She Can't Let Her Actress Persona Crumble

My workplace-romance novel The Rejected Proposal is now serializing in my author’s collection.

Blurb:

Top publicist Bai Wuxue had always dominated her career and enjoyed smooth sailing. She never imagined she would end up having to go undercover beside tycoon Xu Ye for work, playing a shallow, gold-digging fool every day.

She had written several pages of notes on how to win him over, but the tycoon was decisive and ruthless, with no interest in women.

Bai Wuxue gazed at him dreamily. “Want to date? I wouldn’t feel safe if someone else were flirting with you.”

Xu Ye: “Get a grip and wipe off your drool.”

Bai Wuxue gave him an innocent look. “Mr. Xu, you don’t seem to like me very much.”

Xu Ye: “Be more confident. Drop the ‘seem.’”

Bai Wuxue: “As long as I can be with you, I don’t care how big the mansion is. I’d be happy living a life of luxury, riding around in a Bentley, and eating delicacies every day.”

Xu Ye: “...Can someone really be this shameless?”

Xu Ye knew Bai Wuxue was vain and easily seduced by good looks. No matter how flirtatiously she tried to tempt him, he remained unmoved.

Only later did he learn that while Bai Wuxue played the shallow gold digger to perfection, behind his back she was betraying him and poaching his friends.

Xu Ye: “...Am I seriously just a tool to her???”

Bai Wuxue, whose superb acting had won her the job, was overjoyed. “I can finally stop playing this brainless gold-digger character!”

She immediately deleted Xu Ye’s contact information and proudly treated him as if he didn’t exist.

Xu Ye ran to her building that very night and cornered her. His voice hoarse, he asked, “You’re just quitting the act? You’re the one who said you wanted my money, and you’re the one who said you envied my looks, ”

“You came to me to bide your time and build your strength. Don’t you know what it means to play with fire?”

At the awards ceremony for the top publicist of the year, people gathered under the spotlights and asked Bai Wuxue, “What helped you succeed in your career and earn this honor?”

Bai Wuxue gently brushed her hair and smiled brightly. “To succeed in your career, you need thick skin and a thorough plan.”

The crowd waited. “What else do you need to succeed?”

Tycoon Xu Ye stepped onto the stage and took the microphone, nodding slightly. “You also need a handsome, dashing, wealthy boyfriend like me.”

Bai Wuxue gently jabbed Xu Ye in the waist and whispered with an awkward smile, “You jerk, don’t get in the way of my career.”

Black-lotus scheming actress and publicist VS cunning, arrogant finance executive

One-on-one, comedic bickering and sweetness

Serializing in my author’s collection: The Rejected Proposal

Everyone knew that Duan Chengye had a one-of-a-kind white moonlight in his heart. For her, he could turn down the Shen family’s marriage alliance, even though it would have brought nothing but benefits to the Duan family.

Feng Nan wore the same white dress as his white moonlight, kept her hair long and black just like hers, and even looked at the world the same way.

Everyone said she was awkwardly imitating someone else, a bad copy of a beauty.

She was happy to do it.

Feng Nan pursued Duan Chengye for a year, filling page after page of her scorecard with his good qualities.

Until one day, she heard Duan Chengye say, “The real one is right here. Why would I need a substitute?”

She took off the white dress Duan Chengye liked best and marked a big X on her scorecard.

At last, she understood that Duan Chengye was a stone that could never be warmed, no matter how tightly she held him.

On a night of pouring rain, she emerged from the broken glass like a vengeful demon. She tore up the scorecard full of Duan Chengye’s good qualities and walked away without looking back.

A friend asked Duan Chengye, “You’re just going to let Feng Nan leave like that? You’re not going after her?”

Duan Chengye swirled his wine glass and smiled bitterly.

His close friend added, “The first choice for Chengye’s wife is the Shen family’s heiress and socialite. The second is that white moonlight he loves. Anyone can be third. Since when would it ever be Feng Nan?”

At a drinking party, Duan Chengye saw Feng Nan, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time.

Her figure was graceful, her shoulders bare, and a rose tattoo on her collarbone, one he had never seen even when they were once so intimate, was dazzling and bold.

Men surrounded her, raising their glasses and exchanging toasts. Everyone called her “Miss Shen.”

When Feng Nan saw Duan Chengye, she smiled with dazzling charm, yet kept her distance. “Sorry, who are you?”

Red-eyed, Duan Chengye pieced together the scorecard she had torn up, the one listing his good qualities. With trembling hands, he held it out to her. “Feng Nan, look at me. Look at how broken I am, all right?”

Feng Nan stepped back apologetically. “Sorry, my name is Shen Nan. I’m the Shen family socialite you rejected.”

A little extra:

Feng Nan left a comment beneath her favorite song:

“I hope Feng Nan and Duan Chengye stay together forever. Feng Nan will wait here for Duan Chengye.”

During the three years Feng Nan was gone, Duan Chengye replied beneath it every day: “Duan Chengye is here. Feng Nan, where are you?”

Everyone was moved to tears by his unwavering replies for 1,095 days.

The day Feng Nan returned, she opened her Weibo account and replied to the people who had tagged her.

“Sorry to disappoint you all, but Feng Nan isn’t waiting for Duan Chengye anymore.”

Duan Chengye got himself blackout drunk. His once carefree eyes were red and swollen as he blocked her doorway and asked, “Have you really decided you don’t want me anymore?”

Theme: Work hard and build a wonderful life.