Arrogant and Overbearing

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[Blurb]

When Sheng Lingqi was three, she hugged Ling Shisi and took a bite out of him. From then on, the two were bound together for good.

Sheng Lingqi thought her trip abroad might bring them closer, perhaps turning childhood friends on the verge of falling out into proper brother and sister, despite having different parents.

"Sweetheart, Mom found you the best young man in Jiangcheng. He's gentle, handsome, and capable. Most importantly, you know each other inside and out. Don't stand him up, okay?"

When the appointed day arrived, Sheng Lingqi pushed open the door without looking up, while furiously sending voice messages to the group chat to complain.

"Know each other inside and out? Who could know us better than we know each other?"

"Gentle, handsome, and capable? Is he more handsome than Ling Shisi, or more capable?"

"And the best young man? There's no one in all of Jiangcheng better than me!"

"And I absolutely can't stand him up? I'll give him a chance to fly free!"

"Is that so?" The voice from her phone overlapped with one in the room. Sheng Lingqi looked up.

The young man in the seat lowered his phone. Impeccably suited, devastatingly handsome, he gave her a familiar, gentle smile. "How were you planning to let him fly?"

Sheng Lingqi: ...No, she didn't want to let him fly anymore.

After all, this was her childhood friend, the one she'd just been chatting with, her brother from another mother and father!

"Hello, my surname is Sheng, as in 'arrogant and overbearing.'"

"Hello, my surname is Ling, as in 'arrogant and overbearing.'"

Blurb Two:

After Sheng Lingqi went abroad, people who knew how he felt said he was like the gentle second male lead in a novel: quietly giving everything, but never making a move, and in the end, watching the female lead get stolen away by a newcomer.

Ling Shisi thought they were wrong. His efforts had clearly begun with that kiss when she was three, and had never stopped.

He was a bad man. Once he realized how he felt, he deliberately worked his way into Sheng Lingqi's life, one step at a time, until she could no longer live without him.

"Ling Shisi!"

Ling Shisi turned and caught Sheng Lingqi as she ran toward him, his smile gentle, just as it had been when he willingly let the four-year-old Sheng Lingqi hug him because she wanted to kiss him.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing. I just think it's wonderful that the person you love is me."

He wasn't some noble, flawless man. If she liked that kind of man, then that's what he would be.

But luckily, she didn't. Luckily, he wasn't one, either.

"In the multiplication tables, two times seven can only be fourteen. Likewise, there is only one answer for Sheng Lingqi and Ling Shisi: being together."

Spoiled, slow-on-the-uptake little money-grubber x gentle, obsessive schemer

March 22, 2023

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A Little Scheming Never Hurt

Sunny, outgoing straight-shooter vs. arrogant, sharp-tongued, fake gentleman

I.

How far is it from a devoted romantic to a shallow pretty-boy chaser? Nan Zhiyi hugged herself as she climbed out of bed. About three bottles of liquor, apparently.

A true romantic who cared about looks, Nan Zhiyi once thought she would have a love story that began with a bashful confession.

But she got played.

Then she got taken to bed.

II.

Her friend asked, "So, do you like him?"

"Whether I like him isn't the point. He picked my chili peppers!" Nan Zhiyi insisted. "The ones I planted with my own hands and cared for all semester!"

"Even if he's the father of my children, he still can't pick my chili peppers!"

The culprit who'd picked them stood in the shadows, holding a bouquet made of ninety-nine chili peppers, so hot it made your eyes sting.

...Maybe I should just go for his face after all.

III.

Jiang Cong never thought he'd get drunk one day, much less that casually picking some chili peppers while walking across campus would bring him someone he'd never want to let go of for the rest of his life.

"You picked my fruit, so you'll have to make it up to me for the rest of your life."

"Sure thing, agricultural science student."

When a Workaholic Returns to a Laid-Back World [Entertainment Industry]

Blurb:

I.

The moment Ji Manxi was in a car accident, she transmigrated into the body of a nobody actress and got bound to a Rescue System.

The System told Ji Manxi that her world was actually a novel about a lucky, pampered heroine who gets to lie flat. Ji Manxi was a top tycoon left paralyzed from the waist down, and an utter sucker who mistakenly sent the heroine money and resources, believing her to be his benefactor.

Ji Manxi asked, "Then who is my benefactor?"

The System replied, "The villain."

"You're the only person who ever showed the villain kindness, so the central AI decided to bind me to a Host and have me save him. I'll help you complete your mission every step of the way. Once it's done, I'll repair your body and make sure you're safe and sound."

Ji Manxi: What about the villain?

Rescue System: He's the owner of the body you're in now.

Ji Manxi: ...So the villain is me???

II.

Rong Luyuan noticed that, at some point, food in his fridge would suddenly disappear, and his phone and computer would be fully charged when he woke up. Completely baffled, he installed cameras at home, only to discover that he was getting up in the middle of the night to secretly eat, watch things, and play around.

It was the first time in his twenty-some years of life that he'd discovered he sleepwalked :)

Rong Luyuan stayed awake for three days, put away every dangerous object, and had his assistant remove his phone, computer, and television. That night, a voice rang out in his mind.

"Hello, hello, can you hear me? Let me introduce myself. I'm Ji Manxi, your... second personality."

A second personality? So he really had gone crazy.

The voice in his head kept chattering: "Even though you've already had dinner, could you leave some food for me? And could you leave me a phone, too? I'll pay you back once I make some money. Oh, and although I only show up after you fall asleep, staying awake for three days and three nights really can kill you. I suggest you get some sleep. Or maybe we can work out a sleep schedule?"

She ended with, "I'm the person in the world who wants you to be happy the most. You have to trust me."

Rong Luyuan said, "I don't trust you. I'll kill you, no matter what."

Can someone fall in love with their own second personality?

A normal person wouldn't, but he was crazy. He would fall in love with his second personality, so when the voice in his mind disappeared, he would stop at nothing to find her.

III.

Ji Manxi helped Rong Luyuan work his way up from a nobody to an A-list movie star. After returning to her own body, she reread the entire novel about the lucky, pampered heroine.

Every line was full of people lying flat. Look closer, and they were all useless pretty faces. Read it again, and they were nothing but talentless darlings pushed by the powers that be.

Sitting in a luxurious villa, she looked at the balance in her bank account, then at the entertainment industry, where everyone was terrible at keeping in shape, had painful acting, and sang like a car crash.

Ji Manxi, back from the workaholic world, smiled. Her first little goal: work the entire entertainment industry to death!

Stars accustomed to lying flat and phoning it in struggled to survive in this force of nature, terrified that one careless moment would see them replaced by an artist from the workaholic's company.

In the end, just as audiences began marveling that the entertainment industry had finally come alive, the actors, singers, and idols swept up into the sky wiped away their bitter tears. Thank goodness, they'd survived that force of nature.

Rich, willful, carefree heiress vs. refined scoundrel, mad-dog villain

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