Don't Look Back [School Life]

(See Weibo @Chashan Chu Yueliang for 3 bonus stories. The blurb for the upcoming novel, The Playacting Monk, is below!)

★This novel: Fake step-sibling romance at school in the first half, then an urban reunion after a breakup in the second half.

Blurb: Luo Muyao "seduces" Wu Zibing to get revenge on her older sister and Su Jingcheng. Wu Zibing "hates" Luo Muyao because he resents his father remarrying. And so the story begins.

Her aunt remarried, becoming the wife of Wu Dalong, a real estate tycoon at the height of his success.

During the summer before her first year of high school, Luo Muyao moved into the Wu family villa with her aunt. But on the very first night, Wu Dalong's son, Wu Zibing, mistook her for the daughter brought along by his "new stepmother."

The boy said to her, "This is my house. Get out."

They met again after school started, when they became classmates.

Her aunt stayed at Luo Muyao's home to cook and keep her company while she studied, and told her that Wu Zibing would be coming over for lunch after school every day from then on.

To win the affection of the person Su Jingcheng liked, Luo Muyao held back the urge to throw the same words back at the boy.

The thing Wu Zibing regretted most in his life was agreeing to his father's demand that he go to his new stepmother's house for lunch after school, all for the sake of a phone.

It put him at a disadvantage before he had even begun, in front of the girl named Luo Muyao.

Wu Zibing hated that woman, and he hated the whole Jiang family, too.

To Wu Zibing, Luo Muyao was just like her name suggested: a hard stone, the kind that could hurt him with so much as a glance.

But later, when someone confessed to Luo Muyao, Wu Zibing appeared and said expressionlessly, "She won't date you."

The boy who had confessed asked in return, "And what exactly are you to her?"

Luo Muyao wondered the same thing. What was Wu Zibing to her?

Her brother?

Unexpectedly, Wu Zibing pulled her into his arms and answered, enunciating each word:

"Her. Boy. Friend."

Years later, a friend asked Wu Zibing what the happiest time of his life had been.

"The happiest time of my life?" The man loosened his tie, leaned back into the sofa, and smiled faintly.

"High school, I think. There was a girl. She walked in front of me, and I walked behind her. We went to class and studied together, then left and went home together. Neither of us needed to say another word. That was the happiest time of my life."

His friend asked, "Can you get it back?"

Wu Zibing's expression dimmed slightly as he replied, "I'll find it again."

Luo Muyao (Yao)

Cool and aloof heroine x icy school heartthrob

★Upcoming novel, The Playacting Monk: woman disguised as a man, a Brocade Guard x black-robed monk and chancellor

Xiao Langyin, son of the former dynasty's chief councilor, hated nothing more than the Brocade Guards in their fish-scale uniforms. After the guards slaughtered his family and left him with nothing, he became a monk, then went to serve a vassal prince as an advisor.

Chu Yushu was the late emperor's youngest daughter. When the imperial family was purged, she was adopted by a palace eunuch. She took a martial arts master as her adoptive father and later joined the Brocade Guards.

One day, Chu Yushu received an assignment: to meet and escort the eminent monk whom the Empress Dowager had invited to the palace.

Thus, the undercover monk and the princess in the imperial guard uniform met. A forbidden love, rejected by the world and shadowed by suspicion and hatred, began to blossom, bound by no rules.

As the years passed, rouge stained the monk's kasaya, and worldly entanglements proved hard to resolve. The monk broke his vows and died, yet still went to meet his beloved amid a soul-stirring song.

Chu Yushu x Xiao Langyin, older man

A heroine with maxed-out combat skills who kills without batting an eye x a hero with maxed-out intellect who can call the wind and summon the rain

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Theme: It may not be the right choice, but I choose the harder road