Early Summer

A heartwarming, healing little slice-of-life story. There are no wild twists and turns; this one is all about the feels. Sweet, sweet, sweet is the whole point!

Three upcoming novels. If any of these catch your eye, please add them to your collection. Their blurbs are below.

1. Don't You Dare Ruin Me: The delusional, heartbroken artist Ruan Xian x the cold, taciturn explorer Huo Zhengting

2. Warm Smoke from Boshan: A period novel. The vain, hot-tempered troublemaker Shen Qianhe x the calculating, mixed-race Zhou Bihan

3. May You Be Safe for a Hundred Years: Modern era + Republican era. Republican era: the mute young opera performer Lai'er x Na Wen, a remnant of the Qing dynasty. Modern era: the clingy little imp Xiao Lan x Lu Wenzhai, owner of an opera house

[Blurb]

The year Shu Wan Feng and Xia Tian parted, it was sometime around the start of summer.

He left nothing behind for summer except the retreating figure of a young man and a battered rose.

Nine years passed in a flash, and once again, summer was beginning.

Shu Wan Feng returned home and reappeared in Xia Tian's life, like the most wonderful prank in the world.

There is desire, a stolen kiss, things left unsaid, and someone who leaves, only to return.

The love delayed by time was never late in arriving.

That summer, Xia Tian finally got his evening breeze.

And the evening breeze found the summer that belonged to him, too.

*On the set of the music video for the recently viral tearjerker "Little Kid"

"Cut!" The MV director was tearing his hair out. He bowed to the big-shot sponsor who had dropped by the set. "Mr. Shu, we just need you in the shot. You don't actually have to kiss!"

Xia Tian laughed so hard his makeup came off.

Shu Wan Feng grabbed him by the waist and glared at the director. "Are you in charge of me?"

The director held up his hands. "Of course not..."

The next day's trending headline: Xia Tian and Shu Wan Feng turn pretend romance into reality on the MV set!

Shu Wan Feng was deeply displeased. "Pretend?"

Xia Tian scratched his chin, teasing him like a cat. "Did you eat the last two words?"

[Reader's Guide]

1. Bottom: Xia Tian, adorable, stubborn, innocent, and tsundere, with a full assortment of strengths and flaws.

Top: Shu Wan Feng, (not) gentle and (not) mature.

2. Childhood sweethearts, love blossoming over time, a longtime crush becoming reality, relationship-focused, and a little sweet treat.

3. The pacing is a little slow, though I don't think it is. Every chapter brings something new, haha.

4. Xia Tian's career will eventually bring him into the entertainment industry, but trust me, the romance will stay within the bounds of a warm, everyday life. There won't be any scheming or flashy homewreckers like in typical entertainment-industry novels.

5. The characters aren't based on real people, so please don't say my boys look like this person or that person. Original writing is hard!

6. I don't take writing advice. Put those sweet little mouths of yours to better use and enjoy the romance, baby!

7. If you don't like it, please don't insult me or slap labels on me. Just click the X. I'll delete or report any outrageous comments.

[Upcoming Novels]

1. Don't You Dare Ruin Me

When Ruan Xian was eight, he was kidnapped, and his older brother Ruan Yu died in an accident.

From then on, Ruan Xian became Ruan Yu's substitute. His life, talent, reputation, and wealth all became the property of his dead brother.

No one cared that Ruan Xian had developed persecutory delusions. Even his only friend, Meng Lin, told him he ought to live a good life in Ruan Yu's place.

And no one knew the only reason he still wanted to live was Huo Zhengting.

On the night of Huo Zhengting's twenty-ninth birthday, Ruan Xian gathered all his courage and went to see him.

Two people who had never had anything to do with each other ended up together, becoming the subject of gossip over tea.

People asked, "Young Master Huo, I never heard you had anything to do with that pathetic Ruan kid. How did you two get together?"

Sitting in a dim, secluded booth, Huo Zhengting replied, "I don't know him. I know Ruan Yu."

Everyone understood: Ruan Xian had become Ruan Yu's substitute again.

Ruan Xian had nothing, and even in love he was a clown.

He spent every day afraid someone would hurt him, afraid of getting injured, afraid of dying.

This time, Ruan Xian went up to the rooftop himself and jumped.

[Content Warnings]

1. Not for extreme possessiveness fans.

2. The bottom is emotionally and physically fragile, and the top's words of affection are sporadic. The groveling may not be satisfying, either, so proceed with caution if you want an intense reversal.

3. Not everyone will blindly grovel. The story follows its own logic, and in the end, good is rewarded and evil is punished.

4. The "reunited after a breakup" tag is included, so proceed with caution.

2. Warm Smoke from Boshan

In the late 1980s, Shen Qianhe and Zhou Bihan crossed paths in a narrow alley.

The day they first met, Shen Qianhe was carrying his sister out to be married, while Zhou Bihan brought a truckload of luggage into the alley. The lane was so narrow only one party could pass at a time. Neither was the accommodating type, so they set the happy occasion aside and had a spectacular fight first.

Everyone said Shen Qianhe was a hooligan and a scoundrel, while Zhou Bihan was a phoenix destined to rise to the top.

But no one knew that the hooligan and the phoenix had kissed aboard a green train traveling between the north and south.

Zhou Bihan's ancestral Boshan incense burner had, at some point, become the dowry of the Shen Qianhe he couldn't stop thinking about.

[Content Warnings]

1. The bottom is a vain, hot-tempered troublemaker who throws tantrums and causes trouble, and never learns to behave.

2. The top is mixed-race, handsome, with a high nose and deep-set eyes, and devious as they come.

3. It's the old enemies-to-lovers trope. Don't read if it's not your thing.

4. I'm aiming for an ensemble cast, though I may not pull it off. The story has a mix of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty, and follows the ordinary lives of ordinary people.

3. May You Be Safe for a Hundred Years

Lu Wenzhai came home late at night and found the young male opera performer who had recently been making frequent attempts to curry favor with him standing at his door.

But he had just parted ways with the young performer in front of the opera school.

Lu Wenzhai got the creeps and asked, "How did you get here?"

The young performer seemed cold and shivered as he replied, "I walked."

The opera school was eighteen kilometers from Lu Wenzhai's home. Walking would take at least three or four hours, while even driving over the speed limit had taken Lu Wenzhai half an hour.

And yet the young performer had somehow reached his door before him.

Lu Wenzhai thought he was lying and asked with a cold laugh, "How long did it take you to walk here?"

A gust of winter wind blew past, and the jade-rabbit lantern in the young performer's hand swayed eerily.

He thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps a hundred years."

[Content Warnings]

1. The top is a reincarnated soul. The bottom isn't.

2. This uses the old past-and-present-lives trope, so proceed with caution.

3. Slight supernatural elements, in service of the romance.

4. There are angsty moments, but the ending is happy.

Theme: Keep your heart sincere, persevere, and move forward bravely.

2: The Villain Mistook His Fiance for Someone Else is now available. Visit my author page to add it to your collection!

Qin Jiao'er was born into a distinguished family. She was talented, beautiful, and well-connected.

The year she came of age, the emperor was expanding his harem, and she was appointed a consort of the highest rank in a single day.

At the selection, one glance at the emperor made Qin Jiao'er's heart race.

But the memories that came flooding back one after another doused the feelings that had only just begun to kindle in this noble young lady.

Qin Jiao'er lay calmly on her back with her hands folded, her face peaceful. Life wasn't worth it.

On the day of the selection, the emperor glanced at her with his phoenix eyes, his gaze seeming both distant and significant.

Qin Jiao'er: What a shameless scumbag, flirting with everyone!

* A clear-eyed noble lady and Jingyu, the emperor with a handsome face and a lively spirit

Theme: Love life, and be confident and self-reliant, no matter what.

#Girls' Love#

-I'm sick.

-What a coincidence. I'm your cure.

(1)

Yin Xixia was assigned to the Quick Transmigration System Department and began her "vicious supporting female character" missions.

She did everything she could to suppress and frame the heroine, and compete with her for the male lead.

She devoted herself to getting close to the male lead, seducing him, and drugging him.

She hysterically sabotaged the relationship between the male and female leads, was punished by the male lead, and eventually died a miserable death.

After finally completing the plot and returning to the main world, her companion System 0521 told her that the heroine had turned evil, and the male lead was about to be killed.

Yin Xixia: O.O Why!?

0521: Because the male lead got you killed.

Yin Xixia: So... where's the cause-and-effect connection in that?

0521: Cut the nonsense and get back there to stabilize the plot!!!

(2)

Yin Xixia had no choice but to go through the plot again.

This time, the heroine had her completely pinned down from the very beginning, leaving her no chance to fight back.

Yin Xixia: System, help... help! The heroine's trying to kill me!!!

0521: Relax, the heroine doesn't want your life. She only wants you...

Yin Xixia (trembling): What does she want from me?

0521: You hopeless Host!

(3)

And then, later on...

In every world, the plot went off the rails.

#If there were light in a shadow world, it would probably look like you#

#I saw roses blooming across the wasteland#

#I only want you back#

By Suimian, 2020.10.25

P.S.

1. A well-behaved bottom whose only concern is the plot (Yin Xixia) & a scheming, sweet-on-the-outside top whose only concern is the bottom (Bian Gui).

2. This is all made up on a whim, and flies all the way to Mars.

3. Please quit while you're ahead, qwq. Mianmian is sparkling water: one poke and it fizzles out, and it's easy to fall asleep.

Theme: The world is everyone's responsibility.

A daily crossover story with Doudou. Also known as Eat, Sleep, and Beat Doudou.

Wang Weiwei and Doudou complete missions while looking for suitable people to take on missions, reporting them to the System's core and selecting new colleagues.

Theme: This story is entirely fictional, but everyone gets what they wish for.

The rivalry between Miss Xing and Young Master You. But You Hen knows that no matter who wins, his heart has long since lost to Xing Ming.

Theme: Girls should work hard!

One day, Chengde Middle School's top delinquent, Shi Nianxi, got into a fight with a bunch of boys from the neighboring school and ended up at the police station. There, she saw an incredibly handsome man, and her lovestruck nature took over. She started drooling like crazy. (It takes a lot to make someone with very discerning taste drool!) Shi Nianxi decided to pursue this man. She truly thought Ji Hanyuan would be hard to win over. Just as she was about to give up, he called and said, "Are you sure you've thought this through? Do you really want to be with me? If so, then I agree."

Holy crap! Hahahahahaha, they actually got together. But she hadn't realized that when Ji Hanyuan said "be together," he meant "be together with marriage in mind."

Theme: Perseverance is how you win a super handsome guy.

Shi Fengchen, the school bully at No. 2 Middle School, seemed cold and heartless to outsiders, with a bad temper. But his classmates got along very well with him, and they knew he wasn't "that kind of person" outsiders thought he was. Apart from not liking schoolwork and having gotten into a few fights, he wasn't any different from anyone else...

Shen Yun, the top student at No. 2 Middle School and class monitor of Class Five, was cold and spoke very little to everyone. But after an unfortunate seating arrangement put him next to Shi Fengchen in fourth period, his days of being harassed by a boy began. Everything seemed to be changing because of him...

Theme: An inspiring story about a top student helping a slacker study.

Can someone really be foolish enough to like someone for so many years?

Yes. Some people's love begins

at an age when they don't yet know what love is.

The story of Jian Xin and Tan Xu, two childhood friends who met because of their families, and the life they shared from 2018 onward.

Theme: The person you loved when you were young will be waiting for you in the future, so don't give up.

Fairy of the flowers: the peony, also known as the flower of parting. Peonies are given as gifts, and the herb Wenwu is used to invite someone to stay. Though hard to distinguish from the tree peony, the peony is renowned throughout the world for its fresh, graceful beauty, elegant bearing, and simple refinement.

The peony is used in medicine. It tastes bitter and can clear heat and cool the blood, making it beneficial. But as a poison, its naturally cold properties can bring chill into the belly, making it harmful.

Its benefits and its harms both come from what it is.

If so, what am I to you?

Theme: Gathering them, I fear, means thinking of you. How can this secret gift ever come to fruition?

Yao Shanjin was the proper princess consort in a book. She and the prince treated each other with respect, muddled through life together, and enjoyed the easygoing life of layabouts.

But then a woman who had transmigrated into the book came looking for trouble, and Yao Shanjin was her first target.

The useless prince never showed up to see her, and his subordinates told her she should be more understanding.

Yao Shanjin really wanted to write a divorce agreement, throw it in the prince's face, and walk away with her head held high.

But after the woman who had transmigrated into the book caused her trouble, Yao Shanjin unexpectedly got a lucky break. She bound herself to a supply System and began selling goods, keeping so busy she could barely catch her breath.

Day one: An order for five hundred sets of Huzhou writing brushes. Income: five hundred taels of gold. System bonus: A Handbook for Talented Women.

Day two: A set of cosmetics for every young woman in the capital. Profit: ten thousand taels of gold. Bonus: A Beauty Manual.

Day three: Five hundred jars of vinegar. Destination: Prince Jiayu's manor. Income: one thousand taels of gold. Bonus: One giant vinegar jar.

Yao Shanjin: Heh. Is that useless prince flirting with the woman who transmigrated into the book and making me jealous? Fine, I'll give them some vinegar to drink.

All right, she'll supply him with the strongest aged vinegar she can find, sour enough to make his teeth fall out.

After she actually sent someone to deliver the aged vinegar, the prince stopped her in a corner. "If I'd known the vinegar my beloved brews was so fragrant, I would have tasted it every day."

Yao Shanjin: "...Did you hit your head, Your Highness?"

Xi Jingcheng was the most highly esteemed prince of the Jin'an Kingdom. Yet when it came to marriage, his imperial elder brother forced him to marry a daughter of the Yao family.

At first, Xi Jingcheng refused. "Can a Yao daughter bring prosperity to Jin'an? Why don't you marry her yourself, dear brother?"

Later...

"Wait for me, beloved! What good stuff do you have for me to see today?"

A man should marry a virtuous wife, and he'd married a precious treasure to cherish in the palm of his hand.

Theme: Hard work leads to a happy and fulfilling life.