After Stealing My Sister's Ex-Fiancée

[My next novel: What Do I Do When My Ex-Girlfriend Becomes My Stepmom?]

Blurb:

Qi Yizhi has fallen for someone she shouldn't have.

Because she's her older sister's girlfriend, which makes her the sister-in-law.

But they broke up a week ago.

So, nothing beats dumplings for a tasty meal, and nothing beats... for a good time.

*

Cen Xi has been short on inspiration lately, especially after breaking up with Qi Man. Her thoughts are a tangled mess.

A friend suggests she put down her paintbrush and try to clear her head. One night, she even takes Cen Xi to a private bar to help her find someone new.

Cen Xi isn't interested. She sits in a corner, drinking alone.

As she grows tipsy, someone sits down across from her.

The girl has a sweet mouth and a pair of flirtatious, enticing eyes. Like a little demon, she somehow lures Cen Xi into a car, then pushes open a hotel room door.

Everything is wonderful.

It would be even better if, when Cen Xi woke the next morning, the other woman weren't her younger sister-in-law, someone she had dined with at home before.

Cen Xi: :)

*

Unexpectedly, one time leads to a second, then a third.

Qi Yizhi adjusts the dental light. Her naturally alluring eyes curve slightly, softening the prudish air of her white coat.

She looks down at the cool, composed woman furrowing her brows in the dental chair because of a wisdom tooth. Her gloved hand brushes the lips she kissed just last night, and she speaks with a smile:

“Ms. Cen, open wide.”

*

Everyone in the department says Dr. Qi is glowing and must be in love, but she denies it to the bitter end.

Until one day, the city art museum opens Cen Xi's solo exhibition. Someone sees Dr. Qi with an arm around a cool, beautiful woman, sharing a tender kiss in front of "Spring Mist".

After the kiss, the beauty's cheeks flush. “You're being reckless.”

Qi Yizhi blinks her watery, alluring fox eyes. “But Spring Mist is kissing me.”

Enchanting dentist x cool-headed painter

Younger woman, same-sex marriage is legal.

-She kissed me, and all the cold winds melted into spring mist.-

* Faux sisters-in-law

* Cen and Qi's older sister were engaged and dated for a week, during which nothing happened.

* Qi Man: Little sis, you really have done well for yourself. :)

Upcoming: "The Warmth of Autumn"

Blurb:

After retiring from figure skating because of an injury, Ren Yi returns to her hometown to coach ice dancing.

The rink is small, but one woman visits every day. Lightly dressed and wearing skates, she quietly watches Ren Yi from within the rink.

Sometimes she says nothing, sometimes she smiles.

She skates now and then, though she can barely keep her balance.

Ren Yi catches the woman as she's about to fall, looks away, and says coldly, “Don't come back.”

After leaving home for years, Ren Yi has long forgotten what He Ruanqiu felt like.

But back then, she was nineteen, and she once dreamed of staying with He Ruanqiu, who had just turned twenty-nine, forever.

Sadly, the other woman left without a word, abandoning her in an early Northeastern winter with no snow, only cold winds.

*

She meets He Ruanqiu again at her father's remarriage ceremony.

Ren Yi drains the glass of celebratory wine and politely calls her “Stepmom.”

The woman wears bridal makeup, graceful and elegant, as pure as untrodden snow. But when she meets Ren Yi's eyes, she makes no sound.

That night, the woman knocks on her bedroom door.

She sits on Ren Yi's lap, her silk nightgown spilling around her. With red-rimmed eyes, she kisses Ren Yi, sometimes urgently, sometimes slowly.

She pleads with her not to ignore her.

“Won't Dad be angry?” Ren Yi simply tilts her head and smiles.

From the corner of her eye, she glimpses the mark at He Ruanqiu's waist.

The solemn, gentle woman from the daytime has actually chosen to debase herself, tattooing several butterflies at her waist.

Ren Yi only remembers that, back then, she held He Ruanqiu's hand as they danced on the ice.

After sharing a brief, tender kiss, the woman's lashes trembled as she praised Ren Yi in a soft voice:

“Xiao Yi, you look like a butterfly on the ice.”

*

He Ruanqiu thinks of herself as a pile of fallen leaves, rotting in autumn.

But Ren Yi is the spark that lights the fuse, evaporating the hidden tides until He Ruanqiu burns to the end.

Like a vivid, vibrant butterfly, she doesn't love flowers. Instead, she chooses to pause among withered leaves.

With one light leap, she sends years of whirlpools surging through He Ruanqiu's heart.

Precocious, resilient figure skater x gentle, languid, flirtatious older woman

* Faux stepmom story

* 11-year age gap

* Story set in a small city in Northeast China

Theme: People who love each other won't lose each other.