After the Typhoon Passes [Hong Kong Style]

My super-exciting new novel, Snowfall in the Capital, is now available! (A dark, scheming man with an overwhelming need for control.) Click my author page to read it!

[Complete] [Hazy Beauty of a Jiangnan Water Town: Actress] VS [Reserved and Deep: Powerful Hong Kong Tycoon with a Hidden Crazy Side] | Age Gap | Happy Ending | Both Each Other's First | Older Man Falls in Love | Mildly Forbidden Romance

Blurb:

Nan Jing wonders how she could have met him in this life. Cold and unfeeling by nature, he drove her into a corner. He pinned her to the bed in that cramped little room. Outside the window, insects chirped and birds sang, and sunlight streamed through the curtains...

1.

Lin Nanjing went with her mother to Hong Kong at a young age to make a living. Life was hard, and her mother worked as a live-in maid for a wealthy family. Lin Nanjing had the misfortune of witnessing the family's bloody feuds. Her mother sided with the First Madam, so Lin Nanjing naturally became part of the first household. The eldest son was refined and aloof. The first time Lin Nanjing saw him, she lowered her head. Later, when conflict broke out in the family, she only wanted to escape that situation. After taking her exams, she ran back to the mainland.

She thought she could leave the Li family behind, but her agent had already promoted her as a "heiress from a wealthy family." Behind every entertainment headline, she was careful and riddled with guilt. Then, one day, at an investors' gathering, on a secluded terrace, with the night breeze swirling and starlight scattered over distant mountains, it all reflected in his deep eyes. He asked, "Miss Lin, I hear I have a younger sister?"

Lin Nanjing was nervous inside, but forced herself to stay composed. She tentatively answered, "Brother?"

2.

The first time Li Linqiu saw that little girl, she was standing quietly with her head bowed. She seemed like a quiet child, and he paid her no mind. When she was sixteen and he was twenty-six, he officially took over a position at the company. She gave him a carefully prepared gift, but the woman beside him teased, "So this is the maid's daughter from your house? She's quite pretty."

The girl pulled her hand back at once. He reached out instinctively and politely accepted the gift. When he opened it on the spot, he found a pair of beautiful cuff links. In front of his companion, he put them on and said to the flustered girl, "It's a little awkward. Could you help me?"

She lowered her head and used her slender, pale fingers to fasten them carefully.

He smiled faintly. "Thank you. I really like them."

He had never imagined anything developing between them. Even when his secretary hinted that Miss Lin was trading on his name to gain advantages in high society, he didn't think much of it.

What took him by surprise was seeing her, gorgeous and captivating, in another man's arms in a newspaper photo.

He leaned back in his chair, his gaze lowering pensively as he freely traced the lovely, radiant face in the picture. She's grown up, he thought.

3. On her birthday, Lin Nanjing woke to find cake scattered across the table and the balcony in disarray. Her body was covered in marks. The debauchery of the night before made her scalp tingle.

Who could have guessed that a man so courteous and gentle in public could be so vicious in private?

Lin Nanjing was furious. She had a shoot today!

The bathroom door opened. The man came out, drying his hair, and sat beside her. He gently pinched her chin. "I called in for you. Take the day to rest."

"Adeline agreed?"

He paused, seeming to think of something, then smiled. "She seemed pretty happy about it."

What a gossip of an agent! Lin Nanjing grumbled inwardly.

4. From the very beginning, you belonged to the First Household. From the very beginning, you were mine. - Li Linqiu

5. The south has many typhoons. By then, the storm had passed, and she had settled safely into autumn's embrace. - After the Typhoon

6. A sweet push-and-pull romance (?) Probably. No other woman gets between them.

7. He pursues her relentlessly and takes her by force. If that's not your thing, don't click.

Note: The heroine may be a good person, but the hero definitely isn't. He's ruthless, calculating, cold, and cruel. He's no perfect man.

The next novel in the same series: Snowfall in the Capital, featuring the gentle Eldest Master Li and our little Nanjing~~

Elegant and gentle heroine x Aristocratic young master with an intense need for control | Both Each Other's First | One-on-One Romance | Four-Year Age Gap | Campus Romance in the First Half, Urban Romance in the Second | Discipline and Punishment, proceed with caution | Sweet Romance, No Angst

Blurb:

That summer after exams, a typhoon struck Hong Kong. Before the storm arrived, a tall, handsome man appeared in the doorway.

"Mo Mo, let's get along. I'll marry you."

"Mo Mo, be honest. Don't you want... me?"

The secrets of adolescence were hard to put into words. But when Jin Mo saw him flirting with women, she had already sentenced herself to heartbreak. A secret crush was a grand romance that came to nothing.

She would break off their engagement.

But the boy who had dazzled her as a child and the extremely sinister man he'd become as an adult were now completely different.

1.

That day, she finished class.

His assistant came up to her.

"Miss, the boss is waiting for you in the courtyard. I'll take you there."

The simple courtyard he had bought for her was quiet all around. The sky was gray, and autumn in the capital was dry and cold. He sat in a chair, his face hidden in the dark of night, slowly smoking. Then he asked, "Who is he?" His voice was deep and husky, unlike usual. Jin Mo felt as if a thousand-pound weight had fallen on her.

"He's one of Grandpa's students. We're just friends," she explained.

"Do friends wipe your mouth for you?" he asked.

At a food stall outside campus, a man had used a wet wipe to clean a smudge from her mouth.

Jin Mo watched him flick the ash from his cigarette. His silent, handsome face looked different from before, too.

In Jin Mo's memories, he'd been brilliant and dazzling as a boy, then he went abroad. When he came back, he seemed to have changed completely. The powerful families of the capital treated him like an honored guest. Even her usually levelheaded cousin warned her not to cross him.

2.

After entering the working world, the two of them had a fight. Jin Mo still got ready and went to pitch her drama to investors.

At the gathering, the investor kept making excuses and even hinted that she could send the actors she represented to negotiate privately. Another executive remarked casually, "Isn't this the Third Young Master Li's fiancée?"

At once, the executives present began offering her opportunities.

Jin Mo accepted them all. If she could make use of his status, she might as well.

Later, Jin Mo was so stubborn that she insisted on breaking off the engagement. He finally agreed, but the very next day, her film crew was harassed.

"Li Junzhe, what do you mean by this?" Jin Mo shouted into the phone, furious.

Li Junzhe sat in his chair. The weather outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was lovely, and his voice was casual. "Miss Xue, is something wrong?"

Jin Mo took a deep breath. "I'll come home tonight. Tell them to stop causing trouble."

The man feigned ignorance. "Oh? What are you talking about, Miss Xue?"

Jin Mo thought he was becoming more and more of a bastard.

After that, the film crew was left in peace.

That night, when she returned to their home, the man sat on the sofa with his legs crossed. An easel stood in front of him, and he'd clearly already painted a few strokes. Jin Mo walked over, glanced at the painting, and immediately blushed.

He said lazily, "Come here, Mo Mo. Let's finish this painting."

He pulled Jin Mo onto his lap and asked, "Do you like it this way, Mo Mo?"

3.

Later.

In the depths of winter that year, in Belarus.

When Jin Mo won Best Director at the Minsk International Film Festival, she left the banquet hall. Snow was falling from the sky, and the whole world was blanketed in white. A figure dressed in black stood silently amid the endless snow, just as he had waited for her all these years.

The handsome man smiled. His voice was husky and warm. "Director Xue, congratulations."

Jin Mo stood still for a moment, then ran to him happily and called, "Honey."

4. I know you don't want love, only freedom. And I'm lucky enough to give you that. When I learned to let go, you came running to me. Mo Mo, do you know how lucky I am? - Li

5. Includes mildly forbidden romance. Proceed with caution.

6. No other woman gets between them. One-on-one romance. Both each other's first.

Content warnings:

1. Includes discipline. Read only if you're okay with that. Proceed with caution.

2. The heroine and hero have a physical relationship before she turns twenty. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you. (She has a secret crush before turning eighteen, breaks off the engagement after turning eighteen, and the hero is a jerk who starts pursuing her at the beginning.)

3. Under Hong Kong law, people aged sixteen to twenty-one may marry with their parents' or guardians' consent. After turning twenty-one, they can decide for themselves.

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Theme: Love surges like a tide.