If You Pick Up a Dog on the Subway, You Have to Take Responsibility

The heroine just wants to have fun x the hero only wants the heroine

1,

To ease her increasingly intense "work aversion," Xing Mu found herself a subway buddy: Tao Huaizhou.

He was tall and smelled good, with the air of someone pure and desireless (and not very capable).

From then on, they spent long stretches leaning against each other on subway cars packed like sardine cans. Sometimes they flirted verbally, too. The commute they loathed became comfortable and surprisingly entertaining.

Once off the subway, they worked like corporate drones in the same business district, acting like strangers.

2,

What had been a mutually willing arrangement changed without either of them noticing.

When Xing Mu flirted with her white moonlight, Tao Huaizhou disappeared on her. When he came back, he looked haggard, and his "I'm fine" sounded more than a little affected.

When Xing Mu decided to try things out with a young hottie, Tao Huaizhou butted in, yet he still bowed and scraped to her, leaving Xing Mu with no choice but to take out her anger on him.

3,

After a case of mistaken circumstances landed them in bed for three minutes, Tao Huaizhou asked Xing Mu to date him.

Xing Mu gently replied, "Date? We barely even talk. Our only connection is the commute."

In the end, Xing Mu sent him a cute little apology on WeChat: "Sowwy, quack."

Tao Huaizhou didn't know the pun in "sowwy, quack."

He thought Xing Mu meant, "Sorry, duck."

4,

Tao Huaizhou had never been anyone's golden boy.

Everything he had, he had earned through hard work.

So what was so hard about looking down on himself, using himself as bait, and burning his boats? He could just work twice as hard at it.

5,

Xing Mu had always been a good judge of character.

But this time, she got it wrong.

Tao Huaizhou was pure and desireless (and not very capable)? He was more than capable.

Reader's Guide:

1. First time for both, HE

2. The hero's firsts all belong to the heroine

3. The hero and heroine are cultured, well-mannered, and considerate of others, and behave appropriately in public.

Theme: Live bravely, love bravely