Gathering the Stars by Autumn Light

[The print edition is now available on all platforms. Find me at @Shi Hui Qiu Ya. My new book, A Stranger's Lover, is now open.]

[Hero's Blurb]

Shen Jin, a titan of venture capital, is a legend by all accounts. His judgment is impeccable, and he has never lost. He comes from a prominent family and has a face that could captivate anyone, yet his heart is like stone and he has no interest in women.

Only Shen Jin knows that he has dreamed countless times of a young woman with a cool, detached gaze, whose every word makes him feel as if he has plunged into an ice cave.

“Shen Jin, let's break up. I don't love you anymore.”

“Don't come looking for me again. It's just as you suspect: I've fallen for someone else.”

Shen Jin has two principles.

First, diversify investments to reduce risk. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

Second, never stumble in the same place twice.

But when it comes to Qiu Sui, his principles are no more substantial than scraps of paper.

Shen Jin wants to be nothing but a high-stakes gambler, betting everything on one throw, regardless of the consequences, the gains or losses, with no way back.

He once got burned by Qiu Sui. When they meet again, he still can't help but leap into the trap, gladly.

[Heroine's Blurb]

Qiu Sui is known in the simultaneous interpretation industry as a beautiful woman of reason. Composed and level-headed, she never loses control.

The most rational decision she ever made was breaking up with Shen Jin.

The most irrational decision she ever made was getting back together with him.

People are naturally inclined to seek gain and avoid harm. But when it comes to Shen Jin, she is willing to keep pushing until she hits a brick wall.

[Blurb Together]

By a twist of fate, Qiu Sui and Shen Jin become neighbors who can hardly avoid running into each other.

Qiu Sui knows she has been scheming behind the scenes.

Shen Jin knows he has been playing along.

During a power outage, Qiu Sui pretends to be scared and accidentally takes his hand.

She can hold her liquor, but she feigns drunkenness and kisses him.

Then one day, she drags the sick Shen Jin into her bed to look after him. As she's about to leave, he blocks her at the bedroom door.

The man looks straight at her, his voice hoarse. “Qiu Sui, now that you've come into my room, you can afford to be a little bolder.”

Qiu Sui is silent for two seconds. “You're not sick?”

Shen Jin asks in reply, enunciating every word, “You can pretend to be drunk. Why can't I pretend to be sick?”

*A sweet second-chance romance about two people going against their instincts, throwing out their rules, and drawing near with hearts that are timid, cautious, yet eager to take a chance.

*Mutual devotion / one-on-one / both each other's first love

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Midnight Without Moonlight:

Important content warning: The heroine injures her right hand in an accident. Although it is not amputated and looks no different from anyone else's, she cannot use it at all and will never recover. Her disability is not outwardly apparent. If this bothers you, please don't read!

Blurb:

Xu Songye notices a newly hired woman at his company. She looks exactly like the unattainable love of his youth, the girl he loved in high school, except for two things.

1. Their names are different.

2. One is left-handed, the other right-handed.

Theme: Love heals and saves