Making a C-List Debut Is Nothing Compared to Winning Back Your Ex

My profile has completed older works and a new work up for advance collection, Parabola and the Moon. Thanks for adding them to your collections.

Here is the blurb for this novel:

Five years of training, and she's still an unknown. A tough-talking, soft-hearted, awkward, beautiful mess X A cool and distant exterior hiding deep insecurity, with an intense possessive streak and a clingy puppy-dog personality.

Ye Ran has been a trainee for five years. At last, her manager remembers her and squeezes her into the hottest talent competition show. Unfortunately, she's there to keep a favored contestant from the same company company.

So what if she's just there as a companion? If she gets the chance to stand under the spotlight, she'll tear up that script and make her debut.

But just as she prepares to welcome the applause and tears on debut night...

Someone she never expected suddenly returns to her life.

After pushing open the dorm room door, Huo *her ex-girlfriend* Muqiu says, "Hi."

Ye Ran: "..."

Before she can welcome flowers and applause, she has to face her ex-girlfriend, whose grave lies in her heart.

In the show as it officially airs, every shot of Huo Muqiu also includes Ye Ran. Huo Muqiu abandons her official pairing and showers Ye Ran with affection. From then on, fan theories and character scripts keep pouring in, and Ye Ran transforms from an unnamed little companion into one of the most prominently featured favored contestants.

Huo Muqiu's "bleeding herself dry" worries her solo fans. During a voice chat in a "fans-only group," they ask:

Solo fan: "Qiuqiu, blink if the company is forcing you to do this."

The account provided by the show suddenly sends out a scream: "Huo Muqiu, get off my bed!"

Although it is quickly withdrawn and replaced with Huo Muqiu's own voice saying, "Good morning, Maple Leaves!", the solo fans' problem has already shifted from how to make Huo Muqiu shine on her own to how to help her keep the closet door shut.

In one sentence: How will Huo Muqiu, who acts aloof in front of the cameras but turns into a clingy puppy the moment she closes the dorm door, win back her tough-talking wife who doesn't have eyes for her?

One-on-one, happy ending.

Here is the blurb for the new novel:

Su Qingmeng is the youngest math teacher at H City's No. 1 High School. In her second year on the job, she became a homeroom teacher capable of handling a class on her own. In her third year, the Chinese teacher who had been her partner retired.

The new Chinese teacher is her junior from school. She sits across from her and lives across the hall. Su Qingmeng thinks that, as fellow alumnae, they should work together to win next year's award for outstanding class. But she never expected that her junior's heart wouldn't be entirely with her.

Xu Xinghe, who had "developed other intentions," never expected Su Qingmeng to be so romantically clueless. She talks about the moon, and Su Qingmeng talks about parabolas. She talks about stars, and Su Qingmeng talks about movable points on a parabola.

She says... She can't think of anything else to say. She's already quoted every passage from the required Chinese literature texts she could use to keep the conversation going. If this continues, she'll have to flirt with Su Qingmeng by quoting the Confucian ideal of putting one's family in order, governing the state, and bringing peace to the world from the elective texts.

It was another ordinary day of being discouraged by Teacher Su's romantic cluelessness when a student came to ask Xu Xinghe a question.

"Teacher, in Romeo and Juliet, isn't using the moon as a symbol for love a bit of a stretch?"

Xu Xinghe forced herself to perk up. "Any text with the word 'excerpt' in the title isn't required. It won't be on the exam, so you'll get more out of studying other material."

That evening, walking back to the dormitory under the beautiful moonlight, Xu Xinghe pointed at the moon and wanted to recite a poem called Jade Steps in Disorder to drop an unmistakable hint.

But Su Qingmeng suddenly acted out of character and took her fingertips in hers, reciting Romeo's original lines word for word.

"Do not swear by the moon. It is fickle, waxing and waning every month. If you swear by it, your love may be as fickle as the moon."

Xu Xinghe's playful expression suddenly turned serious.

"But I will always stand on the side that can light your way."

Only later did Xu Xinghe realize what had happened that day, and she asked,

"Why did you think I was going to confess?"

"I didn't know. But I hoped you would, and you didn't disappoint me."

Romantically clueless high school homeroom teacher X adorably awkward trainee teacher.

The cluelessness is an act; the awkwardness is real.

Theme: Opportunity favors the prepared. Those who work hard will eventually get the sweet reward they deserve.