A Carelessly Written Love Letter

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[Extreme perfectionist x laid-back free spirit] [Gentle, scheming gentleman x childish, lovestruck college girl]

Qin Yanxi had been feeling irritated lately. Every day without fail, another pink love letter appeared at the company reception.

The handwriting looked like a mudskipper crawling through dirt: crooked and utterly appalling.

It was giving him a real headache.

At last, he couldn't take it anymore. He asked his assistant to leave a handwriting practice book, along with a note: Miss, could you practice your handwriting first?

A month later.

The vanished pink love letters reappeared. The strokes were bold and free, like a wild horse galloping across the page.

Qin Yanxi narrowed his eyes and spent half an hour reading it. He understood a quarter of it.

After finishing, his obsessive-compulsive tendencies kicked in. He forced himself through the discomfort and corrected her typos, adjusted the phrasing, and fixed her misuse of idioms.

Gradually, the love letters Qin Yanxi received went from handwritten to printed, and grew longer and longer, from fifty words to five hundred thousand. The contents also became increasingly bizarre.

*

Yan Shu's roommate, Lu Mo, made a bet with her: if Yan Shu could win over Mr. Qin, Qin Yanxi, within two months, Lu Mo would buy her dinner for two years.

Yan Shu poured her heart into writing love letters, only to get a handwriting practice book and a note saying her handwriting was ugly.

Qin Yanxi wanted her to practice wild cursive?

Yan Shu spent another month working hard at it, growing so frustrated that she deliberately used the wrong characters and idioms, and wrote sentences that made no sense.

She never expected Qin Yanxi to correct every single mistake for her.

Wasn't this even better than AI proofreading?

Yan Shu thought of the publishing house her sister-in-law ran, which was struggling with slow progress because it didn't have enough proofreaders.

So she tried sending Qin Yanxi a manuscript.

On the seventh day, Yan Shu sent Qin Yanxi a 500,000-word melodramatic romance novel to proofread and left a message: "Big brother, you're amazing. Could you proofread this file for me? It's urgent, please please QAQ."

Qin Yanxi opened his computer and typed: What does "please please QAQ" mean?

*

During summer vacation, Yan Shu earned a lot of money proofreading manuscripts.

The day before classes began, Lu Mo sent Yan Shu a message on WeChat: "I bought you a clean duck. Only tonight, so come to my place right away."

Yan Shu arrived at the villa. A handsome, refined man opened the door. He had deep-set eyes, a straight nose, thin lips, and looked incredibly chaste in his white shirt. She felt like she'd seen him somewhere before.

Yan Shu had only one thought: I want to be with him, in different places, at different times...

So she took all the money she'd earned over the summer, blushed, and asked him, "Handsome, one night is too short. How about we make this a lifelong thing?"

Qin Yanxi: "?"

Lu Mo, who had come out of the kitchen holding a duck neck: "?"

Reading guide:

1. The male lead has excellent handwriting; the female lead's handwriting is a little rough.

2. Seven-year age gap. The female lead is a senior in college.

3. Both leads are virgins. Sweet, sweet, sweet romance. The female lead is physically attracted to the male lead.

4. Lu Mo and Qin Yanxi are siblings by blood.

5. Some details are fictionalized. The manuscripts sent for publication are novels already published on the market, and sometimes include readers' feedback. There's no risk of leaking confidential material.

Blurb completed on 2024.8.8, revised on 2025.5.25, screenshots saved.

Theme: Love life.