Planting the Moon

[My other novel, Desensitization Plan, is currently updating. The blurb is at the bottom. Feel free to check out my author page, and please add it to your collection~]

*A healing, sweet little story about unrequited love, 1v1, happy ending

*ICU nurse x game concept artist

"You were the secret starlight I stumbled upon in my youth. Nurtured by adversity, breaking through the soil of time, you became my one and only moon."

In high school, Fu Junyang was handsome and dashing, the universally acknowledged school heartthrob. Usually cool and taciturn, wherever he went, girls would scream.

Xiao Zhu was an absurdly ordinary student receiving financial aid. She got into school with government assistance and worked part-time by locking up the school after class.

But the school heartthrob just wouldn't go home after school, becoming the biggest obstacle to Xiao Zhu getting off work after locking up.

So Xiao Zhu would just wait. Let's see who can outlast whom.

Years later, after Xiao Zhu is cheated on by her boyfriend, she has a huge crying fit, then a big shot drops into her game and carries her to victory.

After playing together for a while, everyone in the game says the big shot is ridiculously handsome. Only after meeting him does she realize he's her old school heartthrob.

After playing together a while longer, she meets him again and learns something astonishing: the entire game was designed by that old school heartthrob.

One coincidence after another gradually reveals how carefully he's been setting things up.

Fu Junyang: "Let's play a little longer, meet a few more times. I'll make you fall for me. Let's see who can outlast whom."

When you're struggling, you always say I came to hold a lamp for you.

But you don't know that, to me, you were the moon all along.

In a nutshell: [Big shot: Watch me pull off a thousand-layer scheme to win my crush's heart.]

*An ambitious, hardworking little moon x a chaste, fastidious, cool gentleman

*Mostly set in the real world, with very little of the game world. No real-life inspiration.

Desensitization Plan, currently updating

*Older woman-younger man romance/three-year age gap/a "ungrateful" wicked big sister x a "fake gentleman" bad little brother

The first time they met, Lin Qing was 13, a spoiled little tyrant who made trouble wherever she went;

Lu Ming was 10, a fair-skinned, tender young master.

The young master was being bullied by male classmates in an alley. The local "king of the hill" saw injustice and shouted them down, and that was how the two first became friends.

Afterward, though, Lin Qing only found him troublesome:

"Don't follow me. I wasn't trying to help you. I just can't stand them. Men are all no good!"

Lu Ming hadn't cried at all, but her verdict made him flush with anxiety:

"Men... What about me?"

Seeing the little darling's voice turn tearful, Lin Qing got even more annoyed:

"Oh, I didn't mean you. What kind of man are you? I said don't follow me!"

"I count!" The young master was so handsome that even his angry face was adorable. "And I'm the best kind of man in the whole world!"

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Years later, Lu Ming has completely outgrown his childhood softness. He's charming and refined, with extraordinary looks and bearing, a talented heir to a medical family with a considerable reputation in the field.

Lin Qing, on the other hand, has been diagnosed with cancer.

If cancer suddenly became part of your life, what would you regret?

Lin Qing thinks it over:

Probably that she's never been in love and has never been with a man.

So she takes her diagnosis and barges into Lu Ming's examination room.

"Dr. Lu, I only have this one wish. I want you to help me fulfill it."

Lu Ming remains unmoved, though the knuckles gripping her test results turn faintly white:

"Sorry, I'm not in the mood."

With her hopes dashed, Lin Qing barely has time to feel disappointed before Director Lu has her whisked straight onto the operating table.

After the operation, everyone breathes a sigh of relief,

and Lin Qing can't help admiring Lu Ming's cool decisiveness as a doctor.

But no one knows that on the night before her surgery,

Lu Ming paced the corridor outside her hospital room until dawn.

-

Lin Qing is discharged safely and returns to the hospital for a follow-up a few months later, as promised.

But Lu Ming intercepts her and produces a bouquet of roses.

Lin Qing puts on her sunglasses. "Sorry, I'm allergic to romance."

...Then how about another approach?

Lu Ming catches up again and hands her an access card.

Lin Qing loves no one. "Sorry, I'm allergic to men, too."

AKA Director Lu at the Allergy Clinic: Not a big problem. Let's get your desensitization treatment underway.

An allergist, treating all kinds of allergies.

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Everyone sees Director Lu as a modest gentleman in public, but they don't know how seductive those peach-blossom eyes become when he's in love.

Lu Ming's hot breath brushes Lin Qing's earlobe. His rich, low voice is full of mischievous satisfaction: "Happy with the results of your desensitization, sis?"

"..."

Lin Qing is momentarily dazed. She meets those smiling peach-blossom eyes, her breath turning uneven as she struggles to answer.

But the complaints in her heart keep coming:

#Danger, danger, danger#

#Men are all no good#

*The heroine stays alive throughout the story, at least until she's 88

*SC, 1v1, happy ending, perhaps a slow burn with a little ensemble cast

*The goal is to write a warm, cozy story / Weibo: @Zhai Yiyi Is Here

(Note: In the Chinese name for the allergy and immunology department, the word for "abnormal" refers to the immune system being out of its normal state. This department specializes in treating allergic diseases. Source: Baidu Baike.)

Premise: Self-reliance, hard work, and striving forward