The Woman Writer

In 2000, Lu Ling had already published several novels, and her work had been adapted into a household-name TV series. Her husband was successful in his career, and her daughter was bright and adorable.

Just as she resolved to break through her writing slump and take her career to the next level, her husband suddenly went bankrupt, fled his debts, and escaped to America.

Lu Ling refused to leave her homeland. Despite her financial troubles, she resolutely divorced him.

When she was at her poorest as a teenager, her senior fellow student Pu Hong had helped her discover her talent. As soon as he heard she'd divorced, he came straight to her with a wedding ring and a proposal.

After listening to him, Lu Ling smiled and said, "But Kai Ji and I got our marriage certificate last month."

His younger half-brother, Yu Kai Ji, wheeled himself out. "Brother, you were the one who kept bringing her home to write back then. That's how I met her."

Nearly twenty years ago, the three of them had lived under the same roof as teenagers. Lu Ling knew only that Yu Kai Ji was a genius in chemistry, but she didn't know that he'd been her most devoted reader and pen pal all along.

When she was young, she chose to marry for money and passion. Now, she wanted to try a purely Platonic marriage.

On her wedding day, since both her parents were dead, Pu Hong escorted her to the ceremony on the pretext of being her senior fellow student, holding her arm as he walked beside her. Yu Mo, Yu Kai Ji's adopted son, had just won an equestrian competition in Europe and came to the wedding too.

The young man, barely eighteen or nineteen, blushed as he watched her at the wedding, just as his father had when he first met her.

A few months later, tormented and lost in the throes of writer's block, Lu Ling held the young man who had boldly pursued her close in the middle of the night.

After that, everything spiraled out of control:

Pu Hong used evidence of their affair to blackmail her into divorcing Yu Kai Ji.

Yu Mo rushed into the stands and kissed her in front of the cameras after winning a major competition.

She discovered letters Pu Hong had written to her twenty years earlier, which Yu Kai Ji had hidden away.

And her ex-husband quickly made his fortune in America. After achieving success and fame, he came back to ask her to remarry him.

Meanwhile, the film adaptation of Lu Ling's novel, Love, Lies, and Draft Paper, won six awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including Best Screenplay.

All eyes turned to the woman writer behind the film.

[Content Warnings]

1. The heroine is not a virgin, while the male leads are. Every man fell for the heroine at first sight when he was young, and she's the only woman they've ever loved. They all have their own flaws, and the story includes melodramatic misunderstandings, deception, and coercive romance.

2. The heroine is already 36 when the story begins. Please don't read if that's not your thing. She's not conventionally beautiful, but she's talented. She was poor when young and shines brilliantly in middle age. Her thinking is shaped both by the limitations of her era and by her own progressive ideas. She's naturally amorous and easily tempted.

3. Fifty percent of the story is the heroine's personal growth, and fifty percent is romance. There are many flashbacks to the 1980s through the 2000s, and the ending or extras also cover the heroine's life after 2020.

4. This is just an idea and may never be written.

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