White Sneakers

When Wen Jin was seventeen, she wore her hair in a princess style, a little dress her mother had bought at Harrods, and white sneakers. At her classmates’ urging, she joined them on an adventure in the urban village. That was also the first time she met Jin An, as far as she could remember. It was early summer, just after a torrential rain. The air was thick with dampness and humidity. Jin An was covered in mud, leaning against a crumbling wall, filthy as a stray dog. He turned his head, spat out a mouthful of bloodied saliva, and stared at her as she trembled in fear. Then his gaze drifted down to her spotless white sneakers. The girl’s ankle was slender and porcelain-pale, so clean it made him want to ruin it. “Little princess.” The boy smiled at her slowly, his gaze inscrutable. “This isn’t a place you should be.” - The urban village was the most chaotic, rotten, filthy part of the city. Jin An was born there. He was violent and cold-blooded. Even as a teenager, he punched people until they bled. Beneath his tousled black hair, his sharp features were like a sudden summer thunderstorm on a clear day. The people around him feared and hated him, but no one dared provoke him. Wen Jin, on the other hand, had been spoiled since childhood, a jewel raised in an ivory tower. It was hard to imagine the two of them ever having anything to do with each other. - Until the night Wen Jin turned eighteen. After celebrating her coming of age with a group of friends, she was helped back to her bedroom. The window that was always kept shut stood open, the wind gusting inside. Before she could react, the boy dressed in black had already cornered her against the wall. As their lips and teeth tangled, Jin An called her in a hoarse voice. “You’re eighteen now.” “Open your mouth, princess.” . “Hardship can stretch on like endless rain, but as long as I’m with you, I can endure it.” | Stray dog × princess | Urban and campus romance, mutual healing * Please check out my upcoming novel, A Thousand Flaps of a Butterfly’s Wings: shameless bad dog × sweet, well-behaved girl Love Contract: 1. Ji Die owes Ke Guanle two million yuan. Until the debt is repaid, they will maintain a sexual relationship. 2. No revealing the relationship or making it public. 3. Every weekend, Ji Die must show up before Ke Guanle on time. - They’d been maintaining this arrangement for so long that Ji Die had almost forgotten how she and Ke Guanle had gotten started. They used to be brother and sister; now they were lovers who had to keep their relationship hidden. The only thing she remembered was the day she paid off her debt and tried to leave. Ke Guanle pinned her against the edge of the table with a cold expression, grabbed her hand forcefully, and made her add the following clause to the contract, word by word: 4. We will never break up. . “My life is a barren spring.” “The day I met you, a butterfly beat its wings ten thousand times.” | Shameless, seductive bad-boy king × sweet little butterfly | Both leads’ first relationship, happy ending, the arrangement becomes official # Coercive romance. The male lead is unhinged, like a rabid dog, and more stubborn than anyone. The “siblings” in the blurb are not related by blood. Theme: Love is weathering the storm together and then seeing the rainbow