Melting in Your Heart

Ice queen * coquettish sweetheart Childhood friends / marriage first, love later / mutual secret crushes Blurb: As the little princess of the Fu family, Fu Sili grew up spoiled and pampered. She was proud and charming, and everyone adored her. Everyone except Pei Shiyin, who always shut her down. Before long, she became his little tagalong, trailing after him every day and calling him Brother Shiyin. On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, Fu Sili decided to confess her feelings, only to overhear a conversation around the corner. Someone teased, “Little Sili is an adult now. When are you planning to get engaged?” Fu Sili held her breath. Then she heard Pei Shiyin's cold, merciless voice. “Don't be ridiculous. She's just my little sister.” A bucket of cold water extinguished the young girl's feelings without a trace. Red-eyed, Fu Sili blocked Pei Shiyin's number and WeChat, then left the country. * But Fu Sili never imagined that one day, by a strange twist of fate, she and Pei Shiyin would get married. Their studies kept them in different cities after the wedding. Tired of their marriage feeling like a widowhood, Fu Sili finally worked up the courage to ask for a divorce. When the man held out an eight-carat pink diamond ring first, its dazzling beauty short-circuited Fu Sili's thoughts for a moment. It took all she had to stand firm. She forced herself to look away, trying to resist the temptation in front of her. “Let's get divorced.” The man considered it for a moment, his brow furrowing in a rare frown. After a long silence, he seemed to reach a conclusion, and his brow smoothed. “Is the diamond too small?” “...” - One day, a set of photos from a business forum spread all over the internet. In them, the man looked cool and aristocratic in his impeccably tailored suit, but one detail stood out. The internet erupted. Some curious souls even dug up close-ups and discovered a butterfly tattoo, its wings seeming to flutter, hidden beneath the mogul's watch. Black lines crossed and curled over his cool, pale, lean wrist, a striking contrast to his restrained, distant aura. And since the tattoo lay right over his pulse, it was strangely alluring, inviting all kinds of speculation. Many also became convinced by rumors that trouble was brewing in the wealthy family's marriage. After all, the stage name of the CEO's rumored one true love happened to contain the character for “butterfly.” The rumors grew wilder and wilder, until, between interviews, a host asked him about the topic everyone was talking about. His answer stunned the entire internet. “It has nothing to do with her.” Beneath the spotlights, the wedding band still gleamed on his long, slender finger. He said coolly, “My wife likes it. She says butterflies bring good fortune.” - One day after they were married, Fu Sili happened to recover the phone number she'd stopped using four years earlier. She found a pile of spam texts and over a hundred missed calls. Dozens of the missed calls were from the same person. Stunned, she opened the blacklist she'd left untouched for years and finally saw two buried WeChat messages. Just a few words, but they were a confession that had come too late. I like you. I've liked you for a long time. “You're the butterfly perched on my pulse.” It turned out that he had loved her long before he understood what love was. Note: The heroine is the male lead's one true love. There is no one else. The heroine is two months older than the male lead. Coming soon: "Returning to the Nest" Obsessive / possessive pursuit Blurb: When Gu Niao was thirteen, she went out in a pretty princess dress and came home with a stray dog she'd found. At first, all the dog knew how to do was bite people. But she was patient, teaching him how to hide his true nature and how to love others. The one thing she forgot to teach him was gratitude. When they met again, their positions in life were worlds apart. She had become an actress, while he was a high-powered Wall Street financier, refined in public and ruthless and terrifying in private. Gu Niao naively thought that even though she had left without a word back then, they were still siblings with no blood relation. After all, she'd treated him so well. Her screen boyfriend was in trouble and facing prison time. With nowhere else to turn, she swallowed her pride and went to him. “Brother, please help him.” The first word Gu Niao had taught him was “kindness.” She thought he might at least try to live up to it. By the floor-to-ceiling windows, the man stood with his back to her, his handsome face hidden in shadow. Only when he heard what she said did he smile. “I let him hang around you alive for so long. Tell me, am I kind or not?” - One day on set, a sharp-eyed crew member noticed that during a break, the lead actress Gu Niao had climbed into a discreet, mysterious luxury car. Unable to resist, they started gossiping. Someone in the know kindly explained: The two used to be adoptive siblings, so he often came to visit her on set. Their bond was as deep as a blood relationship. In a secluded corner of the parking lot, Gu Niao sat on the man's lap, biting her lip as her dress bunched into wrinkles. Some deep bond. She wanted to kill him. Yet the man paid no heed to the hatred in her eyes. He pulled his hand away, casually brushed the tear from the corner of her eye with his fingertip, and spoke in what he thought was a very reasonable tone. “Be the one to make the first move once, and I won't come next time. Hmm?” When it came to people who betrayed him, Gu Yanchao usually gave them one of two endings. The first was death, and he could let bygones be bygones. The second was that they stayed alive, and he kept them chained to his side for the rest of their lives, leaving no chance for them to betray him again. Unfortunately for Gu Niao, she was the second kind. He couldn't bring himself to strangle her, so he could only tie her to the bed. Theme: Love makes us whole.