Rain Clouds

[Second-generation romance novel, accepting advance readers: After the Marriage Alliance Invitation Was Sent to My Childhood Friend by Mistake] Childhood friends, marriage first, love later

★ Blurb:

Cool and rational x arrogant and devoted | Catlike x doglike | Rekindled romance, running away while pregnant

(I)

"First love is like a summer cumulonimbus cloud, dense and heavy."

The first time Tang Kui's life veered off course was when she was twenty.

Gu Yuhong came from a prominent family. He was charming but not flirtatious. His expressive eyes were naturally affectionate, but he only looked at her with devotion.

When she was with him, Tang Kui was always reminded of the golden retriever she had as a child.

The elders and teachers around them all thought Gu Yuhong was a young genius, but Tang Kui thought he was rather slow. He could never learn how to say "I love you" in French class. As his speaking partner, she had to practice with him over and over again.

Tang Kui thought Gu Yuhong could give her the complete family she had dreamed of since childhood, until Madam Gu came to see her.

His starting point was the finish line she could never reach, no matter how hard she worked her whole life. They were worlds apart.

If a gaze could become real, in that moment it would have pierced her heart like a thousand arrows.

She chose to leave, without looking back.

(II)

Four years later, they met again at a dinner party.

Brilliant fireworks bloomed across the night sky, but the man's eyes across from her were icy.

Tang Kui downed the strong liquor in her glass. Only then did Gu Yuhong slowly raise his own. The red wine merely moistened his lips as he said lightly, "Ms. Tang, you can really hold your liquor."

They had thought they were now on parallel paths, until, after getting drunk, Gu Yuhong's eyes turned bloodshot as he demanded, "Why did you leave me back then?"

His hot breath brushed against her ear. Tang Kui felt as if a feather had swept across her heart.

(III)

Everyone in their circle knew that the sole heir to the Gu family had fallen out with his family over a woman. He went into business for himself after graduating from university, and in just four years, he founded a company that went public, becoming a legend in business circles.

Everyone said he was ruthless, a jade-faced Yama, until one day they saw a chubby little girl wrap her arms around Mr. Gu's neck, wriggling in his arms and acting spoiled.

The suited man held the child in one arm and patted her back with the other, soothing her gently.

Reader's guide:

1. Primarily set in the modern city, with some flashbacks to school and school-life bonus chapters.

2. Rekindled romance, both sides devoted to each other.

3. 1v1, both first-timers, happy ending.

4. The girl at the end of blurb three is their daughter, not the heroine!! I don't know why anyone would dispute this...

After the Marriage Alliance Invitation Was Sent to My Childhood Friend by Mistake

Childhood friends, marriage first, love later

1. On the day Gu Huaijue went abroad to study, she deleted Yuan Yu's contact information.

In their more than twenty years of friendship, they'd said "Let's never see each other again" far too many times during arguments.

This time, they really didn't see each other for three years.

But when she was upset and drunk, Gu Huaijue still instinctively dialed the number she knew by heart.

It was the middle of the night back home. Across eight thousand kilometers, a man's lazy, deep voice came through:

"Didn't you say you didn't want me anymore? Why are you calling me to cry now?"

2. After Gu Huaijue and Yuan Yu registered their marriage, few people knew. When she introduced Yuan Yu to her friends, she still called him "my brother."

The karaoke blared in the private room. Gu Huaijue could only hear Yuan Yu whisper in her ear: "Can you marry your brother, or kiss your brother?"

A cautious yet brazenly obvious atmosphere of flirtation filled that corner. Gu Huaijue's heart thumped hard twice.

Theme: Don't give up when you encounter difficulties