Five Years After Leaving with the Ball [Mending a Broken Relationship]

The year Fang Kaiying returned to the country, she ran into Zhen Shiming again. They were both attending a high school classmate’s wedding. Rumor had it that he already had two children. The playboy of their youth was now tied down by his two sons, while she was about to get married, with a thoughtful and attentive fiancé by her side. Their reckless youth had gradually faded with time. They had both grown up. Her fiancé led her over to toast him. He returned the toast with a composed expression, quietly listened as the man listed all her good qualities, and casually wiped the colored-pencil scribbles off his suit cufflink. After the wedding, they crossed paths in the restroom. She planned to pretend they were strangers, nod politely, and smile, but he gripped her wrist tightly and trapped her in an embrace she had not felt in years. His hot breath brushed against her reddening earlobe. “Ying, does your fiancé know you have two children?” It was an experience that defied any simple judgment of right or wrong. Zhen Shiming hates Fang Kaiying. He hates her for abandoning their two children and leaving him, too. Years without seeing her, and now she is a top researcher with a fiancé. But he remembers how she once curled her narrow shoulders and opened his car door on a stormy night, humbly asking him, “Could you be a little gentler later?” [Rekindled Romance] [Love and Hate] [Reader comments now open] Reader’s Guide: 1. The novel will be about 300,000 words. 2. Updates will follow the rankings before serialization begins, then I’ll try to update daily. Please add it to your collection![Red heart] 3. Focuses on romance, with a bittersweet tone and little emphasis on careers. 4. All the trigger warnings are in the title and blurb. (Don’t force yourself to read it.) 5. The heroine is very flawed, and so is the hero. 6. The fiancé is not just a prop; he gets his due. 7. Entirely fictional, with no real-life inspirations. 8. More details to come… [I’m planning to write Love Your Sister-in-Law Like a Wife next. Same sort of hero, competing and fighting for her. Please add it to your collection.] Blurb: Tao Ran and Xie Chonglin are about to get married. She is a diligent journalist who abides by the rules. Xie Chonglin is a highly educated and kind university professor. Their matchmaker says they are perfect for each other. Everyone says they are perfect for each other. She follows the rules; he is clueless about romance. If nothing unexpected happens, they will live a stable, uneventful life together. An unexpected visit from Xie Chonglin’s twin younger brother turns their stagnant life into a tsunami. At first, Tao Ran keeps mixing them up. “Xie Chongzhou has a mole on his eyelid. Don’t mistake us again.” To tell them apart by their moles, she can’t help meeting Xie Chongzhou’s eyes several times, searching through his long, thick lashes for the faintly visible mole. Xie Chongzhou raises an eyebrow, grinning with roguish amusement. “Sister-in-law, do you always look at men like that?” Later, Xie Chongzhou starts a business and gradually dresses more maturely. First, he puts on the same black turtleneck sweater as his brother, then the same straight-leg trousers, and finally trades his sneakers for leather shoes. By then, Tao Ran can tell them apart. Xie Chongzhou has brighter, darker eyes, like a wild animal on the cover of National Geographic, untamed and impossible to control. Until he corners her by the kitchen counter, trapping her between his arms, Tao Ran is surprised to find that the mole beneath Xie Chongzhou’s eye has disappeared. “Now you can pretend I’m him completely, without feeling guilty…” “Just like that night, when you knew perfectly well it was me…” Theme: Develop a healthy view of love and marriage