Don't Be So Stubborn

My next novels will be "Ten Years Like Daylight" and "A Rotten Heart."

As an adult, Ji Shiyuan had only two things on her mind: breaking off her engagement to Yue Heng, and getting the upper hand in her rivalry with Shen Que.

But before she could undo the engagement, she ended up in bed with Shen Que.

Ji Shiyuan chose threats over killing him to keep him quiet. Instead, Shen Que casually egged her on: "He can be a playboy. Why can't you have some fun with other men?"

After thinking it over, Ji Shiyuan decided he had a point.

They kept their relationship undefined for a while. She successfully broke off her engagement to Yue Heng, then turned around and got a marriage certificate with Shen Que.

After they married, she kept busy watching male-model shows at bars, while dutifully following the terms of their agreement by showing off a loving relationship that didn't exist. When people questioned her, she made one outrageous claim after another: "You know the phrase 'men at her beck and call'? That probably describes my Mr. Shen pretty well."

Shen Que happened to hear this. That night, he lifted her onto the bathroom counter. "Mrs. Shen, is this what you meant by a man at your beck and call?"

As his deep, resonant voice faded, he lifted the heavy folds of her skirt, and his handsome face disappeared from view.

All that remained was a tingling sensation, like an electric current coursing through her body.

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Shen Que and Ji Shiyuan had been at odds since childhood.

She couldn't stand his arrogance, and he was just as put off by her spoiled temperament.

But that didn't stop him from being obsessed with her, or wanting to make her his.

So he spent nearly ten years waiting for his chance and carefully putting his plan into action, until he finally got her onto a marriage certificate.

Drama queen x gentlemanly scoundrel / Long-planned pursuit / Both are virgins / Happy ending

---Upcoming novel: "Ten Years Like Daylight"---

Lin Ting had loved Pei Ji for ten whole years.

To her, he was the light sheen of sweat sticking to the nape of her neck on a sweltering summer night, an umbrella offered just in time in a torrential downpour, and the culprit behind the butterflies that kept throwing her into disarray.

She was always unconsciously trying to take something from him, sometimes his attention, sometimes the sleeve of his school uniform.

Later, all of it became a beautiful but unattainable dream from her youth.

Ten years later, fate brought Lin Ting and Pei Ji together again.

Someone mentioned her, but he looked confused and asked, "Who's Lin Ting?"

Her heart pounded. She came back to herself as if waking from a dream.

By chance, after that day they kept crossing paths more and more.

She told herself she saw him as an ordinary friend, but his smiling gaze always made her lose her resolve.

It turned out that people you slowly forget with time are impossible to forget when you see them again.

At dawn on the day she decided to let go for good, cold seawater spread over her feet, making the warmth around her wrist all the more vivid.

She turned her head.

The hazy yellow light gradually widened, deepening into a brilliant red that illuminated his dark eyes.

"Lin Ting."

Pei Ji gazed steadily at her, his voice low. "This time, I'll be the one to hold on to you."

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To Pei Ji, Lin Ting had been nothing more than the desk mate he'd never met during his first year of high school, when he was recovering at home, and a stranger he'd only seen a few times after they were put in different classes.

One day, ten years later, he accidentally discovered that she'd saved his name on WeChat as "No Man's Land." He immediately thought of Eason Chan's song:

"The worst crime in this world is falling in love too easily."

It wasn't until he went through his high school photos that he noticed the same person in the corner of nearly every picture, looking in his direction.

The veiled, aching gaze made his chest burn. Only then did he understand what "No Man's Land" meant.

-In a world no one knows about, I love you most.

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Lin Ting's secret love began in early summer, ended in midsummer, and spanned several years.

On the day of the first snowfall, Pei Ji gave her a grand confession of love.

[Gentle heroine x brash, roguish hero | End-of-life care worker x down-on-his-luck race car driver]

Theme: Be brave and pursue love