In Loving Memory

The main story and bonus chapters are complete! Thank you to everyone who bought the full book. Please leave a five-star review! [Love is a superstition of timing and fate.] Sharp-tongued, aloof heir x gentle, sophisticated heiress Old-school Beijing elite romance | Childhood friends | Mutual secret crushes | Regret and redemption | Sweet romance To Jinmo, Yin Jihong, the crown prince of Beijing’s elite circle, was her childhood friend, someone who had been by her side for over twenty years and was etched into her very bones. Everyone thought they would always be like siblings, including Jinmo herself, even after she realized she had fallen in love with him. Until one late night, with the resolve to burn her bridges, she quietly told him, “I’m getting married.” The next second, the man who was usually so carefree seized her wrist. Years of repressed possessiveness surged in his eyes. “Jinmo, I taught you calculus and physics. I’ve been by your side every step of your life. What makes you think I’d let someone else become your final answer?” “Marry someone else? You can forget about it, even if I’m dead.” - One day after their wedding, Jinmo was sorting through old things at the Yin family mansion when she stumbled upon a high school yearbook. It was filled with girls’ love confessions to him. She was about to tease him when she dug to the bottom of the box and found a whole stack of love letters she had never seen before. They were all addressed to: Jinmo. Yin Jihong, who had been leisurely drinking coffee nearby, looked up. He sauntered over, calmly took the letters from her hands, then leaned down and cornered her in front of the desk, giving her a long, lingering kiss that nearly left her breathless. When they parted, Jinmo demanded, still dizzy, “Why are all the letters addressed to me with you?” “I’m the only right answer you’ll ever have.” He casually untied the thin strap at the back of her neck and possessively kissed her nape. “Every wrong answer has to be nipped in the bud.” Love is moonlight that cannot be hidden. Sooner or later, it will overflow the banks of friendship and sweep us into the tide called fate. Dedicated to the love I kept hidden for half my life. [Reader Guide and Content Warnings]: 1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance, happy ending. They are each other’s first love and the only person they have ever loved. 2. The male lead is sharp-tongued and domineering, a puppy with overwhelming possessiveness. His possessiveness can make him volatile and impulsive. The female lead is gentle on the surface but strong inside. Later, she breaks away from her family, with a personal-growth arc. 3. Old-school Beijing elite romance, with plenty of melodrama. The story is set 14 years ago, so the timeline reflects that period. Characters from other books in the series will make appearances. #Final chapter of the Love Stories from 14 Years Ago series, rebooted. Back to our golden age. -------Preorder announcement------- My next book, Butterfly Falls Over Star River, is now open for following. Please add it to your reading list! [To my little butterfly: The butterfly falls as day turns to night; love arrives when the sun lights the golden mountains. By Adrien] * Beautiful, strong, tragic fallen princess x gloomy, mixed-race beauty and powerful man * Playing dumb to catch a tiger | Male substitute trope | Friends with benefits to lovers | A thousand schemes to win her back In the barren lands of Socotra, Yemen, Wen Ling found a breathtakingly handsome mixed-race man. He called himself Adrien. His blue-brown gradient eyes were mesmerizing, his hair fell a little past his ears, and he was unbelievably gentle. In bed, he worshiped her like a goddess; in everyday life, he bowed to her every whim. Beneath the dragon’s blood trees, she ordered him to kiss every inch of her body, but forbade him from saying a single word of love. Once, he accidentally said “I love you” in French. She pushed him away on the spot, her eyes frosted over. “I don’t need your love.” As their parting drew near, after much hesitation, she considered taking him back to China with her. But when she turned around, the man had vanished without a trace. - Wen Ling had always believed that Wei Shuyan was a gift from fate, her salvation. She never expected that she was the prey he had been watching from the very beginning. In their lovemaking, devoid of reason, she told him, “I’ve never loved you. The one I love is...” “Just the parts of me that are exactly like him, right?” Wei Shuyan gripped her chin and forced her to look at her disheveled reflection in the mirror. “Then who is your body crying for right now?” He wanted her to be the butterfly in his cage, trapped in his palm for all eternity, with nowhere to run. #How far will a brooding beauty go to win his wife back? #A madman’s many disguises in his quest to win her back [Reader Guide]: 1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced. It’s probably a sweet romance! 2. The male lead is a brooding beauty who has secretly loved the female lead for a long time. He pretends to be a gentle man willing to serve as a substitute, but is actually a sinister, powerful figure who will stop at nothing to win her back. 3. The female lead is beautiful, strong, and tragic, an INFP little butterfly. She sticks to her principles, says what she means and does what she sets out to do, and doesn’t mind if the world comes crashing down. This book is part of the brand-new Flower and Flame series: Flowers beneath the moon, fireworks in daylight. Years pass, yet the world remains bright with snow. Blurb first posted on Jinjiang on June 13, 2026 Theme: A girlhood dream of mutual secret love coming true