During the summer after the college entrance exams, Gu Hengzhi went to visit his childhood friend Lu Ye.
As they went upstairs, they unexpectedly ran into a young woman coming out of the study.
The woman saw them but showed no embarrassment. She slowly buttoned the top button of her shirt. "Lu Ye, did you bring a friend over today?"
Lu Ye gave an impatient reply and brushed past her with a cold expression.
Gu Hengzhi's gaze swept over the woman's slender neck. After a brief pause, he nodded politely. "Hello, sis."
Shen Shiyi returned a faint smile and watched them leave.
Once they were in the entertainment room, Lu Ye explained with a sour look, "She's that little white flower who seduced my dad."
Gu Hengzhi hummed in acknowledgment.
He knew that Lu Ye's parents had divorced a year earlier.
Later.
On a hot afternoon after a game of basketball.
Gu Hengzhi came out of the shower and sat with one leg crossed on the sofa, listening as his childhood friend complained about his latest troubles.
"She and my dad are already divorced. I don't know why I should reject her."
Lu Ye rubbed his face in frustration.
Gu Hengzhi listened without expression, his peripheral vision falling on the French-style footstool beneath Lu Ye.
At that age, even a cold shower couldn't quell the heat in his veins.
So Gu Hengzhi didn't tell Lu Ye that the woman he had failed to win over had sat in that very same spot the day before.
And that he had parted his lips, bitten the button of her shirt, and undone it slowly, calmly.
Like parting the tender petals of a red rose, or opening Pandora's mysterious box.
She was a rose blooming on her own in spring, and he was a cold flame burning for her.
A seemingly sunny, secretly scheming seducer x a cool, restrained prosecutor
Female lead has experience, male lead does not / childhood brothers who grew up in the same pants turn against each other / rival suitors in a cutthroat love triangle / the aloof flower falls from his pedestal
Blurb written on October 16, 2023, screenshot saved
Theme: Only sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity
