Through Your Verdant Window

[Please favorite my upcoming books: Perfect Secret Crush, It's So Noisy in Your Heart, and Bone Painter~]

A handsome new guy has started working at the coffee shop downstairs. He looks sweet and shy.

Xu Nanzhou is careful not to scare him. Even when she occasionally teases him, she makes sure not to overdo it.

Until one day, at a party, beneath the colorful lights, the singer wears a black deep-V shirt. His foxlike eyes lift, and he looks like a demon who has wandered into the human world.

Only then does Xu Nanzhou realize that this crazy beauty is wearing a lamb's skin.

After singing a song, he walks to the bar, makes himself a drink, and downs it in one go.

Xu Nanzhou approaches him. "Make me one, too?"

The man lowers his eyes slightly and touches her wrist with a water-beaded finger. He curls his lips into a smile. "Aren't you already drunk, noona?"

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After they get together, Xu Nanzhou asks, "Why didn't you make me a drink that day?"

Gu Tingyi: "Because you get drunk easily, noona."

"Nonsense," Xu Nanzhou says, displeased. "How could you tell just by looking?"

Gu Tingyi doesn't answer. He casually takes a sip of mineral water, then leans in and covers her lips with his.

Xu Nanzhou can't help blushing.

Gu Tingyi chuckles softly by her ear. "See? Even water gets you drunk."

"You're not drunk on alcohol," he murmurs. "You're drunk on me, noona."

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Xu Nanzhou takes Gu Tingyi home, often coming back from business dinners tipsy and hugging him as she calls him "pretty boy."

Then, one day, she wakes up in a room that isn't hers.

Gu Tingyi's beautiful, delicate face is right beside her pillow. His captivating foxlike eyes are full of laughter.

"The hunt is over."

"I'm the only prey you'll ever have, noona."

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Let me be the touch of green in your window, the new bud on a branch,

And bloom in brilliant, vivid colors in your snow-covered winter.

[Noona, tonight I care nothing for humanity. I only want you.

Haizi, Diary]

Gorgeous older woman × male heartbreaker

Older woman/younger man romance / mutual crush / five-year age gap

2020.6.26

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Blurb for Perfect Secret Crush [Entertainment Industry]:

Song Xian is a top-tier star and the industry's leading female idol. With her stunning face and impressive talent, she's known as the queen of solo artists.

Qin Siyu is a superstar who rose to fame at a young age and excels in both acting and music. He's devoted himself to his career ever since his debut, and people say that if he doesn't make it, he'll have to go back and inherit a fortune worth billions.

By chance, the two end up on the same acting variety show.

After it airs, Qin Siyu, a mentor on the show, acts high and mighty and tears Song Xian to shreds. Netizens joke that the Best Actor has a cruel hand when it comes to flowers, and is single by sheer talent.

No one expects that, just after the show ends, a big-budget film is announced with Song Xian and Qin Siyu as its leads.

During filming, a fan posts a behind-the-scenes clip. In the video, the usually stern-faced Best Actor kneels on one knee to tie Song Xian's shoelace!

Netizens go wild: "Weren't you two supposed to hate each other?!"

Qin Siyu calmly replies: "After having a crush for so long, you build up a little resentment."

Netizens: "???"

Qin Siyu: "Can I ask you something, @Song Xian? When are you going to make it official?"

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Fool everyone else, and wait for you to reach the top.

The Lazy Couple: the laziest careers, the sweetest romance

Career-obsessed female charmer × possessive, abstinent, poker-faced star

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Blurb for It's So Noisy in Your Heart:

#Childhood friends / body swap / telepathy#

He Sheng has a handsome childhood friend named Song Chi, a younger boy who's good at school and well-behaved. She often bosses him around.

One day, by chance, their souls switch bodies, and they gain the ability to read each other's minds.

So that morning, He Sheng and Song Chi stare at each other and hear his unhinged inner voice:

"Giao, my face is so handsome. I want to kiss it."

From then on, He Sheng discovers that the seemingly well-behaved boy is actually a human boombox, constantly roasting her in his head

When he wakes her up, Song Chi thinks: "Your sleeping posture is a sight to behold. My eyes are burning."

When he eats with her, Song Chi thinks: "This pig's fattened up. We can butcher it any day now."

When he pours her a glass of water, Song Chi thinks: "So young and already bedridden. How tragic."

He Sheng: ...Fine. If you insult me, I'll make you a cross-dressing diva :)

*Everyday puppy love

Silly rich girl × aloof, curly-haired boy

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*A bone painter is detached from both yin and yang, free of love and desire, and paints bones to cultivate the heart.

[Cold, beautiful woman without love or desire VS possessive, sickly, handsome man with a tragic past]

The first time Ye Jin examined Yan Qi's bones was ten years ago.

She had just begun learning bone painting and used him to practice. When she finished and handed in her work, she had written just two flamboyant characters on the scroll: "Talentless."

Her master smiled and added a note: "Your skills are lacking. This is a once-in-a-millennium prodigy."

Ten years later, Ye Jin examined Yan Qi's bones again.

He was no longer the same person. The meridians throughout his body were severed, and he spent his days in a wheelchair or confined to bed.

Everyone in the Bone Painting Sect agreed he could never practice martial arts. Only Ye Jin stood against them all, writing her verdict in her bone-reading record: "A peerless genius."

Over ten years, Yan Qi had been reborn through bloodshed. Once a proud star above the clouds, he had now fallen into the mire.

In the depths of an abyss shrouded in gloom, someone reached out a clean, unadorned hand to him.

He took it, and never let go.

Theme: Every stage of life has its own most beautiful form