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Coming soon: Trapped in the Palm of Your Hand (add it to your collection! Drafting in progress)
One-line pitch: A sweet romance about a childhood friend who can't let go of the girl he grew up with after her family falls on hard times, and helps her brave the world of the wealthy and powerful.
One couple, all sweetness
Blurb for Bright as You:
#The long night brings wind and snow, but brightness reaches for the stars#
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Chi Yi is a beautiful, wealthy, little-known actress, bright and flamboyant. As soon as she debuted, she single-handedly sparked a ship with top movie star Xie Zhinan.
When Xie Zhinan didn't respond, she pulled a wild stunt that caused their fan group to collapse overnight.
Years later, Chi Yi makes her comeback.
She travels to a tiny country in the Middle East, too small to even find on a map, to film Yuan Shuhui's big-budget production, Distant Crossing.
The small country is in turmoil, with regional conflicts breaking out one after another. On the eve of her return home, Chi Yi meets with disaster.
In a country where she has no friends or family, with her life hanging in the balance, she meets Xie Zhinan again.
The man is handsome and refined, polite and restrained.
He turns down the feelings Chi Yi has yet to confess.
2.
The one thing Suyong City never lacks is the rich and powerful: great families and noble houses.
The Xie family of Suyong stands at the top of the city's elite.
No one in their circle expected the young master of the Xie family to run off to the entertainment industry and become an actor.
He won the Best Actor award at a young age, then vanished from the industry a few years later, as if it were all just a game.
No one knew where he had gone.
Until, years later, Chi Yi met Xie Zhinan in Alota.
Her love, buried for years, felt all the more precious beneath the flames of war. Again and again, she made her burning feelings clear, both directly and indirectly.
She even took the initiative to approach and touch his cool, distant self.
Xie Zhinan politely turned her down.
Yet he protected her time and again, right up until the night before he was to send her home.
Xie Zhinan abandoned his cool restraint and kissed Chi Yi awkwardly.
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When Xie Zhinan returned home, Chi Yi had long since risen from an unknown actress to a top-tier star, competing for the Best Actress title.
The woman who once stayed by his side, gentle and attentive, had become even more beautiful and dazzling, chatting easily with everyone.
Everyone, that is, except him. Whenever she saw him, she would flee in guilty panic.
+HE, HE, HE+
Note: This is entirely fictional, entirely fictional, entirely fictional.
Tip: Both are sexually inexperienced; one couple, both virgins, and they fall for each other.
My new novel, Yearning for Our Wedding, is complete.
Next: Trapped in the Palm of Your Hand
Blurb:
Shen Mianxing was with Ji Mingzhou for two years.
For those two years, she kept her emotions in check, acted gentle and considerate, and stayed at his beck and call, ready to do whatever he asked.
Shen Mianxing thought that if she kept her head down, behaved herself, and did as she was told, Ji Mingzhou would marry her.
Until Ji Mingzhou handed her over to another man in exchange for a contract.
Shen Mianxing begged him not to do it.
Ji Mingzhou gently cupped her face. "Xingxing, this contract is very important to the company. Be good."
It was as if Shen Mianxing were seeing the man before her for the first time. Her heart turned to ash.
She hurt someone, fled the hotel, and stumbled into the pouring rain in the middle of the night.
The small figure shivered as the wind and rain beat down on her. With nowhere to go, Shen Mianxing hid beneath a tree, curling up into a ball.
A car drove past, its tires rolling through a puddle and splashing her from head to toe, leaving her looking even more wretched.
Shen Mianxing shivered with cold and looked up at the car that had stopped.
A man walked over to the tree, holding an umbrella. His expression was as pale and inscrutable as mist, his bearing refined and aloof. His thin lips parted. "Auntie, do you like hiding here to cry?"
Shen Mianxing's lips had turned purple with cold. She warily looked at the man holding the umbrella over her. He was Ji Mingzhou's nephew.
"You're so good. You should be laughing in my arms instead." He reached out to Shen Mianxing.
Shen Mianxing's expression changed. Terrified, she took off running like a rain-soaked rabbit, fleeing in a panic.
But the man grabbed her and threw her into the car.
"Why are you running?" He caught her hand and forcefully pinned her down on the back seat.
Shen Mianxing couldn't break free. Her eyes red from crying, she choked out, "Don't do this."
Compared to Ji Mingzhou, his nephew Ji Fan was the one who was truly hard to handle.
[Reading Guide]
One couple, both virgins; the younger man is two years younger.
Sorry, Uncle's redemption arc won't help him catch up.
The nephew is a possessive, obsessive powerhouse. Younger man, younger man! Not sure if he's a puppy, but he's probably a wild dog.
Theme: Love and tenderness in ordinary days are too precious to take for granted.
