The Lost Jasmine

Meng Chaomo runs into Shang Yu again at a private club at home. He leans against the opulently lit hallway, head tilted back as he gasps for breath, like a fish desperately short of water. His white shirt is splashed with liquor, wet stains winding across it. He looks utterly disheveled and dejected.

He suddenly grabs her wrist. "Take me away."

A year and a half into their marriage, Meng Chaomo, too, was overwhelmed by how deeply fate had brought them together on the night that changed her life.

But at that same club, Shang Yu casually gave his opinion on marriage, and laughter and teasing erupted all around the room as soon as he finished. That day, she stood stiffly outside the private room, forgetting how she had driven home through the rain. His familiar voice kept ringing in her ears:

"When I married her, I wouldn't say I loved her. There were only three reasons: habit, convenience, and she loved me. She still does."

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After their divorce, Shang Yu gradually overturned everything Meng Chaomo had believed about him.

She had thought he came from an illustrious family, was deeply proud at heart, and kept his distance from everyone.

But now he gazes at her drunkenly, his pale jade earlobe flushed like a roasted pomegranate seed. "Sis... play with me..."

Meng Chaomo calmly pushes him away and gets up to answer her phone.

From the other end, she can faintly hear an elder urging her to go on a "blind date"...

#The Ex-Husband's Road to Regret#

Note:

Meng Chaomo seems to be six months older than Shang Yu.

The story opens after Chaomo has already heard those words.

My next novel, Sleepless Dreams:

Luo Qinglan ran away, leaving no trace.

Huo Mu didn't think much of it. But when he came home and no longer saw that slender, resilient figure, the woman who would rather bite her knuckles than make a sound no matter how much he put her through, he realized she was really gone.

He began spending night after night unable to sleep. He knew almost nothing about his arranged-marriage wife. He had mostly ignored her chatter and treated her like she wasn't there. He could only vaguely remember rejecting her request for a wedding two years ago.

So the young master Huo prepared a spectacular wedding in the city of Beijing, a grand event that drew the world's attention.

His friends all said, "The news is trending like crazy. Once your sister-in-law sees it, she'll definitely come back."

In the end, Huo Mu collapsed, blacking out amid the wedding flowers after five days and nights without sleep. Luo Qinglan was nowhere to be seen.

"Once Qinglan entered his dreams, he never slept through the night again."

Much later, when Huo Mu sees her appear before a crowd of onlookers, he tries everything, from threatening her with a menacing glare: "Luo Qinglan, you'd better come back to me," to murmuring with red-rimmed eyes, "Sis, I've been looking for you for so, so long. Come home."

Luo Qinglan remains unmoved.

She says calmly, "Thanks to your stubbornness, we never even got our marriage license. Did you forget? What home?"

Theme: Cherish the people around you who love you