Springtime Rhapsody

Poor, overworked beauty Chu Lan meets wealthy heir Jin Yunbai for a realistic daydream about love.

Chu Lan's ideal life is to stay unmarried, have no children, and get rich overnight. The odds of getting rich are slim, but achieving even half her ideal would count as a win.

Who knew she'd meet Jin Yunbai? With a face that handsome, Chu Lan decides that maybe she can stand to taste the bitterness of love.

They come from different worlds, and she never imagined they'd last. She only wants to enjoy the moment.

She never expected the man to demand a commitment. When he pins her against the wall and presses her for an answer about what they are...

Chu Lan: "We're friends who can kiss once in a while, I guess."

The veins on the man's forehead bulge one by one. Not afraid of dying, she adds, "You probably have lots of friends like that, right?"

The enraged man kisses her so forcefully she can barely breathe, leaving her dizzy. Panting, Chu Lan savors the moment, then pulls him back down to keep kissing him, shutting up his endless chatter.

Jin Yunbai comes from a prominent family and has always treated life like a game. He never expected Chu Lan to be his kryptonite.

He thought he could control his feelings.

But whoever falls first loses.

"I've already prepared myself to lose everything."

"I won't let you lose."

*Please add my upcoming novel, Everything I Do for You Is False Affection, to your reading list.

As a pretty but unknown actress, Liu Ye has always seen herself as a working woman: she'll perform for a paycheck, but she won't sell her body.

But when you're trying to make a living in the cesspool that is show business, an actress without powerful backing is just a dish everyone passing by wants to take a bite of.

Just before she was served up to be carved apart, Liu Ye desperately grabbed onto a lifeline. The powerful man glanced at her hand gripping the hem of his suit and raised an eyebrow.

The next day, the Hong Kong tabloids, always eager to stir up trouble, splashed an eye-catching headline across the front page: "Actress Makes a Desperate Bid for Fame, Captures Tycoon with Her Bare Hands!"

Liu Ye: "...Well, at least they took a pretty good photo of me."

Then a powerful man's assistant showed up at her door. "Mr. Bai has sent me to invite you to dinner."

...And after dinner?

Liu Ye fell into deep thought, then opened DeepSeek and asked: Is there any risk in getting something from a tycoon for free?

Bai Han has always been very satisfied with his life.

Being born into a wealthy family was one thing, and a successful career was only to be expected. On top of that, he had a face so handsome that both men and women fell for him.

With life so easy and smooth, like a novel's protagonist, he couldn't think of anything he lacked.

When he happened to meet an innocent-looking actress, he thought it would be the usual mutual attraction between a man and a woman. But without realizing it, he fell deeper and deeper.

He began to want her all to himself, to have an exclusive relationship with her, but she turned him down.

"But I don't love you."

She was a pure white marsh, quietly swallowing him up while acting as though nothing had happened.

Reading guide:

1. This novel is entirely fictional, set in a completely imaginary world. It's a realistic Cinderella fairy tale.

2. Please add it to your library and leave a comment!

Other completed novels in my collection:

Special Skills for Bringing Lost Cultural Relics Home: Bringing cultural relics lost overseas back home

The Cannon Fodder Strikes Back: A reborn mercenary takes the entertainment world by storm as a star

There's Something Wrong with Your Head: Mutual salvation between an entertainment-industry patient and a therapist

I Really Do Like You: A sweet high school romance

Theme: Love is a great adventure