A First Taste

[Seeking Favorites for My Next Book, Typhoon Rainy Night]

Ran Wu knew one thing.

She and Chen Siyu belonged to two different worlds.

Whether at Zhuochuan Private High School or Lishan University, Chen Siyu was always the pride of heaven.

He did whatever he pleased, defied convention, and inspired admiration in everyone who knew him. He was the top academic prodigy at Zhuochuan High, so far above his peers that it was like a dimensionality reduction, and he came from a wealthy family, a young prince of the capital.

On top of that, he had a face and physique that made even the gods jealous.

So.

No one would ever pair Chen Siyu with her.

He lived recklessly, while she followed the rules.

He was the center of attention, surrounded by admirers, the pride of heaven whom everyone watched.

Plenty of girls openly or secretly loved Chen Siyu.

She was one of those secret admirers, too.

Just an ordinary, unremarkable one.

That all changed after...

One day, after she entered Lishan University.

That evening, on the campus path,

she calmly and politely turned down a boy's confession.

When she turned around, she saw a tall figure standing beneath a streetlamp.

It was Chen Siyu.

The pride of heaven.

The boy she had secretly loved for three years.

Chen Siyu stepped forward and blocked her way. He raised his long arm, revealing the English tattoo on his wrist, and curled his lips into a mischievous grin. "So he doesn't catch your eye?"

Ran Wu's heart pounded like a drum. She was just about to pretend she hadn't heard when he continued:

"What about me? Can I catch your eye?"

"He had always stood at the top of youth, while she was the tart fruit that made his teeth ache."

Cool, sweet, fairy-like girl x scheming troublemaker with obsessive tendencies who always fights to win

Secret love comes true | Rekindled love | Friends to lovers | Forceful pursuit

Coming soon: Typhoon Rainy Night

Blurb:

[Slice-of-life story + friends with benefits to lovers + sex first, love later + a freewheeling writing exercise]

(Female lead's perspective)

The summer after the college entrance exams was sweltering, cicadas chirred without pause, and the thick evening clouds glowed red as if they might fall from the sky.

Shi Xia got out of a taxi and headed straight for the tattoo shop at the far end of Shuyu Lane. When she was five meters away, the double doors swung open from within, and a tall figure walked out.

It was Qi Yubai, the model student who was always at the top of the honor roll, the good student who came first every time.

She paused, then smiled and teased, "A model student getting a tattoo?"

Qi Yubai glanced at her and walked away without changing expression.

When everything was over, Shi Xia walked out of the tattoo shop.

The summer night swayed, and a scorching wind swept over her.

The cool, world-weary boy leaned against the wall, a cigarette between his fingers. At the sound, he turned his head, his voice hoarse. "Weren't you curious where my tattoo is?"

Shi Xia walked over, her gaze bold and direct. "Where?"

Qi Yubai narrowed his eyes and tapped his lower abdomen with a fingertip. "Here. Come home with me and see, if you dare."

Shi Xia took the cigarette from between his lips, held it between her red lips, and blew a smoke ring at him. She grinned like a delinquent. "What's there to be afraid of?"

(Male lead's perspective)

In his teachers' eyes, Qi Yubai was a prize student; to his classmates, an academic god; to his admirers, the undisputed campus heartthrob.

Everyone knew he was cold and indifferent, with no interest whatsoever in romance.

But in reality, during the summer after his senior year of high school,

he secretly got together with Shi Xia, willingly becoming her dog and letting her train him.

"In these feverish days of wine and revelry, I'll kiss you until winter snow turns warm."

Delinquent girl (black-hearted outside, pure inside) x model student (pure outside, black-hearted inside)

Theme: Sunlight and young men