The Stars Say Nothing

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My next novel, "Spring Resonance Through All Things," has its blurb at the end. Please add it to your collection!

[Love-Averse Woman x Says One Thing but Means Another]

1.

After the college entrance exams, Yu He had a secret romance.

It lasted only three days before she decisively ended it.

The day they broke up, rain fell in a steady drizzle, damp and stifling.

They were both drenched from head to toe. She hated the feeling, and she hated him even more.

Xu Jiangzhi's back was slightly hunched, raindrops falling from his hair and striking his lashes.

He gave a self-mocking tug at the corner of his mouth. His eyes were red as he asked, "Was it fun, messing with me?"

The young woman wore a cold expression and refused to spare him another glance.

After she got home, she trembled uncontrollably as she deleted every way to contact him, then packed away their memories and locked them in a box.

2.

When they met again years later.

In the rental apartment, the person before her had shed his youthful innocence, his features now sharper. His dark eyes were like a deep pool, impossible to see the bottom of.

Xu Jiangzhi's phone lay on the table, its screen glowing faintly. A forum page was open, showing a blurry, intimate photo of a man and woman that had landed on the trending list.

The woman in the photo was right in front of him. The young man was even easier to recognize: her roommate.

He lifted his eyelids to look at her and let out a mocking laugh. "We haven't seen each other in years. Who'd have thought you'd be into cradle-robbing now?"

[Reading Guide]

* One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced

* The heroine has an avoidant attachment style and finds it very hard to accept others

* The roommate is the heroine's cousin. She has never flirted with anyone else.

* The professional information in this novel was all found through online searches.

* Hope you enjoy reading! ^o^

The blurb for my upcoming novel, "Spring Resonance Through All Things"

Unyielding hibiscus flower x gloomy, obsessive love-struck man

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Xu Nuo has a brown birthmark on her face, and everyone thinks she is ugly and frightening. Because of it, she has had almost no friends her whole life.

But there is one person she cannot bring herself to speak of. He is as warm as the first sunlight after a snowfall, shining on all things. She is only a bit of debris that happens to fall within his light.

Later, he died in a car accident.

Xu Nuo thought she would never see him again in this lifetime.

Until one day, a new student transferred into her class.

That face made her heart skip a beat.

But Bai You was different: aloof and cold, like a pool of dead water without a ripple.

Just like everyone else, he acted as though she were invisible.

Xu Nuo knew he wasn't the same person.

But lately, she kept feeling a chill at her back, as though a sticky gaze had fixed itself on her and would never let go...

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Bai You was jealous of his older brother. Why, when they had the exact same face, did Xu Nuo's gaze always linger on him?

He envied how Bai Xi could laugh and talk with her openly. But at least he alone could see the tips of her ears turning red in secret.

So when his brother died, he actually felt a trace of relief.

[Bonus Scene]

Bai You loved staring at Xu Nuo's face. One time, she couldn't bear his gaze any longer and finally asked, "Is it really that ugly?"

He was stunned. He held her captive in his arms, his soft lips repeatedly brushing over the tip of her brow, even tracing the shape of her birthmark again and again with his tongue.

His voice trembled. "Little rose, you're beautiful."

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Theme: Loving yourself comes first.