The Heiress Is Choosing a Husband [New Game+]

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New story: Dear Lia. Blurb at the bottom.

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Heart-stealing femme fatale | Suitors at each other's throats | Fictional Korean setting

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Jiang Yan is the youngest daughter of a chaebol family. Beautiful as a lotus in a clear breeze,

she is a showpiece bought and paid for with money.

At a banquet, she meets the fiance her father has picked out for her.

He wears his usual cruel smile, his disgust for her plain in his eyes, exactly as the rumors said.

They despise each other. Then, after she inexplicably reloads a save, she decides to pick someone else.

Candidate No. 1: Her ill-tempered playboy fiance-to-be

Bad temper, wears every emotion on his face. But once she gets a handle on him, he'll do whatever she says.

Like an untamed beast.

He once thought she was a nuisance, looking at her with a gaze more vile than a stray dog's. He grabbed her without a second thought, leaving deep red finger marks around her wrist that took ages to fade.

Candidate No. 2: A refined scoundrel, only son of an airline family

A little neurotic, with a vicious streak deep down, but the most willing to spend money on her.

He once tested her obedience.

He left her sitting alone as elegant classical music played on repeat through the empty house.

Artificial light from the glass pendant overhead seemed to greedily swallow her whole, while his gaze on her was so gentle it was terrifying.

Candidate No. 3: The young son of a politician

He seems upright and pure-hearted, blushing whenever she teases him. But later, she brings out a certain side of him.

The rain-washed streets are slick, puddles everywhere. Curled up inside a phone booth, he wipes the foggy glass with his elbow and begs her, "Could you please not break up with me?

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These are all the pitfalls she's stumbled into.

Later, the save files get mixed up, and they all remember what happened before.

Reader's guide:

1. The female lead is a heartbreaker. There is no official pairing in the story.

2. The male characters appear one after another, and there are more than the three listed above.

3. No inappropriate relationships will happen before the characters are adults.

Screenshot from 2024.2.11. Edited 2024.5.1

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Dear Lia

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Lia Rose is a regular on the New York Times bestseller list. The worlds she writes are filled with the cozy warmth of small-town hearth smoke and fairytale whispers of a lakeside breeze.

But when it comes to love, her first thought is rain.

She remembers three rainy days: when she was eighteen, twenty, and twenty-five.

It was the 1980s in America, an era defined by Madonna's pop music and the glittering dreams of yuppies. The big cities were brimming with desire and ambition, and the whole country seemed to be at one grand party, chasing dreams that were louder and more dazzling.

It seems as though the roar and clamor of an entire era lie between them.

Yet they are connected by those three quiet rains.

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Oakwood, a small town on the edge of the American South. Moon Lake rests in the embrace of maples and elms, and the summer of eighteen stretches on as if it will never end.

Lia and Leo are like two trees growing side by side, their roots entwined beneath the soil, their branches brushing in the wind.

Reader advisory:

One-to-one romance, childhood sweethearts.

The background details are based on online research. Please go easy on me if anything is wrong.

Theme: Loving yourself is the beginning of romance