A Guide to Smoothing Down a Bad-Tempered Beauty

Xia Yan comes from a wealthy family and has been spoiled since childhood. Headstrong and blunt, she never bothered to rein in her temper after entering the entertainment industry. If something displeased her, she would snap back without hesitation, making plenty of enemies and earning a terrible reputation in the business. Gu Nianzhu was born into a family of actors and began his career as a child star. Despite his young age, he has won countless awards. Gentle, humble, and never one to put on airs, he is an award-winning actor admired throughout the industry. The two were so far removed from each other’s worlds that everyone assumed they could never possibly know one another. Even if they did meet someday, surely they would take an instant dislike to each other. That is, until they appeared on the same variety show and were assigned to the same team Xia Yan complained that the bed was too hard, so Gu Nianzhu gave her his bedding and laid out a thicker mattress for her; Xia Yan complained that farm work was exhausting, so Gu Nianzhu took on all the chores and wouldn’t let her lift a finger; Xia Yan complained that the road was too rough, so Gu Nianzhu bent down, gave her a piggyback ride, and carried her home. … Netizens were flabbergasted: Has Award-Winning Actor Gu been possessed or what!?!? Reading guide: 1. A pampered beauty who’s quick to blow her top as the gong × a doting, gentle master of smoothing things over as the shou 2. Weak gong, strong shou. The shou indulges the gong in everything except in bed ( 3. One-on-one romance, happy ending, a short and sweet treat [Coming soon] "Hey, No Crying" - Why do you cry so much? - Cry again and I’ll kiss you. Clingy, spoiled crybaby × cold, taciturn, secretly flirtatious cool guy 1. Yunzhi moved with his remarried mother into a little courtyard at a villa in Nancheng. Next door lived a young man on his own named Shen Huaijin. He looked fierce and like someone you didn’t want to mess with. One afternoon, Yunzhi climbed a ladder to pick wild fruit from a tree. Through the wall, he saw Shen Huaijin sitting in the courtyard, looking up at him. Nervous under his gaze, Yunzhi stammered a little as he greeted him, his eyes turning red. Shen Huaijin merely gave him a cool glance and didn’t answer. 2. The next time Yunzhi spoke to Shen Huaijin was on a day of torrential rain. He’d forgotten his keys and was soaked through, sheltering from the rain beneath the villa’s narrow eaves. The cold rain had made him feverish. As his thoughts grew hazy and his consciousness blurred, Yunzhi heard a door open. Then a broad umbrella suddenly appeared overhead, blocking the rain, and a cool, toneless voice sounded beside him. “Come in.” Yunzhi looked up and met Shen Huaijin’s dark eyes. When he thanked him, his voice came out muffled, almost tearful. “…Thanks.” 3. Whenever Yunzhi saw Shen Huaijin, the other boy wore a cold expression. Yunzhi figured he probably disliked him, so when he learned that the perpetually empty seat beside him in his new class belonged to Shen Huaijin, he asked the teacher to move him elsewhere, not wanting to be a nuisance. That evening, after asking the teacher to change his seat, Yunzhi was stopped at the door by Shen Huaijin when he got home. “You don’t want to sit with me.” Shen Huaijin seemed angry. His cool features darkened, making him look even fiercer than usual. “Yunzhi, who do you want to sit with?” “Hm?” - Shen Huaijin had come from the Shen family in the capital to remote Nancheng for a brief stay. He was indifferent to everything around him, until A pretty, fair-skinned boy who cried easily moved in next door, and for some reason, the boy kept getting under his skin. Whenever the boy looked at him with those almond-shaped eyes, often rimmed with red, Shen Huaijin always thought he was about to cry. He cried so much, Shen Huaijin wanted nothing more than to shut him up with a kiss. Theme: Don’t get to know someone through other people’s words.