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A cool, gentle interior designer vs. a fierce yet cuddly young CEO. A sweet romance.

Abroad, in the dim, suggestive light of a bar, Lu Yanqing spotted a fair-skinned East Asian face. Her half-tied wolf cut and simple white shirt made her look, in profile, like a lamb that had wandered into a pack of wolves.

After just two drinks, the lamb had already attracted several wolves. Another stunning, blue-eyed blonde woman left Lu Yanqing's table with a regretful look, and Lu Yanqing went over.

"Hey, kid, underage people aren't allowed in here."

She had a delicate face, with a hint of boldness between her brows, and the sincerity and purity unique to young people.

Lu Yanqing couldn't help staring.

Fu Si smiled at the beautiful big sister in front of her, who looked like she had come to take a naughty kid home. Her warm, gentle voice had a playful note.

"Big sis, I'm the singer here."

Onstage, she was carefree and dashing. She held a guitar pick between her teeth and winked at Lu Yanqing, making the crowd below howl.

The liquor shimmered, just like the ripples stirring in Lu Yanqing's heart.

"Hey, kid. Do you know how?"

On a whim, they spent one night together.

Fu Si had just come down from the top floor when she caught sight of a woman: the woman who had left her a card two years ago and told her to study hard.

She took the suit from her assistant, pulled off her tie, and stopped Lu Yanqing as she was about to go inside.

"Ma'am, entry without an appointment is prohibited."

The person she had indulged herself with on a whim had become her client. Lu Yanqing's feelings were complicated. All she could hope was that Fu Si wouldn't use her position to get revenge.

There was no revenge, but their private relationship grew closer and closer.

"Ms. Fu, it's work hours. No personal matters."

When Lu Yanqing returned from a business trip, Fu Si stroked the cat in her arms and looked toward its owner. "It's my free time. Won't you invite me upstairs?"

Breathing unsteadily, Fu Si stopped at the door and made her case. "Fu Si, female, 24 years old. Requesting entry."

Brat. She'd remembered that one sentence all this time.

Lu Yanqing's ears turned red. Through gritted teeth, she said, "Come in."

The story that began on a midsummer night by the River Thames continued in April in the Imperial Capital. Fu Si had never imagined she would yearn so desperately for someone to tame her, and Lu Yanqing had never imagined that one day she would watch herself fall, fully aware of it.

1. Five-year age gap, each other's first love

2. There's a very cute cat

3. Vice president of an entertainment company, with a showbiz storyline

4. Important: They really, really, really switch roles. Slow burn before the VIP chapters.

Completed novel: Has Shen, the Best Actress, Flirted with Dr. Yi Today? A three-time Golden Award-winning actress vs. an orthopedic surgeon. Super sweet!

Up next: The Nation's Sweetheart's Unrequited Love Has Returned Home

A sultry star onstage, a shy and secretly flirtatious introvert offstage x a talented, sharp-minded director with many secret identities. One-on-one romance, each other's first love, reunited after a breakup.

Li Yao, the sun in countless people's hearts.

At eighteen, one song made her famous. The name Shiqi, along with the song "Seventeen," spread through every street and alley. The spark that began in the summer of 2012 burned for a full decade. A fresh-faced girl became an enduring queen of the stage, dazzling and captivating everyone.

A reporter once asked why she had chosen "Shiqi" as her stage name. She replied, "It was my first song. It means a lot to me."

What she didn't say was that it was the first song her lover had written for her, a tribute to her seventeenth birthday and the beginning of their story.

At school, Lu Jian was the model student, the child every parent wished they had, and the unreachable ideal in her classmates' eyes.

A basketball suddenly came flying across the playground and struck the top student on the head. Everyone gasped. What shocked them even more was seeing Li Yao, the school's most popular girl, walk toward Lu Jian, who cared only about her studies. It was as if the sun and moon had suddenly appeared in the same sky, becoming inseparable twin stars from then on.

No one but Li Yao knew that Lu Jian secretly dreamed of becoming a songwriter. No one knew that Lu Jian was Li Yao's closest lover, or that she guided her as she pursued her dream.

They both thought they would spend one five-year stretch after another hand in hand, but overnight, they became strangers.

Five years later, Lu Jian returned home, rushing to fulfill the ten-year promise she had made beneath the moonlight.

Among the crowd at the concert, she gazed up at the sun still shining brightly onstage and decided to start a new life.

After the film she had written, directed, and starred in wrapped, she met the singer of its theme song at another female lead's birthday party: the sun she had set free with her own hands.

In public, they maintained the dignity expected of adults. In private, Li Yao seemed to know just how guilty Lu Jian felt, and gave her a hard time in all sorts of ways. Beneath the sparse stars and bright moon, the celebrity knocked on her door and said, sounding pitiful yet entirely self-assured, "I can't sleep."

The past can't be rewritten, so why not start anew from this moment?

This time, they walked down the street hand in hand.

You come into this world, and you must see the sun.

Walk down the street together with the one you love.

Haizi

Thanks to my dear friend Qi Naeris for helping me come up with the names!

Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself.