A Guide to Raising Large Dogs

[Flirtatious, sharp-tongued bar owner and dog-training master x Reckless young heir and big dog]

1

Bian Yue planned to travel alone, but plans never keep up with changes. At someone else's request, she has no choice but to take a deadweight along.

The deadweight is in a bad mood, has run away from home, and spends every day getting drunk at the bar.

Bian Yue plans to cheer him up and send him home right away so she can continue her trip. But the shameless deadweight latches onto her instead.

No matter how many times she threatens him or tries to talk him into leaving, he refuses...

2

Bian Yue once abandoned a big dog, and she doesn't think she has anything to feel guilty about.

Dogs love people. They run to everyone who beckons them and stay by the side of anyone who needs them.

They know nothing, always sunny and bright, rolling in the grass and playing in the evening breeze.

They know nothing. Bian Yue is about to leave, and the dog blinks at her before grinning.

Who's special?

Bian Yue doesn't think anyone is special. A puppy will always love you, but you aren't the only one it can love.

So there's no need to feel guilty about leaving without saying goodbye.

3

The person Yu Feng hated most, without a doubt, was Bian Yue. From the time he was ten, when Bian Yue moved in with her parents, his days of getting everything his own way came to an end.

He was a rich second-generation heir who could get whatever he wanted, yet a girl just two years older had him completely under her thumb. What would people think if they found out?

Throughout his teenage years, Yu Feng devoted himself to outsmarting Bian Yue. All he talked about and thought about was how to put a stop to her arrogance. His greatest wish in life was for her to never appear in front of him again.

But he never expected that one day Bian Yue would really disappear from his life, cleanly and completely, as if she had never existed.

His wish had come true, yet Yu Feng wasn't happy. He told himself it was just because he hadn't finished getting his revenge. But when he'd searched everywhere he could think of and still couldn't find Bian Yue, he began to panic...

Years later, Yu Feng is getting drunk at a bar when a friend gets into an argument with someone. Their noisy bickering gives him a headache. He grabs an empty bottle and raises it over the other person's head, about to smash it down...

A hand grips his tightly. Yu Feng turns around.

"Well, look at that, little puppy. Still as bad-tempered as ever?"

Next book: Escape Velocity

[Cool, slow-to-warm fairy-like painter x Self-made internet tycoon]

Li Xu is her anchor, the one constant in her ever-changing world.

1

The first time Li Xu meets Yu Yuan, she's being bullied by the village children.

She sits beneath a broken wall, knees drawn up and arms wrapped around them. The children toss little stones at her, laughing with the innocent cruelty of children. Head bowed, she stares blankly and shows no reaction to anything around her.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

Li Xu scares the children away, glances back at Yu Yuan, still sitting there in a daze, shrugs, and leaves.

It is already evening. Even without Li Xu, the children would have gone home for dinner soon.

Yu Yuan likes the village at dusk, when everyone is hurrying around and no one pays attention to her.

"Come on, get up. Where do you live? I'll take you home."

A voice suddenly calls out. Li Xu has come back, hands in his pockets and an impatient look on his face. Yu Yuan looks up at him briefly, then slowly turns her gaze away.

Li Xu becomes intrigued. He squats down and grins. "Are you a little fool? No wonder you don't dodge or fight back when they hit you."

2

"Why do you always call me a little fool?"

Yu Yuan is now fifteen. It's the seventh year since they met.

It's another evening. They sit on a ridge between the fields. Yu Yuan holds a pencil and scribbles in the sketchbook Li Xu gave her, while Li Xu chews on a blade of grass.

"Isn't that what you are?"

Yu Yuan knits her brows and looks at him. "Yu Yuan."

"Which characters? I don't understand," Li Xu says lazily.

Yu Yuan carefully writes her name in the sketchbook, then writes two more characters and holds it out to Li Xu.

In the glow of the setting sun, she points at the second pair of characters and says in a flat voice, "Yuyuan. It's where the sun sets."

He pauses, then suddenly chuckles. A white butterfly flutters past his eyes and disappears among the swaying wildflowers in the dusk. Li Xu gently places his hand over Yu Yuan's.

"Hey, want to leave with me and go where the sun rises?"

3

At fifteen, Yu Yuan leaves the village with Li Xu and moves to the big city. At eighteen, she takes the tuition money Li Xu gives her and heads overseas.

After that, there's no word from her.

Seven more years pass before she sees Li Xu again.

In an internet cafe on the old street, Li Xu loudly demands to know why Yu Yuan came back.

Yu Yuan is stunned for a few seconds. This is the first time Li Xu has ever raised his voice at her.

In Yu Yuan's impoverished life, there is so much about the world she doesn't understand. She doesn't understand why people laugh, why they cry, why they get angry, or why they feel happy.

Li Xu is different. With her, he is always calm, gentle, and sunny, as if no hardship in the world could trouble him.

But now Li Xu is angry.

Yet she doesn't dislike it.

She reaches out to touch his face. She wants to ask why he's angry. She wants to make him happy.

Smack!

Yu Yuan's hand is slapped away...

Theme: Love life