Better to Lose Control

■ My next Hong Kong showbiz novel, Victoria Harbour Forest, is looking for readers to add it to their lists.

An overwhelmingly gentle, fatherly Sugar Daddy vs. a glamorous young model. Blurb at the end. (Original title: Food and Sex)

■ Reserved and unruly x wild and untamed

■ Voice actor x venture capital tycoon

"Man pursues woman | A playboy turns over a new leaf | Romantic tension | Rekindled romance"

1.

Wu Bei, the son of Ningjing's richest real estate tycoon, was wild and arrogant by nature. The only person he was willing to humble himself for was his little girlfriend from the broadcasting department.

And Lin Mi was the department's belle.

They lived together under the same roof for two years, and rumors about their love life spread across campus in a dozen different versions.

Before this, no one could have imagined that two people who seemed to have nothing in common would get tangled up in such a turbulent affair.

Just when everyone thought the couple was destined to stay together and eventually marry, this love story, which had dazzled all of Ningjing University, came to an abrupt end.

They heard the woman had asked to break up, leaving no room for reconciliation.

That night, Wu Bei stood beneath the girls' dormitory, tossing away pack after pack of cigarettes.

With a cigarette between his teeth, he made yet another call. At last, someone picked up.

"Are you sure?"

As he spoke, he raised his eyes and stared intently at the red-eyed girl watching him from the balcony.

2.

Lin Mi couldn't remember how she and Wu Bei had gotten together.

Long streets, narrow alleys, damp blue bricks.

He stood at the roadside in black from head to toe, his long eyes lowered as he leisurely scratched a lottery ticket.

The result appeared.

"Five million." He glanced sideways at her, his voice cool and detached.

At the time, Lin Mi's family had just declared bankruptcy. Her breath caught, and she couldn't describe how she felt.

The young man's casual voice came from above her head. "Want to be with me? All of this will be yours."

Their romance had been heart-wrenchingly intense, then faded away without a word.

People eventually have to say goodbye to the wind they can't hold on to.

Four years passed before they met again.

The man had become a legendary figure in Ningjing's venture capital world, a titan coveted yet out of reach by the wealthy, sitting high above as he turned the pages of her fate.

The gulf between them was too wide. Their ending was destined to be like fishing for the moon in water.

Then one night, after finishing a voice acting job, Lin Mi stepped into the elevator and saw Wu Bei, the client she was working for, standing inside.

The double doors closed. Silence fell between them.

"I can't bear to let you go," a deep voice murmured by her ear.

Lin Mi's feet seemed to stick to the floor. She couldn't move.

"All these years, you could bear to not come find me even once."

The man's weary, languid eyes darkened. His tone was mocking. "And you even tell our old story as a joke on Bilibili."

*

"There's a reason it's called 'falling in love.' Real love begins with losing control, with an unstoppable fall."

Death Sentence

[Reading guide]

◎ Both leads are each other's first and only partners. From campus to the city. The heroine's secret identity is a Bilibili story-submission blogger.

◎ The characters are imperfect, and their love isn't realistic.

My next novel, Victoria Harbour Forest, is looking for readers to add it to their lists

Blurb:

When Liang Jingshui was twenty, her father booked her a plane ticket to Hong Kong.

That day, due to an overbooking error by China Eastern, she went through the priority lane for first-class passengers.

She noticed the man in seat 1K, one hand resting naturally at his side. His misty teal shirt cuff was paired with a silver Patek Philippe Nautilus, and his knuckles were beautifully shaped.

Liang Jingshui shyly asked him for his contact information.

Three hours into the flight to Hong Kong, Shang Zong suddenly asked, "Is this your first time flying first class?"

Two in the morning.

Liang Jingshui dragged her suitcase into the Peninsula Hotel, where the upper floors offered views of Victoria Harbour. The man was still awake, sitting by the window and listening to Eason Chan's H3M on vinyl.

Strangely enough, she had thought that would be the only time she'd ever get upgraded. She never imagined she'd eventually fly on private jets so often she'd grow numb to it.

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A grand banquet, attended by the cream of society.

According to one of Hong Kong's rich young heirs: "My uncle Shang Zong doesn't like younger women, so my grandmother found every unmarried woman in the social circle for him. And he's still single."

That night, the Hong Kong media photographed a Koenigsegg Regera parked by the roadside, a sight without equal anywhere in Hong Kong.

Then a pair of delicate hands entered the frame. A fingertip spun the steel wheel of a lighter, and she cupped her hand against the wind to light his cigarette.

Shang Zong brought the cigarette to his lips, but what he kissed was the woman's tender lips.

The smoke curled and spiraled through the air.

That brief clip provided the Hong Kong media with a sensational headline the next day.

#Beauty Arrives in Hong Kong Late at Night, Shang Zong Works the Fields in His Luxury Car#

Theme: Better to chase the wind than wait for it.