That Sprig of Plum Blossoms

Opening a new preorder: "Back to the Day I Married My Wife, Who Was Deep in the Closet." Blurb below. Please add it to your favorites if you like it! Blunt but secretly caring restaurant-owner gong x beautiful masseuse shou. Reunion after a long separation. Reader's Guide: 1. My writing is rough, so please don't offer critiques. If it's not for you, please stop reading in time! 2. Please don't conflate the characters' actions with the author. Be kind to yourself and others! 3. The characters' personalities aren't perfect, but the main couple are each other's first and only! (There is a side couple, and they aren't each other's first and only.) 4. [I'm terrible at logic and love awkward weirdos. Everything in this story serves my kinks! Welcome, kindred spirits!] Blurb: A wellness center recently opened in town. It specializes in treating difficult ailments such as cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, and lumbar muscle strain. Ye Xi, a chef, is asked by a friend why she never goes there. She spends all day at the wok, and nearly everyone who knows her is aware that she has frozen shoulder and mild cervical spondylosis. Ye Xi just smiles and declines. "I'm too busy." "Boss Ye, you can't spend all your time making money. You need to learn to enjoy life." "Every masseuse at the wellness center is gorgeous. One of them has the most charm. Her eyes are so lively, it's like they can speak." "What's her name? He... He something?" He Jinlan. This woman, who suddenly appeared in town, was stunningly beautiful. She had a pair of alluring, half-drunken peach blossom eyes and usually wore a plum-blossom qipao. She didn't fit in with the town at all. And no one knew that on the night the place across the street opened, she'd knocked on Ye Xi's shop door. It was clearly nothing more than a fleeting affair, yet after years apart, He Jinlan leaned against the door and asked with tender affection, "Would you like a massage?" "I'm very good at it." * Ye Xi knew a little about how "good" He Jinlan was. Back in their damp, stifling rental room, she'd helped He Jinlan "practice" massage many times. He Jinlan had been inexperienced then, but now her fingers were slender and supple. She even took the initiative to lift the plum-blossom qipao. Ye Xi could clearly see her upturned eyes, hazy and restrained, full of frustrated desire. If this had happened a few years earlier, that plum-blossom qipao would surely have been torn to shreds. And He Jinlan would have blossomed radiantly in Ye Xi's hands. But their goodbye had been silent. Ye Xi retreated into a corner. He Jinlan, however, repeatedly stroked Ye Xi's heart with her soft fingertips. Then, in a low, lilting voice, she pleaded, "Would you make me cry in your favorite place?" * Back then, during those years, He Jinlan and Ye Xi had been close. When she danced seductively, she would place the flower from her lips into Ye Xi's palm. In truth, what she wanted even more was to place herself in Ye Xi's palm. So, on a hazy night, she delivered the words she'd kept inside for years to Ye Xi's ear: "You once said I was like a plum blossom." "Now I want to be plucked into your hand." Temporary blurb: Xue Erbai thinks... She must be pretty lucky. Otherwise, how could she wake up one morning and find herself back on her wedding day? Outside the civil affairs bureau, her beautiful, aloof childhood sweetheart and wife stands beside her, distant and polite. "I have to go to work now." "Let's keep seeing each other once a week. We can message on WeChat if anything comes up..." But Xue Erbai is instantly on high alert! Ji Wusheng is sensitive and proud. When her family went bankrupt, Xue Erbai didn't hear it from her. She learned about it from Ji Wusheng's father, who arranged for Xue Erbai to marry her. Xue Erbai, who loved her without hope, had taken advantage of the situation. After getting their marriage certificate, she didn't even dare approach Ji Wusheng, afraid she'd notice her feelings. As the hottest musical theater actress around, Ji Wusheng is worth a pretty penny, and she keeps working day and night even after marriage. She even accepted an invitation to join a cohabitation reality show for women! That was also the show that subjected her to online abuse, leaving her depressed for a long time. More than a year later, Ji Wusheng finally got drunk and admitted how she felt: "Xue Erbai, we never even had a proper relationship!" Her grievance was enough to melt anyone's heart! How could they let history repeat itself now!!! "Honey, you can't!!!" Ji Wusheng looked at her in confusion. "?" So how was she supposed to tell Ji Wusheng that taking this job would expose her to online abuse? Blurb 2 The online abuse was for one simple reason: Ji Wusheng was aloof and pretended to be a lesbian. But that wasn't true at all. Her beloved wife was just extremely introverted and deep in the closet! And she was already engaged! Besides, that women-only reality show was billed as a cohabitation show, but nobody said they had to fall in love! What could her wife have done wrong? Did everyone have to push her until she was in tears in Xue Erbai's arms? Xue Erbai transformed into a devoted wife, invested in the production, and forcefully joined the cohabitation show. When Ji Wusheng saw her, her eyes lit up. See? Her wife was the cutest person in the world! But why, after joining the show, did she feel like Tang Sanzang entering the Kingdom of Women, then the Spider Cave? She could get into all those places, but not to the side of her adorable wife, Ji Wusheng! Wolves were circling all around. Xue Erbai stayed faithful, silently voting for Ji Wusheng, but could only watch helplessly as she had lunch with an award-winning actress by day and gazed at the stars and moon with a rising star by night... Yet she didn't even look at Xue Erbai beneath the grape trellis! Xue Erbai could only pull strings behind the scenes to make the "Earphones" ship the hottest crack ship on the show! Trending topics kept popping up, and the hopelessly-in-love character setup was firmly established. Then, one late night, her adorable wife bared her claws, grabbed her by the collar, and kissed her. "How much do you love me?" It was definitely her familiar wife, who loved being kissed by force! The best thing about getting a second chance was that she could be there for her wife every night and every day she needed her! Theme: Better to break than bend.