A Summer Encounter Beneath the Full Moon

[Complete] A Cup of Honey Snow Lemon Tea

(Manager Has Something on Her Mind is currently serializing)

Age gap / status gap / marriage first, love later / daddy type x coquettish sweetheart / strangers fall for each other

1.

The Pei family, a century-old Shanghai dynasty, is led by a handsome young heir. Rumor has it he's calculating and ruthless. The women he's been with say he's clueless about romance, stiff, and boring.

Ni Qingyuan is merely an orphan with no family connections, living under someone else's roof. Her status is worlds apart from Pei Yu's.

Yet these two people with nothing in common cross paths at a banquet she wanders into by mistake. His grandmother asks the young heir if there's someone he loves. Looking at the girl among a roomful of glamorous matchmaking prospects, the one who steps on his foot, he says in a cold voice, "Her, then."

The girl trembles as she refuses him in front of everyone, embarrassing him. "Uncle, I'm still young. I don't want to get married yet."

Everyone speculates that this mismatched couple won't last, especially with so many people eyeing the position of the future family head's fiancée and his formidable grandmother waiting in the wings.

2.

No one expects that the grandmother took a liking to this girl, who reminds her of herself when she was young, at first sight. Before the couple are even engaged, she buys them a grand riverside villa as their marital home.

She's still fretting over how to bring them together. If her grandson and the girl aren't meant to be, she'll adopt the girl as her granddaughter and give her the jewelry she's treasured all her life.

Pei Yu, who had been aloof when they met and handed over a gift, is about to leave when she asks, "How's the progress?"

He'd been away on a business trip and neglecting the girl for a week. His reply: "She wants to date me and marry me, but I didn't agree."

His grandmother is so furious she's about to hit him, when he adds, "But soon, I can move into your wedding house with her."

3.

The second time they meet is on a rainy night. He gallantly takes her home, soaked through.

The third time is also on a rainy night. He takes off his elegant, restrained jacket, and they kiss passionately in the dark. Her voice trembles with tears as she says, "Big brother, marry me."

Their names are written in the premarital agreement, and later, hot gold lettering on their marriage certificate seals their future together.

The big bad wolf has finally brought his beloved little rabbit home...

Reading Guide:

1. Single-relationship romance, with an age gap. The heroine has had a crush on someone before, and the hero has had rumored romantic involvements.

2. The heroine isn't a traditional doting wife. She has always been ambitious and strong inside, and while she may seem innocent but calculating, the hero encourages her to grow.

3. Because of his complicated family background, the hero has a one-sided longing for marriage and won't get divorced.

4. Neither of them is love-struck. Please don't apply this to real life, babies. Just relax and enjoy the novel. The people you love are all the souls of women writers, so whatever you do, don't become love-struck.

The blurb was written in 2024 and screenshotted. See you in the second half of the year on Weibo. I'm also drafting Manager Has Something on Her Mind.

Blurb for Manager Has Something on Her Mind follows

Beauty products operations manager x secret identity: new hire in the development department (heir to the group)

Xu Zhiwei x Ji Kangsong

Xu Zhiwei has an associate degree in an unrelated field. She enters the beauty industry and faces discrimination, but works relentlessly until the boss recognizes her talent. On the first day she becomes city manager after outcompeting all the other qualified candidates, her boss tells her, "I hope you won't date or get pregnant for a while. First, secure your position." It's a hint at why the previous manager left.

A highly educated and handsome young man recently joined the company in the development department. Xu Zhiwei thinks to herself, "A cute puppy-boy. He definitely can't be trusted."

At the company's anniversary celebration, the spring gala is filled with laughter and song. Colorful streamers flutter beneath alluring lights, and she accidentally meets his eyes. The next morning, Xu Zhiwei wakes up to find herself lying with her new colleague. She's clutching his white shirt, its buttons fallen open, revealing the smooth, defined muscles of his abdomen. She remembers the beads of hot, glistening sweat on his body in the dim light the night before... The threat on the tip of her tongue turns into, "Don't tell anyone."

But Ji Kangsong seems not to have heard her. Not only does he go home to get his household registration booklet and successfully propose, but whenever Xu Zhiwei travels on business, he finds a way to go on a trip there too, so they can bump into each other.

From then on, whenever she's in the office, everyone gets milk tea and coffee.

When she's on a business trip, someone secretly books her a hotel and orders flowers for her.

During her period, someone even rubs her stomach with warm hands at night to soothe the pain.

The boss's gaze always makes her feel guilty. She can't refuse the passionate love she's never received before, and can only lose herself even as she tries to stay clear-headed.

She confides in him about the anxiety of their secret relationship, which leaves her constantly on edge. Ji Kangsong strokes her cheek. "I won't put you in a difficult position."

One day, Xu Zhiwei suddenly develops morning sickness, and rumors start spreading around the company. Some people are secretly delighted that the manager's position will soon be vacant again.

A new general manager is suddenly appointed to the Southern Region. Rumor has it he's the group's heir. At the new boss's welcome reception, Xu Zhiwei is stunned to see Ji Kangsong speaking!

He walks toward her in full view of everyone, takes her hand firmly, and introduces her in a gentle voice: "By the way, let me introduce you to my wife!"

Who said he couldn't be trusted?

Xu Zhiwei is speechless for a moment, then can't resist her usual habit of secretly pinching his lower back.

The manager has a new worry... Did she just marry into a wealthy family out of nowhere?

Years later,

Someone marvels that she got lucky: she accidentally had a child with a colleague, then accidentally became the wife of a group heir.

But someone knows that it was just a case of love at first sight turning into a secret crush come true!

After the rain comes the sweet rain, and good times bring happy news!

Theme: A harmonious family brings success in everything