Drowned in Rain

[Sharp-tongued, sickly young master who insists on being brutally direct every day x petite doctor who can hold up the sky with her mouth]

On her birthday in her twenties, Ding Muyun received an unusual patient.

By then, she was already an associate chief surgeon in general surgery. Her patient was merely a sickly young master of twenty.

His legs had been disabled since he was ten, and he spent every day in a wheelchair.

Pills, injections, punctures, electrotherapy: he had tried everything, whether he was supposed to or not.

But he was worse off than a dog. He had never managed to stand up, not even once.

She waited at the door for the young master to arrive, but the person who came in was a punk covered in piercings.

"It's me." The young master wheeled himself past her.

"I asked him to come pierce my ears."

?

Did you come here for medical treatment, or a beauty salon and manicure?

*

Years later, Ding Muyun fled in panic to a small town.

She hid deep in the mountains, thinking they would never meet again.

She never expected him to be an investor in her school, donating several buildings.

As soon as Du Chunshu found out where she was, he immediately pulled his investment.

She went to plead with him, and there was only one solution he would accept:

"Marry me."

"Don't get the wrong idea. I just want revenge."

***A spring tree in Weibei, evening clouds over Jiangdong.

-Reader's Guide-

1. The male lead is disabled at first, but recovers later.

2. The female lead has someone she once loved, so proceed with caution if that's a dealbreaker.

--Afterword: Blurb for The Sunset Over Hong Kong Island--

*Eight-year age gap

*Kindhearted British-Hong Kong big shot x passionate jewelry designer who reaches for the moon

*Happy ending / reunited after a breakup / the male lead desperately pursues his wife / direct, direct, direct, direct, direct until he goes mad

I.

When she was eighteen, Chu Li first met Oliver in Lifford.

The girl crouched beneath a streetlamp, covered in snow and wind.

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared before her.

The man had golden hair and blue eyes. A faint chill gleamed from the gold clasps on his severe cloak.

"Will you come with me?" The man looked down at her, his languid Cantonese accent pleasant to the ear.

The girl nodded and took his hand.

II.

Everyone in Lifford knew that a smiling tiger lived in the castle outside town. Oliver seemed gentle on the surface, but was gloomy and cruel. He smiled at everyone, yet was ruthless, and there was a fiercely spirited bird living in his home.

People teased him: "So, what's she like?"

Oliver said nothing. Gray-white smoke drifted across his face. Then he stubbed out his cigarette in his whiskey and answered crisply:

"She's still young. She doesn't understand what real love is."

"There's nothing between us."

The girl, hidden behind the curtains, teared up. She rushed into the banquet hall and slapped him hard across the face.

She forced a polite smile. "Oliver, we're over."

The girl left the country after those words, and they never saw each other again.

Oliver sneered and said politely, "Don't let me keep you."

After Chu Li left, Oliver continued to thrive, and guests kept coming to his home one after another.

Everyone sighed that a sparrow was still just a sparrow. Even in a gilded cage, it was still only a bird.

III.

Who would have thought that, three months later, back in China...

At the exhibition of works by Chu Li, the jewelry-design world’s new star, a man in a black suit, radiating wealth and status, appeared backstage.

He pinned Chu Li against the wall and murmured, "Chu Li, please come back to me."

"Chu Li, this is the last time I'll ask. Come back to me."

"Baby, I've missed you so much."

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*The male lead is one-quarter Chinese, from Hong Kong

*Eight-year age gap

*Both leads have no prior sexual experience

Theme: Exercise for a healthy life