Not Fierce

Before: a short fuse who stays single on sheer merit. After: a sweet girl who knows how to flirt and dote on her man

Before: cool and aloof, like a chrysanthemum, and oblivious to her own flirting. After: a slightly goofy, tsundere househusband

[Older Man/Younger Woman] [Three-Year Age Gap] [Female Lead Dotes on Male Lead] [Both Hide Their Identities]

1.

Wan Gege, a driving school owner, is super sweet, flirtatious, and great at pampering people.

Before starting her own business while still feeling lost, she decided to learn to drive. After getting inspiration from a driving instructor who yelled at her, she opened a driving school where instructors don't yell.

Learning to drive is infuriating. Every day, she wants to fight back: What is wrong with these instructors? They're all like raging bulls. Do they not know how to teach without yelling?

Learning to drive is fun, too. It's honestly hilarious: Hey, I heard that handsome guy failed the road test four times. Did the instructor yell him stupid?

Liu Qi, a seasoned professional well past his prime, has failed the road test four times. Head bowed, he questions his whole life: Maybe I really am stupid.

A gorgeous, bright-eyed hunk says he's stupid? Wan Gege rushes to comfort him: It's okay, it's okay, it'll be okay.

2.

Liu Qi, owner of a counseling studio, an older man who's a little goofy (no, wait), cool and adorable in an innocent sort of way (and maybe a little sexy?).

At thirty, he's got plenty of reasons to laugh: first he hits a wall learning to drive, then his career takes a blow.

He hears that psychologists are less useful than fortune-tellers?

A client who stood him up: Um, I think I'd be better off finding a shaman.

Online comments: Not to praise or bash, but this is one of the ten most terrible industries. Psychologists are definitely in the top three.

Forget it. Maybe he should close up shop and switch careers.

Just then, a female client messages him: Mr. Liu, all my employees are on strike. Can you talk them into coming back?

[Bonus Scenes]

1.

The moment they both discover each other's true identities.

Wan Gege is so shocked she can barely speak: “You! You! You're that tsundere old man in his fifties?!”

Liu Qi remains calm. After a long pause, he says, “Maybe we should talk about the white moonlight you said you'd ‘never forget for the rest of your life.’”

2.

When they barely know each other, Liu Qi gets yelled at while learning to drive.

Wan Gege: “He yelled at you, bro. I'll yell right back at him for you!”

Liu Qi, coolly: “No need.”

When they're happily in love, Liu Qi gets yelled at while driving.

Liu Qi: “Honey, give me a hug. Yell back at him for me.”

Wan Gege: “Sure! %@#%￥#...”

Reading Guide:

1. Sweet romance, one-on-one, happy ending.

2. The female lead is a good driver. The male lead really is a bit bad at it (and rarely drives after getting his license, because safety comes first), but that doesn't make him any less handsome!

Coming Soon: Unfamiliar [Marriage Before Love]

A cool, man-averse female lead x an emotionally detached, paternal male lead

Part-time graduate student (web novelist) x university professor (reader)

[Marriage Before Love] [Teacher and Student] [Hidden Identities Revealed] [Mutual Healing]

1.

The first twenty-five years of Cheng Yin's life can be summed up in one sentence:

A leech of a father, a crazy mother, a psycho little brother, and her, the poor girl stuck with them.

On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, her parents and brother forced her to marry a man she had never met.

With red eyes, she looked at two men and one mentally unstable man, and grew even more man-averse.

After the wedding, she worked herself to the bone to pay off the enormous bride price.

When people ask about her professor husband, who's seven years older, Cheng Yin's face turns gloomy: “We're not close.”

2.

After witnessing his mother's death in a car accident at age five, Lu Jihan never smiled or cried again.

At thirty-two, with no change in his feelings, he accepted the wedding his dying father had arranged.

Who she was didn't matter to him. He just wanted his quiet life left undisturbed.

After the wedding, he often went several days without seeing Cheng Yin at home.

But every so often, he spotted a vaguely familiar figure in one of his classes.

When a colleague asked about it, he shook his head: “We're not close.”

3.

Cheng Yin works at a design company while pursuing a graduate degree part-time.

The pressure gets to be too much, so she starts writing novels late at night when no one's around to vent her feelings.

There's only one theme: use men, then dump them.

One day, she gains a loyal reader.

His comments are a little strange. Every chapter gets the same response: “Heh.”

But at least he keeps generously showering her with cash, so Cheng Yin replies every day: “Kisses, sis.”

Until one day, when they meet in person, Cheng Yin stares at this male “sister” and is dumbfounded.

Theme: Enjoy learning to drive, and don't worry about going to the doctor.