The Willing Bite

Upcoming novel: One-Way Mirror, a coercive romance. Blurb at the bottom. [Cheerful employee * scheming CEO] [Three-year age gap / contract relationship / secretly planned for a long time] 1. Shu Tong is a pretty but ordinary office worker in the city. Her daily routine is work, meals, and sleep... and recording little wishes in a private app. Everything she wrote in the app came true, until the night she broke down over her family pressuring her to marry. Shu Tong opened the app: Please send a man out of nowhere to shut my mom up! That wish went unanswered for a long time. She thought the app had stopped working. But a few days later, her direct superior, Zhou Jiming, invited her into his office and slid a dating agreement across the desk. The trial period was three months. The man leaned toward her, his gaze fixed on hers. His voice was low as he said, “I heard you need a boyfriend. How about considering me?” 2. Zhou Jiming was born a favorite of the heavens. His family, ability, and looks were all top-tier. Shu Tong had gone to the same university as him and worked at the same company after graduation. How could an invisible nobody like her ever have caught Zhou Jiming’s eye? But after they started living together, Shu Tong discovered that the usually aloof and stern Zhou Jiming had a whole other side in private: clinging to her at dawn and telling her he loved her, holding her and soothing her to sleep, showering her with sweet nothings... The day she was promoted, he gave her a watch worth seven figures. She laughed and said she felt like she’d won the love lottery. Zhou Jiming teased her: “Dating me is like winning the lifetime grand prize, isn’t it?” She secretly recorded their sweet everyday moments in the app, making a quiet wish: I hope Zhou Jiming will always love me. 3. Not long afterward, the two argued over work, and Shu Tong suddenly came to her senses. How could a man with a family and status like his really stay by her side for the rest of their lives? She opened the app and, with a heavy heart, typed: It was all a dream. I hope we can both forget each other after we break up. The moment the words uploaded to the cloud, the man burst through the door and demanded furiously, “Shu Tong, you might be able to forget me... but do you think your body can?” Kisses fell like raindrops. Zhou Jiming trembled as he said, “Don’t ever talk about breaking up again. I’m older than you, and I can’t take a scare like that. Got it?” Shu Tong laughed through her tears. It wasn’t until later that she learned Zhou Jiming had wished to be her boyfriend many years ago. Bonus scene: The secret of the app’s cloud sync was exposed. Shu Tong looked through all her embarrassing wishes about him, her scalp prickling. “Zhou Jiming... can we pretend you never saw those?” The man paused, then leisurely fastened his cufflinks. “Some of them, sure.” “But not the one where you wrote that I’m ‘too good in bed.’” Reading Guide: 1. Both leads are each other’s only partners. An urban fairy tale, so don’t take it too seriously. 2. The romance and plot are split evenly, with a slightly slow start. 3. Blurb created on October 1, 2025, and saved in a screenshot. Third revision made on August 27, 2026. Upcoming novel blurb: Gentle, quiet pipa teacher × deep and calculating man in power 1. Ning Xin was born into a scholarly family. Gentle and serene by nature, she could astonish an entire room with a single touch of her fingers to the pipa strings. One early autumn afternoon, her boyfriend came to her studio with a piece of paper. “My great-uncle’s granddaughter urgently needs a pipa teacher. Xin, why don’t you give it a try?” She carried her pipa into the old Qin family residence. The scent of rosewood and Longjing tea washed over her. It turned out that the “great-uncle” her boyfriend mentioned belonged to the Qin family of Jingbei. During the trial lesson, the Qin family’s rosewood pipa was unusually slippery. In a moment of carelessness, the six-figure instrument slipped from her hands and hit the floor. Ning Xin stared at the shattered tuning peg, her face deathly pale. A figure emerged from behind the moonlit gauze curtain of the inner hall. He wore a gray suit, his gaze as dark as ink. “It’s only an instrument. You don’t need to pay for it. If you feel bad, Teacher Ning, stay here and teach her.” 2. Knowing how restrictive life in the old Qin residence would be, she still felt too guilty to refuse. She temporarily closed her studio and moved into the west wing of the Qin family’s rear residence. The lessons lasted two hours every afternoon. Ning Xin always felt a chill down her back, but when she turned around, all she saw was the bamboo outside the window swaying in the breeze. Then, on a stormy night, someone knocked at her door. Qin Yuxiu stepped into her room for the first time and tossed several shocking photos onto the bed: her boyfriend had his arms around a woman, and the date was the third day after Ning Xin moved in. “Teacher Ning, it’s time to wake up from your romantic dream.” Her eyes reddened, and her heart went numb. “Mr. Qin, this is my private business.” He suddenly moved closer, wiped away her tears with his thumb, and slipped a ring onto her left ring finger. “Not anymore.” 3. Ning Xin assumed that the man in charge of the Qin family was merely acting on a whim. On the night they were forced to share a bed, she pressed the tuning peg against his chest. “You shameless opportunist!” The man chuckled softly, pushed the tuning peg aside, and kissed her. “Teacher Ning, even when you insult someone, you sound like you’re playing the pipa. Your voice trembles at the end.” Only later did she learn that someone had coated the rosewood pipa with pine resin to make it slippery, that her boyfriend’s affair had been deliberately arranged by him, and that even the curtains in the west wing were one-way mirrors... A shiver ran down her spine. She deliberately wore a cold expression in bed, and went on hunger strike to make her stand outside it. Qin Yuxiu personally brought her bird’s nest soup. She turned her head away, and the hot soup scalded his fingers. Still smiling, the man continued, “Go ahead and make a fuss. I have all the patience in the world.” Not long afterward, the Qin family held a grand engagement banquet. In front of the guests, the bride wore a calm expression, her eyes cold as she looked at the groom. Behind the scenes, Ning Xin was pinned to the sofa by Qin Yuxiu, kiss marks all over her front and back. One end of the repaired tuning peg glistened with a suggestive sheen. The man’s voice was hoarse as he pressed his forehead against hers, his obsession plain. “Xin Xin, look at me.” “Please, smile at me.” Reading Guide: 1. Both leads are each other’s only partners, and complete strangers before this. 2. A coercive romance with a happy ending. Theme: Finding love around the corner