An Old-Fashioned Guide to Dating

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Old-fashioned, stuffy daddy 🦩 × sweet-looking white lotus who is actually a scheming black lotus 🐍

Older man/younger woman | 18-year age gap | Flirtatious tension | Rivalry between men

"Rather than praying to the gods, you might as well ask me."

Su Yang first met Shen Congqian at Shen Guannan's birthday party. She attended as Shen Guannan's girlfriend, while Shen Congqian was his adoptive father.

As she was leaving, the necklace Shen Guannan had given her accidentally fell by Shen Congqian's feet. He bent down, picked it up, and closed his hand around it.

Su Yang reached out to ask for it, but he didn't hand it over. Instead, he lowered his head and fastened it around her wrist. He watched Su Yang with a shadowed gaze and said quietly, "The necklace is broken. You should get a new one."

The next day, Shen Guannan gave Su Yang a ruby necklace.

He said it had been the star lot at an auction a few days ago, where it sold for three million. His father had traded a plot of land to get it from the buyer.

"Looks like Dad likes you a lot, too."

Su Yang smiled without replying. She ran her fingers over the necklace at her throat, a little regretful that he hadn't brought it to her himself.

The next time she saw Shen Congqian was outside a private club.

Shen Guannan's friend said all kinds of demeaning things about her. She listened without caring, but when the corner of her eye caught a familiar figure, she found herself running toward him in tears.

She sat on the steps with her arms around her knees and secretly curled her lips into a smile where no one could see. When a coat was draped over her, she looked up, her face streaked with tears.

Shen Congqian gently wiped them away. "Didn't I tell you? If a necklace breaks, you replace it. Why cling to the past?"

Su Yang clutched his coat, rose onto her toes, and kissed him.

Shen Congqian didn't pull away. He watched her with a calm gaze.

"You think one kiss is enough to make me keep you thriving in the capital? Su Yang, that isn't enough to sway me."

She looked at him. "What if you add me to the bargain?"

Shen Congqian pointed at Shen Guannan as he came out of the club and asked, "Answer me first. If you had to choose between him and me, who would you choose?"

· The heroine is 18 and the hero is 36 at the beginning.

· Both the hero and the second male lead are sexually inexperienced and devoted only to the heroine, but the hero is better at playing the game.

· The heroine is cunning and will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. She only uses the second male lead and has no feelings for him.

· Please don't insult the main characters. Thank you (T_T)

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Former saint, now rotten to the core × believer

Summer of the twelfth year of Tianheng, a heavy snowfall in Zhongzhou.

Evil spirits ran rampant, and seventeen people died overnight in Pingyao County.

Born with green eyes, Jiang Wan was an ordinary mortal, but people branded her a demon and sentenced her to a horrific death at the stake.

Ye Qinming, the senior disciple of Baiyujing, happened to be traveling through the area. Standing before the pyre, he swung his sword just once.

One strike put out the flames. The same strike also slew the demon from afar.

After that sword, Ye Qinming vanished from the world without a trace.

Three years passed.

Jiang Wan had married, but her husband was no good. He was a habitual drunk who beat her and even tried to kill the daughter she had just given birth to.

To save her child, Jiang Wan fled her home with the baby in her arms. In her desperation, she escaped into Yuhuan Mountain, said to be home to a man-eating monster.

There was a Taoist temple in the mountains, and she knocked on the door.

A Taoist priest came out with a lantern. Though his eyes were covered with white cloth, Jiang Wan recognized him as Ye Qinming, the man who had saved her three years ago.

Ye Qinming treated her wonderfully, taking her in and even raising her daughter alongside her. She thought they would live out their days in peace.

What she didn't know was that every night, a demon with a human torso and a snake's tail stood beside her bed, gazing at her hungrily.

Then, every day, it would say, "Tomorrow, I'll eat you."

Half a year later, Jiang Wan told Ye Qinming she was leaving. She was taking her child down the mountain.

But the usually gentle Ye Qinming removed the white cloth covering his eyes, revealing a pair of completely white eyes beneath. His snake body coiled around her, and his long forked tongue slid across her cheek. "I killed your husband half a year ago. What are you going down the mountain to look for him for? Stay by my side. I won't eat you."

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