Kiss Me Before You Go

[Novella | Next book, My Contract Marriage to My Nemesis's Older Brother, is now available]

△ Reunited from the start | Drag the so-called perfect male lead off his pedestal and make him suffer

△ Defiant girl × Refined scoundrel who begs for love

In high school, Jiang Yu had a crush on Lin Yuansong, the refined older boy who lived in the big house next to her grandmother's home.

He was the perfect boy everyone else's parents wanted. He could do anything, except like her.

Before they parted, she asked him to kiss her on the forehead. He merely adjusted his narrow gold-rimmed glasses, smiled faintly, and said,

"Be good. Don't make a fuss."

She would always remember the calm, unruffled tone in which he said those words.

So when she heard them again one day, she froze for a moment.

"Be good. Don't make a fuss."

Lin Yuansong blocks her at the office door as she tries to escape. He adjusts his gold-rimmed glasses with an impassive face, looking almost aggrieved. "Jiang Yu, you haven't kissed me before leaving today."

...Who is making a fuss here?

Jiang Yu is speechless. "Boss, if I don't clock in soon, I'll be late for work."

*I just want to write a story where the so-called perfect male lead is dragged off his pedestal and made to suffer for love | Reunited from the start, then a long road to winning her back

*Warning: There will be flashbacks to the heroine's time as an open admirer

*Before they reunite, the heroine has dated; the hero has remained emotionally and physically untouched

*Eight-year age gap, one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only

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Next book now available: My Contract Marriage to My Nemesis's Older Brother. Quirky heiress × Gentle, deceptively calculating man | Marriage first, love later | Brothers competing for her | Actor couple

Blurb

To escape an unwanted marriage, Meng Zhihua stakes everything on deliberately "running into" Bai Qingjian, the renowned eldest young master of the Bai family in the capital.

A three-year contract is signed.

She uses his identity to rid herself of trouble, while he relies on her proper demeanor to fend off his family's pressure to marry and establish himself in court. When the agreement expires, they will part amicably and go their separate ways.

After the wedding, Meng Zhihua plays the virtuous wife to perfection, never putting a foot wrong. She considers the marriage nothing more than a respectable arrangement that serves both their needs.

Bai Qingjian comes from a distinguished family and is exceptionally capable. He treats her with warmth and courtesy. As his wife in name, she has both respectability and peace and quiet. Meng Zhihua thinks she's getting a bargain.

That is, until her sworn nemesis, Bai Qinglang, the second young master of the Bai family who has been stationed at the border for three years, returns home without warning.

At the welcome-home banquet, after several rounds of drinks,

Bai Qinglang leans close amid the laughter and music, his teasing words meant for her ears alone.

"It's been three years. How does it feel to wear the skin of a proper young lady?"

"Who was it that chased me from the training grounds into a mud pit, grabbed me by the hair, and refused to let go? Sister-in-law."

Meng Zhihua digs her fingertips into her palm beneath her sleeve. Her face remains composed in a gentle smile as she smooths things over. "Second Brother must be drunk. He's just bringing up silly childhood games."

But late that night, when she returns to her courtyard, she finds Bai Qingjian, who should be handling affairs in his study, sitting quietly by her window, his elegant profile illuminated by candlelight.

At the sound of her footsteps, he looks up from his book. His expression is mild and composed, his lips curved in their familiar faint smile.

"It seems, madam..." He sets down the book, his voice clear and gentle, but his gaze settles on her face with unfathomable depth.

"You've never told your husband that you and Qinglang have a history."

Reading guide

1. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending, the older brother is the male lead, a true marriage-first-love-later story, with no long-planned scheme.

2. Includes brothers competing for her, a touch of a long road to winning her back, and a childhood sweetheart versus a new arrival, with a small amount of melodrama. It won't get angsty, so the melodrama stays light.

3. A lighthearted, everyday-life feel.

Theme: It's never too late to find true love.