kyluc_asalways
"If you wanted me this close, you could have just asked. You didn't have to waste forty bucks of premium matcha to make it happen."
By day, Tong Xiaotao is a quiet, unassuming freelance copywriter who spends six days a week hiding in the furthest corner table of Velvet Roast. By night, she is "Master Peach" a wildly popular, best-selling online author of deeply dramatic, intensely spicy BL web novels. Her secret to topping the charts? Using the cafΓ©'s devastatingly handsome owner, Huo Yan, and his brooding head barista as the live-action research lab for her romantic archetypes.
Everything was the perfect ... until that one stupid afternoon happened.
Operating on pure adrenaline and a severe sleep debt, Xiaotao tries to AirDrop her latest unedited, highly explicit, R-18 webnovel draft to her phone for a quick proofread. But a shaking thumb and a blurry screen led to a catastrophic network error: she accidentally drops the file directly onto Huo Yan's personal iPad Pro. Unbelievably stupid.
And the worst part? The dominant, demanding main character in her steamy kitchen-counter manuscript is explicitly named Huo Yan.
Instead of deleting the file or calling the authorities, the unflappable cafΓ© perfectionist does something far worse: he critiques her technical realism. Under the threat of sharing the explicit draft with the entire staff, Huo Yan revokes her cozy corner table and reassigns her to Seat 1 right at the high-visibility counter bar as his mandatory "research assistant."
Forced to shadow his every shift, taste his late-night pastry experiments, and endure his constant, quiet teasing, Xiaotao finds the boundary between her fictional plot and her real-life feelings completely dissolving. But as the local gossip forums explode and her heart running a dangerously high tab, Xiaotao realizes the ultimate plot twist is still brewing:
The accidental AirDrop might have been her mistake-but the trap she walked into was entirely his design.