Bubbles and Lies

Qiu Yingying's greatest hobbies in life are blowing bubbles in the bathtub and saying 'I love you' to the male characters in her otome game. At twenty-six, she's never been in a relationship, helps out at her parents' laundromat, and her biggest daily exercise is pulling clothes out of the washing machine. Her life is as plain as a glass of water—until one day, she accidentally pours an entire bottle of laundry detergent into the drum. Foam gushes out of the laundromat, flooding half the street. Standing amidst the bubbles, she sees the most beautiful face she's ever laid eyes on. Cai Jiahua, thirty, is one of the youngest partners in the finance circle—calm, restrained, meticulous, with 'keep away' written all over him. His life is a precisely running machine, allowing no accidental bubbles to intrude. But his new apartment happens to be above Qiu Yingying's perpetually bubbling laundromat. One lives in bubbles, the other in a framework. When bubbles collide with the framework, and when 'I love you' is said for the first time to a real person by someone who's been saying it to game characters for years—all the absurd, sweet, uncontrollable accidents begin with that blundered confession: 'I love you, blowing bubbles.'