A Goose's Life

Blurb:

Wang Xi is a classic avoidant type. She has few friends, doesn't like socializing, and has never had so much as a shadow of a boyfriend.

Her life up to now might be called successful, but her insecurity was like a lazy rabbit whose tail was caught by the worries of an uncertain future.

One day, she ended up inside a barrier. On a mountain shrouded in pink mist, she met not a mist-colored Cthulhu monster, but a big white goose insisting on finding its fated person. The goose was none other than Xie Jinchao, her childhood friend, whom she hadn't contacted in ages and had grown distant from.

Although Xie Jinchao's mother was a murderer, he was like the diligent tortoise in The Tortoise and the Hare. After struggling through a muddy life, he ultimately achieved success on his own.

But why had he turned into a goose instead of a tortoise?

Wang Xi couldn't figure it out. Then, all at once, she remembered a conversation from their childhood:

Wang Xi: It's just... if I ever become someone less outstanding, I hope I'll still have the courage to go see you, Jinchao, because I know you'll believe in me.

Xie Jinchao: Being a rabbit is no good! I want to be a big white goose, and bite and chase away everyone who bullies Fourth Sister, driving them all out of her world!

In this world, an insecure, sensitive rabbit witnesses the life of love this goose before her has lived for her, through the memories of her tortoise friend.

Upcoming novel: Rain on the Window

With only a year left until the college entrance exams, Jiang Nuan feels her phobia getting worse and worse.

Ever since she was little, she's been afraid of glass streaked with rain on rainy days.

Lately, the murders, kidnappings, and trafficking cases happening around her have made her already sensitive mind even more fragile.

On what should have been a bright, sunny day at school, her gaze out the window gradually blurred. In the panes of glass, transparent and almost white with flowing rainwater, she saw the figures of an adult and a child.

Who were they?

Jiang Nuan strained to make them out, but someone suddenly patted her shoulder. She turned around and saw only the pallid, exhausted face of her deskmate, Qiao Yiqing.

"It's me." Perhaps he'd seen how shaken she was. Qiao Yiqing's mouth opened like a sheet of white paper being torn as he said softly, "Don't be afraid."

But the shadows behind him clung to him, damp and burning hot.

A strange, familiar sense of calm...

[Has Qiao Yiqing realized she's been spying on her all this time?]

[Doesn't he mind?] Jiang Nuan asked herself.

[He doesn't mind.]

The ghostly shadows behind Qiao Yiqing spoke for their vile, stubborn master: [Because he's been watching you just like you watch her.]

Theme: Recognize your ideals and rebuild yourself