Shanghai Neon

- New story, I Meet Butterflies in Autumn. Please add it to your favorites!

- Old house catches fire / sweet romance with a growing-up arc / 1990s / Shanghai setting

- Russian-Chinese mixed-race male lead x Shanghai heiress, with a growing-up arc

Mr. Yu is old-fashioned, reserved, and deeply attached to antiques.

Yet he keeps a little enchantress by his side, a woman who can be anyone and play any part.

One day, the two of them cross paths.

At the sight of the girl, the man’s expression darkens, something rare for him.

“Get dressed. We’re going home.”

“Uncle Yu.” The girl speaks each word deliberately, using the alcohol as an excuse to slight him. “You’ve got a terrible memory. I told you clearly, didn’t I? Anyone but you. Don’t try to control me.”

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Everyone says Miss Baoyin is greedy, reaching for more than she deserves, and hopelessly delusional.

Until one day, Mr. Yu, a confirmed bachelor, places an announcement in the newspaper, inviting everyone to his wedding.

“S-Sir, you really are an old-fashioned, o-old fossil.”

A faint, teasing complaint slips between the notes. The man, his collar undone, carefully steadies the slender waist on the piano, barely wide enough to span with one hand. His usually calm voice is a little hoarse.

He answers her, “As long as you enjoy it, Miss Baoyin.”

A few things to know:

- 12-year age gap / blurb takes place after the heroine is an adult / no adoption relationship

- Heroine is a sound engineer / hero is a businessman, antiques expert, and enthusiast

- One-on-one romance / powerful man bows his head / heroine has a secret crush / mostly sweet daily life / happy ending

- The hero is a late bloomer. An old house catches fire.

- Some Shanghainese dialect appears early on, then it’s all standard Mandarin.

- The line in the blurb is something the heroine says while drunk, mixing Shanghainese and Mandarin. Please don’t nitpick it!

- Original title: Trapped Crossing with the Winter Crows

--Please add I Meet Butterflies in Autumn to your favorites--

- Retired model x blind piano tuner

Zhou Chun is blind and works as a piano tuner with an extremely sensitive ear. Qian Ruoruo, a retired beauty pageant winner, has two useless legs and constantly complains that she’s stuck living with a good-for-nothing.

Their little house is always gloomy, with no sign of life except for the restless nights. Until one day, a director claiming to make acclaimed niche documentaries finds them and relentlessly swears he’ll make them famous overnight.

Later, the two of them are swindled out of everything they own.

In their messy little house, the man feels his way to the woman’s slender waist. Her damp lashes tremble, and she curls into his chest.

Facing each other, they suddenly kiss with a depth that could have come straight from a movie script.

[I meet butterflies in autumn, clutching you, dying, in the depths of despair.]

Note:

1. The hero has been blind since birth. The heroine’s legs will recover.

2. Happy ending, mutual salvation, and they put each other through the wringer.

3. They meet through a matchmaking arrangement, marry first and fall in love later.

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Theme: Saving others is also a way to save yourself.