Winter Flames

"She is the rose that never withers on my barren land."

☆ Rekindled Romance / Mutual Healing

1.

When they were young.

After a drunken night led to an impulsive bet, Shen Youning deliberately got close to Song Tinghuai.

Two people who should have remained on parallel paths found their lives intersecting.

Later, Shen Youning ended everything with a cruel phone call.

2.

Years later.

After a family disaster left Shen Youning blind,

she shut herself away in a dark room and let her days pass carelessly.

Then an unwelcome guest arrived at her home. Apparently, he was her intended arranged-marriage partner.

He quietly made his way into her territory and her life.

He made her desserts every few days, patiently cared for her when she was sick, and even told her bedtime fairy tales each night.

Under his gentle, day-after-day attentions, Shen Youning confirmed his identity: he was her ex-boyfriend.

They lived together under one roof, both knowing the truth. She didn't expose him, and he didn't confess.

Until one day, in the depths of winter, the night stirred with hidden currents.

He set off a magnificent fireworks display for her.

Their dazzling light illuminated everything and restored Shen Youning's sight, allowing her to see the man beside her.

His features were still cool and striking, but now he had a composure and dignity he'd lacked as a boy. The tenderness in his eyes remained, along with his deep affection.

"Youyou, I've always been here."

3.

Song Tinghuai was famous in high society for being aloof and distant, with no interest in women. Rumor had it that he had lived abroad for years, but he wielded power ruthlessly and swiftly eliminated his rivals upon returning home.

He was frost and snow on a lofty peak, impossible to melt.

Until someone saw him holding Shen Youning, the blind daughter of the Shen family, in his arms after her family was struck by disaster. His arms were taut, as if he wanted to merge her into his very bones and blood.

The calm in his eyes had long since vanished, replaced by a raging, overwhelming tide.

Just as when they were young, everyone thought Shen Youning had been the one to make the first move. No one knew that Song Tinghuai had fallen first, and was the one who spent his days fearing he might lose her.

Her deliberate approach had been met by his deliberate cooperation.

He remembered the cramped, filthy alley, where a proud and dazzling girl stepped through puddles shimmering with fractured light and approached him, covered in wounds.

"Are you all right?"

Countless stars shone in the girl's eyes.

That moment was forever branded in Song Tinghuai's heart.

He would forever lose himself in the winter fireworks, and in her beneath them.

She is the rose that never withers on my barren land.

*

"I wandered alone in the dark, a numb, walking corpse, slowly withering in the bitter winter. But he tore through the endless darkness with fierce determination, remade me, embraced me, and gave me a new life."

Proud and radiant × Cool and tender

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine suffers from severe depression later on. Her blindness is temporary and caused by psychological factors. The heroine does not go bankrupt.

2. Both are virgins, and each is the other's first love. School life first, then the city; a slice-of-life story.

The blurb has been screenshotted.

Coming soon: Forced to Be a B-King in the Cultivation World

[Genius Power-Up Story / Female-Led Cultivation Fantasy]

Xie Lingzhao transmigrates into a cultivation world and gets bound to a B-King System. The System tells her she has to become the number one B-king in the cultivation world: the most arrogant, the coolest, and the center of everyone's attention!

Xie Lingzhao: What happens if I don't?

System: You'll die~

It's just showing off. It's not like she can't do that.

Then the original owner's memories flood in. Oh, so she's the last descendant of the Huan Tian Clan, and the clan's enemies are watching her like hawks. If her identity is exposed, countless foes will hunt her down.

Xie Lingzhao is afraid of dying, so she decides to... make lots of clones.

Clone 1: Become a favored prodigy at a top-tier sect, dazzling and glorious, meeting the System's demands for showing off.

Clone 2: Give herself an utterly ordinary spiritual root and talent, and become an utterly ordinary outer disciple at a sect. Keep as low a profile as possible.

Clone 3: Sleep at the very bottom of a secret realm, hoping no one will realize there's a person lying down there.

Clone 4... Clone 5...

As long as she has enough clones, she won't die.

But why are all these low-profile clones inexplicably being mistaken for geniuses and big shots?

Later, when Xie Lingzhao ascends, the world is stunned: all those famous big shots and geniuses turn out to be the same person!

"The road to immortality is long and fraught with dangers. In cultivation, I seek not eternal life, but the freedom to soar through the nine heavens, sever every shackle, and reach the pinnacle of the Dao."

# Cultivation and the Dao, treasure hunts and adventures, monster-slaying and leveling up, coming-of-age story

# The heroine isn't a pushover or a saint; she has a team of companions.

# My take on cultivation

# Genius story / female-led cultivation fantasy / powerful heroine!

Theme: Persevering brings hope.