Honey at My Heart

Coming soon: Two Kids Catching Demons and My Childhood Friend Is a Future Big Shot. Please add them to your reading lists! ----This is a true childhood-friends-to-lovers story, growing up together---- The day Tang Sisi first met Fu Changli, she was rolling around in the mud with a big white goose, covered from head to toe in muck. A group of young men dressed in fine clothes and riding fine horses stood by the pond, all looking at her with scorn except Fu Changli. The wild girl, raised in a remote backwater, wiped her face and lifted the goose in her hands. She blinked her almond-shaped eyes. "Want some? It's delicious." He turned away in disgust and called her a glutton. The young men behind him burst out laughing. She jumped in fright and nearly fell, but he caught her. Then he frowned and said she had dirtied his sleeve. "Who are you?" she asked. Fu Changli pressed his lips together and said nothing. The young men teased that he was her fiance. Tang Sisi's eyes lit up. "So it's you." Fu Changli turned away and said it wasn't, but his ears turned bright red. After that, Tang Sisi followed him to the prosperous capital. She fell in love with him and became his little shadow. Fu Changli, whose ears were red as blood even as he spoke stubbornly: "Can you stop following me?" Tang Sisi timidly said, "Oh," and actually stopped following him. When he saw her getting close to another young man, Fu Changli ground his teeth and cornered her. "Didn't you like me? You changed your mind that quickly?" Tang Sisi answered honestly, "Well, you don't like me anyway." Fu Changli snorted and stuffed a big handful of her favorite pine nut candy into her hands. His face red, he muttered, "Who said I like you?" What he didn't say was that he had personally picked out the sweetest candy. Just like her, sweet enough to melt his heart. Bonus scene: Fu Changli had always treated Tang Sisi like a little sister. He taught her manners, grew up with her, and cherished her in the palm of his hand. Years later, when the little girl had grown into a young woman, she blushed and told him that a man had fallen in love with her at first sight. Fu Changli sneered. "There's no such thing as love at first sight. It's just lust at first sight." Tang Sisi argued with him, and they parted on bad terms. After that, no one else ever confessed their feelings to Tang Sisi. Even the families who came to ask for her hand in marriage stopped pursuing the matter for some reason. Tang Sisi felt a little dejected. "Brother Changli, am I really that terrible?" The man's gaze fell on her, restrained and heavy with suppressed emotion. "They're not good enough for you." The girl who had grown up by his side was suited for no one in the world but him. A tsundere young lord and an innocent wild girl [They grow up together and only fall in love as adults] Blurb captured on 2022.9.22 ----Blurb for Two Kids Catching Demons---- A great earthquake plunged the world into chaos. At the time, Li Zhen was trapped in the Misty Forest and had no idea disaster had struck. Before she was lured inside, no one told Li Zhen there was an enemy in the forest, Su Xing, who wanted nothing more than to eat her. Su Xing's parents had disappeared along with the previous head of the Li family. No one knew whether they were alive or dead, and young Su Xing blamed every member of the Li family. The teenager bared his teeth like a mad dog ready to bite at any moment. "You little brat from the Li family! Give me back my parents!" Su Xing, who hated every member of the Li family, should have left Li Zhen behind in the forest. But in the end, the child tugged on his clothes, and they walked out together. When the Five Ghosts appeared, demons and monsters danced. The flowers blooming by the roadside were not the only things that flourished. There were also monsters that devoured human flesh and blood. Su Xing saved Li Zhen many times, and Li Zhen also pulled him out of danger time and again. The two half-grown children supported each other and struggled to survive together in a chaotic world. Bonus scene: Li Zhen had been pampered since birth, while Su Xing, who had scraped by on his own, hated spoiled young masters like him. He demanded gold-trimmed bowls and dishes for meals, mountain spring water without a speck of dirt to drink, and, most outrageous of all, a silk quilt to sleep under! Teenage Su Xing shouted, "Where am I supposed to get you a silk quilt? Sleep without one if you want!" A few years later... "Wait, the head of the Li family is a girl? What, you want a silk quilt? I'll get one right away. What else do you need?" In the midst of chaos, Su Xing doted on Li Zhen like a little sister, planning to find her a good husband once peace returned. But no matter how many men he found, Su Xing was never satisfied. This one was ugly, that one had a terrible temper... Him? He was even worse. A gust of wind would blow him away. Li Zhen asked, "Then who do you think is good enough?" Su Xing muttered something. Two words could just barely be heard on the wind. Me. ----Blurb for My Childhood Friend Is a Future Big Shot---- A fortune-teller said that I was destined to have a benefactor, someone who would rise to great heights and have a limitless future. My mother was so happy that she gave him a full tael of silver as a tip, then asked who this benefactor was and when he would appear. The fortune-teller smiled mysteriously. "Heaven's secrets cannot be revealed. You only need to know that he is someone close to you." Later, my mother came up with a plan. She plied the fortune-teller with two jars of wine and found out the most important detail: this benefactor was a boy who had grown up with me as my childhood friend. My mother was so delighted she could hardly stop smiling, and I grinned along with her. As I smiled, a question occurred to me. Which childhood friend was my benefactor? The twin boys next door were complete opposites, one lively and one quiet. One would often make me cry, while the other would gently comfort me. But they often got into fierce fights when I wasn't around. Not good, not good. The young man across the street was handsome and skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. His one flaw was that he couldn't walk, and sometimes he looked at me strangely. There was also someone staying at my house for a while. I asked him, "Are you my childhood friend?" He scoffed. "In your dreams." Oh, then it probably wasn't him either. So who was it? Theme: Growing stronger as we forge ahead through the thorns