A Date with My Ex-Husband

As a well-known relationship columnist and host of her own radio show, Tang Shiyue is a relationship expert. How could she let her fans discover that her own love life is a mess, that she had a whirlwind marriage and divorce, and that she has an ex-husband?

This is a story about rekindling an old romance.

My ongoing story, Just Want to Share the Little Things with You, is a cozy everyday-life romance. Come give it a try.

It's a story about a sharp-tongued woman who falls in love, then gets her comeuppance.

Let's talk about their first impressions of each other.

Huo Wentao: She was just an immature young woman standing in for her cousin to turn down a blind date.

Sang Qi: Is this guy crazy? I feel like I'm standing in for my cousin to climb a mountain of knives and plunge into a sea of fire.

Now let's talk about their second impressions, after they got to know each other.

Huo Wentao: She's amusing when she tries to fool herself.

Sang Qi: He's not bad when he's being two-faced, either.

Sang Qi: So, is this a difference between men and women?

Huo Wentao smiled. "No, it's just a difference between you and me."

A sharp-tongued, proud bookstore owner + a college girl who loves to write.

He said: Sometimes the nagging of elders at home is even more exhausting than going on a blind date.

He said: Roses and diamonds are nothing but a marketing ploy to brainwash women.

He said: If I didn't know you were fishing for gossip to use in your writing, I'd think you were in love with me.

He said: If you aren't secretly in love with me, you'd better stop asking about my private life.

He said: You don't actually believe there can be everlasting love in this world, do you?

But love came slowly, like a steady stream. When he realized that he had fallen for her, roses, diamond rings, and the everlasting love he'd once scorned all came back to bite him.

In the end, resigned and helpless, he said, "Don't be childish. Love is bound to go stale sooner or later... So marry me before it does. Let's turn love into responsibility and family affection, then take a gamble on whether I'm a man with a conscience..."

Well, was there really any need to gamble?

Sang Qi couldn't help smiling. The man who drove across half the city in the middle of the night to make sure she was safe, who else could it be?

Reader: Why do they keep talking and talking?

Author: Exactly, because this is a love story about two people with completely different personalities gradually sparking something special as they share the little details of everyday life.

The most romantic thing I can imagine is sharing all the little things in life with you.

Mini-scene:

Cousin: Why are you always hanging around the bookstore?

Sang Qi: So I can hear gossip and use it in my writing.

Cousin: Why are you still working at the store during summer vacation?

Sang Qi: So I can get gossip out of Boss Huo and use it in my writing.

Cousin: Are you saying you went to a hotel room with Boss Huo to get material for your writing, too???

Sang Qi: Don't get the wrong idea. I said I had no experience with that sort of thing, and he offered to help!

Huo Wentao: Y-you know that the more you explain, the worse it sounds, right?

Sang Qi: Fine, fine. We were just doing field research. We didn't do anything.

Theme: Building a healthy outlook on love and marriage