Plucking the Stars

People say you should never pick up a man you find on the roadside. Li Shuyan, a woman who transmigrated, ignores the warning. Not only does she pick one up, she takes a liking to his looks and uses threats and inducements to keep him by her side.

Aside from his temper, the man is considerate and knows how to please her. Every now and then, they even get to hold hands and grow closer.

Just as her smile is about to split her face, the man suddenly disappears, leaving no trace, dead or alive.

Li Shuyan asks everyone she can to help search for him. But when they meet again, the man she had searched everywhere for has transformed into someone she can only admire from afar...

Everyone praises him as a benevolent and enlightened ruler, but who knows that beneath the throne, blood relatives can be used as pawns and close friends as prey? What is his one shred of true affection worth?

She's just a woman. He can give her up.

Once everything is settled, she keeps him at arm's length, so he personally picks out a suitable husband for her.

But when she happily accepts, he watches them walk away side by side and loses control for the first time.

His obsession turns to madness, and he clings to her relentlessly.

The Son of Heaven behaves like a lowlife, hiding outside her bedroom and watching the two of them unable to part. At last, he simply bundles her up and carries her off. "I can only feel at ease when you're by my side."

Furious, she slaps him across the face. He turns his other cheek toward her. "I was wrong. If hitting me will make you feel better, then hit me a few more times."

I only ask that you look at me, even if all you feel is hatred.

Plot-driven, a modest ensemble cast, a groveling romance, one-on-one, happy ending

The setting is entirely fictional, so please don't nitpick!

Here's a peek at my next novel: The Dragon Protagonist Wants Me Dead

Xie Wang ascends to immortality at a thousand years old, undefeated. On the day of his ascension, he enters the sacred mountain of the demon race alone. With nothing but a sword, he sweeps through the demon realm and forces the Demon King, Lu Zhong, into hiding. His fearsome reputation shakes the Three Realms, and all who hear his name tremble and bow before him.

Wrapped in an obviously oversized robe, Hua Su watches the man kneeling in the snow. Thin and frail, his face and hair covered in frost and snow, he bows before the jeering, laughing crowd around him. She cannot make herself believe he is Xie Wang.

She is an evil thought that has taken form. The prophecy on the stone says, "When the evil spirit emerges, all living beings will perish," and Xie Wang has issued an order to kill her.

Betrayed by a friend, she has tasted every cruelty the world has to offer and become a rat everyone wants to beat.

At last, she seizes a slim chance to survive when Xie Wang and Lu Zhong make a wager.

She disguises herself as his wife in the human realm, using her position to turn everyone against him, leave him sick and frail, make him unable to obtain what he wants or love whom he wants, and deny him even the right to die.

She never imagined that the culprit behind it all would bend his famously unyielding back just to get her a bowl of hot water.

Xie Wang opens his eyes and instinctively looks down. He has cultivated for a thousand years, his body as strong as iron, yet the pain in his chest feels all too real.

A few decades in the human realm are no more than a fleeting illusion, gone in the blink of an eye.

The wager is settled. He walks past her without looking back, as if none of it ever happened.

Lovers who fight as much as they love, a married couple on opposite sides

An unconventional marriage-before-love story

Theme: The glow of a firefly can illuminate the sun and moon