The Other Person Retracted a Confession

[The novel is complete.]

[The neighboring novel, The Little Plum Blossom I Keep to Myself, is now available. Its synopsis is below. Please add it to your favorites~]

A timid troublemaker heroine X a devoted, scheming hero, a sweet second-chance romance

Synopsis:

1.

When working part-time at a convenience store, Chi Nianwan met Shi Yubai for the first time.

Looking at a face too beautiful for words, Chi Nianwan, who cared most about looks, could only think to herself how wonderful it would be to date Shi Yubai.

Later, at a gathering with her roommates, Chi Nianwan got drunk, saw Shi Yubai, boldly flirted with him, and said everything on her mind.

The next morning, her roommates forced her to remember what she had done and told her she'd even gotten herself a boyfriend.

Chi Nianwan thought they were pranking her, until she saw the 500-character message she'd sent Shi Yubai on WeChat. She nearly cried as she picked up her phone, edited it again and again, and finally sent him one line.

[The other person unsent last night's confession.]

To her surprise, Shi Yubai replied quickly.

[It's been more than three minutes. Too late.]

2.

To save a factory on the brink of closing, Chi Nianwan searched everywhere for partners. In the end, someone got her in touch with a famous investor in the industry.

Before going, Chi Nianwan did her homework. The investor was decisive and ruthless, and would terminate a partnership over the slightest thing not going his way.

Chi Nianwan kept the word "smoothly" in mind, but froze the instant she pushed open the door.

Shi Yubai stood by the window in a black suit. Hearing the commotion, he lazily raised his eyes to look at her, his every movement carefree yet refined.

Reunited with her ex, Chi Nianwan forgot every opening line she'd prepared.

The two of them remained locked in an awkward standoff.

Someone else broke the tension, joking that they knew each other.

Shi Yubai replied in an indifferent voice, "I don't know her."

Chi Nianwan was about to object when the word "smoothly" suddenly popped into her head. She hurriedly changed her tune and nodded enthusiastically. "That's right. We don't know each other."

After the banquet, Chi Nianwan found her way blocked.

She looked at Shi Yubai's dark, tipsy eyes, and immediately sensed danger. Clutching the hem of her clothes, she said cautiously, "You're the one who said we didn't know each other."

If he hadn't seen what she was really like, Shi Yubai might have been fooled by the girl in front of him, head bowed as she pretended to be meek. He folded his arms and gave a cold laugh. "Back then, when I said I wouldn't break up with you, why weren't you as obedient as you are today?"

A timid, troublemaking, slow-to-catch-on beauty enthusiast heroine

VS

A devoted, scheming hero with plenty of tricks up his sleeve

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only partners, happy ending.

2. A sweet little winter romance. The first part takes place on campus, then the story moves to the city, where most of it takes place.

3. Inspired by an idea found online~

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[A naive, eccentric heroine X a handsome, rebellious hero]

1.

In the summer of her second year of high school, Jiang Zhining transferred back to Mocheng and moved in with her mother's best friend. It was the first time she'd seen Chen Xunyan again since she was six.

In the noisy hallway, sunlight fell through a gap onto his tousled black hair. Chen Xunyan stood outside in a white school uniform shirt, idly playing with a black beaded bracelet.

When she passed him after completing her enrollment, he merely raised his tired eyes for a glance, then casually went on talking to someone else.

She thought they would treat each other like strangers at school until graduation.

But during a fitness test, she twisted her ankle from running too fast. Chen Xunyan saw her, dropped the stopwatch in his hand, bent down, and picked her up.

Jiang Zhining was at a loss as she glanced around at the curious looks. A blush spread across her cheeks. Trying to keep her breathing steady, she said with forced distance, "Thank you, Chen."

Chen Xunyan didn't answer. As he carried her through the crowd toward the infirmary, he crunched the green plum candy in his mouth, looked at her, and grinned. "Jiang Zhining, you were helping me with homework last night. Why are you acting like we don't know each other today?"

2.

Five years later, they met again. By chance, they ended up living in the same house. While unpacking, Jiang Zhining happened to find round-trip plane tickets tucked inside one of Chen Xunyan's high school textbooks.

She suddenly realized that Chen Xunyan had never missed a single important occasion in her life.

At last, the slow-to-understand Jiang Zhining realized how she felt and decided to make the first move. After that, she was always flirting with him, intentionally or otherwise.

Seeing her eager advances, Chen Xunyan leaned against the doorframe in his loungewear, lazily lifting his eyes. "Even rabbits don't eat the grass by their burrows."

Jiang Zhining put down what she was holding and looked straight into his dark eyes. Her red lips curved into a bright smile. "Then I'll eat it twice."

[You've always been my childhood sweetheart, my unexpected love, and everything I see.]

Theme: Be the protagonist of your own life