Scorching Spring Days

[My secret-crush novel Wild Delusion is currently serializing. Please add it to your collection. A rakish, unruly playboy VS a reserved, clear-headed young woman]

1.

When they first met, Shi Yang was the little fairy in everyone's eyes, a celestial beauty who seemed untouched by the mortal world in her elegant white dress.

Chi Zhizhou, the young master of the Chi Group, was dazzling as the stars and moon, carefree, easygoing, and irreverent.

Plenty of people openly flirted with him or secretly crushed on him. Whenever someone confessed, he always acted nonchalant, his voice cool and teasing. "Sorry, I'm not interested."

But at his birthday party...

He cornered her behind the rock garden and held her wrist tight, one brow lifting. "You flirt with me and then run? How many days have you been avoiding me? Hmm?"

The little fairy's eyes reddened. Stubbornly, she turned her face away and refused to look at him.

He drew her into his arms and lowered his voice to gently soothe her. "There's no one else. There's only you."

2.

He truly spoiled her, loving her with every fiber of his being. But the more passionately he had loved her, the more resolutely they parted.

"Let's end things here." Shi Yang's voice was broken, but firm.

After she turned and left, where she couldn't see him...

Chi Zhizhou clutched a black velvet box containing a diamond ring and stared up at the sky, shrouded in dark clouds. A self-mocking smile tugged at his lips, and tears threatened to spill from the corners of his eyes.

3.

When they met again, he was cool and reserved, a man of few words. Only with her did he turn sarcastic and cutting.

"Are you worried about me, or just here to watch the show?"

"Keep your self-righteous kindness to yourself."

Later, she learned everything he had borne for her over the years.

She wept uncontrollably and couldn't bring herself to go near him again, so she turned and left.

Chi Zhizhou panicked completely. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her against him, then bent his head and kissed her, passionately and wildly.

His eyes were red-rimmed, his voice hoarse. "Yangyang, don't go."

"People always say reality brings fierce winds and ideals run aground. Yet every day he was mired in the mud, he looked toward the moon, and toward her."

Reader's Guide:

1. A little fairy x an irreverent playboy; an English translator x a rising star in drone technology

2. Both leads are each other's only romantic partner; 1v1; happy ending.

For my upcoming secret-crush novel Wild Delusion, visit my author page and add it to your collection!

[A rakish, unruly playboy VS a reserved, clear-headed young woman]

1.

On a sweltering summer night in her senior year of high school, Ruan Li was watching the shop for Uncle Xue at the front desk of an internet cafe. When she looked up from her math test, she spotted a phone glinting silver in the corner of a sofa. She picked it up and ran outside after its owner.

In the dimly lit alley outside the internet cafe, a boy dressed in black leaned against the wall. His dark eyes held a playful smile that had yet to fade. A pretty girl stood before him, rising onto her toes to whisper something in his ear with intimate ease. He smiled, carefree and unruly, then tilted his head. His gaze, tinged with careless amusement, drifted over to her.

Ruan Li never imagined that the glance he cast her way would become something she couldn't forget for years.

2.

In college, Gou Yunye was still cocky, brazen, and defiantly unconventional. He tore through the streets on his speeding motorcycle, the hem of his black shirt billowing in the evening breeze. That year, she watched with her own eyes as one woman after another came and went from his embrace.

She never expected their paths to cross. Carefully, she folded away her feelings and hid them in her heart. Until one camping trip, when he lost a game and came to sit beside her, his long legs stretched out carelessly. Amid the crowd's teasing...

"How about giving me a try?" His dark, inky eyes fixed on her, the corners lifting slightly.

The blazing campfire reflected the smile in his eyes. Ruan Li knew he was a fickle, freewheeling playboy, yet she still nodded as if under a spell.

He hooked an arm around her shoulders and drew her into his embrace, his eyes filled with boundless affection.

When they broke up, no one was surprised. A playboy really was like wind slipping through your fingers. Even a cool, stunning beauty like Ruan Li couldn't keep him.

3.

Later, Gou Yunye became the founder of GN Capital, the most unshakable name in venture capital. Everyone knew him as a flirtatious playboy with exacting standards who loved to take unconventional routes, attracting countless women.

No one could have imagined that someone as proud as him would one day humble himself to the dust...

They met again in a bar awash with bright lights and revelry. The narrow hallway had room for only one person. Ruan Li held the documents in her hand and said coolly, "Please move aside."

He stubbed out his cigarette and cornered her against the wall. Bending his head to look at her, eyes slightly red and voice low and hoarse, he sounded both longing and abject. "Litchi, don't leave me."

"I stand where the wind blows hardest. So much about my secret crush is hidden in the wind, buried in metaphor."

Reader's Guide:

1. A secret crush comes true x a playboy turns over a new leaf

2. She secretly loves him at first; later, he chases his wife through hell

3. Happy ending; both leads are each other's only romantic partner.

Theme: Ideals and passion.