The Wind Will Kiss Your Eyes

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Anti-poaching / both leads grow / light suspense / equal parts romance and plot

Wildlife conservation worker x famous, eccentric animal mystery novelist

Radiant beauty with a divine aura x sickly, aloof, obsessive man

Blurb One:

Sui Zhaozhao noticed that money kept going missing from her home, and thought she'd been robbed. She spent two days keeping watch with a friend, only to discover the culprit was her own silly, dim-witted myna bird!

Sui Zhaozhao took a day off, pretended to leave for work, then hid by the door.

She watched it flap its glossy black wings and carry a fresh banknote in its beak.

Then it flew into the neighboring courtyard.

At home, the bird ignored Xin Zhaozhao, but in the neighboring courtyard it fawned over a hunky man.

"You're back again?" The man's voice was clear and magnetic, with a hint of helplessness. "Whose money is this, anyway?"

Sui Zhaozhao's hapless myna bird foolishly rubbed its not-so-bright head against his hand.

It was a purebred myna, but at that moment it was more like a husky.

Sui Zhaozhao: "..."

Fine, it's using my money to keep a pretty boy.

Because of his work, Luo Qinghe was either away on a business trip for months or holed up at home for a week or two. He looked like he had no proper job.

On top of that, he had a dangerously handsome face, so people often assumed he was some rich woman's kept boy.

His new neighbor clearly thought the same.

Especially lately, for some reason, he kept running into the girl next door. He'd go out to buy food and come back to find her glaring at him with the exasperated look of someone thinking, "How can a man your age still sleep at night?"

Sure enough, one day his new neighbor blocked the entrance to his home and asked with a complicated expression, "How does it feel to be kept?"

"It's great, thanks for asking." Luo Qinghe couldn't be bothered to entertain her and tried to walk past.

His new neighbor clearly hadn't expected him to be so calm. Unable to hold back, she tried to talk some sense into him again, saying he was perfectly capable of supporting himself at his age.

Luo Qinghe was getting annoyed. Frowning, he said, "It's not your money I'm spending. What's it to you?"

Then he saw the girl looking at him resentfully before saying in a quiet voice, "You don't really think a black, noisy myna can earn money on its own, do you?"

Luo Qinghe: "..."

Found her. The hapless owner of that myna.

Blurb Two:

Luo Qinghe once traveled to distant America to observe Inca mountain lions.

They were graceful and agile, and when they looked at people, their gaze held an almost spiritual scrutiny.

They might have been the most beautiful animals he'd ever seen, and they were dangerous predators of the grasslands.

Though Sui Zhaozhao spent most of her time joking around and raising all sorts of strange little animals that refused to recognize their owners, Luo Qinghe had to admit she was very much like a mountain lion.

Especially when she stood atop the observation tower at a wildlife rescue center.

Her dark hair streamed in the wind, her figure upright and strong.

Her ink-dark eyes held the courage of the grasslands.

She was somehow intimidating,

and yet filled with a captivating, divine aura.

He loved her dark eyes, like scales that weighed every living thing equally.

"If my life had only one second left, I'd spend it racing a cheetah across the grasslands, battling birds of prey in the open sky, and swimming alongside a great whale in the deep sea."

"Or lying beside you, kissing your eyes."

1. Written for my own enjoyment. The myna carrying its owner's money to its rescuer trope comes from the internet.

2. All the professional details about wildlife conservation are made up by the author with help from Baidu Baike.

Pre-release from the author's collection

My Ex Hates Me to the Core

Rekindled love / chasing your wife to the crematorium / unconventional healing story

#Two-faced x untamed#

#Actress x guide in the Great Northwest#

Note: Five-year age gap, male lead is older.

[1]

Bie Zhizi was beautiful from a young age, and her mother was a widow with a bad reputation. Men came and went from their home constantly.

That's why her life was so difficult.

She tried every way she could to keep herself from growing up too fast. Only she knew what maturity meant for someone like her.

Later, she met Lou Si.

Lou Si was the illegitimate son of a big factory owner's family in the county town. Everyone in the small county had cursed his name, and no one dared provoke that mad dog.

In an alley where smoke and the smell of blood mingled,

Lou Si leaned against a wall, covered in injuries. He lifted his eyelids, his bloodshot eyes like those of a cold, cornered beast. His tall, solitary frame supported a young, arrogant body.

The girls with her screamed and ran at the bloody scene. Only Bie Zhizi gripped her backpack strap and walked toward him, one step at a time.

Her porcelain-white face was like a gardenia in bloom, cool and luminous.

She said, "Lou Si, can I follow you?"

That kid Lou Si has the school beauty following him around.

He's a delinquent, but he's always had plenty of girls after him. Now even that cool, beautiful school beauty is so devoted to him she's practically dying of love.

But with his personality, he's bound to be a playboy.

The school beauty follows him every day without fail. She watches him flirt with other girls and dismiss her affections, yet she stays so unwaveringly devoted to him.

[2]

After the college entrance exams, a huge story broke in the small county town.

In a place with such terrible education, Bie Zhizi had actually made it into the country's most famous film academy and become a big star!

The boys who always hung around with Lou Si felt inexplicably proud and rushed to find him to celebrate.

The billiards hall was dark as night and filled with suffocating cigarette smoke. Lou Si sat leaning against the foot of a table, head bowed, his eyes bloodshot and his silence as dead as a tomb.

His knuckles stood out, veins bulging, as he gripped a shattered phone tightly with bloodied fingers.

Bie Zhizi had blocked him.

He would never be able to contact her again.

[3]

Five years later, Bie Zhizi had become a household-name star.

She was filming a travel promotional variety show in the Great Northwest and staying overnight at the area's most famous guesthouse.

When she looked up, her ex, whom she hadn't seen in years, was now a handsome guide working with the production crew. He leaned by the doorway, smoking calmly as he stared at her with a cold, intense gaze.

Before meeting Bie Zhizi, Lou Si had never loved anyone.

All his pent-up rebellion and madness were locked beneath a cold, fierce exterior.

The moonlight bestowed upon him an unexpected reunion after years apart.

That rigid backbone, rising like a solitary peak, was shattered and bent out of shape, leaving him calm and yet unhinged.

He heard his own cold voice.

"A big star? Never heard of her. I don't know her."

Yet night after night, he begged her for a kiss.

"Bie Zhizi, you said you'd love me until you died."

He was my shelter when I was young, the salvation I found amid the mud and thorns where I was born.

But I refuse to be a withered vine trapped behind brick walls.

Even if he hates me to the core, I will never turn back.

Theme: People and nature living in harmony