A Gentle Trap [Showbiz]

My first book, so the writing is a little rough. Please enter with caution, and thank you for your understanding!

[Outwardly cold, inwardly warm and truly gentle lead one (Jiang Zhizhou/Shen Xinghe) x outwardly gentle but truly possessive and obsessive yandere lead two (Jiang Qingmeng); switches; HE]

[Blurb 1]

Eight years ago, twelve-year-old Jiang Qingmeng met nineteen-year-old Jiang Zhizhou. In the years that followed, she loved her cautiously, afraid to say it aloud or get too close. She was scared Jiang Zhizhou would notice and hate her.

Eight years later, twenty-year-old Jiang Qingmeng met Jiang Zhizhou after she had been reborn. This time, she approached her by any means necessary, scheming against her, using her, and making her hers.

But in the end, she realized that after all the twists and turns, she had still fallen in love with the same person.

[Blurb 2]

For a long time, Jiang Qingmeng was moody, gloomy, and obsessive.

One day, He Jia asked, "Did you two fight again?"

Jiang Zhizhou smiled. "She's angry with me again. She once told me that when she was little, her parents did nothing but give each other the silent treatment. So I guess she's never seen what a healthy couple looks like, or learned how people in love should resolve their problems. That's why she keeps provoking me and testing my limits, to see if I'll leave her. She might not know it, but even without all her scheming, I couldn't leave her. I'll stay by her side and wait for her, until she understands, until she learns how to love someone."

Just as she had in their youth, she was willing to become a ray of light in Jiang Qingmeng's dark world.

[Blurb 3]

"This place was barren, not a blade of grass in sight.

Then you came here for a while,

and miraculously, everything began to grow.

This place is my heart."

-- Zhou Jiang, "Desert"

Coming soon: "Survival on a Deserted Island"

[Blurb 1]

After a shipwreck, Yun Xi sank beneath the waves with the vessel.

Just before she lost consciousness, a soft pair of lips pressed against hers.

When she awoke, she was in a dim pool of water, with a woman lying beside her.

The woman was completely naked. Her long, wavy hair looked like a thick mass of seaweed, and her striking features were full of exotic allure. But she had a pale blue fish tail.

The mermaid swished her soft tail and coiled around Yun Xi like a snake. She drew close to smell her and marked her with her scent.

Yun Xi rolled her eyes and fainted in fright.

[Blurb 2]

One month after being stranded on a deserted island and kept by a mermaid, Yun Xi couldn't take it anymore and decided to stop eating.

The innocent, naive mermaid thought Yun Xi was sick. She searched the mountains and sea for anything edible, then laid it all beside Yun Xi. She watched her timidly, rubbing her nose against her as if begging, and finally held her and wept uncontrollably.

Hearing the mermaid cry softened Yun Xi's heart again and again, until she finally gave up on starving herself.

She had to survive. Like every other creature on the island, survival came first.

[Blurb 3]

Six months after being stranded on a deserted island and surviving alongside the mermaid, Yun Xi tried to leave her and make it on her own.

The mermaid couldn't understand why Yun Xi wanted to leave. She thought it was because she was different from humans, and that was why Yun Xi didn't love her.

Crying, she peeled off her scales, stripping herself until she was covered in blood. She wanted to become human like Yun Xi so they could be together forever.

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A story about surviving on a deserted island and falling in love with a mermaid along the way.

Theme: Companionship is the longest confession of love.