Sweet Peach Is Hard to Coax

[A scion of the powerful elite × a gentle, resilient college student from an ordinary background] Sweet-and-sour romance + love at first sight + mild angst + an eight-year age gap When Qin An first met Xu Tao, he thought that beneath her well-behaved exterior lay a rebellious heart. She even had the nerve to snub him with a folding screen. She was bold, too. Well-behaved yet headstrong. It piqued his mischievous interest. Unfortunately, she was already taken—and by her childhood sweetheart, no less. Their bond was deep. No matter. Whether it took competing for her or snatching her away, he was capable of both. Yet when he finally got what he wanted, he discovered that the peach was not sweet at all. She was terribly hard to coax, and after he took a bite, the astringency spread from his mouth to his heart. … If she could do it all over again, Xu Tao would never have attended that birthday party. The revelry of the wealthy and privileged drew her boyfriend toward vanity and greed. Step by step, it led to a terrible mistake. In her despair, Qin An reached out to her like a god from the heavens. Again and again, he pulled her from the abyss. It was love and a stirring of the heart. It was falling helplessly. Qin An stood high above everyone, looking down on the world, forceful and domineering. Yet in the name of love, he wanted to sink into the depths alongside Xu Tao. — — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Sweet Peach Is Hard to Coax — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠