I QR-Coded My Childhood Friend

Chu Ran has one goal after finally turning eighteen: fall in love.

Preferably with someone handsome.

Unfortunately, there is one person standing between her and her beautiful romantic future-Tang Yi, her childhood friend of twenty years and the self-appointed destroyer of every crush she has ever had.

When their parents unexpectedly abandon them at the airport during a family vacation, Chu Ran finds herself broke, directionally challenged, and completely dependent on the one person she has spent her entire life arguing with.

Naturally, she responds with maturity.

She tricks Tang Yi into letting her paint a "dragon totem" on his back.

What she actually paints is her personal QR code, accompanied by four dangerous words:

Hot guys only, please.

Her brilliant plan works a little too well.

Handsome strangers start scanning Tang Yi's back, Tang Yi discovers the truth, and Chu Ran nearly loses both her life and her vacation budget.

But that is only the beginning.

Between disastrous beach photos, revenge makeup, seasickness, birthday schemes, suspiciously attentive handsome strangers, and Tang Yi systematically sabotaging every possible romantic opportunity she encounters, their vacation becomes one long battle of sarcasm, jealousy, and increasingly questionable boundaries.

Chu Ran insists Tang Yi is simply controlling.

Tang Yi insists he is only preventing her from making terrible decisions.

Neither of them is particularly convincing.

Then Li Xiangyang appears.

He is handsome, charming, an amazing photographer-and unlike Tang Yi, he seems genuinely interested in Chu Ran.

For the first time, Tang Yi's constant interference starts looking suspiciously less like protective friendship and suspiciously more like jealousy.

And even more terrifying?

Chu Ran realizes she might actually like it.

The boy who remembers her lactose intolerance, carries her when she is sick, loosens every bottle cap before handing it to her, walks on the traffic side of the sidewalk