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School romance, "A Feverish, Deceptive Summer" [Playboy x Siren]. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb:

★ Alluring beauty with a sweet exterior and a dark heart x playboy who gets his comeuppance when he falls for her

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

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

"Guess how much of the affection in my eyes is real?"

Everyone knows the province's two star students are polar opposites: one lives a life of reckless indulgence, while the other is innocent and well-behaved.

On a stormy day, in a dark alley, Lin Xiyan saw him holding a girl with tear-reddened eyes. His white shirt snapped in the wind as the boy said, coldly and without a trace of pity, "It was just a game we both agreed to, babe. Stalking me like this takes all the fun out of it."

Everyone knew that Jiang Chi, the affiliated school's heartthrob, was dangerous and irresistible: a wealthy, carefree heir whose relationships never lasted more than two weeks. But Lin Xiyan refused to be deterred and insisted on playing with fire.

She engineered chance encounters, deliberately left behind a hair tie, and even rushed into his arms on a stormy day, clutching her soaked school uniform.

"Lin, if you date me, you have to be able to handle it." The seventeen-year-old casually chewed a mint as a metal lighter spun between his fingers, leaving afterimages. Jiang Chi gave 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 fell on the second button of his collar. As her fingertips brushed his Adam's apple, she heard his breathing suddenly falter.

The girl tipped her head back and drank the wine he offered, smiling until her eyes curved like crescent moons. "All right."

Everyone thought Lin Xiyan had won this relationship by refusing to let go. None of them knew that every smile she had shown Jiang Chi was part of a carefully staged revenge, plotted down to the tiniest detail.

The night the truth came out, blue flames danced in the rooftop wind. As Jiang Chi stubbed out his seventh cigarette, the marks of Lin Xiyan's kisses from the night before still lingered on his neck.

She slowly smoothed the wrinkles from Jiang Chi's collar and curled her red lips into a smile. "Young Master Jiang, the game's over."

"You used me and now you think you can run?" As Lin Xiyan turned away, the boy's trembling hand clamped around her wrist, gripping so hard it nearly crushed her bones. She looked back and saw the usually carefree, arrogant boy, his eyes bloodshot. "Lin Xiyan, how much of your love was ever real?"

She smiled as she pried his fingers loose, shedding her good-girl mask. Her eyes held the ice of years gone by. "Jiang Chi, how many defeats can your pride take?"

They had agreed: this was a game of love, and whoever fell first would lose.

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.