Silent Love

#My novel The Pear Blossoms Fall in March, featured in my column, is currently being updated. The blurb is below. Feel free to add it to your favorites! Weibo: DC Dreamcatcher

Blurb:

[Mutual pining, healing each other]

Unrequited love: maybe the word "unrequited" says it all.

Walking through a hidden, dark place is bound to be difficult. They long for the light with all their hearts, yet fear the break of day.

I:

The year Shen Liyue met Yan Chen'an was the darkest year of her life.

Like a puppet, she counted down the days, one after another. Her life seemed to have no end in sight.

Until, on a bus, a smiling boy picked up the student ID card she'd dropped.

"Hey, you dropped something."

Shen Liyue slowly looked up at the boy before her. The sunlight fell on him, but he was more dazzling than the sun.

One glance was all it took for her to fall for him.

Yan Chen'an was his name, and the leading man in Shen Liyue's long years of unrequited love.

II:

When she was eighteen, on the day before they were about to part, Shen Liyue finally decided to end her long unrequited love.

"Yan Chen'an, I have something to tell you."

It was the first time Shen Liyue had called him by name. She summoned all her courage to keep him there.

But before she could compose herself and reveal her secret, someone beat her to it, speaking in a trembling voice.

"I like you. I've liked you for a long time."

In truth, he'd already told her, through countless acts of concern and countless surreptitious glances.

Looking at the person before her, head bowed as he waited for her answer, Shen Liyue walked up and embraced him. Then she whispered her secret in his ear.

"Looks like I fell for you a little earlier."

III:

Waiting took up more than half of Shen Liyue's life.

At first, she waited for Yan Chen'an to fall in love with her. Later, she waited for him to come home safely and give her a family.

At last, Yan Chen'an returned in glory, and the knot he'd carried in his heart for years finally came undone.

He took Shen Liyue to see the ocean she loved.

"Will you marry me?" he asked.

Shen Liyue had waited many years to hear those words.

At last, she heard them.

If love had a voice, it would arrive a little sooner.

But love is silent, and it never forgets to come.

Notes:

1. It's a sweet, slow-burn story.

2. The romance develops slowly, so I hope you'll be patient and read a few more chapters. Thank you.

3. The leads are both adults when they get together.

4. Some details are fictionalized. Please don't scrutinize the parts involving cases.

5. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

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The Pear Blossoms Fall in March, blurb:

The day Nan Yan first met Qin Xu, March pear blossoms fell onto his head, and love fell upon her.

I:

Seven years ago, Qin Xu was cool and alluring, arrogant and unruly, and a flirt.

Nan Yan was his complete opposite.

She'd heard Qin Xu's sweet talk and seen how decisive he could be when ending a relationship.

Nan Yan thought she'd never have anything to do with Qin Xu.

But later, she got together with him.

No one thought their relationship would work. Everyone treated it like a brief joke.

And it really did begin with a joke Qin Xu made.

He didn't mean it.

Nan Yan knew that from the start.

But she still agreed to be with him.

II:

[Let's break up. Don't see me again.]

That was the second time Nan Yan had proposed a breakup, and their last contact seven years ago.

Seven years later, Nan Yan stood before Qin Xu, tears in her eyes as she asked softly, "Qin Xu, can we make up?"

He replied coldly, "No. With me, once is possible, twice is possible, but there won't be a third time."

But later, they got married.

The night before their wedding, he got drunk and said something in her ear, his voice breaking with tears.

"Every day I was with you, I thought about the day we'd get married. But you were thinking about the day we'd break up."

Nan Yan couldn't stop crying.

She made up, little by little, for everything she owed Qin Xu.

Nan Yan knew he wasn't sincere, yet willingly fell into Qin Xu's trap.

And Nan Yan was Qin Xu's one and only exception, unchanged through all the years.

Enjoy the story!

Theme: Love yourself well first, then do your best to love others