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May 18, 2026
4.5⭐
English title: Blazing Fire Is Hard to Extinguish
Lin Chi, a struggling model with a carefree and unrestrained personality, met Li Tingyan in a bar when the latter is drowning his sorrow over a soon-to-be-married crush. A one-night stand slowly becomes friends-with-benefit—until both parties become entangled deeper than they planned for.
The main appeal of this story is to see how two people slowly fall in love. Lin Chi never cares for love and is unwilling to commit. Li Tingyan is in love with someone else and has enough family politics to deal with. Their romance clearly seems impossible, and it's fascinating to see them realizing with horror that they have fallen. The path after this point isn't smooth, but it's handled with maturity, a lot of yearnings, and a sweet HEA.
> Pairing: a model & a CEO
> Mature relationship
> Friends-with-benefit
> Steam level: closed door
English title: Blazing Fire Is Hard to Extinguish
Lin Chi, a struggling model with a carefree and unrestrained personality, met Li Tingyan in a bar when the latter is drowning his sorrow over a soon-to-be-married crush. A one-night stand slowly becomes friends-with-benefit—until both parties become entangled deeper than they planned for.
The main appeal of this story is to see how two people slowly fall in love. Lin Chi never cares for love and is unwilling to commit. Li Tingyan is in love with someone else and has enough family politics to deal with. Their romance clearly seems impossible, and it's fascinating to see them realizing with horror that they have fallen. The path after this point isn't smooth, but it's handled with maturity, a lot of yearnings, and a sweet HEA.
> Pairing: a model & a CEO
> Mature relationship
> Friends-with-benefit
> Steam level: closed door
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May 18, 2026English title is Blazing Fire is Hard to Extinguish, 58 chapters with some extras and “what ifs” I didn’t read because I couldn’t find them.
Lin Chi: young model/student (22), broke, not interested in relationships, fun, bold “beautiful, arrogant, and interesting personality”, unforgettable, more to him than just looks, openly gay and very popular, playboy (but not necessarily in this story), carefree but has some past trauma
Li Tingyan: rich, heartbroken over a crush getting married, inexperienced in love (and sex), has always thought he only wants intimacy with emotional connection, very doting, kind and generous , also controlling and possessive but not as bad as it sounds 😏, has family issues, has not come out,
✔️Class/Age/wealth gap, kind of different worlds- not sure how old the ML is but he’s a well established CEO and the MC is a senior in college student and an aspiring actor/model-singer but also has been working so he is more mature than most 22 year olds
✔️Lovers/friends with benefits and the complications that come with it
Good communication (for the most part)
✔️An unrequited (really just unanswered) confession that will make you cry but you will understand in the end why it had to be this way
✔️Short enough you shouldn’t get bored but will also feel like something is missing in the world building/storytelling
Initially I thought LT was my favorite character but LC really won my heart by the end. He was a lot more mature than you think he’s going to be.
Maybe spoilers…
❤️🔥I didn’t see how they were going to make it relationship-wise with such different statuses and stages in life but the way the author wrote the separation/break-up really made it come together very realistically and thankfully there was a HE.
❤️🔥 I usually don’t like time skips or long separations but this one wasn’t too bad. I still get sad when I think about the time skips in Sa Ye and WFMAS
❤️🔥 I really appreciated the way LT as a rich CEO wasn’t a “savior” for a young beautiful model. LC was successful on his own with his own talent and just a few connections that LT helped with but you feel like he would have eventually made it on his own regardless. LT did not try and manipulate LC and LC did not “use” LT to try and advance his career.
❤️🔥 I loved the way the author portrayed how they navigated the FWB to actual lovers. It wasn’t easy, things didn’t happen at the same time for them, one couldn’t give what the other needed at the time and they knew it BUT you never felt like things were unequal as far as their feelings for each other
❤️🔥 I have read back to back novels where both bottoms were tops first and the fact they changed was not a focus.
Lin Chi: young model/student (22), broke, not interested in relationships, fun, bold “beautiful, arrogant, and interesting personality”, unforgettable, more to him than just looks, openly gay and very popular, playboy (but not necessarily in this story), carefree but has some past trauma
Li Tingyan: rich, heartbroken over a crush getting married, inexperienced in love (and sex), has always thought he only wants intimacy with emotional connection, very doting, kind and generous , also controlling and possessive but not as bad as it sounds 😏, has family issues, has not come out,
✔️Class/Age/wealth gap, kind of different worlds- not sure how old the ML is but he’s a well established CEO and the MC is a senior in college student and an aspiring actor/model-singer but also has been working so he is more mature than most 22 year olds
✔️Lovers/friends with benefits and the complications that come with it
Good communication (for the most part)
✔️An unrequited (really just unanswered) confession that will make you cry but you will understand in the end why it had to be this way
✔️Short enough you shouldn’t get bored but will also feel like something is missing in the world building/storytelling
Initially I thought LT was my favorite character but LC really won my heart by the end. He was a lot more mature than you think he’s going to be.
Maybe spoilers…
❤️🔥I didn’t see how they were going to make it relationship-wise with such different statuses and stages in life but the way the author wrote the separation/break-up really made it come together very realistically and thankfully there was a HE.
❤️🔥 I usually don’t like time skips or long separations but this one wasn’t too bad. I still get sad when I think about the time skips in Sa Ye and WFMAS
❤️🔥 I really appreciated the way LT as a rich CEO wasn’t a “savior” for a young beautiful model. LC was successful on his own with his own talent and just a few connections that LT helped with but you feel like he would have eventually made it on his own regardless. LT did not try and manipulate LC and LC did not “use” LT to try and advance his career.
❤️🔥 I loved the way the author portrayed how they navigated the FWB to actual lovers. It wasn’t easy, things didn’t happen at the same time for them, one couldn’t give what the other needed at the time and they knew it BUT you never felt like things were unequal as far as their feelings for each other
❤️🔥 I have read back to back novels where both bottoms were tops first and the fact they changed was not a focus.
October 26, 2025
At first it was slightly intriguing. Around 50% in I started getting bored and by 70% I was skim-reading. Now at 76% (chapter 56) I’m dropping it.
I can’t pinpoint my exact issue with the book because honestly I thought it would be a 5 star read. But it started to feel dragged out for no reason, and I didn’t see a major obstacle in the relationship so why did the ML let the MC leave?
I understand that he’s logical, rational, and burdened with responsibility but it still doesn’t align with the decisive, sharp image he originally had when facing “obstacles.” Then came the multiple time skips which I’m not a fan of where’s the ache that’s supposed to come alive during the separation?
Do I recommend this book? Maybe. Honestly it depends on what you like.
English title: Blazing Fire Is Hard to Extinguish
I can’t pinpoint my exact issue with the book because honestly I thought it would be a 5 star read. But it started to feel dragged out for no reason, and I didn’t see a major obstacle in the relationship so why did the ML let the MC leave?
I understand that he’s logical, rational, and burdened with responsibility but it still doesn’t align with the decisive, sharp image he originally had when facing “obstacles.” Then came the multiple time skips which I’m not a fan of where’s the ache that’s supposed to come alive during the separation?
Do I recommend this book? Maybe. Honestly it depends on what you like.
English title: Blazing Fire Is Hard to Extinguish
July 16, 2025
4! tan tierno y fácil de leer, muy bueno para pasar la tarde...
April 30, 2026
Blazing Fire is Hard to Extinguish
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