Tempted in the Old Days: The Cold-Faced Soldier Is Hooked by a Sweet Little Flower Again

[Both leads are romantically inexperienced + long period of mutual flirting and tension + bittersweet doting romance + scientific research setting + fictional world]

[A defiant, sharp-tongued hero who takes the lead × a genius heroine pretending to be a delicate flower]

A carefully laid plan brought Shi Lan into a relationship with her older brother's comrade-in-arms.

Growing up, Shi Lan understood one thing: she had to make use of everything within reach.

So she used this man to escape her filthy family, to find a place where she belonged and shine in her chosen field, and to make him gradually fall in love with her...

He silently approved and supported everything she did, even protecting her along the way.

But after she'd finally managed to unsettle his heart, all he said was that he would take responsibility for her.

Was that really all there was to it?

Then who was it that lost themselves in their kisses?

Who kept wanting more, again and again, and whose eyes couldn't hide their care and affection?

They say the first person to fall in love is the first to lose, but she wasn't the one who started it.

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The thing Tang Xingjiang hated most was betrayal, whatever the reason.

Even though he fell in love with Shi Lan at first sight, after that incident, he buried those feelings.

But the more he tried to take responsibility, the more he wanted to get close to her.

Years later, Tang Xingjiang looked back and realized that the moment he saw Shi Lan being bullied, he had gone against his own principles for the first time and chosen to save her.

From that moment on, their fates became entwined.