I'm Determined to Be This Dad

Next novel in the works: Too Familiar Blurb: 1. Everyone says Chen Zi is a she-devil who wears flip-flops, and everyone at the magazine keeps their heads down and avoids her. Only the young male model Lu Yun keeps shamelessly hovering around her, despite knowing she has a highly educated doctoral-student fiancé. She finds him familiar, and finally can’t help asking, “Have we met before?” Lu Yun: “Think harder. We did more than just meet.” 2. Chen Zi and her fiancé part on amicable terms, and he moves far away. After discovering she’s pregnant, Chen Zi decides to have the baby. To avoid trouble, she offers Lu Yun a generous reward to lend the child his name as its father. Lu Yun refuses. “Why ask me? Plenty of men would trade resources with you.” Chen Zi’s eyes ripple with amusement as she hooks an arm around his neck. “Because you like me.” 3. Now a dad, Lu Yun’s days of wine, women, and song are over. His life is all diapers, bottles, and taking care of the baby. He’s always known Chen Zi has no heart. But when she asks to break up after the baby’s hundred-day celebration, he still loses it. “I knew it! You only wanted a free nanny! Waaaah!” * Older woman/younger man romance; she is nine and a half years older * The child is the heroine’s, but not the hero’s * Misunderstandings and melodrama everywhere, with hapless people all around --Upcoming novel Too Familiar-- After graduating from a prestigious university, Chu Zhi traveled around Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, seeing the lights in major companies’ floor-to-ceiling windows still shining at four or five in the morning. Now, with her parents in worrying health, she has returned to her hometown in a second-tier city. On her very first day back, her relatives are already matchmaking her. “Zhizhi is wonderful in every way. The only problem is that she’s almost thirty and still unmarried.” Chu Zhi is a dutiful daughter, so she agrees to meet the match. But as a graduate of a top university, surely she doesn’t have to be introduced to some little internet café owner, even if she is getting older? When she finally meets the man, she realizes he looks terribly familiar. The matchmaker chatters away, but all Chu Zhi can hear is the summer wind blowing past her ears when she was eighteen. Back then, Cheng Dao tricked her into skipping evening study sessions to go with him to the little alley behind the internet café more times than she could count! From the way Chu Zhi touches her earring, Cheng Dao can tell she’s pretty satisfied with her blind date, at least with the fact that he’s still as handsome as ever. After the date, downstairs at his place, he politely asks, “Want to come upstairs?” Chu Zhi lowers her head shyly. “Which kind of ‘do’ do you mean?” Cheng Dao laughs, grabs her by the neck like a kitten, and leads her upstairs. “Either works.” A mature man and woman, old acquaintances with a history. Some old feelings have ripened into something unforgettable. Theme: Have healthy children and raise them scientifically.