Crossing the Line

New Novel Blurb (launching October 11):

Spoiled, vicious fake heiress × scheming rising star in her industry

[Love at first sight | Push and pull | Four-year age gap]

Everyone knows that Ye Shuer, the eldest daughter of the Ye real estate family, is stunningly beautiful, awful-tempered, and arrogant, and never gives anyone the time of day.

Even so, plenty of people still throw themselves at her, foolishly hoping to win the heart of a beauty. She treats them all like air.

None of the men who have pursued her think she could ever fall for anyone, and Ye Shuer agrees with them.

But the moment she lays eyes on Chi Yu, his face captivates her, and she can't stop thinking about him.

She pursues him for weeks, but he remains unmoved.

Her patience finally runs out, and she resorts to a few “little tricks.” At last, he gives in and marries her.

*

A few months into their marriage, she suddenly learns something shocking: she's actually a fake heiress!

Ye Shuer's world comes crashing down. Plenty of people are waiting to see the lawless heiress get dumped, and even she is waiting for it herself.

But she waits and waits, and nothing happens.

*

Chi Yu has never cared about Ye Shuer's identity. Whether she's the real or fake heiress makes no difference to him.

He doesn't think any of it will affect his life. But one day, he returns from a business trip and sees the divorce papers on the table. He stares at them for a long time, then silently tosses them in the trash.

Calmly, he says he'll give his wife time to think things over.

But when he sees the man by his wife's side, he decides she's had more than enough time and should come home!

So one day, someone appears in Ye Shuer's room.

He looks at the flowers that have just been delivered, pins her against the wall, and places a string of soft kisses on her slender, pale neck. His low voice falls beside her ear. “Has he ever done this to you?”

* Both leads are sexually inexperienced; alternate setting; melodramatic

* Neither lead is perfect

Novel Blurb:

Foster-family romance / she falls for him in secret / bittersweet push and pull / hints of possessive love later on

The year Shi Qing was brought to the Gu family, she was holding a stuffed rabbit in her arms.

She looked at the handsome boy standing before her and timidly called him, “Big Brother.”

Gu Linnie was the definition of a heaven-blessed prodigy.

When he first met Shi Qing, he thought his family had simply gained another toy, and paid her no mind.

But the more time they spent together, the more he felt there was something different about her.

Shi Qing fell for Gu Linnie in secret, before she even realized it herself.

So when she turned eighteen, she made a decision: she would confess to him.

His rejection was exactly what she had expected, but it was still hard to accept.

Shi Qing chose to run away.

She moved out of the Gu home and into the house her parents had left her, keeping her distance so she wouldn't bother him anymore.

But when they meet again, Gu Linnie corners her in a room. The usual cool, distant composure is gone, replaced by an emotion in his eyes that Shi Qing has never seen before. He slowly closes in until she has nowhere left to retreat. “Qingqing...”

Shi Qing turns her face away. “Big Brother, you're crossing the line.”

* Both are sexually inexperienced and each other's first love

* Alternate setting, with original worldbuilding

Theme: Making dreams come true.