Make Me Infatuated

Blurb One: At nineteen, Zhou Wanying met Xie Lin for the first time. The moment their eyes met, her heart began to pound, and her face turned as red as an apple. But back then, Zhou Wanying was too timid to pursue someone she liked. Besides, Xie Lin was famous in their circle for being aloof and uninterested in women. So she kept her feelings to herself. Whenever she saw Xie Lin in public, she would just smile at him, not daring to entertain any other thoughts. Later, her agent discovered her feelings and ruthlessly shattered her fantasies in private. "Do you really think you can set your sights on an heir to a wealthy family like Xie Lin? If he gets married, it'll be to a young lady from a family of equal standing. Know your place and stop dreaming." That night, Zhou Wanying cried herself to sleep, forced to admit that her agent was right. From then on, whenever she saw Xie Lin, she stayed as far away as she could, thinking that if she didn't see him, perhaps she would gradually stop liking him. Until one day, she ran into Xie Lin at a dinner party. She didn't even dare look up at him, keeping her head down and eating quietly the entire time. Who would have thought that when she came out of the restroom, she would find Xie Lin waiting outside? Her heart suddenly raced, like a startled fawn. She instinctively tried to go around him and leave, but then she heard Xie Lin ask, "Avoiding me?" She froze, stopped in her tracks, and instinctively looked up at him. Xie Lin's eyes held an almost amused look. In his low, resonant voice, he asked, "Why don't you smile at me anymore?" Blurb Two: Xie Lin had been feeling rather restless lately. The woman who always greeted him with an adorable smile had suddenly stopped smiling at him. One day, out of boredom, he casually asked a friend, "If a woman used to smile every time she saw you, but then one day stopped smiling and started avoiding you, what would that mean?" His friend Yang Cheng thought for a moment. "I know. She must have fallen for someone else." Xie Lin: "..." Yang Cheng looked at him with a gossipy grin. "What happened? Which woman dumped you?" Xie Lin let out a cold laugh and looked up at him. "You can leave now." * Xie Lin never imagined that one day he would fall so deeply for a woman. One-on-one / sweet romance / happy ending / entertainment industry Reader note: The characters are entirely fictional. Please do not associate them with any real people. My new novel, currently updating next door, "Falling into His Hands," is now open for bookmarking. Welcome! Blurb One: One afternoon, Jiang Ci got lost and accidentally wandered into Shen Tingnan's courtyard. She heard him talking on the phone with a friend, his tone full of contempt. "What do I think? A gold digger brought along another little gold digger. Just looking at them makes me sick." "My dad's getting more senile by the year. He couldn't even be bothered to check her background before bringing her into the house." Jiang Ci had just turned eighteen that year, an age when feelings were especially tender. From then on, whenever Shen Tingnan was home, she stayed in her bedroom, afraid of annoying him. Blurb Two: At first, Shen Tingnan really was annoyed by Jiang Ci, his stepsister by marriage. But as they spent more time together, he realized the girl wasn't nearly as unlikeable as he had imagined. In fact, she was quite cute. But he couldn't understand why Jiang Ci was always avoiding him, or why she would try to leave after exchanging barely three words with him. A friend teased, "Do you usually bully the girl or something?" Shen Tingnan replied, "I'm not crazy. Why would a grown man pick a fight with a girl?" Blurb Three: In Jiang Ci's senior year of college, her mother and Uncle Shen's relationship came to an end, and the two parted on amicable terms. Jiang Ci had no reason to keep living at the Shen residence, so she moved out soon after. As she was looking for a job during her final year, she wanted to return to her hometown and care for her elderly grandmother, so she only applied to jobs in her hometown of Rongcheng. She didn't see Shen Tingnan again until three months later. That evening, she had worked late, and it was already eight when she left the law firm. She saw Shen Tingnan leaning against a car and smoking. For a moment, she almost thought her eyes were playing tricks on her. Only when Shen Tingnan looked over and their eyes met did her heartbeat unconsciously skip a beat. After standing there in a daze for a few seconds, she walked up to him. Shen Tingnan spoke first, a hint of a smile at the corner of his lips. "You moved out without even saying goodbye. Do you hate me that much?" * A sharp tongue is fun for a moment, then comes the long road to winning her back. Happy ending / seven-year age gap Note: The leads have no romantic feelings for each other while their parents are dating. Theme: There will always be someone in this world who loves you.