Claiming You as Mine in the Name of Love

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The first time they met, Shen Xi was accompanying her grandmother to pray for blessings at Guangji Temple. Through the hazy drizzle, she saw a man in a white shirt and trousers standing in the rain, a strand of prayer beads around his wrist. She couldn't help looking twice.

The next time they met, her uncle pulled some strings to get her an internship at a company owned by an acquaintance. The two gradually became close, though perhaps a little too close.

Fu Lü Bai loved her, but he could only let himself love her and no more.

When it was time to leave, Shen Xi didn't ask for anything. She only took the strand of prayer beads from his wrist, then boarded a flight to Los Angeles.

He couldn't come to the airport, but after the takeoff announcement, a flight attendant's gentle voice rang through the cabin once more

"Mr. Fu wishes Miss Shen a safe takeoff and landing, and all the best in everything."

He had always been discreet, yet he did every romantic thing for her. Even his goodbye was grand.

They met again three years later.

Fu Lü Bai looked at her from across a bustling banquet.

Her long, straight black hair, which had once reached her waist, was now cut to her shoulders and curled. She looked even more mature and alluring.

Then a handsome little boy with curly hair ran over, clung to her leg, and called her Mommy.

The cigarette fell from his fingers, leaving a pain that was hard to describe.

No one knew that Fu Lü Bai didn't believe in Buddha. The prayer beads were only something an elder in his family had asked for on his behalf, and he hadn't wanted to reject the gesture.

And no one knew that when a major earthquake struck the region where Shen Xi lived that year, he had made ninety-nine full-body prostrations at Guangji Temple in the depths of winter, praying only for her safety.

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--Upcoming novel

"Forbidden Friendship"

Shi Hao made the worst mistake one can make in a relationship: she fell for her best friend, the boy she'd grown up with.

Liang Man was carefree, unrestrained, and wild. He'd been the most outstanding one in the compound since childhood.

She watched him fall in love again and again, then break up again and again, treating romance like a game.

"You're still the best. Those girls are such a pain." Liang Man drank, put an arm around her shoulders, and said, "I'm happiest when I'm with you. I love being with you."

Shi Hao's fingers curled slightly, but she said nothing.

Not long afterward, an accident happened.

Shi Hao committed an even greater taboo and ended up in bed with her best friend.

To preserve their friendship, they decided to add another kind of friend to their relationship.

They agreed that if either of them found someone they liked, they could call it off at any time.

Not long afterward, his unrequited love returned from overseas.

Liang Man still remembered how devastated he'd been when she left, and how Shi Hao had stayed with him drinking until he was dead drunk.

Now, watching him greet her at the airport with joy, Shi Hao smiled and offered her blessing as a friend.

Then she turned and walked away, leaving his world for good.

But Liang Man went mad looking for her everywhere.

He only wanted Shi Hao.

Whether as a friend or a lover, he only wanted Shi Hao.

#The most special person in my uneventful youth: my best friend

#Our promise from childhood is still so clear

--Upcoming novel 2: "Puppy Sister"

They lived in apartments one above the other. When they were children, his mother often left him in her care.

She was eight years older than him, and he called her Sister.

He once stood at the foot of the stairs and watched her kiss different men in secret, afraid that the uncle in the next room would hear them.

But he had never thought of her as a sister.

He wanted to kiss her.

Years later, he finally stood right here. The kitchen inside was filled with the aroma of Uncle's stir-fried dishes, while she struggled to catch her breath as he kissed her, making little sounds and digging her fingers into his waist.

The heroine is a marriage-free woman. For years, she's drifted among men without ever getting attached, living in the moment and changing partners countless times.

A friend received the invitation and asked in surprise, "How did he manage to win you over?"

She said with a headache, "He's too much of a handful. Let's just leave it at that."

Scheming, sweet-talking puppy x free-spirited older woman

A little scene from the puppy's troublesome phase:

The puppy thinks

Theme: Love is both a weakness and armor