Flirting and Teasing

[Bonus chapters are on Weibo, @JinjiangBieShu]

[Online novelist vs. visiting professor/investment bank owner]

[New novel, Snow Tonight, now available. A groveling-to-win-her-back romance]

[Blurb]

Jiang Nuan went with a friend to audit a class at the top university. She only meant to gather some material for her new book, but unexpectedly came across the young visiting professor who had become an online sensation.

The man wore gold-rimmed glasses. His eyes were cool and indifferent, and his voice was low and icy.

A string of sandalwood Buddhist beads looped around his wrist made him seem all the more restrained, and all the more alluring.

At just one glance, sleepy Jiang Nuan sat bolt upright.

This is exactly the kind of guy I like!

So Jiang Nuan found all sorts of excuses to stick close to Tan Yu. In public, she called him "Professor." In private, it was "Good morning, handsome." She pursued him for three whole months.

Who knew the Buddha wouldn't give in to worldly desires, and was also an ice block that wouldn't thaw?

Jiang Nuan's heart turned cold, and she burst into tears.

After crying her eyes out, she wiped away her tears.

What good are men? He's much more useful as material for a book!

A month later, Jiang Nuan's new novel became a hit, and its sales shot to the top of the charts.

At the book launch, the host asked how she had come up with such a dispassionate male lead.

Jiang Nuan: "The book holds a beauty like jade."

Then the "beauty like jade" showed up at her door.

"You got close to me, used me, and then threw me away?"

"Who gave you the nerve?"

Jiang Nuan's eyes reddened. "I don't date Buddhas."

A Buddha?

Tan Yu chuckled softly.

He lifted Jiang Nuan's hand and placed her soft palm against his tie.

His voice dropped to a murmur, almost a seduction:

"They say that when a Buddha falls into the mortal world, he turns into a demon. He becomes mad, obsessive, and never stops until death."

"Jiang Nuan, want to try falling from grace?"

[I was trapped in the endless night, unable to escape. Then the Milky Way swept across the sky, and my life was lit forever., Tan Yu]

[The blurb has been updated. Screenshots of both versions one and two have been saved!]

Coming soon: Snow Tonight

["Mr. Pei, who do you think you are?"]

[Blurb]

Shen Zhi's parents divorced, and by chance, she and her mother moved to the Pei family home in Lin City, who were supposedly distant relatives.

The Pei family had been one of Lin City's most prominent clans for a century, with unmatched status and prestige. Their only son, Pei Yanli, was the center of attention across the city, the heir everyone had their eyes on, pampered by all.

Her mother worked as a live-in housekeeper there and often warned her not to go near Young Master Pei's room on the second floor. Someone had once been driven out of Lin City for touching his things.

Shen Zhi nodded.

She just wondered when this heaven's favorite would kick her out.

Pei Yanli was genuinely difficult to please. Especially in bed.

His moods were unpredictable, and his appetite insatiable. Sometimes he kept her until dawn.

Once, after he'd been drinking, he pinned her against the bathroom counter and kissed the back of her neck, leaving it covered in marks.

"Shen Zhi, I like good girls."

"As long as you don't ask for a title or feelings, I can give you anything else."

That day, news of the Pei and Fu families' children being matched in marriage topped every major media outlet.

Learning that Pei Yanli was out of the country, Shen Zhi left with her mother as she'd wanted and blocked every one of his contacts.

A proper fling, one that didn't even qualify you as an ex, should disappear from your contact list for good.

-

Later, while she was in graduate school, a classmate hinted that a boy wanted to confess his feelings to her.

But when the ground outside the academic building was covered in flowers and people gathered around, Shen Zhi was nowhere to be seen.

On the top floor of the Pei Hotel, under the dim yellow lights, Pei Yanli gripped the girl's slender waist. His eyes were red, his voice hoarse. "Zhizhi, turn that man down."

Shen Zhi looked up with a curved smile and pressed one finger against his chest, each word like a blade.

"Pei Yanli, who do you think you are?"

Theme: Strive for your dreams, and you will be rewarded in the end.