The Ambition of a Wind-Chasing Youth

[Reunited After Years Apart] [Pretend Unrequited Love] Please give this a like and add it to your favorites!

[Warm on the Outside, Cold on the Inside] [Says One Thing, Means Another]

At seventeen, Lu Fengxing thought Zhong Yi was a strange girl. For the sake of a stray cat on campus, she didn’t hesitate to guilt-trip him, a model student she barely knew.

At twenty-four, Lu Fengxing was a late bloomer. He went to great lengths to put an animal protection charity project in front of Zhong Yi. But the girl who’d once been so unwavering just raised the corners of her lips and smiled with a mix of flippancy and hypocrisy. “Mr. Lu, how come you’re the one who’s a complete idealist?”

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On the eve of the college entrance exams, Zhong Yi’s father died unexpectedly. She pawned her precious camera and gave up on her dream of becoming a wildlife photographer for good.

At the time, the indie game Cloud Sails burst onto the scene, bringing the Windeye Game Studio into the view of players around the world. Its name soon became renowned everywhere.

Six years later, Lu Fengxing returned to China with the core materials for Cloud Sails and stood before Zhong Yi once again.

Zhong Yi never imagined that the developer of Cloud Sails, a game that perfectly hit all her preferences, was the campus heartthrob from her high school days.

A perfect gentleman, as warm as jade, with enough medals to cover a whole wall. Lu Fengxing was the well-behaved student everyone at school knew. How could he have anything to do with video games, let alone developing one?

Besides, in her hotheaded youth, she’d gotten worked up over a stray cat at school and called him a cold-blooded, self-serving animal to his face.

What an awkward reunion.

Luckily, after years of fighting for success in high society, Zhong Yi had mastered the art of smiling without meaning it.

Facing Lu Fengxing, she locked away the pounding of her heart, put the past behind her, and pretended they’d never met. “Mr. Lu, right? We went to the same school, so let’s not stand on ceremony~”

Who could have guessed that Mr. Lu, who’d once argued with Zhong Yi nonstop, would let indescribable emotions churn in his dark eyes and tear away his mask of aloofness.

He leaned in, leaving no room for refusal, his fingertip pressing firmly against the girl’s chin. His low, husky voice was soaked in resentment he could no longer hold back:

“Zhong Yi, you forgot about me?”

-

At eighteen, Lu Fengxing was the heartthrob of No. 1 High School.

Noble and composed, he looked indifferent even when faced with his medals.

Six years later, he returned from overseas in a tailored suit. Everyone was certain Lu Fengxing would take over the family business.

But the elegant young master placed a bet agreement on the candlelit table at a family banquet, his eyes cool and clear. “Windeye Studio is what I truly want.”

There was still one thing he kept hidden behind his teeth, unable to say aloud:

The girl behind the inspiration for Cloud Sails is my present and my future, the place where all my courage and freedom belong.

…And now, when they met again, she dared to forget him?

Zhong Yi didn’t know that, back then, it was her wholehearted passion that pulled Lu Fengxing out of the mire all by herself.

After six years apart, Lu Fengxing was still impeccably dressed, but Zhong Yi was no longer fired up with passion.

If that was how it had to be, then this time it was his turn to repay her.

-

When Zhong Yi was seven, she saw a lonely boy in the park, holding half a broken kite string as he sprinted after a drifting kite, chasing the boundless wind on the horizon.

Later, she saw an old, yellowing photograph in a frame and learned that the boy was called Lu Fengxing. So they’d met when they were children after all.

At seventeen, Lu Fengxing was guilt-tripped by her and shed his cold, dignified exterior, angrily telling her to stop bothering him. At twenty-four, he gave her the gift she’d wanted most when she was seventeen, but she smiled and turned him down.

Because Zhong Yi had a secret buried in her heart, a secret powerful enough to make her and Lu Fengxing enemies for life. Holding the battered heart deep in her chest, she knew they were never meant to be together.

Reading Guide:

1. Happy ending, one-on-one, both leads have only been with each other. Includes flashbacks to their school days.

2. The leads aren’t perfect people, and their flaws will come to light and be worked through later. They aren’t fundamental issues.

3. Some scenes in Cloud Sails take inspiration from Terraria. This won’t affect your reading experience.

--Ta-da, next book coming soon--

Interstellar Fugitive: Spy vs. Spy, chasing each other and falling in love as enemies

Incomplete blurb:

A smuggler’s ship crashes by accident at the edge of a planet. Amanda leads a search party to the crash site.

As the helicopter blades spin, the cold voice of the governor’s secretary comes through her earpiece: “Bring back the survivors and interrogate them according to procedure.”

Amanda nods slightly, her expression calm. “Understood.”

Beneath twenty-nine corpses lies a man who is still breathing.

Amanda, her gas mask secured, plunges into the heart of the flames alone.

Just as she catches sight of a dead man’s rolled-back eyes, a dirty hand reaches out from the steel wreckage and clutches her slender neck desperately.

Yu Minglang, dressed in rags, collapses against her combat uniform and wails:

“Your Excellency from Nubis! I heard you give defectors hot water and food, and a good education, too, so we can settle down on Nubis. Is that true?”

Amanda coldly pushes away the refugee from the neighboring planet, whose face is buried against her chest.

With a deft twist of her slender wrist, she flashes her police badge. “In the name of the governor, you are under arrest.”

The survivor, lost in fantasies of having successfully smuggled himself in: ?

Theme: Break free of constraints and dare to pursue your dreams