Dyed Gardenia [Childhood Sweethearts]

My next book, Thirsty Fish, is coming up. Please add it to your collection!

[Tsundere, straightforward girl x gentle, seductive guy]

[Childhood friends | Mortal enemies | Both each other's first and only | College campus]

In this absurd, empty world, I only want to claim you.

1.

You Zhi has a sweet, soft first-love kind of face, yet she chose veterinary medicine and is determined to become a veterinarian. She spends her days with animals and has no interest in human romance. Her motto is that the strategist stays off the battlefield, and watching other people fall in love is much more fun.

After successfully helping two roommates find partners, the third roommate got a crush, too.

You Zhi brought out her tried-and-true formula:

Go straight in with a confession, dropping two bombs right off the bat.

But the other person turned her down, saying they preferred to let love grow slowly.

You Zhi: ...Fine, so that's how we're playing?

She took things slow, serving up cheesy pickup lines, flirty tension, and playing hard to get;

At the same time, she infiltrated the enemy camp, added the other person's strategist on WeChat, and sought a win-win partnership.

After several rounds of intense push and pull, she finally unlocked the achievement: “The other person is lovestruck.”

You Zhi smiled with satisfaction. “Just a little crush. Easy.”

She didn't notice she had already been reeled in herself.

2.

As the only person in their dorm with “dating experience,”

Lin Jinran is a gentle, top-ranking academic and top-tier star on campus, with countless fans. But even he can't escape being recruited into the strategist team.

He helps the dorm's straight guys chat with their crushes.

At first, Lin Jinran refuses.

Until he unexpectedly realizes the girl on the other end might be his mortal enemy, the one who blew him kisses one moment and ruthlessly dumped him the next?

3.

You Zhi and Lin Jinran have been at each other's throats since childhood. They've made up twice and fallen out twice.

Neither of them ever thought they might feel anything for each other besides hatred.

Until one day, everyone in Lin Jinran's dorm accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms. The others were all out of it, but the young man wrapped an arm around her waist, his peach-blossom eyes burning with a dark heat she'd never seen before.

“Cheesy pickup lines, flirtatious push and pull, playing hard to get. You taught me all these ways to pursue someone... Youyou, how can you flirt with me and then run away?”

It turned out that at the end of hatred was love.

#IRevealedMySecretIdentityAfterEatingPoisonousMushrooms

#MyRoommatesCrushsStrategistIsMyMortalEnemy :)

#WearingSomeoneElsesSecretIdentityWhileDatingForReal

[Bonus scene]

One night, after they got together.

After kissing, You Zhi leaned against Lin Jinran's chest, breathing softly.

The boy's clear, teasing voice sounded above her head. “We used to fight every time we met, a battle of words. Now we still have a battle every time we meet, a battle of lips...”

You Zhi silenced the rest with a kiss.

The hatred was fake. The misunderstanding was real.

Two strategists scheme and flirt with each other.

**Reader's guide:

1. The romance is a slow burn. At first, they fight like crazy. Later, they fall in love like mad.

2. The male lead has a subtle hidden tendency toward being a gentle but obsessive madman, and is extremely possessive.

3. This is not a traditional childhood-friends romance, with the mortal-enemy aspect taking up half the story. Later, you'll be glad it was you who grew up by my side.

4. Important: Mushroom poisoning damages the nervous system and can be life-threatening in severe cases. Please be sensible when eating mushrooms, especially wild mushrooms you pick yourself. Don't eat any you can't identify!

Thirsty Fish blurb

[Stealing someone's partner / skin hunger syndrome / strangers in public, crossing boundaries in private]

1.

Xu Zhiyu is alluring and sensuous, with skin as white as snow. Yet she is laid-back, low-key, gentle, and kind. The only thing everyone knows about her is that she's dating a delinquent, handsome campus heartthrob.

Ying Wuqi is her boyfriend's cold roommate, another campus heartthrob. He's the aloof, untouchable star of F University, with a prominent family background and a string of honors. He has gone four years at college without a single rumor about his love life.

No one thought they would ever have anything to do with each other.

Xu Zhiyu thought so, too, especially since he disliked her. Until she was dumped and heartbroken, and, while on a trip, got drunk at a bar and accidentally got involved with this ice-cold academic who kept women at arm's length, in an unfamiliar place.

Afterward, once she'd sobered up, she tried to run away with aching hips and weak legs.

The other man's knobby fingers, the bones clearly defined, caught her ankle, mottled with kiss marks. His hot breath drew close. “Want to get back at him? ...Try being with me.”

As if possessed, she gazed at him with red-rimmed, damp eyes and asked softly, “You... why?”

He fell silent for a moment.

With lowered eyes and a cold expression, he stroked her slender, trembling ankle. “Have you heard of skin hunger syndrome?”

Xu Zhiyu accepted his presence in her life.

2.

Later, Ying Wuqi became more and more uninhibited.

The classroom, the cafeteria, the stairwell... everywhere became a place for him to cuddle and kiss her, and Xu Zhiyu gradually found him impossible to fend off. Until graduation night, when they kissed backstage in an empty venue and her ex, holding flowers and asking to get back together, caught them.

Best friends turned against each other over her.

The whole campus was in an uproar.

The most laid-back good girl in the medical school had actually won over both campus heartthrobs.

Xu Zhiyu was forced into the spotlight. What had supposedly been revenge had long since changed into something else. For the first time, she went looking for Ying Wuqi, who was addicted to sex but had no feelings for her, intending to end this absurd affair.

But she couldn't find him.

Instead, she broke into the top floor of a villa whose door had always been kept locked.

She was caught completely off guard by the sight of her photos covering all four walls, and mirror after mirror on the floor, densely carved with her name. The room seemed to exude an almost overwhelming intensity of obsession and madness.

Xu Zhiyu turned back in terror, her legs going weak, only to meet a pair of dark, burning eyes.

The man, usually cold and taciturn, leaned against the doorframe, the corner of his mouth lifting in a strangely incongruous smile. “So you found out... Yuyu.”

Xu Zhiyu: “...” Help.

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“Somewhere no one knows, someone is loving you in their own way.”

A laid-back college student studying traditional Chinese medicine x a cold, skin-hungry ghost of a man

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