Plucking the Trumpet Vine

(A novel in the Gu Hui series: Beast and Nightingale. If you’re interested, go check it out!) [I once thought you were my salvation, but you weren’t. I’m the only one who can save myself.] Li Yue had always been unlucky, until she met Cheng Yishan. When they first met, Li Yue was stopped outside a banquet hall. Inside, people mingled over drinks, and no one paid her any attention. Only Cheng Yishan got out of his car and came to her through the wind and rain. He asked, “Do you want to go in?” From then on, with Cheng Yishan by her side, Li Yue gained her ticket into the world of high finance. In other people’s eyes, Li Yue was Cheng Yishan’s canary: a delicate, beautiful woman who was stubbornly determined to enter the world of high finance. But Cheng Yishan doted on her and indulged her in everything. In that vast world of high finance, no one ever imagined Li Yue would leave. Cheng Yishan didn’t either. Until the day he returned from a business trip abroad. He opened the door and saw Li Yue sitting in the living room, gently stroking the cat in her arms. Yet the first thing she said was: “Let’s break up.” “...” He stood there holding his suitcase, with a custom-made necklace for her inside. He laughed in disbelief. “What did you say?” He walked up to her and rested his long-fingered hand against her cheek, looking at her without a trace of emotion. “Li Yue, who gave you the nerve to break up with me?” An unlucky but levelheaded, independent heroine who grows stronger VS a hypocritical, wealthy man in power who falls for her A quick preview of my next book, No Morals He Min met Zhang Qingyu at a party. When he got home, he stayed up all night making a wish list: Marry her. Marry her. Marry her. He scribbled on his wish list, deciding to tackle the first problem first. Make Zhang Qingyu divorce Song Pingyuan. Zhang Qingyu had a divorce agreement that would take effect in six months. Strangely, her husband had been treating her better and better, to the point of indulging her in everything. Thinking about it carefully, this had started right around the time she met He Min. One day, just as she was about to head out, Song Pingyuan called after her. “Honey, where are you going?” “He Min asked me to meet him to discuss something.” Song Pingyuan watched her calmly. After a moment, he smiled warmly. “Come back early. Don’t get carried away having fun.” At a cocktail party, Song Pingyuan and He Min ran into each other. Neither was pleased to see the other. Holding his glass, Song Pingyuan offered a kindly warning: “A man should know how to behave himself. Stay away from other people’s wives.” He Min raised his glass to him as well. “Thanks, but she’s my wife.” This novel is also known as: [How to Make Your Old Classmate’s Wife Your Own] A beautiful, self-assured heroine x a hero with few scruples Theme: Freedom and letting go