Bad Childhood Friend [Marriage Before Love]

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-- Blurb --

[Featured artist from a certain website X her private doctor]

[Money-loving, eccentric-minded, oblivious girl X scheming, clingy, gloomy man]

[SC/HE]

On the day Li Leshi married Wen Ting Shen under a contract, she didn't feel much of anything.

He was her childhood friend and the neighbor boy next door, after all. They knew each other inside out, and the contract only lasted a month.

The important thing was that he was handsome, paid well, and provided reference material for her art, so... why not?

On the night of their wedding, during her last single night, inspiration struck and she sketched a man in a suit, a little fan service--

The man in the picture had bangs falling over his eyes, looked refined and handsome, and had firm pectoral muscles that seemed ready to burst through his shirt.

The comments section was full of praise. Only one person kept insisting: The size is wrong.

Li Leshi almost laughed. She'd felt him up from head to toe, so how could it possibly be wrong?

Her second fan-service picture featured a black cat outfit, inspired by someone's bedhead that stuck up in the morning.

The comments section howled with delight, but that same person insisted again: The size is wrong.

The third fan-service picture featured a merman outfit, and that person said it again: The size is wrong.

This time, Li Leshi decided she wouldn't put up with it: What's wrong with it?

A few seconds later, someone knocked on the bedroom door.

"Want to come and measure it yourself?"

"It should be... a little bigger."

Li Leshi: ? Has his secret identity been exposed?

--

Wen Ting Shen was born with heterochromia, one of his eyes blue. Li Leshi had always thought he looked like an arrogant Persian cat.

But her friends thought he looked like a wolf, and one with a murderous glint in its eyes.

"He always knows where you are. Could he be keeping tabs on you?" her friend asked, puzzled.

Li Leshi was pondering the word "keeping tabs" when she turned around. The man stood beneath a streetlamp in a crisp, perfectly tailored shirt, his dark hair slightly damp. His cool, pale fingertip tapped the watch on his wrist.

"Time's up. Let's go home and..."

He swallowed the last word, coldly sweeping his gaze over the irrelevant people beside her.

Li Leshi cheerfully said goodbye to her friends and trotted over to the man. "Thanks for reminding me to [draw]. I might have to make a new bondage fan-service picture tonight, so I appreciate your help."

The man lowered his lashes and pressed his lips together. "It's not drawing."

"Then what are we doing?"

He whispered the word in her ear.

Li Leshi's legs went weak. "Didn't we do that last night?"

He smiled faintly. "But I've been waiting for you for fourteen years."

-- How could that possibly be enough?

Highlights:

1. This is not realistic fiction! This is not realistic fiction! This is not realistic fiction! The style may be a little unconventional.

2. The heroine is extremely money-loving, eccentric-minded, and oblivious. The hero competes and schemes for her, and is a calculating, two-faced, gloomy man.

3. The romance is a little slow to heat up. They don't get married at the beginning.

4. The second male lead will kiss the heroine, to set the stage for the hero to go berserk.

Next, a pre-release novel: "The 'Neighbor Girl' Is Actually a Gloomy Puppy?"

[Cool, aloof, tsundere heroine X scheming, gloomy man who disguises himself as a woman]

[Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is a virgin / Female lead is three years older]

1.

Qiao Miao suffers from insomnia. One night, unable to sleep, she video-calls her boyfriend on the balcony, always feeling as if a pair of eyes are watching her from the shadows.

Especially when the two of them are being lovey-dovey and whispering sweet nothings. That gaze seems to bore right through her. She suddenly turns around, but can only see the curtains on the neighboring balcony swaying.

When she tells her boyfriend, who has been in a long-distance relationship with her for two years, he thinks she's making a fuss over nothing. "Didn't you say the girl next door has a cat? Maybe it's just a cat."

She thinks he has a point.

Qiao Miao knows the girl next door, "Xie Zhiyue." They first met when Qiao Miao went downstairs to feed the cat during one of her sleepless nights. The girl had red lips, pearly white teeth, and shoulder-length black hair. A black ribbon was always tied around her neck. She was the very picture of a gloomy beauty.

The two met because of the cat, and after a few encounters, they became acquainted.

Just then, her boyfriend quietly asked, "Could you go back to your room, take off your clothes, and let me see you?"

Qiao Miao refused, feeling embarrassed.

Her boyfriend angrily ended the video call.

Qiao Miao felt a little regretful, unable to figure out why she was so cold. "Xie Zhiyue" thoughtfully recommended a female-oriented sleep-aid streamer to her.

-- On the livestream, there was a pair of men's hands, long and slender, with faint blue veins raised on the backs.

[Theme: Giving a tired girlfriend a massage to help her relax, from the inside out.]

Blushing, Qiao Miao listened to the whole thing, then had an embarrassing dream that very night...

2.

Qiao Miao listened to this sleep-aid streamer every night.

She thought she had developed desire in that regard, but when her boyfriend suddenly showed up as a surprise, she still felt nothing much.

When he suggested it, her first reaction was even to refuse.

-- Her boyfriend was less appealing to her than the girl next door.

Qiao Miao didn't understand what was happening to her. She had actually developed feelings for "Xie Zhiyue."

She didn't think she was particularly into hands, but whenever she saw "her" hands in black lace gloves, she felt an inexplicable restlessness.

She wanted to tear them off...

To keep herself from emotionally cheating, Qiao Miao instinctively kept her distance from "Xie Zhiyue."

But before long, a violent incident occurred next door. Seeing the injured "girl," Qiao Miao's heart ached, and she took "her" home.

Qiao Miao felt embarrassed, because "Xie Zhiyue" took such good care of her, tending to her every need.

As a result, her hidden feelings grew stronger and stronger.

She even began seeing things, often feeling a tall, dark figure stroking and kissing her in the middle of the night...

And she responded to her desires, giving herself to nights of passion.

3.

Qiao Miao had expected her boyfriend to cheat, because she too had developed feelings for someone else.

But she hadn't expected to see photos of "Xie Zhiyue" in her boyfriend's chat history.

Reeling from the double blow, that night Qiao Miao found a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted man with red lips and pearly white teeth, and spent a wild, intoxicating night with him.

During their encounter, his voice seemed a little familiar, but she was too drunk to think about it.

The next morning, still hungover, she grabbed her phone to transfer money to the man. Her gaze dropped to his clearly defined knuckles, and she suddenly understood...

Just as she was about to get out of bed, a damp, sticky finger suddenly clamped around her ankle.

The man emerged from beneath the covers, his ears bright red. In a sweet feminine voice, he said, "Big sister, do you like me this way?"

Qiao Miao's mind went blank. It was actually "Xie Zhiyue"!

Xie Zhixu stared into her eyes and took his finger into his mouth...

Highlights:

1. The hero is a very beautiful, androgynous man. He's exceptionally skilled at disguising himself as a woman and can change his voice, so the heroine can't tell.

2. This hero has little regard for morals. There will be cheating and stolen kisses, so don't read if that's not your thing.

3. The heroine is cool and tsundere. The hero seems aloof, but is actually very sensitive and shy. Just one touch from the heroine makes him hide in the shadows, blushing.

[Blurb revised on: 2025.5.9. I may revise it if I come up with anything fun, but the overall story won't change.]

Theme: Live life with optimism