Faithful Through Time

The novel is complete.

■ Coming soon: "Ninety-Nine Days of Keeping the Spark Alive, Then I Found Out It Was My Ex". Please add it to your collection. Blurb at the end.

■ Marriage first, love later; his longtime crush comes true; sworn enemies become spouses

Gu Yu caught her beloved boyfriend cheating on her.

On that night of pouring rain, she trembled all over, slapped him, and broke up with him.

The jerk wouldn't stop pestering her, so she decided to find someone dependable to marry and hide behind.

Her childhood nemesis, Cui Shiyan, suddenly showed up and sneered, "I'm not dependable?"

Desperate, she decided any man would do. Gu Yu gritted her teeth. "Let's get the marriage license!"

*

Later, her ex-boyfriend went through hell trying to win her back and humbly begged for forgiveness.

But at a class reunion, he watched Cui Shiyan carry a drunk Gu Yu to the car, murmuring coaxingly in her ear, a smile playing on his lips.

The woman seemed to be playfully scolding him. The air between them was intimate and charged.

Their classmates were dumbfounded. "Weren't those two sworn enemies? How did they end up together?!"

Zhou Wang was struck as if by lightning. Cui Shiyan's gaze darkened. "Give up on my wife."

*

Everyone said that Cui Shiyan, head of the Cui family, was ruthless and dangerous.

Yet one night, he put on the grandest fireworks display in all of Beicheng for Gu Yu.

People speculated until they spotted on Gu Yu's hand a wedding ring matching Cui Shiyan's.

Cui Shiyan pinned her against the floor-to-ceiling window and kissed her as fireworks burst behind them.

She wondered, How did this marriage of convenience get more and more real?

[Bonus Scene]

One day, Gu Yu was tidying his things when she found a pile of love letters from their high school days, addressed to her.

She'd thought he'd intercepted letters meant for her, but every single one was in his own handwriting.

The envelopes were filled with paper stars, more than a thousand of them, each one carrying the secret love of a boy who couldn't bring it into the light.

Gu Yu, I wasn't really trying to scare off your admirers.

I wanted to be with you.

[This isn't my frantic, hopeless crush. It's the god I look up to coming all the way to me.]

Content warning: Both leads are sexually inexperienced; an ex-boyfriend tries to win her back

New novel: "Ninety-Nine Days of Keeping the Spark Alive, Then I Found Out It Was My Ex"

Yu Yu was known as a model student, but nobody knew she had a completely different side online.

She liked browsing Douyin when she had nothing to do. One day, she followed a trail to her best friend's account and decided to mess with her:

[Hey, babe (looks you up and down) Hmph (smirks disdainfully) Very well (swirls a glass of red wine) I've seen through your little tricks. Want to keep our streak going?]

Before the other person could reply, she started bombarding them with low-fat food videos, along with unrestrained private messages.

When she saw a handsome guy's abs: [Putting everything else aside, does being strangers really mean we can't kiss?]

When she saw a couple she shipped: [Mom and Dad, I have been born!]

When she saw a cute cat: [Could you have a litter of kittens for me?]

She also sent all kinds of horror movie recaps, bizarre electronic music, strange AI videos, and even food livestreams in the middle of the night.

The person on the other end: ...This is so hard to watch.

At first, the person on the other end watched and commented on her videos. But after she shared far too many low-fat food clips, he gave up.

He started sharing videos he liked instead.

And so, they kept their streak going for 99 days.

On the hundredth day, her best friend finally suggested they follow each other on their accounts.

Yu Yu was horrified. "Then who have I been keeping my streak with?"

Her crush, who sat beside her and accompanied her to class and on daily walks, said lightly, "Your babe."

Yu Yu: ?

Her crush gave a dry laugh. "You were pretty quick to delete me on WeChat back then."

On his lit phone screen, the name he'd saved her under was unmistakable:

[My Second First Love]

When he was young and foolish, Xie Yunshen had been in an online relationship with a girl. She seemed cold on the outside but warm inside, and could be quite cute. Even after they broke up, he couldn't forget her.

One day, that ex found his account and asked to keep their streak going.

At first, he thought she was reaching out to make up, so he agreed.

The next second, a video of a muscular man popped up in the chat, along with her comment.

[In this desolate place of Bashan and Chushui, handsome guy, please marry me!]

His vision went black. He nearly didn't survive it.

1. One-on-one romance; both leads are each other's first love and are sexually inexperienced

2. The heroine sometimes watches the hero's shared videos, but he watches every single one of hers.

Message: Time reveals all