Upcoming contemporary romance: Hidden Away and Invading Summer. Blurbs below. Please add them to your reading lists. Muah!
Gu Jinse, the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Dingguo, was a noble young lady of the capital, born with a silver spoon in her mouth. In her previous life, she got her wish and married her beloved Fifth Prince.
Unexpectedly, the Fifth Prince not only took the Chancellor's youngest daughter as a concubine and doted on her while neglecting his wife, but also framed the Duke of Dingguo's household for treason, resulting in the execution of the entire family.
Only as she lay dying did Gu Jinse learn that the Fifth Prince had married her solely to use the Duke of Dingguo's household to eliminate his rivals and claim the position of Crown Prince.
Reborn in the year the Fifth Prince proposed to her, Gu Jinse looked at his hypocritical face and smiled coldly. "Your Highness must be confused. Jinse has never been engaged to you."
The emperor and empress hoped to arrange a match and asked Gu Jinse at a flower-viewing party which prince she favored.
Gu Jinse's gaze fell on the First Prince, who had shown her kindness in her previous life.
"Your servant has long loved Prince Li. I beg Your Majesty to grant my wish."
Everyone: ? Someone actually wants to marry a cripple?
The Fifth Prince thought that his elder brother, who had been paralyzed from the waist down for years, would leave Gu Jinse to return to him sooner or later. But in the end, he discovered that his brother wasn't crippled at all. Instead, he was carrying a beauty in his arms as he ascended to the highest position, looking down at him and saying, "Fifth Brother, hurry up and call her Sister-in-law."
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The First Prince, Pei Ze, Prince Li, had fought countless battles and achieved great military honors. He should have been the undisputed choice for the throne. But after a lifetime of fighting, he ended up abandoned by everyone.
His mother was murdered, his legs were crippled, and his trusted aides had vanished. He was left with nothing but his titles.
He thought his life had grown as bleak as his legs, but he never expected someone to stumble into his arms and say she wanted to marry him.
One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced, happy ending.
The heroine is reborn. The hero is crippled at first, but has already recovered by the time he appears, so he spends the rest of the story pretending.
My next book will be a contemporary romance: Hidden Away and Invading Summer. If you're interested, please add them to your reading lists!
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Upcoming contemporary romance: Hidden Away
Blurb:
The first time she met Jiang Wan was on a chilly, drizzly day.
The girl stood by the swimming pool, her slender back seeming fragile and delicate in the cool evening breeze.
A jacket was draped over her shoulders. It carried a faint woody fragrance, fresh and clean.
Jiang Wan turned around and met a pair of deep-set eyes.
Her heart, sunk to the depths, began to beat again.
Yun Ze was tall and slender. His eyes lowered slightly as he looked at her, a gentle smile on his lips. "It's cold outside. Make sure you stay warm."
Yun Ze learned from his parents that Jiang Wan's parents had died in a car accident and that she would be living with them from then on.
"Make sure you take good care of her. Treat her like your little sister," his mother instructed.
Yun Ze said nothing, but his gaze kept drifting to the quiet girl.
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Not long after, Jiang Wan transferred to Yun Ze's school.
She was quiet and well-behaved, yet had a face that drew everyone's attention. Her arrival on campus caused quite a stir.
A friend who had a crush on Jiang Wan learned that she lived at Yun Ze's house and asked if he could help set them up.
Yun Ze answered without a moment's thought. "No."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm her brother."
Jiang Wan, waiting for him so they could walk home together, heard those words, and her budding feelings sank to the bottom of her heart.
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One day later, Yun Ze ran into Jiang Wan and her pursuer at a shopping mall.
Seeing Yun Ze's stormy expression, the pursuer asked Jiang Wan awkwardly, "Who is this?"
"My brother," Jiang Wan answered without hesitation.
Not long afterward, Yun Ze cornered Jiang Wan in the stairwell.
Outside the door was the pursuer, searching for her.
His eyes were bloodshot, but he restrained himself and lowered his voice. "Jiang Wan, tell him I'm not your brother."
[Mutual pining comes true, two-way devotion, each other's one and only]
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Upcoming: Invading Summer
Blurb:
The first time Yun Xia was alone with Wen Heng was on the day her grandfather died. Her brother, Yun Ze, was busy with the funeral and couldn't get away, so he asked his friend to pick his sister up from school.
The fifteen-year-old boy had his right hand in his pocket and a cigarette in his mouth, leaning lazily against the school gate. He was reckless and arrogant, the sort of boy little kids would cross the street to avoid.
Yun Xia was no exception.
"Xiaxia, your brother asked me to take you home," the boy said with a roguish grin, watching the timid girl try to escape.
The second time Yun Xia was alone with Wen Heng was years later, at her engagement party.
Their family and friends offered their congratulations one by one. Only he stood apart from the crowd, his gaze fixed on the smiling girl in the middle of it all. Unreadable light shone in his long, narrow eyes in the darkness.
Her fiance went to the restroom and didn't return. Yun Xia went to look for him, but Wen Heng suddenly pulled her into the stairwell. The scent of red wine clung to him as he stood close to her, slightly tipsy.
The third time Yun Xia was alone with Wen Heng was on the day news of her fiance's affair spread everywhere.
The most prominent photo on the trending page showed her fiance kissing someone in a hotel corridor on the day of their engagement party.
When Wen Heng found Yun Xia, she was sitting all alone on a stone step. The cool rain slid down from the edge of his black umbrella, one drop at a time. He lowered his eyes to meet hers. "Xiaxia, I'll take you home."
The age gap is seven years. The hero's unrequited love becomes mutual, while the heroine's story goes from marriage first to love later.
Theme: Keep striving forward, even in adversity.
