She Started It

● 1v1, happy ending, founder of an independent womenswear brand x interior designer ● Please don't tell me if you drop the story. Thank you so much. Blurb: [Thank you for coming into my life and pulling me from the abyss back into the world.] When they first met, Meng Qingrang and Qi Xihe seemed to come from two entirely different worlds. One was a fashion-world celebrity, while the other was a struggling interior designer. No one would ever have thought to put their names together. Yet Meng Qingrang kept appearing whenever Qi Xi was at her lowest. She helped her untangle years of emotional knots, gave her the chance to rise, and even gave her a one-of-a-kind gift. Meng Qingrang was thoughtful and gentle in every way, beyond reproach. Qi Xi couldn't help falling for her. But when Qi Xi had fallen completely, begun to imagine Meng Qingrang in her future, and struggled to climb higher for her sake, Meng Qingrang chose to return to the "proper path" and got engaged to a man who was her equal. After Qi Xi tried to please and beg her without regard for her own dignity, only to get nowhere, she left in disgrace. Two years later, Qi Xi's work won an international award, making her a rising star in the interior design world. When they met again, old grudges and fresh wounds came rushing back. Qi Xi summoned all her strength and slammed Meng Qingrang's cautiously outstretched hand onto the table. Smiling, she asked, "Does it hurt?" My next book, Softening, is open for follows and bookmarks! ● 1v1, happy ending, rekindled romance, older woman/younger woman ● Couple: Zhou Yi x Mu Qinglin, wildlife ranger x war correspondent Blurb: 1. In the year she was at her lowest, Mu Qinglin found a prickly little girl with no school to attend in Hongmen Lane on East Street, a lawless place no one governed. She coaxed her into going to school and stayed by her side as she grew up. After smoothing down that hedgehog's prickles one handful at a time, the girl fell for her. And later, she dumped her. 2. In the years after their breakup, Zhou Yi walked dozens of kilometers every day across the grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa, protecting with her own flesh and blood the wild animals at constant risk of being slaughtered, along with their habitats. It was a war without end, cruel and bloody, and almost no one knew about the people fighting on the front lines. After escaping death once again, an older woman on the patrol team asked her, "Yi, you'll be 25 next year. Do you have a birthday wish?" Leaning against a tree, Zhou Yi watched the blood-red sunset on the horizon and smiled. "It's too soon. I haven't thought of one yet." After the woman left, the smile vanished from Zhou Yi's face. She lowered her head and touched the name she'd tattooed on the inside of her wrist herself. With red-rimmed eyes, she said, "I want to live long enough to see her again. I want to... go back to her." #When I miss you, you are in my eyes and in my heart, in the midst of my passionate life.# Theme: Knowledge changes your fate.