Playful Ambiguity

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Radiant, charming heiress & poor, levelheaded top student

Girl pursues boy | Contract relationship | Rekindled romance

1. Shen Lingbai had heard her roommate talk about Xu Qingyu more than once. The thing she said most often was that he was naturally aloof and treated everyone with the same indifferent attitude. The law school's campus beauty had pursued him for two months, but he hadn't reacted at all, so she gave up.

Shen Lingbai didn't particularly react when she heard that.

A month later, Shen Lingbai looked at the person she'd finally managed to add to her contacts. After leaving him hanging for three days, she finally sent her first message.

[Huayue Hotel, Room 6602]

Xu Qingyu didn't arrive until an hour and a half later.

2. Being with Shen Lingbai was just a business arrangement. Neither of them had much in the way of feelings, and they had always agreed that things would end when the contract expired.

In the living room, Shen Lingbai sat cross-legged on the carpet, tugging at his collar as she leaned in, the tip of her nose brushing his cheek. Her dark eyes held a sly smile. "That's not how a boyfriend is supposed to act."

"Then how should I act?"

"Like this." With that, the girl's soft lips brushed his, teasing him in a lingering kiss.

3. When Shen Lingbai's friends found out she was dating Xu Qingyu, they were all surprised and bombarded her with questions. The last one was, "Are you with him just because he's good-looking?"

Shen Lingbai was getting annoyed, so she gave a perfunctory, "Mm."

Outside the villa, the man stopped in his tracks and stood alone by the door, not wanting to interrupt.

Their relationship was so unequal that everyone teased Shen Lingbai about when she'd get tired of Xu Qingyu.

Just as her friends had predicted, their relationship really did come to an end halfway through.

4. They met again years later.

As the elevator doors opened and closed, the two of them suddenly ran into each other. Shen Lingbai stood there, dazed. Realizing the elevator was about to close with no one getting on or off, they both instinctively reached out to press the button.

Shen Lingbai heard his deep, resonant voice ring through the empty corridor. "Miss Shen, aren't you coming out?"

After learning that Shen Lingbai had checked into a hotel with male models for two days running, Xu Qingyu finally lost control. His black Bugatti raced through the rainy night.

He pinned her firmly beneath him, the veins at his temples bulging. His reason seemed to wash away with the rain outside, every cell in his body screaming, "Tell him to get lost."

Note: Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and there is no bankruptcy plotline.

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In her twenty years of life, the most outrageous thing Xu Enyi had ever done was kiss Ji Yanming while drunk.

Afterward, she tried to reason with him. "Just pretend a mosquito bit you. Whatever you do, don't tell anyone. Can we let this go?"

Ji Yanming stared at her coldly, not even bothering to respond.

The next day, all the major weekly magazines, media outlets, and gossip accounts broke the news.

"Heiress of the Xu family caught passionately kissing a man in a car late at night!"

Xu Enyi: ...The sky was falling.

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Xu Enyi was the only child Xu and his wife had after turning thirty, and they had cherished her like the apple of their eye since she was little. But her mother was in poor health, and neither parent had much energy to keep her in line.

So that task fell to Ji Yanming.

As for how looking after her eventually led to them ending up in bed together,

no one could say.

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A friend asked Ji Yanming if it was hard looking after a little sister nine years younger than him, whom he doted on like a daughter.

Ji Yanming said nothing and didn't try to explain himself.

Until one late night, he inexplicably opened his browser and started searching: Is it illegal to love a girl nine years younger than me?

The top-voted answer: Don't worry. The law won't judge you, but morality will.

Right... If he had any sense of morality, he wouldn't love her so much that he couldn't live without her.

Theme: Perseverance