Drawing Close

[My next book, Breathe, Is My Choice, is now open for release]

When Ying Jiyu was under immense academic pressure in her senior year of high school, she started dating a boy online.

She'd never met him, but knew his name was Liang Zongming. He was in the same grade, did poorly in school, was a street thug, and an orphan.

He lived in the neighboring county, just an hour away by bus.

One weekend, when they had a day off, Ying Jiyu asked what he was doing.

[Playing ball with friends. You?]

[Studying!]

[Think you'll get in?]

[Do you think... a vocational college might be better than a private university?]

Private universities cost too much.

Liang Zongming didn't reply. Instead, he suddenly sent her a message: [Wanna hang out? I'll come get you.]

Ying Jiyu sat bolt upright and looked outside. Staring at the hazy, blurred window, she instinctively touched the bus fare she'd saved in her pocket.

[It's raining outside.] She hesitated as she looked out the window, inexplicably disappointed.

Liang Zongming: [Then don't come.]

[Oh...]

The last message Ying Jiyu received from Liang Zongming came the summer after he turned eighteen, when he left their town.

[Ying Jiyu, I'm outta here.]

His biological parents, who had spent eighteen years searching for him, found him and took him back. He went abroad to study, settled in Australia, and from then on, his life went smoothly. He became a completely different person.

At the time, Ying Jiyu stood at the shabby bus station in their county, pulling a suitcase and soaked through in the rain as she cried and called him a bastard.

-

Years later, Liang Zongming ran into Ying Jiyu again on a winter day filled with falling snow.

The day he returned to the county, he stood alone by the street, watching her without approaching.

The black Lexus was still parked by the roadside, its roof dusted with a thin layer of snow. It had been there a long time.

Liang Zongming watched her thin back as he quietly smoked, distracted.

The fact that she wasn't doing very well now made him feel uneasy.

- Starts on campus, then moves to the city; primarily a reunion and a pursuit of his wife

- One-on-one, both virgins

Breathe, Is My Choice

The year Ku Ling turned twenty-five, his mother introduced him to a blind date.

She made a group chat and said the other person had a steady job and was sweet and quiet. They could arrange to meet when they had time.

During a break in a meeting, Ku Ling tapped on her profile picture.

Then he stared at her name and finally remembered who she was.

They'd been in the same class for all three years of high school. They'd even gone to the same university and had advisors in the same office.

She kept to herself and didn't talk much. When she was so frightened by someone pursuing her that she almost cried, he handed her a tissue.

Two or three years had passed since then, and he was genuinely curious about what she'd become.

-

The blind date came to nothing, but through a twist of fate, Ren Shu and Ku Ling ended up in a secret relationship that lasted a year.

The difference was that

from the very beginning, their relationship was anything but harmonious.

Ku Ling stood by the bed, his tall shadow looming over her, his voice softening.

"Ren Shu, how about one turn each?"

Ren Shu's eyes were still red, and her voice was low and muffled. "What?"

He said, "Positions."

A sweet-dessert baker and an asset manager at a securities firm

Cool, domineering top x honest, stiff bottom

#We country folk call this dating x

That's it for now.

The heroine has a condition that makes her unable to stop crying.

I'll add other content warnings when I start posting.

Theme: All the waters in the world will meet.