I Want the Moon to Kiss You Softly

At sixteen, Jiang Xi had no choice but to go live with her uncle, Ye Xigui.

On a windswept mountaintop, he straddled his flashy motorcycle, one foot on the ground. When he took off his helmet and accepted the champion's medal, the whole crowd screamed for him.

A friend quietly asked him later, "I heard your niece came to stay with you. Are you really going to raise her? She's not even related to you."

Ye Xigui replied nonchalantly, "I'll just raise her, I guess."

His friend glanced at Jiang Xi in the crowd, dressed like a little princess, but said nothing.

*

The person Jiang Xi loved most in the world was Ye Xigui.

The day she learned Ye Xigui wasn't really her uncle, she held back her tears and said goodbye to him.

If he'd known this day would come, the little girl would never have accepted anything from him. Ye Xigui scowled and pressed a black card into her hand. "Take it. Even if we're not related by blood, I'm still your uncle."

Jiang Xi lowered her head and fell silent.

*

Later, Ye Xigui realized she hadn't spent a cent from the card. Worried that she wasn't doing well, he frantically searched for her everywhere.

At last, he spotted Jiang Xi working at a cafe, crouched on the floor with a young man, cleaning up broken coffee cups.

An unspeakable feeling quickly blossomed in his heart. Ye Xigui strode inside.

Jiang Xi never expected to run into Ye Xigui. Forgetting how disheveled she looked, she tilted her head up and smiled sweetly. "Uncle."

Ye Xigui crouched beside her with a cold expression, took her reddened, scalded hand with tenderness, and kissed it. "Who's your uncle? Don't call me that."

*

When they first met, Ye Xigui never imagined he'd spoil Jiang Xi like a princess in a fairy tale.

Even less did he imagine that one day, he would make Jiang Xi the one and only queen of his life.

[Age gap, no blood relation and no family relationship of any kind]

[I'm terrible at blurbs. Just bear with me.]

[Weibo: Author Touwo Yimu]

[Story concept documented on Weibo on 2022.9.3]

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A Romance in the Eye of the Storm

Ten years ago, Zhou Yuanxia chose the gentle, sunny He Shang over the deranged, obsessive Chen Guanye.

Ten years later, Zhou Yuanxia runs into Chen Guanye again.

On the day Zhou Yuanxia gets engaged to He Shang,

Chen Guanye blocks her in a narrow passageway aboard a cruise ship. Just as he used to, he winds a strand of her hair around his fingertip and corners her by the window. He presses her for an answer, one word at a time: "Ten years ago, if I hadn't done that thing that hurt you... between me and him, who would you have chosen?"

Zhou Yuanxia: "Still..."

Before she can finish, Chen Guanye's gaze shifts to He Shang, waiting for her on the other side of the glass.

The two men lock eyes. Chen Guanye lowers his head in a deliberately provocative move and kisses Zhou Yuanxia.

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Autumn's Echo by Chang'an Zhiyu (ID: 7199316)

Zhao Chi has lost his memory.

No one in the company except Qiu Wan knows that the aloof, high-and-mighty President Shao, who seems to have "stay away" written all over his face, is the ex-boyfriend she doesn't want to forget but can no longer reconcile with.

At a company dinner one day, Qiu Wan drops a wallet she'd carried for years. Zhao Chi is the one who picks it up.

In a dim hallway, Zhao Chi leans against the wall, holding the open wallet between his fingers. Inside its pocket is an intimate photo of the two of them. "Explain this."

Qiu Wan feigns composure. "It was edited."

Zhao Chi raises an eyebrow and leisurely pulls the photo from its pocket, showing Qiu Wan the writing on the back. "Was this edited too?"

Qiu Wan sees the signatures she and Zhao Chi wrote back then, along with a line she'd written later, during a difficult time. Even looking at it now makes her cringe.

"Being with you wasn't a mistake just because I loved you."

Unable to deny their connection, Qiu Wan improvises a story about a heartless woman pursuing a cool, pure-hearted guy, then dumping him.

Anyone would scold her after hearing that.

"Miss Qiu is quite the liar," Zhao Chi says after listening. "Guess I'll have to take the loss."

He takes her wrist through her sleeve, placing the wallet and photo in her palm.

Without any direct contact, he ignites a longing that has lain buried and unspoken for years. Qiu Wan's ears turn red, and she wants to let the spark run wild.

Theme: You have to create life's miracles yourself