After I Hit on My Crush’s Crush

The thing Qiu Huishan regrets most in her life is taking one extra look at Jiang Yu during the school anniversary gala. After that, rumors linked them for three years, and the whole school knew Jiang Yu was her dream guy.

She was even mocked in public by Lu Anran, Jiang Yu's secret crush and the girl he had always held in his heart: "I don't want him, and you don't deserve him either."

Fine. You win.

In that case, don't blame her for setting her sights on someone else.

Shen Yanzhi, a famous alumnus and a rising star in the business world, was also said to be the crush Lu Anran kept tucked away in her heart, too afraid to make a move.

If she won him over, she'd come out ahead. If she made Lu Anran furious, all the better.

Qiu Huishan put her whole heart into it. Their chance encounters had to feel natural, her glances had to be restrained, and she even had to time her social media posts for three in the morning, when he couldn't sleep!

But as she kept trying to reel him in, things started to feel off.

Why was he playing along even better than she was?

She pretended to run into him, and he showed up in person.

While she was still figuring out her next move, he had already opened his household registration booklet and handed it to her.

Qiu Huishan: "Senior Shen, have you misunderstood something?"

Shen Yanzhi: "You're pursuing me, and I'm playing along. What's the problem?"

Qiu Huishan was dumbfounded.

Wasn't this supposed to be a revenge story? How did it turn into a mutual love story?

Later, at a banquet, Lu Anran watched the two of them with their fingers interlaced, her face turning green. "You did that on purpose?"

Shen Yanzhi replied calmly, "No. I've been plotting this for a long time."

Qiu Huishan: ??

So, which one of them actually seduced the other?

[Reading Guide]

1. She thinks she's getting revenge and giving someone a taste of their own medicine, but she's actually walking right into his trap.

2. From the male lead's perspective: Thank you, Ms. Lu Anran. Otherwise, how would I have gotten the chance to wait for her to make the first move?

3. "About Pursuing My Wife, Only to Discover She Made the First Move"

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

4. A short-to-medium-length story of 100,000 Chinese characters. Add it to your collection if you like it!

---Dear readers passing by, please add my new novel, "Chase Away Your Bad Weather," to your collection.

"If your life is an endless rainy season,"

"then I'll chase away all your bad weather."

In the second semester of her first year of high school, a well-connected transfer student joined the class.

Jiang Rang was a handsome delinquent who skipped class every day to hang out at internet cafes.

Sang Yu thought she would never have anything to do with him.

Until one day, Jiang Rang joked with the homeroom teacher, "Find me a well-behaved deskmate who's good at studying, and maybe I'll turn over a new leaf."

And just like that, the class clown became her deskmate.

The turning point came the day Jiang Rang saw Sang Yu secretly crying.

"Do you know what my name means?" Sang Yu sobbed quietly. "The 'Yu' in my name means 'extra' and 'unneeded.'"

Jiang Rang had long since shed his delinquent label and become the most talked-about young star in their school.

But Sang Yu saw a serious, cautious expression on his face. "No. It's the 'Yu' in the line, 'Do not lament that it is late in the mulberry tree's shadow; the sunset clouds still fill the sky.'"

Theme: Love others, but love yourself more.