Watching Summer

1.

The first time Song Aixing remembers seeing Ling Lan was at a noisy New Year's Eve birthday party.

The lights flashed so brightly they dazzled the eyes, and the music was loud enough to make your ears ring.

Yet there was one person dressed in a plain-colored qipao,

quiet as an ink painting that had wandered into the mortal world.

Later, plenty of people saw the two of them together,

and someone was always teasing Young Master Song, asking if he had really fallen for her.

He never answered.

After all, nobody took the teasing seriously in the world of wine and romance.

But after Young Master Song disappeared for a long time and then returned,

when someone laughed about it again,

he answered, "Yes."

A crowd of busybodies rushed to ask for the details,

and discovered that,

sure enough, it was that cool and distant woman, the living ink painting, who had dumped him.

2.

Ling Lan only heard later about the rumors that made her sound almost legendary,

about how decisive and carefree she had been.

At the time, she had an arm around the waist of the person who started the rumors and softly asked:

"Was I carefree back then?"

"Carefree, yeah. The kind where you hurt the other person a thousand times and yourself eight hundred."

No one but the two of them would ever know how, that night,

she had tearfully laid bare the feelings she had kept for years, then left with a clear head.

"Then shall I be carefree again?"

"Dream on."

I have seen thousands of colors in this world,

but only blue and white

have become the colors of my soul.

Clear-headed, self-possessed qipao maker vs. warm-faced, cold-hearted, ruthless rich young master

One-on-one romance, both leads' first time

Happy ending, 80% sweet romance, 200,000 words

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, no romance before adulthood.

2. All background details serve the story. Professional details and the like were researched online.

3. The author is the heroine's loving mother. It's fine to criticize the men, but please don't criticize my girl.

Pre-release: "Anonymous Poem." Click the author's page to add it to your collection!

1.

A night of torrential rain, a neon-lit street.

Tao Zhiyun waited for Qin Yuejia until she lost patience,

just as she had been waiting ever since they were young.

Waiting for every dusk when they walked home together after school, waiting for him to say something that would break through that paper-thin barrier between them.

Everyone seemed to think the two of them could go on like this forever.

But they couldn't.

She cut off the tangled thread of affection that had lasted for years,

leaving behind the person who had been waiting for a roomful of applause,

only to get into the wrong car amid the storm.

The man inside showed no surprise. He simply handed her a tissue so she could dry her hair

and asked, "Where are you going?"

That was what she thought was their first meeting.

2.

After Tao Zhiyun got together with Zhou Mochuan,

she was asked whether it was "love at first sight" or "love that grew over time."

The man beside her answered, "Love at first sight."

"Was it because I seemed cool when I cut ties with Qin Yuejia?"

"No."

"Then was it that afternoon when I was so focused and pretty making coffee?"

"Not that either."

It was when I was seventeen.

I had already seen you back then.

So it was love at first sight.

Gentle and steadfast vs. carefully plotting every step

Zhou Mochuan is the male lead / secretly in love with her / the second male lead gets his comeuppance

Plant-like heroine vs. gardener-like hero

Pre-release: "Pretending to Be Innocent"

Bewitching girl vs. boy on a pedestal

1.

The young master of the Zhou family had never known much hardship.

He was born with a bright, refined air, and was so upright in the way he carried himself that it was almost excessive.

But his work never seemed to earn his teacher's favor.

Whenever asked, the teacher always said something was missing.

After a scandal that year,

Zhou Hewu's painting skills improved by leaps and bounds.

When the teacher asked in class what had caused the change,

not one of the students sitting below dared to answer.

What could it have been?

The once-glorious young master Zhou had been dumped.

2.

The celebrated artist "Buqun" was going to hold an exhibition.

Every gallery was scrambling to land the hot project.

The artist was famous for the impact of his paintings, with bold colors that never felt unbalanced.

Countless big names had praised him by name.

He was also very low-key and had never shown his face.

The first thing Shu Minglan took on after returning to the country was this project.

"Buqun" passed over all the big galleries and chose her exhibition hall, which was on the verge of closing.

Everyone said it was like moving a Buddha into a dilapidated temple, and that she was unbelievably lucky.

But when she saw the real "Buqun," her first thought was:

This is going to be trouble.

Being her ex-boyfriend's contractor

really was going to be trouble.

Rekindled love / both leads' first time

Theme: Keep your passion alive, and may your dreams come true