Autumn on a Small Island

[Fully revised edition. The pirated version differs greatly from the original plot. Thank you for supporting the official release.

New novel, Milk Chocolate, now serializing]

"That autumn on the little island, I met a boy as wild and free as the wind."

1.

During the seven-day National Day holiday, rich heiress Liang Xu went to the island to work and experience life. She never expected to meet a cocky guy who was shamelessly showing off, yet innocent as hell.

Over those seven days, the two of them talked about everything under the sun.

On the last day, Liang Xu slept with him.

Back at school, they met again.

Liang Xu: "I don't know you."

Lu Yuyou: "??? You weren't saying that in bed yesterday!"

2.

Later, Liang Xu really did turn her back on him and leave to study in the United States.

The young man landed in Los Angeles again and again, until one late night he finally showed up at her door.

Liang Xu had just gotten home. As she went to open the door, she deliberately said, "My boyfriend's home."

His face was cool, but his tall frame leaned toward her. With the familiar move he'd used when they were eighteen, he pinned her behind the door. A rakish smile curved his lips as he took her hand and guided it to his belt.

"Perfect. Let's have him come out and make things more fun for us."

3.

Long after they got together, Lu Yuyou came across Liang Xu's old social media account from when she lived abroad.

@fayeeeee:

People use the Peach Blossom Spring as a symbol of a carefree paradise, but in my heart, there will always be a little island in autumn.

There lie the wild, unrestrained days of my eighteenth year, and the boy I loved most.

Wherever I went afterward, I could never bury him in my heart.

So at last I admitted how important you are to me. I can't live without you.

@fayeeeee:

"There's a little island in my heart, and my Lu Xiaoyou is hidden there."

His answer to her had long been etched into the river of all those years:

"I can spend seven days chasing you, three months falling for you, six years waiting for you, and ten years by your side. I can keep loving you until we live to a hundred."

Lu Yuyou x Liang Xu

Fake playboy x genuine flirt

Carefree, languid young Buddhist heartthrob x aloof, proud, world-weary girl

Hotel group heir x heiress from an esteemed academic family

One-night stand / Fate / Island holiday / Daily pursuit of his wife

[Milk Chocolate]

Blurb:

There's a popular answer online to the question, "What was the person you had a crush on in school like?"

@Sesame Tangyuan: One Christmas in eighth grade, he gave everyone in class a piece of chocolate. It was a little thing that everyone got, but it was one of the few sweet moments of my youth. Because of that one piece of chocolate, I had a crush on him for years, that boy as gentle as milk...

Back then, Tang Yuan was just an ordinary student who worked hard. Her difficult home life made an already sensitive, insecure adolescence even harder.

Chen Mubai was probably someone everyone envied: a happy family, excellent grades, and all the confidence and brilliance of youth. For a time, he was unstoppable.

Many years later, Tang Yuan no longer had to worry about tuition, and had been accepted into the Chinese department at her dream university.

She still thought of Chen Mubai from time to time: his photo on the honor roll, his neat, spotless uniform, and the warm look in his eyes whenever he smiled...

She never imagined they'd meet again. Then, on Christmas during her first year of college, at the campus convenience store, someone took the last chocolate bar on the shelf. She turned around and came face-to-face with the boy who had haunted her dreams. He was just as beautiful as ever, but now there was a hint of bleakness about him. Outside, snow fell in thick flurries.

Later, that answer online was updated:

@Sesame Tangyuan: Thanks for all your concern. She's my fiancee now. On our way home for Christmas, she's asleep beside me.

On the other side of the phone screen, the girl slept peacefully, wrapped in his coat and curled against his chest. Snow shone in the night beyond the car window. No matter how dark the rest of this life gets, you'll be by my side.

/

Chen Mubai had grown up spoiled and privileged, with everything going his way. He thought of himself as aloof and cold, with impossibly high standards. He never expected to fall for someone close to home: a timid, gentle girl he'd known since childhood.

He paid for his arrogance, and in the end, he surrendered.

The night he found her again, the girl curled in his arms, eyes blurred with tears like a ragdoll cat, and accused him in a soft voice: "Chen Mubai, didn't you say no one in the world could bully me, not even you?"

After years of experiencing every kind of hardship, pain and relief alike, he finally revealed a wickedness he'd never shown before:

"Baby, be good. Just one last time."

Gentle, resilient, humble, honest, poor, and adorably clueless girl x gentle but wicked, scheming, sulky, aloof, golden-boy heir

Unrequited love fulfilled / Slow-burn healing / Warm and comforting / From school to city life / Bittersweet at first, then exhilarating / The colder he looks, the more shameless he is inside; the cuter she looks when she cries, the wilder she gets

Theme: May your life be free of worry