The Cool, Top-Scoring Student Gets Stuck with Me

My next book is The Beggar of the Three Realms. Please add it to your library~

Blurb:

[Cantonese rich heiress x aloof top student, a chatty rich beauty and a cool-headed county-town scholar] Also titled Lonely Bamboo. The blurb is as follows:

In the second semester of her sophomore year, a new transfer student arrived at Sanhai High School. The class chat was practically full of people talking about her. Word was that this mysterious transfer student had come from some elite school, and everything she wore was a luxury brand unlike anything in this backward little town. Her hair clip was diamond-studded, her clothes were LV, her perfume was Prada, and even her slippers cost four figures.

The chat was abuzz with people marveling at the rich young lady.

After a typhoon passed through, Gu Zhu waded through the water and entered the school. As she put away her umbrella by the academic affairs office, she ran into the transfer student, who was dressed in a white tracksuit. The girl pointed at the water splashed onto her clothes and chuckled. "Hey, pretty girl, do something about this."

Gu Zhu looked up at her: her hair was tucked beneath a green baseball cap, she wore a loose tracksuit with shorts, and on her feet were... a pair of clogs that cost thirty yuan.

She blinked. The gap between rumor and reality really could be deeper than the Mariana Trench.

While everyone thought the rich young lady wouldn't be able to adjust to life in a small county town, Bai Tan had already put on her helmet, hopped on her electric scooter, and taken her beautiful, aloof top-student crush for a ride.

At most, the rich young lady complained that the cafeteria chicken didn't taste like chicken. And she did wonder when she could become Gu Zhu's roommate.

On her first night as Gu Zhu's roommate, the rich young lady climbed onto Gu Zhu's bed. When Gu Zhu stared at her in shock and shouted, "You're underage! You can't!" she burst out laughing. "Baby, I'm already eighteen! Call me big sister!"

Gu Zhu: ...

Bai Tan's clear reflection falls upon Lonely Bamboo. The gentle breeze sways, and I gather you in my arms.

[Note: A slice-of-life story, slow-paced, with many creative liberties.]

[The cover features a character design commissioned for commercial use, not an exclusive purchase.]

Blurb for my next book, The Beggar of the Three Realms:

Life is a boundless wilderness. Beneath it are countless threads of cause and effect. The three thousand worlds flow side by side, and the river of time cannot be reversed. Some causes and effects follow one another, while others are hard to untangle, separated by a single dream.

Thus, on the Road to the Yellow Springs, beside the Bridge of Helplessness, a communications station serving the Three Realms came into being. Humans, demons, immortals, and gods all linger there, seeking release.

Chen Shang is the most alluring ghost in the Underworld, and also the most cold-hearted. She is the only ghost immortal to have climbed out of the Hungry Ghost Realm in six hundred years. Having lost her destiny, she became the only being in the Three Realms untouched by cause and effect, and one of the few keys capable of entering dreams of past lives.

Following those tangled, intricate threads of cause and effect, she steps into the river of time:

A foreign-educated woman teacher who died in Shanghai, an isolated city in 1937, and a maid working at the largest pleasure house in the city's glittering entertainment district;

A great cat demon who lost an eye while taking human form during a trial in the human realm, and a girl who rescues stray animals;

A frail princess living in a castle, and a poor, healthy top student who spends her whole life unlucky and serving as the princess's blood donor;

And the little empress Chen Shang has longed for and been unable to forget for six hundred years.

Amid countless threads of fate throughout time, Chen Shang keeps crossing paths with one person by chance. And the communications station, suspended for six hundred years, finally gets a new director, as Heaven's decree foretold.

But although the appointment has been made, the new director is in no hurry to take up the post. The staff wait and wait, only for Heaven's decree to make a huge blunder: the new director is a living human. With no other option, they send someone into her dream to invite her to the Underworld and take up her position.

The new director holds the Book of Fate in her left hand and a judge's brush in her right. She settles causes and effects and untangles threads of fate. From then on, the tangled threads flow in order, and both the bonds that should continue and the debts of fate that must be repaid leave traces to follow.

The river of time that Chen Shang enters is no longer a series of frozen scenes. At last, someone will set right the fate she was afraid to touch and change.

A cold, aloof, stunning and battle-godlike ghost immortal top x a gentle, rational director who has feelings yet is seemingly heartless bottom

This is a revised and expanded version of the previous blurb. The central premise has changed a little. It's more of an ensemble story.

Content warning: The threads of fate are melodramatic and may involve family love, romance, friendship, and gratitude, so there may be some heterosexual romance (not much of it).

Theme: Life is a ceaseless cycle, full of visible light and greatness.