The last chapter is a real shock, so don't read it, haha. All I can say is that I'll never write another female-led coming-of-age story again. I was wrong, sob sob sob.
I swear this is the only time! Let this stand as proof!
Please add my contemporary romance, Finding Joy in the Cool: the leads go from strangers to getting to know each other, step by step.
She's bright and frank, and though she's clever, she rarely uses it. She's always been laid-back, and her main goal is to get along quietly in the world.
On her first day in the Tang Dynasty, she met a young man.
He was cold and distant, and lacked common sense. She scolded him: "You're useless, nothing special."
From then on, he took a dislike to her and repeatedly set traps for her.
He said that anyone without a travel permit couldn't enter the city, forcing her to find shelter from the wind and rain in the woods outside the city.
During a storm of thunder and lightning, she rescued a woman, but he mistook her for the culprit and tried to arrest her.
When she tried to investigate her parents' past and the cause of their deaths, he led her step by step into one deadly trap after another.
She was Yun Shi'an. She had been a skilled swimmer and fighter since childhood, and was kindhearted and unconstrained.
The powerful and aristocratic families were everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, but she strode through it all with her head held high.
One day, with mountains and rivers between them, she told him with complete sincerity: "From now on, I'll be your backing."
He was a prince of the Tang Dynasty, but his identity was unclear, and he hid in the shadows.
Unable to see the future, he lived one day at a time.
Yet he never expected that, one year, outside Qingzhou City, with grass growing tall and flowers blooming,
he would meet her.
He disliked the brightness between her brows. He thought that life wore people down, and that those with no one to rely on, barely surviving in the world, shouldn't wear their carefree brightness on their lips and brows.
Later, that glimmer of brightness helped him endure the endless darkness and gave him a chance to be reborn.
Theme: Fate is in heaven's hands, but my destiny is mine to command.
I loved it so much. I cried when I read this chapter today. I read it three times!
It's the type I'm looking for. Please write more.