Entangled with Thorns

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[Pre-release novel, When Luck Turns, see the blurb below. Please add it to your collection

[Blurb]

# Fierce, tough, and cool heroine × aloof male lead with a hidden dark side

# School life first, then the city | slow burn | reunited after years apart | a little groveling

Cheng Jin had a face that could stun a room, but she was a little tyrant who punched thugs and kicked bullies.

In her senior year of high school, she fell for a boy.

His name was Xu Xize, the son of a famous philanthropist in Tanjiang. He was top of his class, strikingly refined, and an outstanding young man in every sense.

The late-summer breeze carried the smell of tobacco from the girl. He frowned and walked around her without even looking at Cheng Jin.

Everyone told Cheng Jin that someone like Xu Xize lived in a completely different world from her.

Cheng Jin refused to believe them. She pursued him relentlessly for over half a year, only to watch him take another girl's hand.

Her heart died in an instant. She gave a cold laugh, turned around, and walked away, firm and decisive.

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Years later, the two met again through a business marriage.

Cheng Jin tore up the agreement, smashed her wedding ring, and did all kinds of outrageous, embarrassing things.

No one had any faith in their marriage. A thorn growing in the mud and snow on a mountain were never meant to be together.

Until one evening at a banquet, someone saw Xu Xize pinned against a wall by a woman reeking of alcohol.

Cheng Jin wore a bright red evening gown. Her dazed eyes held a fierce glint, as if she meant to devour the man before her.

But the usually dignified young master of the Xu family brushed the little mole on the woman's nose with his fingertip, then lowered his head with a faint smile. "Don't be so angry. You just can't reach me. I'll bend down."

Back then, Xu Xize, standing in the sunlight, had no idea that the thorn he'd provoked as a boy would make him fall in love for the rest of his life.

"Life is full of twists and turns, but love will bring us together again."

- The leads are each other's only partners, happy ending

- The heroine is tough and fierce, not sweet or soft. Please skip if that's not your thing

- Not a purely sweet romance. There are misunderstandings, hurt, and melodrama. Please skip if that's not your thing

- An unconventional older-woman-younger-man romance. The heroine is one year older

- The hero loves only the heroine from beginning to end. He never betrays her or gets together with anyone else. That's all I can say without spoiling it!

**Pre-release novel When Luck Turns. Please add it to your collection. Blurb below**

Nightclub queen Meng Zhixiao recently had her fortune told.

The fortune teller said she was destined for bad luck this year and had to marry a man with water in his name to ward it off.

After searching all the major matchmaking sites, Meng Zhixiao picked someone.

The man worked in finance, and was excellent in both looks and character. In the marriage market, he was the perfect family-oriented man.

To "defy fate," Meng Zhixiao catered to his tastes, played the sweet girl, and won him over.

Married life really did go smoothly. Meng Zhixiao got what she wanted, but still felt a little unsatisfied.

Her office-worker husband was too obedient, and life had lost much of its excitement.

During lunch, she sighed to a colleague in the break room:

"He's handsome, but so boring, and he has no ambition. And he's no good at that, either."

Her colleague perked up at the last part. Meng Zhixiao was too busy complaining to notice that the company president, who rarely visited the office, had just passed behind them.

That night, Meng Zhixiao was astonished to discover that her usually gentle husband had suddenly become someone she could barely handle.

The next day, at the company's general meeting, Meng Zhixiao held her aching back and saw that the long-vacant president's seat was occupied.

The man in the seat wore a bespoke suit and exuded elegance and dignity, surrounded by senior executives. He looked exactly like the office-worker husband who had nearly killed her the night before.

Jiang Shiyue: Is this exciting enough for you now, darling? :D

Also known as: You Pretend to Be Someone Else, I Pretend to Be Someone Else: I'll Save Our Marriage Myself

* Fake bratty wife × gentle CEO

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