Mist and Zhi Around the Neck

[Completed]

[The blurb for the upcoming story "Reject the Male Lead, Fall for the System [Quick Transmigration]" is below.]

1

A campus arts showcase at Jiangnan Dance Academy.

Two students stood out from the group dance and made the school's discussion board headlines.

The reason: their bold, suggestive dance moves.

In the video, the young man bent over and braced himself on the floor with both hands, lifting his whole body. With an astonishingly strong waist, he kicked his legs into the air, then lowered them until they were just inches from the girl beneath him.

Their eyes met, their breaths mingled.

As his legs came down, theirs tangled together in a flurry.

The girl below paused for a moment, then spun. In an instant, their positions reversed, and she pinned the boy beneath her.

"..."

The video drew countless replies. Students exclaimed that it was thrilling and began gossiping about the relationship between the two dancers.

Some asked for their contact information, of course, but most were waiting to ship them as a couple.

The group dance was a huge success and received rave reviews. Discussion about the two dancers remained just as popular.

Only the two of them knew that those supposedly suggestive moves weren't part of the choreography at all. It was simply a stage accident.

Still, a scandalous rumor was better than the entire performance falling apart in front of the audience.

They thought the buzz would die down with time, but a few days later, the video went viral again.

This time, the comments weren't full of people shipping them. They were all criticizing the girl in the video.

Rumor had it that she'd seduced the boy in the video, causing him to break up with his girlfriend.

Xuan Manzhi stared silently at the replies. ...Had she become the other woman?

2

Xuan Manzhi did like Jiang Zuiyu, and she knew he had a girlfriend.

So she could never openly say, "I like you."

She shouldn't have fallen for someone who already had a girlfriend.

...But can you control your feelings?

She once pretended not to care as she walked lap after lap around the track with a friend, all just to catch a glimpse of him.

But even in her dreams, she knew he would never fall for her.

The day she found out he was dating someone, Xuan Manzhi deleted the only blurry photo of him on her phone.

Was it her hesitation and retreat all along that had brought them to this point...?

3

Jiang Zuiyu knew that whether or not he made a name for himself as a dancer, he would ultimately have to go home and take over the family business.

His four years at university were his last chance to lose himself in dance.

In his confusion, he ended up dating someone without really thinking it through.

A few months into the relationship, he caught her cheating on him.

Jiang Zuiyu tossed out, "The nation thanks you for helping boost the birth rate," then swept away without a backward glance.

He never expected that a month later, people would say he'd been the one to cheat on her.

He could put up with being called a scumbag and a heartless jerk, but could he put up with being called blind and told his whole family should die?

And there was also an innocent bystander he'd dragged into it.

Young Master Jiang threw himself into the fight with a flurry of punches.

4

Jiang Zuiyu didn't think much of Xuan Manzhi.

He only remembered that she was aloof and one of the top students in their class.

Then, when he went to a bar to pick up his mom, he unexpectedly saw her wearing a long, curly gold wig and a miniskirt, dancing in the club in little heels.

Jiang Zuiyu raised an eyebrow. "Well, well."

Xuan Manzhi turned around and met his gaze. The smile froze on her lips.

5

Jiang Zuiyu never thought he could like anyone so much, until Xuan Manzhi stopped replying to his messages.

He posted her photo on the campus confession board with a missing-person notice, saying that the girl in the photo hadn't replied to him for days and asking if she could please answer his messages and stop disappearing without warning.

Xuan Manzhi flew into a rage and called him at once. "What exactly do you want?"

A boy's laughter came through the other end. "So you finally decided to answer me?"

A seemingly carefree young master who's actually dependable x a seemingly cold girl who's actually a fragile, teary-eyed kitty

Upcoming: "Reject the Male Lead, Fall for the System [Quick Transmigration]"

Lu Lingxi bound herself to a Quick Transmigration System.

Her mission was to collect regret points from her targets.

World 1: Little Brother, Open the Door, It's Your Sister-in-Law (ABO): My lover is actually my sister-in-law.

World 2: The Major General's Mermaid Prisoner: You killed my one true love, so I'll make you suffer.

World 3: The Unreasonable Stepbrother: My stepbrother, who lives under the same roof, picks on me at school every day.

World 4: My Bankrupt Archrival: The person I used to bully came looking for me after I went bankrupt.

World 5: Rewritten Memories: Main God vs. System

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To save her friend, partner, and comrade-in-arms, Jiang Linchuan, Lu Lingxi signed an exorbitantly expensive contract with the Quick Transmigration Bureau.

She would work for the Bureau for the rest of her life.

In exchange, they would save him from his grave injuries.

In a gloomy dungeon, the mermaid huddled in a corner, trembling. Her pale face was drained of color, and her fingers unconsciously clawed at the floor.

Her fingers were smeared with blood.

System 607 took on a physical form and held that cold, soft hand, its fingertip gently brushing the back of hers.

"!"

That gesture... Lu Lingxi's body went rigid. She lifted her head. "Who are you, really?"

A seemingly innocent but truly cunning little fox of a heroine x a seemingly cold but truly dependable System hero

Theme: Express yourself honestly