Warm-Toned Romance

Next up: Embrace the Stars and Kiss the Clouds & Deeply Cherished

Reckless romance x warm on the outside, cold at heart [Short story, complete.]

Hong Kong heiress x easygoing CEO

The word "love" wasn't in Ning Hanxue's dictionary.

His parents had been bound together by an arranged marriage. They acted deeply in love in public but each did as they pleased in private. Naturally, no one truly cared about him, the product of their union.

When he was little, perhaps he'd hoped for something.

As he grew up, he decided this arrangement was fine. Neither of them would hurt the other. He became certain he'd repeat his parents' life.

Then someone refused to let that happen.

The bright, unrestrained girl followed him around, constantly telling him, "Ning Hanxue, I like you." After hearing it a hundred, a thousand times, the certainty inside him, cold as iron, began to crack...

[No one can resist the sunshine.]

His cousin Xia Huaixin's novel Pure Love is complete.

Next up: Embrace the Stars and Kiss the Clouds

Gentle, aloof beauty x irascible, dark-hearted big shot

School and city life / reunion after a long separation / unrequited love becomes mutual

1) Xu Yunwu was the most doted-on girl in three generations of the scholarly Xu family in Beicheng. She was born alluring and lovely, yet had a cool, watery temperament. After completing her studies abroad, she returned home and opened a tea house in a quiet corner of the suburbs. With a table, a chair, and a pot of tea, she lived a leisurely yet elegant life.

She loved this life and had no plans to change it.

But life always had its ups and downs. One day, during the White Dew season, her grandfather suddenly told her that when he was young, he had made an agreement with the old master of the Huo family: if fate allowed, their families could become in-laws one day. He tentatively asked how she felt about Huo Xingyan.

Yunwu paused, then smiled and said, "I don't have any feelings for him."

And so the engagement was called off.

The very next day, someone told Xu Yunwu that Huo Xingyan had gotten a whole group of people blackout drunk at the Nuolan Club, acting like a madman.

2) On the last day of the old year, the temperature in Beicheng plummeted. After eating hot pot with her family, Xu Yunwu was on her way back to the old house when she passed by the Huo family home and saw a familiar car and a familiar person. The window was wide open. He sat inside smoking, radiating indescribable desolation and loneliness. This was a side of Huo Xingyan Xu Yunwu had never seen before. Because of it, she couldn't stop herself from walking toward him.

"Why don't you go inside?"

Huo Xingyan turned his gaze to her. He hadn't managed to hide the loneliness and hatred in his eyes in time. "Wuwu, I hate going inside."

In that instant, Xu Yunwu heard the sound of her rationality cracking. Then she heard herself say, "Would you like me to keep you company?"

3) Xu Yunwu had a secret: she'd liked Huo Xingyan for a long time. She never thought she'd tell him, until one day Huo Xingyan earnestly told her he loved her.

They say the one who loves first loses, but I don't want to lose this time.

If we're in love, you have to trade the three words "I love you" for mine.

Theme: Pursue love wherever it leads.