September's Wishes

Blurb: Also known as My Favorite Turned Out to Be My Ex-Girlfriend

Couple: A shy, low-key, secretly wicked, hidden crowd-pleaser x an older, aloof and gentle master artist

Tang Hengzhi is synonymous with an artistic school in the art world. The rising generation of artists calls her a visual poet whose brushstrokes bring the colors of the soul to life.

Born into a distinguished family, she can casually and subtly sketch a single line that would take ordinary people a lifetime of artistic struggle to achieve.

Tang Hengzhi has a secret: she runs a small online account as a comic artist, using it to entice a certain kitten and wish her good night every evening.

Lin Sanyuan, a little-known comic artist, has a secret of her own. She thinks something may be wrong with her mind. A fever a year ago gave her encephalitis and left her with a gap in her memory.

Her hazy, ordinary life has one extraordinary idol.

Her idol, known as "Qiufeng," is a mysterious comic artist who has risen to online fame in recent years, a major influencer with millions of devoted fans.

Every night, Lin Sanyuan quietly votes for her and sends tips, waiting for her idol to come online at seven sharp.

One day, on a whim, she joins the flood of comments and posts, "Baby, your hands are so beautiful."

On screen, the hand holding the paintbrush gradually turns red.

The mysterious artist, who has never shown her face on stream, gives a soft laugh.

The camera turns from the drawing to reveal a face of breathtaking beauty.

She is so beautiful she hardly seems real. Her pinky, wearing a little-finger ring, loosely hooks around her paintbrush. Her cool smile invites speculation as she asks, "Just how beautiful?"

The autumn rain falls all night, damp and clinging.

For once, Lin Sanyuan drinks enough to black out. When she wakes, she finds herself lying in an unfamiliar bed.

An unfamiliar woman is sleeping beside her.

Her hand has slipped under the hem of the woman's shirt and is resting on her.

Lin Sanyuan has a bad habit: when nervous, she clenches her fists. This time, the clenching makes her tremble.

The woman opens her eyes as if she can't take it anymore, then looks at her with a tolerant gaze and says, "Let go. It hurts."

After twenty-four years of believing she was an outstanding graduate of the Heartless Path, Lin Sanyuan suddenly finds herself with an ex-girlfriend.

When her ex learns she has amnesia, she rushes back to the country overnight to demand a title.

Lin Sanyuan, the faithless Chen Shimei, is utterly bewildered: Nobody told her that my favorite was my ex-girlfriend?!!!

[Content warning: The love interest appears relatively late. The female character who appears first is a romantic rival, and the buildup is fairly long. The protagonist has a bit of a crowd-pleaser constitution. An important younger female rival has a crush on the female lead. There are rivalry scenes. The female rival is a good person, with an unrequited-love, hard-to-get-over characterization. Read the ship at your own discretion.]

New novel now underway:

The Imperial Preceptor

Couple: A cunning, volatile, beautiful, tragic, powerful emperor receiving x an older, aloof, restrained, gentle imperial preceptor giving

The young Li Ge had been guarding a stele in Wangchuan Town for two years when, one day, peace in the town was shattered.

A mysterious ice coffin was being transported to the Great Zhou Kingdom. In a desperate situation, Li Ge fell into it to survive. The woman inside was cold to the touch, dressed in red-and-white ritual robes, with a demon mask covering her face. A three-inch-long black, uncanny nail was embedded deep in her heart, and she seemed to have lost all signs of life.

Li Ge pulled out the bone nail, taking on a body full of baleful energy. The mysterious woman in the coffin revived. Lifting half her mask, she fed Li Ge a spiritual pearl from her mouth, dispelling the baleful energy from Li Ge's body.

Li Ge didn't know who the woman was or what she looked like. She believed only that every debt must be repaid. She had pulled out the nail and awakened the woman. Whether she was god or ghost, demon or fiend, the woman owed her this favor.

She said to the woman in the demon mask, "You owe me one wish."

The woman replied, "All right."

The ice coffin's seal broke, unleashing the hidden demons and ghosts in the town. A beautiful young man died in the resulting calamity.

The young man had been accompanied by palace assassins, with imperial guards and powerful officials in attendance. Pei Yuan, a woman from an official family, had once seen his face in the palace: a peerlessly beautiful appearance, naturally jade-green eyes, a cinnabar-red mark between his brows, the bearing of a celestial being. He looked nothing like a man.

He looked exactly like Li Ge, the young woman who had escorted her into town!

The hidden guard had failed to protect the emperor along the way and knew his own death was near. In his despair, he saw that the young woman's concealed face matched the emperor's. Threatening her with force and his life, he tried to carve out a chance of survival in their desperate predicament.

Three years later, Li Ge, under the assumed name of Emperor Li Fujin, stood before the palace gates. Looking up and down at the towering palace, her gaze turned cold.

Long time no see, Chang'an City.

The Northern Ji Palace, Hengshui Hall.

Using her identity as emperor, Li Fujin followed the ancient custom of entering the imperial preceptor's hall to pay her respects, and took the opportunity to steal the preceptor's treasure, the Kunlun Book. The legendary Imperial Preceptor Zilan turned out to be a cripple, unable to walk and blind in both eyes. Clad in white and riding a red leopard, she shattered the heart meridian of the thief with a single palm strike.

Coughing blood, Li Fujin looked up by the moonlight and recognized the imperial preceptor: the creditor who owed her a wish.

Well, well, well. It looked like they had a feud now.

Theme: Don't ask what you will reap, only ask what you will sow