Ding-Dong! It's Sunny Today

[For my next book, I'll start whichever gets more preorders: A Grown-Up Romance or Jialing Tales. Readers, you can check out the blurbs on my author page, and if you like one, please add it to your collection. Pretty please! The blurb for A Grown-Up Romance is below. It's Sister Xiaoyuan's story.]

[Cool, distant, and obsessive little bitter melon X sweet, charming, radiant love goddess]

Yu Yunkai: that name was the only thing her mother left her.

It came not from her mother's love, but from her hatred, a reminder not to forget, not to grow numb, and not to be tamed.

She often heard her mother mutter, "The clouds will always part someday."

But it was not to be.

Yu Yunkai mechanically repeated the same routine: go to school, get beaten up, earn money. Trapped, she spent her days turning in circles in the mud, with gloom hanging over her for twenty years straight.

She gave a mocking smile. Someone like her would never see the sun break through.

That was, until a giant Arctic hare wearing a fluffy bunny-ear hat, riding a little electric scooter and making a racket, crashed into her world.

In the first week after Xu Yuan moved in, their dorm went from a Syrian war zone to a kindergarten. Yu Yunkai looked at the room, now more colorful than a rainbow, and nearly blacked out.

The person responsible did not think it looked ugly at all. Grinning, she tried to put a pile of bizarre stuffed toys on Yu Yunkai's bed.

Yu Yunkai flatly refused. "They're so ugly. I don't want them."

Xu Yuan: "I'm pretty. How about putting me on your bed instead?"

In this staid, rule-bound world, Xu Yuan was a complete oddball. Everyone else kept their distance from Yu Yunkai, but Xu Yuan, despite being adored by everyone, went out of her way to cling to her. She got jealous over nothing, and did so with complete justification.

"Everyone else gets to be near you. Why can't I?!"

"Yu Yunkai, you're so nice. I'm going to fall in love with you."

"Yu Yunkai, look me in the eye. Leading me on like this... is very naughty."

I'm going to make you like me. You're going to look only at me.

Every one of her words was like a spell, terrifyingly direct.

Yu Yunkai had walked alone in the dark for too long. Suddenly exposed to the blazing sun, her instincts urged her to retreat.

But at some point, every smile, every frown, every gesture from Xu Yuan easily broke through all her defenses.

When the filth she had desperately tried to bury was exposed in front of everyone, amid the chaos, the unbearable insults, and the icy water poured over her head in the bitter winter...

there was also a soft embrace.

Xu Yuan's warmth arrived before the cold could reach her.

Desire is a prophet of fate.

Yu Yunkai could no longer lie to herself. She loved Xu Yuan, and she was willing to fall deeper and deeper.

A sweet voice, distorted by an old loudspeaker, said, "A warm front passed through at 9 p.m. yesterday, and temperatures in Jiangcheng are gradually rising. The coldest winter Jiangcheng has experienced in the past twelve years is finally over..."

A notification popped up from the rabbit avatar on her phone app: "Ding-dong! It's sunny today, and I love you very much."

The sun had been shining on just one person all along. The clouds had really cleared.

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Blurb for A Grown-Up Romance:

[Sharp-tongued, controlling ice queen VS jealous, petty mad dog]

Xu Tingzhi was definitely in for a year of bad luck.

The group's leadership had undergone a major reshuffle, and as the heir apparent, she was caught between two sides. A deal with the Hong Kong team would be key to breaking the deadlock, but...

Xu Tingzhi never expected to see He Ting again. Her sworn enemy, who was always at odds with her, had become the project lead sent from Hong Kong.

"It's been a long time, President Xu. I hope you've been well."

Looking at that familiar, infuriating grin, Xu Tingzhi sneered inwardly. Her face remained pleasant as she smiled and took the hand He Ting lazily extended.

"It has been a long time. You've hardly changed since we were kids."

Still the same bastard, an ungrateful little wolf who could never be tamed.

In the dim, suggestive practice room, the ungrateful wolf pushed her down onto the sofa, their chests pressed together. Only then did Xu Tingzhi realize that He Ting had grown up. The little tagalong who used to follow her around was now just a memory.

"Xu Tingzhi, have you ever considered that maybe you don't feel anything because of your preferences?" Her eyes held back a trace of madness.

"Give your body to me... I'll make you feel good."

The next day, word spread that Ting, the top star in the scene, had switched to being an S. Countless subs were left heartbroken.

Their hard-to-define relationship began in a haze, and He Ting became hopelessly absorbed in their little "romance" game.

Seeing her looking so silly, a friend tactfully reminded her: Aren't you a D? Why does it feel like Xu Tingzhi has trained you to be her dog?

He Ting: As if! I have my own pace. Why are you so interested in our relationship? Are you trying to steal her from me?!

Friend: ...

Whenever Xu Tingzhi came up, He Ting turned into a mad dog guarding her food. Anyone who so much as looked at Xu Tingzhi would get bitten to death.

When she finally came to her senses, all that remained in the bedroom were a few empty iron chains. Xu Tingzhi was nowhere to be found... She'd been abandoned again!

In the conference room, He Ting pinned her down, gritting her teeth.

"Darling, you just stole a project from me and dumped me right after. That's not very decent, is it?"

Xu Tingzhi chuckled. Lazily, she scratched the starving little dog, her eyes still full of allure.

"The adult world is full of lust, desire, and intrigue. So, darling, would you like to have a grown-up romance with me?"

Theme: Love lets the sun shine through the clouds