The Skylark's Whisper

[Complete. Next up: Quietly]

Blurb:

Liang Nan is charming and sultry, with a bewitching beauty. She also plays the guqin beautifully. Her slender fingers lift and pluck the strings, drawing out a deep, distant melody that is cool and ethereal.

Cool and seductive, she has countless men falling at her feet.

But she hits a wall with Gu Jian, a big shot in venture capital.

Later, she overhears Gu Jian talking to someone: "Romantic relationships are no different from investments. They're exchanges of benefits."

Only then does she come to her senses. What she thought was love is something he considers shameful and unmentionable.

On the day they break up, she roughly wipes away her tears, tears apart the diaries filled with years of happiness, and throws them into the trash. Then she grabs her suitcase, leaves everything behind in Jiangcheng, and returns to the ancient town.

Watching her walk away, Gu Jian gives a derisive laugh. "Fine. Don't come crawling back."

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Gu Jian runs into Liang Nan again at a party hosted by an industry tycoon. By then, she has become a famous guqin performer and an honored guest.

Wearing a fitted qipao, she moves with graceful, alluring poise. She has her right arm linked with a young man's, smiling and whispering to him intimately.

Gu Jian grits his teeth and stops her. "Had enough fun? Can you come back now?"

Liang Nan smiles and grabs his tie, a bewitching enchantress who seems able to cast a spell. "But no matter how I look at it, I can't see what you have to offer me."

A while later, Gu Jian stares blankly at Liang Nan's retreating figure and murmurs to himself, "But I regret it now."

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Everyone in venture capital knows Gu Jian's name. Born into a family of merchants, he is disciplined, clearheaded, and focused on profit.

Until one day, he suddenly says he wants to postpone the contract for a project he has long considered important.

Everyone is puzzled. "What's the rush? What happened?"

Gu Jian grabs his suit jacket and heads out. "I'm picking up my wife from work."

Everyone: "??!"

Coming soon: Quietly

[Secret crush / single couple / happy ending]

[I have a very, very thick diary. The first half is full of random little thoughts, but in the second half, every word and sentence is about him.]

1

Wen Sui first meets Zhou Ye in the living room of a classmate's house.

The man has his legs crossed on the coffee table, a cigarette glowing faintly between two fingers.

When he sees her, Zhou Ye slowly blows out a smoke ring. "You're Qianqian's friend?"

Wen Sui answers that she is.

Zhou Ye lets out a soft laugh. His roguish features are hidden in the smoke as he says carelessly, "Then you can call me what she does..."

"Uncle."

The man draws out the last syllable, his voice winding its way into Wen Sui's heart.

2

But Wen Sui knows that Zhou Ye has always seen her as nothing more than an ordinary friend of his niece.

Until one day, she sees Zhou Ye with his arm around a beautiful girl, the two of them looking intimate.

She digs her fingernails into her palm and asks, only to learn that the girl is his new girlfriend.

Wen Sui finally gives up hope. She stuffs all the feelings of her girlhood into a box and shoves it beneath her damp, dark bed. After the college entrance exams, she leaves for a distant city.

3

Later, Wen Sui becomes a reporter. While interviewing award-winning athletes at the Winter Olympics, one of them suddenly confesses his feelings to her.

Before she can turn him down, a powerful force pulls her away.

Wen Sui looks coldly at the man in front of her. "Uncle, what are you doing?"

Zhou Ye laughs in anger. He pins Wen Sui against the wall and curls his lip. "We're not related. Call me your mother's uncle, my ass."

He leans close to Wen Sui's ear, his scorching breath washing over her.

"Call me... husband."

Theme: Love yourself before you love others