Golden Berlin

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Ning Jiu × Qiao Bolin | Cunning, sweet, and cool × aloof with a surprising side

*School to city | Goes crazy for love and steals her away | The aloof heartthrob turns dark and twisted

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1.

Because of her mother’s work, Ning Jiu moved to Jiangcheng with her father.

On her first day at her new school, a sudden commotion broke out outside the classroom. Following everyone’s gaze, she spotted a tall, upright boy in the hallway.

Bright eyes and white teeth, his lean waist outlined by the summer breeze, sunlight gilding his cheerful face.

He was turning down a girl’s gift, but a few gentle words left her looking touched and willing to walk away.

A new classmate sighed as if this were an everyday occurrence.

“Qiao Bolin. A genius guaranteed to get into Beijing University. His emotional defenses are rock-solid. No one could ever win him over.”

Suddenly, Ning Jiu recalled the name of the place her mother had mentioned on the phone that morning. The landmark and the boy’s name matched up perfectly

Both were irritating.

In the sudden silence, she couldn’t help speaking up, despite her usual talent for keeping up appearances.

“What’s the point of winning someone like that over? You’d need rules and regulations just to hold hands...”

Even sex would be like punching a time clock, at most once a week.

Before she could finish, she heard a faint laugh from behind her.

It was as gentle as a clear spring, yet made her heart itch.

2.

Everyone said someone like Qiao Bolin was fine to admire from a distance, but impossible to get close to.

But Ning Jiu had seen him countless times, undone with desire while she teased him.

At their graduation dinner after the college entrance exams, everyone was busy saying goodbye when they suddenly realized Qiao Bolin and Ning Jiu were gone.

Someone volunteered to go look for them, but left happily and came back in a panic.

Everyone hurried to ask what was wrong. He stammered, unable to stop thinking about what he’d just seen outside.

The usually gentle boy had desire smoldering in his eyes. Nearly out of control, he pinned the girl within inches of himself, his fingers teasing her snow-white skin until it flushed red.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to play with me?”

His voice was low and husky. “Why not play with me some more?”

Ning Jiu had been kissed until she was weak. She gently patted Qiao Bolin’s head, but her words were cold and merciless.

“I’m already bored of you.”

3.

Five years later, Ning Jiu accompanied her boyfriend to Germany for a conference. By chance, she heard that the investor behind the event was also there.

Her boyfriend had too much to drink and suddenly proposed on the spot. To avoid an awkward scene, Ning Jiu accepted for the time being.

The evening ball began, and once her boyfriend sobered up, he went looking for Ning Jiu but couldn’t find her anywhere.

On the top floor of the same building, a snow-skinned woman was pressed against a shower screen beaded with water. The shower drowned out the phone ringing again and again at the foot of the bed.

The man who supposedly needed rules and regulations just to hold hands had his fingers intertwined with those of a woman wearing an engagement ring.

“You’re so obedient with everyone else. Why are you so cruel to me?”

As steam billowed, Qiao Bolin kissed away the tear at the corner of her eye, never slowing down.

He showed her through his actions.

“Ning Jiu, I’m not hard to win over at all.”

“Just turn around and look at me once, and I’m yours.”

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*“I hope to be her luckiest fortune.” Eighteen-year-old Qiao Bolin wrote this while praying at Xuanyin Temple.

*“I had no color of my own. She gave me gold.” Twenty-eight-year-old Qiao Bolin wrote this in his vows.

Reader’s guide: One-on-one, both inexperienced and devoted to each other, no romance before adulthood.

·An unconventional school romance | Matched opponents × relentless testing

·There’s a reason behind “I’m already bored of you.” The boyfriend is only part of an arrangement, explained later.

·At the end of chapter 42, please read the author’s note. Comments hostile to the heroine will be moderated.

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Theme: Maintain a healthy outlook on love