1.
Pei Qingyu had always lived a steady, by-the-book life in her small town.
Aside from getting hassled every now and then by a girl named Wang Xinqi, high school was actually pretty bearable.
Then, in her senior year, a transfer student joined her class.
He was from the capital, with silver-dyed hair, monolid eyes, and a lazy, magnetic voice.
People said his name was Yan Cuo.
In Pei Qingyu's eyes, Yan Cuo had a gorgeous face and a terrible personality.
He was too wild, too reckless. Pei Qingyu couldn't handle him and didn't dare get involved.
Until one day after school, she went back to the classroom to retrieve something she'd forgotten.
Through the window, she saw Wang Xinqi, her face bright red, confessing to Yan Cuo.
2.
After graduating high school, Pei Qingyu started pursuing Yan Cuo.
Yan Cuo didn't like good girls, so she learned to dye her hair, put on makeup, wear miniskirts, and sport huge, outrageous earrings.
When the time felt right, she went to Yan Cuo and asked if he wanted to be with her.
Yan Cuo watched her for a moment, his gaze lowering in a way that felt flirtatious.
In the cramped rental apartment, Yan Cuo suddenly pinned her against the kitchen counter.
Their lips were almost touching, but Pei Qingyu, lacking nerve, dodged away.
Yan Cuo gave a faint, disdainful laugh. Gripping the back of her head, he turned her face back toward him.
"Good student," he teased, his meaning plain. "Stop pretending. No matter how hard you try, you don't look like a bad girl."
Pei Qingyu's eyes reddened.
Just when she thought she had no chance,
Yan Cuo's lips came down on hers, stealing her breath.
She could barely breathe. In a daze, she heard him say, "But it's a good thing I like pure girls like you."
3.
Her relationship with Yan Cuo didn't last long. They went their separate ways.
She saw him again at university. Not long after the semester began, he'd become the talk of campus, with girls showing up at his classroom every day to confess to him.
Pei Qingyu pretended not to know him, because their breakup had been ugly.
But every night, at her rental apartment, she could never get Yan Cuo to leave.
She was drenched in sweat, one wave after another, and cried pitifully when she couldn't take any more, biting several tooth marks into Yan Cuo's shoulder.
Yan Cuo's eyes were bloodshot with desire as he pinned her wrists down. "Didn't you say you wanted to use me?"
His breathing grew heavier. Still, he held himself back enough to kiss away her tears. "Then use me."
"Just stop bringing up breaking up with me. I really can't take it."
*
Pei Qingyu lived like wild grass that refused to be burned away.
Yan Cuo was a complete bastard.
Though they should have had nothing to do with each other, the two had been entangled for a very, very long time before anyone knew.
The bastard fell for a good student pretending to be a bad girl.
A good girl disguised herself as a delinquent and hooked a real delinquent.
* Cold, cocky bad boy x stubborn, gentle girl
* School setting; healing; both leads have no previous partners
* Synopsis written on May 22, 2025, and archived
Theme: Finding warmth in each other's embrace
