Clear Skies After Snow

[From college to the city, with a second-chance romance. Work keeps me busy, so I can't promise daily updates. If there's no update by midnight, there won't be one that day. Thank you.]

[Seeking saves for the upcoming book, Crossing the Line.]

At college, Zhou Shubei and Jian Li were complete opposites.

One was bold and flamboyant, adored by everyone, and a true golden boy. The other was quiet and distant, keeping to herself and ranking first in her year.

Zhou Shubei shone on the basketball court and had no shortage of admirers. Jian Li read book after book in the library, filling her notes with highlights.

He was proud and carefree; she followed the rules.

Until one day

Someone noticed Zhou Shubei frequently showing up outside the women's dormitory. When someone flirted with him, he casually let the hickey on his neck show, looking languid and smug as he said, "Sorry, I have a girlfriend."

People teased them about their relationship, convinced Zhou Shubei would dump Jian Li once the novelty wore off.

Then, at a party, Zhou Shubei said he was going to pick someone up. He came back soaked, his face dark with anger, but Jian Li never appeared.

Someone asked what happened. Zhou Shubei, who had been staring at his phone in silence, gave a self-mocking laugh. "She's not coming."

"She dumped me."

They meet again.

Six years after they parted, on an autumn day after the rain, Jian Li sees Zhou Shubei at a technology launch.

Zhou Shubei's thin lips curl. With disgust and a trace of self-mockery, he says, "Was the money you got for selling me enough?"

Jian Li thought the ties between her and Zhou Shubei had long since been severed.

But later,

Zhou Shubei pins her against the wall and kisses her with domineering, obsessive intensity. "Either open the door and tell him I'm the man who started something with you in college and then abandoned you, or make him leave right now."

Her blind date is just on the other side of the wall.

Later still,

During an interview, a reporter asks Zhou Shubei why he chose Jian Li again. Isn't he afraid of repeating the past?

Zhou Shubei rubs his wedding ring. "I'm only afraid she won't want anything from me."

[I don't fear what she might want. I only fear that I'll have everything ready for her, and she'll want nothing at all, Zhou Shubei.]

Note: Both leads are sexually inexperienced and each other's first love. Neither has a perfect personality. If you need morally flawless characters, this isn't the book for you.

2. A slow-burn story about personal growth, with misunderstandings caused by people not communicating. The characters act according to their own logic, so please don't pick fights over it.

3. The author is working to improve their writing. Every coincidence serves the plot. The robotics and engineering details in the story come from internet sources. Please point out any errors kindly, and don't tell me how to write.

Upcoming book, Crossing the Line

Yu Lan first meets Fu Yanli at her boyfriend's birthday party. The man is refined and distinguished, looking down at everyone from the second floor, untouchable.

Everyone there is intimidated by him and respects him, yet can't help wanting to get closer.

The second time, her boyfriend brings her upstairs. "Uncle, this is my girlfriend, Yu Lan."

Fu Yanli gives her a fleeting glance and says indifferently, "Very nice."

That night, in a luxury apartment,

Fu Yanli grips Yu Lan's chin and undoes the frog closures on her qipao one by one. "Don't hold back. Let him hear."

The Fu family of Jing City is an object of envy to countless people. The current head of the family, Fu Yanli, is mild-mannered and refined, a man of poise and restraint. Everyone calls him the snow on a mountain peak, a jewel on a lonely mountainside, but only Yu Lan knows he's a venomous snake, coiling around his prey and never letting go until it's dead.

Fu Yanli is sick.

On the day their agreement expires, Yu Lan takes advantage of Fu Yanli's business trip to pack her things and leave.

But as soon as she gets off the plane, she sees him waiting at the exit.

Fu Yanli is drenched from head to toe. He takes off his glasses and walks toward her one step at a time. "Runaway children need to be punished."

A refined scoundrel x a cool beauty.

He turns his nephew's girlfriend into his own. The male lead is dark and twisted; the author is letting loose. Don't read if it's not your thing.

Theme: Learn to love