Did the Sickly Beauty Disappear Without a Word Again Today? (GB)

[Highlight: True GB!] The blurb focuses on romance, while the early chapters lean more toward plot centered on the heroine. The romance is a slow burn, but it will pick up later. The young author welcomes readers’ writing advice. No personal attacks, please.

Lin Rui, the only princess of the Wei Kingdom, is betrothed by imperial decree. After an impotent fit of rage, she packs a small bundle and runs away from home.

On the way, she comes across the recruitment ceremony held by the Four Great Sects.

At first, Lin Rui thinks: Maybe I’ll take a look. It’ll be fun.

Who knew she’d have exceptional talent for cultivation?

Lin Rui thinks: No surprise there.

Since she has nothing better to do, she decides to join a sect for fun.

During the entrance trial, Lin Rui’s protective instincts kick in, and she shields a sickly young man along the way. But as soon as they pass the trial, he vanishes without a word.

Lin Rui has never encountered anything like this. Everyone had always fawned over her, after all. Who would have thought that on the very first day of her runaway life, someone would use her and then discard her, leaving her with a humiliating fall that would make people laugh?

But her eldest senior sister tells her that cultivators never dwell on the past. Lin Rui agrees to her face, then secretly writes the man’s name in her little book of grudges.

When she reaches a bottleneck in her cultivation, her eldest senior sister, who now holds real authority as sect leader, gives her a place at the Immortal Sects’ Exchange Assembly.

At the assembly, the chief disciple of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion appears, wearing a crossing-collar blue robe beneath a gauzy outer garment, with wide sleeves and a sash at the waist. His features are strikingly refined, and he carries himself with the grace of a crane and the poise of a pine.

Only his face is pale, and he looks ill.

As everyone discusses why the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion has entered the world, Lin Rui of the Thirteenth Peak stares at that face and smiles.

She has found the man who left without a word.

When gods and demons descend, chaos engulfs the world, and everything Lin Rui knew of her past is overturned.

At that moment, she holds Ying Du by the chin and curls her red lips. “You want to save me? How?”

Her fingertips brush his moist eyes.

The young man’s face is pale, making him look all the more pitiful.

*

If she were Ying Du, upon learning her fate, she would find Lin Rui, peel off her skin, pull out her tendons, and keep her alive as she endured a thousand cuts.

But she is not Ying Du.

So Ying Du only left without a word once, after their first meeting.

Beneath warm lotus-patterned curtains, they share a night of passion.

“Will you dare leave without a word again?”

“N-no... I won’t...”

“No,” the woman says. “You should say, ‘I’ll dare again next time. I’ll dare to leave without a word again.’”

Who will share a love as vast as heaven and sea with her? Who will be bound to her through life and death?

GB, both leads are each other’s only one.

The princess of the imperial family x the chief disciple of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion

[A handful of fresh snow on a branch, stained a different color]

“If I’m a monk, then you’re a demon who feeds on human blood and essence.”

In a dark, deserted temple, while the monk chants before the Buddha, a demon actively climbs onto him.

She seems to think of something. Her gaze suddenly darkens. She strokes the corner of his eye with her thumb, pressing lightly and leaving a red mark...

Utterly sensual.

Reader’s Guide: 1. The heroine has a substantial growth arc and will face many trials. The greater her power, the greater her responsibility, and the more dangerous the conspiracies around her. As the story progresses, she will grow stronger through her trials and find a way to survive even in despair, becoming a worthy savior. [Highlight! The heroine will endure countless trials.] If that’s not for you, please don’t read.

2. The heroine is the strongest character in the entire book and Heaven’s favorite. The male lead is strong, but the heroine is even stronger. They save each other through their actions, with the heroine saving the male lead more often. Because of his fate, the male lead is frail and sickly [not really]. Later, they will save each other emotionally and choose each other wholeheartedly.

3. The male lead is powerful and very good at acting weak in front of the heroine.

4. In this setting, a person who teaches martial and scholarly arts is called a shifu. Only someone who gives another person a new life and raises them may be called a shifu.

5. Not a sweet romance, not a power fantasy.

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Another upcoming novel: [GB School Romance] Like a Fish in a Net

[Like a fish swimming in a net, forever caught in the current, slipping free only to be caught once more., The Sutra of the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva]

GB, no role reversal, both leads are each other’s only one. The setting is so fictional it might as well be in outer space. Everything serves the story.

Unyielding, genuine academic genius, iron-willed girl x impervious to hard and soft tactics, fake school bully, artsy boy

Zheng Zexin x Zhou Ziqi

Zheng Zexin thinks she’s as ordinary as the countless students hoping to settle in Beijing. As for the trust-fund heirs who pop up all over the city, at most she sees them as potential future bosses.

That is, until the most ostentatious and arrogant trust-fund heir at Hanzhang High becomes her deskmate. Fighting, skipping class, ending up at the police station, sleeping through lessons: his record is full of documented offenses.

The most famous and widely discussed incident is the time he barged into another school during class and flipped over a student’s desk right in front of their teacher.

Zheng Zexin, who wants no trouble, closes her eyes and thinks: The crackdown on crime needs to reach schools...

*

A month into the school year, the school bully has skipped class for an entire month. Then, on the day of the monthly exam, he makes his first-ever appearance at school.

During the English exam, Zheng Zexin turns in her paper early. A friend from Class One next door stops her and asks, “What’s the trust-fund crowd like? Are they really that hard to get along with?”

Zheng Zexin replies, “I don’t know him. We’re not acquainted. It has nothing to do with me. I’m just an ordinary student, worlds apart from them. Getting to know them would be a waste of time.”

As soon as she finishes speaking, a pleasant voice behind her chimes in, sounding amused as he plays dumb. “Worlds apart? What does that mean? I don’t understand.”

The newcomer is tall and slender, with broad, straight shoulders and features so exquisitely sculpted that even the Creator must have favored him. He still has a youthful air, but the first hints of sharpness are already showing. Standing beside her, he wears his uniform neatly, yet his posture is languid, giving him an air of privilege and aloofness. He draws every eye.

In the corridor, the people around them keep sneaking glances at the three of them, making it impossible to ignore their attention.

His impossibly beautiful eyes settle on Zheng Zexin, carrying a teasing, almost-smile. “Deskmate, do you understand?”

Zheng Zexin: “...”

Then comes the summer after the college entrance exams. In the middle of the night, Zheng Zexin gets a call asking her to come feed a cat. The moment she opens the door, a figure corners her and wraps her in his arms.

His familiar scent envelops her, damp from a recent shower.

He grips her chin tightly and presses his forehead to hers, smiling.

“Zheng Zexin, you’ve got some nerve. You keep saying we’re worlds apart and pushing me away, but your notes keep track of the countdown to my eighteenth birthday. Were you planning to make a move on me once I came of age?”

Zheng Zexin says nothing.

The young man chuckles and buries his face against the side of her neck. His voice is soft. “Fine. I agree.” He places Zheng Zexin’s hand on his waist, his tone suggestive. “I turned eighteen today. Want to see what you’re getting? I’ll be very obedient...”

*

Zheng Zexin knows that the moment she gives in to his looks, she’ll be in serious trouble.

In her first year of college, Zheng Zexin has just finished a full day of classes in her major and hasn’t even caught her breath when she hears that Zhou Ziqi has dropped out to retake the college entrance exams.

Zheng Zexin: “??!!!”

Young Master Zhou doesn’t want to be too far from his girlfriend, so he buys an apartment near Zheng Zexin’s school to study on his own and asks her to tutor him, offering several times the going rate.

But every tutoring session ends up in bed. Zheng Zexin can’t take it anymore and decides to give up sexual temptation, sending him straight to a retake school in Hebei, supposedly the strictest, most intensive institution, where students have no choice but to live in the dorms.

She’s got some nerve, sending a pure-blooded Beijing boy to retake his exams in Hebei.

A few days later, missing his girlfriend, he runs away and goes to Zheng Zexin’s school. As she stares at him in surprise, he straightens his lips into a line and explains without expression, “I’m free.”

“No,” his girlfriend, a STEM student impervious to hard and soft tactics, replies. “You’re breaking the rules.”

It’s the first time she’s met a young man so sweet and clingy that she doesn’t know what to do with him.

Even later, when she goes to Germany for further studies and he’s busy starting a business, he still flies to Germany whenever he can, hugs her, and says in a gruff voice, “That German guy wants to pursue you. I’ve already warned him. You’re my girlfriend.”

He’s just like a puppy afraid of being abandoned.

The blurb has been revised, but the story itself is unchanged. The first part is set in school, the second in the city.

A heroine who gives in to softness but not force, always at the mercy of her handsome boyfriend, and a beauty enthusiast x a deadpan, aloof male lead who constantly says shocking things

168 cm x 185 cm

P.S. 1. This is a fictional setting. The college entrance exam rules differ from reality, and everything serves the story, so don’t scrutinize the details too closely. In this setting, students without Beijing household registration can take the exam in Beijing only if their parents have paid social insurance there for twenty years, own at least three local properties, and the student has studied in Beijing for six years and ranked in the district’s top ten on every major exam. [This will be fleshed out in more detail. The author’s imagination is limited, so please accept my apologies in advance.]

2. The male lead will devote himself completely to studying later on and won’t waste a year. There are reasons behind the incidents mentioned in the blurb, and he will face the consequences of his actions. The bad guys will also be brought to justice.

3. A coming-of-age story about a young couple, both with their own flaws. They only get together after reaching adulthood.

4. The heroine repeats her first year of junior high so she can take the college entrance exams in Beijing, making her a year older than the male lead.

Theme: Look back on my past, and look toward spring with me.