Why Are You So Bossy?

[Notice: This novel will enter its completed paid edition on January 26, 2024.]

My next novel is "Burning Heart," a sweet romance. If you're interested, please add it to your collection!

Blurb:

[Marriage First, Love Later | A Long-Running Scheme]

In three years of marriage, the two of them had only enjoyed six peaceful months. For the remaining two and a half years, Ming Yi had tried every means imaginable to get a divorce. Unfortunately, she still couldn't get her hands on the little green marriage certificate.

At last, Zhou Wenjin's first love returned with a vengeance, and Ming Yi finally saw a glimmer of hope. She rubbed her hands together, ready to go all out and regain her freedom as soon as possible.

She had hoped the two would rekindle their old flame and reunite after a breakup. Never did she imagine that everything would race off in the opposite direction, so fast she couldn't catch up.

Ming Yi glared resentfully at the bastard. "Divorce."

Zhou Wenjin didn't even lift his eyelids. "Not a chance."

*

Only when they were both falling deeper and deeper into each other's traps did this silent war gradually draw to a close.

One day, nestled in the man's arms, Ming Yi put on an act and tried to scare him. "I'm very domineering, you know."

But in Zhou Wenjin's lowered gaze, he saw her spoiled, willful expression. He lost focus for a moment. "Have I ever told you..."

His voice was like a distant morning bell, faint and indistinct. Ming Yi asked in confusion, "Told me what?"

He came back to himself and merely curved his lips, acting as if nothing were the matter, while quietly swallowing the rest of his words.

Have I ever told you that a girl once barged into my desolate world, as bold and domineering as could be?

And now she has forgotten every last bit of it.

*

His past lay buried in the misty, rain-soaked water towns of Jiangnan.

In a dilapidated alley swallowed by the hazy night, a girl forcefully unwrapped a fruit candy and stuffed it into his mouth. Her bright, lovely eyes gleamed in the moonlight as she spoke in a tone that allowed no argument: "Eat it."

His battered body leaned helplessly against the wall. The sweet, tangy taste of grapefruit slowly spread across his tongue and through his mouth.

As the girl's slender figure gradually disappeared from his sight, he gave a quiet, self-mocking laugh.

She really was domineering.

Dominating, spoiled little princess × Noble, scheming man in power

One-on-one, both leads' first love, happy ending

The first love has a hidden story. The male lead loves only the female lead.

Coming soon: "Burning Heart"

To honor a promise he made to an old comrade, Old Master Jiang brought Zhao Yuzhuo from a remote county to Haishi while gravely ill. He kept saying that before he died, he wanted to see her and his grandson get married.

At the time, Jiang Xingyue had just won the International Best Director title and was at the height of his fame. Then he suddenly received the terrible news that his grandfather didn't have long to live and was pressuring him to get married.

After flying home overnight, he met the woman he was supposedly going to marry in an elegant private room. She wore tacky makeup and a skirt that clung to her hips with no sense of style whatsoever. He tried to hold back, but in the end, he couldn't stop himself from frowning.

"Name your price. Come act in a little charade with me."

Zhao Yuzhuo looked up through false eyelashes long enough to use as fans and saw that the handsome, unruly man already had a fierce look on his face. He was twirling a lighter in his hand, impatience plain between his brows.

She put down her chopsticks and gave him what she considered her most alluring smile. Jiang Xingyue's gaze faltered. Just as he thought she might put on a show of refusing, the woman parted her red lips and made an outrageous demand on the spot.

"Five million."

"That's my final offer."

After the meeting, a friend asked what he thought of his blind date. Jiang Xingyue didn't hold back: "Vain, vulgar, and utterly tasteless."

When Zhao Yuzhuo got a call from her family, she likewise tore him to shreds: "Arrogant, rude, and conceited."

Neither of them could have imagined that these two people, so hostile to each other, would one day appear together on a talk show.

The host smiled and asked a question sent in by Zhao Yuzhuo's fans. "Ms. Zhao, do you still have your on-screen first kiss?"

By then, Zhao Yuzhuo had become a top influencer and had appeared in numerous advertisements, but she had never worked with a male actor. Just as she was about to nod, the sharp-eyed host noticed that the big shot lounging casually on the sofa beside her suddenly curled his lips into a smile and answered in a low voice:

"She doesn't."

Host: ?

Zhao Yuzhuo turned her head and met the teasing glint in his eyes. A flash of inspiration struck, and she remembered the passionate kiss he had pressed to the corner of her lips while they were pretending to be a couple.

Well... why wouldn't that count as her on-screen first kiss?

Bright, beautiful, money-loving influencer × Handsome, cocky, irreverent director

The female lead has poor taste at first, but improves later.

The male lead is sharp-tongued and conceited at first. Later... he's still sharp-tongued, but he goes easy on the female lead.

One-on-one, both leads' first love, happy ending

Theme: Love helps us become better versions of ourselves