A Hot Kiss Beneath the Galaxy

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Synopsis:

★ Tsundere bad boy x clearheaded good girl

[Did you know the stars and the moon don't belong to the same night sky?]

When they were young,

Chi Shuo was the darling of the heavens, surrounded by admirers,

while Jiang Banxia was one of the countless stars orbiting him.

He was proud and carefree, bold and uninhibited, with a face that captivated countless girls and a crowd of admirers.

She was quiet and reserved, always following the rules, gazing up at the moon from the mud, struggling to bear her feelings.

To her, the boy was cool and dazzling, yet far beyond her reach.

It was easy to fall in love with him, but hard to be loved in return, and she didn't dare hope for that.

So it was enough just to look at him from afar.

*

At the darkest point in her life, a girl on the verge of despair sat by a lake with tears on her face and her arms around her knees. In a faint, self-destructive voice, she asked:

"What if I can't stop myself from hitting them?"

Her answer came in the sound of footsteps, drawing nearer.

She turned her head, and her breath caught.

A tall, straight-backed boy stood before her, one hand in his pocket. He tilted his head to stretch his neck and spoke as casually as if discussing the weather:

"Then hit them. I'll take care of the aftermath."

A simple sentence, arrogant beyond belief.

She quietly remembered that night for a long time.

2.

Years after graduation, a crowd filled a private room at a bar. Amid the clinking glasses, a friend suddenly asked why Chi Shuo had transferred schools back then.

The man loosened his tie, every movement radiating effortless elegance and languor. At the question, his gaze darkened.

Just when everyone thought he wouldn't answer, he suddenly spoke:

"I don't believe in God, but I hope someone is watching over you."

Everyone was baffled.

No one noticed that Jiang Banxia, sitting in a corner, felt as if cold water had been poured over her the instant she heard those words. Her hands and feet turned ice-cold.

Ten minutes later, the private room was still lively. In a cramped, dimly lit alcove, the light and shadows were ambiguous, and their breaths mingled.

She was pinned against the wall, her palm against the man's lips as they pressed down for an instant. His soft laugh followed.

"Girlfriend," Chi Shuo said, resting his chin lazily on her shoulder. His sexy, seductive voice teased her frayed nerves. "Can't I kiss you?"

She had principles. "Answer my question first."

Chi Shuo knew how stubborn she was. He didn't straighten up, only tilted his head from where he was and brought his cool cheek close to her ear, whispering.

He said, "Baby, more than seeing you love me, I'd rather see you love yourself most of all."

In that instant, Jiang Banxia understood. All those days she hadn't known, he had secretly loved her for so many years.

[I often don't dare look at you too closely, because my eyes are full of joy.]

3. Bonus Scene

Late at night, the hashtag #RenownedAstronomyProfessorChiShuoKissesWomanOnTheStreet tops Weibo's trending topics.

Click the GIF, and you see a man in a shirt and trousers leaning toward someone, his movements radiating restrained sensuality. The woman wears a red dress and looks radiant.

And then...

The internet goes wild. The web collapses.

The comments are split down the middle. Some praise them as a perfect match, while others call them indecent! The argument rages on.

In an upscale residential complex, Chi Shuo softly coaxes his sweetheart, who has burrowed into the covers and refuses to show her face, while hurriedly registering an account.

Professor Chi is astonishingly efficient. In just half a minute, he has soothed his wife and posted on Weibo.

His post reads:

Thanks for your concern. I'm married.

P.S. I kissed my own wife. What business is it of yours!

Attached are photos of their two marriage certificates, plus a picture captioned, "And I have every right to say so."

[As twilight creeps over the mountaintop, the Milky Way turns.

We kiss passionately as the stars sink into the depths.]

P.S.

1. Both are each other's first love, 1v1, happy ending. Starts at school, then moves to the city. A healing romance.

2. Both leads are top students.

3. Mutual secret crushes.

4. Writing isn't easy. Plagiarism will be pursued. Thank you, dear readers, for supporting the official version!

Upcoming Story

School romance "A Sultry Summer of Lies" [Playboy x Flirtatious Schemer]. Please add it to your favorites!

Synopsis:

★ A flirtatious beauty with a sweet exterior and dark heart x a playboy who turns over a new leaf, only to get caught in her trap

| Two top students + intense romantic tension + a battlefield of love rivals |

"The perfect hunter often enters the game disguised as prey."

"Tell me, how much of the affection in my eyes is real?"

Everyone knows that the provincial key school's two stars are complete opposites: one is a playboy, the other innocent and sweet.

On a stormy day, in a dark alley, Lin Xiyan sees him holding a girl with red eyes from crying. His white shirt flutters in the wind as the boy says coldly, without a trace of pity, "It was just a game we both agreed to, darling. There's no point clinging to me."

Everyone knows that Jiang Chi, the affiliated school's heartthrob, is dangerous and captivating. A wealthy playboy and darling of the heavens, he never dates any girl for more than two weeks. But Lin Xiyan refuses to be warned off and insists on courting danger.

She arranges deliberate chance encounters, leaves behind a hair tie on purpose, and even rushes into his arms in the rain, clutching her soaked school uniform.

"Lin, if you date me, you have to be able to handle it." The seventeen-year-old boy nonchalantly chews a mint, a metal lighter spinning between his fingers so fast it blurs. Jiang Chi gives her a playful look. "Three rules: no promises, don't take it seriously, and we can stop whenever we get bored."

Lin Xiyan's gaze falls on the second button of his collar. As her fingertips brush his Adam's apple, she hears his breathing suddenly go off beat.

The girl tips her head back and drains the drink he offers her. Her eyes curve into crescents as she smiles. "All right."

Everyone thinks Lin Xiyan won this romance by relentlessly pursuing him, but they don't know that every smile he sees from her is part of a revenge plot, meticulously crafted down to the smallest detail.

The night the truth comes out, the rooftop wind carries blue flames. When Jiang Chi puts out his seventh cigarette, the mark of Lin Xiyan's kiss from the previous night still lingers on his neck.

She leisurely smooths the wrinkles from Jiang Chi's collar and curls her red lips into a smile as she announces, "Young Master Jiang, the game's over."

"You used me and now you're running away?" As Lin Xiyan turns, the boy's trembling hand clamps around her wrist so tightly it nearly crushes her bones. She looks back and sees his usually careless, arrogant eyes bloodshot. "Lin Xiyan, how much of your love was real?"

She smiles as she pries his fingers off and removes her good-girl mask, her eyes frozen over with years of ice. "Jiang Chi, how many defeats can your pride take?"

They agreed: it was a game of love, and the first to fall would lose.

Upcoming Story, "Half Light, Half Shadow" [Marriage Before Love]

Synopsis:

★ Diplomat x high school teacher

Cool and refined x gentle and perceptive

1.

When he married her, Ning Buyan said, "I need a stable marriage."

Fang Yuchi understood, so she did her best to be an undemanding wife and never asked about anything she shouldn't.

At a gathering, a group of rich young men took turns complaining that their wives were too controlling. Ning Buyan swirled his wineglass, unusually boastful. "My wife is so understanding. She never cares what time I get home."

A friend teased him. "Right, your wife is so understanding. She doesn't care what time you get home, or who you sleep with."

The table fell silent for a moment.

Ning Buyan curled his lips into a smile. "That's why I married her. Our Teacher Fang is smart and sensible. She always knows exactly what she wants most."

The party ended in the early hours of the morning. Only one light was on in the living room, its warm yellow glow falling over the person grading papers on the sofa.

Ning Buyan leaned against the entryway, half his face hidden in the shadows. He watched her for a while, then suddenly said, "Teacher Fang, have you ever thought that if you'd married someone else, your family's problems could have been solved too?"

"Maybe." Her pen kept moving.

"Then why did you choose me?" He took the red pen from her hand and leaned over, bracing himself against the back of the sofa.

Fang Yuchi looped her arms around his neck and drew close. "Obviously because you had the best qualifications and were the most generous with money, Director Ning."

Ning Buyan let out a quiet laugh and didn't press her further.

2.

Neither of them had married for pure reasons. At first, they each got what they needed, and they lived in peace. But then they fell in love. Once you fall in love, greed is hard to contain. They both wanted to be loved, yet each believed the other didn't love them enough. Their grievances piled up until every word became a knife.

She pulled off her ring and threw it at his feet. "Ning Buyan, quit pretending to be in love with me. You know who you're really in love with. You only married me to spite your parents, didn't you?"

He pulled off his tie, his voice even colder than hers. "And what about you? Did you marry me because you love me? You know perfectly well what you wanted from me."

Her heart twisted painfully, but Fang Yuchi smiled and nodded. "Yes, you're right."

They had both entered this marriage with an agenda, so neither of them was innocent. That meant neither of them had any right to complain.

3.

Someone once said that love is an unending ache. Fang Yuchi initially dismissed the idea, but later came to believe it deeply.

During the most painful period, she lay in the dark, her voice so faint it was almost inaudible. "Ning Buyan, have you ever considered... getting a divorce?"

He looked over at her. She pressed the back of her hand hard against her eyes.

Ning Buyan was silent for a long time. Long enough that she thought he was calculating how to divide their property, but then he said, "No."

He took a tissue and put it in her hand. "Teacher Fang, to me, divorce isn't a way to solve problems. Since I got married, I never intended to divorce."

She kept her eyes closed, so she didn't see Ning Buyan turn away and close the door. His nails dug into his palm as he used all his strength to suppress his trembling.

Ning Buyan also didn't know that an hour before asking him that question, Fang Yuchi had turned the bathroom faucet all the way up and cried until she was too weak to move.

Two people who aren't right for each other would rather cling to a marriage that has become unrecognizable than ever mention divorce. It's not that they don't know how much it hurts. No pain can compare to losing each other, even for a second.

[Reading Guide]

1. Both leads are each other's first love, happy ending.

2. Strangers to Marriage Before Love. They had no romantic feelings before marriage, no secret crushes, and no long-laid plans.

3. Neither lead is a perfect character.

Theme: I love you, and I am free!