The Delicate Wild Rose

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My completed novel next door: By the Name of Mountains and Rivers. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

The free-spirited, debonair Second Young Master Yan falls for the delicate, sickly, timid illegitimate daughter of the Tang family.

They "fall deeply in love" and rush to get married.

Everyone in their social circle wonders why Second Young Master Yan married an invalid. Yan Xiu bites his cigarette, crosses his legs, and grins with smug delight. "What's so bad about her being sick? Now I can go out and fool around without anyone keeping tabs on me."

Tang Yannong is gentle, delicate, obedient, and considerate. Her best friend worries she'll get hurt and tells her not to jump into a pit of fire. Tang Yannong doesn't take it seriously. "How is that a pit of fire? Yan Xiu's a rich idiot. He's a walking treasure chest."

After they get married, they run into each other at a bar.

Yan Xiu can hardly believe the lively woman onstage, dressed to the nines, swaying her hips and dancing with boundless energy, is his frail little wife.

He goes over and wraps an arm tightly around her slender waist. His peach-blossom eyes gleam with amusement. "Didn't you go to the hospital because you weren't feeling well?"

Tang Yannong lowers her eyes and gives a few quiet coughs, looking like a tearful, fragile beauty. "The doctor told me to dance more and work up a sweat."

One evening, Yan Xiu comes home right on time. Tang Yannong wraps her arms around his neck, her delicate face perfectly serious. "Honey, you've been looking after me so much that you never go out anymore. Why don't we get divorced?"

Yan Xiu pinches her little chin and deliberately puts on a fierce face. "What if I break your legs? Would you behave then?"

Tang Yannong pulls out her phone and dials 110, one digit at a time. Looking up, she asks, "Are you threatening to abuse me?"

After that, Yan Xiu comes home on time every day, refuses any business engagements that run past eight, and transfers all his assets to Tang Yannong.

His friends tease him. "You live like such a pushover."

Yan Xiu looks proud instead. "Yan is henpecked."

Reader's guide:

1. Frail beauty who's no pushover (pretend green tea) x a roguish jerk

2. The female lead is very good at putting on an act.

3. One-on-one romance, extremely sweet (your mileage may vary).

4. The male lead doesn't cheat during the marriage. It only looks that way, and it's all a misunderstanding!

Coming soon next door: His Handwritten Letters. Please add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

The year Zhou Youyi won gold at the Olympics, she began receiving a handwritten letter from Hong Kong every week. By the time she finally decided to meet the sender, she had collected 108 letters.

On the day they were supposed to meet, she saw Xu Jinsen, a young heir from a prominent family who had just returned to the capital from Hong Kong. She asked him if he was the sender, and he replied, "I am." His answer made her willingly stay by his side for seven years. But in the end, she saw him spending Valentine's Day with her best friend.

She cut off all contact with him and burned the 108 letters to ashes.

Pei Jiasong, a top-tier star, became the youngest Best Actor in the entertainment industry in just three years. Rumor had it that he came from a top Hong Kong family and had entered show business for the sake of his white moonlight.

Later, Zhou Youyi entered the entertainment industry and got the chance to star in a film with Pei Jiasong. At the wrap party, everyone started talking about their "first love."

After the bottle spun around a few times, it pointed at Zhou Youyi. She parted her lips, not bothering to play coy, and said with an amused smile, "He wrote me love letters for two years, and I chased after him for seven."

Everyone in the private room exchanged glances. Zhou Youyi had been caught up in a love triangle, and the gossip that she knowingly became the other woman had long been a favorite topic in the industry. No one had expected there to be a shocking secret behind it all.

When it was Pei Jiasong's turn, he took a sip of wine and smiled faintly. "I wrote her 108 love letters. She never showed up on the day we were supposed to meet."

Everyone asked in confusion, "Why?"

"I'd like to ask the same thing." Pei Jiasong smiled, paused, then turned to look at Zhou Youyi. "Why didn't you come that day?"

Zhou Youyi: "???"

Even a young master from a top-tier family can feel timid and insecure in front of the woman he likes. He works desperately to reach the highest place, shining bright enough to become the spring mountain in her winter.

After plotting for years, his secret crush finally comes true.

Fall secretly in love during this snowy winter...

Reader's guide:

1. Cool and gentle x devoted and sincere.

2. Both are each other's first and only. Happy ending. The male lead is two years younger than the female lead (though he refuses to admit it's an older-woman-younger-man relationship).

Theme: Dreams, freedom, growth