Out of Control, Across the Line

[Next book: The Rabbit Loves the Grass by Its Burrow. Blurb at the very bottom]

Blurb: [Clever, Dissembling Cafe Owner] x [Cool, Unrestrained Chosen One]

Zhao Sheng had a troublesome neighbor, a wild and unruly guy whom everyone hated.

Back then, she lived with her grandmother. Well-behaved and quiet, she rarely spoke and devoted herself to her studies. She and that troublesome neighbor kept to their own sides, never interfering with each other.

One day, after narrowly escaping death, cold light shattered across the ground. The young man leaned against the corner of a wall, eyeing her with a defiant, unruly gaze as he stretched out a leg to block her path. "Mute girl, where are you going?"

Long tormented by poverty and the shackles of convention, Zhao Sheng longed to cross boundaries, to feel the wind and freedom, to break free of the restraints within her.

She didn't consider herself a good person. She thought of herself as a timid sea urchin, skilled at hiding her true nature, poisonous and covered in spines.

A deeply hidden, venomous sea urchin, and a notorious troublemaker.

When they let loose, they go wild.

Six years later, they meet again.

The man, famous across the land, deliberately draws close, holding himself back with quiet restraint. He pulls her up from the depths, shakes the mud and despair from her, warms her, and saves her...

The Rabbit Loves the Grass by Its Burrow

1. When Jiang Huihui was eight, a new neighbor moved in across the hall.

Looking at the slender, bright-eyed little boy, she opened with, "What's your name?"

"Bo Yan."

"Which characters?"

"Bo, as in frail, and Yan, with three fire radicals."

Jiang Huihui thought for a moment. "Your Five Elements must be short on fire."

The little girl held out her hand with the air of a worldly veteran. "Hello, I'm Jiang Huihui. My mom regretted having me, so she named me Huihui."

2. Because Bo Yan had a highly sensitive constitution, his parents took meticulous care of him. They restricted his diet in every way and placed all kinds of limits on him.

He was like a frail, quiet canary in a cage.

Then, when he was ten, his family moved, and the "little weirdo" next door opened the door to a whole new world for him.

3. Years later, at a class reunion, a drunken senior asked, "Jiang Huihui, what do you think about childhood sweethearts?"

Without a second thought, Jiang Huihui replied, "Boring! We know each other too well. It's hard to make a move."

In the deep darkness of night, a tall, handsome man with a clear-cut face gripped Jiang Huihui by her slender waist and said hoarsely, "You didn't say I was hard to make a move on when you tackled me back then."

Theme: Saving each other.