A Fiery Kiss for the Moon

Complete: Stirring Up Spring. Coming next: Soft Lemon and Let Her. Please add them to your reading list.

P.S. This novel has undergone major revisions several times and may be revised again. Please don't comment if you've read pirated copies.

[Pampered, arrogant rose x cold, brooding, unhinged business tycoon]

Xu Xingning was beautiful, came from a good family, and had married even better.

Even in the chaotic entertainment industry, no one dared lay a finger on her.

But no one knew that although the first half of her life had gone smoothly, she had fallen hardest over the man everyone coveted: Shen Congyan.

At twenty-four, she finally tossed him an agreement. "I want a divorce."

The man lit a cigarette, his sharp features hidden in the shadows. He said nothing.

After a long silence, he suddenly gave a soft laugh. "I've spoiled you too much, haven't I?"

Then he stood up. "I'll give you one chance to reconsider."

After that farce, Shen Congyan went abroad to negotiate a business deal. While he was away, Xu Xingning, the youngest actress ever to win a Best Actress award and someone with no history of scandals, was suddenly exposed for cheating on her husband.

Reporters swarmed the front of her house with cameras and microphones. Just then, Shen Congyan, who had been gone for a long time, appeared. "My wife and I are very much in love. There's no question of a divorce."

Xu Xingning: ?

One reporter wouldn't give up, but before he could speak, the man's sinister glare silenced him.

In the car, after connecting the dots between all the coincidences, Xu Xingning asked suspiciously, "Did you set this up?"

Shen Congyan's expression was cold as he gave a mocking little smile. "If I wanted to do something to you, would I need to go to all that trouble?"

"Oh." Xu Xingning turned away, missing the strange look that flashed through his eyes.

She had doubted him plenty of times, but this was the one time she had guessed right.

Xu Xingning didn't know that on a birthday years ago, as she was surrounded by flowers and gifts,

a bloodied boy sat in a corner, unnoticed by everyone.

Until she took his hand by force and led him to her room to treat his wounds.

"If it hurts, tell me, okay?" The injury was ghastly, and her hand shook as she applied the medicine, but she still remembered to be gentle with him.

From that day on, every step he took was for the sake of chasing the moon hanging high above him.

So he personally snuffed out any chance she had of leaving and told her, word by word, "You'll always be Mrs. Shen, until the day I die."

/// Stirring Up Spring, next door, is complete. Please add my next and upcoming novels to your reading list!

Let Her (coming soon)

[Powerful, calculating, mature male lead x female lead who approaches him with a plan and grows over time]

Everyone in Beicheng's upper circles knew that Cen Yan was Gao Tingshen's pampered songbird.

Even when she named an astronomical price for a plot of wasteland at an auction, he merely raised an eyebrow. "A good way to build your nerve."

Some people even thought they saw a trace of approval in his eyes.

As if even if Cen Yan blew a hole in the sky, he would patch it up for her and praise her for being capable.

No one knew that Cen Yan had gone to great lengths to attach herself to him because she'd heard he had a long-lost love.

She was just waiting for that woman to return so she could make a quick exit.

*Two years later, the woman rumored to be Gao Tingshen's long-lost love made a grand return to the country.

With long, softly curled hair, she declared confidently and disdainfully, "You really think you can steal him from me after just two years?"

"No, I can't," Cen Yan said, shaking her head through her tears. "All I can do is take the villas, the shops, the luxury apartments, and enough savings to last the rest of my life."

Money, beauty, and no need to pretend to be a silly songbird. Just thinking about it makes me happy!

That night, the moonlight was hazy, and the dim lights cast a sultry glow over the room.

Cen Yan carefully lifted a corner of the blanket. Her toes had just touched the floor when the man's deep, mellow voice sounded behind her. "You use me and then throw me away?"

She froze, not knowing what to do. The man stretched out an arm, pulled her slender waist toward him, and pinned her beneath him with sheer strength.

He chuckled. "Yan Yan, who said you could walk away without my permission?"

He had known all along that she had ulterior motives, but had pretended not to notice, letting her have her way.

The price she would pay was a lifetime.

Soft Lemon (girl with a crush x restrained man in power, eight-year age gap):

When Ruan Yining was ten, she was living under someone else's roof, locked in a dark storage room. She was so thin and frail she looked six or seven.

Xi Yi kicked the door open, and one look from him made her abuser tremble in fear.

To her, Xi Yi was a god who had descended from the heavens.

So when she was twelve and asked about her dreams in Chinese class, she answered word by word, "I want to marry Uncle Xi."

When the words reached Xi Yi, he didn't take her seriously. He simply patted Ruan Yining's head. "Children say all sorts of things. Don't say it again."

At eighteen, with heavy snow blocking the roads, she pretended to be naive and booked a themed hotel. The lighting was hazy, the atmosphere intoxicating.

Xi Yi paid it no attention. He took a practice exam paper from her bag, slapped it on the table, and said in a low voice, "Finish it. I'll check your answers."

"..."

Then, by a twist of fate, they spent one reckless night together. His eyes were full of anger and gloom at being manipulated.

She just smiled and held a knife to her own heart. "Even after all this, you still won't say 'I love you' to comfort me, Uncle Xi?"

In the end, he couldn't bring himself to say those words.

But later, everyone knew that the young lady whom the Xi family had taken in had mysteriously disappeared. The second young master of the Xi family, normally calm and ruthless, nearly went mad as he searched every inch of the capital.

//

The day they met again in a foreign country, traffic surged along the streets of London.

Xi Yi told the driver to stop, got out, and carried the troublemaker who had caused a mess and then run off back to the car over one shoulder.

Ruan Yining struggled in shock. "Xi Yi, let go! This is kidnapping! You... help!"

Xi Yi sneered. "Why not call me Uncle?"

Ruan Yining refused to back down. "We agreed to cut ties. You're not my uncle anymore."

"No family seniority to worry about, then." Xi Yi gave the driver a hotel address in fluent English, then tugged at his tie and swore for the first time in his life. "That'll make it easier not to go soft on you later."

#Even in hell, we'll fall together#

*The leads are not related by blood.

*Eight-year age gap.

Theme: Love is despair and madness.