A Time-Limited Romance

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Yin Chun fell in love at first sight with her brother's girlfriend.

On New Year's Day, Yin Jun brought his girlfriend home to meet their parents.

At just one glance, Yin Chun felt her heart skip a beat.

Alongside that love-at-first-sight feeling, four words popped into her mind: "shameless and indecent."

Yin Chun wanted to avoid this sudden attraction, but Shu Man's casual flirtations kept leaving her flustered and restless.

She thought she might as well indulge herself for these few days. Once the New Year was over and they each returned to their own lives, she would put her feelings away.

After being cold and distant just days before, Yin Chun suddenly turned affectionate, pouting, cuddling, and hugging Shu Man at every opportunity. The Yin family, who had assumed she was unhappy, finally relaxed. As long as their daughter didn't hate her new sister-in-law, everything was fine.

After the New Year, Yin Chun quickly withdrew her feelings. She made a point of not keeping up with Shu Man's news, and stopped bombarding her with messages whenever they went even an hour without seeing each other, the way she had during the holiday.

Two months after they parted, her brother called. Shu Man had come to her city to look for work, and, unfamiliar with the area, needed help. Could Yin Chun let her stay at her place?

With honey right in front of her, should Yin Chun take a taste?

A bad person like her probably wouldn't let the chance slip by...

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Shu Man: Professional part-time New Year's girlfriend.

Two thousand a day, guaranteed to satisfy the client.

Only... the client's younger sister doesn't seem to like her very much?

Bored with nothing to do, and good at flirting if not much else, Shu Man decides to broaden the little sister's horizons.

Somewhere along the way, she seems to have gotten in over her head.

After the New Year:

On the first day Yin Chun doesn't contact her, she wonders if Yin Chun is busy.

On the second day Yin Chun doesn't contact her, she wonders where all that clinginess went.

On the nth day Yin Chun doesn't contact her, Shu Man flips the table. Is Yin Chun playing her? She's always the one who sets time limits for other people, and no one's ever put her on one!

[A battle of wills between two actresses who each think the other is a hopeless romantic]

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When they first meet, a girl with brightly colored hair narrows her eyes and asks, "Chu Wen, do you like girls like me?"

Chu Wen's voice is cold. "No."

Later, in the damp, sticky darkness of a summer night filled with cicadas, the girl asks again, her voice hoarse with desire: "Chu Wen, do you like me?"

"No."

Still those same three indifferent words. Chun Li freezes, then falls silent.

After a long while, she says awkwardly, "Well, I don't like you either."

Chu Wen's surname isn't Chu. Her name is Yi Chu Wen, but she hates the character "Yi," so she took her maternal grandfather's surname instead.

She doesn't like Shen Chun Li. In fact, other than her grandparents, there's no one she considers worth liking. That summer before she went abroad was nothing more than a diversion, a chance to tease a little puppy.

Yi Chu Wen always thought Shen Chun Li was an insignificant passerby in her life, until she returned to China and ran into a family of three on the street.

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Shen Chun Li's love is passionate and impossible to hide.

In the fifth year after she was abandoned, Shen Chun Li said to Chu Wen, "What right do you have to control me?"

In the third year after they reunited, Shen Chun Li said to Chu Wen, "Dear Miss, I only love you 365 times a year!"

*Yi Chu Wen is a little mean (or maybe very mean)

*Childbirth and reconciliation after a breakup

*A somewhat mean, aloof, hard-hearted young lady as the pursuer, and a "somewhat mean," defiant, contrary love interest who says one thing and means another

Theme: Harmony, love, and civility