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Wild, roguish Shanghai playboy x sweet, innocent, obscure actress
Wolf-and-rabbit romance / extreme cat-and-mouse tension / physical intimacy first, love later / fake lovers trope
She saw Zhou Si again at a drinking party.
Targeted until she was at the center of a storm, Xia Mian stepped forward to toast him, her voice betraying a hint of unease: "Young Master Zhou, I raise a glass to you."
He glanced at her, seemingly uninterested.
Xia Mian breathed a sigh of relief. When the director privately asked about their relationship, she took the opportunity to deny it: "I'm not close to him."
After the conversation, in a secluded corner.
The man who had just been so cold toward her lifted a lock of her hair and breathed in its scent, letting out a roguish chuckle. "If we're not close after sleeping together, what would it take for us to be close?"
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Xia Mian was sweet and charming, but powerless and without connections, a sacrificial lamb in the entertainment industry.
Zhou Si was a notorious roguish playboy from Shanghai's high society.
When they met again, rain poured down in torrents.
Zhou Si carried Xia Mian, soaked from head to toe, into the car and murmured with amused interest:
"Why do you still look so pitiful?"
"Weren't you so carefree when you played with me before?"
Later, Xia Mian was truly afraid. His revenge in bed was too savage, and she couldn't take it. She begged through her tears, "Zhou Si, let me go."
Afterward, Zhou Si, who had been leaning by the balcony, walked over in a few strides.
He sucked on her lips and deliberately spoke harshly: "I haven't had enough. You can't leave."
"Cry louder," Zhou Si chuckled under his breath.
"Dudu, the harder you cry..."
"The more excited I get."
[Reading Notes]
* Both are sexually inexperienced and each other's first love / No characters are based on real people / A sweet, brainless old-school romance
* Most entertainment-industry details are fictional; the author is not an expert, and the career storyline is secondary
* Thanks to Miaomiao Xiang for the character cards
- "As It Turns Out" Blurb -
At Peking University's opening ceremony, student council president Xu Zhouye took the stage as an outstanding student representative. Dressed in a white shirt and black trousers, he had an elegant, refined, and distinguished air. Since enrolling, he had won countless awards at home and abroad, making him a universally acknowledged genius in the finance department.
Among the countless people gazing up at him below the stage was Jiang Shuyu.
Afterward, a girl asked her to deliver a love letter to the campus heartthrob, Xu.
His response was polite but distant: "Do you need something, classmate?"
That night.
"What should I do with these love letters?" she asked him, pretending not to care. "Do you want to read them?"
"I threw them all away." Xu Zhouye held her in his arms, a tender chuckle spilling beside her ear. "Aren't you jealous, girlfriend?"
*
Everyone knew that Xu Zhouye was a darling of the crowd, a heaven-blessed heir who could get away with anything on the strength of his good looks. Jiang Shuyu, meanwhile, came from a poor family and had a younger brother who was ill and needed money for his care year after year.
Though their lives seemed to have nothing in common, the two began a relationship so absurd it was almost unbelievable. Knowing that this beautiful dream could end at any moment, Jiang Shuyu still cherished it with all her heart, foolishly hoping she could be the exception.
Unfortunately, it ended soon. On the day of a torrential downpour, Jiang Shuyu brought a birthday gift she had made by hand to their private room, only to see Xu Zhouye casually playing with a lighter as he mocked her to his friends: "She's throwing herself at me. What's the point? I'm just fooling around with her."
*
Years later, Jiang Shuyu had become a top-tier star, a singer who had won countless awards. At the Starlight Ceremony, when asked about her love life, she answered calmly and without regret, making no attempt to hide the truth.
"I don't believe in marriage."
"When I was young, I made a mistake and loved someone with all my heart."
"Unfortunately, I loved the wrong person. I won't make that mistake again."
There was clearly no solution to this relationship.
After stepping offstage and walking down the corridor, she happened to pass Xu, the president of the Xu Group, whose company had invested in the awards ceremony. He pinned her against the wall and spoke with difficulty: "You lied, A-Yu."
She had clearly promised to love him for the rest of her life.
"Don't be so cruel to me."
"Even if I can only be your backup, that's fine. Let's take a chance on us one more time."
He solemnly placed her hand over his heart, which had been pierced by her words moments earlier and was now bleeding profusely. "This time, you can be the one who hurts me."
[Having drunk in the wind and snow, she will never make the same mistake again.]
[Every cruel word and deed with which he hurt her eventually became a boomerang that struck him instead.]
Reading Notes:
* Female lead: Once a gentle, down-and-out kitten; later a clear-eyed, mature beauty
* Male lead: Once coldhearted; later utterly devoted to her, a husband-material CEO
* Both are sexually inexperienced and each other's first love. The male lead is not a playboy. Happy ending.
* A mountain of fictional details. No characters are based on real people. A full-on groveling chase to win her back.
Theme: Persevere and strive for your dreams in the performing arts.
Isn't there a little baby extra?
Happy New Year, sweet teacher. I also wish my sister and Mr. Zhou a happy wedding 💪
At first, I had a really bad impression of Zhou Si, as he looked like a creature who ignored Jinjiang's warnings and only caught sleeping girls to vent his desires. After reading later, I learned that he was influenced by his native origin and learned extreme survival rules from his father, including despair and plunder. This influence is long-term and cannot be eliminated, so he has a very persistent and self-centered personality. His physical love for Mianmei has reached its peak emotionally, and he has slight separation anxiety and longs for Mianmei to be by his side at all times. With the setting of Mianmei, I initially felt that it weakened her too much? Her mother is a gambler, her father is unknown, and she is overly independent. She works while studying to support the family and pay off her mother's debts. She has a strong and easy-going personality. When dealing with emotional relationships, she tends to be somewhat avoidant and unworthy. She does not believe that anyone will love her or will always give her more recognition. Later, I gradually realized that it is not easy for a girl to study, be separated from her native place, and have a job that she likes and can provide food and clothing. It is not easy to realize some of these ideas, not to mention that she is in the entertainment industry, which is in dire straits. When she went to school, she told herself that if she studied hard, she would be rewarded. , After entering the work, you will find that all resources have already been marked with prices, and not all efforts will lead to the results you want. Therefore, you will be disappointed, and there will be realistic deviations from the theories taught by the teacher. Greed and evil will gradually be revealed. If you want to be alone and not be polluted, you need to use Zhou Si to pave the way for yourself. In the process of relying on each other and borrowing from each other, the two people unknowingly entered into their true feelings. Two people who lack love, before establishing a healthy relationship of love and being loved, the body's impulses and the dopamine secreted by the brain are attracted by each other's characteristics and have different thoughts, but rationality tells them that they cannot cross the boundary and cannot love, so Zhou Si's carefully prepared confession fell through, and Mianmei ran away when he let down his guard. Zhou Si came with unforgettable and unwilling anger. The chase scene lasted for nearly 2/3 before finally, after Zhou Si's accident, the two were able to express their feelings to each other. Zhou Si's love is to voluntarily contribute to Mianmei's career, to recruit resources for her and to provide her with stepping stones. His love is to help her move up the ladder. When Mianmei takes a step back, Zhou Si will take 100 steps forward. When Mianmei feels that her origin is in Abyss and wants to push Zhou Si away, Zhou Si will just kick open the door and hold Mianmei like a burglary, saying "Abyss girl, go to eat" the bandit lover. Mianmei's love nourished the broken roots of Zhou Si's childhood, and also nourished himself, leading a better self all the way up. The narrative ability is good, the development of the emotional line is also complete, and the character design is very attractive. If there is any flaw in this book, I would think that the foreshadowing of Mianmei's life experience is not handled well enough. Most of the words are placed on the emotional line between her and Zhou Si. Her background line has been blurred until it was almost finished, and then suddenly came to a strong perfection, such as If this was originally the setting, we could have put some smoke in the early part to create some suspense and be interesting, so that later on it wouldn't feel like we were rushing to squeeze in this plot, and then the supporting characters would look particularly tooly, as if they were deliberately released to catalyze their love, and finally it would end hastily and transition. As a first work, it is understandable that there are shortcomings. The whole article is generally light-hearted and pleasant. Chapter by chapter is more annoying than the chapter. I can't read a single word of the process... But I am still honored to accompany each other to accompany "Bite the Collar" to the end. This is the first milestone for Teacher Tian to write in Jinjiang. I wish you good luck with your future writing, and I wish you the best of luck in your next book! 😚
Oh, isn't the author going to write h-text? Hahahahaha 😳
Why are some places missing? 😂
"Star City has always been hotter than Pingcheng. Near the end of summer, the afternoon temperature is still nearly 40 degrees. The camphor trees on the roadside are sun-drenched and the leaves are drooping down, becoming an indispensable part of the lazy city scene in the afternoon." Catch a bug for the author~
Hee hee hee hee, that's great. Spread the flowers.
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