Late Stars, Clear Skies

My next free bonus story: A Romance of Rare Beauty / I Only Dare to Kiss You When I'm Drunk. Synopsis below.

The girl I loved throughout my youth was as clear and radiant as a late-night star.

Three short stories

1. Late-Night Star, Clear and Radiant: Ding Wanxing x Gu Mingcheng, latest bonus chapter (complete)

2. When We Were Young: Ding Yi x Qiu Lan, special extra chapter (complete)

3. First Snow on Roses: Jiang Nanyin x Ren Guangyi (complete)

Note: This is a free bonus story, written for love. I don't accept unsolicited advice or disruptive comments. If you don't like it, just click the X.

A Romance of Rare Beauty

Gentle beauty x cold, calculating big shot

Second male lead wins her over, marriage first and love later / Short story of about 100,000 words, no paid chapters before completion

1) Xu Zhilu is a leading force in the film industry. She is only twenty-five or twenty-six, yet already has several Best Actress awards to her name. Her family has ties to the prestigious Luo family going back generations, and she is engaged to Luo Jiangning, the Luo family's third-generation standout. She will soon marry into wealth, inspiring everyone's envy.

She often feels that her happiness is almost unreal, because she has known Luo Jiangning since college and has secretly loved him all along.

2) The wedding is set for late autumn, and Xu Zhilu chooses a Vera Wang wedding dress. But three days before the wedding, she receives a set of photos from an unfamiliar number. The man she knows and a seductive woman are locked in an intimate embrace. Her dream is shattered.

She cuts the wedding dress to shreds, rushes into the downpour, and stops the car of Lu Yin, a powerful figure in the city.

He invites her in and asks coolly, "Miss Xu, what do you want?"

Xu Zhilu's gaze is as clear as if washed by water, and full of resolve. "Marry me, and I'll give you the land south of the city." Everyone in North City knows that the land south of the city was left to Xu Zhilu by her grandfather as her dowry.

Lu Yin is momentarily stunned. When he comes to his senses, he says, "Get out..."

3) Three days later, Xu Zhilu's wedding goes ahead as planned, but Lu Yin is the groom. The social circles of North City are in an uproar, and the internet explodes.

At the height of the scandal, Lu Yin sends a message through the media: "The one I love is Xu Zhilu."

Everyone who knows the truth, including Xu Zhilu herself, thinks he only stepped in to calm the situation. No one knows that the moment Xu Zhilu stopped his car, his heart completely lost control...

After the wedding, while tidying Lu Yin's study, Xu Zhilu finds an old black notebook. On the last page is a line of writing...

Xu Zhilu, if I had only one day left to live, I would crush my own heart, place it in a kiss, and give it to you, so that from then on I could be with you forever.

I Only Dare to Kiss You When I'm Drunk

Secret crush / happy ending / 100,000-word short story, no paid chapters before completion.

Ten years of longing, finally answered.

As long as you refuse to give up, even a fish in a pond can soar through the sky.

1) Chi Yu has always known the difference between herself and Chen Wangshu. He is a heaven-blessed prodigy, while she is a poor student he supports with a tiny fraction of his pocket money. When she stands before him, he doesn't know who she is, but she has always kept him in her heart.

A bird and a fish: that's how it is between them.

2) Chi Yu is certain of two things to the marrow of her bones: she dislikes her own name, and she doesn't want her life to be as ordinary as it sounds, spent chasing after Chen Wangshu.

From Sui'an No. 1 High School to Nan University, then on to a job at Chengtian, it takes Chi Yu ten years.

She finally makes it to Chen Wangshu's side, but she knows this won't change anything. She and Chen Wangshu can never be equals, because she only got this far thanks to his support.

3) At first, she only wants to find a suitable opportunity to thank him. Then, one night, they unexpectedly find themselves alone together for a few minutes while he's drunk. As if possessed, she lowers her head and kisses his long eyelashes...

Theme: Growing together with the person you love