Today Is a Good Day to Behave

Campus novel coming next: 《Half a Poem》: sensitive, gentle girl x scheming, arrogant rich boy; her unrequited love; campus romance Coming next: 《Half-Ripe Rose》: flirtatious charmer x old-money heir; a self-controlled head of the family by day, calling her “baby” every other breath at night Find more delicious stories in my author column~ Cool, well-behaved bunny x cold-faced, doting bad boy Rekindled love | Each other’s first love | Long-planned romance | University campus From childhood on, Bai Luozhi had always been the good girl in everyone’s eyes, dutifully doing what was expected of her at every stage of life. The first person to see through her act was Xie Xiaoye. A spoiled, untamable rich boy, doted on by everyone and blessed with a strikingly handsome face… That was Bai Luozhi’s first impression of him. Back then, he lowered his eyes and casually knocked the cigarette she had just taken from someone out of her hand. His gaze was amused, but also a warning. Bai Luozhi thought they would never cross paths again, until a club activity brought them together. “Kiss for ten seconds through a tissue.” That was the king’s command. Xie Xiaoye sat there, looking up at her with languid indifference. “Why pretend to be so good?” he murmured, low enough for only the two of them to hear. But the next second, he froze. The girl leaned in and kissed him without putting a tissue between them. No one would have guessed that such a well-behaved girl would sneak into the boys’ dormitory in the middle of the night, sit on his lap, wrap her arms around his neck, and demand a kiss. Xie Xiaoye rubbed her flushed, alluring eyes with one hand and held her hips with the other. His voice was hoarse. “This time, can I only kiss you?” Bai Luozhi’s cool gaze warmed slightly. “Mm. You can only kiss me.” ** Everyone was betting on when the young master would get tired of her. After all, a rabbit could never tame a wild horse. Sure enough, after graduation, the two were never seen together again. No one knew that for a whole month, every call he made and every text he sent went unanswered. He leaned back on the sofa, staring at his screen with a smile. “Bai Luozhi, you win.” The next second, his phone plunged into his drink with a crash, never to light up again. Three years later, Xie Xiaoye returned to China in a blaze of publicity as a rising business tycoon. The reporter assigned to interview him was a beautiful woman. “Mr. Xie, do you intend to take over the Xie Group now that you’ve returned?” Xie Xiaoye said nothing, only watching the reporter. Then the corner of his mouth lifted. He lowered his voice and leaned close to her ear. “Miss Reporter, you look exactly like my ex-girlfriend.” That night, Bai Luozhi was pinned against her bedroom door. “Mr. Xie, please behave yourself.” She was still so well-behaved, her slender, pale waist trembling as she let him take control. “Behave myself?” Xie Xiaoye stared at that familiar face. “Bai Luozhi… how dare you show up in front of me again?” He thought he would be angrier, that he would say even more humiliating things. But in the end, he only buried his face against her neck and turned all his longing and hatred into a bite mark. In this relationship, he had always been the one left behind. Yet proud as he was, he was still addicted to her, unable to quit. “Luozhi, can we start over? I’ll be good this time.” 《Half a Poem》 blurb When Chen Sui was sixteen, she arrived at the Zhou family’s home with nothing to her name. She looked up and saw a boy coming down the stairs. He had just showered, his damp black hair falling over his forehead. As he passed her, his scent was crisp and expensive. Mr. and Mrs. Zhou told her that this would be her home from now on, and Zhou Qi would be her brother. But Chen Sui never dared to call him that. Zhou Qi was dazzling, like the sun. At school, he was always at the center of a crowd of admirers. She, meanwhile, was ordinary and timid, born not to fit in with them. Whenever those beautiful eyes looked at her, they were always cold. “Chen Sui, why are you blushing?” She thought that if she kept her secret hidden and behaved well enough, she could stay. “Zhou Qi, don’t be stingy. Your adopted little sister is pretty cute. Why not let her call me ‘big brother’ a couple of times?” Chen Sui was about to speak when a voice cut in sharply. “Get lost.” After his friend left, she was about to follow, but Lu Jin grabbed her and pulled her close. He was so near that his scent enveloped her at once. “What, you stop smiling as soon as he leaves? Want him to be your big brother that badly?” “Or… do you just hate me that much?” After the college entrance exams, the room at the far end of the second floor stood empty. As if possessed, Zhou Qi walked inside, trying to find some trace of her having been there. But there was nothing except a note hidden in the gap of a drawer. “Chen Sui likes Zhou Qi.” He breathed in the scent of the handwriting, as though he could recall her scent from it. Picking up a pen, he added a line beneath it: “Idiot, keep hiding. Pray Zhou Qi doesn’t find you.” What would he do once he found her? First, he’d make her repeat what was on the note. No… one hundred times. [He didn’t want her to call him big brother, because he wanted to be more than her brother.] Theme: Love is a beautiful fable