My Live-In Nemesis Has a Secret Crush on Me

Also known as My Live-In Enemy Has a Crush on Me

My next novel, Rational Devoted Lover, is Marriage Before Love, now underway. The blurb is at the end. Feel free to add it to your collection.

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Blurb:

[Youth is a tune composed in a muddle. It sounds chaotic at the time, but later you can't help putting it on repeat.]

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When Gao Ge first met Jiang Liu'an, she thought she would never have anything to do with someone like him. She was such a cheerful person, and an ice cube like him surely had nothing in common with her.

It wasn't until Gao Yun brought home the child of his romantic partner that Gao Ge resigned herself to her fate, wailing that hard times were coming.

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She and Jiang Liu'an agreed to act like strangers at school and leave each other alone.

But Gao Ge was the first to break that promise, at least in plain sight.

To vent her frustration, she went out of her way to play childish pranks on Jiang Liu'an.

Jiang Liu'an was the next to break his promise. He said he only did it to stop the rumors, but didn't mention his own feelings. Gao Ge believed him.

And so they began to get along.

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It wasn't until the day Jiang Liu'an moved out that Gao Ge realized she would one day find it so hard to let him go.

Who would tutor her? Who would cook for her? Who would wash the dishes?

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On the day the university entrance exam results came out, Gao Ge realized it had all been one huge scheme from the start, Jiang Liu'an's scheme.

And she was the one who benefited from it.

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[Cheerful girl who always gets even x Cool top student who dotes on her] [Super sweet happy ending]

"Before I deliberately got close to you,

I never expected you'd make my heart race like this."

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Online chat:

Gao Ge: I keep badmouthing Jiang Liu'an. What made you think he was a decent guy?

Flowers Blooming in Prosperity: [I guessed.]

Gao Ge: Huh?

Rational Devoted Lover [Marriage Before Love] blurb

Back when Xue Qianshu thought she was in love with Pei Chengchen, she once asked him, "I call Pei Yimai my little brother, and you call him uncle. So... what do you call me?"

Pei Chengchen had just finished drinking. Rubbing his head, he replied casually, "Whatever you like. You can call me uncle-in-law too."

Later, his words came true.

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By the shore, Pei Yimai's face was colder than the rain. He raised a hand and wiped the tears from Xue Qianshu's cheek.

"It's all an arranged marriage. Pei Chengchen has the surname Pei, and Pei Yimai has the surname Pei too."

That was the first time she saw the normally dignified Pei Yimai lose control.

And so, in a daze, they got married.

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Xue Qianshu is a web novelist with a modest following. She is used to seeing the world through her feelings.

Pei Yimai is different. He's a lawyer: quiet, serious, meticulous, and always rational.

On the night they slept together, Pei Yimai told her he wasn't rational at all. In fact, he was crazy every day. He had lived that way for years because of something she said in high school.

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"Was the romantic hero in your book really Pei Chengchen? All those years when you thought you loved him, I, Pei Yimai, was the shadow behind him."

[Emotional writer x Rational lawyer]

[Marriage Before Love / Secret crush and winning her back]

P.S. An older woman and younger man romance, but the younger man is mature.

Theme: She acts bold because someone pampers her.