After We Broke Up, the Cool Beauty Finally Let Go

My next book will be Reborn as the Disabled Marshal's Child Bride Egg, a space opera. Coming soon: Raising My Rival, Meow, also a space opera. Please add them to your reading list!

Blurb: A cool beauty who trains dogs as the bottom x a top who's completely wrapped around his lover's finger

When Shen Yanchu was twenty, he dated a boyfriend who said he would always be his little dog.

Nobody knew that Shen Yanchu had carefully plotted to approach his little dog first. He kissed Shixu of his own accord, seduced him on the deck beneath a ship full of starlight, and then ruthlessly abandoned him.

The Shen Group is on the verge of bankruptcy and desperately needs to secure a business deal. Shen Yanchu boards the yacht where his old flame, Shixu, has gone out to sea. The wind billows his shirt, and the purplish love bites on his skin look alluring. Shixu grits his teeth. "Shen Yanchu, you don't actually think I'm still hung up on you after all these years, do you?"

Shen Yanchu sits on Shixu's lap, slipping his pale, slender hand into the collar of Shixu's shirt. His waist dips slightly as he lifts his chin and slowly exhales warm breath. "A-Xu, your body says it misses me terribly."

Excerpt One:

At a banquet, Shen Yanchu is plied with drinks. His cheeks flush, and a former suitor he once rejected blocks his way.

"Shen Yanchu, how about I show you a way out? If you satisfy me in bed, I'll consider investing in the Shen Group to help you weather this crisis."

Laughter erupts all around them.

Shen Yanchu's gaze falls on a familiar figure in the distance. "How much are you planning to invest, Young Master Zhou?"

Zhou Siyue looks at him contemptuously. So he's putting a price on himself now?

As Zhou Siyue hesitates, he watches Shixu Shen Yanchu slip away like a slippery fish, stumbling right up to the heir of the Shi family. Shen Yanchu wraps himself around the man's waist bonelessly, wearing an expression of allure Zhou Siyue has never seen before.

He hears Shen Yanchu ask, "His offer is too low. Shixu, I don't want to sleep with him. How about I sleep with you instead?"

Zhou Siyue's face darkens instantly.

The Shen Group does go bankrupt in the end, and plenty of people wait to laugh at Shen Yanchu.

They wait and wait, only to hear that the heir and Shen Yanchu are getting married. Later, they hear that the Shen Group is going to be restructured, and that the name listed under "controlling shareholder" is...

Everyone: ???

Bonus scene:

Sunlight spills into the room.

An arm encircles a pale, slender waist. Teeth nibble at a collarbone covered in love bites. The newlywed husband says fiercely, "Yanyan, don't you dare leave me a second time!"

Smack!

The beauty on the bed slaps the person on top of him across the back, then shoves his head away from his shoulder. "If you're as insatiable as you were last night again, you're sleeping somewhere else!"

(Note: People shouldn't trip over the same stone twice, but Shixu can keep falling for his wife as many times as he likes.)

Reborn as a Powerful Man's Child Bride Egg, a space opera. Blurb:

The Empire's Marshal, Linyuan, is gravely injured in a fierce battle against space pirates and their evil dragons. Seventy percent of his skin is burned by the dragons' slime, one eye is blinded, and both legs are disabled.

His longtime OMEGA fiance calls off their engagement and returns the precious ancient dragon egg that the Lin family gave them when they proposed. He even humiliates Linyuan, saying, "I'll marry you if you can hatch a true dragon from that egg."

Linyuan cradles the egg, which looks like a meteorite, and walks away without a backward glance, pushing his wheelchair.

Once aboard his aircraft, he spits blood onto the dragon egg.

The egg glows faintly gold.

The ancient demon dragon Ao Jiao injures his primordial spirit in a battle against evil dragons and has no choice but to seal himself inside a dragon egg to heal.

Somehow, something went wrong, and he hasn't been able to hatch for more than ten thousand years.

One day, Ao Jiao realizes that the egg is finally showing signs of hatching!

The proud dragon butts his head against the shell, and it breaks!

Hahahahaha!

I'm finally out of my shell!!!

"Awoooo~~~"

"Mew, mew~~~??

?!!!

Ao Jiao: "!!!"

Where's his earth-shaking roar?

What is this kitten-like meowing supposed to be?

Word spreads that Linyuan has coughed up blood and died, and rumors fly.

Linyuan, who possesses extraordinarily powerful SSS-level mental strength, is crippled. The old marshal is elderly, and everyone believes the Lin family, the most powerful family in the S Empire, is destined to decline.

Some busybodies even claim that Linyuan won't live to see the Empire's New Year. Even if he survives, he'll be a cripple for life.

-

A month passes, then two, then six...

The citizens of the S Empire are astonished to discover that their disabled marshal, Linyuan, has not only stood up again, but regained his once peerlessly handsome face. His mental strength is even more terrifying than before!

His former fiance, an OMEGA, comes to see Linyuan with bloodshot eyes. He says his family forced him to break off the engagement. "I know you hate me, and I'm not asking you to forgive me. I only hope you'll give me one more chance, a chance to take care of you."

Linyuan replies coldly, "No need. I have Jiao Jiao with me."

The former OMEGA fiance looks at the ugly, unidentifiable pet perched on Linyuan's shoulder: ???

The people of the Empire discover that wherever the marshal goes, a hideous creature sits on his shoulder.

Linyuan's subordinates remain expressionless. As if that's all! Their marshal even takes the ugly little thing along when piloting a mecha. He's so afraid it'll go hungry or get cold, and treats it more gently than he treats a wife!

Ao Jiao flies into a rage!

You're the ugly one! Your whole family is ugly!!

I'm a dragon!!!

A dragon!!!

Linyuan strokes the little dragon on his shoulder, suddenly throwing a fit, and gently brushes a fingertip over its tail. "Jiao Jiao isn't ugly. Jiao Jiao is the prettiest."

He shoots a cold glance at his subordinates.

Ao Jiao raises his chin.

Hmph! At least you have good taste!

I didn't heal you with my spiritual energy for nothing!

The subordinates: They are the finest of the Empire's military forces. How many OMEGAs have fought to marry them, and now they're being outdone by an adorably ugly little dragon?

-

One day, Marshal Linyuan realizes his pet, Jiao Jiao, has gone missing!

He mobilizes the entire army to search for him.

Suddenly, he gets a call from his former fiance: "Marshal, help, help me! Your pet, your pet has gone crazy!! Marshal, save me!"

Linyuan rushes over.

Standing on his bed is a beautiful young man with bright eyes and pearly teeth, so gorgeous he's beyond compare.

The young man plants a foot on his former fiance's head. "Anyone who dares covet my pet will die. Understand?"

Pet. Lin. Yuan: ??

Ao Jiao: I'll secretly transform, then amaze everyone. Badass-style tail swish.jpg.

Reader's guide: This is not a traditional space opera, and the story includes lots of original worldbuilding!

Completed works: The Cannon Fodder Male Supporting Character Tears Apart the Fake Young Master Plot, After We Broke Up, I Became Famous Through Variety Shows, I Became the Villain and Got a Happy Ending with the Obsessive Male Lead, The Little Shopkeeper of the Republic of China, The Peking Opera Diva Who Rose to Fame After Rebirth in the Republic of China

Theme: Be the brightest version of yourself.