Name: Soft Scales [Rekindled Romance]
Author: Lan Kou

Synopsis

● NetEase Cloud Music playlist: Soft Scales (even better when enjoyed alongside the story)

● Several women in this story escape the sexism of their birth families through their own efforts. Though many are supporting characters in this story, they are the protagonists of their own lives.

Strangers in public, a tangled affair in private

Bittersweet | Male lead goes crazy for love | Both virgins / happy ending | From school days to the altar

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Jiang Yunong worked all summer, but couldn't earn enough to cover rent. So, before the new school year began, she took a job at the front desk of a small hotel in a hutong near her new school.

Her first customer was a seventeen-year-old high school student.

The boy wore a white T-shirt, black pants, and short hair. He looked at her with a crooked smile. A canine tooth peeked out as he tilted his head, standing there clean-cut yet roguish.

Jiang Yunong showed no expression. She glanced at him indifferently, took his ID, and checked him in.

Rich, handsome young masters really were all the same. He was getting a room at this age, and had booked it for the whole semester.

That's what Jiang Yunong thought.

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Chen Che was picky about where he slept. No. 8 High's lunch break was too short and noisy, so he simply rented a room at a hotel outside the school to nap.

He'd discovered this hutong hotel in his first year of high school. When he came to check in during his second year, the receptionist had changed. The new girl was cold-faced and aloof, but efficient.

So fair she seemed to glow, and exquisitely beautiful.

The way she looked at him was like a cold python silently coiling around him.

He saw her again when school started.

The class monitor said there was a transfer student more beautiful than a celebrity, so beautiful no one dared look at her for long. Chen Che had been lazily sprawled over his desk, utterly uninterested, until the girl entered the room, until she began to speak.

Jiang Yunong.

So that was her name, Jiang Yunong.

But...

That warm, radiant smile, that friendly, lively manner... She was a completely different person from the girl at the hotel.

Well, well, you've got two sides to you?

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Years later, the two unexpectedly met again at a dinner party. A friend introduced them, and they exchanged polite greetings.

A coworker nudged Jiang Yunong and asked if she knew him.

Looking at Chen Che, Jiang Yunong almost blurted out, "We were classmates."

Jiang Yunong went to the restroom. When she finished washing her hands and looked up, she was startled to see a man standing by the wall in the mirror.

Chen Che stared at Jiang Yunong's reflection, stepped closer, and finally stopped an inch behind her.

"What are we to each other?"

He was more than half a head taller than Jiang Yunong and stood far too close, his chest seemingly brushing her back.

They stared at each other in the mirror for a long time, but Jiang Yunong still wouldn't answer.

Chen Che smiled. "Jiang Yunong, classmates don't live together."

He bent down, drawing closer,

"And they definitely don't... beg for mercy with tears in their eyes..."

★ A decisive orphan, warm and radiant in public, cool and aloof in private

★ A willful young master, seemingly arrogant and reckless but actually sincere and devoted

#Both knowingly surrender to their feelings

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Two intense people in an intense romance

[Note: No intimate scenes before they reach adulthood. The heroine's parents are severely sexist and favor sons.]

vb: Lan Kou is not Lancome (there are lots of previews~)

★ Next novel: Our Long-Planned First Meeting ★

In 2014, the variety show Keep Running premiered, and tearing off name tags became all the rage. The principal of Blue Sea Arts School let the students out early one Friday and organized a school-wide name-tag elimination game.

Shang Jia was preparing for the Taoli Cup and practicing her competition piece in a secluded corner of the school.

Halfway through her dance, she suddenly heard a swish behind her.

She turned around. Beneath the school's most magnificent magnolia tree, Chen Zhu stood holding her name tag, a bright smile on his face.

That was Shang Jia's first encounter with Chen Zhu, and she thought it was a coincidence.

But a girl who'd had a crush on Chen Zhu for a long time knew better.

That day, Chen Zhu had wandered all over the school, refusing to tear anyone else's name tag and not letting anyone tear his, as if he were searching for someone.

Then he tore off Shang Jia's name tag.

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On graduation night, the girl told everyone about it, and they all started teasing them.

Shang Jia answered easily, "That was the first time we met."

Chen Zhu, sitting beside her, suddenly laughed and turned to stare at Shang Jia, his gaze deep.

"That wasn't the first time."

That wasn't the first time.

"A perfectly timed coincidence was the first meeting I'd planned for a long time."

Dance student * music student

★ Completed novel: Message in a Bottle and Thermos. Come give it a try! ★

Reunited after a breakup | Saving each other | An exceptionally warm, healing story

Top-tier star voice actor * gentle mixed-race author