You're Just My Type

This novel is complete. [The author’s column, Tying the Knot, is currently updating! See below for the blurb.] The author has seven completed books in their column, as well as contemporary romance works available for pre-order. Feel free to bookmark them. Blurb: From the day they registered their marriage, Cen Xi fell into the net Guan Shi had laid for her long ago. At last, one day, she came to her senses and had a one-sided shouting match with Guan Shi before kicking him out of the house. His friends then dragged him to a bar, where he sat distractedly. Someone advised him, “Brother Guan, you have to keep a woman waiting. Keep her waiting long enough, and she’ll naturally fall in line.” Guan Shi glanced at him, then decisively called Cen Xi and pretended to be drunk. “Honey, I know I was wrong.” “They insisted on dragging me to Illusion Night and making me drink. Now I’m drunk, dizzy, and throwing up...” He picked up a straw from the table and pressed it against his tongue, retching once. Then he continued to play the victim: “Could you come pick me up?” After hearing her answer, Guan Shi smiled with satisfaction, hung up, and took a sip of his drink as he waited for his wife to come get him. What a joke. If he kept her waiting, forget Cen Xi falling in line, he’d be the one left out in the cold! One-on-one, both leads are virgins, happy ending. Blurb for Tying the Knot: Female lead’s version: On a rainy night, He Yanchen, covered in injuries, broke into Jiang Yuan’an’s room. Jiang Yuan’an didn’t want trouble, but the circumstances left her no choice but to save him. “I owe you my life. If you’re ever in trouble, come find me.” He Yanchen gave Jiang Yuan’an the jade pendant he carried with him. Jiang Yuan’an thought he was just some foolish, arrogant man making grandiose promises, until she was truly desperate. Clinging to her last hope, she took the pendant to him, hoping to ask him to find her a suitable husband. After a moment’s thought, He Yanchen said, “What do you think of me?” Jiang Yuan’an knew he wasn’t asking for her hand because he liked her, and that he surely had some other motive. But she had no other option, so she married him anyway. After they wed, they treated each other with courtesy and lived in peace. She thought she could spend her whole life that way, but when the Noble Consort made things difficult for her and forced her to kneel outside the palace gates, he dared to defy an imperial decree and carry her away in front of everyone. Jiang Yuan’an didn’t want him to get involved, but He Yanchen said: “I know you have your own principles, and that you’ve always been independent and strong, unwilling to rely on others.” “But you’re my wife. How am I an outsider?” Male lead’s version: While secretly investigating the seizure of farmland, He Yanchen was pursued all the way to Hanyin Temple. By chance, he stumbled into Jiang Yuan’an’s room. To get her to save his life, he promised to help her someday. He never expected that she would ask him to get involved in her marriage. After weighing his options, He Yanchen decided to ask for her hand. He admitted that his reasons for marrying her were impure, but Jiang Yuan’an was even clearer-eyed than he was. She seemed gentle and attentive on the surface, but she always treated him like an outsider. Later, no matter how much he did, it seemed he couldn’t warm her heart. He Yanchen had never thought of himself as the sort of man to keep offering affection where it wasn’t returned. But when Jiang Yuan’an called him “husband,” He Yanchen decided he could keep trying. Theme: