Please Stop Feeding the Temptation

Bright and cheerful little artist x cold, taciturn engineer

Unaware flirt x intensely possessive

Summer seaside | Staying under the same roof | Love grows over time

Mu Tingyu arrives in the remote, backward village of Shitang to teach. The village is so poor and underdeveloped that she has no choice but to stay with Xing Ze, the only person in the village with a spare room.

Xing Ze is cold and stern, with plenty of rules.

On their first day, Mu Tingyu gets a chilly warning from him: "Stay on the second floor and behave. Don't come up to my third floor."

Mu Tingyu figures they can each keep to themselves and be polite strangers. She never expects Xing Ze's cooking to be so delicious.

So every day, she turns up beside the dining table with an empty bowl, looking up at him expectantly and waiting to be fed. She even puts the past behind them and showers him with free praise and compliments.

As she settles into a comfortable routine, she notices something.

Xing Ze seems to be getting more and more fond of managing her.

He meddles in her daily life, her little affairs, even her social life.

She's used to doing as she pleases, free and unrestrained, but unfortunately, her stomach betrays her: she just can't resist his cooking.

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One day, after waking from a drunken night, Mu Tingyu fumbles around and touches a solid chest.

She snaps awake. The bed is a mess, and the man's shoulders and neck are marked with suggestive bites and scratches.

Before he wakes, she carefully slides the arm draped over her waist aside and prepares to get out of bed.

A lazy voice comes from behind her. "Where are you going?"

Mu Tingyu: "Back to my second floor."

Xing Ze raises an eyebrow, assumes she's babbling, and reaches out to pull her back.

When her teaching stint ends, Mu Tingyu grabs her little suitcase and vanishes in an instant.

Xing Ze stares at the inexplicable twenty thousand yuan in his phone and messages her on WeChat, frowning.

"The other person has turned on Friend Verification. You are not their friend..."

Along with the four characters in her final message, "Thanks for taking me in," it all seems to mock his one-sided affection.

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A few months later, Mu Tingyu is happily surfing at the seaside. The moment she climbs ashore, someone grabs her firmly by the back of the neck.

A scorching, familiar presence closes in, and she freezes in fright.

Looking at her soaking-wet figure, Xing Ze tightens his grip a little and asks in a dangerous tone, "Why did you run?"

Seeing disaster looming, Mu Tingyu decides to throw caution to the wind. "Stop trying to control me!"

"You don't like me looking after you?"

Mu Tingyu is no longer living under someone else's roof, so she shouts, "I don't!"

"All right." Xing Ze lowers his eyes, his expression softening. "Then you can look after me instead. I'll cook for you every day from now on. How about it?"

Mu Tingyu: "...Huh?"

"You like my cooking, don't you?" he coaxes. His usually cold face even carries a hint of a smile. "I'll cook for you every day. What do you say?"

Mu Tingyu can't resist. For a moment, she can't tell whether she's been seduced by the food or the man, but in the end she hesitantly nods.

That night.

The hotel room is dim, and steam hangs in the air.

Mu Tingyu can barely stand. On the verge of breaking down, she can hardly get the words out. "Y-you said you were going to cook..."

"Is this what you meant by cooking?!"

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Mu Tingyu is a bird that never stops flying, longing for every place where she can be free. Xing Ze can't catch her, so he has no choice but to fly alongside her.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first time

2. Loving someone is like tending a flower

3. The male lead is devoted and domestic. Later, after the heroine leaves without saying goodbye, he becomes a little obsessive and dark. The heroine is a total dog trainer, and they're made for each other. Please don't read if this bothers you!

4. Please don't conflate the novel's plot with reality!

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Coming soon: Clear Skies After the Southern Rain. Please add it to your collection.

Cool, slow-to-warm-up wallflower x scheming, devious big bad wolf

Unrequited love from the male lead | Long-planned pursuit | Stealing her away and taking her place | School to city

"Show me a sign. Let me know you like me too."

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Nan Shuyao's boyfriend cheats on her.

Under the blazing sun, she stands outside the basketball gym, watching the two inside act intimately, laughing and fooling around. Her expression is cold.

Not wanting to make a scene in public, she turns to leave, but accidentally bumps into someone.

She knows him.

The famous captain of A University's men's basketball team, born into wealth and gifted academically. At a young age, he has already taken over his family's company. A true child of heaven.

People say he's extremely aloof and keeps everyone at arm's length. No one of the opposite sex has ever been close to him.

Nan Shuyao quietly apologizes and tries to walk past him, but he stops her.

He is tall and poised, with the features of a mature man. "Aren't you going to break up with him?"

Nan Shuyao finds the question baffling. "Whether I break up with him... what does that have to do with you?"

"It does."

He steps closer, his gaze warm as he watches her, his tone nonchalant.

"Do you want to get back at him and be with me?"

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One night, Nan Shuyao gets a call from Ying Jia. He begs her repeatedly to get back together.

She's just about to hang up when a sudden commotion breaks out on the other end.

"Chong Xiao, what's wrong with you? You're so drunk you can't even hold your glass steady?"

Amid the hubbub, Ying Jia's pleas come through in bits and pieces.

"Where are you?" Nan Shuyao interrupts with a frown. "Send me your location."

Ying Jia is overjoyed. After hanging up, he announces smugly, "My girlfriend's coming to get me! She definitely still cares about me!"

But no matter how long he waits, she doesn't show up.

The room is raucous. He opens the balcony door to make a call and runs into his team captain, who, for once, has his arms around a girl.

With bleary, drunken eyes, he recognizes her.

"..."

Chong Xiao lifts his eyes and slightly loosens his hold on the girl in his arms, looking at him expressionlessly.

Nan Shuyao is panting, her gaze hazy and her voice soft from their deep kiss. "What's wrong...?"

She tries to look back, but Chong Xiao steadies the back of her head and kisses her again, more deeply and fiercely.

"Mm..."

Chong Xiao takes in the shock and fury on the other man's face. Unruffled, he keeps kissing her as he slides the balcony door shut.

The gap between the doors slowly closes.

Breathless between kisses, Nan Shuyao asks, "Who is it? Ying Jia...?"

"..."

Chong Xiao narrows his dark eyes and bites her lip as if to punish her. "What, you want to get back together?"

Nan Shuyao's whole body goes limp. She shakes her head.

Chong Xiao doesn't let up. His thin lips immediately cover her slender, pale neck, his scorching breath lingering there.

Nan Shuyao clutches the front of his shirt and hears his voice, rough with surging emotion.

"We've already kissed."

"When are you going to make me your official boyfriend?"

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Chong Xiao has had a smooth life and has never done anything reckless.

The most reckless thing he's ever done, perhaps, is fall for someone else's girlfriend and wait for them to break up like a demon lurking in the shadows.

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first time

2. The heroine has an ex, but they only held hands and hugged

Theme: You are the only tenderness I have