My next book is Marry Cecilia. Please add it to your favorites!
At Lichung High, Chen Zhaochi is handsome, gets good grades, and comes from a distinguished family. Everyone likes him.
One day, after returning from basketball practice, he overhears Lin Fanfei, the new girl in class, say to someone, “I like number one.”
Chen Zhaochi has topped the school rankings for years, always coming first in his grade.
He raises an eyebrow, and the guy beside him bumps his shoulder with a grin. “Not bad. She’s only known you a few days.”
Then, at the next exam, Lin Fanfei takes his first-place ranking.
Chen Zhaochi: “...”
His friend suddenly gets it. “So Miss Lin only has eyes for studying.”
Before Chen Zhaochi can reply, his friend adds, “A few of us were talking the other day, saying she’s the prettiest girl in class. What do you think, Zhaochi?”
Looking at the neat, fair-skinned girl at the front of the classroom, writing away furiously, Chen Zhaochi keeps a straight face and stubbornly says, “No idea. I only have eyes for studying, too.”
Competitive overachiever × puppy-like boy
Investment banking analyst × CEO
First loves for both / rekindled romance / happy ending
Set against the high school division of students into arts and sciences
“The day we broke up, your city was buried in snow, while in Xingzhou, where I was, it was still warm and raining without end. Chen Zhaochi, I always thought I never hesitated when setting off toward my future. But in that unreachable blizzard, I really did wonder whether going after the future I wanted had to mean going so far away.”
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Blurb first posted on February 14, 2025
First revision on April 7, 2025
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The title is inspired by the film Millennium Mambo.
“You fell from your world into mine, so you don’t understand my world.”, Millennium Mambo
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Marry Cecilia
Yu Youzhi, a has-been CEO-romance writer, is going nowhere in her career and has just been dumped by her boyfriend.
She earns a few hundred yuan a month, and her mother keeps urging her to change careers and get married soon, so she can live the “normal” life her elders expect.
Yu Youzhi rattles off a list of traits for the male lead in her novel: “I want someone who makes hundreds of billions a year, has a doctorate, speaks five languages, is cold and taciturn, and randomly buys me a little island in the Pacific.”
She’s sure there’s no way she’ll find someone like that.
A week later, her mother calls. “I’ve arranged for you to meet someone this weekend. You’d better do what you said.”
Yu Youzhi: ...?
Could her CEO romance novels actually be realistic fiction?
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Sitting in an expensive restaurant for a blind date, Yu Youzhi watches Liang Cishen take the seat across from her.
The man has sharp features and a cool, aristocratic air. He wears a tailored suit, and his priceless cuff links gleam with a cutting light.
She recognizes him: the head of the Liang conglomerate, a man who can turn the world upside down with a wave of his hand, fawned over by everyone who meets him.
They belong to completely different worlds. Their only connection is that, in college, she tutored Liang Cishen’s distant cousin, who was a girl.
Yu Youzhi asks cautiously, “Mr. Liang, did you... sit at the wrong table?”
Liang Cishen looks up at her. “Yu Youzhi, which island in the Pacific do you like?”
Yu Youzhi is stunned. Liang Cishen says casually, “Marry me under a contract, and I’ll give it to you.”
Yu Youzhi: “Um, could you just give me the cash instead?”
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Yu Youzhi’s Post-Marriage Notes on Her CEO Husband
Day 5: We married because we each needed something. Neither of us will fall for the other. But why does Liang Cishen come home so early every day...?
Day 10: Huh? When did he add a clause to our marriage contract requiring us to talk three times a day?
Day 20: No, seriously. A CEO is supposed to wake up in a two-hundred-square-meter bed every morning. Why does Liang Cishen insist on squeezing into the tiny second bedroom with me? Is he crazy? = =
Day 30: (Went to a class reunion. Entry missing.)
Yu Youzhi is escorted downstairs by the handsome guy she had a crush on back in school. When she sees Liang Cishen waiting in the living room, she finally realizes something is wrong.
The man grabs her wrist and pins her against the wall. “Zhizhi, Auntie said you wanted a husband like the male leads you write. Was there one thing you forgot?”
Yu Youzhi: ?
Liang Cishen leans closer, his hot breath brushing her ear. “Possessive and jealous.”
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Yu Youzhi always thought her relationship with Liang Cishen began after they married.
Until one day, she discovers a photo of herself tutoring on his phone.
And back then, she was still with her ex-boyfriend.
It turns out that even a man like Liang Cishen, at the very top of the pyramid, can have a secret crush he can’t bring himself to confess. When she uncovers his secret, he isn’t embarrassed. After the lights go out that night, he treats her wickedly, leaning over to whisper in her ear, “Zhizhi, the first time I saw you, I knew this day would come.”
[Bonus Scene]
Yu Youzhi finds her writing groove again, and her new book becomes a huge hit. On a whim, she writes a bunch of steamy bonus chapters for her readers.
She never expects to stumble across Liang Cishen reading her latest chapters on his computer.
Yu Youzhi: !!!
That night, she confronts him, both embarrassed and furious. He pulls her onto his lap, his voice low and hot with teasing. “Zhizhi, you know all these tricks. How come you never told me?”
Yu Youzhi: #I actually still prefer it when you’re aloof and ignore me, like the CEOs I write about# Wait, Liang Cishen, I came here to settle the score, stop kissing me, #
A heroine who talks a big game but is all book smarts × a scheming, experienced hero who’s been planning this for ages
Older man / eight-year age gap / marriage before love
The heroine only ever held hands with her ex-boyfriend
The heroine’s pen name is Cecilia, after the heroine of Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo
Theme: Pursuing your dreams takes unremitting effort.
Marrying Cecilia
This Moment in Winter
Sending You My Best Wishes from Afar
After I Mistakenly Kissed the Wrong Boyfriend at Our First Meeting
After I Found a Hot Guy to Attend Graduation With
After I Hit on a Handsome Guy and Found Out He Was My Ex
Lu Xiaoyu
In a Summer Like This
That Little Look
The Golden Age
After I Used My DMs with My Idol as a Memo Pad and He Replied
Where the Mountain Mist Comes From
I have read the author's Secret Love in Babylon, which is very interesting. This one is the same, but this book feels too far-fetched and too long. I guess it needs to be polished? Looking forward to better works from the author
To be honest, there are very few authors nowadays who can write attractive characters and vivid and interesting story characters through dialogue and interaction! Basically, you fell in love with the other person for no apparent reason and ended up dying for no apparent reason. I really like the writing style. It is simple and straightforward, without flashy impetuousness or adjectives, deliberate tragedy, tragedy, and protracted plot. You can see the interesting soul of the characters in the dialogue!! Like the author very much?! Come on come on! You deserve to be seen by more people!
If line feels Feifei is very happy 😭 😭 😭 😭
The if line is so perfect, no matter it is a puppy or Feifei
Lff finally found his mother 😭 😭
I really hope that the characters of Feifei and Chi Gou 💪 💪 💪 are finished and I can't bear to leave 😭 I hope there will be more extras [make me healthy]
This is my first Jinjiang novel. I really like the characters of the male and female protagonists!! I want to be happy forever [Cat Head]
What are you going to write about in the extra chapter? Can I ask for an if line? The female protagonist found out when she graduated from high school, and the male protagonist didn't show off. The two children support each other and grow up to be adults. I feel sorry for how difficult it was for the male protagonist to support his family back then, and I also feel sorry for the female protagonist who, of course, insisted on going her own way to a future that only had her own. Since this is the case, can we write an if line, where two people go abroad together without incident, and an if line, where two people are in the country together?
It ended when I was caught off guard ❤️
Looks good! I really like the if line