Ming Xi fell for a beautiful woman.

The beauty wore a simple white shirt and jeans, and had the youthful awkwardness of someone just starting her career. Amid a crowd of middle-aged people in suits, she seemed so vulnerable that Ming Xi couldn't help feeling for her.

Ming Xi went over to rescue her and whisked the awkward, down-on-her-luck beauty away.

And so began the heartwarming tale of a wealthy woman rescuing a beauty. The two fell passionately in love and lived happily ever after.

On the eve of her proposal, Ming Xi heard a rumor: her powerful wife had found a substitute lover who looked just like her.

Ming Xi: Her powerful wife loved her?!

Afraid she'd be forced into a marriage, she hurriedly opened her chat with her wife. We've already ended things. The past is like smoke. I wish you well.

Ten minutes later, her girlfriend, who'd gone out to work, suddenly came home and stared at her with red-rimmed eyes. "Baby, you're trying to run away again."

Theme: Cherish each ordinary day, live well, and become a better version of yourself