The Nightingale's Sleepless Harbor

[Complete] Next up: Is Kissing My Wife That Good? *Older man/ Hong Kong vibes/ marriage first, love later | Hong Kong tycoon x cellist A week before the wedding, Shao Zhiying’s boyfriend was trending online. The East Week’s blaring headline set all of Hong Kong abuzz: “Youngest son of the Song family cheats before his wedding: prodigy cellist Shao Zhiying gets cheated on before she’s even married” The accompanying photo showed her boyfriend, Song Qinian, caught in the act. The tie he wore while nuzzling intimately with that woman was the latest seasonal design she had personally picked out for him. At the Victoria Harbour banquet the next day, Song Qinian offered a feeble defense. “Those tabloids are making things up. The wedding’s just around the corner. Don’t throw a tantrum.” The young woman merely brushed past him with a cool glance, her eyes settling on the seat of honor at the head of the banquet hall. There sat the most powerful man in all of Hong Kong: her boyfriend’s older brother, Song Henian. He was poised and refined, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose. Their impassive lenses concealed a gaze as cold as ice. Through the chill, perfumed haze, she glided to the seat of honor beside the host and parted her red lips. “Your family has more than one unmarried son, Big Brother. What do you think?” Beneath the crystal chandeliers, the satin of her evening gown hugged her figure. Her raven hair flowed like a waterfall, and her skin was fair as snow. She was as beautiful as a poppy. Yet he remained solemn and unmoved, as if he had only glanced at her without a care. 2. Plenty of people waited to see Shao Zhiying make a fool of herself. They waited and waited, only for the Hong Kong media to announce that she had a new groom. The Song-Shao alliance remained unchanged. Song Henian penned the marriage contract himself, then showed up at her door with tens of billions’ worth of lavish betrothal gifts. When they saw her thriving after marriage, some said she had gained both wealth and power, turning Hong Kong’s most untouchable man into a tool for navigating the high-stakes world of money and influence. Before long, those words reached Song Henian too. That night, the villa in Deep Water Bay was unusually quiet, and Shao Zhiying couldn’t help feeling a little guilty. Before going to bed, she did something rare: she hooked her finger around his and settled into his arms. But as always, his kiss landed on her forehead. “If I’m a tool, then it’s my good fortune that my wife finds me useful.” “I’m glad she likes my money and covets my power, because I have plenty of both. She isn’t a bird in a gilded cage. She’s the most noble and free nightingale in Victoria Harbour.” Stern daddy x radiant, seductive temptress Hong Kong tycoon x cellist Reader’s guide: 1. Seven-year age gap/contract relationship → marriage first, love later 2. A Hong Kong-style story, with some Cantonese dialogue and translations 3. Other sweet older-man romances: A Letter from Beijing and Hong Kong are complete; Hong Kong Night Butterfly and A Night in Florence are available for pre-order. *The original blurb was written in April 2024. This is an exclusive original work, registered with a lawyer. Don’t plagiarize or make false claims. Please add A Night in Florence to your reading list Song Jiayin first met Frank at a glittering banquet hosted by an old-money family. She attended with her father, elegant and beautiful, poised and graceful. She was the Hong Kong socialite praised by all the elders. The second time they met was on his private island. In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, their intimate reflections revealed a striking difference in height and build. Finger marks crisscrossed the young woman’s fair skin, and tears glistened in her reddened eyes, stirring a tender desire to comfort her. The nights in Florence were heady and decadent, from dawn to dusk, then from twilight to the small hours, like a deep-blue mist. After seventeen days of wild abandon, she vanished without a trace. “You awoke me from my stupor, and now you must repay me for my innocence.”, Xu Zhimo, “A Night in Florence” Note: Florence, known as Fei Leng Cui in Chinese, is a city in central Italy. First intimacy, then love/romance across borders Song Jiayin x Huo Youchuan (Frank) Hong Kong heiress x aristocrat of Chinese-Italian descent Next up: Is Kissing My Wife That Good?, (Tap to add it to your reading list) Xu Jingen had a very possessive boyfriend who always called her “baby” in a gentle voice and doted on her. Then one day, an unfamiliar upperclassman at school sent her flowers and pursued her. That night, her boyfriend showed another side of himself and tore her brand-new school uniform skirt to shreds. Xu Jingen x Shao Yili Sweet, gentle girl x dark, obsessive psycho Hong Kong university/ordinary female student x illegitimate son of an ultra-wealthy family Theme: Love and art are enough to illuminate life