Next book: "Unfinished Rain" — synopsis at the bottom. ———————— Beach lifeguard × Five-star hotel executive manager. Cool and melancholic × outwardly gentle, inwardly crazy uniformedYu Jie. 1. On the island, the old five-star hotel C Hotel has a coveted private beach. Meng Ning, as a beach lifeguard, wears a black athletic swimsuit, her long black hair tied up at the back of her head, with a black mandala tattooed on the back of her neck. When she stands on the beach looking into the distance, she looks like an overly beautiful dolphin. Unlike other lifeguards, she always wears a string of Buddhist prayer beads around her wrist that she never takes off. Someone asks, "Are you a Buddhist?" She smiles, "Yes." 2. Everyone says Meng Ning isn't cold, just distant. On the first day Wen Zenian arrives as the new executive manager, she draws Meng Ning as her partner in a game at the annual party. They are supposed to move a balloon together to a designated spot to pass. Meng Ning directly gives up the challenge and downs three large glasses of absinthe instead. The next day, while inspecting the coast, Wen Zenian chooses Meng Ning to accompany her. Standing on a cliffside rock, she smiles and asks, "If I count to three and jump, would you believe me? One, two..." "Hey!" Meng Ning only has time to hook her chain belt, and Wen Zenian pulls her backward as they both fall into the sea. When they are lifted from the water, Wen Zenian's white uniform shirt is soaked through, clinging to her curves. She leans on Meng Ning's shoulder: "Didn't I still get to hold you?" "Wen Zenian, are you crazy?" "Don't you know best?" Wen Zenian smiles elegantly and seductively: "Life doesn't give you the chance to count to three." She leans close to Meng Ning's ear: "Also, if you want to pretend not to know me, shouldn't you also pretend to forget that I'm afraid of water?" 3. The night they sleep together, Wen Zenian takes off Meng Ning's prayer beads for the first time, gently stroking her wrist: "Besides believers, who else always wears prayer beads?" "Liars full of lies, and hopeless souls." 1v1, he. Author Weibo: @Gu Lai Yi ———————— Next book: "Unfinished Rain": Quiet and introverted piano tuner & glamorous and grand pianist. 1. In her senior year of high school, Wen Ran met Xu Xiyan for the first time. The eighteen-year-old girl had naturally curly hair and a face like an early blooming rose. It was the first time Wen Ran knew that allure could be independent of age or experience; she only needed to stand there to be the focus of the world's attention. Xu Xiyan was a prodigy girl who transferred from Beicheng, and from then on, Wen Ran began her most silent yet tumultuous secret crush. Even though their names were never mentioned together by anyone. 2. At twenty-six, Wen Ran was an ordinary piano tuner at a music store. One day after work, a colleague gossiped with her: "Xu Xiyan returned to the country today. The airport was packed with her fans." An internationally renowned and wildly popular pianist—only one like Xu Xiyan appears in decades, for her immense talent, her rose-like face, and her cold temperament. Wen Ran pursed her lips and smiled: "Mm." Wen Ran returned to her rental apartment of less than forty square meters. Inside, the room was filled with steam. A woman wrapped in a bathrobe leaned over, her fair wrists gently encircling Wen Ran's waist, her voice light and hoarse: "A Ran, when will you finally come out to me?" "You're wetting my clothes." Wen Ran gently pushed her away. "Also, coming out is impossible. Once the two-year contract is up, we go our separate ways." *When the one she had a crush on becomes her secret lover. "At eighteen, the closest I ever got to her was standing together under the eaves of the piano room, sheltering from that dusk sunshower. The sky was half warm sun, half pouring rain. She fluttered her butterfly-like eyelashes at me. That was a crush that only works in adolescence, bounded by a dusk." 1v1, he.