What Do I Do When My Archenemy Won't Leave Me Alone?

[Silly, sweet romance]

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Shen Ji’s life had always been perfect, until Xie Lingshu transferred to her school in the second year of high school.

Xie Lingshu was cool and beautiful, came from a privileged family, and was so academically gifted that no one could hope to match her.

In Xie Lingshu’s first month at the school, Shen Ji lost her place at the top of the year’s rankings.

By Xie Lingshu’s fifth month there, Shen Ji, who had been voted the school’s prettiest girl for five years running, had fallen to second place.

A year after Xie Lingshu transferred, the goddess Shen Ji had always adored confessed her feelings to Xie Lingshu in front of everyone.

Shen Ji was so furious that smoke practically came out of her ears and blood spurted from her mouth. She swore she’d crush Xie Lingshu underfoot and make her suffer. But why had Xie Lingshu looked at her when she rejected the goddess’s confession and said she already had someone she loved?

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When Xie Lingshu was young, she fell into the water by accident. A girl with a plum-blossom mark on her wrist saved her, but the incident left Xie Lingshu’s glands underdeveloped, and she eventually presented as an Omega.

She thought she would never see that girl again, until she transferred schools and met Shen Ji.

But it seemed Shen Ji had mistaken her for someone who liked her best friend.

Xie Lingshu decided to play along. When Shen Ji tutored her goddess, Xie Lingshu asked her best friend to help her with a problem.

When Shen Ji went to eat alone with her goddess, Xie Lingshu invited her best friend to the cafeteria.

When Shen Ji planned a secret date with her goddess, Xie Lingshu asked her best friend to go out with her.

At last, Shen Ji couldn’t take it anymore. She pinned Xie Lingshu against the wall and demanded coldly, “What exactly are you trying to do!?”

Xie Lingshu smiled faintly. Beneath her long black hair, her eyes were deep and mysterious. Instead of backing away, she leaned closer and whispered in Shen Ji’s ear, “I want to get your attention.”

The girl who had just been snapping and snarling went red in an instant, stammering and unable to get a word out.

Xie Lingshu smiled.

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The one thing Shen Ji was glad about was that, in their second year of high school, they both came of age and presented: Shen Ji as an Alpha and Xie Lingshu as an Omega. Clearly, she was celebrating too soon.

Shen Ji × Xie Lingshu

Proud, prickly Alpha × seemingly gentle but distant, calculating Omega

Next up: A sister-in-law romance. Here’s the blurb:

Huo Xingzhi was once the family’s pride and joy, but an accident left her intellectually disabled, forever with the mind of a six-year-old. Several years passed. Her parents, seeing no hope of recovery, sighed as they had another child. From then on, Huo Xingzhi’s standing in the household plummeted, and she lived like a beggar every day.

Until the day Xie Shiyan became her sister-in-law.

Xie Shiyan was different from everyone else. When everyone called her a fool, she gently called her “Zhizhi.” When she came back filthy from playing, Xie Shiyan sighed and wiped her face clean, then took her out to buy delicious food. When she was bullied, Xie Shiyan comforted her tenderly and stood up for her.

Even when the summer heat made her lose her appetite and she fussed for breast milk, Xie Shiyan undressed just to indulge her.

Huo Xingzhi liked her sister-in-law, and before long, breast milk alone was no longer enough for her.

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Xie Shiyan took her younger sister’s place in marrying the son of the Marquis of Yong’an, who was about to leave for the battlefield. The marriage was meant to bring good fortune, and they also hoped to have a child to carry on the family line. But the young marquis didn’t want to hold her back. After learning about her circumstances in the Xie family, he was willing to let her stay, on one condition: she had to look after his only younger sister, Huo Xingzhi.

Somehow, while looking after her, Xie Shiyan ended up in bed with her.

Can someone tell her this girl isn’t supposed to be a fool?

Why was she looking at her so ardently, touching her as she asked, “Sister-in-law, does it feel good when I do this?”

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After recovering her memories, the first thing Huo Xingzhi did was keep pretending to be a fool while secretly investigating what had really happened when she fell off her horse and over a cliff.

Before long, the truth came out, and news of Huo Xingzhi’s recovery spread across the land.

Everyone celebrated her recovery, but Huo Xingzhi couldn’t feel happy, no matter how hard she tried.

She gazed at the woman she had longed for day and night. She wanted to take her hand as she had in the past, but Xie Shiyan pulled away before she could touch her. The tenderness of old was nowhere to be seen in Xie Shiyan’s eyes, only a coldness that kept everyone at a distance. “Huo Xingzhi, I’m your sister-in-law.”

Huo Xingzhi × Xie Shiyan

Devoted puppy × gentle, accepting mommy

Notes:

1. They are not truly married; their sister-in-law relationship is in name only.

2. Both characters are adults.

Theme: Everyone is unique, and everyone deserves to be loved.