The Size Difference

My new novel, After Moving in with a Prim and Proper Beauty, is now updating!

Blurb: [Giant King Who's Much Older Than Her x Cool, Lazy CEO]

Yu Yisong is eighteen meters tall, one of the thirty-six giants of Shenzhou, and oversees the creation of people on the Third Continent.

She molds newborns for the Third Continent, especially loving to make delicate, beautiful little people.

Everyone on the Third Continent knows that their mother, Yu Yisong, lost the wife she had molded for herself.

Her missing-wife notices have been posted for years. Every day, a new group of people is sent to Yu Yisong's palace for her to identify as her wife.

After all these years, Yu Yisong still hasn't found her wife, but she has met plenty of audacious, unfilial daughters.

One particularly wicked girl even slapped her hard across the face.

A daughter who is not taught properly reflects poorly on her mother.

Yu Yisong punished the unfilial girl by making her clean the palace chambers, as a warning to the others.

2

After searching high and low, Yu Yisong finally finds her wife.

Just as she expected, even though her wife grew up outside the palace, she is still as exquisite as jade, graceful and peerless. Yu Yisong adores her.

Thinking of how her wife built a life from nothing and endured hardship outside, while Yu Yisong had even once mistaken her for an unfilial girl and punished her, Yu Yisong is overcome with regret. She resolves to make it up to her wife however she can.

When palace guards abuse her wife in a most inhumane fashion, Yu Yisong crushes the offending guard with a single finger and protects her petite wife in the palm of her hand.

When her wife is exhausted from work, Yu Yisong stands outside a skyscraper, pokes through the bulletproof glass, and massages her wife's shoulders to ease her tension.

When her wife tells her to marry a giant colleague from the First Continent... Yu Yisong steels herself and presses her thumbprint onto the marriage certificate. It isn't legally binding anyway.

Yu Yisong thinks that she and Xia Han are seriously in love.

That is, until she sees a long wedding procession completely blocking the palace's main entrance, its festive red line stretching all the way to the edge of the city. Yu Yisong's face darkens. Staring at her wife, she asks, "Are you serious?"

Her wife raises an eyebrow. "Did you think I was joking, my lord?"

The slender, graceful figure stands tall at 1.8 meters, aloof and proud. But the shoulders of the eighteen-meter giant suddenly slump, as if she has aged decades.

3

Spring and autumn pass, and the years fly by. The two wives have no contact for decades.

As Xia Han nears the end of her life, countless scenes flash before her eyes. Every scene, every frame, is connected to Yu Yisong.

Xia Han thinks she may really have done something wrong.

But time rolls on, and there is no chance to make things right.

[Bonus Scene]

Yu Yisong stares at her tiniest little finger, then glances at her wife, whose slender waist is trembling in her palm.

She begs desperately, "Honey, can you turn back to your original form?"

What if she... hurts her by poking her?

With bewitching fox eyes brimming with desire and reddened at the corners, Xia Han crooks a finger at her. "Come on. Hurt me."

1. Happy ending. Aside from the giants, everyone is of normal human height.

2. The setting is entirely made up and wildly implausible. Please don't scrutinize it.

3. Amateur writing.

--- New novel: After Moving in with a Prim and Proper Beauty ---

[Gentle, reliable CEO with plenty of tricks up her sleeve, 0.9 x Cool, abstinent, prim, and traditional school board director, 0.1]

The group founded by Gu Lingyi goes public, but on the night of its IPO, her family bundles her up and throws her out of the family home.

For five generations, the Gu family has produced public servants who have devoted themselves to building Huaguo. Everyone in the family has jet-black hair so red it could ward off ghosts and evil spirits.

The Gu family can't accept that their most beloved younger relative is secretly the big boss behind a corporation monopolizing the entire adult-products industry.

They unanimously decide that this rebellious girl, who defies convention and betrays the family rules, must be kicked out!

Late at night, Gu Lingyi takes a velvet quilt and knocks on Jiang Yanqing's door.

Leaning languidly against the doorframe with irresistible charm, she braces the door with the tip of her shoe and smiles brightly. "Could I stay here for one night?"

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Jiang Yanqing comes from a family of scholars. Since the day she was born, her elders have mapped out every step of her life.

As a student, she was required to earn a specific score and attend a specific school.

After entering the workforce, she was told to become a school board director at a high school, making way for her younger brother to enjoy a bright career path... Even the top button of her shirt had to stay fastened.

The Jiang elders would not allow Jiang Yanqing the slightest chance of straying from the right path.

The walls of Jiang Yanqing's home are covered with full-length mirrors, constantly reminding her to keep her clothes in order, observe proper etiquette, know the rules, and stay on the straight and narrow.

All she needs to do is live her life this way, methodically, coldly, and calmly.

Until someone unfastens the top button of her shirt with their own hands.

[Bonus Scene]

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, rain patters softly. The light by the bed is dim, but it does nothing to hide the glimpse of spring before the full-length mirror.

Gu Lingyi supports Jiang Yanqing's bent legs with one long arm and buries her face against the smooth curve of her neck, kissing it softly.

Jiang Yanqing, whom the students have dubbed the "Qipao Goddess of Abstinent Charm," has damp, reddened eyes. Her cool, trembling voice is slightly hoarse, sounding half like a plea and half like reluctant invitation. "Don't... don't do it in front of the mirror..."

Theme: Strive tirelessly and never stop working hard.