After My Ex-Boyfriend Pulled Me Out of the River

A fiercely independent heroine x a golden-boy hero

A little sun nothing can keep under a cloud x a gloomy ex-boyfriend who longs for sunlight. A story about a woman who struggles to escape the mire and finally finds the courage to win back her crush (though he was actually planning to throw himself at her).

Second chance romance | Older man with a controlling streak | Healing | Happy ending and sweet romance | A mix of spice and sweetness

Heroine's perspective

After breaking up, Yao Yao accidentally fell into the water and woke up four years in the future.

The person who pulled her out was none other than He Mingyi, the boyfriend she'd dumped four years ago.

Yao Yao: "Th-thank you?"

He Mingyi: "Don't mention it. The medical and hospital bills come to xx yuan. WeChat or Alipay?"

Yao Yao: QAQ

He Mingyi: "...Got it. Work for me to pay off the debt."

Hero's perspective

During the four years they were apart, He Mingyi often dreamed of Yao Yao, and of their last argument.

After waking from those dreams again and again, he would calm down and analyze what had gone wrong, working out better ways for them to get along. But he no longer had the right to try them, not until he rescued someone who had fallen into a river...

This time, with four years of experience between them, he could finally keep his composure. At last, he had the chance to ask her to stay.

Check out my upcoming novel, The Villainess Gets Bound to a Saintly System

[A vain, dramatic, mischievous kitten x a morally upright, saintly System]

A couple who train each other in both directions. Love can make the base-hearted become devoted, and make even an aloof beauty lose her composure.

Rong Yang, a specialist in playing villainesses in the entertainment industry, accidentally gets bound to a "Good Deeds" System.

After reading the script, Rong Yang cooperatively signs the contract. "Doing good deeds? That's what I'm best at~"

World One: The Contrasting Female Character in a Period Drama

She's a spoiled, scheming fake heiress. The male lead uses her money to make his fortune, while the sweet, innocent girl is as close to her as a sister. In the end, the two get together and leave the original owner, gravely ill, to die in the countryside.

What a perfect scumbag-and-vixen pairing.

The System assigns a mission: "You need to return to your rightful identity and advance the relationship between the male and female leads."

Before it can finish, it sees Rong Yang kick the male lead, who came to borrow money, flying. Afterward, she covers her mouth in shock. "Sorry, I thought a toad had jumped out of nowhere."

Without Rong Yang's financial support, the pretty boy struggles to get by. The real heroine defies her family and runs away with him to live under a bridge. In less than a week, the world reaches a perfect ending.

World Two: The Devoted Substitute for the White Moonlight

The System says, "This is a tragic romance. You need to play the substitute properly and stop causing trouble."

One evening, Rong Yang is having dinner with Male Lead No. 1. He gets a phone call and frowns, about to lose his temper. Rong Yang puts down her chopsticks with a click, looking even colder than he does. "You don't look anything like him when you frown. Don't do that again."

Male Lead No. 1: "?"

The System: "?!"

Rong Yang somehow manages to train all the male leads into being perfectly obedient. When the white moonlight returns, Rong Yang fakes her death and disappears. The male leads go mad, the white moonlight cries herself blind, and the world descends into chaos. But the tragic-romance rating reaches an astonishing 100%, and Rong Yang clears the mission perfectly.

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Rong Yang's actions hardly qualify as "good deeds," and the System strongly condemns her.

The System and its Host are both dissatisfied with each other, but their bond cannot be undone.

Until, in one mission world, they encounter a villain with a rotten heart. Defying the rules, Rong Yang risks having her most prized face scarred to make sure he is punished.

Afterward, she cleans her wound and taunts the System. "Have you decided how to punish me? I can't wait."

The System is silent for a moment. "I just went offline."

Rong Yang: ?

It is also after that incident that Rong Yang realizes the morally upright master of pretense has secrets of his own.

Once, for the sake of a mission, she had to get herself covered in suggestive marks. Looking at herself in the mirror, she deliberately asked, "You haven't been a man for many years since becoming a System. Can you tell what these are?"

The System: ...

Rong Yang: "Going offline again? Then let me explain. This mark around my neck is from a collar..."

Before she can finish, someone appears in the space, with a face and figure made entirely to Rong Yang's taste.

He lifts her onto his lap and says coolly, "These marks look too fake. Let me help you."

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Rong Yang afterward: I'll never run my mouth again QAQ

Theme: Walk toward the sunlight and leave the shadows behind