Spicy Sugar

🍸 Handsome, roguish playboy x sweet-and-cool heartbreaker / college campus / mutual flirtation

🍸 A story about a fox pretending to be a white rabbit, falling into a trap, and luring her prey closer step by step

The night Zhu Jinxia posted a location update and summoned five exes to show up, she lost a game and was sentenced to drink. All five rushed to take the drinks for her.

Every one of them was handsome enough to feast your eyes on, but she, the woman at the center of it all, wasn’t moved in the slightest. The first half of the evening had barely ended when she was suddenly called away to help out.

She walked into the bar and immediately spotted her prey. He sat in the shadows with his eyes lowered, smiling with reckless insolence, wicked and roguish.

Her roommate called Jinxia over, and the people around them started cheering.

The mood lights swept across his face, widening his smile as he looked her way.

Just that one glance, and then...

He didn’t look at her a second time all night.

After the drinking party ended, her roommate hesitantly warned her, “Chen Ran doesn’t have a girlfriend, but I hear he’s hard to win over.”

Zhu Jinxia smiled. Her red hair whipped wildly in the wind. “Who said I was trying to win him over?”

She really didn’t pursue Chen Ran. Instead, she turned around and started pursuing his sworn enemy, Lin Zhousong. She made such a public declaration that the whole school heard about it, but the male lead never showed up. Just as everyone assumed she had no chance, Chen Ran inexplicably appeared behind her.

At a gathering, a friend asked Chen Ran if he was trying to steal Lin Zhousong’s girl and take her for himself.

Before he could answer, someone spoke up for him: “Brother Ran doesn’t even care about that Lin guy. What’s Zhu Jinxia to him?”

Chen Ran glanced over indifferently and said nothing.

Somehow, the story reached Jinxia, and she gave Chen Ran the cold shoulder for half a month.

No one knew that when the last autumn rain fell, he stood drenched beneath her apartment building. Lightning and thunder tore through the dark. Bloodshot veins showed in his eyes as he lost control and cornered her, demanding one word at a time:

“Zhu Jinxia, what am I to you?”

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Friend: “How long had you been kissing before you got together?”

Chen Ran: “We kissed for a long time before we got together.”

[Reading notes / things to watch for]

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced | college campus | happy ending

2. The terms “playboy” and “heartbreaker” describe how the two act when they aren’t involved with anyone. Once they commit, they keep a proper distance from other people of the opposite sex.

3. Both leads are popular. The male lead has never dated before; the female lead has, with more than five exes, all of whom are sensible and don’t cause trouble for her. Also, please don’t assume that “both sexually inexperienced” means the heroine is saving herself for the hero! Please don’t think that! The story begins when she’s a college freshman, so she’s still quite young! (Assume no sex involving minors; kids should focus on their studies.)

4. If you don’t like the setup, please stop reading.

Theme: The meaning of meeting is to bring light to each other