The Blackwood Rules for Falling in Love

Wealthy families ➕ sweet youth romance ➕ 1vN ➕ everyday life at an American high school ➕ trio of best friends ➕ a touch of mystery

Shen Xiying, aka Cecilia, is a beautiful heiress from a top family, with fair skin and gorgeous looks concealing a comedian’s personality. She is an equestrian champion and a romance novelist, until fiction becomes reality and her childhood friend falls for a sweet, innocent girl.

“When a man’s gone bad, throw him away.”

She flies to New York, enrolls in an American high school, and plans to try kissing foreign guys for a change.

But on the first day of school, she crashes into an Italian prince’s arms: a hot nerd in gold-rimmed glasses who is actually a fox of a prince. At the riding arena, she meets her rival, the student council president, a twin brother who gives off a sweet vibe the first time they meet. In the drama club, the other twin covers her eyes and asks, “Guess who?” He’s a catlike little devil. And on the football field, a golden retriever of a guy holds out hot chocolate and wags his tail at her. (More handsome guys to unlock: a scheming upperclassman who’s her nemesis, and an adorable Holmes-obsessed underclassman.)

What’s worse...

Her best friends, Wen Yu, a Chinese-American sweetheart, and Jiang Shuxian, an heiress to a Korean conglomerate, pull her into their trio, “Blackwood’s Runaway Princesses.”

Everyday life: competing for cafeteria food, shopping in Soho, slumber parties, road trips, and homecoming dances.

Side story: high school romance route loading...

Main story: kiss foreign guys! Build a career! Write novels!

Six top-tier hunks, nine linked unsolved mysteries, and a missing painting worth four hundred million dollars, all connected to a century-old secret pact between four great families.

“I’m not a gardenia in a greenhouse. I’m a lily of the valley beneath the moonlight: beautiful and poisonous.”