No Snow on Hong Kong Island

Next up in the author's catalog: Island of Snowy Nights | Letters from the Island

Blurb for this story: (Bonus chapters will appear at random.)

Cen family's adopted daughter x Hong Kong circle's power broker

Size difference | Coercive possession | A tangled push and pull

Everyone in Hong Kong thinks Cen Nian and Zhong Yuheng have nothing to do with each other.

No one knows that these two, who are colder to each other in public than strangers, have slept together countless times in private.

One is the "high-level PR fixer" sent out by the Cen family,

The other is the "big boss behind the scenes" who sits in Central and makes the money flow.

The Cen family can throw its weight around in Hong Kong Island because of one word from him.

But Cen Nian could have been a judge or a lawyer. Her future was bright.

She graduated top of her class in law at the University of Hong Kong and eagerly awaited her chance to join the courts.

Instead, she got a notice from Zhong Yuheng: all her job offers were void. He forced her to return to the Cen family and become a "behind-the-scenes" PR fixer, putting out fires.

Central's rainy season is damp and endless.

The rain cleans the glass of the skyscrapers, but it cannot wash away the entanglement between them.

* He ruined her life, yet became the only person she could rely on.

In this hypocritical, cold world of fame and fortune, only he has seen her at her most wretched.

* She is the one person he schemes and calculates over, yet can never predict.

Cen Nian has always thought Zhong Yuheng kept her around on a whim.

She plans every step carefully, yet cannot work out whether Zhong Yuheng has any feelings for her.

The whole world thinks they are bound together only by mutual interest.

Even they think the other is just putting on an act.

Reader's Guide:

Four-year age gap | Older, unhinged man

Top PR fixer, University of Hong Kong Law School x Chief Officer of the Zhong family office

Cool-headed and clear-eyed x Abstinent and obsessive

Love and hate | Mature adults

Happy ending, both virgins at the start, told with flashbacks

Reading and Understanding:

The characters are not idealized or perfect.

The entire story is dramatized fiction. Do not imitate it.

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Next up: 200,000 words already drafted.

(Let's see if I can get 200 saves before starting, hehe. Then I'll decide whether to start the story on a snowy night in Milan.

She's Cen Nian's junior, haha, and she studies law too.

I feel like this one will be easier to write. If you're interested, add it to your saves!

Thanks.)

[Clear-headed college student vs. carefree Hong Kong playboy]

The charity gala at the Roseate Hotel was the first time Bo Ling met Levi.

He gently looked after the woman at his side, graceful and considerate, a perfect gentleman by the standards of high society.

The second time, they met at an art exhibition.

Rumors swirled around them. Everyone said Levi had poured his heart into arranging this tasteful exhibition for the woman he loved. Everyone assumed the woman featured in the exhibition was the girlfriend he cherished above all else.

The third time, they met at the University of Hong Kong.

After the start of the school year in September,

she saw Levi again at the scholarship award ceremony.

He was there representing the Levi family.

The Hong Kong playboy in everyone's eyes was still as laid-back and casual as ever. He sat below the stage and listened to a talk, leaving barely a trace of his presence.

That is, until someone brought up the art exhibition and jokingly asked whether he had put it on for the woman he loved.

He simply denied it, without a change in expression.

The person who organized the exhibition had nothing to do with romance.

One sentence overturned every rumor.

--Three meetings, lifting the fog layer by layer.

Bo Ling watched with cool detachment, understanding the situation.

This free-spirited playboy, seemingly unattached to anyone, had an obvious weakness and was easy to get close to.

Too easy to fall for someone, and too easy to hook.

--[Central is so romantic. You have to fall for a bad man to make it worthwhile.]

It was only then that Bo Ling realized

how far she had traveled from Xuanwumen in Beijing to Central in Hong Kong.

Reader's Guide:

This is a love story between two bad people.

Yes, there is love between them.

No paragons of virtue | Scoundrels with sincere hearts

Beautiful, spoiled young lady x old-fashioned older daddy

Eight-year age gap | Marriage alliance between families | Seduction | Old flames reignited | Stealing someone else's bride

Zhuang Yingxin was supposed to marry the second son of the Liang family, but the elder brother swooped in and stole his younger brother's marriage.

So is Zhuang Yingxin wrong to fall in love with the Liang family's eldest son?

"No."

"If she falls for the older brother, that's the older brother's fault."

Theme: People are not plants.