The Icy Director Has Been Plotting to Win Me Over for Ages

Next up: Your Girlfriend Is So Cute. A wife-like, maternal woman x a prickly high school girl, fake mother and daughter, stealing someone else's love

A scheming, flirtatious bad woman x a flustered, sweet, silly Bichon

Long-planned pursuit / openly pretending, secretly flirting / the one who falls in love after all

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On her first day as an intern at her family's company, Qu Zhixia was full of complaints. To celebrate her loss of freedom, her troublemaking friend invited her to meet at a bar that night.

After a few drinks, Qu Zhixia's cheeks were flushed. Through the arched glass door, she saw a woman...

Long hair, a cold expression, a half-open shirt.

The woman's heels tapped on the wooden floor.

Thud, thud, thud...

Her heart pounded like a drum.

Qu Zhixia licked her lips. Tipsy and with her mind hazy from the alcohol, she confessed first. The woman responded coolly.

She thought this chance encounter would come to nothing, but the next day she learned that the woman was her director, Liu Antong.

Her internship mentor took the initiative to introduce her: "This is our new intern, Qu Zhixia."

The cold beauty glanced at her with a faint, knowing smile. "Pretty bold."

Qu Zhixia's scalp prickled. All she wanted was to run.

*

Qu Zhixia had planned to live off her parents, but her mother forced her to intern at the company, where she ended up with a cold and merciless director.

Liu Antong was ruthless, always leaving Qu Zhixia alone to work overtime.

In their shared office, she always sat beside Qu Zhixia and coached her like a strict teacher.

Sometimes they sat too close, and Qu Zhixia would find herself drawn to her beautiful eyelashes.

Blink. Blink.

"Why are you staring at me?" Liu Antong asked coldly.

"What's it to you?" Qu Zhixia retorted, stubbornly.

Qu Zhixia had thought it was all one-sided, but as time went by, Liu Antong kept appearing by her side.

Until one day, she happened to see an old photograph tucked into Liu Antong's wallet.

A girl in a school uniform smiled brightly, her eyes sparkling. The edges of the photograph had worn into fuzzy frays.

Qu Zhixia was stunned.

How could the person in the photo be her?

*

It took Liu Antong seven years to make her way from Linyi County to Qu Zhixia.

"You, so utterly different from me,

Though a thousand miles away, you still have the power to change me."

[Mini Theater]

Now, someone is bound to ask: Liu Antong, Liu Antong, how are you going to win Qu Zhixia over?

Answer: Like you, get close to you, seduce you, then wait for you to kiss me^^

Reader's Guide:

1. All characters are female by default. Female characters are assumed to be lesbians or asexual, and to come from single-mother households.

2. Men appear only as villains or as part of a father-killing backstory.

3. If you insist on clearly defined tops and bottoms, this may not be for you. No need to tell me if you drop it.

Theme: Flowers bloom in the mud