Loving Eyes

When Ming Sha first met Ji Yusheng, she was unemployed and couldn't sleep. She was fast asleep in the theater auditorium, completely oblivious to the world. After the show, a gentle voice woke her. She opened her eyes to find him standing beside her, backlit, elegant and handsome, still wearing his gorgeous stage makeup. His expressive eyes sparkled, and his voice was clear and mellow as he asked, "Is my singing really that easy to fall asleep to?" Ming Sha fell in love with him at first sight. - While pursuing Ji Yusheng, Ming Sha discovered that besides performing opera, he also practiced an ancient profession in private, helping people fulfill their dying wishes. In the underworld, he was known as a "Wish Keeper." One day, when Ming Sha was working as Ji Yusheng's assistant, he drove her up the wall. She snapped, "When I make my fortune and become a rich woman, I'll have you come to my house and perform opera from morning till night. You can leave only after you've sung me to sleep. Then you'll know what it's like to suffer through overtime." Ji Yusheng smiled. "I'm very expensive, you know." - Later, when he was out at a business dinner, he got up to leave early. Someone asked in confusion, "Why are you in such a hurry to leave, Mr. Ji? Got somewhere to be?" Ji Yusheng smiled faintly. "My wife has insomnia. She needs to hear me sing opera at night before she can sleep peacefully." - ★Reading Guide: [Gentle, aloof Peking opera warrior-role actor X easygoing, laid-back assistant] This story combines romantic suspense, cyberpunk Peking opera, workplace healing, and more. It's structured as a series of connected tales, with the main couple running through the whole story and each arc focusing on a different tale. * Break My next novel will be Night Gown. Add it to your favorites if you're interested, and you'll get a notification when it starts! [Carefree, refined rogue and two-faced predator X resilient, sweet girl who never lets a slight go unanswered] * It all began one day during her senior-year internship. Si Peng finished work in the company lobby in the early hours of the morning and spotted a raccoon mascot. It was fluffy and ridiculously adorable. Thinking it was the company's new mascot, she dashed over and groped it all over. * Xu Jingqi lost a bet, so his friends dragged him to perform magic at the other company's event. Afterward, he sat on a bench to rest, still wearing his mascot head, when someone suddenly threw their arms around him. They rubbed their face against his, then squeezed and patted him with little hands, exclaiming in Chinese, Japanese, and French, "Cute! Kawaii! Adorable!" * One day, after the truth came out. Si Peng looked at the man's handsome profile, so unlike anything "adorably cute," and sighed. "If only you were really a mascot." The man: "?!" Si Peng: "Then maybe I'd be interested in buying you as a body pillow." Hearing this, Xu Jingqi glanced at her calmly, his voice languid. "Is that your excuse for not taking responsibility for me?" * Xu Jingqi didn't know that Si Peng had once had a crush on him. Back in her junior year, he had already won the World Magic Championship three years in a row. He was a rising legend in the industry, a star everyone adored, while she was a nobody at school. Her department held a mixer with the performance department. She sat beside him as he practiced card tricks on his own, never once looking her way. After the mixer, a friend teased him, "There was a girl sitting beside you who seemed interested. Want to add her on WeChat?" He lounged lazily, his tone cool. "Not interested." One sentence brought her years-long crush to an end. * Later, as the stars seemed ready to fall, he gave her a sky full of dazzling colors, then leaped with her from a height of a hundred meters. Si Peng was so frightened that she shut her eyes, her whole body rigid. Xu Jingqi wrapped an arm around her waist and curled his lips, speaking carelessly. "Didn't you like me? Why are you afraid to look at me?" Si Peng summoned her courage and opened her eyes, only to meet his eyes, half amused and half smiling. The evening breeze brushed her face, crisp as snow, and his scorching kiss landed between her brows. That aerial performance was called the most romantic confession of the century. - Theme: Passing on traditional Chinese art.