You Are My Canaan

[This story will be VIP-locked on July 10, with a 10,000-word update that day!] I am the port of Murmansk, and you are the North Atlantic Current. Because you came into my life, my world became an ice-free port. In Xue Jiachi's eyes, Chen Yunan was like the dazzling starlight above the snowy mountain outside his window, where he slept alone in a foreign land. Through those long years, she was his North Star, and his Lake Canaan, too. From then on, wherever she was, he would never leave her side. Story excerpt: Xue Jiachi: I want to ask you something. Chen Yunan: What is it? Xue Jiachi: I'll make you sweet-and-sour mandarin fish for the rest of my life, if you'll be my girlfriend. Fireworks filled the sky as firecrackers roared. Chen Yunan blinked innocently. "I didn't hear you." Xue Jiachi bent down and pressed his lips to her ear. His warm breath brushed her skin, hot and ticklish. "I said, I'll make you sweet-and-sour mandarin fish for the rest of my life. Will you be my girlfriend?" The boy she had loved for half her life became the one she would love for the rest of it. [Reading Guide] 1. Childhood friends and next-door neighbors 2. Sweet romance 3. Happy ending New story starting January 11, 2022: Stealing a Kiss [Wealthy Family] [Business marriage · Married first, love later] Scheming old fox X calculating little white rabbit Ming Ya, daughter of the Ming family of Shanghai, is to marry into the Xu family of Yijing, their family's sworn enemy. The entire circle of old-money families and socialites is in an uproar. 1. Ming Ya was once praised as Shanghai's brightest pearl, a true aristocrat with an impeccable background and breathtaking beauty. Then the family fell from grace, its grand estate collapsing overnight. Marriage was the only option before her, and the only man willing to marry her belonged to the Xu family of the capital, her family's sworn enemy. He was a full ten years older than her, a cold-hearted man with a gloomy air. Rumor had it he ruled the business world with an iron fist, acting swiftly and ruthlessly, a business tycoon no one dared cross. But for the sake of her family, Ming Ya steeled herself and married him. 2. Xu Zhiye was born in a traditional courtyard home and raised among the old-money families. He was undisputedly the top young master in the capital. He was refined and aloof, detached from worldly desires and untouched by women for thirty-two years. There were even rumors he preferred men. Then he robbed the cradle and married the daughter of his family's sworn enemy, ten years his junior, all to humiliate and take revenge on her. But things took a slight turn, and humiliation and revenge gave way to kisses and cuddles. 3. Ming Ya married in the dead of winter, with no wedding and no banquet. The brightest pearl of Shanghai, now appearing in public dressed in thin clothes and racked by coughs, made such a convincing Cinderella that everyone imagined a grand drama about a fallen heiress selling herself to save her family. Xu Zhiye hadn't even looked away from the latest gossip forum when someone kicked him. Cinderella, looking every bit the boss, held out a tangerine. "I just got my nails done. Peel this for me." When his good friends heard about it, they all teased him. "You didn't marry a fallen heiress. You adopted a little princess. Isn't it exhausting?" Meanwhile, the young master of the capital was covered in mud as he planted roses for his beloved wife. "It's only exhausting at night. But I do have to say, the face-slapping really stings." [Bonus Scene] An interview on Web Fiction Weekly Host: Mr. Xu, as one of the domineering wealthy heirs in romance novels, is there anything you'd like to share with your fellow male leads? Xu Zhiye: A word of advice to my colleagues whose stories include the 'chasing your wife to the crematorium' trope: don't make too many bold declarations early on, or you'll end up being face-slapped hard later. Reading Guide: 1. Married first, love later. The story is more or less about a gloomy demon king and a flirtatious little white rabbit. 2. The leads have a ten-year age gap. 3. One-on-one romance. Both leads are each other's first and only. Readers with a strong preference for emotional purity can read with confidence. 4. An unconventional 'chasing your wife to the crematorium' story, packed with face-slapping scenes. Taotao has a good track record. You won't regret giving this one a chance! Theme: