Cicadas in Summer Hear the Snow

Coming soon: After the Fake Heiress Mistook Someone Else for Her Mom.

[She is a snowflake that fell into my palm on a summer night]

Proud, insecure law student, the prettier one, 0.8 × aloof, icy beauty and powerful boss, 0.2

Pei Jianxia is the daughter of the Ji family’s housekeeper, and the secret lover of Ji He’an, the eldest daughter of the family.

Then one day, out of the blue, she hears that Ji He’an is getting engaged.

Ji He’an soothes her: “It’s just a marriage of convenience. Be good, okay?”

But at the engagement banquet, Pei Jianxia clearly hears Ji He’an speaking to someone on the phone in the dressing room: “Pei Jianxia? She’s just someone to fool around with. Once tonight’s over, I’ll get rid of her.”

Pei Jianxia feels so low she’s sunk into the dust. She wanders aimlessly to the rooftop to sober up, only to run into Ruan Tingxue, Ji He’an’s sworn enemy, sitting on the railing.

Snow-white skin, a red dress, and beauty so breathtaking it hurts.

Seeing her come up with a bottle of liquor, Ruan Tingxue gives a soft laugh. “Mind sharing?”

Two women with nowhere else to turn drink their fill on the rooftop. In a drunken haze, Pei Jianxia sees Ruan Tingxue lean close, her breath sweet as orchids. “If you’re going to cry, it should be over something that makes you happy.”

After one wild night, Pei Jianxia wakes to find the woman beside her covered in hickeys. She looks utterly panicked.

Ruan Tingxue’s fingertips brush the red mark on her neck. Her eyes lower. “You sleep with me, Ruan Tingxue, and think you can just say you were drunk and walk away?”

By the time Pei Jianxia comes to her senses, they’ve already gotten their marriage certificate at the civil affairs bureau.

Naturally, newlyweds should live together.

So Pei Jianxia moves straight into Ruan Tingxue’s home.

She thinks it’s nothing more than a transaction, until one day she sees the will Ruan Tingxue has made.

“All property under my name is to be given to my wife, Pei Jianxia.”

Only then does she learn that Ruan Tingxue had been waiting for her ever since their chance meeting on the rooftop, seven years ago.

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Only after Ji He’an finishes dealing with her engagement arrangements does she realize that, at some point, her little lover has gotten involved with her sworn enemy.

*Male characters will appear, mostly as disposable cannon fodder villains.

*Xiao Pei leans a little more toward the pursuer role.

And please check out my coming-soon novel, After the Fake Heiress Mistook Someone Else for Her Mom.

Clingy mommy-obsessed mama’s girl × pretty, wicked mom

After finishing her college entrance exams, Shen Mo is told by her family that she’s the fake heiress who was switched at birth. Without a second thought, she packs her bags and returns to her real home.

Shen Mo has only just put down her luggage when a woman strolls out of the house. Hesitantly, she calls her “Mom.”

The woman raises an eyebrow, then smiles and draws her into her arms. “Good girl.”

Nestled in her mother’s soft, fragrant embrace, Shen Mo thinks: This must be my mother, whom I’ve never met before!

For two months, Shen Mo calls her Mom this and Mom that, sweeter than anyone else.

The woman accepts it all, smiling as she answers every time. Sometimes she even kisses Shen Mo’s cheek and praises her: “Good girl.”

Shen Mo thinks this life is practically heaven.

Her mother is a hundred times gentler than she imagined, beautiful, and always calling her “baby.”

Shen Mo also loves hugging her mother, as if she’s suffering from skin hunger.

She figures it must be because she didn’t grow up with her mother, so she longs to be close to her.

It’s just a little mommy complex! Nothing to worry about.

But her yearning keeps growing until simple hugs aren’t enough. She’s always finding ways to stick close to the woman.

She wants to share a bed with her mother, bury herself against her, and fall asleep listening to her heartbeat, with her mother’s clothes between her teeth.

Before long, even the woman in her erotic dreams is her mother.

Shen Mo finally realizes something is wrong. Before she can do anything, the door across the hall, which has always been locked, opens.

Only then does Shen Mo realize she read the wrong apartment number and mistook the wrong woman for her mother.

Her actual mother, completely unreliable, entrusted her to the neighbor with a single sentence, then went abroad on vacation.

Angry, embarrassed, and annoyed, Shen Mo hurriedly packs and runs off when the semester starts.

But why does the professor introducing herself at the front of the classroom have the same face as that woman?

No wonder the woman had looked so mysterious when Shen Mo was choosing her college entrance exam preferences.

Later, as the woman trembles beneath her, Shen Mo takes her mommy into her mouth and won’t let her finish. “You lied to me for so long, Mom. How are you going to make it up to me?”

The woman pats her face. “What, do you still need Mommy to teach you what to do?”

Theme: At last, someone will make you fall in love with this world again.