Even After Breaking Up, We Still Have to Go Home Together for New Year's Eve Dinner

Yun Xiu and He Yun met when they were eight.

At the time, Yun Xiu's father and He Yun's mother formed a new family, making the girls stepsisters.

Yun Xiu gazed at the pretty girl, a month older than her, with her big, dewy eyes. She liked her right away and tried to make friends. "My name has the character for 'cloud' in it, and yours does too, so we were always meant to be family."

He Yun gave her a cold look. "You can't even read the characters properly. I'm not going to be family with an idiot."

Yun Xiu was so mad that she started hating the sharp-tongued girl.

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Yun Xiu and He Yun fell in love at eighteen.

They had just started college and ended up in the same dorm room.

Unfamiliar with her new surroundings, Yun Xiu had no choice but to cling to her stepsister in name, going everywhere with her until their roommates called them "close sisters."

Little did they know that the girls would kiss at the stairwell landing, Yun Xiu's palm damp with sweat as she gasped for breath between kisses.

He Yun teased her for being so clueless she didn't even know how to catch her breath.

Furious, Yun Xiu bit the bad woman's lip hard enough to draw blood.

-

Yun Xiu and He Yun reunited at twenty-eight, after breaking up.

By then, Yun Xiu was a polished city professional, and He Yun had returned from studying abroad.

Though they'd been apart for years, He Yun was still just as sharp-tongued and caustic, mocking Yun Xiu for being single and all alone.

Yun Xiu shot back, "You're no different."

He Yun fell silent for a moment, then replied, "Because I'm waiting for an idiot to come around."

-Bubbly, sunny girl x sharp-tongued, gloomy cynic. Yun Xiu x He Yun, 1v1, HE

-Two childish girls who are always getting under each other's skin argue over who loves the other more, only to discover they both love each other deeply

-A bedtime read about rekindling an old romance, with a stepsister relationship

-Sweet and sour, written during a late-night writing session

Theme: Choose carefully.