Embracing the Wind

[My new novel, "Sticky Toffee," is now open for business!!! Come on in, I'm here to drum up some customers, hehe...]

Tao Fang, the beloved daughter of the richest family in Province A, was a celebrated prodigy throughout the province.

Everyone knew how enviable her life was, but she had suffered from a chronic illness since birth and was physically frail.

Surrounded by servants and bodyguards, she was like a canary trapped in a gilded cage.

That is, until one day, a boy barged into her world.

Under the blazing sun and clear sky, the boy leaned against the stone steps beside the villa's flower bed, a blade of grass hanging casually from his mouth.

Tao Fang drew back the floor-to-ceiling curtains and peeked out.

"What kind of down-on-his-luck pauper has to chew on foxtail grass?"

Hearing her, the boy looked up and gave her a cool glance, then turned and hopped down from the steps.

"You sickly little thing."

Tao Fang nearly choked on her anger.

The school heartthrob known as "Young Master Jin" at Chongli High was a big deal, with admirers coming in droves.

But he was so indifferent by nature that nothing seemed to interest him.

Later, a beautiful, refined little shadow started following him around.

Leaning against a wall, the boy twirled his pen across his palm, making it dance like a flower. He gave her a roguish smile. "What, do you like me?"

The girl nodded obediently. "Are you stupid? How could you not tell?"

Yu Jin's smile faded, his expression cool and detached. "I suggest you stay away from me."

"I'll get on your nerves."

Tao Fang disappeared for several days in a row. Watching the silent, dejected boy, everyone teased him relentlessly. "Young Master Jin has finally descended to the mortal world. He's completely fallen for her."

The boy said nothing. The bright stars in his eyes had shattered, leaving only a bitter glimmer.

Much later, Yu Jin knelt before her, tugged at her hand, and bent down to kiss it again and again. He pleaded in a low voice, "I love you. Will you wait for me?"

Many years later, Tao Fang set foot on her old home soil once more.

Standing outside the examination room, she spoke a few quiet words.

The man inside froze completely, as if his soul had been snatched away.

He stared at her, the veins in his fingers bulging as his emotions surged and churned. Then he turned away, eyes bloodshot and wet with tears.

His hands trembling, the man pulled her into a tight embrace. "You're still alive!"

"Why did you wait until now to come back to me?"

After all these years, she'd finally come back.

She was still alive...

* I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so this is a little exaggerated. At first, it's more about the girl pursuing the boy, and things move a little slowly.

* They heal each other.

* Happy ending, everything is for the sweetness.

* Both are each other's one and only, needless to say.

The story of Young Master Jin and Princess Tao Fang~

Weibo: @Gu Qiao Le

Blurb: 2019.4+

This is part of the school series for "That's All the Guts You've Got," but it's been so long that you can read this and the earlier novel as two separate stories.

The next novel, "Sticky Toffee," is now open. Please add it to your reading list.

After a family upheaval, An Wu transfers to Dai'an.

When she first meets Jiang Shuo, he's leaning against a railing with a pale face, looking at her lazily. "Wow, you even boss around disabled people. You've got a heart of stone."

The boy is sharp-tongued, arrogant, listless, and brazen. An Wu pities him and puts up with him, all while silently marveling: How can such a handsome boy be disabled?

But later, when An Wu opens the anonymous forum, she learns that this poor "disabled guy" is none other than Jiang Shuo, the school's arrogant, larger-than-life celebrity! Angry and scared, An Wu decides she absolutely has to keep her distance from him from now on.

An Wu carries her homework to the house of her older neighbor to ask about a problem. The boy lounges in a bamboo wicker chair with one leg crossed over the other, then turns around. An Wu meets his dark, indifferent eyes and is so frightened she drops her homework and runs.

If she'd known that the friend visiting her older neighbor was Jiang Shuo, she wouldn't have dared go upstairs even if someone had threatened to kill her!!!

An Wu lies on the desk listening to her neighbor explain the homework, while a gaze from nearby makes her scalp prickle. The boy secretly leans close to her ear and gives a mocking chuckle. "Heh, I never thought a good student like you would be into old guys."

That autumn, Jiang Shuo was upset about two things.

The first: She actually liked older guys.

The second: He couldn't do a thing about the first.

Since he couldn't, he'd just have to save her, rescue this young sapling whose heart had been bewitched.

Later, the "disabled" boy stood up, pinned her beneath a tree, and smiled through his anger. "Am I a flood or a ferocious beast? Why do you keep avoiding me?"

An Wu finally snapped. "Jiang Shuo, were you a piece of sticky toffee in your past life or what?"

But later, the boy really did become her sticky toffee.

He gave her all the patience and special affection he had to offer.

Standing behind her, the boy had eyes only for her. "Baby, I'll be right here with you. You just shine."

* A gentle, slow-to-warm-up sweetheart VS an arrogant, sharp-tongued troublemaker

* Happy ending, both virgins, first love

Blurb [2020.4.21]

Theme: A love that heals both people