Boiling Snow

[My other novels, Slow to Warm and Drawn Under, are complete]

1.

With the term of her agreement with Ji Linzhou about to end, Fang Youyi took the initiative and handed him divorce papers.

Before marrying him, Fang Youyi had thought of him only as her brother’s friend, someone she had seen a few more times than a stranger.

There was nothing more to it.

That very night,

someone in the darkness loosened her collar and kissed her awake.

Amid the heavy breathing, Fang Youyi met a pair of dark, predatory eyes.

His heated kisses fell on her just as they had over the past few months.

She turned her face away to avoid him.

In the darkness, only their intermingled heartbeats could be heard.

A moment later, he gripped her chin and forcefully turned her face back.

Ji Linzhou braced an arm beside her. His stern face was calm to the point of indifference. Without reacting, he brushed the hair from her cheek, lowered his head, and kissed her again.

2.

Long after their marriage, Fang Youyi still couldn’t understand why Ji Linzhou had married her.

Their shared past was practically blank. Her strongest memory of him was a party several years earlier.

Beneath the cool blue lights shimmering over the water, his face by the pool had been strikingly handsome.

And when he lowered his eyes to look at her, his expression had been cold and indifferent.

After that, as far as she could remember, they had no connection at all.

Until the Fang family suddenly ran into trouble, and even those who had once been close to them kept their distance.

When she had nowhere left to turn,

Ji Linzhou appeared out of nowhere and casually asked whether she needed help.

His one condition was that

she marry him.

For a long time,

Ji Linzhou had been deeply curious about what it would be like to be loved by Fang Youyi.

He wanted her to fall in love with him.

Her love was what first drew him in.

[Reader’s guide]

1. Gentle and naive heroine X cold, dark, obsessive hero.

Marriage by agreement / crossing the line while married / slow burn at first, then coercive. The beginning may move slowly, but coercive elements appear in the middle and later. Please don’t read if that bothers you.

2. Both are sexually inexperienced, but nothing else is guaranteed. Readers with strict purity requirements, please stay away. Thank you.

3. The leads’ professions are based on information found online.

4. The hero smokes, but usually not in front of the heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.

5. Neither lead is perfect. Every character detail is there to serve the development of their relationship.

6. The hero isn’t head-over-heels in love with the heroine from the start. His feelings are moderate early on. The heroine briefly loved someone else at first, then later falls for the hero.

7. This is entirely fictional. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world. Don’t relate it to the real world.

Theme: Love doesn’t need to be proven.