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My new neighboring novel, [Using a Matchmaking System in the 1980s], is now out. Please add it to your collection! On the eve of the college entrance exam, Fu Xiao's family undergoes a huge upheaval, leaving her homeless. With nowhere else to turn, she goes to the only man who has ever shown her kindness. He is a rising star in the business world, young yet commanding, cool and self-possessed. Fu Xiao gazes at him with her bright almond eyes, her lashes lowered and her eyes soft with tears. Tugging at Wen Qingyu's lapel, she asks quietly, "What kind of girl do you like? Could someone like me do?" * Everyone says Wen Qingyu is so outstanding that no one of his generation can compare. Cold-hearted and aloof, he devotes himself entirely to work, and is likely to end up alone. That is, until one day, a friend comes over to his villa for a get-together and sees the usually cool and self-possessed Wen Qingyu walk out of the kitchen wearing an apron and carrying a bowl of noodle soup, coaxing a sulking young woman: "Be good. Get angry after you finish eating." The young woman glares at him with round, furious almond eyes. Her pink lips glisten, and her ears are red as blood. She toys with the lapel of Wen Qingyu's shirt with her fingertips and mutters, "If you do that again... I'll bite you again." His lapel is tugged out of place, and his neck is red as blood, marked with faint bite marks. Friend: "!!!" So much for being cool, abstinent, and uninterested in women! * Before meeting Fu Xiao, Wen Qingyu only knew how to follow the same path, step by step. The farther he went, the more the beast inside him grew. His coolness, self-restraint, and discipline were all meant to keep that beast in check. After meeting Fu Xiao, she held the key to unleashing the beast and tamed it. She became the one he cherished above all others, bearing the full force of his wild, burning passion. Reader's guide: Sweet romance | First love for both | She pursues him | Eight-year age gap | A brave young woman versus a self-controlled older man whose heart is suddenly set ablaze My new novel, [Using a Matchmaking System in the 1980s], is now out. Please add it to your collection! In her previous life, Fu Li was pushed into a river by her younger sister, Fu Ling, and Chen Yuan rescued her while naked. She was forced to marry him and become a stepmother to his two children. The Chen family was poor, barely able to afford their next meal. Her mother-in-law was vicious and constantly berated her, while Chen Yuan drank heavily and beat her. She slaved away for the Chen family, doing backbreaking labor. But when a rich man pursued her maliciously, the Chens accused her of adultery. Unable to fight back against their ugly faces, she took her own life. Her only regret before she died was never finding out who had quietly escorted her home when she worked late into the night, left medicine on her windowsill after she was beaten, and left grapes for her when she was hungry. She never got to say "thank you" to the person who had brought light to her dark life. * After being reborn, the first thing Fu Li does is kick Chen Yuan into deep water, then climb out of the pond herself, cutting off any chance of marrying him and setting off toward a new life with plenty to eat and drink. Her second task is to find the person who had silently been kind to her and repay him with twice as much kindness. * After being reborn, Fu Li gets a matchmaking lottery System. By binding herself to her destined partner and completing tasks, she can win all sorts of wonderful things. But her destined partner turns out to be Ling Yi, the village bully, a cruel and volatile man who was already in prison when she died in her previous life. Tempted by all the good things in the System, Fu Li nervously sets out to complete her tasks. The first time, she sneaks up to touch his hand, making physical contact. But the man turns around fiercely and glares at her with a murderous look. "Touch me again and you'll regret it." Fu Li falls flat on her backside, thinking: He's so fierce. How could he possibly be my match made in heaven? Only later does she discover that this man... might be the very person who secretly loved her in her previous life, her ray of light? * After Fu Li marries Ling Yi, everyone waits to see her make a fool of herself. Villagers: "The Ling family is so poor they can't even afford meat. Poor Li is going to suffer after marrying into that family!" But Fu Li and her husband go into business. They bring home a color TV, a refrigerator, and a sewing machine, then move into a bigger house and settle in an apartment building. Villagers: "The Ling family's little brother is sick, and their sister is lame. They're all just dead weight!" But Ling Yi's younger brother and sister become a mechanical engineer and a fashion designer, respectively. Villagers: "What's the use of having money? They don't even have parents-in-law or anyone to help them out." But then Ling Yi's biological parents, who turn out to be high-ranking officials in the provincial capital, come looking for him! Villagers: "So what if they have money and power? Ling Yi is fierce and domineering. He probably doesn't know how to treat his wife well." Fu Li quietly turns around and takes a bite of the grapes Ling Yi has peeled and handed to her, thinking: He's been treating me well since my previous life. P.S. The story is set in a fictional world, and the golden finger is quite powerful. Theme: Someone will always bring a ray of light into your troubled life.