Even a Forced-Melons Can Be Sweet

First published on Jinjiang Literature City The complete novel is available. Please leave a five-star review. Love you all, and thanks to everyone who supports the official release. *Powerful pursuit, getting back together after a breakup, age gap, younger woman, happy ending, mutual confinement, each other’s first love *Ten-year age gap between the leads: girl x woman *Occasionally scheming younger woman who barges in and takes what she wants x woman who seems gentle but has a heart harder than ice Blurb: 1. During tennis class, Li Shiyi beat a classmate until their head was bleeding. At the discipline office, no parent showed up. Instead, a crisp clatter of high heels approached. The newcomer wore a pearl-white skirt suit with the neckline slightly open, her collarbones deep enough to raise fish in. She held out a business card between her fingers. “Su Nianqing, secretary in the CEO’s office at the Lixiang Group.” Li Shiyi thought the woman wanted to be her stepmother. Her eyes wandered over the gold-embossed card, but she didn’t take it. She kindly warned her, “The Lixiang Group belongs to my grandmother. Don’t let some scumbag fool you.” The woman smiled at that and turned to leave. 2. Li Shiyi was injured by accident, and the two began living together for a short time. The question of whether she was going to have a stepmother was soon forgotten. Li Shiyi had only one thought: she wanted this woman to stay by her side. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, the newly adult girl pinned the woman against the floor-to-ceiling window and kissed her, reverent and wanton. She pleaded in a trembling voice, “I don’t know how, Su Nianqing. Teach me...” Outside the window, the city lights glittered. Inside, the woman’s black hair spilled in disarray, desire surging in her eyes. Her pale neck was covered in red marks from the puppy who had bitten her without knowing her own strength. Unable to bear it, she raised a hand and took the girl’s burning palm, guiding it along the curves of her body as it rose and fell, letting it roam wherever it pleased. The next morning, Li Shiyi woke in a bed thick with the scent of intimacy. The space beside her was already cold. She stroked the marks the other woman had left the night before and smiled. “What a bad woman. She slept with me and ran...” Li Shiyi followed her to the company and began learning to use her status to keep Su Nianqing by her side, entangling with her day and night. 3. A few months later, Su Nianqing took over the failing company from the brat and personally sent her little puppy abroad. They didn’t see each other again for years. Only Su Nianqing’s secretary knew that every month, there were two days when CEO Su flew abroad. She never stayed long after landing. She would only stand quietly outside a certain apartment building, gazing at the light in one particular window. 4. Years later, the Lixiang Group rose from the ashes. The balance of power began to shift. On a rainy night, Su Nianqing brought home the little wolf cub who had been wandering for years. The woman, immaculate in her business suit by day, undid the buttons of her shirt one by one after night fell. She beckoned her now-grown lover with a finger. “Come here.” “Pay me back for everything you’ve owed me all these years, with interest, one debt at a time.” Other completed novels on my author page: I Don’t Want to Be the Protagonist, a cultivation and power-up story The Little Taoist’s Sword Cultivator Wife, an urban supernatural story Coming soon: The Transmigrated Cannon-Fodder Alpha Fights for Everything Brilliant, calm, capable, cold-faced goddess omega x alpha who only wants to survive and steal her crush away 1. Xie Li transmigrated into the body of a rich second-generation kid. She barely had time to enjoy the good life before the apocalypse arrived. Zombies ran wild through the campus, biting people. In the midst of the chaos, a stranger grabbed her and pulled her into a storage room. The lock clicked shut. Outside, zombies battered the door. Inside, a beautiful woman leaned against the wall, cheeks flushed, panting in distress. She lifted her tearful eyes to Xie Li and rasped, “Come here. Mark me.” Xie Li pressed her back against the door, her throat tight as she tried to keep her distance from the woman. The woman panted, her gaze fierce. “If you don’t want to die, give me a temporary mark.” With her life hanging by a thread, Xie Li closed her eyes and leaned in, biting the woman’s flushed gland. Once they escaped the chaos, the woman pushed her away and looked down as she straightened her rumpled shirt. Her expression was cool, and her voice had already returned to normal. “It was an emergency. Don’t take it to heart.” 2. Only later did Xie Li learn that she had transmigrated into a harem novel. The woman she had temporarily marked was the female lead, an omega named Jin Zhaoye. Jin Zhaoye already had someone else as her one true partner, and Xie Li was only a minor cannon-fodder character who wouldn’t survive three chapters. The next time Xie Li saw Jin Zhaoye abandoned by her team captain and left heartbroken, she quietly drew close and whispered in her ear, “I’m just as good as she is. Want to try liking someone else?” Jin Zhaoye stared at her for a few seconds, then smiled faintly, wrapped an arm around Xie Li’s neck, and kissed her. They kissed in deserted corners, held hands while standing night watch, and shielded each other when danger struck. Xie Li never asked what she meant to Jin Zhaoye, and Jin Zhaoye never told her. 3. The day the tide of zombies smashed through the base gates, Jin Zhaoye charged toward the team captain without hesitation. Xie Li watched the woman’s back grow farther and farther away and gave a bitter laugh. Cannon fodder really didn’t live long. Forget it. She wouldn’t fight for her anymore. She couldn’t win. She closed her eyes and let the tide of zombies swallow her. Theme: Stay positive, sunny, and always moving forward.