A Happy Accident

Starting in 2026. Full manuscript completed and ready to post.

Younger, brooding young master x prim, resilient maid

Powerful man in a humble position / childhood friends / taking by cunning and force

Blurb:

1.

With nowhere else to turn, Xiao Chan is taken in by the Ji family by a twist of fate. Since she has not been employed there long enough, the housekeeper assigns her to care for the young master.

He sits at a writing desk, his pale face glowing with a soft downy sheen. He wears expensive clothes utterly unlike hers and practices his calligraphy with focused care.

Hearing a sound, he looks up. In the faint afternoon sunlight, his eyes curve into a smile as he politely greets her: "Hello, big sister."

He is only seven at the time.

For the next ten years, the young master treats her wonderfully. When he is little, he gives her a whole tin of pine nuts, walnuts, and candy, as well as freshly roasted chestnuts. When he gets a little older, he gives her little jasmine-shaped hair clips and a white jade bracelet painted with lotus-colored butterflies.

He treats her even better than her late parents did.

But in the end, she is still the one who pushes him away.

2.

A rift opens between them. The next day, the housekeeper says, "The young master is going abroad to study. He'll be gone for many years."

Xiao Chan's hand slips, and the brush falls to the ground.

The clatter of a car passing outside strikes her heart with pain.

One day, six years later, news of his return spreads through the entire estate like a joyful surprise.

She stands beneath a telephone pole on the street.

Through the snow drifting like ash, the handsome, dignified man sees her across the crowd and smiles faintly, but his manner is distant and unfamiliar.

Xiao Chan feels relieved.

She thinks he has let the past go.

3.

One night, sometime later.

In a room on the fifth floor of the Ji residence...

A sharp slap rings out.

Xiao Chan hurriedly fastens the peach-pit buttons at her collar.

Rubbing the woman's handprint on his right cheek, Ji Sijing smiles as if he couldn't care less.

"That was a light slap, big sister. It wasn't as satisfying as last time."

Her eyes, filmed with tears, widen in an instant.

He feels like a stranger to her.

#They act like strangers, but they've kissed their lips raw#

#I treated you as my lover, but you treated me like a stranger#

#Someone is online asking for help, SOS!

What on earth has the young master been studying abroad all these years?!!!#

Reading Guide

* Three-year age gap (28 vs. 25), HE, both pure, modern alternate setting

* The heroine has her own career arc and won't be a maid forever

* The hero gets a little clingy in front of the heroine (okay, maybe more than a little)

* Blurb screenshot archived on 2024.11.29

* Content warnings to be added

Theme: A ship is land in motion; a kite is a cloud at anchor