Slow to Warm

★ The blurb for my next novel, Bone and Blood, is below. Lovely readers, please add it to your favorites~

Lin Xiu comes from a powerful, aristocratic family. Arrogant and noble, he is cold and desireless, a lofty flower no one dares to reach for.

Yu Shinian is as radiant as a rose, dazzling and brilliant. She has countless admirers, but she is stubborn enough not to believe in taking no for an answer.

"Lin Xiu, I like you. Be my boyfriend, will you?"

Backed into a secluded corner, Lin Xiu pins her head and pushes her away. "Yu Shinian, haven't you heard that a forcibly plucked melon isn't sweet?"

Yu Shinian: "I don't believe everything I hear. If it's sweet or not, you'll have to let me pick it and try."

She is passionate and brave, the sort who won't turn back until she hits a wall. He never once admits that he loves her.

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Years after they break up, Lin Xiu becomes a tech tycoon everyone knows, while Yu Shinian lives a quiet, simple life.

When she rushes to get married so her sick grandmother can stop worrying, Lin Xiu barges back into her life.

He turns her current boyfriend into her ex-boyfriend.

As she looks for her next marriage prospect, Lin Xiu, usually so calm and refined, loses control and pins her down. "Shinian, did you get my permission before deciding to marry someone?"

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She insisted on coming after him, tempting him into falling for her again and again.

Since she gave him her special affection, he will have her all to himself. If she wants to marry someone else, she can wait until he's dead.

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* HE, one-sided love at first sight, reunion after years apart, rekindled romance

* Passionate Campus Years: bright, pampered, spirited troublemaker x refined, chaste top student

* Slow Burn City Years: fragile beauty x gentle young master

Blurb posted: 2023.3.5

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Please add my upcoming novel, Bone and Blood, to your favorites, mwah

A world-class dancer, a stunning beauty who seems to have her own spotlight x a century-old Hong Kong family, a capitalist who falls from grace and goes mad for her

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They shared a bedroom from childhood, growing up immersed in each other's very bones and blood as betrothed lovers.

On the eve of their wedding, Zhao Shuqing tears up their engagement agreement, each word cutting to the heart:

"Shen Mengzheng, you are not my muse."

He resents her, hates her, blames her for being heartless, but he never stops loving her.

He paves the way for her and stands up for her, only to hear her say:

"I'm not happy when I'm with you."

Until accusations of plagiarism drive her into a desperate corner.

Her dance production is canceled, her reputation ruined, and she faces astronomical damages. With nowhere else to turn, she finally knocks on his door. "Mr. Shen, name your price."

To protect her, he is stripped of his inheritance.

Facing a forest of cameras and microphones, Shen Mengzheng only smiles faintly.

"It's just taking off an ill-fitting suit."

Later, the toy empire Queen's that he founded sweeps the globe.

A reporter asks him the secret to his success.

The man's eyes burn with emotion, every word tender: "She thinks being Mrs. Shen is a cage, and keeps pushing me away..."

"So I tore down that golden cage and built her a free city instead."

"Thankfully, this time I bet right."

Love means growing together, not being someone's appendage.

If I can't bear to confine you to a little corner, I'll make you a whole new world.

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Theme: There is always someone warm in this world.