Clouds Over Hanshan

[Originally titled Tethered. The complete story is finished. Please leave a five-star review. Weibo: Xiaoling Xingli]

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An aloof fairy and her loyal puppy :D

Yun Mi is known in the fashion world as a beauty as cold as ice. Her strikingly beautiful face and daring, astonishing design style can make even models fade into the background beside her.

Everyone agrees that such an untouchable beauty has no need for romance.

At a brand meeting, Yun Mi wears a simple women's suit and delivers her quarterly report. Everyone present takes the opportunity to stare at her openly.

When she turns her head, they catch sight of a faint red hickey at the back of her neck.

Everyone is stunned!

But Yun Mi turns around and casually glances their way, and they all hurriedly fall silent and hold their breath.

-

The modern entertainment industry is practically Lu Hanshan's private playground. With huge popularity across a wide range of fields, he's someone everyone wants to climb up to, but nobody can reach.

The man is cool and distant, keeping his work life and personal life perfectly separate.

He's been in the industry for eight years without a single dating rumor. His fans promote him themselves: "Invest without worry. His reputation will never collapse."

Then, during a livestream for his new album launch, the whole internet saw a cloud tattoo on the inside of his ring finger.

Someone tried to ask what it meant.

Lu Hanshan smiled, casually ran his fingers over the tattoo, and replied, "My girlfriend said it was cute."

Reporter: ?!

Fans: ?!!

The whole internet went wild!!

-

Everyone was curious about Lu Hanshan's mysterious girlfriend, but he protected her so well that nobody could dig up anything.

One day, fashion designer Yun Mi suddenly became a trending topic after netizens accused her newly posted women's suit design of copying the unique, expensive custom suit Lu Hanshan owned.

Fans furiously accused her of piggybacking on the superstar's fame, while onlookers gleefully waited to see the untouchable beauty forced to wither.

Just as things were about to spiral out of control, Lu Hanshan suddenly posted a mirror selfie.

In the photo, he wore that expensive, gorgeous custom suit, with his arm around a woman dressed in a matching style of women's suit. Her back looked cool and elegant, and she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Lu Hanshan: [Designed by my girlfriend. Matching outfits. @Yun Mi]

On a desolate night, warmth came through the bleak curtain of rain. It was the knot of a rope she left around his neck.

*There isn't much about the entertainment industry in this story.

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Third version of the blurb, 2022.7.17

Cover artists: Dian Xiao Wang Sheng + K (non-exclusive)

Check out my next upcoming book, Sleepless Nights.

Blurb:

University professor x art designer

There's a very popular post on an app lately.

[What's it like to cross half the country only to run into your ex?]

Shen Xi: Thanks for asking. I was the one who dumped him. I don't want that experience.

What's more, he begged her to stay back then, but she coldly rejected him.

-

Who knew that while accompanying her best friend to the Northeast, Shen Xi would actually run into her ex, Gu Xingfeng?

The man was just as she remembered: gentle yet stern, with silver-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, screening off his icy gaze.

No matter who approached him, he was impossible to get close to.

Amid the swirling smoke, Shen Xi's best friend said, "That refined scoundrel over there looks like the abstinent type."

Shen Xi: ...

In her memories, Gu Xingfeng had always kissed her wantonly in a room of shifting lights and shadows.

His arms had held her close, afraid she might leave him, brimming with love.

There was nothing remotely abstinent about him.

-

Later, at a class reunion, Shen Xi accidentally drank too much.

When she woke up, she was in Gu Xingfeng's bed.

The curtains were still drawn. The man was shirtless, his muscles sharply defined.

He braced both hands beside her ears, his scorching gaze seeming to pin Shen Xi in place.

"How could you treat me like this..."

His feigned nonchalance was long gone.

What Shen Xi didn't know was that all the years since she dumped Gu Xingfeng had been sleepless nights for him.

Check out my upcoming historical romance, Meeting Again in Autumn. Please follow my author page~

*The heroine fakes her death.

Gu Mochen, the regent of the current dynasty, wields absolute power and can do as he pleases. He acts swiftly and ruthlessly. Though he's never wielded a sword or a blade himself, others secretly call him the Asura.

Even his closest family members have to stay on guard around him.

But Han Qingqiu knows another side of her little uncle.

When she was young, he was the only one who treated her well.

Her relatives paid her no mind, but Gu Mochen would smile at Han Qingqiu and call to her in a deep voice:

"Xiao Shuang."

Frost and clear autumn: that was the pet name Gu Mochen gave her.

-

A sudden upheaval in the palace throws the court into turmoil. The unloved youngest daughter of the Han family eventually dies beneath the swords of a power struggle.

Only in her final moments does Han Qingqiu learn that she is not her parents' biological daughter.

As she dies, she sees the little uncle she has loved for so long, dressed in a brocade robe stained red with blood.

In his hand is the sword that pierced her heart.

-

When Han Qingqiu opens her eyes, she has returned to the age of sixteen. She is standing before Gu Mochen, having just heard him say:

"Xiao Shuang, will you stay by my side?"

In her previous life, she agreed without hesitation. This time, Han Qingqiu only smiles in reply.

She wants to cherish this hard-won new life.

By faking her death, Han Qingqiu cuts herself off completely from her past.

She leaves without a word, assumes a new identity, retreats into the mountains, and lives a carefree, happy life.

Who could have known that when they meet again, Gu Mochen will have become the new emperor who controls the court?

Rumor has it the new emperor slaughtered the old powers only to avenge his late empress.

P.S.:

The heroine was raised by the male lead. He did not kill her in her previous life.

Check out my upcoming mature romance, The Lark Turns the Tables. Please follow my author page~

[He thought she was his prey. But in the end, everything was the other way around.]

The first time Mu Wenze met Ji Yin, she was naive and inexperienced, like a helpless little lark who had flown straight into his arms.

The man was unmoved, tilting his head back to drink down his liquor. The hazy, dreamlike lights outlined his stern features. Mu Wenze spoke, almost as if warning her.

"You shouldn't have come to me."

He was part of the elite circle of wealthy playboys. It was complicated and chaotic, not at all a place for a little lark to survive.

But Ji Yin answered with complete sincerity: "Please let me stay by your side."

-

Soon, news about the young master of the Mu family spread through the entire circle. His playboy friends teased him, telling him to bring his precious little lark out so they could see her.

Mu Wenze held a cigarette between his fingers and let it burn. "I'm not bringing her."

Someone joked, "Mu, why are you protecting her so fiercely? She's not even your girlfriend."

The man's glance silenced the entire private room in an instant.

Mu Wenze casually stubbed out his cigarette. "She's still mine."

-

Later, the little lark left him heartbroken.

Mu Wenze told himself, Let her go. It's no big deal. But after countless sleepless nights, he finally realized he'd fallen for her.

He went mad searching for her, but got nowhere.

At last, at a certain high-society gathering, Mu Wenze saw the little lark he hadn't seen in so long.

Ji Yin was now a famous composer in their circle, worth over a hundred million. Today was her first public appearance.

Mu Wenze was about to approach her when he heard her say casually,

"Young Master Mu? He was no longer useful, so I threw him away."

The female lead is a composer. She only sought out the male lead because she had run out of inspiration.

Theme: Only love can never be erased.