Falling for You, Gently

◎ Complete. Next up: *Sleeping with the Spring Light*. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb: Fang Luoning had spent over twenty years as a pampered heiress. Then, one day, her family fell into ruin, leaving her buried in debt and making her a laughingstock among the social elite. Everyone rushed to kick her while she was down. One person even deliberately humiliated her: "My aunt set me up with a playboy second-generation heir, and I can't get out of it. Go in my place, and I'll give you ten thousand yuan." Fang Luoning agreed. The next day, she went to the restaurant they had arranged to meet at, but the man arrived late. Without even looking at her, he sat down and launched into a string of outrageous demands: "I'm busy with work, so I'll only see you once a month. Don't contact me for no reason; it interferes with my work. After we get married, you'll take care of my parents and give me a son. Don't interfere with the women I see on the side. If you can accept all that, we'll sign a..." The man's voice, haughty and self-important, abruptly stopped when he looked up and saw her. Fang Luoning let out a deeply relieved breath. Thank goodness she'd broken up with him back then. * Shen Silan lost a game and was forced to agree to go on a blind date in his friend's place. To make sure he got rejected right away, he prepared a whole string of outrageous demands in advance. He delivered them in an affected tone, right to his date's face, then suddenly realized... The woman sitting opposite him was his first love. * Rumor had it that Shen Silan, the second young master of the Shen family, had a white moonlight in his heart. His bewitchingly handsome, demon-like face had countless women throwing themselves at him, hoping to replace the white moonlight in his heart. Until one day, he brought Fang Luoning to a party. Someone deliberately tried to provoke Fang Luoning. "You know Young Master Lan has a white moonlight, right?" Fang Luoning smiled faintly. "That thing around his neck? His white moonlight gave it to him." Fang Luoning said, "Oh." "I heard he even has his white moonlight's name tattooed on his chest. Have you seen it?" Shen Silan came over after greeting his friends and happened to hear them. The man, who was usually so flippant, had a gaze that seemed to hold ice. "This thing around my neck was given to me by my Ningning." "And the name tattooed on my chest is my Ningning's, too." "What's it to you?" [B-king CEO x Fallen Heiress. The heroine becomes a traditional Chinese painting teacher later on.] [The hero and heroine are each other's only partners, body and soul.] Next up: *Sleeping with the Spring Light*. Please add it to your reading list! Blurb: Lately, rumors had been circulating in their social circle that Sheng Jiaze, the second young master of the Sheng family, had a young woman by his side. She was pretty, and Sheng seemed to dote on her. But Xu Tingxia knew that Sheng Jiaze didn't like her. All the kindness he showed her, all the gifts he bought her and everything he did for her were because her eyes held the corneas of his late sister. Still, on her eighteenth birthday, slightly tipsy, she summoned her courage and confessed to him. The man was unmoved. As calm and unconcerned as ever, he acted as if nothing had happened. He didn't even use a single word of rejection, yet he crushed the young girl's feelings before they could take root. After learning that the Sheng family was about to enter into a marriage alliance with the Bai family, Xu Tingxia applied to a university thousands of miles away from him. One day, as she walked across campus with an upperclassman and discussed plans for a student union event, she saw that man again. He was travel-worn and distraught, his usual composure and pride completely gone. "Why aren't you answering my calls?" Xu Tingxia seemed only then to remember something. She said casually, "I changed my number." The upperclassman asked who he was. The girl smiled, her eyes utterly calm. "Oh, just an uncle." tips: Sweet and devoted couple, ten-year age gap. Gentle, well-behaved young woman x proud, spoiled police aviation pilot. The heroine has a crush on the hero in the first half; later, the hero experiences a mild, regretful pursuit. The hero dotes on the heroine. A sweet romance, with no arranged marriage. Theme: Striving for your dreams.