The Bad Woman Beneath the Blue Gum Tree

HE / six-year age gap / many female characters / wealthy-family secrets

A devoted, aloof brand founder & a flirtatious, dance-loving heiress shrouded in mystery

1. Wen Aiye: If you've got the nerve to flirt with me, don't run away afterward.

With a face that naturally seemed distant, she looked at everyone with indifference.

At seventeen, she accidentally stumbled into a woman's arms.

That woman was soft as the downiest part of a bird's belly.

Perhaps it was then that Aiye fell under her spell.

In all those moments when she didn't know,

Lingyan kissed the bandages wrapped around her wounds and held her trembling shoulders when she woke from nightmares.

But Lingyan had lied to her...

When they met again years later, Lingyan was the heir to a wealthy family.

Inside a luxury car worth a fortune,

Aiye cornered her against the car door and used her teeth to open the collar of Lingyan's perfectly buttoned shirt.

Her face was still so coolly alluring

as she forced Lingyan to ask, "You don't mind doing it here, do you?"

After their heated entanglement,

Lingyan held her in her arms, resting her chin against Aiye's hair and nuzzling it,

as if cherishing a lover.

But Aiye caught her by the arm and pushed her away.

With a faintly teasing smile, she said, "What? Have you fallen for me?"

At a business banquet, Aiye naturally made the rounds among wealthy women, chatting and laughing.

Just as she was about to have a more in-depth discussion with one of them, Lingyan's assistant dragged her away.

Lingyan slapped a card full of money against her chest. "Want money? Why go to them?"

Aiye: "…" Her face remained indifferent, but inwardly she was delighted.

2. Lingyan: The dance-loving older sister

On the road out of Cang Town, she wondered, Was everything really ending here?

She wanted so badly to tell the driver to stop,

so she could take a good bite out of the young woman chasing after her on a bicycle.

Perhaps the story between her and Aiye could only remain in this faraway little town.

Until one day, Aiye rushed into the building and called her name: "Lingyan!"

Her little girl had come back.

Later, in a somewhat cramped design studio,

Lingyan lay limp against her, closing her eyes with a helpless look

as she listened to Aiye whisper some very indecent things in her ear.

The flush at her collarbone took a long time to fade...

[Note: The female leads only begin a romantic relationship after they are adults.]

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"Transmigrate to the 1980s and Steal a Wedding"

A nonsensical, pretend goody-two-shoes & a violinist, alluring on the outside and distant within

Don't fall in love & a pretend straight girl who tests the waters at every turn

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Completed novel: The Joy in Love Letters, welcome to read

A sharp-tongued young boss, scorched by love and hate & an outwardly proud, secretly seductive top-tier star artist

Blurb: [A Love of Bitter Longing]

Jiang Nianli is the beloved goddess of the art world, blessed with breathtaking beauty.

Her innate air of pride makes her seem to look down on the mortal world from above the clouds.

People don't know what the goddess wants in private. She wants to bite a girl.

That girl is covered in thorns and has become an addiction she can't quit.

Ming Xi is a tough girl who rules the roost in her small town, doing things her own way and never giving an inch.

She grows wildly like a weed, keeping everyone in line with her brazen attitude.

She never expected Jiang Nianli to flirt her carefully cultivated image into pieces.

That woman seems haughty, but privately appears to have some particular tastes.

Besides constantly bossing her around, she also kisses her for no reason.

Unable to take it anymore, Ming Xi demands that she return those kisses,

but Jiang Nianli catches her wandering hand. "Kisses are all you get. Nothing else."

The day Jiang Nianli left, Ming Xi kept her love letter in her pocket and never took it out.

Later, she understood: that woman had approached her from the start to use her.

One is a weed, struggling to survive in the muddy streets,

while the other is a bright moon, high in the sky and admired by all.

Between her and Jiang Nianli lay mountains and rivers without end.

Years later, when they meet again, Ming Xi is set on revenge.

One day, she forces Jiang Nianli to ask, "Has anyone ever been here?"

Jiang Nianli is flushed all over, too soft to put up a fight.

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Jiang Nianli was born into a well-off family,

but an accident sent her plummeting to rock bottom, along with the career she had only just begun to build.

Her days with Ming Xi felt like she'd boarded a pirate ship.

The girl was sweet one moment and difficult the next, always finding her way to Jiang Nianli's side.

Every time, she came up with an excuse:

"Hey, pay me protection money."

"Hey, let me stay at your place tonight."

"Hey, I'm hungry. I want to eat..."

Huh? Eat what?

When she returned to Gan City, she was already a top-tier star in the art world.

When Ming Xi came looking for trouble, she locked the door, then pinned her against the worktable.

Her fingertips brushed the tiny beads of sweat on Ming Xi's forehead.

"Xiao Xi, you look really beautiful like this."

Theme: Be resilient and steady, and cherish the person in front of you