Meeting You in Summer

I'm looking for advance favorites for my new novels, Just Love You and A Fake Marriage Becomes Real!

Novel blurb:

On the high-speed train back to Nancheng, Xia Yun meets Han Tuo, a stylishly dressed man who seems completely out of place among the other passengers.

When a child sitting beside him makes a racket and annoys the other passengers, he offers to switch seats with the person beside him.

Xia Yun: It makes little difference who sits next to me.

Han Tuo: This is the first step toward getting to know each other.

"Are you from Lincheng?" Han Tuo asks with a smile, his peach-blossom eyes fixed on her.

"No," Xia Yun replies, shaking her head.

The two young strangers gradually find common ground over an anime.

A little while later,

Han Tuo casually asks her a question: "Do you believe in love at first sight?"

Xia Yun's initially calm expression turns cold in an instant.

"Are you joking?"

Han Tuo's carefree smile fades. "I'm not joking."

Xia Yun looks at him. "I don't believe in it. People online usually call that being attracted to someone's looks."

She thinks her encounter with Han Tuo will be limited to the train, but little does she know this is only the beginning.

As fate would have it, they spend two days together, morning and night. When it's time to part, Han Tuo clasps her hand and presses it to his chest, fixing his peach-blossom eyes on her as he asks, "Do you feel even a little something for me?"

*Love at first sight vs. love that grows over time

*One-on-one romance.

*Cool, aloof heroine vs. suave, roguish hero.

An unemployed graphic designer vs. a CEO on the road.

*The hero's feelings begin with curiosity and end in love.

*Travel in the first part, city life in the second.

Come on over and check out my friend Yingtao Gao's novel, The Dog-Hole Strategist! It's set in the fresh and fascinating Spring and Autumn and Warring States era, with crisp writing and a female lead skilled in political intrigue. It's great!

Blurb:

Many teachers like to point at something and tell their students, "Back in my day..."

Yu Ying was no exception.

Looking at the dog hole in the backyard of the Qi state's guesthouse for visiting lords in Linzi, she really wanted to tell Prince Qi of Yan how she'd once crawled out through that hole to persuade the state of Zhao, lift the siege of Hejian, save the Qi ruler of the day, and, while she was at it, give the future Qi ruler and his chancellor a headache.

Teachers' "Back in my day" stories are often followed by an assignment for their students.

Like crawling through a dog hole.

Yu Ying thinks that knowing how to crawl through a hole will probably come in handy again someday, so she needs Qi to get some practice.

And sure enough, it comes in handy later.

Many years later, Prince Qi of Yan tells someone about those days: "Yan only earned its place among the great powers because my Grand Tutor led me through a dog hole..."

[A Warring States tale of a female strategist's journey to strengthen her nation]

Theme: Love courageously