After My Crush Gets Their Heart Broken

[My next book will be "Have You Hidden Your Ears Today?" A face-blind kitten is bound to get into trouble if she mistakes someone for another person! Check out the upcoming release in my author page~ Kisses!

Ren Xia is a relationship blogger.

He and his first love dated for years. With tens of millions of followers, he became the most popular relationship blogger online.

Then, just as he was preparing to propose, his first love cheated on him, in the most humiliating way possible: Ren Xia caught them in bed.

Ren Xia promptly broke up with him.

His ex tried and failed to win him back. Humiliated and enraged, he went off and started an account in the same niche to steal his traffic:

"You wouldn't have an account without me! Let's see how you can be a relationship blogger after we break up."

A few months later, at a gala hosted by a social media platform, all the biggest influencers gathered. Ren Xia's ex was exposed on the spot for faking his traffic and escorted out by security, drawing a flurry of camera flashes.

Beside Ren Xia, who was about to go onstage to accept an award, stood a renowned law professor from a prestigious university, impeccably dressed and elegant. He held Ren Xia's portable selfie stick and silently mouthed toward the ex:

"Thanks. I've been waiting for him to break up with you for ages."

Blurb two:

Tang Weizhi once pursued someone, back in his awkward student days.

Sitting at the back of the classroom, he poured his faint pangs of longing and attraction into notes, then slipped them into the old desk compartment.

But in the end, nothing came of it.

Years later, a friend mysteriously told him they were arranging for a friend to stay at his place.

Professor Tang, who had never liked getting too close to other people, heard the name "Ren Xia" and said:

"Sure. When is he moving in? I'll pick him up tonight."

#I'm not pining after someone else's boyfriend. I'm just waiting for my boyfriend to break up.

Cold-faced, warm-hearted gong with a mouth harder than diamond VS tsundere, innocent, hopelessly idealistic shou

Set in an alternate modern world. Please don't read it as a reflection of reality.

Blurb posted on July 5, 2023.

Reader's guide:

1. As the blurb says, this is a story where the gong is replaced.

2. Older gong, with an age gap.

3. I'm trying my hand at messy, high-conflict drama. None of the characters are perfect. Not recommended for readers who are strongly attached to either the gong or the shou.

4. I have a stockpile of chapters and an outline. Comments won't change the plot.

5. The gong and shou are a sweet couple, locked together for good. Jinjiang swallowed the key. Don't bash either of them.

Upcoming release: "Have You Hidden Your Ears Today?" Please add it to your bookshelf!

Yan Huan is a half-blood cat yao who sneaks into the palace and takes a job as a maid.

Her magic is too weak to maintain her human form for more than half a day, so she is human by day and a cat by night. She climbs over walls to steal braised pork, picks roses from the imperial garden, scrapes gold foil off incense burners...

In short, she steals snacks and slacks off to the fullest, saving up a hefty sum for her retirement after she leaves the palace!

One day, Yan Huan encounters a young guard. Though young and aloof, he stops the palace attendants from catching her and even gives her half a fish.

Meowing, Yan Huan follows him home.

She discovers that there is a fish in his lunchbox every day!

After adopting a human, Yan Huan's standard of living skyrockets. She leaves plum-blossom paw prints on his bed, washes her feet in his teacup, and sharpens her claws on his leather boots.

Of course, it's perfectly normal for a cat to adopt several humans at once, right?

A young civil official feeds her meatballs, and the crown prince of the realm scratches her under the chin. Yan Huan accepts them all without hesitation.

Until one day, the guard lifts the kitten by the scruff of her neck with his long fingers. "Will you be my crown princess?"

N-no... Wait, how did the guard turn into the crown prince? The kitten is horrified! The kitten's fur stands on end! The kitten pretends not to understand and tries to run out the window.

"Who else are you trying to visit?" The crown prince, Chu Tingyan, grinds his teeth. "I've spent six months painstakingly feeding you, and I change my clothes once, so you think I'm a new person? You happily accept all the food and drink, though."

"And every time you see me in your human form, you forget to hide the ears on your head."

Upcoming release: "I'm a Tax Collector in the Underworld." Please add it to your bookshelf~ ID: 8350948

Chu Qing was a miserable tax accountant. After five years on the job, he died from overwork after staying late one night.

When he opened his eyes, he was in the underworld. Chu Qing even felt a little calm: no one would ever chase him down again to demand an explanation for a two-cent discrepancy.

Then he discovered he was broke.

As an orphan, he had no one to burn paper money for him!

In the Hall of Yama, the Ten Yama Kings declared solemnly, "The underworld doesn't support idlers. You have no income and can't afford rent. Why not join the transmigration-into-a-book bureau? After five hundred years of assignments, you'll be able to buy a toilet in Fengdu."

"You have to work to buy a home in the underworld, too? What happened to all beings being equal?" Chu Qing asked.

"The underworld has no income, Heaven is stingy with its funding, and the demon realm is waging a tariff war. It's hard for us to get by, too," sighed the king of Yama. "We need a side business to increase revenue and cut costs. The God of War in the Immortal Realm keeps wanting to buy the underworld and flatten it. Since we have no income or say in the matter, we lose every argument at meetings. It's a lot of pressure."

Chu Qing slowly replied, "How about learning to collect taxes according to the law?"

To survive, Chu Qing put his professional expertise to use, designing a tax system in the underworld and introducing tax-filing services.

The Ten Yama Kings were struggling because the underworld had no income and was desperately poor?

From then on, every sheet of yellow paper money burned in the mortal realm for the dead had to be taxed in accordance with the Underworld Tax Collection and Administration Law, first edition!

Ox-Head and Horse-Face traveled between the worlds of the living and the dead, brokering barter deals?

Imported goods from the mortal realm would be subject to a ten percent tariff based on market value. File a declaration in accordance with the law, and you might qualify for a tax exemption!

In the first year of Chu Qing's tax firm, the underworld's annual revenue grew by 163,72.00% year over year, driving a 3,682.35% increase in the underworld's GDP. Trade between the living and dead flourished. For his outstanding contributions, Chu Qing was made Tax Yama and named one of the "Top Ten Influential Figures of the Six Realms."

In the tenth year, the Immortal Realm sent a delegation to study the underworld's advanced methods and proposed implementing a comprehensive tax system there. The land owned by Chu Qing stretched from the River of Forgetfulness all the way to the Southern Heavenly Gate.

In the fifteenth year, the underworld's annual revenue had ranked first among the Six Realms for eight consecutive years, earning several times as much as second place. Chu Qing led the underworld in buying the Jade Pool and establishing a legal tax education center in the Immortal Realm. Their leaflets were distributed across all Six Realms.

Later, whenever people saw Chu Qing, they would ask him respectfully and reverently, "Tax Master Chu, what made you bring taxation to every corner of the Six Realms?"

"It's simple," Chu Qing replied calmly. "Whether you're human, demon, immortal, yao, or ghost, and wherever you may be in the Six Realms or beyond, you must pay taxes according to the law. That is what it means for all beings to be equal."

Theme: Have courage, hold fast to your convictions, and remember that life always offers the chance to start over.