Love Within a Hundred Miles [Entertainment Industry]

Pure and alluring sweetheart x cocky, cool bking

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Ji Zhou, a newcomer to the film industry, was blessed with stunning looks. He debuted at eighteen and immediately won Best Actor. With his cool, scoundrel-like face that seemed to say he was only playing around, he was hailed by fans as a top-tier star and a powerhouse performer.

Ming Qi, a rising star in television dramas, was praised as a rare beauty with a pure yet alluring face. But her much-maligned acting kept her branded a pretty face with no talent.

By a twist of fate, the two ended up in the same production, which opened with a passionate kissing scene.

The kissing scene got off to a rough start, with more than thirty takes in a row ending in NG.

It went without saying that she was the one kissing badly. Worse, she left him with very obvious, suggestive marks.

After filming, Ming Qi took some ointment to apologize, feeling guilty. But as she moved her lips, she suddenly realized that her own teeth and gums still ached and felt swollen, too.

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To stop holding this top-tier star back, and while Ji Zhou still had a rare bit of patience, Ming Qi diligently followed him around, learning and experiencing the Method approach to acting.

A drunken bed scene.

During a private rehearsal after chugging two bottles, Ming Qi, woozy, toppled onto Ji Zhou. The quiet depths of his eyes beat against her nerves like a drum, and her mind went utterly blank. Not a single line remained.

When she opened her eyes the next morning,

her soft black hair spilled over the head of the bed. Her bright eyes met Ji Zhou's, and a profound meaning silently spread through his gaze. “I don't recall teaching you to take method acting this far.”

Back on set, Ming Qi's acting, which had been improving, suddenly fell back to square one. No matter how she played the intimate scenes, she seemed to be holding an invisible string taut.

As eyes gathered on them from every direction, Ji Zhou leaned over her. His thin lips slowly approached, then stopped just short. His unnerving aggression rumbled in her ears, but only they could hear his words:

“Now that we've slept together, why are you being so awkward?”

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Only later, when the misunderstanding had spiraled completely out of control, did she learn that he didn't need to use the Method approach to act, and that nothing had actually happened that night that would put her at a disadvantage.

During a joint interview with the media, Ming Qi carefully kept her distance. “Teacher Ji is a very nice person. What everyone has seen is him helping me improve my acting.”

The microphone was passed to the man beside her. Ji Zhou's scornful expression was impossible to hide as he bluntly punctured her story. “Improve your acting?”

He looked down at her. “I'm completely innocent from head to toe. Does Teacher Ming really think she can deny it?”

*Not based on real people. Please don't associate it with anyone.

*One-on-one romance. The male lead only kisses the female lead. He only smokes in movie scenes.

*Fan-circle terms are taken from the internet.

*Blurb dated 2025.03.05

The next book will be A Thirst for Skin

Sly and sinister x gentle but stubborn

Fake siblings | foster care trope | female lead has touch starvation

01

The Yu family of Nancheng was wealthy and had a son and a daughter. Unfortunately, their only son was abducted through the underhanded schemes of business rivals, while Yu Xinci narrowly escaped the same fate.

After searching everywhere for a full ten years without finding him, her parents finally began to think of finding a substitute.

The day Bo Shen arrived at the Yu home as their adopted son, a beautiful silhouette stood on the second floor of the villa, her downcast eyes full of indifference.

Yu Xinci bossed him around like a little beast fiercely guarding against an outsider. “Get lost. Don't even think about becoming my brother.”

Fake ferocity met the real thing, and her borrowed courage was exposed at a glance.

02

For the first fifteen years of his life, Bo Shen grew up in dark alleys, wicked and arrogant. The evils of the world never made him so much as furrow his brow.

He was a genius in intellect, and a ferocious beast crawling out of the gutter.

Yu Xinci constantly tried to trip Bo Shen up, but he remained “gentle and kind,” never holding it against her.

Before long, news came of the Yu family's missing heir.

On the day Yu Shang returned home, Yu Xinci no longer even spared Bo Shen a hostile glance.

Yu Shang was violent-tempered and often behaved outrageously, yet Yu Xinci treated him like a precious treasure.

After dinner, the princess, who had never lifted a finger around the house, personally washed fruit and took it to his room. But her biological brother, reacting to the invasion of his territory, shoved her away.

As she was thrown out of the room, the despair of nearly falling was momentarily forgotten. Yu Xinci stared at her brother's Adam's apple as he swallowed.

That brief moment was all it took for the touch starvation she had hidden to flare up with skin-to-skin contact.

The pain she expected never came. Instead, the scent of oakmoss enveloped her from behind, covering more of her than before. Yu Xinci abruptly jerked away, the corners of her eyes unusually red and damp. Her soft voice, twisted with anger, came out in a strange, plaintive note: “Did I ever tell you not to touch me?”

“Then what? I don't touch you, and watch you fall, then get up and bite your own brother?” Bo Shen's eyes darkened.

With a single sentence, the secret she had hidden for years was laid bare.

03

That night, in the bedroom.

Yu Xinci's self-loathing tears slid down her cheeks, their salt mingling with their entangled lips. She clung to his leg and refused to let go, sobbing as she kissed him, yet still issued a fierce threat. “Don't get smug.”

Her voice was small, but her manner was fierce. “I can resist.”

“Sure,” Bo Shen said, his eyes shifting slightly with mockery. “Let's see how you resist.”

He might know she had touch starvation, but he definitely didn't know that...

Her desire for kisses and cuddles wouldn't just disappear, but it could shift to a new person when she came into contact with them.

Back at school, Yu Xinci secretly tried to redirect her fixation by holding hands with a girl, only to break down when she realized that nothing she tried worked.

But Yu Xinci didn't know that a welcome-avoiding visitor came to her room every night, while the world was silent.

He would take advantage of her deep sleep to cling to her and act up, quietly becoming her new fixation.

/What he wanted had never been to become her brother.

Theme: Youth and growth