Addicted to Being Spoiled

Next up: Nightfall's Damp Embrace, an authority figure x canary romance, an older man descending from on high for love.

1

It was drizzling the day they first met.

Sang Wan was brought into the Meng household. Meng Jingyan looked at her dewy eyes, then coolly turned away after a moment.

He removed his sleeve garters and set them by the door. His voice was measured. "Call me whatever you like. You can even call me Meng Jingyan."

To fulfill a friend's request, the refined and distant Dr. Meng began learning how to care for a young girl.

She cried easily, so he had to comfort her.

She loved looking pretty, so he had to indulge her.

She was bad-tempered, so he had to put up with it.

Years later, the timid girl he'd spoiled rotten stormed into his bedroom after a night of drinking.

Looking at the impeccably dressed man, she leaned against his desk, emboldened by the alcohol. "Meng Jingyan, I like you."

Meng Jingyan glanced at her, wrapped up his transoceanic meeting in a few words, and shut his laptop.

He lifted his chin slightly, his gaze calm behind his gold-rimmed glasses. "You've got some nerve, calling me by my full name now."

2

Sang Wan hated Meng Jingyan's self-control and his clear-cut boundaries. Most of all, she hated when he stroked her hair in suede gloves and smiled as he praised her for being a "good girl."

Later, Meng Jingyan came down from his pedestal, just as she wished.

Outside the door, she could faintly hear her fiance talking with Mrs. Meng.

Separated by a single door, the always dignified man took off his glasses. His bare hand burned against the small of her back as he kissed her with such scorching intensity that she could barely breathe.

Their breaths tangled. Meng Jingyan whispered hoarsely in her ear, "So you like playing around? I was wilder than him when I was young."

"Wanwan, break up with the man outside."

"Tell him to get lost."

- Refined scoundrel x spoiled brat, nine-year age gap, both leads are sexually inexperienced

- The leads are not blood-related, and the heroine has no boyfriend. The blurb is based on a misunderstanding

- The heroine talks a big game but is timid, while the hero is restrained but talks dirty

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Next book, Nightfall's Damp Embrace:

Differences in status | Reunited after a breakup | Powerful man bends for love | Kept lover | Age gap

Noble tycoon x university student

At a Parisian society gala, a crowd of blond, blue-eyed tycoons had gathered, yet the man seated at the head table had black hair and eyes: a Chinese man.

People who appeared only in financial news bowed and flattered him with toasts. Jiang Chunian held his glass in one hand, granting them the utmost courtesy by merely touching the wine to his lips.

Yu Tingxia, struggling to stay above the poverty line while studying abroad, knew they were worlds apart. Who would have guessed she'd receive a gold-embossed business card from his secretary?

"Miss Yu, Mr. Jiang needs a female companion. You'd be a perfect fit."

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Late one night, the man stood by the window. Creases marred his trousers, but he remained untouchable.

As damp snow fell, Yu Tingxia rose from bed and put on a robe. A vivid red kiss mark adorned the base of her slender, pale neck. "Sir, you promised before that I would decide when this ends."

"Have you thought it through?"

"Yes."

The man stubbed out his cigarette. His deep-set features were slightly blurred in the haze. He nodded indifferently. "As long as you don't regret it."

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In everyone else's eyes, Jiang Chunian was rigid and serious, composed and steady.

No one would have imagined that he would fly halfway around the world for a woman, crossing through snow and wind to enter a wildlife reserve in Mozambique.

The usually noble and aloof man lowered his eyes to look at her. Exhausted from traveling day and night, he spoke in a slightly hoarse but solemn voice:

"Yu Tingxia, would you consider starting over with me?"

Theme: As the year draws to a close, may the fireworks return year after year