You Were Beyond My Expectations

"What's it like to suffer from severe depression?" a well-known host asked the two-time consecutive Best Actor. Ge Xiao replied, "Before I met her, I worked day and night, wanting only to escape this dull world and quietly die in an accident." He paused, then turned his gaze toward the audience. The cameras all focused on a woman sitting among them. Slowly, he smiled and earnestly said to Feng Ya, whose eyes were brimming with tears, "After I met you, for the first time, I wanted to struggle to stay alive. To breathe in the fresh morning air with you, and experience the radiant dawn, the rising and falling tides together. I thought I was willing to disappear in an accident, but you were the unexpected thing that healed me."

A capable, steel-straight woman and a taciturn acting genius with a rich inner life

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* All invented details are for the sake of the story. I hope all my dear readers are kind-hearted and happy every day.

Visit my author page for the new serial, Proposal: A stunningly beautiful, blunt, cocky woman who hates the world and finds everything annoying x a polite, innocent, down-on-his-luck young master with a flirtatious streak

"Did you hear? The second son of the Wei family got dumped, and he can't even beat his brother in the fight for the family fortune."

"What are you going to do?" Wei Heng asked the woman before him. Her looks and status were unmatched by almost anyone in their social circle.

"Take advantage of him while he's down." The woman swirled her wineglass. The limited-edition red heels beneath her fair ankles were elegant and alluring.

"With a whole forest out there, why are you hung up on Wei Heng, that crooked tree?" her best friend lamented.

"He's not a crooked tree." He was a refined gentleman, as elegant as an orchid and as graceful as a jade tree.

A story of healing and saving each other

Years later, at an international business forum interview:

"President Wei, forgive the change of subject, but what does your wife mean to you?"

"She's the one who recognized my potential, and she's like my guiding star." How lucky I was that she supported me when I lost my way.

Visit my author page for a completed modern romance. Dive in without worry: Gradually Falling for You

Blurb: A proud heroine who is inwardly insecure x a wise, reserved, gentle hero

Xu Xin is a renowned award-winner from the School of Literature at Cili University. She enters competitions across every department and has won over the faculty everywhere, earning the nickname "competition maniac" and "first-prize killer." So how on earth did she end up falling for Su Qinghe from the School of Engineering?

"That Su Qinghe? He's just a pretty boy. Aside from his nice temper, great fashion sense, and good grades, he's completely useless!"

Onlookers: ...Isn't that already more than enough? When are those two getting together? This is killing us!

A campus story of mutual secret crushes

More than first love, but not quite lovers

Xu Xin: "He's my strangest friend and the person I've had the most familiar secret crush on."

"I love his gentle reserve, but I also hate him for it."

Theme: Even if you fall into the deepest valley, love him without hesitation, all the way to the end of the world