My upcoming new novel, "Hiding the Moonlight," is open for follows. Welcome to add it to your collection!
Everyone around Gu Jinting thought he would never get married. Ever since they had known the guy, they had never seen him get close to a woman. His aversion to women was downright extreme.
Then they heard that the Gu and Li families were joining their families through marriage. His intended was the Li family's little dancer, a sweet, gentle girl who clearly wouldn't be able to handle the young master of the Gu family.
They say it was the Li family's daughter who proposed the marriage.
Everyone thought the marriage wouldn't last. Then one day, in a private room at a club, they saw the usually arrogant, carefree, and utterly conceited young master Gu holding the girl in his arms, brushing his nose against her cheek as he coaxed her softly. "Be good. How about not drinking? I'll make you sweet fermented-rice dumplings when we get home."
Friends: ...So much for being averse to women?
Later, the two did get divorced.
Supposedly, Li Yao was the one who asked for it. The girl had been thinking about her first love for years, and now that he had appeared, she decisively dumped Young Master Gu to find someone new.
That day, in the pitch dark, Li Yao was pinned against the door, her black hair in disarray. Tears misted her eyes as he kissed her. "Didn't you say I could end things whenever I wanted?"
Gu Jinting gently stroked her chin, smiling cruelly and wickedly. "Does your first love know that you're divorced... and fooling around with your ex-husband in a hotel bathroom?"
Bonus scene:
After finishing her performance, Li Yao returned to the dressing room. The other dancers had already left, and she stood by the table gathering her clothes.
The door clicked softly. Footsteps drew near. Before Jiang Yao could turn around, a strong hand cupped the back of her neck. Leaning against the edge of the vanity, she felt the man's kiss, carrying the scents of mint and faint tobacco, press against her from behind with a hint of urgency...
Li Yao's eyes were rimmed with red. As their lips and teeth met, she found a moment to ask, "Brother, when did you get back?"
The man's kisses wandered behind her ear. "Be good. Don't call me brother."
Li Yao's lashes fluttered as she looked up in confusion.
"Every time you call me that, I feel like I'm committing a crime."
"..."
He had thought he was merely the beach where she had briefly come ashore to escape the storm. He never imagined he was the moonlight she had always longed to reach on tiptoe.
Reader's Guide:
1. A cocky, aloof male lead with a fear of intimacy x a gentle, sweet classical dancer
2. Author's setting: The male lead has a psychological condition, a fear of intimacy, and only the female lead can cure him
3. Marriage first, love later; reunion after a long separation; she has a secret crush on him at first, then there's a little chasing-her-back arc later on.
Novel blurb:
After being reborn, Xiao Ying suffers a heart attack and collapses by the roadside. A passerby saves her. The rescuer is a doctor with a handsome, picturesque face that looks very familiar. Xiao Ying remembers: Isn't this Xu Shiqing, the very person responsible for keeping her from reincarnating for over two hundred years in the underworld?
Xiao Ying resolves to keep her distance from Xu Shiqing after being reborn.
Xu Shiqing is known in cardiac surgery as an untouchable flower, cool and refined, devoted to solving the medical world's toughest problems. That is, until he encounters an even bigger problem: an ungrateful wretch he saved, who turned around and bit him.
Well, come to think of it, the little wretch is rather sweet-looking.
Xiao Ying is wrongly accused of breaking up someone else's marriage and fired from her job at a kindergarten. The person who reported her to the kindergarten's management is none other than Xu Shiqing, the very man she resolved to stay away from.
Xiao Ying (smiling politely): I'm just an ordinary wage earner with no power or connections. What can I do?
Xiao Ying finds a new job at a cafe. As it happens, the cafe's owner is Xu Shiqing's high school classmate, who has had a crush on him for years. Xu Shiqing is a regular there.
Xiao Ying: ...What rotten luck.
The beautiful cafe owner has liked Xu Shiqing for a long time, and all the employees think the two are bound to end up together. Until one evening, as the sun is setting, they leave the cafe and see a car parked outside. The hazy sunset falls across the windshield. They catch a glimpse of Xiao Ying pinned against the passenger seat by a tall man, with only one soft, fair hand clinging helplessly to the back of his neck...
Coworker No. 1 drops their phone: ...Holy crap, we've been shipping the wrong couple this whole time...
Coworker No. 2, blushing and breathless: S-So this is what Doctor Xu is like when he's dating someone! What happened to being cool and restrained?
Much later, Xiao Ying returns to the underworld, thinking Xu Shiqing will soon forget her. She doesn't know that the man who was always gentle and composed has spent more than twenty years wandering from place to place, searching for the person who killed her... On the day Xiao Ying can finally reincarnate without hindrance, he uses the hands that once held a scalpel to heal the sick to avenge her, then sets himself on fire in a blazing inferno.
A little ghost with heart disease x a cool, gentle cardiac surgeon
Theme: To be added
It's so well written, such a touching love story!