Surging Tide

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Blurb:

Have you ever seen a lonely beast?

The first time Mi Yu saw Jiang Beiqi, he was fighting outside school, and the scene was chaotic.

She stopped and stole a fleeting glance. The boy looked up, his phoenix eyes stormy as the tide. Blood ran down his pale face as he said coldly, "Look again and I'll gouge your eyes out."

Later, they ran into each other in an alley. The handsome boy, wearing sapphire-blue earrings, held a cigarette between his lips, his jacket slung over one shoulder. Beneath his unbuttoned white shirt, a blue bird spread its wings in a bold design. He leaned against the railing and glanced at her, a cut at the corner of his mouth, looking lazy, wicked, and wild.

Those phoenix eyes, rimmed in red, were so beautiful they made her heart skip a beat.

As he passed, he grabbed Mi Yu by the strap of her shoulder bag.

She looked up. The boy curled his lips in a wicked smile. "Good girl, want to try dating a bad student?"

Seventeen-year-old Jiang Beiqi had a tragic past and was a notorious rich playboy in Jingye Town. With no one to discipline him, he had grown up wild and untamed, arrogant and unruly. A gorgeous mad dog who reveled in the aesthetics of violence, he was someone everyone kept their distance from.

The transfer student Mi Yu had an angelic face and excelled in her studies. Everyone knew her as a model student.

The day she was bullied, her hair soaked through, she turned around after hearing a teasing whistle.

The boy held a cigarette between his fingers, smoke curling upward as he leaned against the wall with careless insolence. His voice was irreverent and playful. "Call me Big Brother. If I'm in a good mood, I'll save you."

The word "Big Brother" made his ears burn. He cursed under his breath, then took care of the bullies.

They grew closer and closer. Later, when asked about it, the unruly boy curled his lips. "Who would like a goody-goody like her?"

When he saw another boy confessing to Mi Yu, he grabbed her wrist, unable to hide his jealousy. "Didn't you say you weren't dating anyone? Were you lying to me?"

The girl asked politely, "Are we even close?"

Jiang Beiqi: ?

Jiang Beiqi learned one thing: Mi Yu was a wicked, beautiful liar, and nothing she said could be trusted.

Everyone said Jiang Beiqi had gone crazy, that the playboy had become a lovesick fool.

He studied desperately to win their bet: "Get the top score and I'll date you." He set aside his pride and saved face no longer mattered.

Even though Mi Yu was only playing around and kept lying to him.

"Who I like is none of your business, bad student." She leaned back against the wall, poking the boy in the chest with her fingertip. Her smile was wicked yet innocent. "You can't take a liar's words seriously."

Jiang Beiqi laughed and raised a brow. "Mi Yu, do you like playing with me?"

He suddenly pinned the girl against the wall. Everyone thought he was lashing out over her outrageous games, but instead, the boy leaned close and bowed his head like a beast submitting. His voice was low and strained:

"Then let me be yours to play with for the rest of my life. How about it?"

"Don't give up on me."

"Save me."

Mi Yu was wicked, capricious, and always hiding her true nature.

Jiang Beiqi was wild, obsessive, tragic, and invincible.

They were made for each other.

In the torrential rain of the small town, he found his one and only salvation.

"Destroy me, and save me."

[Devoted, roguish, wild boy x wicked, innocent girl]

An unconventional story of mutual salvation / from campus to the city / both leads are inexperienced / slow burn

Upcoming novel Cool Summer, blurb:

The first time Lin Qi saw Jiang Fengye, it was in a cramped, narrow alley, where a gang of delinquent boys were fighting.

A tall boy with silver hair and a white shirt stood at the center of the crowd. He was stunningly handsome, with deep-set eyes and black earrings.

Amid the swirling smoke, he leaned casually against the wall and looked down at her, his gaze playful and arrogant.

After dealing with the thugs on the ground, the boy turned to her without a care. His gaze came down like the point of a sharp blade. "Had enough of a look, little stepsister?"

He pronounced the word "stepsister" with deliberate clarity, clearly trying to make things difficult for her.

That was their first meeting.

Lin Qi approached a wealthy woman so she could go to school, and the woman took her in and supported her.

She carefully pretended to be kindhearted, but she couldn't fool the woman's only son, so she had to be on her toes around him.

Later, at the Jiang family villa, she accidentally provoked him.

The boy pinned her against the stairs, like a beast gripping its prey by the throat. His gaze was arrogant and cold as he leaned close to her ear and warned her icily, "If you don't want to die, stay away from me."

"Don't expect me to treat you like family. Once the college entrance exams are over, get lost."

Later, when she was surrounded and bullied by thugs, Jiang Fengye found out and beat them half to death. Blood seeped from his wounds. He knitted his brows in pain and roughly pulled her against his chest. "Don't go running off. I won't save you a second time."

But later, his ears red, he pretended to ask casually, "Want to be together? I'll protect you from now on."

"No one will dare bully you again."

Lin Qi knew she was ambitious, while Jiang Fengye was proud and unruly, and hated being deceived more than anything.

They had never been a good match.

On the night they chose their college majors, she said to him without a trace of emotion, "Jiang Fengye, let's break up."

"I lied. I've never liked you."

Everyone at No. 7 High School knew that the pure transfer student Lin Qi had won over the most unruly rich playboy, Jiang Fengye, only to dump him at graduation.

Everyone thought Jiang Fengye hated Lin Qi, and that if they ever met again, they would clash at every turn. There was no chance of them getting back together.

At university, Jiang Fengye was still a star, wild and arrogant, unruly and carefree, surrounded by women and drowning in rumors.

They ran into each other beneath the neon lights.

Lin Qi watched Jiang Fengye leaning casually against a top-of-the-line racing car.

The twenty-two-year-old wore a red racing suit, women fluttering around him like butterflies. He casually bit down on a cigarette, his features cocky and lazy, roguish and carefree.

When he saw Lin Qi, Jiang Fengye showed no reaction. His gaze passed over her indifferently before he turned his face aside, waiting for the woman beside him to light his cigarette.

No one knew that in a dim corner, Lin Qi was pinned by the wrist and roughly pressed against the wall, just as she had been at seventeen.

It was the distance between a beast and its prey.

Jiang Fengye tossed away his cigarette and slowly bent toward her, biting out her name one word at a time.

"Lin Qi."

He suddenly gripped the girl's chin and forced her to look at him. His voice was hoarse, his anger turning into laughter. "Do you think you can play me one more time?"

"This time, how about making the game last longer? Let's get married."

"The moment I saw you, I knew damn well my comeuppance had arrived."

Theme: Love makes salvation eternal.