White Snake

The neighboring novel "Ulaanbaatar" is now underway. Feel free to visit my profile and add it to your collection. Taxi driver x anti-drug police officer. Updating daily, starting August 17, 2024.

Here is the blurb for this novel:

A stage actor meets a rugged village official: a different kind of love story in the mountains.

To prepare for the new stage production "The White Snake," Chen Yu, an actor at the provincial theater, decides to immerse himself in life in Yunshen, an ancient town in western Yunnan renowned as a snake-catching paradise, and learn from the locals.

To fit in with the local way of life and observe snakes more closely, so he can imitate their movements, he follows a friend's recommendation and lodges with a local farming family.

A self-proclaimed theater fanatic, Chen Yu has always believed that no one could understand snakes better than he did.

Until he meets the farmer's son who passes by his window every day. Like the little white snake around his neck, the young man is both seductive and captivating.

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Xu Wei has spent his whole life working diligently under the blazing sun. Yunshen is the paradise he would defend with his life.

But one day, unexpectedly, he begins to long for the world beyond the mountains.

For everything beyond the mountains, for the place where Chen Yu is.

But Chen Yu is so pure, so sacred, as though he came from another world.

Xu Wei wants to sully him, to drag him down from his pedestal.

To share in the pleasures of this earthly world.

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A romance between older men. Slow burn. Happy ending.

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Blurb for the new novel:

After a school scandal, Chris is dragged by his father to a strictly enclosed monastery for psychological reform.

Accustomed to a life of luxury, Chris can't stand the monastery's backward conditions and strict rules, and is constantly plotting his escape.

On the night he plans to flee, he encounters an Eastern boy by the wall who is also planning an escape.

The boy has an exceptionally bizarre name: Hongfu.

He is Li Hongfu, the boy everyone calls a transvestite for his love of heavy makeup and flamboyant red and purple clothes.

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Li Hongfu first meets Chris in the late winter of 1932.

Amid the howling, bitter wind, the boy moves with startling speed, clinging to a masson pine, his eyes bright as stars at the end of the world.

Chris tells him, "I hope you're a woman in your next life. If you are, I'll marry you."

Li Hongfu smiles softly, tilts his head up to look at the person in the tree, and says, "Then it's a promise. I'll wait for you in my next life."

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- Cross-dressing bottom x mixed-race top. A tale of young love on an exotic estate.

- Set in San Francisco, around 1920 to 1940.

- Serious, realistic fiction / mutual redemption / unconventional period novel.

Theme: Face setbacks without fear, and persevere through hardship.