After Failing to Tame My Scumbag Ex

Yun Chuxiu tentatively proposed to his girlfriend for the third time, and she dodged the question.

Ji Jin smiled as she explained, "What's so great about getting married? Has Ah Xiu's need for control gotten worse again? That's not good, you know."

Was wanting to marry his girlfriend of seven years really controlling?

Yun Chuxiu fell silent for a moment, then decided to give them both a break.

But the very next day after he started keeping his distance, his girlfriend came looking for him.

She bombarded him with questions.

"Why didn't you reply to my messages?"

"Are you mad at me? I can change..."

"You don't reply to me today, then tomorrow you'll turn off location sharing, and the day after that, are you going to leave me..."

"I only said I didn't want to get married. I never said I wanted to break up!"

Yun Chuxiu thought she had a point. "Oh. Then let's just keep dating."

Another month passed.

Yun Chuxiu no longer paid her excessive attention, and more and more thoughtful older and younger women began appearing around him.

Ji Jin finally realized two things.

1. Being just a girlfriend wasn't all that convenient.

2. Her Ah Xiu really was very attractive.

Ji Jin began to waver.

Then... once again, someone beat her to picking him up.

Ji Jin could take no more, and decided to take back every word she'd said: "Let's get married. We're going to do it right now!"

Yun Chuxiu's fingers paused on the umbrella. Standing in the rain, he raised an eyebrow and gently stroked her head. "Oh, you're right. Not getting married is pretty good too. I don't want to anymore."

A very controlling, cool beauty (bottom) × a love-starved puppy too afraid to take the first step (top)

Reader advisory:

Happy ending, both leads' first and only, same-sex marriage is legal in this setting, includes a groveling arc, probably bittersweet.

Not a female-only world. Please don't send writing advice.

Both characters have their flaws. Readers who don't mind are welcome to give it a try!

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"After Losing Her Memory, the Heiress Won't Leave Me Alone"

It was an ordinary day.

Zhao Zhao received a strange order at her flower shop.

The customer ordered the most expensive bouquet in the shop and offered extra money to have the owner deliver it personally.

For the money, Zhao Zhao not only wrapped and delivered the bouquet herself, but also added a lucky comment, as the customer had hinted with her eyes.

She said the two women on a date were a perfect match, and that their eyes were full of love.

The person who ordered the flowers laughed, but the other woman smiled as she dropped the bouquet on the ground, then glared furiously at Zhao Zhao as if she were a faithless, rotten ex.

Zhao Zhao had no idea what was going on. Hoping to head off a bad review, she stepped forward to ask what the problem was... only to make the woman even angrier.

Afraid things would escalate, she had no choice but to leave.

Then the woman started following her around like a ghost.

Zhao Zhao: "!"

Zhao Zhao was driven steadily backward by the woman's pursuit. Just as she was about to accept this relationship that felt like a home invasion, she discovered that the woman's real contact information was in her blacklist, labeled "ex-girlfriend."

She'd fallen into the same trap twice.

Zhao Zhao slapped her thigh. "Oh no, I've met this woman before..."

*

After sorting out the mess in her life, Ning Qinghe decided to clear up the misunderstanding with her ex-girlfriend and win her back while she was at it.

It should have been a simple matter, if only the other woman hadn't lost her memory, taken up with a substitute, and decided she didn't want the real thing.

Ning Qinghe: "...Heh."

Ning Qinghe remained perfectly calm as she broke the door of rejection with one hand.

"...So what if you've lost your memory? You obviously love this face! Why can't we get back together!"

A naive, absentminded sunshine girl with amnesia × a seemingly aloof heiress who's actually hopelessly in love

Content warnings:

1. There's no real substitute, it's all in someone's imagination.

2. Both leads' first and only, no sidekicks, probably a bittersweet groveling arc.

3. Not a female-only world. Please don't send writing advice.

Theme: Love can overcome every obstacle