Near, Admire

[This is part of the series For All My Life, I Was Lucky to Meet You, about Shan Yiqing and Ying Rushi. Complete. Visit my column to read it.] - Even your fingertips are tinged with lovely colors. - Yasunari Kawabata Blurb 1: Ji Linyuan, a 32-year-old global media mogul, has lived abroad for years. A year ago, he suddenly returned to China to settle down. The only photo of him that surfaced, taken at the airport, caused a sensation online that very day. Rich, talented, and handsome, he became the dream man millions of young women coveted. The top trending topic and hashtag on Weibo that day were both: Ji Linyuan, I want to marry you and be your wife! Early the next morning, the trending topics and hashtags mysteriously vanished. Then a newly registered, verified account under the name "Ji Linyuan" posted a single Weibo post, containing just two words: Married. Blurb 2: Mu Yanxi was born into a family of traditional Chinese painters and grew up surrounded by art. Her innate talent for painting was unmistakable by the time she was four. At just seventeen, her signature work, Yanxi, established her as a rising star in the art world. A beautiful painter with talent and brains, she attracted attention from all quarters, but her gentle, unassuming nature meant she rarely appeared in public. When Mu Yanxi was twenty-three, she returned to China after being invited by France's Robin Art Museum to represent China at the Sino-French Masters Exhibition. The media waiting at the airport pressed her with questions: "Miss Mu, there's a rumor that your husband came to support you at the exhibition in France. Would you like to clarify the reports that you're married?" For once, Mu Yanxi didn't avoid the question. She gave a slight nod. "I would." "?" Facing the cameras, she smiled gently. "It's not a rumor. My husband really did come." "...?" [Reader's Guide] ◆ Couple: female lead is a master of meticulous brushwork; male lead is a global media mogul (gentle and composed x doting and suave) ◆ Secret marriage, one-on-one romance, happy ending ◆ Warm, doting romance with a mischievous streak, swoon-worthy ◆ Focuses on romance and marriage. Please don't nominate it for the eight rankings! - Coming next: Yiru: All beings are like grass and trees, but you are a verdant mountain. Blurb: 1. Four years ago, during her graduation trip, Ying Rushi found courage at the bottom of a glass and spent one wild night with a man whose beautiful eyes seemed to skim over water like a startled bird. The next morning, she woke in an empty room. She didn't notice the elegant handwriting on the note by the bed, and got up, washed, and left. In the fourth year, she returned to China for personal reasons, bringing along a pretty three-year-old girl. 2. A year ago, a new male doctor arrived out of nowhere in the cardiothoracic surgery department of Nancheng Hospital, a Stanford University School of Medicine graduate with a doctorate. He was refined and elegant, cool and self-disciplined. Even though the gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose softened the roguish charm of his beautiful peach-blossom eyes, they still couldn't keep the hospital's single women from falling for him. Rumor had it that Doctor Shan wasn't single, but no one dared to verify it. Looking at the neat, buttoned-up collar of his white coat, everyone thought: No chance. We can't steal him away... We really can't. Then one day, they saw his first-ever Moments post: I wanted to spend a few days alone with my wife, so I asked our precious daughter if she'd stay at Grandma's for a few days. She flat-out refused. Should've just carried her over there. Being a good dad is hard. [Image][Image] Everyone: 0.0???!!!!! We were told he wasn't single! How does he already have a kid? In a nutshell: All our lives, we're searching for the one we lost at the very beginning. - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed - #"I see the green mountains and find them so enchanting. I imagine they must see me the same way." Look, even our names were made for each other. - Shan Yiqing# [Reader's Guide] * Surgeon x head of a charitable organization Refined, cunning, and pretending to be proper x a radiant little sun, alluring as can be * A story about two people destined to meet. * Though part of the Linmu series, this book stands on its own. The characterizations are unchanged, and the setting hasn't been altered much. * One-on-one romance / both are virgins / sweet and cozy / a three-year-old girl / fake second-chance romance / everyday life / daily updates once it starts * That's all for now. I'll add more if I think of anything. * Love you all. Blurb revised: November 15, 2019 Theme: Swoon-worthy