A Winter Night in Harbor City

My next novel, "The Mist of the Capital Turns Cold," is currently being serialized.

Hong Kong's financial tycoon x soft, alluring beauty

Age gap / deliberately getting close / old flame reignited

1.

Fu Yanci's first stop after returning to China was Sucheng, where he attended Old Master Su's birthday banquet. But one rainy night, he met Su Liyue, looking utterly lost.

She clutched at him, her clear eyes still red and puffy from crying. "Third Uncle, will you take me away?"

"Where to?"

"Wherever you go."

2.

The Su family's heiress is a refined beauty, mysterious and rarely seen socializing with anyone.

Fu Yanci, head of Hong Kong's largest holding company, is warm and courteous. But everyone knows he's a smiling tiger: beneath his humble, gentle manner, he's ruthless and merciless, with sharp tactics. He even sidelined his own father.

No one could have imagined that these two people, who seemed to have nothing to do with each other, would end up together.

Fu Yanci is wary of everyone, but with this young woman who approached him with an ulterior motive, he makes exception after exception.

Later, all of Hong Kong and even the mainland knew that the vicious Fu Yanci was pampering a precious beauty. She could have anything she wanted, and all it took was a little pout for him to be ready to give her his life.

Later still, after achieving her goal, the precious beauty ran away. Fu Yanci was so furious that he chased her overseas and dragged her back to Hong Kong.

In a dim room, he closed in step by step and gripped her chin in his hand. "Su Liyue, you've got some nerve, scheming against me."

Su Liyue shed her usual delicate manner and looked at him calmly. "Third Uncle, we're both adults. We should know when to let go."

"Let go?" A cold laugh escaped Fu Yanci. "You might as well dream."

#A story about seeking an influential man's protection, then flirting until he becomes a lovesick fool#

A few tips:

* Older male lead, nine years older.

* An older man surrenders to love.

* The beloved can take liberties without fear of consequences. Watch the precious beauty make the first move and bring a restrained older man down from his pedestal.

2024.7.19

My next novel, "The Mist of the Capital Turns Cold," is now open for advance reading.

Blurb:

Deliberately getting close | Using each other | Reuniting after a breakup | An unconventional pursuit after the breakup

1.

Song Yunzhi first met Ji Tingchuan at a jewelry banquet she'd been made to attend.

Her father had drugged her. Before anyone could take her away, Song Yunzhi grabbed the leg of a passing man in an ash-gray suit, begging in a pitiful state, "Please save me..."

Ji Tingchuan looked down at her coldly, the slight downturn of his lips betraying his impatience.

He stood above it all, while she was as low as dirt.

No one would have been foolish enough to think Ji Tingchuan would help Song Yunzhi, but in full view of everyone, he bent down and carried her away.

2.

Ji Tingchuan had just taken over as head of one of the most powerful families in the capital. He was ruthless and decisive, a man who never hesitated to strike. In short, he was no good man.

And Song Yunzhi was the illegitimate daughter everyone in Shanghai looked down on, with fair skin, stunning looks, and an utterly obedient appearance.

When they married, no one in either Beijing or Shanghai thought it would work.

For two years after their wedding, Ji Tingchuan gave her power and influence in his social circle. Just as Song Yunzhi began to develop feelings for him, his childhood sweetheart returned from abroad.

Seeing the two of them exchanging glances, Song Yunzhi coolly walked away and handed him divorce papers.

Ji Tingchuan thought she was throwing a tantrum. "Yunzhi, there's a limit to how unreasonable you can be."

Song Yunzhi lifted her beautiful, cool face. Her words cut straight to Ji Tingchuan's heart.

"Brother Chuan, I don't know when to stop, and I don't know how to appreciate what I have. So let me go. I don't want to stay by your side anymore."

The rain was heavy that day, soaking the signed divorce papers.

"Song Yunzhi, you'll come back and beg me."

3.

In Ji Tingchuan's mind, Song Yunzhi was like a horse he'd raised. Once she'd grown accustomed to being fed the finest hay and grain, she wouldn't be able to adjust to life without him.

If she wanted to run headlong into a wall, he would let her. Once she hurt herself, she'd come back.

Back then, Ji Tingchuan never imagined that he, not Song Yunzhi, would spend every night afterward wracked with regret.

Song Yunzhi's life improved day by day after she left him.

When they met again,

Ji Tingchuan appeared at a banquet as the client.

Song Yunzhi didn't even spare him a sidelong glance from beginning to end, as if they had never met.

That was the first time Ji Tingchuan felt panic.

When he saw another man by her side, Ji Tingchuan could no longer contain his emotions.

In the dim, quiet hallway, Ji Tingchuan trapped Song Yunzhi in the crook of his arm and forcefully lifted her chin, yet his voice was humble. "You're not allowed to get too close to other men."

Song Yunzhi smiled. "Sure. Get down on your knees and beg me."

She said it to mock him, but she never expected Ji Tingchuan to actually kneel in front of her.

"Don't leave me. I'm begging you."

Before leaving, Song Yunzhi told him, "I'll only remarry you if it snows in Hong Kong."

Later, snow fell over Hong Kong for three days.

Theme: I love you so much I'm sick, and no medicine can cure me.