Midsummer Heat

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VB: I'm Lin Tingye. Come find me and hang out!

My next story will be a school-life healing novel, A Kiss from the Blazing Flame. You can add it to your collection early from my author page~

[Wild, aloof bad-boy x laid-back, sunshine girl] [Staying-under-one-roof trope / flirty romance]

"You are the most brilliant and magnificent daydream in my cruel summer."

The first time Lin Qi saw Jiang Fengye, it was in a narrow alley, where a group of delinquents had gathered to fight.

A tall boy in a white shirt, with silver-dyed hair, stood in the middle of the crowd. He was exceptionally handsome, with deep-set eyes and a black stud earring.

Amid the swirling smoke, he leaned carelessly against the wall and looked down at her, his gaze playful and arrogant.

After dealing with the thugs on the ground, the boy turned to her without a care. His gaze cut down like a sharp blade, and his voice was playful yet intimate. "Had enough of a look, little stepsister?"

He enunciated the word "stepsister" with unmistakable emphasis. It was clearly meant to provoke.

That was their first meeting.

To achieve her goal, Lin Qi deliberately approached a wealthy woman, ingratiated herself with her, and was taken into her home as a beneficiary.

She took great pains to disguise herself as kindhearted, but she couldn't fool the woman's only son, so she had to stay on her toes around him.

---Jiang Fengye, a legendary figure at Jiangbei High School, came from a top-tier family and had a volatile temper. Arrogant and unruly, he seemed to belong to a completely different world from hers.

Later, at the Jiang family's villa, she accidentally provoked him.

The boy pinned her against the staircase like a beast gripping its prey by the throat. His gaze was arrogant and cold as he leaned close to her ear and warned her icily, "If you don't want to die, stay the hell away from me."

"Don't expect me to treat you like family. Once the college entrance exams are over, get lost."

Later, when thugs cornered and bullied her, they fled in panic from the far end of a dim alley the next day. The boy stood smoking against the wall. When he saw her, he smiled nonchalantly. "Come here. Let your big brother give you a hug."

She dated a jerk who cheated on her. Jiang Fengye beat him up, then looked down at him with a cold sneer. "You think you can mess with just anyone's little sister?"

Outside the Jiang family's villa, beneath a security camera, he gripped her wrist and pinned her against the wall. Leaning close to her face, he breathed out words both intimate and beguiling. "If I kiss you here, do you think Mom will find out?"

Lin Qi knew she was ambitious, while Jiang Fengye was proud and untamed, and hated being deceived more than anything.

They were never suited for each other.

The night they chose their college preferences, she faced him without expression and said, "Jiang Fengye, let's break up."

"I lied to you. I never liked you at all."

Everyone at Jiangbei High knew that the pure, innocent transfer student Lin Qi had won Jiang Fengye's heart, only to dump him at graduation.

Everyone thought Jiang Fengye hated her, and that if they ever met again, they'd be at each other's throats. There was no chance of reconciliation.

At university, Jiang Fengye was still a prominent figure, wild and arrogant, haughty and debauched, surrounded by women and buried in rumors.

They ran into each other beneath the neon lights.

Lin Qi looked at Jiang Fengye, leaning casually against a top-of-the-line race car.

With his flashy silver hair and red racing suit, he was surrounded by women, lazily biting a cigarette. His expression was carefree and unruly, debauched and nonchalant.

When he saw Lin Qi, he showed no reaction. His gaze passed over her coolly, and he turned his face away, waiting for the woman beside him to light his cigarette.

No one knew that in a dimly lit corner, Lin Qi was pinned by the wrist and roughly pressed against the wall, just as she had been at seventeen.

---It was the distance between a beast and its prey.

Jiang Fengye tossed away his cigarette and slowly leaned toward her, enunciating her name one word at a time.

"Lin Qi."

He suddenly grabbed her chin and lifted her face, staring at her. His voice was hoarse, and he laughed in anger. "Do you think you can play me one more time?"

In the long silence, he lowered his head and brought his face close to the hollow of her neck.

---His words were harsh, yet helpless:

"How about we make this game last longer this time, and get married?"

"The moment I saw you, I knew damn well that karma had come for me."

Before he was seventeen, Jiang Fengye never took anyone seriously, until he met Lin Qi.

She shattered all his pride with ease, yet made him lower his head and love her without hope of return.

---You are the one reckless, rotten thing I've ever done.

---From then on, I dreamed of you in lush fantasies every night.

Reader's guide:

School ensemble cast, both leads have no past relationships, a flirty romance

Rekindled love, from high school to the city, a healing story

The leads are not related by blood and are not on the same household register

My next healing story will be A Kiss from the Blazing Flame (Song Qiyan x Lin Chan). Add it to your collection if you're interested~

Sensitive girl x sunny boy

Blurb: Lin Chan likes Song Qiyan, a top student favored by his teachers. He is a refined young man, handsome and exceptional.

He shines like the most blazing sun in the sky.

Until she sees the boy tear her love letter in half with her own eyes, flicking it into the trash.

Her heart begins to crumble.

Locked in a cramped bathroom by the girls, she is soaked through. With a small knife, she carves words into the wall: Song Qiyan must love me. That girl should die.

Lin Chan has no parents. She enrolls with a psychiatric diagnosis in hand. Beautiful but timid, she is a true "pretty vase."

Compared to the outstanding Song Qiyan, she is as lowly and timid as a rat in the gutter.

No one knows that beneath the rat's skin lurks a monstrous evil spirit. The obsession in her heart takes root and grows, tearing at her nerves every moment.

In the cold, gloomy room, her depression flares up. Her thoughts are chaotic, and she is on the verge of breaking down---

The next moment, the door is kicked open from outside. The boy, radiant with light, stands with his hands in his pockets and chin held high, at once a savior and an arrogant figure. He raises his eyelids slightly, enclosing her disheveled form in his amber eyes.

Song Qiyan lowers his gaze and notices the red mark on her palm. A glimmer of interest passes through his cool eyes, then he speaks lazily. "Hey, your boyfriend's here to save you."

Lin Chan: ?

He pulls from the treasured bag the love letter she gave him, its pages stained with red marker and filled with the words "I love you."

"I accept." The boy bends down and smiles at her, reckless and passionate.

02

Song Qiyan of Pingchuan No. 1 High School is eighteen, unrestrained and proud, with endless romantic allure.

Like a scorching sun, he burns brilliantly.

His life has always gone smoothly. He is the best, and has never had a reason to look down into the cracks of the gutter. He believes the road ahead is broad and bright.

Until, in a dark, barren, twisted wasteland, he suddenly sees a girl.

---In the blazing midsummer, a girl is shoved into the gym. As the scissors in the girls' hands gleam and snip off a lock of her hair, a book suddenly flies from the back of the room and smashes into the bully's forehead.

From the back row, Song Qiyan lowers the book he'd been using to cover his face and stands with his hands in his pockets, looking lazy. "Let her go."

He begins to question the world's absurdity.

"Xiaochan, follow the light."

She is an evil girl who has given up on life.

He is a boy like the sun, radiant beyond measure.

A story called salvation.

Theme: Treat others with sincerity