Quietly Drawing Near

My new story, Passion Like Fire, is now underway. A gentle, sweet little treat. Check out the synopsis in my author column, and please bookmark it.

Lin Chuchu's life is divided into two parts, with Jiang Xiaonian as the dividing line.

Before she met Jiang Xiaonian, she was an orphan dependent on others.

After she met Jiang Xiaonian, she became a pampered young lady.

Everyone warned her: Jiang Xiaonian is a snake.

Moody, ruthless, and motivated only by profit.

Anyone who gets close to him ends up not even leaving a trace.

Lin Chuchu curled her lips. When a snake meets a corpse flower, it's anyone's guess which one will kill the other.

*

Lin Chuchu always remembered that first rainy night.

She collapsed in front of a black car, trembling all over as she begged, "Please, save me!"

The window rolled down. A distinguished man sat in the back, his expressionless face turned toward her, his eyes dark and unfathomable.

Lin Chuchu felt as if she had waited an entire century

before hearing his deep voice say, "Get in."

At that moment, light entered her world.

Reader advisory:

Contains clichéd, melodramatic plot elements.

Announcement: The book will be available to read for a fee starting June 15. Thank you for your support, and enjoy!

*Please bookmark my upcoming story, Star Catcher. Synopsis:

Their first meeting. A bar in a small town.

Shu Lan asked Zhou Siyu, "Are you really not considering being my boyfriend? I spoil my boyfriends."

The man laughed derisively, his long fingers holding a glass.

"Why not?" Shu Lan asked, unwilling to give up.

"I don't date older women," Zhou Siyu said dismissively.

"We're only four years apart. These days, unless you're seven or eight years apart, how can you even call it dating an older woman?"

Zhou Siyu: "..."

Six months later. Jiangcheng International Airport.

With an enormous computer bag on her back, Shu Lan looked back uncertainly at the young man surrounded by people at the boarding gate, as if he were the center of the universe.

Her colleague looked at her. "That looks like a pretty popular star lately. I hear his family has quite a bit of influence, too. Are you a fan?"

"No. I think that's my boyfriend, who disappeared for months."

Her colleague laughed. "Come on."

Only when the man came up to them, took off his sunglasses, and looked at Shu Lan with a haughty expression did he say, "Here to see me off, sis?"

Shu Lan ground her back teeth, slammed her computer bag into him, and sneered, "Carry this. Once we're on the plane, you'd better explain yourself!"

Much later. On the sofa in a villa.

"Baby, don't mess around. I really have to go to a meeting." Shu Lan slapped away the arm wrapped around her neck.

The dazzling Zhou Siyu, who shone in public, clung to her neck and murmured in his magnetic voice, "Do I really have to go? Didn't you say you'd spoil your boyfriend?"

Shu Lan sighed. "That doesn't mean you can do this every day..."

"You don't love me anymore, is that it? You're tired of me, sis?" Zhou Siyu sat up, looking hurt, helpless, and pathetic.

"..." Shu Lan said, "Try a different act, movie star. Can't we stop performing this scene every single day?"

Self-reliant princess vs. a sometimes gloomy, sometimes feral, insecure young master

Reader's guide: Older woman-younger man romance. A sweet story.

Theme: Let go of prejudice and keep the family harmonious.