Clear Pear Island

*Cool, laid-back rich boy × rational, gentle female translator Ten years ago, Jiang Li met a boy. He had a cold, heartless-looking face, with sharply defined features and a clean, handsome line running from his jaw to his collarbone. Beneath his school uniform, a thin black T-shirt outlined his tall, slender frame. He leaned against the wall, looking lazy and unconcerned. Only later did Jiang Li learn that he was the famous Zhou Jingyu. He liked to fight and had been given disciplinary marks, yet he was always ranked first. Lots of girls had crushes on him, liked him, and sneaked peeks at him. Jiang Li was different. Bold and confident in her own abilities, she liked him, so she decided to flirt with him. She sent him an email, added him on QQ, and finally just arranged to meet him at a café. That day, the light was dim, and they were alone in a private room. Zhou Jingyu lazily fiddled with his lighter, lit a cigarette, and sized her up with an amused half-smile. "You've been looking at me this whole time. Am I really that good-looking?" Jiang Li held back her racing heart and replied coolly, "You're all right." "What do you think of me?" Zhou Jingyu nearly choked. He looked at her in disbelief, as if he hadn't expected such a sweet, gentle girl to be so bold. Ten years later, Jiang Li was betrayed by the boyfriend she'd been planning to marry. At an alumni reunion, the scumbag even brought his new flame along. Everyone was secretly waiting for a laugh at her expense. Then the private-room door opened, and someone walked in. In the half-lit room, a cigarette rested loosely between his lips. He still looked just like he had back then, with that face of someone who treated life like a game and his usual indifferent expression. Only when his gaze fell on a certain someone did tenderness appear in his eyes. "Honey, let's go home." Jiang Li froze for a moment, not expecting him to show up. After the two of them left, jeers rang out in the room. "Wasn't that Zhou Jingyu?" "Yeah, the young Mr. Zhou..." "So they already..." The next day, the news spread all over everyone's social media: The most handsome student in Tianzhong's history, young Mr. Zhou Jingyu, the most unconventional man in Lancheng's upper circles, had registered his marriage to the girl from his school days. * A sweet romance, with a realistic bent. Happy ending. Tattoo artist × office worker. The boyfriend in the latter half of the blurb is not the male lead. Not a school story. A little workplace drama. Starts February 28. [Thanks to the lovely @Shi Jiang Qiuwen for commissioning the character-cover art for me. It's beautiful. 26.2.28] Coming next: The Sea Monster's Bride, launching at the end of April 2026 An evil, handsome, devoted sea monster × a beautiful, demure, warm-hearted bride Cheng Xue is a university lecturer whose life is bland, dull, and boring. Until one day, her husband, whom she'd married not long ago, told her he'd achieved financial freedom. Cheng Xue: Oh! Cheng Xue: How much money? To be honest, she didn't take it seriously. Her husband wasn't highly educated and was clumsy in everyday life. He'd spend millions on useless adult toys, and still couldn't get the hang of WeChat = =! The matchmaker said he was very capable and good at making money. Cheng Xue had no comment. She just felt that aside from his extraordinary good looks and sexual prowess, he was practically useless. Of course, he really was handsome. On the day of their blind date, in a bustling restaurant, a cool and handsome young man in a white shirt and trousers walked in, and the whole place seemed to fall silent. Most importantly, when he lowered his head slightly and curiously toyed with his e-cigarette with his pale, slender fingers, resting an elbow on the corner of the table, then raised his cool, clear eyes to look at her, that quiet, focused gaze was incredibly captivating. Lin Li: About a billion. Cheng Xue: H-how much? Gentle sunlight spilled across the table, gilding the godlike handsome man. He was so good-looking he hardly seemed real. Cheng Xue suddenly found herself at a loss for words. She lowered her head, took out her phone, and forced herself to message him on WeChat: [How much of it are you planning to hand over?] She couldn't help it. She was always too embarrassed to talk about money at the table. Lin Li glanced up at her, then tapped out a reply with his beautiful fingertips: [All of it.] Cheng Xue: O-oh! Later, the ten billion really was transferred into her bank account in installments, and she had to keep raising her transfer limits. She stared every day at the interest, which was more than her entire annual salary, still a little dazed. * Later on, her young, handsome husband suggested they go to his hometown together. It was an ancient island hidden deep in the sea, where rain fell incessantly. Her husband really was different from everyone else. Only there did Cheng Xue begin to truly feel it. And it wasn't just because of his ten billion. The people there acted strangely around him, as if they feared him, or revered him. And yet they even looked a little like him. Their gazes toward her were just as complicated. One night, Cheng Xue finally saw who he really was. It was after two people who claimed to be his "parents" had been crushed into dust by him. The young man knelt calmly on the ground, gathering the empty clothes left behind. His expression was detached and serious, with a hint of solemnity. Cheng Xue felt as though she were gathering up the remains of real parents. Later, it happened at the deepest point beneath the sea. Cheng Xue stared in shock at the monster before her. A cold, salty, clammy presence seized her. But she couldn't move, because on that bewitching face, so terribly evil and seemingly stained with an unclean aura, she recognized those familiar, devoted eyes that would always gaze at her in quiet concentration. As if she were the only one left in the world. Cheng Xue suddenly didn't want to leave him, even though she was terrified. He knew he had frightened her, every time. But the next morning, when she woke up in bed, he would hold her tightly from behind, gently nuzzle her hair with his chin, and soothe her in a low, tender voice: "Don't be scared, baby." Cheng Xue: &(...T(¥@@!¥* Lin Li looked at her frightened expression and sighed: ...But I gave you all my wealth. Cheng Xue: *&¥!¥#... Lin Li: So don't leave, darling. I'll be scared. Cheng Xue: ??? You're a god, and you're scared? But she sighed, met his eyes, and still wrapped her arms around him. She even had to comfort him. "Don't be scared." Theme: Don't be a person trapped in a cage. Be yourself.