Road Trip Novel, Passed Review, Abandoned, To Be Relaunched

[The story passed review, but I don't have the writing skills to continue. I'll leave it here for now and find time to restart it later~]

Blurb:

Pressed-flower artist/jewelry designer x outdoor expedition leader

Sweet on the outside, dark on the inside x sweet on the outside, dark on the inside

The bad ex can't come back from the edge; the real male lead, a mixed-race man, rises to the top

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Zhong Qianqiao didn't go to college. At just over eighteen, she took a train by herself to Jiangsu to start a business. Strangely enough, she actually succeeded.

At twenty-one, she saw a model shoot an advertisement for the first time.

Zhang Yi was the moon among the stars, adored and praised by everyone. Wearing the necklace Zhong Qianqiao had designed, she looked dazzling, but somehow something still felt off.

The photographer shook his head again and again. Desperate, Zhong Qianqiao rushed forward and did her best, but her voice was still barely a whisper:

"Can't you look a little fiercer!?"

"Your expression..."

The young, famous face slowly lowered.

Later, Zhang Yi became her boyfriend.

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Later on, the two of them had a bit of a falling-out.

Zhong Qianqiao increasingly felt that something must have gone wrong over the past few years.

She wasn't a light that served models. She was the designer who decided how models presented themselves.

Yet looking back, she had given in and accommodated him at every turn, doing whatever he said.

They were bound to break up. But she also had a reason she couldn't rush things.

One day, the girl who had left the mountains in her youth returned there.

The mountain ranges stretched on, winding toward some unexpected delight. Zhong Qianqiao stumbled upon Yu Xing, who suddenly appeared among the flowers, like Colombo.

His eyes were as blue as the sky.

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[Diary]

[So busy in Jiangsu. I hope Zhang Yi's shoot goes well today. Fingers crossed.]

[Home...]

[Yu Xing said the courage here is so good. He likes it. Beipanjiang Bridge. He loves Qian, as wonderful as eating potatoes, haha.]

[If I could face my hometown the same way, loving him might feel as natural as loving myself...]

[I don't dare say yes to Yu Xing and be with him. We seem like different kinds of people, but he looks so troubled.]

[If I ruin his reputation, will that help him?]

Theme: Not that one, this one.