The Tenderness of a Blade

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Blurb:

Everyone knows that Feng Qing, the eldest daughter of the Feng family, is devoted to Chi Lu. Even though the man left for another country the day after their wedding and didn't contact her for two whole years, she continued to wait for him silently.

Feng Qing had always hoped Chi Lu would treat her sincerely. Even a moment of genuine affection would be better than being put off again and again with false tenderness.

She buried her feelings for him deep in her heart, quietly playing the role of Mrs. Chi. That is, until the Feng family went bankrupt, her father was sent to prison, and she lost everything overnight. She fell from the heights of privilege and became someone everyone despised.

On the day Feng Qing left the research institute, she pulled every string she could to find the signed document reporting the acquisition. When she saw the elegant, free-flowing characters "Chi Lu" in the signature field, she smashed the glass beside her with a crash.

He crushed her love for him and took away her pride.

With her heart turned to ashes, Feng Qing wrote him a letter for the first and last time. Enclosed was a signed divorce agreement.

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For the next six months, Chi Lu would wake in the middle of the night with his heart pounding, tormented by the same recurring dream and unable to sleep.

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Later...

No one would have imagined that the dignified, aloof Mr. Chi would stand silently in the pouring rain on the street where they first met, waiting all night for the woman in the little house.

The house was dilapidated, and the sky looked as if a gash had been torn through it, letting the rain pour in. The man was soaked through, his back straight as he stared blankly at the lights glowing from the house in the distance.

Dawn broke, and the rain stopped.

The woman walked out of the house with a book in her right hand and another man's arm linked through her left. She turned her face toward him and smiled faintly.

Chi Lu crushed the glass marble in his hand, and his heart hurt as if it had been torn apart.

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- You are a scar in my heart, like a blade's edge: gentle yet decisive. Whenever I think of you, the old wound refuses to heal. -

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An unconventional groveling romance

Proud heiress x scheming CEO who feigns tenderness

Blurb for "The Fish in the Pond Longs for Its Old Abyss":

The year Lin Chi fell madly in love with Jiang Gu, she was eighteen. She should have been in the prime of her youth, but instead she was painfully insecure and sensitive.

She wasn't pretty then. She was a little chubby, about five foot seven, and looked as strong as an ox in her baggy school uniform.

Seventeen-year-old Jiang Gu, meanwhile, was handsome and proud, the top student in Class Zero of his senior year and the object of countless girls' affections.

Lin Chi never thought they would get together.

Their story began with a joke, one that only she took seriously.

In the pouring rain, Jiang Gu was egged on by others. He grabbed her and confessed his love.

What had he said then? Something like, "Lin Yu, look, it's raining. How about you, little fish, swim into my river?"

Lin Chi looked up at him in the torrential rain and fell in love at first sight.

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That year, they were the punchline of many people's jokes. They said it was a shame such a handsome guy had to be blind to fall for her.

Lin Chi didn't care. She made a bet with herself: as long as he loved her, that was enough.

But she still lost, because Jiang Gu was a scumbag.

Only a scumbag could say things like, "You're so ugly. I'd have to be a dog to like you."

"It was just for fun. You actually took it seriously? How stupid are you?"

Lin Chi hated him for trampling on her self-respect, and she hated herself for being blind enough to love him.

So when they met again many years later, all she said was, coldly, "And you are?"

Jiang Gu, wearing a suit and looking every inch the respectable gentleman, replied with complete seriousness, "Woof, woof."

Lin Chi: ...?

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Jiang Gu gave the person he loved a nickname: Little Fish. The first time he saw her, she was running in the rain with her clothes soaked through, like a clumsy little fish.

He could keep calling her that for many years, and love her for just as long.

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Also known as: #Help, What Do I Do If My Boyfriend Is a Dog?#

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If it's not sweet, you can return it. Don't hit me (dog head).

Blurb for "Face Justice":

One day, the masses kneel.

The next, they die by the sword.

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For the first sixteen years of her life, Ning Wu was tormented by the great demon known as the college entrance exam. She studied desperately and even dreamed about solving problems.

But when she turned sixteen, her dreams began to feel strangely real.

She dreamed she had become a naive girl in the old Peach Blossom Haven. The girl had been happy and carefree, but on the day Ning Wu transmigrated, her whole clan was slaughtered. Not one of the thirty-eight people in her family survived.

In the dream, Ning Wu hugged her knees and cried behind the flames.

Ning Wu: ...??? What am I doing? I need to go back and study! I have college entrance exams!

But the story didn't go the way she wanted. She really did become that poor girl, whose family was annihilated and who was left with a blood feud to avenge.

Later, she was lucky enough to be taken in as a disciple by the great master of the cultivation world, the renowned Venerable Wujin.

From then on, the hand that had held a pen was forced to take up a sword. She had to sleep rough and endure all kinds of hardships. Oh, right, she also got a System, which told her that her goal in this world was revenge, revenge, revenge.

After ten years of sword training, she was finally ready to become a peerless heroine. But the day before she was to graduate, she died by her master's merciless sword.

The world told me: My purpose in life is revenge.

I once told myself: My purpose in life is to go back.

Only when I saw you did I understand that the reason I had worked so hard for decades was simply to get closer to you, step by step, Master.

Yes, Ning Wu fell in love with her master, the man who cultivated the path of ruthlessness.

But perhaps fate was against her. In the end, she died a brutal death by his sword, without ever managing to say, "Master, your little disciple Wuwu has loved and admired you for so, so long. Could you give your disciple a chance?"

She wasn't greedy. She really, truly wanted only that one chance.

Legend has it that the supreme master Xie Wujin fell to the demonic path the day after personally killing his wicked disciple, Ning Qingwu. His hair turned white overnight, and he went on a mad rampage through Jingshui, slaughtering the city.

As he looked at the ruins, he caught sight of a girl of sixteen or seventeen, and tenderness entered his usually cold eyes.

He watched her for a long time, then shook his head. In the end, she wasn't his Wuwu.

To bring her back to life, he drenched cities in blood and became a madman and a demon, a great fiend feared by all.

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The world says I cultivate the path of ruthlessness and should never love in this life. Yet in the end, I fell in love with you. My ten thousand years of cultivation, my entire being, were destroyed. I became a demon, all for the vain hope of seeing you once more.

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I'll write this after finishing "Blade's Edge"!

Theme: Love is a light that never fades