[Blurb]
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My completed serial, Escape Plan, and my upcoming serials are listed in my author page. I hope you'll support them! Please help this poor author out!!!
Upcoming serial: When a Crock of Pickled Cabbage Meets a Macaron. A warm, outgoing, down-to-earth ray-of-sunshine klutz x a taciturn, cool, refined young master with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Please add it to your favorites!
Upcoming serial: Forest Survival Rules. A battle of wits + mature adults + older woman/younger man romance. A cunning fox skilled at disguises x a lone wolf waiting for the right moment in the dark. Please add it to your favorites!
[Grassroots, hardworking, poor college girl x sharp-tongued, self-made Chinese lawyer]
[Love that grows over time + mutual secret crushes + ensemble cast + personal growth + realistic fiction]
The first time Li Nian saw Cheng Xian'an, she wanted to run.
The first time Cheng Xian'an saw Li Nian, he wanted to snuff out her light.
She was an idealistic breath of fresh air: sincere, stubborn, and naive about the world.
He was a realist in a world of fame and fortune: unscrupulous and out for his own gain.
Two extremes, each unable to stand the other.
Yet fate bound them together, tight as could be.
She despised the cold calculations in his bones.
He mocked her laughably naive pride.
Until
She glimpsed the wounds beneath his mask.
He saw through the fragile disguise beneath her toughness.
It turned out that in this broken world, they were both struggling to live, battered but determined.
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In her second year of college, Li Nian was forced to sign an "unfair agreement" with Cheng Xian'an and became his hardworking, long-suffering intern.
She would never forget the way he looked down on her with cold indifference.
Back then, she thought he saw her as nothing but a workhorse.
Only later did she realize that this seemingly indifferent man didn't always mean what he said.
She confessed her feelings and was rejected, then cried her eyes out.
He offered her a tissue, his tone dismissive yet gentle.
"Once you're in my position, you can take your pick of beauties. This weed isn't worth crying over."
She wore too little on a winter day, so he brought her a padded coat with the tag cut off.
He called it an "end-of-year bonus," hiding all his tender, careful concern.
On Lunar New Year's Eve, he asked her to stay up with him.
"My parents died young. I don't want to spend New Year's alone."
But she knew perfectly well that he was worried she might be lonely.
As fireworks bloomed across the night sky,
he whispered in her ear, "Happy New Year, Li Nian."
Only later did she finally understand:
Every "while I was at it" had been a long-planned moment of affection.
Every act of "looking after her" had been love he never said aloud.
[Reader's Guide]
1. A mentor-and-friend relationship, college campus + workplace + a small ensemble cast + slow-burn, healing stories told in episodes. A story about someone in power and someone without it.
2. Legal aid cases will appear throughout the story: green hills and clear waters or mountains of gold and silver, the right to life or money and survival, family ties or face and glory. Every choice is a difficult decision.
3. I am myself first, and only then someone to someone else.
Dedicated to every girl running with all her might despite poverty and hardship: the cracks beneath your feet will one day bloom into an eternal spring.
Everyone is clear-headed and focused on their careers. There's a small ensemble cast, and the story is mainly about personal growth, so romance may not take up much space. Everyone is a fully realized person with flaws, their own darkness, and independent thoughts. We reject perfectionism: every supporting character is a protagonist, too. Thank you for your support!
P.S. The cases, company names, place names, and school names in this story are all fictional and have no connection to reality. Nothing is implied, indicated, or alluded to. Please don't associate them with real people or companies. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. If you spot anything that doesn't make sense, feel free to leave a comment.
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Upcoming serial: Forest Survival Rules. A battle of wits + mature adults + older woman/younger man romance. A cunning fox skilled at disguises x a lone wolf waiting for the right moment in the dark.
[A battle of wits + mature adults + older woman/younger man romance + combative couple]
[A cunning fox skilled at disguises x a lone wolf waiting for the right moment in the dark]
Jiang Lai was the most carefree breeze in the game of love: free, passionate, and never settling down.
She moved through a crowd of admirers without letting a single one touch her heart.
To her, love was a game. She followed her heart wherever it led and never stayed for anyone.
Until one day, she collided with a pair of fathomless eyes
Lu Zhiyang. Everyone praised him as gentle and refined, but Jiang Lai saw right through him at a glance.
With her own hands, she turned Lu Zhiyang, the perfect boyfriend, into her ex-boyfriend.
She thought they would part on good terms. Then he cornered her in the CEO's office.
"Mr. Lu, you can't force a melon to be sweet."
"That's fine." He leisurely loosened his tie and wrapped it around her wrist.
"All I care about is that the melon is mine."
Everyone said Lu Zhiyang was calm and self-controlled.
Until the night they broke up, when he knelt in the rain, eyes red, pounding on her door.
"Jiang Lai... What else do you want from me?"
It was only supposed to be a fling. How had he gone this crazy?
[Short Scene]
On a night filled with clinking glasses and laughter, Lu Zhiyang grabbed her wrist as she tried to leave.
"You said love was a high-stakes gamble?
Now I'm going all in
Jiang Lai, do you dare to match my bet?"
Jiang Lai smiled like a flower, her fingertip tracing his Adam's apple.
"Little brother, love's just a game. Don't take it too seriously~"
Theme: Don't envy the faint sparks that depend on others. We are each our own one-of-a-kind sun
The column contains "Escape Plan" in advance. Everyone is welcome to collect it to help every dream~ Copywriting: The night of high school graduation. Shen Que fiercely blocked Xin He in a dark corner, and then kissed her. Shen Que: "What? How does it feel to be kissed by me? Disgusting? Unbearable? Shameful? Remember this feeling, and never forget this sense of humiliation." Xin He opened his eyes wide, covered his mouth, and looked at the gloomy and thin young man in front of him with disbelief. She shouted unwillingly: "Shen Que, you are just an ignorant white-eyed wolf." Shen Que accidentally saw a figure in the corner. Jealousy, like a beast in the dark night, raged in Shen Que's heart. He was disrespectful in front of Xin He for the first time and said harsh words to her for the first time in his history. Shen Que: "Xin He, only wolves can bite people, and dogs can only keep circling around their owners. You call me a wolf, but it's a pity that you are a worse dog than me. A dog that only knows how to circle and wag its tail at Shen Jia'an." The harsh words and Shen Que's guilt at that moment became a knot in his heart for many years. Many years later, the two met again. Shen Que: "Xin He, let me be the dog this time. A dog that only belongs to you and only circles around you wagging its tail, okay? Just look at me." Because I like you, I live like you.
Is the start of the game so urgent? [Covering face and peeking]
Girls each have their own worries.
Checking in, it looks good, so continue to stick to [sunglasses] 🐶
Check in, it looks good, come on 💪
Does the hero have an ex-girlfriend?