The Moonlight and the Shadow

My next book will be "Silence and the Stars." Also on my coming-soon list: "Waiting for Daybreak [The Ex's Regret]." Blurb: The wealthy Pei family of Jiangcheng has two sons. The elder has been sickly since childhood, and by the age of twenty he is already gravely ill. At twenty-eight, no medicine can save him, and he dies of his illness, leaving behind his widow, Wang Chuning. The younger son, Pei Ze, has reached the age to marry, and the whole Pei family is worried about him. Even his sister-in-law, Wang Chuning, helps arrange blind dates. After a blind date he can't refuse, Pei Ze corners Wang Chuning in a private dining room... That was the first time Pei Ze had ever been slapped by Wang Chuning. Her fingers were slender and her palm thin. The slap landed on his left cheek. It didn't really hurt, but it made his heart itch. After that, Pei Ze seemed to go out of his way to make her angry, but she never slapped him again. She wouldn't even look him in the eye. Until Pei Ze heard from someone else that his sister-in-law seemed to be planning to marry again. - [Let me stand by your side, even if I can only stand in your shadow.] Unrequited love from the hero / younger man / gets what he wished for Please add my upcoming book "Silence and the Stars" to your collection! Qin Zheng lost his father as a child, and his mother died young. He made his own way in San Francisco's Chinatown, thriving there for over a decade. On his twenty-first birthday, a woman in a suit and red lipstick appeared out of nowhere. She handed him a stack of documents proving that he was the long-lost son of the wealthy Zhao family in China. Qin Zheng sneered, tore up all the papers, and tossed them at her. With a crooked grin, he told her to get lost. Just as they reached an impasse, a Chinatown gang boss Qin Zheng had offended suddenly appeared and pulled a gun on him. As the bullet tore through the air, the woman stepped in front of him and took the shot. Blood burst from her arm, splattering Qin Zheng's cheek and hair. Its heat would haunt him for the rest of his life. Her name was Zhou Xiyue. Later, Qin Zheng asked, "Why did you save me? Was it love at first sight? Did you fall for me?" Zhou Xiyue sneered. "My job is to bring you back to China alive, not as a corpse." - Strong, capable older woman Zhou Xiyue VS pure-hearted young wolfdog Qin Zheng Hero: 22 / heroine: 30 / older woman-younger man romance Please add "Waiting for Daybreak [The Ex's Regret]" to your collection! The hero pursues his ex and regrets losing her / younger man At twenty-three, Liang Xiao fell hopelessly in love with Wen Jianqiu and arrogantly promised her forever. But when Wen Jianqiu waited with a plane ticket, ready to leave with him and never look back, he gave up the woman he loved under his father's furious reprimands and punishment. At the airport, Liang Xiao never showed up. Wen Jianqiu sent him a message through someone else: "Liang Xiao, you said you were a devoted lover, but you treated me with nothing but cruelty." Five years later, Liang Xiao was twenty-eight, alone and buried in work, when he happened to run into Wen Jianqiu again. He tried to arrange a meeting through a mutual friend. But Wen Jianqiu said, "It's better not to meet again." The story begins five years later. Liang Xiao: 28 / Wen Jianqiu: 32 / melodramatic, conventional romance Theme: A fairy tale about love