After Being Kept in His Heart

1. Once, a girl was so madly in love that she wrote this for him:

Do you believe me?

You probably think I'm crazy when I say this.

But I really do know you, not your body, but your soul.

If this world really is a prison,

where everyone's soul is trapped inside a body,

then please believe me:

In the place we came from, you belong to me, and I belong to you.

I came here to find you.

Years later, that same girl smiled and gently told him, "Let's get divorced. I'm an orange, and you're an apple. I hope we never cross paths again for the rest of our lives."

2. After her divorce, Miss Zhong smiled calmly at her father. "I want to find somewhere quiet and stay for a few years."

She stayed for three years, as if she'd vanished from the face of the earth.

Three years later, she returned to Yangcheng, completely changed in temperament, with no shortage of admirers.

Three years was neither a long nor a short time. Lai Siyan had become steadier and more mature, while Zhong Yi had grown more alluring than she had been in her bright, innocent youth.

One day, Lai Siyan finally lost patience. He pulled her into a secluded spot and breathed softly against her ear. "You shouldn't have come back. I'll let you go just this once."

She had no choice but to look up. "We're divorced. I honestly don't understand what you're saying, Mr. Lai."

His eyes reddened. "You don't understand? How can you not understand? Zhong Yi, waiting for the orange is no fun for the apple at all..."

She smiled faintly.

So you know how awful it feels to wait, too.

Waiting for the rain is an umbrella's lifelong fate.

I just don't want to be that umbrella anymore.

Reading guide:

1. Both leads are virgins and each other's first love.

2. Flashbacks show the heroine's once-humble love for the bastard, but now she's cold, heartless, and carefree.

3. A rekindled-love story about two people who can't forget each other. There is angst, but nothing crosses the line.

4. (The blurb only shows one side of the story, so the actual story may differ.)

Coming next:

In this high-stakes game between a playboy and a player,

Zhao Shuiyue, a top-tier heartbreaker who always boasts that she'll take the men's road and leave them with nowhere to go, loses.

Her best friend pats her on the shoulder and comforts her. "It's okay. This was a high-stakes game, after all."

Reading guide:

1. Realistic setting, both leads are virgins.

2. Older woman-younger man romance. The male lead is both a cuddly wolf and a sweet puppy, with a hidden dark side.

3. The male lead falls in love at first sight. They have a three-year age gap.

Coming soon:

"A Trap Veiled by a Smile"

#An older, untouchable beauty is dragged off her pedestal by a younger, seductive temptress#

1. Early on.

Miss Huo, a dazzling beauty, gazes with clear eyes and speaks with complete candor:

[You're leaving for America tomorrow and won't be back for six months. It's not too late tonight. Should I come to you, or will you come to me?]

Zhuo Jin didn't reply. He just sent her a dog.

2. In public, Zhuo Jin is cunning, ruthless, and cold-blooded, a man no one dares offend.

Everyone thinks Miss Huo is deeply devoted.

Miss Huo thinks so, too.

Until she runs out of patience and insists they go their separate ways.

Then she sums it up in three words:

"Overbearing. Bossy. Unreasonable!"

Zhuo Jin's gaze sharpens, and he slowly narrows his eyes.

"Just say you've gotten bored."

She lifts her noble chin and refuses to admit it to the death.

And really, doesn't she know what she's like?

3. Second Young Master Zhuo has never suffered such humiliation. In the dead of night, he downs a glass of red wine.

A friend advises him to swallow his pride.

Swallow his pride? His crown would fall. How could an untouchable beauty ever lower his head?

After holding out for three months, he hears that Huo Xiaoxiao has been injured in an accident.

But Ningbei sends word:

"Mr. Zhuo says he'll change. Would you... be generous enough to see him?"

"I Am Both Buddha and Demon"

A secluded private villa.

An empty room.

A rational, aloof, top-tier therapist, and a renowned actress who is sentimental and passionate.

At first.

She tossed her long hair and said disdainfully, "First, let me make this clear: I don't want therapy. I don't think I'm sick."

He lowered his head to take notes. "Yes, I don't think you're sick either."

She stared in astonishment, her defenses immediately coming down.

Later.

She narrowed her eyes. "So your specialty is adolescent mental health... Then tell me, do I look innocent, like a young girl?"

He replied nonchalantly, "Yes, child."

Later still.

"Now do you think I'm sick, too?"

"Interesting, not sick."

At last, she broke into a radiant smile.

Later on.

She set aside her pride and said tenderly, "What should I do? I think I've fallen in love with you..."

Without looking up, he said, "Mm. I'm honored."

She stared at him in disbelief. "I said I'm in love with you, and that's your reaction?"

Only then did he look up. "Then let's explore why you fell in love with me."

Later still.

Wen Li demanded through tears, "Do you think every feeling is fake? That even love can be analyzed with logic? Do you want me to cut my heart open for you? Do you think there's something wrong with me?"

He frowned and looked at her with compassion for all humanity. "No, you're perfectly normal."

At the very end.

"What's this?"

She glanced over and smiled. "A truth serum. I'm not seeing only you as my therapist, especially when some therapists use unconventional methods."

Just before he passed out, he furrowed his brows deeply. "Are you stupid?"

A few days later, Ye Ming resigned of his own accord, and Wen Li was referred to someone else.

*

Her new therapist told her this story:

"Josef Breuer, the first scandalous psychologist of the psychoanalytic school, failed to maintain boundaries when Anna O. developed a transference toward him. He even gave in to his own feelings, ultimately leaving the field of psychology forever and bringing about Anna O.'s tragedy."

Only then did Wen Li realize that if he had fallen for her,

he could no longer continue treating her.

Because in psychology, such feelings are merely projections of past emotional experiences.

As he'd said, a therapist can have only one kind of relationship with a client: the therapeutic relationship.

Reading guide:

Therapist's Rule One: A therapist must not fall in love with a client. In psychology, this is called countertransference love, while the client's feelings toward a therapist are transference love, not romantic love.

Therapist's Rule Two: If countertransference love develops and cannot be controlled, the client must be referred to another therapist. Taking advantage of a client will ruin a therapist's reputation.

Therapist's Rule Three: If either of the above rules is broken, professional regulations require the therapeutic relationship to end, and the two may only be together after three years, with no private contact during that time.

Theme: Never stop striving.