Crossing the Line of Desire

Main story complete! Please add my next book, White Daytime Kiss, to your reading list. The blurb is below.

Unrequited love becomes mutual | Marriage before love | Both leads are virgins | Four-year age gap

[The untouchable flower (scheming and possessive) vs. sensitive and perceptive] [Cardiac surgeon vs. perfumer]

A week before Yun Wen and Xu Qingyu were due to get engaged, Yun Ting began experiencing sharp pains in her heart.

She timed her visit to the hospital for when Xu Qingyu was on vacation and went in alone for a checkup.

"Doctor, lately I've had pain in my chest..."

Xu Qingyu looked up. Behind his elegant gold-rimmed glasses was a pair of strikingly beautiful eyes. "Yun Ting."

"Xu... Qingyu? I'm sorry... I came to the wrong room..."

"Take off your coat."

"Go get an ECG."

Yun Ting clutched her clothes and fled the department in disarray. As she left, she heard Xu Qingyu's cool voice behind her:

"Isn't your boyfriend here with you?"

*

Yun Ting was a perfumer, but she was allergic to the scent of white plum blossoms.

At its mildest, her eyes would water. At its worst, she'd break out in red welts, like kisses scattered over her skin.

Yet Xu Qingyu always carried the cool fragrance of white plum blossoms, clean and aloof, something to admire from afar but never approach.

*

She first met him when she was eight.

The young man stood by the stairs, with pale skin and dark, serene eyes. He was aloof and cool, yet imperious. Yun Ting was so frightened that she grabbed her father's hand and burst into tears.

Yun Wen, however, walked up obediently and blinked her bright eyes. "Hello, big brother. You're so handsome. I'm Yun Wen, and she's my little sister, Yun Ting."

Xu Qingyu's eyes were icy as he glanced at Yun Ting, then finally spoke with impatience. "Quiet."

*

At twenty-four, Yun Ting married Xu Qingyu.

When he came out of the bathroom, Xu Qingyu held a bottle of imported white pills between his long fingers. "What's this?"

Yun Ting's brain felt starved of oxygen, and her face flushed hot. "These things... actually... it's not..."

Xu Qingyu gave a soft laugh. "Mm. Go on."

Go on making things up.

Yun Ting: "I..."

Content warnings:

1. The male lead's original marriage prospect is the older sister. The sister touched his abs and his cheek. His interactions with other women are misunderstandings. Keep reading and you'll see.

2. The male lead doesn't like the older sister. He has issues.

3. The older sister and the female lead have a good relationship. There's no rivalry.

4. My understanding of being a virgin is that it means no sex. Don't argue with me. If you do, you're right too. ^_^

If it's not for you, just leave.

*The male lead is scheming around the female lead, but he can also be very gentle.

*From the male lead's perspective, it's marriage before love. From the female lead's, unrequited love becomes mutual.

*The female lead isn't a lovesick fool. She's excellent in her own right.

*Blurb completed on July 19, 2024, revised October 13.

Please add White Daytime Kiss to your reading list.

Coming in May

Cold and unhinged vs. airheaded

Both leads are virgins | Five-year age gap | The second male lead takes the lead | Brothers compete for the heroine | Lighthearted

On Wen Mu's twenty-third birthday, Li Ying couldn't help stealing a kiss from him while he was drunk.

Their lips were only a hair's breadth apart when the door opened.

The man who entered looked about eighty percent like Wen Mu, with a tall, lean build and deep-set features.

He was Wen Mu's older brother, Wen Xu.

Seeing them so close, he narrowed his long eyes. "What are you trying to do to him?"

*

Wen Xu didn't like Li Ying.

She was beautiful, but shrewd and calculating. She wanted to become the second Madam of the Wen family and be with Wen Mu, but she wasn't good enough.

Later, Wen Xu regretted it.

Wen Mu was the one who wasn't good enough.

Li Ying didn't like Wen Xu either.

She never imagined she would become Wen Xu's prey.

Somewhere along the way, the man who always watched her with gloomy, disgusted eyes forced his way into her life. On a rainy night, he bared his fangs and dragged her into endless darkness.

"Whose name did you call last night?" Wen Xu pinned her against the wall, his fingertips brushing the corner of her eye, red from crying.

Li Ying turned her face away from the kiss he was leaning down to give her. "Didn't you say you hated me?"

*

Wen Mu realized his feelings for Li Ying too late.

He was holding roses and about to confess when he saw the girl he liked pinned across his older brother's lap, Wen Xu's arm tight around her waist. Wen Xu kissed her fiercely, while Li Ying cried so hard she could barely catch her breath.

That night, Wen Mu splashed red wine in Wen Xu's face and asked darkly, "Brother, are you imitating me? How does stolen affection taste?"

Theme: Love life