A Gentle Kiss

[VB: Curled Fish Tail]

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1.

Tang Wen would never forget the day she reunited with Xu Qingyin.

It was the wedding banquet of a friend. Xu Qingyin had been invited back from abroad to attend the ceremony.

In the morning light, his features were strikingly refined, his figure exceptional, and every movement carried an air of elegance. People around him wore ingratiating smiles, jostling to get close to him.

Yet he remained distant and taciturn.

Tang Wen didn't know what someone said to him. His gaze then drifted this way, granting her a brief glance, before he coolly replied, "We're not close."

Meeting his eyes, Tang Wen felt they were even colder than when they broke up all those years ago.

A surge of indignation rose within her. So when the banquet ended, she lifted her skirt and walked away, leaving him behind with only a silent gaze as he said softly:

"Long time no see."

Just one sentence was enough to shatter all of Tang Wen's pride.

2.

Tang Wen didn't think there was any need for them to say "long time no see."

After all, there had never been any conflict or falling-out between them.

To prove her point, Tang Wen decided to pull Xu Qingyin, her unreachable crescent moon, back down to earth once more.

She began showing up at his hospital every day, bringing him things and contriving to run into him, as if by chance.

Just when their relationship seemed to be improving, his coldness cut it in two once again.

"Tang Wen."

At last, Xu Qingyin raised his eyes to look directly at her. His voice was so detached it held not a trace of warmth. "I won't hate you, but I won't love you either."

He left and returned to Moscow, where he had once lived for seven years.

Watching him walk away, Tang Wen finally understood completely that Xu Qingyin truly had no heart.

3.

Later, when Tang Wen learned it had all been a misunderstanding, she went all the way to Moscow to find him. Outside the airport, amid a raging snowstorm, a car spun out of control and came straight at her.

In a moment of panic, Xu Qingyin took the blow for Tang Wen, collapsing in a pool of blood.

The sky was dark, the snow blinding, and the world around them in turmoil.

Tang Wen asked him through her tears, "Why?"

Why, indeed?

He said nothing.

At last, as if he could hold on no longer, his strength gradually ebbed away, and the arm gripping hers fell limply to his side.

Before closing his eyes, barely able to make a sound, he still summoned all his strength to force out five words:

"Don't leave me again."

-

Xu Qingyin used to think that two people who weren't right for each other should never meet.

Only later did he realize that their meeting had come far too late.

* She pursues him, 1v1, happy ending

* Rekindled romance, reunited after a long separation

------- Coming Soon 1 -------

1.

As her name suggested, You Lijia was a beauty, and the most outstanding student at Wuda. She was beautiful, excelled in her studies, and came from a good family.

Everyone thought she'd play by the rules and have a bright future.

She thought so too.

But then she met Yi Jingxu, a rebellious, brooding boy.

The first deviation from her path came after Yi Jingxu caught her cheating with a cheat sheet.

He was standing by the door, one eyebrow raised as he asked curiously, "Even good students cheat?"

Flustered, she hid the slip of paper behind her back. "It's none of your business."

Yi Jingxu only gave a lazy smile. "You should try something more fun."

After that, he took her street racing and gaming, and they watched the sunrise together at dawn. Little by little, You Lijia began to stray from the path she'd always followed.

One day, as the sun rose, the two of them stood on a shore where the waves rolled in and out. He clasped her hand tightly, his figure nearly blending into the murky darkness. "Do you think maybe we were made for each other?"

2.

Yi Jingxu was unruly and mischievous, nothing like You Lijia, the model student featured on the school's honor roll.

But one day, he stumbled upon a secret of this well-behaved senior that was hardly a secret at all.

He watched her panic, her rich, intoxicating fragrance filling his nostrils.

He suddenly remembered someone saying that You Lijia was out of everyone's league.

He'd scoffed at the time, but in his heart he'd wondered what it would feel like to make a good student go bad.

-

A night of heavy rain.

Yi Jingxu pinned You Lijia against the wall, holding her so tightly she couldn't move at all.

He was soaked through, but the cigarette in his hand still glowed scarlet.

He stared at her, lowered his head to take a drag, then passed the smoke into her mouth. Inch by inch, his voice grew teasing, yet sent a chill through her.

"Sis."

Thunder crashed. He kissed the reddened corner of her eye, irritated from the smoke, then moved to her ear, his voice turning tender. "How about you fall with me?"

- At first, he was covered in thorns, wanting to drag her into the mire.

- Later, he would die for her, becoming a mottled sperm whale.

* Older woman-younger man romance

* Rebellious younger man x aloof, admired older woman

* The heroine didn't cheat; it was a misunderstanding

-------- Coming Soon 2 --------

1.

Xu Moxi opened a flower shop in Kut'an Alley in the city. Business was slow, but every day a man in a black suit came to order flowers.

"Our boss asked me to order a bouquet of baby's breath. He says it's for his future wife."

That was always the man's reply, and each time he ordered a different kind of flower.

"All right."

Xu Moxi smiled as she wrapped the flowers and carefully wrote a message for him.

As time went by, Xu Moxi began to envy the "wife" he spoke of.

Then one day, a long-restored manor in the city was finally completed and opened to the public.

Xu Moxi went to visit too, but the moment she stepped inside, her eyes widened.

There were dried flowers arranged by the entrance, each bearing a message written in her own handwriting.

Among them was one unfamiliar, striking sentence:

"I'll leave a bouquet for you every day. By the time you finally set foot here, this place will have become a vast garden."

2.

Duan Jiangyu fell in love with someone.

He had just returned to the country that day, exhausted. Passing by the little flower shop that no one ever visited, he was drawn in by its beautiful design and, unusually, stopped to take a closer look.

Perhaps he stared for too long, because the person inside sensed something was amiss and poked her head out through a wooden window. Her beautiful eyes fixed on him as she asked gently, "Sir, are you here to buy flowers?"

"..."

Their gazes met in that instant.

For the first time in decades, an indescribable feeling surged through Duan Jiangyu's heart.

Suddenly, he wanted to be good to someone. He wanted to build her a garden with her at its center.

* Sweet, gentle beauty x charming, calculating old fox

* The male lead is a powerful man who falls for the heroine at first sight

* Not realistic fiction, more of a cozy story. I just want to write something with a fairytale feel and explore the language of flowers

------- Coming Soon 3 -------

1.

Everyone knew that Piao Fenglan was the most dazzling person in the capital, with a bright future and a top-tier family background. Like the blazing sun in the depths of winter, he was the hottest and brightest of them all. He looked down on everyone, changing the people around him one after another. He was a real playboy, and a real troublemaker.

Yet somehow, he kept falling for the same woman over and over.

His friend looked at the old photos he'd carefully kept on his phone year after year and laughed. "A fling's a fling. You really remembered her for this long?"

Piao Fenglan's reaction was mild, his usual heartless self.

That's right. What was the point of remembering someone who never had eyes for him?

2.

The label Lin Jingchun heard most often was "Piao Fenglan's ex-girlfriend."

But in her eyes, theirs had been nothing more than a brief affair.

Piao Fenglan was surrounded by admirers, never short of flattery or fawning.

She, by contrast, was as calm as still water.

After they broke up, she went abroad and had long since forgotten the relationship.

One day, someone asked her, "Do you still remember Piao Fenglan?"

She remembered the time they'd spent together. Every time she thought of it, her ears grew hot.

But she knew there was no chance they'd ever continue what they'd had.

So she only said, "Him? I haven't heard that name in ages."

3.

Later, they met again on a rainy day. Even though they hadn't seen each other in years, Piao Fenglan recognized Lin Jingchun at a glance.

He was sitting in his car, watching her rain-soaked figure as he scoffed:

Years had passed, and she was still such a mess.

When he blinked, her figure was gone. No one knew what had happened that rainy day, or why Piao Fenglan suddenly wanted to turn the whole capital upside down.

And no one knew that in the dead of winter, Piao Fenglan would seize the person before him and ask over and over, "Lin Jingchun, haven't I treated you well? Why are you always looking at other people?"

Gazing into those dark eyes, Lin Jingchun finally understood: long ago, someone had bled for love and built a bridge of devotion, loving her with a heart that would never die.

* Unrequited love from the male lead, partial redemption

* Devoted bad boy x first love

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you