A Secondhand Love Letter

[My next book, Intentional Favoritism, is about a marriage that turns into love and getting revenge on a cheating ex. The blurb is below. If you like it, please add it to your favorites, OvO!] Blurb One: When Shi Ran was twenty-five, she broke up with her girlfriend of two years, Song Yi, after seeing a text in which Song Yi was flirting with someone else. Everyone knew Shi Ran was head over heels for Song Yi, and wondered how she could possibly give up after pursuing her for five years. Even Song Yi thought Shi Ran was just throwing a tantrum and would soon come crawling back with gifts, begging to get back together. But Shi Ran didn't. She packed up and moved out of the little apartment she shared with Song Yi, then showed up at work dressed to kill, ready to meet her new boss with her stunning looks. Her new boss was decisive and efficient, a beauty with a buttoned-up, reserved air, all the way to the top button of her shirt. Shi Ran was just about to yell inwardly, "I'm in!" when she realized that her new boss was an old classmate, and the very same classmate she'd just spent the night with. This time, it seemed she really was in. Blurb Two: Everyone in class knew that Shi Ran and Chen Ruoyu didn't get along. It was mostly because, in their senior year of high school, after Shi Ran's confession to Song Yi was rejected, she casually passed the secondhand love letter she'd written to Chen Ruoyu. Later, Chen Ruoyu returned from abroad, and their classmates arranged a reunion especially for her. Chen Ruoyu calmly fielded their "friendly" questions, while secretly pinning down the foot Shi Ran had reached out toward her. Later still, Chen Ruoyu moved into Shi Ran's new home right in front of Song Yi. A huge box of condoms unceremoniously fell out of one of the empty cardboard boxes. No one knew Chen Ruoyu had kept that secondhand love letter in her drawer all this time. Even fewer knew that Shi Ran had been the dream Chen Ruoyu had longed for and worried over all those years abroad. Important notes: 1. Same-sex marriage is legal. They don't get back together after breaking up. Extremely melodramatic. 2. The people, companies, games, and so on in this story are entirely fictional. Please don't make wild guesses about who they might be based on! Don't!! Sexy siren x scheming old-school beauty Blurb written September 16, 2021 This story will be available for purchase on December 18, 2021. A 10,000-word special chapter will be released then. Your support is greatly appreciated! Muah, OvO My next book, Intentional Favoritism. Add it to your favorites and get a free pat on the head, OvO. Blurb One: Toward the end of wedding preparations, Wen Ran is betrayed by her girlfriend, who works at the same company, and angrily decides to change jobs. The owner of the company that invites her is cool, aloof, and sharp-eyed. She's also the childhood friend Wen Ran once shared a quilt with at the orphanage. Wen Ran assumes that after more than ten years apart, Bo Yiqiu won't recognize her, just as she wouldn't recognize Bo Yiqiu. To her surprise, Bo Yiqiu still remembers her, and even generously offers to let her stay in a house she bought near the office. With this old friend's help, Wen Ran's onboarding goes very smoothly, and she feels she has no way to repay her. But this old friend seems happy to help her with one more thing. The corners of her lips lift as she volunteers, "I hear your wedding is coming up. Are you still looking for a bride?" Wen Ran thinks that getting married and then living apart means she and Bo Yiqiu are just a pretend married couple. It's just that Bo Yiqiu occasionally has an emergency and has no choice but to spend the night at her place. One night, the whole city was under a deluge of rain when Wen Ran was woken by a sudden, urgent knock at the door. Bo Yiqiu stood outside, soaked through, but holding an old-fashioned candy that Wen Ran had casually reminisced about on her social media a few days earlier, perfectly intact. "I happened to see it while I was away for a meeting. My car let me down and broke down in the last few kilometers." Wen Ran didn't know that the old candy shop was in the eastern part of the city, while Bo Yiqiu's meeting had been in the west. But from that day on, Wen Ran's place became somewhere Bo Yiqiu often stayed. Everyone thinks the eldest daughter of the Bo family is naturally cool and unflappable, a master of navigating the business world. But Wen Ran knows that when they were kids, she would run into Wen Ran's quilt during a thunderstorm, looking so pitiful as she squeezed in beside her. What Wen Ran absolutely doesn't know is that even as adults, Bo Yiqiu will lift the covers and climb into her bed. "We could sleep together when we were little. Why can't we now that we're married?" Blurb Two: After Wen Ran starts her new job, a news report about her rushing into a burning building goes viral, and countless people cry, "I'd say yes to you, sis!" Her ex-girlfriend, Zhuang Lan, sees this radiant person on TV and can't accept that things ended between them so abruptly. She heads to Wen Ran's new home that very night. Wen Ran opens the door quickly, wearing a familiar smile. Zhuang Lan thinks Wen Ran must be about to take her back, but then feels a light tap on her shoulder. Bo Yiqiu, the boss of Wen Ran's new company, stands lazily behind her, holding a beautifully packaged bottle of red wine. "Sorry, you're blocking my wife from welcoming me." Seeing the disbelief in Zhuang Lan's eyes, Bo Yiqiu slowly raises the corners of her lips. She has been plotting to call Wen Ran her wife for far too long. Marriage first, love later. Revenge on a cheating ex. They don't get back together after breaking up. Theme: Learn to love yourself before you love someone else