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Blurb for After My Idol Replied to the DMs I Used as a Memo Pad
[Blurb One]
1.
Cen Yao is a fan of Xie Yixiu, an internationally renowned racing driver, and has always used his Weibo DMs as a memo pad.
His account has tens of millions of followers, so countless messages pour in every day. He’s also famously aloof, so she never worries that he’ll actually see them.
After her ex-boyfriend breaks her heart, she lets loose in her idol’s DM memo pad:
“I got dumped QAQ”
“But it’s okay, I still have you, my darling husband, right?”
“(Nobody saw that) (plants a big kiss) (runs away)”
A second later, two replies appear on the screen.
“?”
“Who are you calling ‘darling husband’?”
Cen Yao: !!!
Cen Yao: “Darling, is that you? Is it really you?”
The other person doesn’t reply again. Excited, Cen Yao screenshots the exchange and sends it to her best friend. Her friend’s response brings her right back to earth: “It must be a staff member. There’s no way Xie Yixiu manages his own account.”
2.
After breaking up with her trash ex, Cen Yao has more time to write in her memo pad:
November 6: Try the new barbecue place near home tomorrow. I hear it’s delicious.
November 8: The new movie has a great rating. I’ll go see it at the mall downtown this weekend!
November 12: Aaargh, I’m so upset. My best friend bailed, so now I have to see the movie alone.
Half an hour into the movie, someone takes the empty seat beside Cen Yao. She glances over by accident and is instantly stunned. How can anyone look so much like her idol?
After the movie, Cen Yao calls out to him and cautiously strikes up a conversation: “Has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like Xie Yixiu?”
Xie Yixiu himself: “…”
Then he raises an eyebrow and asks coolly, “Who?”
3.
Cen Yao thinks a new romance might be on the horizon. At the cinema, she met a handsome young man who looks just like her idol, and they really hit it off.
So she decides to make the first move, ask him out, and get closer to him.
Cen Yao: “What do you do for a living?”
Xie Yixiu: “I drive.”
Cen Yao gets it right away. “You drive a taxi.”
Cen Yao: “Could you pick me up after work tomorrow?”
Xie Yixiu: “…Sure.”
4.
On a program visiting racing drivers, the host tours the garage at Xie Yixiu’s villa. Among the rows of luxury sports cars, one used family sedan stands out.
Host: “(?) Could you tell us what this car is for, Xie?”
Xie Yixiu: “Picking up my girlfriend after work… Wait, don’t air that part.”
Host: “But we’re live.”
Xie Yixiu: “…”
That night, someone spots Xie Yixiu’s car parked on the street.
His car is worth tens of millions and he normally never lets anyone near it. This time, though, he makes an exception and lets a young woman sit on its hood.
The girl is pouting, clearly upset, but Xie Yixiu, usually so cool and distant, coaxes her in a gentle voice: “I’m sorry, baby. Will you please talk to me?”
[Blurb Two]
To Cen Yao, Xie Yixiu is the most unattainable person in the world.
In high school, she was ordinary, while he was the heir to a multinational conglomerate and the top student in the science track, gifted and dazzling, shining brightly.
Like many of their classmates, she saw him as someone to aspire to.
Years later, he became a world-class racing driver, his F1 season points soaring to number one worldwide. He won the first championship by a Chinese driver, while she was just one of his countless Weibo fans. She thought they would never meet again.
/
Back in high school, Xie Yixiu noticed a girl, but the two never had a chance to get to know each other.
Then he found out she followed his account and sent him DMs every day.
Later, she told him she’d been dumped.
Sweet girl who steals hearts without realizing it × cocky guy who pretends to be aloof
Elementary school art teacher × internationally renowned racing driver
“You are a page in the eternally turning, innocent, lovable world.”, Hermann Hesse
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Reader’s guide:
1. The heroine only ever held hands with her ex-boyfriend. The hero’s first love is her.
2. There’s a reason the heroine doesn’t recognize the hero, which will be explained in the story.
3. Before she and the hero get together, her feelings for him are just those of an ordinary fan for her idol. She never called him “darling husband” before breaking up with her trash ex. Later, when she likes him without realizing who he is, it’s because they get along, not because she wants a substitute for her idol. In short, she isn’t trying to have her cake and eat it too.
4. The hero isn’t based on a real person.
Blurb first screenshotted: July 2, 2023
First revision: July 19, 2023
Second revision: September 6, 2023
My next book is Marrying Cecilia. Please add it to your collection!
Blurb
As a writer of out-of-fashion CEO romances, Yu Youzhi’s career has stalled, and her boyfriend has just dumped her.
She earns a few hundred yuan a month. Her mother urges her to change careers and get married soon, so she can live the kind of normal life older generations expect.
Yu Youzhi quotes the male lead of one of her novels: “I want to find someone like this: earns a hundred billion a year, has a PhD, speaks five languages, and casually buys me an 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 follow through.”
Yu Youzhi: “…?”
Could it be that her CEO romances are actually realistic fiction?
/
Sitting in an expensive restaurant for a blind date, Yu Youzhi watches Liang Cishen take the seat across from her.
His features are sharp and his manner elegant and detached. He wears a bespoke suit, and the priceless cuff links gleam with a cutting light.
She knows him. He’s the head of the Liang financial group, a man who can turn the world upside down with a wave of his hand, and everyone curries favor with him.
They come from completely different worlds. Their only connection is that she tutored the housekeeper’s daughter while she was in college.
Yu Youzhi asks cautiously, “Mr. Liang, did you… sit at the wrong table?”
As far as she knows, he’s cold and indifferent, and no woman can get close to him.
Liang Cishen lifts his eyes to her. “Yu Youzhi, which island in the Pacific do you like?”
Yu Youzhi is stunned.
Liang Cishen’s voice is casual. “I need a spouse who won’t interfere in my life. You’re suitable.”
Yu Youzhi: “…Um, could you give me the cash instead of buying an island?”
/
“Yu Youzhi’s Postmarital CEO Observation Diary”
Day 5: We got married to get what we wanted. Neither of us likes 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 agreement requiring us to talk three times every day?
Day 20: No, shouldn’t CEOs wake up in a 200-square-meter bed? Why does Liang Cishen insist on squeezing into the little bed in my second bedroom? What’s wrong with him = =.
Day 30: (At a class reunion. Entry missing.)
Yu Youzhi comes home smiling after her old high-school crush walks her downstairs, but Liang Cishen grabs her by the wrist.
He pins her against the wall and looks down at her. “Zhizhi, Auntie said you wanted to find a husband like the male lead you wrote. Was there one more thing you left out?”
Yu Youzhi: ?
Liang Cishen leans in, his hot breath brushing her ear. “Possessive and jealous.”
/
Yu Youzhi always thought her relationship with Liang Cishen started after they married.
She never expected him to fall for her, but he spends a fortune bidding on a diamond worth hundreds of millions for her, goes out at midnight to buy the snacks she suddenly craves, and drives eight hours home through a storm when flights are grounded, just because he’s worried she has a cold.
One day, she finds a photo of herself from her tutoring days on Liang Cishen’s phone.
And at the time, she hadn’t broken up with her ex yet.
It turns out even someone like Liang Cishen, standing at the very top of the pyramid, can have a secret crush he can’t bring himself to confess.
When she discovers his secret, the man isn’t embarrassed. Instead, after the lights go out that night, he treats her wickedly, bends close to her ear, and says, “Zhizhi, the first time I saw you, I knew this day would come.”
[Bonus scene]
Yu Youzhi rediscovers her writing touch, and her new book becomes a smash hit. On a whim, she writes a series of steamy bonus chapters for her readers.
She never expects to stumble upon Liang Cishen following her serial on his computer one day.
Yu Youzhi: !!!
That night, she angrily confronts him, mortified. He pulls her onto his lap, his voice husky and heated, teasing her: “You know so many tricks, Zhizhi. How come you never told me?”
Female lead who’s an expert at talking the talk × male lead who’s been plotting for a long time
Older man / eight-year age gap / marriage first, love later
The heroine only ever held hands with her ex-boyfriend
The heroine writes under the pen name Cecilia, named after the heroine of Woody Allen’s film The Purple Rose of Cairo.
Theme: After weathering the storm, the rainbow appears.
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