My Archenemy Keeps Trying to Get One Over on Me

Xie Xu, head of the Xie family, was born into a top-tier wealthy family. He had a strikingly handsome face, bright as the sun, but a nature as cold as frost and moonlight. He treated everyone with icy indifference.

Shi Yu had been in the entertainment industry for five years, and the whole internet knew how badly she and Xie Xu got along. Their fans fought viciously, and there wasn't a single photo of the two together.

Until photos of Xie Xu visiting Shi Yu's villa at night surfaced online on the evening of her twenty-fifth birthday.

Curious onlookers: ???

You were tearing each other apart this morning, and now you're having a romantic evening together? Do you think we're all part of your little game?

Shi Yu: It's all just scheming and tactics. Don't take it seriously!

But netizens didn't believe a word of it. They shipped the two of them like crazy.

Couple edits flooded the internet, and before long, the two were cast on a popular dating show.

Half a month later, some clips from the show were released. Right before the eyes of viewers across the internet, Xie Xu used his jacket to block the camera in the cruise ship's dining room, and he and Shi Yu disappeared from view for a full ten minutes.

When they reappeared on camera, flower petals were scattered across the table, Shi Yu's cheeks were flushed, and her lips looked swollen from being bitten.

Fans: He treats everyone coldly, except you?

Shi Yu: I can still explain!

Shi Yu had known Xie Xu for twenty-five years, and it wasn't as if she'd never wanted to take advantage of him.

Once, when Xie Xu visited her on set, Shi Yu used the excuse of being tipsy to turn her thoughts into action.

After one night together, Shi Yu silently rated Xie Xu:

Looks: perfect. Abs: perfect to touch. Physique: perfect. Stamina: perfect.

Marrying someone like him would at least guarantee a good married life.

After her family had urged her to marry several times, Shi Yu went to find Xie Xu one morning.

"President Xie, do you need someone to marry?"

"Why me?" The man's gaze fixed on her, his night-dark eyes growing even deeper at her words.

"We've tried each other out, and we're both pretty satisfied," Shi Yu replied simply.

She'd thought he'd reject her outrageous suggestion. Instead, he grabbed her hand and took her straight to the marriage registration office.

Shi Yu: ...

Did I just walk right into a trap?

Shi Yu thought her marriage to Xie Xu was just a mutually beneficial arrangement, and there was no need to make it public.

When news of their marriage broke, Shi Yu was about to post a denial when she saw a post Xie Xu had made just one minute earlier.

Xie Xu: In the twenty-fifth year of knowing you, I finally woke up with you by my side.

Reader's Guide:

1. The leads' families are rivals. The hero wants her heart from marriage, while the heroine wants his body.

2. The heroine's early belief that she and the hero are at odds is a misunderstanding.

3. A light, sweet romance. The characters are not based on real people.

New novel, Flirting Openly, blurb:

Fang Suiyi is obedient and gentle, excellent at everything from childhood onward, and the ideal daughter-in-law in the eyes of countless wealthy families.

Mrs. Shi chose her to marry Shi Huaichu for precisely that reason.

But no one knows that on New Year's Eve when she was eighteen, she was the one who took his hand and asked him, "Shi Huaichu, want to date?"

That night, the girl who never stepped out of line in anyone's eyes did every daring thing imaginable with him on a deserted beach in the dead of night.

Shi Huaichu is wild, unruly, and never serious. Everyone bets that the young master's marriage to Fang Suiyi won't last a year.

But after their wedding, people see that the man never takes off his wedding ring, parades around with conspicuous marks on his neck every day, and even named his company after her.

When an admirer tries to approach him, he doesn't even raise his eyes. He just makes the mark at his collar more visible.

"Sorry, my wife is jealous. She leaves her mark on me every day because she's afraid someone will steal me away."

But that night in their marital home, a villa in the northern suburbs, what really happened was that by the broad floor-to-ceiling windows, Fang Suiyi retaliated by biting the mole on his neck again and again as he teased her.

"Shi Huaichu, I'm so sleepy," she pleaded, clinging to his shoulders.

But the man replied, "Go to sleep if you're tired. I can take care of myself."

Fang Suiyi's original intention in marrying Shi Huaichu was to get paid for doing a job and stay out of each other's way.

She never expected him to take her ring-clad hand and shut off every escape route. "Mrs. Shi, divorce isn't an option for me. The only way out is for one of us to die. Once you put on the wedding ring, it's for life."

*Fake good girl x wild playboy, reunion after years apart, rekindled love, both leads are sexually inexperienced

*Written March 15, 2025

Forthcoming novel, Spoiled Rotten, blurb:

The first time Bo Siyan saw Rong Su after returning to the country, she was on a blind date with three men at once.

The three men could hardly believe their eyes.

"Miss Rong, what do you mean by this? One against three?"

Rong Su spotted Bo Siyan just entering the restaurant and dragged him into it too. "No, it's four."

"You've got some nerve!" The three men stormed away, cursing under their breath.

After seeing off her blind dates, Rong Su turned to size up Bo Siyan, who had taken a seat at the table in front of hers.

Her gaze paused on his familiar eyes for a moment, then traveled up and down as she rated him.

Great height, perfect physique, perfect looks. He was leagues better than the marriage prospects her family had picked out for her.

She sat down in front of him and lightly ran her pretty fingertips over his tie, inviting him, "Want to hook up?"

"No." Bo Siyan didn't raise his eyes or look at her once.

Rong Su was coldly rejected, but she wasn't hurt.

So proper?

That was rare.

Rong Su never expected that after she'd tried every trick in the book to seduce him for months without success, this respectable man, usually so elegant and self-possessed in public, would one night pin her in a dark, cramped corner and force an extravagant diamond ring, bought at auction for over a hundred million, onto her ring finger.

"Rong Su, listen carefully. I won't do anything without a name or commitment. Either marry me, and I'll give you everything you want, including myself! Or..." He bit her earlobe, his voice hoarse.

"Or what?" she asked, following his lead.

"Don't make me go crazy in front of you!" Bo Siyan ground out through clenched teeth.

When Rong Su was ten, she met someone.

He taught her, hand over hand, how to fight back when people bullied her. He turned a soft little girl into someone who never let herself get the short end of the stick, and taught her how to bloom brilliantly in the mud.

Half of the person she became was shaped by his indulgence.

Twelve years later, when they meet again, he is the flower atop a snow-covered mountain, the moon in the clouds. He rules the business world, wielding life and death, untouchable by anyone.

She tries every possible way to get him, to make him fall. She never knew that he came back to the country for her in the first place.

*Bright, spoiled red rose x powerful ruler who controls life and death. Both have been plotting for a long time. A battle of relentless push and pull. Six-year age gap. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.

*The heroine is afraid of marriage at first.

(Blurb written February 26, 2026)

Theme: Even in desperate circumstances, let your light bloom