Fallen Spring Night (GB)

[Complete. Thank you for supporting the official release.] *Heiress × aloof heartthrob | ambition × obedient puppy | reunion after years apart | unrequited love from the male lead | the man gets put through the wringer *An attempt at dual timelines. The English chapter titles refer to the past. During her wildest years, Shu Jia did plenty of reckless things, including bringing the aloof heartthrob He Yubai to his knees. Her impression of He Yubai was limited and one-dimensional. All she remembered was his exceptionally striking face and how cold he was toward everyone. When she happened to learn that He Yubai was taking odd jobs to pay his tuition, Miss Shu suddenly wanted to know what it felt like to pluck a flower from such a lofty height. Eventually, she got her wish. The aloof heartthrob knelt before her, begging hoarsely for mercy in a humid, suggestive room. Once Shu Jia had had her fun, she walked away without a backward glance. The next time she saw He Yubai was at her engagement banquet. With one arm linked through her fiancé’s, she sipped her red wine nonchalantly. Then she spotted the once-impoverished young man among a crowd of admirers. He had become a rising star in the business world, a man of influence. In a few years, he might even be on equal footing with the Shu family. Their eyes met. She casually raised her glass and smiled as if she didn’t care. In a corner beyond her sight, He Yubai stared at the wedding ring on her hand, his gaze unreadable. He watched Shu Jia attend parties affectionately with her fiancé, and once even caught her embracing a much younger boy in a dim stairwell. Too busy concealing his secret feelings, he never noticed that the boy’s face looked seven parts like his own. He merely lowered his head in dejection, remembering that reckless, humid spring night years ago. * One day, later on, in Mr. He’s office. The usually cool and elegant CEO had his shirt pulled open and was kneeling at Miss Shu’s feet, breathing unevenly. Satisfied for the moment, Shu Jia was in high spirits. She lazily hooked a finger around the man’s neck, keeping him restrained, and brought up old grievances. “If I hadn’t been the one to support you back then, would you still have offered your body, Mr. He?” The man nuzzled her palm, his eyes full of adoration and longing. He was nothing like a CEO now. “Because it was you, Miss Shu... I did it willingly.” From the beginning, he had willingly walked into that debauched spring night’s trap. [Reader’s Guide] 1. The male lead is sexually and emotionally inexperienced; the female lead isn’t (she previously had a gender-bender relationship with a male supporting character). 2. The male lead suffers throughout, both physically and psychologically, but the ending is sweet. 3. Her engagement to her fiancé is a sham arrangement, with no actual relationship between them. 4. Place names and descriptions of wealthy family life are invented. Don’t overanalyze them; everything serves the romance. Blurb screenshot dated 2025.6.26 Upcoming novel, Wicked Heartbeat [gender-bender], please add it to your favorites. Blurb: *Sweet girl × cool guy | innocent girl × cold-faced hothead | spoiled, willful heiress × bullied and ostracized illegitimate older brother | pseudo-incest | healing romance At Zhong Siling’s coming-of-age banquet, her father took advantage of her good mood and brought a strange boy over, telling her to call him “Brother.” Zhong Siling knew he was the illegitimate son her father had with his first love, and the most beloved of all his illegitimate children. Her mother had been dead for barely six months, and he already dared to bring the boy home. She smashed her glass and made her displeasure clear, while Ji Ye remained silent, his lowered gaze cool and utterly emotionless. She would never acknowledge him as her brother, Zhong Siling stubbornly thought. But later, when Ji Ye knelt before her with his back to her, holding her hand and slowly teaching her, Zhong Siling finally understood: He had never been her brother. He was every other role in her life. Her secretary, her lover, her partner... Or her dog, and her perfect toy. Thesis: Love is something freely chosen.