My Gloomy Childhood Friend Won't Leave Me Alone

Please, little angels, add my upcoming novels The Mermaid's Guide to Domestication and Her Lies, a groveling-after-the-breakup story, to your reading lists. Their blurbs are below. Here's this novel's blurb ^_^

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A pure-hate warrior x a gloomy little dog who can't express himself

Jiang Yueming broke her leg.

The good news: someone was there to care for her, and care for her meticulously.

The bad news: that someone was her lifelong nemesis.

Sometimes Jiang Yueming thought that without Dong Xingyu, her life would be a little easier than it was now.

Her nemesis had always excelled both in academics and conduct, and was disciplined and steady. Her elders adored her. In every sense, she was the perfect child everyone else had.

Whenever Dong Xingyu's name came up in Jiang Yueming's home, she had to make excuses (cross that out) and argue with everyone to keep a storm from brewing.

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Then one day, she came across her nemesis's diary.

Its messy handwriting filled the pages with her name and declarations of love for her.

"My moon."

From that day on, Jiang Yueming found herself caring more and more about Dong Xingyu.

Actually... her nemesis was pretty great, too.

She smells so good.

---- Her Lies

As the Gu family's heiress, Gu Yiru had always been arrogant, spoiled, and willful. When she was seventeen, she acquired two secrets.

She wasn't the biological heiress.

She wanted to make the real heiress unable to live without her.

The real heiress was Qiao Songyan, the impoverished girl who stubbornly held on to the number-one spot in their grade.

Gu Yiru knew she couldn't take hardship, so she came up with a terrible plan:

Gu Yiru made a big show of moving into the dorms and applied to share a room with Qiao Songyan, claiming it was so she could learn from the top student.

They belonged to two different worlds.

Until Gu Yiru deliberately drew close to her.

"Qiao Songyan, I'm sleeping with you tonight."

"Qiao Songyan, let's go eat together."

Even though Gu Yiru thought she'd fussed over her and cared for her to the point of being utterly attentive, Qiao Songyan remained as cold as ever.

Until Gu Yiru gave her a clumsily hand-knitted scarf.

Qiao Songyan finally began to soften.

When Gu Yiru went to sleep with Qiao Songyan again, the two of them squeezed onto a narrow single bed in the winter. It seemed everything changed after Qiao Songyan's shy kiss.

"Gu Yiru, don't leave me."

As Gu Yiru was kissed breathless, she thought,

She really had managed to make Qiao Songyan unable to live without her.

The truth about the real and fake heiresses came out.

Gu Yiru left Beicheng.

She couldn't face Qiao Songyan or anything else that remained, so she chose to run away.

Years later, after all that time apart, they met again.

Qiao Songyan, so cold in front of other people, caught Gu Yiru by the wrist after the event. In the narrow stairwell, under the dim yellow light, her eyes were red at the corners as she held Gu Yiru's chin.

Their breaths mingled, and the distance between them was as close as it had been back then. "Gu Yiru, you've been naughty."

Blurb dated August 4, 2025

---- The Mermaid's Guide to Domestication

In 2199, Planet X01 was severely polluted, and humanity initiated a migration plan.

On this lonely, forgotten planet, Weixi was the only marine biologist.

On her first day on the job, she found a stranded mermaid on the beach.

The mermaid's hair was dry and brittle, her frame thin, and her scales sharp. If she hadn't fainted from hunger, she would have been quite dangerous.

She was nothing like the graceful, beautiful, bewitching creature described in the records.

Still, Weixi took her back to the research institute.

Some deep-sea creatures lie low and act weak when pursuing prey if they aren't strong enough. The mermaid was clearly well versed in this tactic.

She was fragile and innocent, but her occasional, unconvincing acting still revealed how disgruntled she was.

Weixi thought this mermaid was rather cute.

At mealtimes, she didn't like vegetables, but she still ate everything while smacking her tail fin loudly.

The mermaid didn't like wearing human clothes. After Weixi dressed her up beautifully, she would secretly remove the accessories.

When Weixi refused her request to sleep together in the sea, she quietly brought over an innocent-looking clam shell and badmouthed Weixi to it.

At last, the mermaid was raised into a healthy young woman.

Her long hair flowed like seaweed, her features were striking, her muscles were well defined, and she was full of strength. Even her scales gleamed like mother-of-pearl.

By the shore,

she presented Weixi with a mermaid's tear.

"This stands for a lifetime of loyalty and love."

Blurb dated July 17, 2025

Theme: Striving toward a beautiful future