The story of Zhou Keqi and Zheng Beiqing
Dubious consent | Older man
Everyone in Hong Kong loves to gossip about the romantic history of the Zhou family's second son.
First, for the sake of a female jockey, he spent five hundred million building a racecourse, raising countless Akhal-Teke horses worth tens of millions each and throwing money around like water.
Then he changed his name and announced it in the papers, abandoning the name that carried the hopes of the older generation of the Zhou family and changing it to Zhou Keqi. Such a decision, so defiant of his ancestors, set off even more heated debate across Hong Kong.
A friend asked Zhou Keqi, who spent all day at the racecourse, what his new name meant.
Zhou Keqi took a drag on his cigarette. As smoke billowed around him, a young woman approached briskly in the distance. He smiled, raised his chin toward her, and said, "It's a homophone pun. You wouldn't get it if you're single."
Zheng Beiqing heard their conversation and shot Zhou Keqi a discreet glare.
She remembered a certain night when he was pressed against her, his dark eyes wild, whispering in her ear as he thrust: "If I'm changing my name, I might as well make it fit. You love riding horses, and you love riding me, so how about the character for 'qi'?"
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Zheng Beiqing had been trapped in Hong Kong for years, but one day she was finally able to leave.
After enjoying a few years of peace and quiet, she decided to marry the man her family had set her up with.
But someone else was waiting outside the marriage registration office on the day she went to get her license.
Though it had been years since they'd last seen each other, he was still tall and handsome. He grasped her hand, his gaze cold and his voice hoarse and dark. "Marriage? We really should get married."
The blurb has been lightly revised before publication. The central premise is unchanged.
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