Cookie Trap

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- Proud, pampered heiress x cool, handsome assistant -

Blurb:

After her parents divorced, Shu Wei was spoiled and indulged by her grandfather from a young age, growing up willful and unruly.

Her father was too busy with work to keep an eye on the daughter he'd raised badly, so he hired Shu Wei an assistant to take care of her daily needs. He practically took on the role of her nanny and second father.

The assistant was not only exceptionally handsome, but also told her bedtime stories, soothed her to sleep, squeezed fresh fruit and vegetable juice for her, and cleaned up after the messes she made. He was so good to her that...

He became part of every aspect of her life, even stirring up her romantic fancies.

Until they parted on bad terms after graduating from high school.

Four years later, after returning from studying abroad, Shu Wei had blossomed into a graceful, poised beauty who knew how to behave, every gesture full of charm.

She never expected to see him again while meeting with a client on Shu Quan's behalf at Shangming Tower. She stood outside the office, and there he was:

In the quiet hallway, the man had sharp, handsome features and a cool, detached expression. His immaculate, expensive suit gave him an air of refined nonchalance.

Several male subordinates followed him, briefing him on a project.

She suddenly remembered how, in the past, she'd sat on his lap in his cool, austere study, tugging at his tie:

"I want to kiss you."

Back then, Zhou Xian had indulged her in everything. Now, they were strangers.

Shu Wei curled her lip in a cold smile. "But I've never failed to get what I want. :)"

She didn't expect that, after several attempts to seduce him, she'd still fail.

Half a month later, news came that Zhou Xian was getting engaged in an arranged marriage.

For the first time, Shu Wei was disheartened and heartbroken. At a drinking party organized by her friends, she drank herself into a stupor.

And, while she was still out of her mind, she showed up at Zhou Xian's door and thoroughly "molested" him.

When she woke up the next morning, naturally, she ran for it!

Shu Wei packed up and fled to another city, planning to lay low for a while.

Until, later on, her hiding place was discovered.

The man had rushed straight there from the airport. Anger on his face, he gripped the back of her neck and demanded:

"Miss Shu, you had your way with me and then ran off? Did I spoil you into becoming like this?"

"It's not like you lost anything." She scoffed and slapped his hand away. "You clearly don't like me, so why ask all these questions? Go back and get married."

His hand suddenly released the back of her neck.

"I never said I didn't like you."

#Oh my god, my assistant has had a crush on me for years. What else could he be but a coward?#

"How should I put it? Because it's you, no matter how clumsy a trap you set, it works on me every single time."

-Reader's Guide-

*The male lead is not a predator. He sees the female lead as a younger sister at first, then falls for her later.

*The female lead has had a crush on someone else while at school.

*There are both urban and campus settings. The age gap is four years, and the female lead is an adult.

*The male lead is a law-abiding citizen.

"Whispers"

1.

"Let's break up. She's back."

The man hung up right after saying it, as if he were in a hurry to run into the arms of his first love.

This was the fourth time Dongyi had been dumped.

She couldn't stop herself from crying in the stairwell. When she turned to leave, she realized someone else was there

In the faint haze of cigarette smoke,

his familiar features were as refined and reserved as ever. His well-tailored suit gave him an air of noble indolence.

Seeing her, Ming Yu put out his cigarette and walked over. His gaze was dark and unreadable, his voice cool and low:

"Why are you crying?"

"You look awful."

2.

Ming Yu had known her since childhood. Their parents were close and visited each other every New Year. But after he went abroad following high school graduation, she never saw him again.

"Let's get married."

His face was cold, but his words were earth-shattering. "Did breathing foreign air make you stupid?" Under her stunned gaze, Ming Yu said evenly, "My family has been pressuring me lately, and I don't have anyone else in mind. Besides, "

"When you were sixteen, you wrote Shen Ling a love letter, saying you couldn't live without seeing him smile."

"..."

"When you were eighteen, you spent all your New Year money on a BMW for Chen Huaiqi, claiming it was a token of your love."

"…"

"At twenty-one," he paused, his voice dripping with mockery, "you threatened to cut ties with your family and elope with the younger son of the Lin family conglomerate."

"…"

After listing all the foolish things she'd done in her life, Ming Yu's gaze darkened. Struggling to suppress his surging jealousy, he asked with a faintly mocking smile:

"You could date them, but not me?"

3.

Everyone around them was overjoyed when they got married.

They both knew it was a marriage of convenience.

But she never expected Ming Yu to go back on his word one day.

One night, he firmly laced his fingers with hers and, as their eyes met, bent down to press his lips to the back of her hand. Even in the dim room, the heat in his eyes was unmistakable.

"Since we're married, shouldn't we do something married couples are supposed to do?"

"Ten Thousand Sacrifices"

The golden boy x the awkward girl

Blurb:

1.

Something you know is pointless,

but can't help clinging to.

Everyone has something like that.*

For Chen Zhi, Fang Zhiyu was that something.

Fang Zhiyu was a top student from a wealthy family. He was so likable that ever since she'd started school, she'd never seen him without friends.

She was nothing like him. She was timid and mild-mannered, and even her relatives often said she was hard to like.

It was midsummer, and cicadas sang without pause.

The teacher on the podium addressed the senior class at their high school motivation assembly:

"The distant horizon offers nothing but distance, but I believe that if you work hard in the next hundred days, you will reach both your dreams and that distant horizon."

She couldn't help glancing in a certain direction

The boy in the seat diagonally behind her sat sprawled out, his face resting on one hand as he listened, his expression indifferent. His black bangs lifted in the breeze. A black pen spun between his long fingers. Backlit, he seemed surrounded by a halo.

Noticing her gaze, he looked over.

"?"

Chen Zhi quickly turned back around. At the same time, she silently laughed at herself.

He was even farther away than the horizon.

2.

At the high school graduation ceremony, she returned to the classroom to pick something up, only to overhear a few people talking at the door.

"Why do some of the people in this graduation album look so unfamiliar?" A male classmate traced a finger over the photos. "What's this one's name again? ... Oh, right, Chen Zhi."

"I heard she's going to repeat her final year. Did you guys know that?"

The air fell silent. Then she heard him say, word by word, "I don't remember. Was there someone by that name in our class?"

3.

Many years later, Chen Zhi met an elderly woman at a nursing home. They hit it off, and before long the old lady insisted on introducing her to her grandson.

Unable to resist the woman's enthusiasm, Chen Zhi went to the restaurant they had agreed on.

But she never expected

to see Fang Zhiyu again.

Later on,

in the living room, he held her in his arms, his eyes sparkling like scattered stars. He took her slender hand by the wrist and laced their fingers together, then kissed the corner of her mouth tenderly, a faint smile playing on his lips:

"I like you best."

"Will you stay by my side forever?"

-

"A timid person's love is a thousand acts of self-sacrifice, each made without hesitation. You'll never know that it took me eight years to finally reach you."

Theme: Love can do anything.