Don't You Dare Bow to Me

Originally titled A Tangled Tide. It goes premium on April 12. My next book, Stolen Bride, has a blurb below.

1. When the Jing Lei Special Forces team enters a supermarket to catch a criminal, they're delighted to find their former captain hiding under a table.

But the captain, once known in the military as the ruthless, taciturn Sky Wolf, is now shielding a girl beneath him and gently comforting her. “Don't be scared. Close your eyes. I'll protect you and get you out of here.”

The girl's face is pressed against his chest, her hand hooked around his neck.

One team member thinks: Is she really that scared? It kind of looks like she's taking advantage of the captain.

2. When Ren Huailang first starts working for the Qi family, people warn him about Qi Ran, the young lady of the family: “She's beautiful, but she's spoiled. She drinks, has tattoos, goes clubbing, and argues with her dad every other day.”

Ren Huailang doesn't think much of it.

Then one day he's sent to find her at a club. In the swaying dance floor crowd, Qi Ran suddenly takes his hand and smiles. “Want to dance? If you don't know how, I'll teach you.”

The heat surges, and Ren Huailang knows he's done for.

3. Qi Ran is beautiful, bold, and full of personality, yet the man she falls for is conservative and stubbornly straight-laced.

They come from vastly different backgrounds and have completely different personalities. Everyone thinks they're bound to fall apart sooner or later.

But much time passes, and people still see Qi Ran, as alluring as ever, with her arm linked through Ren Huailang's in the gossip pages. Her smile is as bright as ever, still dazzling the whole city of Xiangcheng.

A man's heart can be as vast as the sea. If a man like that falls in love with you, he'll carry your mark in his heart for the rest of his life. Do you believe it?

Qi Ran says, “I do.”

Thanks to Shengshi Baiyi for helping me revise the blurb.

Blurb for Stolen Bride:

1. The year Jiang Muyan returned to the country, he saw a girl at his grandfather's house.

She was soft and radiant. As she passed him, the wind lifted her skirt and it brushed his trouser leg by chance. He caught the fresh, lingering scent of flowers.

But she was his younger brother's fiancée.

2. On the day of the engagement party, just as the guests were about to arrive, her fiancé announced that he wanted to call off the engagement.

At the conference table, the elders said, “Either you marry into the family, or you give up all your shares.”

Her fiancé hesitated, unable to decide.

Even if it meant losing face, Xia Wan'an didn't want to go through with the marriage. She was about to speak.

Just then, the usually aloof Jiang Muyan calmly placed the negotiation documents on the table, breaking the silence. Amid the astonished stares, he said, “I'll marry her instead.”

3. Xia Wan'an thought their marriage was nothing more than a mutually beneficial exchange.

A few months into their marriage, Xia Wan'an was about to leave on a trip. Just as she was getting on the plane, she saw Jiang Muyan standing tall at the entrance to the waiting room, gazing at her with dark eyes. His imposing presence scared her friends half to death.

But all he did was take out a card and say, “Don't deprive yourself while you're away.”

A man who can't find himself a wife isn't a worthy CEO.

Theme: Together, we're invincible.