What's Up with Senior Brother?

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My next contemporary romance, Sleepless Tonight, features a slow-to-realize college girl who unknowingly plays the flirt, and an arrogant playboy on the surface who is actually a scheming, green-tea-style powerful man. Blurb at the end.

Xu Chaojin joined the Heavenly Sword Sect at thirteen, and by eighteen, her name was known throughout the world.

Yet at twenty, the person she loved pierced her heart with their own hand.

Reborn a hundred years later, Xu Chaojin sees Xie Wenmian again.

She swears she will avenge herself and stab Xie Wenmian straight through.

In the illusion of reincarnation, Xu Chaojin drives her blade toward his chest.

As if he cannot feel a thing, Xie Wenmian walks toward her step by step and embraces her.

Snow and wind cling to him, yet he treats this illusion as their final moment of tenderness:

"Xu Chaojin, I miss you so much."

The people of the immortal sects think Xie Wenmian has spent a century in seclusion simply recovering his strength.

No one knows that in a dim chamber where candlelight flickers and daylight never enters, someone spends day and night sketching the face of his beloved, using his life force and spiritual power over hundreds of years to rebuild her body.

All for one more chance to see her again.

A sword immortal who loves and hates fiercely and always repays a debt × a seemingly cool, but actually obsessive and gloomy puppy of a senior brother

Reader's guide:

1. Both leads are each other's only partners; happy ending.

2. The male lead suffers, not the female lead. The male lead killing the female lead is a misunderstanding!

3. This is not a female-power fantasy. The plot and romance are split about 50/50, perhaps.

My next contemporary romance, Sleepless Tonight, is open for preorders. Here's the blurb.

A slow-to-realize college girl who unknowingly plays the flirt × an arrogant playboy on the surface who is actually a scheming, green-tea-style powerful man

Childhood friends + older man + obsessive love

Xu Wan suffers from severe insomnia.

But after smelling her childhood friend Jiang Huizhou, newly returned from abroad, she finds she can sleep soundly.

While planning to use Jiang Huizhou as a calming fragrance, she also deals with her family's matchmaking arrangements.

Once Jiang Huizhou finds out, he deliberately comes to pick her up when her blind date ends.

In the cramped, dim car, he speaks in a pitiful voice:

"I don't mind being the other man, as long as I'm the one you love most."

Jiang Huizhou knows Xu Wan is getting close to him for a reason.

He doesn't care at all.

Xu Wan's kindness toward him is already a gift. So what if she uses him?

Later, someone tells him Xu Wan said Jiang Huizhou was the one clinging to her, the one who wouldn't let go.

Leaning on his chin, Jiang Huizhou replies nonchalantly, "She's right. I'm the one clinging to her. I'm the one who can't live without her."

Xu Wan thinks that saying hurtful things will push Jiang Huizhou away.

But Jiang Huizhou will always embrace her sharp edges, believing they are what make her unique.

Years later, when Xu Wan sees Jiang Huizhou again, she has become a company head feared throughout the industry.

At an investment conference, someone introduces Jiang Huizhou to her.

Xu Wan answers frankly, "President Jiang once helped me. I'm deeply grateful to him."

"Helped you?"

Before everyone's eyes, Jiang Huizhou's lashes glisten with tears.

"If I helped you, why did you delete all my contact information? If I helped you, why have you refused to see me all these years?"

"Xu Wan, even if I'm just a dog, you could at least play with me when you're bored."

"What am I to you, exactly?"

Reader's notes:

1. There will be an obsessive-love storyline, but it isn't the conventional kind.

2. The heroine is sensitive, insecure, and slow to understand her feelings, so she repeatedly runs away until she fully understands them.

3. Both leads are virgins; happy ending; four-year age gap.

4. The leads are childhood friends, and the hero has loved her in secret.

Theme: Live well