Soft Words

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[Surgeon x Cheongsam Beauty | He falls first | Daily updates]

Blurb:

She decided to break up with her boyfriend after their engagement party.

At last, she saw him for who he really was.

Late at night, Jiang Siyan sat in the hospital emergency room, her hands smeared with blood and bits of broken porcelain, her mind completely blank.

Through her daze, someone called her name.

It took a moment for Jiang Siyan to register it. Her expression was numb.

The doctor across from her looked at her with handsome, gentle features, as though there were stars in his eyes. "It'll hurt a little. Try to bear it."

**

Jiang Siyan had just moved into her newly rented apartment.

The water suddenly stopped while she was washing her hair. Then she remembered her roommate saying the water bill hadn't been paid, so in a panic, she had no choice but to borrow some from next door.

The door opened, and a warm, fragrant air wafted toward her.

Those star-bright eyes looked a little sleepy now. His robe hung open at the collar, and its loose belt looked ready to fall undone at any moment.

He looked at her, his eyes instantly lighting up. With a lazy smile, he leaned against the door. "Come in."

A refined, gentle surgeon and a melancholy cheongsam beauty.

He falls first, and has been plotting for a long time.

The heroine is rather downcast at first, but she'll pull herself together later.

Both are sexually inexperienced.

(Blurb dated November 22, saved.)

My next novel, Spring Letter from the Lychee: [Marriage first, love later / Age gap]

Opening in December. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

1.

Li Zhi was suddenly promised in marriage to Xie Nancheng, the young master of the Xie family.

She'd heard her fiancé wasn't quite right in the head. He'd gone to a Taoist temple to become a priest and, almost thirty years old, was still living off his parents.

Li Zhi pictured an unkempt, potbellied mama's boy with an overinflated sense of self.

Her objections got her nowhere, so she had no choice but to confront the man himself.

The chauffeur-driven car stood against the light on a dark night. She could only make out his high nose bridge, the glossy black agarwood beads on his wrist, and the jade bamboo ornament he rolled between his fingers.

Only after she had finished stating her demands did he finally turn his face toward her. His thin lips parted, his voice like a celestial melody over a glacier:

"We should obey the wishes of our elders."

Li Zhi's heart plummeted from heaven to hell.

A moment ago: Wow, he's so handsome! I think I can do this!

The next moment: What kind of feudal relic crawled out of the woodwork?

**

On the night they registered their marriage, Li Zhi nervously counted the squares on the carpet in the unfamiliar bedroom.

She watched Xie Nancheng walk in and take off his suit jacket. His shirt and trousers outlined a lean waist and long, straight legs. Li Zhi swallowed and ventured, "I heard Taoist priests don't get involved with women?"

Xie Nancheng removed his prayer beads at an unhurried pace. The wooden beads knocked against the cabinet with a dull clack.

"Is that so?" His tone was lazy and teasing. The scent of agarwood grew closer as he approached. "How come I haven't heard that?"

2.

The sixth master of the Pei family in Lingang was ruthless and decisive in business, bringing thunder wherever he went. After the family patriarch, Master Pei, passed away, the Pei family flourished under his hand more than ever.

Rumor had it that the Sixth Master was young, since Master Pei's fifth son was only in his thirties. But no one in the world had ever seen the Sixth Master's true face.

Then, at last, someone learned that the Sixth Master wasn't surnamed Pei.

Later, she kept that secret for the rest of her life.

[I never believed there was spring in this world, until you appeared and gave me the strength to be gentle.

From then on, every day and night felt like spring., Xie Nancheng / Sixth Master Pei]

Tips:

Eight-year age gap, marriage first, love later, both sexually inexperienced.

A whole lot of melodrama.

Theme: Respect yourself, love yourself, and stand on your own feet.