Surrender to You

My new novel, Love That Catches You Off Guard, is now open for readers! It's a sweet romance about a couple who marry first and fall in love later. Come check it out!

Synopsis below

Warm, sincere, sweet girl * refined, reserved, jealous CEO

Love at first sight vs. love that grows over time

Before she turned twenty-seven, Song Xingran's life had always been steady and smooth. Her job was going well, her income was decent, and most importantly, she had a few close friends. Then she would meet someone she liked and was compatible with, get married and have children. That would be an ideal life.

She never expected that getting laid off would shatter her peaceful life overnight.

That day, she fell down from an advanced ski slope, battered and disheveled. He stood before her, looking like a breath of fresh air, and held out his hand. His voice was clear and gentle. "Are you okay?"

Later, he took her to the hospital and said, "See you again," but left her no way to contact him.

She thought they were strangers who had crossed paths only briefly, but she never imagined she would unexpectedly move into his home.

That night, she asked, still somewhat naive, "Isn't it a little inappropriate for a man and a woman to live together alone?"

He smiled and asked, "Isn't it a little late to ask that now?"

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The CEO of Zhenchuan Group was a man of refined bearing and self-restraint. Since taking office, he had been wholly devoted to his career and had never wasted an ounce of his time on romance.

Yet on a night of torrential rain, he drove for miles, alone, to rescue a young woman in the woods of a resort that had not yet opened.

As a result, the two of them got stranded at an unmanned inn. Their only salvation was two bathrobes and a single quilt.

The young woman was as innocent as a blank sheet of paper. They huddled beneath the covers in oversized bathrobes. He kept a foot of space between them, with half his body outside the quilt.

She said, "Han Chen, come a little closer. It'll keep us warm."

He said, "Ranran, it's not easy to be a gentleman."

Later, he sat on the sofa, and she sat beside him with a blanket, nestled against him without a hint of caution.

Later still, he was consumed with jealousy when he heard her mention another male classmate. He wrapped an arm around her slender waist, pressed a fierce kiss to her lips, then asked, "Did I hurt you?"

Her eyes glistening, she nodded. He gently brushed his fingertips over her lips, his voice still as clear and gentle as ever. "How about you bite me back?"

------Advance preview for Our Summer in Love------

Reunion after years apart / mutual secret crushes / first love requited

Proud, forthright heroine * abstinent, steady, fatherly hero

+ In the height of July, Shanghai was sweltering. Li Yue decided to return to Xizhou to escape the heat, and that summer she reunited with the boy who had occupied seven years of her youth.

On the day the trip began, Jiang Yu approached Li Yue in a crisp white shirt. Only then did she realize that this privately customized itinerary was for just the two of them.

That night, Li Yue and Jiang Yu shared a room. He sat at the desk with his back to her, absorbed in something. When she leaned in to see, he hurriedly locked his screen and tried to look calm.

Li Yue joked, "Jiang Yu, you're not watching adult videos, are you?"

After sizing her up for a while, Jiang Yu asked, "Want to watch?"

Li Yue wrestled with herself, imagining the tragic collapse of her idealized image of him. Then Jiang Yu gentlemanly handed her his phone.

It was nothing but an ordinary group photo. Li Yue stood in the front row, Jiang Yu in the back, and she was right in the middle.

"Jiang Yu, did everyone like her back then?" Li Yue asked, pretending it was just a casual question.

Jiang Yu struggled inwardly, smiling bitterly. Only an idiot couldn't tell who I liked. But he kept that thought to himself and answered seriously, "I didn't."

When the trip ended, they traveled back in silence. Jiang Yu pulled Li Yue's suitcase and was slow to hand it over. "Did you enjoy this trip? If not, you can get a refund or exchange, and after-sales service is available for life." After thinking for a while, he had finally come up with a way to say goodbye.

"Don't you have anything else to say?" Li Yue asked bluntly.

"When you get back, learn to take care of yourself," Jiang Yu said, looking at her with clear eyes.

But she haughtily tossed out, "I can't learn," and walked away.

Later, Jiang Yu brought his business to Shanghai. That night, they stood in the tallest hotel in Shanghai, gazing out at the night. He leaned against her shoulder and kissed the ends of her hair. "Have you learned now?"

Li Yue stubbornly said, with all her might, "Not yet."

Jiang Yu's voice turned husky. "That's okay. I'll provide after-sales service for life, and keep teaching you until you get it."

That night, Li Yue secretly felt glad. At last, after ten years, her feelings had been answered.

What she didn't know was that at Xizhou No. 1 High School ten years earlier, she had been the one public secret in a boy's otherwise quiet high school life.

Reader's guide:

1. The leads are each other's first love, and both are virgins.

2. There will be a brief period of long-distance relationship angst.

3. Primarily set in the city, with flashbacks to school days.

Theme: A passionate romance where both people move toward each other.