Strange Fire

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"Next up: The Desire Box. Add it to your favorites if you're interested."

Glamorous and icy x cocky and unruly

Gorgeous, aloof cosplayer x rich second-generation heir from the capital's elite circle

"I thought she liked me, but it turned out to be a misunderstanding."

Xun Yi was a famous campus celebrity at Beicheng University: handsome, arrogant, and rich.

A girl handed him a love letter. She wore glasses and a hat, and looked plain and scruffy. People around her laughed, waiting to see him reject her.

Xun Yi took the cigarette holder from his lips. His expression was lazy and roguish as he looked down at her with a mocking smile. "Trying to date me?"

The girl seemed afraid of being rejected. She shoved the letter at him and turned to leave.

After a basketball game, Xun Yi stepped off the court, his black hair damp and his dark eyes bright and burning.

From a distance, he spotted the girl in the crowd. She was really going to a lot of trouble to chase him.

To reward her for her pretty face, Xun Yi called out the name signed on the letter.

But another girl answered. It wasn't her at all.

Xun Yi froze. The girl who had sent him a love letter and texted to say she liked him before, wasn't her either?

At some point, rumors started spreading around campus that the campus heartthrob Xun Yi was pursuing Jiu Wu.

His friends knew how arrogant he was and teased him. "Which idiot started that rumor? Why would Brother Yi chase her?"

Xun Yi: "I started it."

Everyone: "..."

The real Jiu Wu took off her mask and glasses, revealing a stunning, icy beauty. She was an influencer and a cosplayer, more famous than Xun Yi and with more followers.

She had only helped deliver someone's love letter, yet ended up tangled in a rumor.

She went to confront him and demanded he set the record straight. "It never happened. Please make that clear."

Xun Yi: "I don't want to."

Jiu Wu: "? Why not?"

His deep black eyes lowered to meet hers as he stared intently, speaking with careless nonchalance.

"Because I really do want to chase you."

During the ambiguous phase before they started dating, Jiu Wu owed Xun Yi a favor and promised to wear a cheongsam for him once.

In the apartment, the sound of high heels approached, step by step, until she stood before him.

Xun Yi glanced at her, then immediately turned away. His neck and ears burned scarlet in an instant.

The vivid red cheongsam, her slender waist and long legs, the dangerously unsteady high heels: she was impossibly alluring and coldly beautiful.

Xun Yi went stiff all over. After a moment, he managed to turn back, one hand half-covering his nose and mouth as he stared at her with regret in his eyes.

Jiu Wu: "Does it look good?"

After looking her over, his voice turned hoarse, but he still answered awkwardly:

"Ahem, it's all right."

Jiu Wu looked at the tips of his ears, red as could be.

"..." Hah. All talk.

Here are a few recommendations for my completed stories in a similar vein:

"Same Campus": Cocky heartthrob x icy campus beauty / double A

"Blast, 0817": Cool, cocky racer x queen bee / double A

"One-on-One": Arrogant, jealous king x little ray of sunshine / bickering couple

"Little Milk Star": Pathologically possessive x gentle older sister

Visit the author's page to read them

Here's the blurb for my next story. Visit the author's page and add it to your favorites if you're interested.

"The Desire Box"

He's an ESTP, so he's wild, reckless, and hedonistic.

He goes straight for love, flirtatious and amorous.

"I hear you're crazy about me."

"Hah, what's that got to do with me?"

Pei Jiu is a playboy wild enough to get away with anything.

He's an untamed madman, and no woman has ever made him willing to bow his head.

The woman drinking at the bar is gorgeous and aloof.

Her friend beside her calls her Bai Yi.

She's a textbook INTJ:

Calm, rational, ambitious, and focused on her goals.

When those mysterious, deep eyes sweep over him,

Pei Jiu sees the glitz and decadence behind him reflected in her gaze.

Knowing she seeks money and fame, not love,

Pei Jiu still walks into her trap, thinking they can use each other.

He once scoffed to his friend, "It's just for fun. A week, tops."

But after they got together, they stayed together for months.

They just couldn't break up.

"Your friend says you're obsessed with me. You don't want to break up?"

Bai Yi stepped between his legs, gazing down at the dark, lustful look in his eyes.

Pei Jiu held her ankle, rubbing it with amused relish, and grinned roguishly.

"Step harder. You're not putting any weight into it."

Bai Yi curled her lips in an exasperated smile. "Idiot..."

ESTP x INTJ

Promiscuous and passionate x arrogant and heartless

Rich young master x gorgeous model

Upcoming story: "The Lost Cat Effect"

Pu Qu is a country girl, lean and stubborn as a reed. After three years of studying in a poor, remote village, she gets into a prestigious high school in the city.

Her parents use an old friend's connections to arrange for her to stay with a well-off family.

In her host family, Auntie Jiang is warm and considerate, and Uncle Xie is understanding.

Only the family's young master, Xie Fan, is a problem. Born with a handsome face, he is spoiled and nasty, treating her with disdain and hostility.

Pu Qu transfers to a new school where she knows no one.

Xie Fan says, "Don't pretend you know me at school."

Over their three years in high school, their relationship has its ups and downs.

Seven parts bad, and only three parts good.

When it's time to fill out their college applications, Xie Fan suddenly asks where she's applying. Pu Qu says she'll stay nearby.

Behind her back, Xie Fan unhesitatingly applies to a local school too.

When the admissions letters arrive, Xie Fan finally realizes she's deceived him.

She plans to study in Beicheng. She's always wanted to escape this place, and him.

On a drizzly night, Pu Qu pulls her suitcase along, but Xie Fan stops her. His eyes are dark as he grips her wrist tightly.

"Do you really hate me that much, Pu Qu?"

She looks at him with clear, dark eyes and asks in return,

"If I don't hate you, am I supposed to like you?"

"..."

They say that if you lose a cat that isn't clingy and find it again after a while, it becomes very affectionate and obedient to its owner.

Xie Fan thinks he's the one in control, but he's the cat Pu Qu abandoned.

Years later, they meet again at a reunion. She has a boyfriend now, gentle and considerate.

Xie Fan watches them with jealous eyes and drowns his sorrows, one glass after another.

In an empty corner of the hallway, Xie Fan, dead drunk, corners Pu Qu as she tries to leave.

He rests his head against the hollow of her shoulder, braces one hand by her ear, and murmurs,

"Take me home, Pu Qu."

Cool, stubborn girl x arrogant, spoiled rich heir

*He has a secret crush on her / some love-rivalry drama after they reunite

Upcoming story: "The Good Girl Fights for What She Wants"

Shen Xuerong was born into a wealthy family in Haicheng. She's the picture of a good girl: introverted, kind, honest, and obedient.

After her mother dies young, her father marries his mistress.

Shen Xuerong is unloved by her father and bullied every day by her two illegitimate older sisters and younger stepbrother.

At her coming-of-age ceremony, her father announces to everyone that she will be married into the Xu family, to their second son.

Her sisters and stepmother all smile gleefully. The Xu family's second son is ugly and not the heir, just a penniless, powerless loser.

Shen Xuerong is forced to marry before she can finish college.

In the Xu family, a den of wolves, Shen Xuerong is alone, powerless, and in poor health. She dies young, depressed and miserable.

Reborn, the clear-eyed Shen Xuerong counts up what everyone owes her on her fingers.

Her eldest sister is to marry Shi Li, son of Hong Kong's wealthiest businessman.

Her second sister is to marry Fang Ranzhi, born into a powerful medical family.

Her stepbrother has the right to inherit the entire family fortune and will one day lead the Shen Group.

Quality assets, quality men, quality connections:

These are all things she never had but should have had.

If that's the case, why shouldn't she take them all in this life?

*Female-centered, one woman and multiple men

*Seductive innocent girl x reckless, mad young heir x restrained, aloof doctor x insecure, gloomy fiance x sunny, handsome campus star

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