The Moon Is Mine Alone

[Main story complete] Next up: Heartbeat Chase / My Custom-Made Boyfriend. Add them to your collection from my author page. Blurbs at the bottom. In high school, Song Ying and Lu Shaoxiu came closest on the grade rankings. He shone like a star, the pride of heaven. He was the number one she looked up to, but could never surpass. She thought they would never cross paths in their lives. Later, to buy a rare, outrageously expensive, out-of-print Hi-Fi sound system for her unscrupulous, spendthrift boss, Song Ying had no choice but to stop Lu Shaoxiu's car. He was the only person in the whole city who had one. The man sat in the back of the stretch limo and coolly refused: "Sorry, it's not for sale." Song Ying tried a few more times before Lu Shaoxiu finally softened. He'd consider it, on the condition that she look after his dog for three months. What a humiliating demand... But Song Ying, a fresh-faced office worker getting battered by the working world every day, agreed without a second thought. She wouldn't lose her job, and she'd get to pet a dog for free. What a sweet deal! Three months later, Song Ying returned the dog to Lu Shaoxiu and asked him to honor his promise. Lu Shaoxiu looked at her deeply, his words laden with meaning. "Song, how much longer are you going to pretend you don't know me?" Song Ying was surprised. "Mr. Lu, I only wanted your sound system." Lu Shaoxiu smiled faintly. "I'm different. I only want you." The big German Shepherd seized the chance to wrap its paws around Song Ying's leg, whining and begging for attention. The man chuckled softly. "Look, even he doesn't want you to leave." #The dog isn't human, but Mr. Lu really is a dog# #I only wanted your sound system, but you want me?# #To get the sound system, you have to take me and a dog too. This is an honest deal, no haggling# "At last, he became her moon, and the moonlight that belonged to her alone." [Mutual pining, sly wolf x feisty little troublemaker, both their first loves and each other's first] - Blurb for the upcoming story Heartbeat Chase: Possessive love / Chasing his wife to the crematorium / A dangerously devoted madman x a proud, sweet white lotus Tang Mian stayed by Shen Cheng's side without a name or a title, like a carefully raised bird: delicate and obedient. Shen Cheng was cold-hearted and aloof, a noble man she could never warm up. Tang Mian knew he had a deeply entangled first love, the one weakness he would never let anyone mention. Not even her. But Tang Mian craved the embrace of this cold man, and the tenderness in his voice whenever he called her "Mianmian" in the throes of passion. Besides, three years ago, when she lost her memory in a car accident, Shen Cheng rescued her and gave her a name. He had saved her life. Then one day, she saw a video. It showed Shen Cheng as a teenager with the legendary first love. The girl wore a mask that showed only half her face. She was beautiful and willful, and he gazed at her with such devotion that it was almost humble, his handsome face filled with adoration. Her name was Tang Mian. It turned out she wasn't Mianmian, only Mianmian. They looked at least seventy or eighty percent alike. Only then did Tang Mian realize she'd really been made someone's substitute. It was laughable. Heartbroken, she decided to leave. She moved out of the Shen residence and took a job at his company's competitor. On a cold, snowy night, Shen Cheng stopped Tang Mian, his voice harsh. "You threw me away once. Do you want to do it a second time?" ??? So the Shen dog wasn't human, and now he was trying to pin something on her? Where was this supposed second time coming from? Only later did she remember what happened before the car accident. There was no substitute, no first love. She was Tang Mian all along. And she was the obsession Shen Cheng could never bring himself to let go. #The dog of a man bankrupts my family, then makes me role-play as myself# #I'm my own substitute, I'm my own first love# #Chasing his wife to the crematorium: Shen the dog gets buried once when she leaves, then again when she regains her memory# Theme: If you like someone, go after them. Say what you feel.