Letting Me Love You Gently

New novel, The Beauty and the Ship of Fools, now updating! Blurb: Gentle female concept artist × devoted, roguish CEO On the eve of her wedding, Wen Zhi discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her. In an instant, she becomes the object of everyone’s sympathy. Three days later, she attends a high school reunion. Feeling her classmates’ pitying or mocking gazes, Wen Zhi’s eyes sting. She drinks until she’s a little tipsy. Just as she reaches for another drink, a hand suddenly grabs her wrist. Wen Zhi looks up and recognizes her former troublemaking desk mate: now the eldest young master of the Hengyu Group, Gu Cheng. He is tall and muscular, his black T-shirt tracing his solid, sharp lines. His camouflage pants are tucked into black combat boots. He has a buzz cut and thin, single-lidded eyes. A string of wild-looking beads circles his wrist as he regards her like a hoodlum. The room falls completely silent. Gu Cheng snatches the bottle and downs the rest of her drink for her. Then he sits beside her, spreading his long legs wide. The lights are dim. “Marry me?” he asks in a low voice, casually lighting a cigarette. Wen Zhi freezes for a moment. She doesn’t know why even he has to take a jab at her. Her throat tightens, but she answers honestly: “...My fiancé cheated on me.” His dark eyes rest on her for two seconds. He flicks the ash from his cigarette and gives a soft laugh. “I mean, marry me.” “Will you?” * 1. This is not a post-marriage story. This is not a post-marriage story. 2. Sweet romance, a proper love story. It involves game concept art. Next door: The Beauty and the Ship of Fools Cool, obsessive beauty × captivating, alluring young woman Recently, Chu Zhixia has become obsessed with visiting a public hospital dentist. The young dentist is a top student from A University. In his white coat, he is cool, quiet, and immaculate. His clear, almond-shaped eyes have a slight upward tilt at the outer corners. After he takes off his gloves, his fingers are pale and slender, clean and gentle to the core. What she likes most is his warmth and patience. Whenever she furrows her brow even slightly during treatment, the young man lowers his thick lashes and asks in a gentle, magnetic voice, “Does it hurt?” Later, she gets her wish and moves things to a different place. She kisses his reddened earlobe and prominent Adam’s apple, listening as he asks in a slightly hoarse voice, “Does it hurt like this?” Later still, Chu Zhixia starts to feel a little bored. She blocks him and vanishes without a trace. Until a financial crisis hits the Chu family, and her relatives arrange a blind date with the young master of the Shen family, the most powerful clan in the land. That night, the once-gentle, quiet puppy loses control. He pins her against the edge of the table, eyes bloodshot, and asks her, “I’ve always been the one asking if you’re in pain.” “Do you know how much pain I’m in...?” The Ship of Fools comes from a satirical poetry collection. It is a ship cut off from the world, with no fixed destination, packed with fools and madmen. When cut off from the outside world, those trapped inside turn to pathological self-destruction. During the many nights when Chu Zhixia was “asked to stay” in the Shen family home, out of sight of the world, she touched his striking, obsessive eyes, reddened with emotion, and looked at his slender finger bones, gone white from gripping so tightly. She thought he had boarded this ship long before she did. He’s so crazy. But that’s all right. She loves him so much. Theme: None.