His Bones

[The author's completed novel about the male lead's uncle: The Beauty of Hong Kong]

[The official version has been carefully revised multiple times, with the complete story and a better reading experience. Thanks to readers who support the author by reading on Jinjiang.]

Blurb:

Both virgins / first love for both / doting on each other / each other's one and only / a male lead who falls in love with himself

Physics prodigy and white moonlight who served two years in the military × Beijing-circle billionaire with emotional scruples

In high school, Yue Beijie had a crush on a girl from the neighboring school. He never worked up the courage to confess. After the college entrance exams, he heard she had joined the military, while he went abroad to study.

During a school break a year later, he returned to China to visit a high school friend who had also enlisted.

He waited beneath a poplar beside the military compound's artificial lake. His friend was taking so long that he got bored and lit a cigarette.

He'd smoked half of it when a crisp, ringing female voice sounded behind him.

"Hello, comrade!"

He turned around with the cigarette between his lips.

One glance, and he was bewitched.

Qiao Ying saluted the man in front of her. After completing the salute, she said loudly, "Hello, comrade. Smoking is not allowed here."

Yue Beijie stared at her, spellbound, and took a moment to come back to himself. "Sorry."

He tossed the cigarette on the ground, crushed it beneath his shoe, then bent down to pick it up and looked around for a trash can, holding the half-smoked cigarette.

Qiao Ying held out her palm. "Comrade, let me throw it away for you."

Yue Beijie placed the half-smoked cigarette in her palm. "Thanks."

Qiao Ying saluted him. After completing the salute, she turned to leave, but then turned back. "Comrade, smoking harms your health and the health of those around you. I hope you can quit."

Yue Beijie watched her military-uniformed figure recede into the distance, his eyes full of the delight of an unexpected encounter and the desire to make her his.

They say that when the Creator made men, he worried they would be lonely. So while a man slept, the Creator took one of his ribs.

That rib became a woman.

A man can only be made whole by finding the rib he lost.

She was the bone he'd lost, and he had found her.

(The blurb is from Chapter 47.)

Notes:

1. Special statement: This story is entirely fictional. All characters, places, organizations, groups, plotlines, and opinions that appear in it were created for the purposes of the story. Nothing is intended to refer to or encourage any real-world behavior. Please read thoughtfully and comment rationally.

2. A partially fictionalized modern city setting, with the romance as the main focus.

3. The female lead is a highly accomplished physics student who will go on to work in chip development.

The male lead's family runs an international cinema chain and a film and television incubation business. He will inherit the family business.

4. Because of his family background, the male lead takes love seriously and doesn't sleep around.

5. Ye Tian is gay and has his own CP. He's just friends with the male lead, and most of his scenes appear in the first 150,000 words (not many). He barely appears later. There is no depiction of a same-sex romance in the story, so readers who are wary of that can read without worry.

6. I hope everyone can enjoy the story peacefully and treat each other kindly.

Theme: Help each other succeed, then meet again at the summit.