A Sweet Daily Life With My Ex, Pretending to Be Married

My new novel, The Guests of Spring Breeze Are So Hard to Handle, is out! The blurb is at the very bottom. My completed novel, The Late Return, is also in my profile.

Blurb:

Fake sultry, multifaceted female host (reporter) VS genuinely two-faced university professor

A year ago, while Jin Hao was on a business trip abroad, she lost a game and ended up with a marriage certificate with a graceful, captivating woman.

The woman was a university professor. She seemed aloof and refined, not at all like someone interested in grown-up pleasures.

But Jin Hao never expected that, when it came to certain unspeakable things, the woman had all sorts of strange and unusual fetishes.

After that, every week for a year, she reluctantly played the role of the woman's weekend lover.

The intense, sleep-inducing lifestyle was unbearable. At last, with the agreement period about to end, Jin Hao was finally able to go abroad to get a divorce.

To her surprise, on the day of the divorce, she suddenly learned that same-sex marriage had been legalized back home.

With a series of reward policies on offer and her career and personal life both facing crises, she had no choice but to swallow her pride and turn back to the woman to ask for a remarriage under their agreement.

Of course, she could never have guessed how they would have to play the part of a loving married couple after they wed.

Xue Youyun had been waiting, waiting for the girl who only wanted to play along for show to one day willingly walk into her home.

She naturally knew exactly how to capture a sly fox.

But more than catching her prey, she enjoyed the process of playing hard to get.

Of course, the hunt also took more energy than she had expected from the hunter herself.

For instance, she had to let the other woman believe she only wanted to play along for show, too.

1. Four-year age gap

2. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting

Blurb for the new novel, The Guests of Spring Breeze Are So Hard to Handle:

Small-town tavern owner (writer) VS flirtatious Chinese painter

From the day Ye Zhengjing returned to the old town, she knew that her life would follow the same path as her mother and older sister: running the same two taverns and inns, year after year, meeting and parting with different travelers.

That was until a renowned painter, visiting the old town to paint, stopped by the tavern.

Ye Zhengjing didn't care about her achievements or fame, nor did she care whether the so-called aloof beauty really had a pair of captivating eyes.

She just wanted to sell a few more ounces of wine and make some money.

Who could have guessed that the money would somehow end up being earned not at the tavern, but at the inn across the street?

After a few days of doing business in a way that was neither here nor there, the young proprietress returned to the tavern and issued an urgent notice:

From now on, no one is to let that woman inside.

Unfortunately, business had to go on.

No one was going to turn away a walking fortune who came by every night.

They could only send her out every evening to escort the inebriated Miss Bai back to the inn just a stone's throw away.

After enough trips back and forth, sooner or later she'd be too slow. The woman would pin her against the door, eyes sparkling with amusement, and ask, "Wasn't the proprietress so bold that night?"

At certain moments, Ye Zhengjing always found excuses for her own surrender. They wouldn't see each other again anyway, so there was no harm in being a little bold.

She just never expected that her connection with this woman would be more than a single night of springtime passion...

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According to her original plan, Bai Qingmo only intended to find inspiration in an unfamiliar place.

She never expected to fall for someone in that century-old town.

Nor had she imagined she'd truly be unable to forget the woman who stood every night beneath the dim, yellow light.

Later, on her first night back at the inn, she received a transfer from someone with a note listing the total cost of her stays at the tavern and inn over the past few months.

She accepted the money and replied: The youngest proprietress provides good service, but her attitude isn't great. Three stars, at best.

That night, someone knocked on the door.

The cold-faced young proprietress stood outside, her handsome features filled with complicated emotions. "You really dared to come back?"

1. Three-year age gap

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