Not Close [A Long-Game Scheme]

Radiant beauty x refined scoundrel | masochist | long-planned seduction | friends with benefits to lovers

A class reunion after seven years apart

Cui Heting said flatly that it was a pain to be there. Shen Nianzhu snapped at him to get lost.

A friend asked, "You two have hated each other since high school. Haven't you made up after all these years?"

Shen Nianzhu lowered her eyes, her expression unchanged. "I don't know."

"I'm not close to him."

But what they didn't know was that

just the night before, Shen Nianzhu had been sprawled in the man's arms, still slick with sweat, the sheets soaked through.

She had left a bite mark on his Adam's apple. He bent down and bit hard into the center of her lower lip, his voice hoarse and suggestive:

"Done crying?"

"Let's go again."

*

Shen Nianzhu had disliked Cui Heting since high school, thinking he was such a poser.

Unexpectedly, one accidental encounter as adults turned them into the most familiar strangers.

He would send her onto the brightest runway, with her favorite flowers blooming beneath it.

Yet, no matter how passionate their nights were,

in front of other people, his gaze was always distant and indifferent.

Everyone said Cui Heting came from an illustrious family, and the woman worthy of him had to be a proper young lady,

never an actress who put herself on public display.

Shen Nianzhu had never taken their relationship seriously, either.

But the night she said they should part, rain poured down in torrents.

The man knelt in submission at her feet, bowing his noble head. His eyes were bloodshot, his voice low and hoarse as he pleaded:

"Shen Nianzhu, can friends with benefits become something more?"

"Even if not, that's fine, as long as you keep using me and playing with me."

"My body and my heart are yours to do with as you please."

*

From his youth onward, Cui Heting had always been out of reach to everyone.

No one knew that he had a girl hidden in his heart, and had fallen for her hopelessly at first sight.

He secretly loved her for seven years, becoming a masochist for love;

he loved being insulted and used by her;

he was perfectly happy pretending they didn't know each other in public.

Again and again, night after night.

Until his warmth and the strength of his touch were branded deep in her heart,

until his was the only name she could say in her soft voice.

Well, now they're really close.

[Bonus Scene]:

Shen Nianzhu (at the end of her patience) (slaps him)

Cui Heting: That felt so good. Please, reward me again.

P.S.:

1. The heroine's perspective: friends with benefits; the hero's perspective: a long-planned seduction, friends with benefits to lovers, and becoming a masochist for love.

2. One-on-one, both leads are each other's first.

3. Reader comments are open. Add the novel to your favorites to leave comments.

4. Updates follow the rankings before signing, then 6,000 words daily after signing.

The main story is expected to conclude in February. The next novel, Tonight, There's Snow, will begin at the same time. The male leads of the two novels are biological brothers, and the books are companion stories in the same series~

Tonight, There's Snow [Marriage Before Love]: Marriage by contract | Six-year age gap | The powerful one bends | The hero falls first

I'm begging my dear readers to please take a moment to add it to your favorites. If it doesn't get enough pre-saves, it won't be able to rank when it comes out (/_\). Without exposure, it'll be very hard to write (˘•灬•˘), and in the worst case, the story might have to end abruptly ╭(°A°`)╮ (Sobbing!)

I sincerely hope you'll add it to your favorites, so I can get a good ranking when I launch the next book without all the stress. Please, I'm begging you ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ

Bonus scene:

When they first got married, Cui Chenyu would pull out when the time was up, even if his desire hadn't yet subsided.

Later, he couldn't get enough. Wiping the tears from the corners of Qi Mian's eyes, he said,

"Why are you crying? Didn't you swallow it all?"

"Relax. You're too tight right now."

Theme: Love is written in the stars