Soft Words

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[Rekindled love after a breakup, seven-year age gap]

Blurb:

Ji Nuan is quiet and unsociable. She is a popular online serial suspense novelist, but she has always written about the good and evil of human nature and never touched on romance.

Her heart is barren soil, desolate and empty.

Fu Silang, however, showed her countless colors of life and filled her world with warm mountains and gentle waters. Not long after they first met, he was on a business trip in Japan and mailed her a local postcard with the words: “To Miss Ji, I was lucky enough to see a sea of cherry blossoms today.”

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Fu Silang is a translator, a cold and handsome flower on a high peak in everyone’s eyes, and a top-tier heartthrob. Usually as frosty as ice yet looking like a gentleman, he is razor-sharp at the negotiating table and someone no one dares to provoke lightly.

But one day, a news report showed the usually unsmiling big shot bending down to speak intimately with a woman, affectionately ruffling her hair. The camera caught him gazing at her with a smile in his eyes.

Some people guessed: Maybe she’s his little sister!

Fu Silang, who had barely posted on Weibo in years, shared a photo of the polar day scenery he had taken on a trip, with the caption: “My wife.”

Everyone was stunned. Excuse me, does this indulgent tone sound like the negotiating big shot who never blinks when tearing into people?

Later, on the title page of rising suspense novelist Fuyang’s book About a Confession, three simple characters were written.

“For Langyue.”

Someone dug up an old interview with Fu Silang, a newly appointed translator at the time. In his self-introduction, he had once said that “Lang” meant “bright moon.”

But no one thought that Fu Silang, the face of the Foreign Ministry, and Fuyang, who disliked socializing, would get married. Everyone agreed that the two could not even possibly know each other.

Then Ji Nuan updated her Weibo, posting the scenic photos he had mailed her from all over the world, made into postcards.

On the back was his bold, powerful handwriting. The most recent one read: “To Mrs. Fu, I was lucky enough to see the aurora today.”

“From every corner of the world, I send you my love.”

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“You are a deep rose, secret and without end., Borges”

[Diplomat x Novelist]

[Refined Scoundrel x Quiet Girl]

Inspired by: 21.9.26

Blurb revised for the third time: 21.12.6

Please note:

* 1v1, happy ending, half campus life and half urban life

* Both are each other’s first and only, no exes, older man, seven-year age gap, healing story

* Please don’t offer writing advice. If it’s not to your taste, feel free to drop it; there’s no need to tell me. We’ll all be happier that way!

* They both fall for each other early on without realizing it, then pursue each other openly later

* The author isn’t an expert in the leads’ majors or careers. They’re based on information from Baidu, with some changes and fictionalization to serve the plot. Enjoy reading!

[Completed novels]: Springtime Wishes, Letters in the Snow, Sending You Spring Flowers, A Gentle Confession, Soft Words, The Oriole’s Feathers, Little Galaxy, Sent to My Heart, He Wrote Letters All Night, A Cool Morning, Born Noble

Theme: Strive upward through adversity.