By Any Means Necessary

Seeking advance readers for my next contemporary romance, The Years Slip By

Synopsis: Before she could ask Li Yu for a divorce, Yao Lan died from overwork.

She died at home, in the living room just a few steps from her two-year-old daughter's bedroom.

With her last breath, she was glad she'd shut the door after putting her daughter to bed.

When she woke again, she was shocked to discover that she had been reborn ten years earlier,

in the carefree days before it had all officially begun.

Yao Lan vowed that in this new life, she would live well. No matter whom she fell for, she would never fall for Li Yu again.

She would never again go near that heartless, selfish, cold man.

Luckily, she had a clear goal this time, and managed to cut her losses in time and keep her feelings in check.

But she'd forgotten that Li Yu was only seventeen now, and proud as could be. She didn't need to rack her brains trying to avoid him.

Instead, all her needless theatrics made Li Yu take notice of her...

But he was Li Yu, after all. No matter how young he was, surely that cold, heartless nature was still there, deep down?

Was the person standing before her, eyes full of hurt, hair still dripping with rain, lips trembling as he asked, "Why do you hate me of all people?" really the same Li Yu she'd once chased after desperately, determined to be with?

If she had never met that person,

would her life have gone like everyone else's, following the rules, getting married, having children, and holding on to an ordinary happiness?

Manjing had always kept someone in her heart,

someone close enough to see, yet forever beyond her reach.

It wasn't until she accidentally learned of his engagement that she dared to face her feelings.

But by then, it was too late.

Unless time could go back, far, far into the past, to when she had just met him.

Then this time, she would do whatever it took to get close to him, get to know him, and make him hers.

She would turn every lingering regret into a happy ending.

(Recommended listening: "Waiting for the Fog to Lift" and "Trading the Rest of My Life". Enjoy~ Hehe.)

Theme: If you could start over, why not stop at nothing?