Someone Special

Main story complete, with bonus chapters released from time to time.

My next novel will be Spring Swallow.

The year Ye Ning turned thirty, she heard that the person she'd had a crush on as a teenager was ill.

He'd once helped her, so she did everything she could for him, giving money and arranging help.

When her husband found out, she thought their lukewarm marriage was about to end.

But Lou Yanqing smoked half a pack and only asked whether she still wanted to stay married.

Ye Ning said she did.

Lou Yanqing nodded. "Then that's that."

Ye Ning and Lou Yanqing met through a matchmaking arrangement and have been married for two years.

He's a veteran who works for a state-owned company, and Ye Ning is actually a little afraid of him.

Yet this taciturn, dour man can still get red-eyed and sulk at Ye Ning, stubbornly insisting, "You just don't love me."

· Taciturn and reserved x gentle and resilient

· Married first, fall in love later, both leads are sexually inexperienced

· The title is from the song "Special One" by Khalil Fong

Spring Swallow synopsis:

Li Chi likes to get his car washed at an auto repair shop. The owner's wife is quick and meticulous, and her work is cleaner than at the other shops.

While he waits, he likes to tease her little girl. The four-year-old is just like her mother, smiling at everyone she meets.

One evening, he parks outside the shop again. The roller shutter is only half down, and he hears a woman crying and a man cursing inside.

He doesn't get involved in a married couple's affairs. He turns the wheel, ready to leave, but then sees the little girl who usually chats and smiles with him kneeling beside his car door, crying and begging him to save her mother.

Having a soft heart is Li Chi's weakness.

At first, he only feels sorry for a child.

Later, he feels sorry for Wu Chunyan.

He says, "Come with me. I don't hit women."

Wu Chunyan doesn't dare say a word, making Li Chi feel like he's bullying her.

Later, he says, "Run away. Brother Chi will take care of everything."

Wu Chunyan really does run. She takes her daughter and flees in a desperate state.

When they reunite three years later, the woman's smile is as bright as it was the first time they met.

Li Chi can tell that Wu Chunyan looks at him with nothing but gratitude.

"You don't like me?" Li Chi raises an eyebrow.

"How could I not?" Wu Chunyan smooths the loose hair at her temple and says with a smile, "There's no woman who wouldn't like a man like you, Boss Li. But I'm happy just looking. I don't want anything more. Wanting more would only make me miserable. Life is short, so we should be happy."

Li Chi laughs along. "Calling me Boss again?"

Wu Chunyan blushes. "Brother Chi."

Li Chi has spent more than thirty years dating women, but never marrying.

Then he meets Wu Chunyan and decides that a man really ought to have a home.

· Single mother x earthworks contractor

Theme: Love requires respect