There's No Shame in an Ex-Girlfriend Acting Sweet

Next up: My upcoming novel, Mistaking an Aloof Beauty for a Temptation and Driving Her Mad; and the upcoming novel, An Executive's Guide to Training Her Wife~

Novel Blurb:

Everyone says that back in high school, campus belle Jiang Zhuo pursued Ruan Tongzhi for three years and spoiled her so much she never lost her temper.

But Ruan Tongzhi was an ungrateful, heartless wolf. After being taken care of for three years, she dumped Jiang Zhuo the moment they graduated.

By the time Jiang Zhuo returned, she was an international movie star with over a hundred million fans and an untouchable status.

Ruan Tongzhi, meanwhile, was a nobody of a livestreamer who earned 137.12 yuan last month and still had a bad temper.

Netizens: We want to see the movie star face-slap that heartless woman.

But the truth was...

Ruan Tongzhi gazed at the dazzling, imperious woman onstage and took a deep breath. Jiang Zhuo hadn't been like this back then.

"When she was sixteen or seventeen, Jiang Zhuo was as soft as a little white bunny. I saw her cornered by thugs in an alley, and that's the way she looked that drew me to her. I rescued her without a second thought."

And what happened next?

"After that?" Ruan Tongzhi sneered. "She followed me around all day, sweet and obedient, calling me 'Big Sis' and saying she wanted to be my girlfriend. I nearly gave in. Then one day, I came back from a fight and she had gone out to buy a late-night snack. I was worried, so I followed her..."

"...Fifteen or sixteen thugs, each with arms thicker than your thighs, were all lying on the ground within three minutes. That sweet, obedient act was all an act! No wonder she became a movie star!"

So that's why you broke up?

Ruan Tongzhi's face went blank. She didn't say another word until the event was over.

Afterward, the two ran into each other by chance. Jiang Zhuo said, "I'm back."

Ruan Tongzhi didn't even glance her way.

Jiang Zhuo suddenly trapped her in the crook of her arm, her tone forceful. "I said I'm back, and you won't even look at me? You used to call my name and search everywhere if you couldn't see me for a single minute!"

Ruan Tongzhi suddenly grabbed her by the collar and forced her to bend down so they were eye to eye. "You know that's how I used to be! Didn't you leave? What did you come back for? Who are you putting on that fragile act for? This is the real you, isn't it? Wow, you're pretty good at pretending!"

Jiang Zhuo lowered her head and chuckled.

When she looked up again, the imperious movie star's voice was soft and coaxing.

"Big Sis, you still love me."

[Big Sis and the movie-star love interest, a little madwoman who loves acting sweet]

[Jiang Zhuo loves calling her Big Sis]

[Pure sweetness, no angst / A happy little sweet treat / Reunited after a breakup / Feel-good power fantasy / A happy ending is a must]

-- Upcoming novel: Mistaking an Aloof Beauty for a Temptation and Driving Her Mad --

Jiang Tubai transmigrates into a book. In the story, she is a rich heiress, radiant as jade, with a perfect persona that drives people mad with envy. Some are willing to lick the soles of her shoes clean, while even more want to drag her down from her pedestal.

Later, she foolishly falls in love with the protagonist, Yu Yuzhi. She drives a wedge between the protagonist and her lover, makes a mess of everything, and even willingly takes the blame when Yu Yuzhi's company is rocked by a scandal.

The Jiang family casts her out, leaving her without protection, and countless people reveal their greedy, wicked desires toward her.

After transmigrating into the book, Jiang Tubai is disgusted by the fate laid out for her. She is determined to change it, so she sets her sights on the second young lady of the Yu family, the villainous Boss Yu Ximan, who rejects arranged dates because she is asexual and remained unmoved even when her grandfather broke three canes over her refusal.

When Jiang Tubai arrives at the Yu home, she expects to meet a ferocious woman.

Instead, a gentle woman in a pale tea-colored qipao, her hair pinned up, sits on a stone bench in the garden arranging flowers. The blossoms filling the garden don't dare compete with her radiant beauty. A jade bangle of the finest imperial green adorns her slender wrist, tapping casually against the stone table with a clink. Even that is just an embellishment.

Jiang Tubai stares for a long time, then feels so inferior she wants to hurt herself. "May I ask if Second Miss Yu is here?"

The woman in the pale tea-colored qipao replies in a cool voice, "What do you want with me?"

The two hit it off at once. Their only stumbling block is that Yu Ximan holds out her hand, asking Jiang Tubai to show her "sincerity." Otherwise, how can she trust that Jiang Tubai will betray Yu Yuzhi?

Jiang Tubai doesn't care. For the sake of her freedom, anyone can put on an act.

·

At night, they draw warmth from each other.

By day, they face off and carve up the business world, "fighting" until they are battered and bloody.

On the day they send the protagonist to prison, Jiang Tubai finally smiles again after so long.

She turns away, ignoring the red roses in Yu Ximan's arms, and bows slightly. "Our partnership is over. Thank you for taking care of me. I wish you every success in your career, President Yu, and good health and safety."

She walks away quickly, never seeing Yu Ximan crush the roses one by one behind her until both her hands are stained with bloody-red juice.

She wants to smear that juice all over Jiang Tubai, watch it run down the line of her neck and over her collarbones, then lick it clean inch by inch, leaving not a single spot untouched.

·

Yu Ximan only wants to take over the Yu family. Working with Jiang Tubai is merely a means of revenge.

As for sleeping together, the woman had certainly stunned her at first sight. It would be a shame to let someone else have her, so Yu Ximan might as well keep her for herself.

But she never expected to be the one who fell in love.

Without Jiang Tubai, she would go mad.

What did being asexual matter? As long as Jiang Tubai would believe her feelings were true, she would even kneel at her feet and become her dog.

Note:

Both are each other's first love. 1v1, happy ending. I only write sweet, satisfying stories.

A mad aristocrat and an elite schemer. Both strong.

Theme: Sunshine always follows the storm.