Saving the Canary

The main story is complete. Bonus chapters will drop at random. Jiang Li doesn't want her mother to become a caged bird. Her mother cares nothing for power and longs only for freedom. After her divorce, she lived comfortably until she was forty, when the unreasonable business tycoon Chen Wangshan took an interest in her and planned to force her into marriage. Watching her mother suffer day after day, Jiang Li decided to do something for her. After a day of agonizing over it, she set her sights on the arrogant, aloof young master of the Chen family. Chen Yize was a famously cold-faced, cocky guy who hated girls sucking up to him. People said he hated women, and he'd never dated anyone. If making Chen Wangshan choose between family and love... was a risk worth taking, then she was willing to take it. She decided to pursue Chen Yize. - After enduring Jiang Li's "aggressive affection" for months, Chen Yize realized she seemed to have gotten the wrong idea about him. There were two things he hadn't told her: First, he thought his new stepsister was quite pretty. Second, he didn't hate women. He stayed single because he knew he was a pervert with an extremely possessive streak and... other intense desires. Little Scene: Chen Yize felt he'd given a lot for this relationship. He let her hit and scold him, stopped whenever she said so, and was even willing to declare that he was cutting ties with his father on the very first night his father came home from a business trip, then run away with her. But the person who'd been madly in love with him just minutes earlier went to the bathroom, came back, suddenly pushed him away, and said with a strange expression: "Don't be like this, big brother. We're just siblings." Chen Yize stayed quiet for a few seconds, then finally figured it out. He might have been too gentle with her. Jiang Li: Thanks for the invitation. I overheard by accident while washing my hands in the bathroom that Mom's romance was a rumor. So what was all my effort for these past few months?! Chen Yize: It means you've got guts. /smiles Heroine: A passionate love-struck fool on the surface, actually totally unbothered and a little drama queen Hero: A perpetually cold and cocky guy, with occasional bursts of obsessive perversion · Set on a college campus. Both are virgins and each other's first love. · The hero will show his twisted side later on, with a slightly coercive-love vibe. · There's more to the heroine and hero's parents than meets the eye. They are not romantically involved. Coming next: Trapped in an Escape Room with a Handsome Ghost NPC Jiang Shuze was under immense pressure at his day job. To blow off steam and indulge his wicked sense of humor, he worked part-time as an escape-room NPC, dressing up as a male ghost every day and scaring the guests half to death. Xia Zhi was the biggest scaredy-cat he'd ever met. He once chased her so hard that her arms and legs went flying in every direction. But what he didn't expect was that, after the room was accidentally locked, she started inching toward him, one tiny step at a time, until she was close enough to press against him as soon as he turned around. Jiang Shuze raised an eyebrow and stared at her, speechless. Xia Zhi fidgeted with her fingers. "Um... can I touch you?" ? You're not even pretending anymore? Which one of us is the ghost here? - A square centimeter of skin has hundreds of pores. When Xia Zhi's skin hunger flared up, every pore clamored desperately for a cuddle. To make it easier to soak up human contact, Xia Zhi practically floated from place to place while socializing. She'd hold hands with a pretty older girl or press cheek to cheek, but it still felt like scratching an itch through a shoe. Until one day, she got trapped in a room with a handsome ghost NPC. A male ghost. He looked like he could use the money too, since he was doing this job. At first he was reluctant, but Xia Zhi immediately pulled out two hundred-yuan bills and shoved them into his hand. "That should do it, right?" Then she clung to him like a koala. His warm, solid body wrapped around her, and Xia Zhi's eyes suddenly lit up. So snug, so wonderful. This was her favorite body. /rubs and rubs and rubs and rubs/ The flash popped above their heads. Jiang Shuze photographed the evidence of his harassment. Before sending it to his lawyer, he glared at the girl in his arms. "Anything you'd like to say?" Xia Zhi said excitedly, "Can I hire you by the month?" Jiang Shuze: "..." Instant-print camera photographer x Partner at a newly established law firm Skin-hungry, energetic cutie x Cool, fierce, incredibly handsome guy Heroine: My camera doesn't lie. Hero: ...Get down. My lawyer won't go easy on you. Theme: There's no one in the world as good as Mom