Another Season

The simplified-Chinese print edition is now available under the same title!

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Main story blurb:

[Defiant, devoted childhood friend x amnesiac childhood friend who pretends to be obedient]

Song Jin met Fang Lie when she was eighteen.

At the time, she was lost in the confusion of amnesia, putting on the act of a well-behaved girl while endless self-loathing wound around her heart.

She thought no one would see how broken she was.

Then Fang Lie appeared.

In a dark evening study hall where a movie was playing, Song Jin was trapped beneath his windbreaker. All around them was darkness, and there was only Fang Lie's heated breath and his casual, tempting words: "What are you afraid of, Song Jin...? I'm a mess, but you could be even more of a mess than me."

Song Jin thought someone like him would never know how to back down.

But later, beside a trashed barbecue stand, he pressed his forehead to hers and looked down at her, his voice soft and slow, almost a murmur. "Jinjin, give me a way out."

The negative emotions Song Jin had suppressed for five years completely melted in the boy's small, everyday acts of tenderness.

But she didn't want to hold him back.

A boy who could bring daylight should not be tripped up by the feelings she had let grow wild. So at their graduation party, Song Jin said goodbye.

Fang Lie didn't stop her. He understood her too well.

Song Jin saw his Adam's apple jerk as he struggled to hold himself back. He forced a smile before speaking. "Will you be better off without me?"

She nodded.

-

Song Jin could never understand why Fang Lie had barged into her fading corner of the world, until she regained her memories.

It turned out that at the very beginning of their story, Fang Lie had been surrounded by darkness, and she had broken open his cage and dragged him out to embrace the world.

It turned out that the cicadas' fervent cries during the summer of their eighteenth year were celebrating the reunion the boy had spent day and night longing for.

Later, the falling leaves burned like fire, and the boy's love remained pure.

Fang Lie carefully gathered Song Jin into his arms. His chest aching, he told her, word by word:

"Reuniting is the start of another season for us."

*They save each other across a time gap.

*The leads both took time off school for personal reasons and are adults, but they don't date in high school.

*All locations are fictional. There is a reason the male lead is called "Lie."

Daybreak blurb:

[Undercover agent who acts wild and insolent but is truly restrained x brilliant, courageous, dangerously beautiful anti-narcotics policewoman]

In the room next to the crime scene, a man complained about the hotel in a lazy, flippant tone, his words seeming to carry a hidden meaning.

Qu Huai, there to help investigate, turned and walked in.

Her mind was on the case, so she didn't notice that his gaze fixed on her for a few seconds as if he had lost control.

She had no idea that desire stirred in his clear black-and-white eyes with the breeze blowing through the room, only to be blocked by the shadows moving across the curtains. His feelings surged recklessly, and his well-defined fingers trembled slightly.

Tucking his hands into his pockets, he gave a shameless grin. "How could I forget that you were the one I had a date with today?"

Qu Huai didn't think much of it at first, until the manager beside her hurriedly said, "Mr. Cen..." In an instant, she focused on him. "Cen?"

*

Qu Huai, captain of the municipal anti-narcotics squad, was unstoppable and undefeated, admired by her superiors and respected by her subordinates. She grew stronger at a relentless pace, seemingly unable to be held back by anything.

No one knew that a wanted poster, painstakingly drawn a thousand times over, hung in her heart.

The fugitive pictured on it was her first love, Shen Feicen, who had cheated on her.

She met him at sixteen, fell for him at eighteen, and watched everything fall apart at nineteen. Then Shen Feicen vanished without a trace.

Qu Huai rarely took a liking to anyone, and she rarely let anyone go.

She would make him confess and bring him to justice.

But theirs had been an online romance that ended without ever meeting face-to-face. Qu Huai could only grit her teeth and hate him for twelve years. In the thirteenth year, she met Cen Chuan.

A flippant, insolent scoundrel who reminded her of Shen Feicen.

My lover is close enough to touch, yet we can never be together in this life.

Luckily, unrequited love is only the beginning.

[At last, we welcome the dawn and gaze upon a bright world. Then we embrace, then we kiss, then we hold on to each other for all our lives.]

*Both leads are alphas, both are virgins, and each is the other's first love. They are each other's only one. Happy ending.

*The blurb emphasizes the romance, but the main story gives equal weight to both plotlines. The romance and case are both explored in detail.

*An acting couple who go from openly clashing to secretly joining hands to solve the case.

*Both leads are always working for justice. Any emotions or actions that seem improper are part of their undercover disguises.

Other upcoming novels: Burn to Ashes, a dark moonlight and a pure mad dog; Taking the Blame, a young master and a natural airhead; Fishing for Fame and Desire, a powerful figure and a cold-hearted woman; High Tide, a world-weary man and a free-spirited woman; The Sharp-Tongued Fairy Miss, two sharp-tongued people.

Completed novels: Breaking the Rose, a wealthy-family romance; Utopia and Pandora, a sweet showbiz story. Feel free to visit my author page and take a look. Please add them to your reading list!

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