She's Really Hard to Pursue

[Complete. My next contemporary romance, Composure, is about a thrilling secret crush. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your favorites too!!!] [Mystery and suspense in a modern romance. The author is terrible at blurbs. The heroine slays everyone. Both the real and fake heiresses are good girls.] [Weibo: @JinjiangBabaYuxia] Blurb: Five years ago, Lu Huaiyan’s words, “Dull and unremarkable, nothing special,” buried Jiang Se’s girlish crush on the night of her eighteenth birthday. That night, Jiang Se secretly wished: May someone gallop into my life someday and rub his face hard into the dirt. Five years later, Jiang Se went overnight from a socialite of a prominent northern family to a fake heiress with a poor background. She was happy to lose her social status, leave the northern city, and make her own way in life. Her only little regret was that she’d probably never get to see Lu Huaiyan’s face rubbed hard into the dirt in her lifetime. Later The elegant, self-controlled, ruthless heir of the Lu family accidentally learned of Jiang Se’s little regret. Knowing just how vindictive she was, he pulled her out of bed, lifted her left foot, and pressed it to his face. In an unhurried voice, he said, “Go on, rub as much as you like.” Jiang Se: ... - Back when Jiang Se used to follow him around calling him “Brother Huaiyan,” Lu Huaiyan had never taken the girl seriously. Later, he discovered how damn hard it was to get her to call him “Brother Huaiyan” again... [Bonus Scene] One day, news spread that Lu Huaiyan was engaged to the little princess of the Guan family. Jiang Se texted him: Goodbye. That night, Lu Huaiyan rushed to the airport to stop her. Jiang Se smiled. “Lu Huaiyan, I don’t touch things that belong to someone else. Let’s part on good terms.” Lu Huaiyan grabbed her wrist and gritted his teeth. “What? You won’t even touch something that belongs to you?” Not long after, a post from the Lu Group’s CEO went trending. #Not engaged, no arranged marriage. My girl is stubborn and hard to please, and I’m still trying to win her over# @BanJiangSeSeBanJiangHong Blurb archived on May 20, 2021 Reading Guide: 1. Neither lead is a good person or a perfect character. 2. There’s a plotline running through the whole story, so it isn’t pure romance. The relationship is sweet, but the plot has some angst. If that bothers you, read with caution. ***[Here’s an especially exciting upcoming contemporary romance ^^]*** Composure [Clear-eyed realist x golden boy] [The heroine has a secret crush, but that’s all it is. She loves herself most of all.] [Half campus, half city life; both are top students] #My secret crush must stay hidden. That’s my composure.# Qu Qiao, the Zhou Group’s new assistant, has a sweet, innocent first-love face and impressive work skills. She’s highly valued by President Zhou. But that’s all it is: professional appreciation. Everyone can tell that President Zhou is most distant with Assistant Qu. He talks to her about nothing but work. Yet no one knows that on a stormy night, Zhou Huaixu grabbed Qu Qiao’s wrist and asked in a low voice, “Are you going to use me and run off again, just like back then?” - Zhou Huaixu and Qu Qiao were classmates for three years in high school. They were worlds apart, and you could count the words they’d exchanged on one hand. Zhou Huaixu was handsome and wild, a legendary figure at Fourth High School from the moment he started his first year. Qu Qiao was calculating, selfish, and cold-blooded. Everyone else thought she was kind, but Zhou Huaixu saw through the innocent facade to the person underneath. Qu Qiao knew he’d seen through her and never tried to get close to him. They stayed out of each other’s way. In the summer she turned eighteen, just before leaving the country for an exchange program, Qu Qiao met Zhou Huaixu, who was vacationing at the estate of her benefactor, Liang Yingtang. One evening, Zhou Huaixu stood before a drenched Qu Qiao and said casually, “My brother is simple and kind. Don’t mess with him.” Qu Qiao fell silent. After a long while, she gazed at him and smiled faintly. “What can I do? I’m bored this summer.” - In the summer of his sophomore year of college, Zhou Huaixu had planned to spend a week at his cousin’s estate and then leave. Instead, he stayed for the whole summer. He thought his entanglement with Qu Qiao had started that summer. It wasn’t until Fourth High School’s centennial celebration that he found a French novel he had once donated to the school library. On the back of the library card, the words were written clearly in French: I met you. I remember you. The handwriting was Qu Qiao’s. - After the college entrance exams, Qu Qiao rewarded herself by borrowing the library’s copy of the book one last time and leaving a message for Zhou Huaixu on the library card. Many years later, when Qu Qiao opened the book again, there was another message on the card: This city was made for falling in love, and your soul was made for mine. The words on the library card are from Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima Mon Amour. ***[And here’s a sweet excerpt from another upcoming story]*** I See the Bright Moon (a sweet story about mutual secret crushes) As the second son of the Meng family of the capital, Meng Yu had never wanted for anything he couldn’t have, until he met Song Yi’an. When he learned that he was the older boy Song Yi’an had secretly loved for years The youngest dual-title Best Actor in history finally lost control of his expression. Gritting his teeth, he pulled the young woman onto his lap, ready to interrogate her, and preferably demand some compensation. But when his gaze met Song Yi’an’s amber eyes, he paused, his jaw unclenching. Completely lacking in backbone, he asked, “What do you want to eat? I’ll make it for you.” Theme: Love yourself well, and do everything in your power to save yourself from the fire and the flood