Bone Spur [Broken Up, Reunited]

My new novel, Weightless, is now updating: an international student vs. a dangerously possessive young heir, marriage before love, and mutual salvation. Please add it to your favorites~ After The Bone Thorn is finished, I’ll polish it. I’m not responsible for pirated copies. Thank you to everyone supporting the official version. Here’s the blurb for The Bone Thorn~ *Cool and dazzling vs. roguish and tender *Mutual prey / unbearable tension / rekindled romance / five-year age gap 1. Liang Shuyin never expected to meet Lu Qiming again at an investor’s cocktail party. The producer introduced them. The man, dressed in a bespoke suit and radiating wealth, glanced at her indifferently as if she were a stranger. Their positions were worlds apart now: he was on top, and she was at the bottom. He was an investor with the power to make or break careers, an honored guest surrounded by admirers, and a powerful figure everyone in the industry wanted to befriend. She was merely an actress who had fought her way through thorns, given everything she had, and suffered countless hardships to win a newcomer award. She had no intention of rekindling their old relationship, so Liang Shuyin tactfully kept her distance. But her agent wanted to win over the wealthy heir for her. “Thank you, Mr. Lu, for giving our Yinyin the chance to play the lead.” At last, the man turned to look at her. His deep eyes were icy, his tone indifferent, and his manner condescending. “I’m only here to make money. I use whoever gets the job done.” His words mocked her, plainly and between the lines, as nothing more than a money-making tool. Liang Shuyin looked up, her stubborn gaze meeting his in defiance. For a moment, it was like those years ago, when the two of them were constantly trying to outdo each other. 2. Their first meeting began with a case of mistaken circumstances at a competition. During her sophomore summer break, Liang Shuyin unexpectedly took part in a motorcycle race. She didn’t know that Lu Qiming, the legendary racer who had long vanished from public view, watched her entire race from the sidelines. Later, he pursued her relentlessly, while she coldly pushed him away. “Why won’t you leave me alone?” In a pitch-black room, the man’s breath fell against her neck. His tone was half teasing, half threatening. “Liang Shuyin, what do you think?” In the year they were together, everyone around them knew that this man, born at the very top of the wealthy elite and notorious for his unruly ways, indulged her without question and had no limits when it came to her. He caught her falling soul and led her into a world where desire and passion intertwined. Then she left without a word. From that day on, Lu Qiming forbade anyone from saying the name Liang Shuyin. 3. Liang Shuyin didn’t mind Lu Qiming treating her coldly. After all, she had been the one to dump him, and she had no intention of rekindling their relationship. But after leaving the party early, she ran into the man, who had also left before it was over, at a street corner. Beside his familiar black sports car, Lu Qiming stood tall and elegant, tilting his head to light a cigarette. Through the smoke, he stared at her. He made no attempt to hide his gaze. She looked straight ahead and brushed past him, only for him to pin her hard against the wall. “After all these years, why are you still unwilling to look back at me?” Her expression was indifferent. “You said it yourself: whoever looks back is a loser.” Lu Qiming let out a low laugh, roughly tugged at her clothes, and stared at the mark on her shoulder blade. He leaned close to her ear, his words sounding like both a warning and a threat. “Liang Shuyin, I told you too: a butterfly can’t fly across the sea.” That summer, in the steamy bathroom, Lu Qiming had traced the butterfly tattoo she’d gotten for him on her shoulder blade with his fingertip and asked, “Do you know what the ‘ming’ in Lu Qiming means?” He pressed his lips to it. “The sea.” -A butterfly can’t fly across the sea, Liang Shuyin. Don’t think you can escape- Theme: Love and freedom