May Every Year Bring You Peace

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Blurb:

[Mutual Secret Crush x Rekindled Romance]

[Gentle, Refined Real Estate Tycoon x Cool, Resilient Beauty and Translator: From the moment I met you, my love was like a spark setting the wilderness ablaze, growing wildly for a lifetime.]

1.

Years later, Lin Jiang returns to the capital.

She has just finished a translation assignment. Snow falls in the evening, a scene she sorely missed while away. By a miracle, she also runs into the man she has always missed.

He stands beneath the night sky, surrounded by pale frost and mist. Every word he speaks carries a chilly air. He coldly calls her "Miss Lin," treating her like a stranger.

Lin Jiang's heart trembles, but she clearly remembers that she was the one who said those unforgiving words back then, so she has nothing to say.

And yet she can hardly forget that winter, when Jiang Ci gently held her wrist and slid a Buddhist prayer-bead bracelet over it, his voice low and solemn: "I went to Tanzhe Temple to pray for this a few days ago. Happy birthday. May you be safe and happy every year."

2.

Later, beneath the dim night sky and in the swaying evening breeze, Lin Jiang is pinned hard against a solid wooden door.

Jiang Ci kisses her fiercely, yet his voice is wounded and bitter: "You like that type of man?"

"Lin Jiang, marry me."

Kissed senseless, Lin Jiang takes a long moment to come to her senses. Only then does she realize that the "him" he mentioned is a college classmate she hasn't seen in years and has never had any romantic feelings for.

Later still, at midnight, the bells ring in the New Year, and fireworks bloom in clusters on the horizon. Beneath the glittering stars, amid the splendor of half a lifetime, Lin Jiang suddenly wants to tell him everything that happened in the past.

But Jiang Ci comes up behind her and embraces her, resting his chin in the crook of her neck. He comforts her, word by word: "I know everything. I'm willing. I don't blame you."

3.

At Tanzhe Temple, in front of the Vairocana Pavilion, the ginkgo trees cast their deep shade, and sandalwood beads rest lightly against her pale skin.

Legend has it that this is the most effective place in the capital to pray for love.

When an old monk she knows from the East Guanyin Cave asks after them, Jiang Ci gently squeezes Lin Jiang's fingertips, a small gesture full of reassurance. Then he replies warmly, "Thank you for your concern. I brought my wife here today to fulfill a vow."

[Reading Notes]

Both characters are virgins; campus and city setting; sweet romance.

Blurb for Northern City's Romance:

[Mutual Secret Crush x Rekindled Romance]

[The first time I kissed you, I used my eyes.]

1.

When Ye Xianqing first meets Shen Yubai, her parents have just brought her to Northern City in a wretched state to stay with the Shen family.

In the cold night and hazy mist, beneath clear, bright lights, Ye Xianqing sees for the first time the aloof boy, as distant as a solitary moon.

Who would have thought that just a few months later, the boy who seemed as crisp and cold as winter frost and snow would take the initiative to tutor her and meet her after school?

Later, Shen Yubai goes abroad to study. Before leaving, he says goodbye to her: "Qingqing, the thing I worry about most when I leave Northern City is you."

2.

After years apart, Shen Yubai realizes he can no longer read her.

He is confused, yet steadfast; he pursues her, yet always acts with care.

Because he loves her, he has to ask.

And because he loves her, he's willing to abandon every principle.

"You think I'm too gentle with you, right?"

"You like that type of man?"

"If that's the reason, I don't think I couldn't change."

Ye Xianqing blinks her long lashes, and a tear slips down her cheek. "It's not your fault. It's my own problem. I don't deserve you treating me so well."

Shen Yubai wraps his long arm around her, as if afraid to startle something, and gently soothes her. "How could that be? Qingqing will always come first to me."

Theme: Love is patient and kind.