Clipped Wings

佳鱼Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. · ChinaJan 2026

2.8

Word count: 208K words
Chapters: 87

Summary

[Domineering yet deeply devoted CEO Peng Qingyi × brilliant reporter Ying Feiyu × gentle, dependable engineer Wen Yuelin]

[Premium fiction + modern romance + urban relationships + HE + love triangle tension + small-town striver + power and prejudice + workplace PUA + women's growth + 1v2]

To confirm that Ying Feiyu truly loved him, Peng Qingyi invented a lie about his "family's fall from fortune."

So Ying Feiyu proved her feelings through action:

first breaking up, then quitting her job, then changing cities.

Two years later he arrives in the city where Ying Feiyu lives, and resentment rises in him despite himself.

How could she happily marry that engineer Wen Yuelin and live so contentedly?

Editor's review

Jian Yu twists the most painful threads of modern urban romance—tests of trust, workplace dependency, class gap—into one taut cord: Peng Qingyi uses a "family downfall" lie to test Ying Feiyu's sincerity, while Ying Feiyu performs a thorough, clear-eyed self-severance by breaking up, quitting, and changing cities. The novel's real appeal lies not in the CEO's regret but in the heroine's journey from a disciplined, drained "small-town striver" to reclaiming agency over her own life. Author Jia Yu renders workplace PUA, power, and prejudice with concrete texture—not as backdrop but as a real force driving characters' choices. In the triangle, Wen Yuelin's gentle reliability offers another emotional reference, making "whom to choose" not just a sweet-romance question but a choice of values. The HE ending offers emotional release, yet the pain of the earlier push-and-pull is written honestly enough. Suited to focused reading on commutes or weekends, especially for readers who have known emotional exhaustion and workplace suppression, to calibrate their own boundaries through another's choices.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who like modern romance with realistic pain and a growth arc
Office workers who have experienced workplace PUA and want to sort out their boundaries through fiction
Emotion-driven readers who prefer love-triangle tension and an HE ending
Urban women readers interested in small-town strivers and class difference

Not a good fit for

Readers who want only light, sweet romance and won't accept early angst and push-and-pull
Readers instinctively averse to the domineering-CEO setup and test-based emotional logic
Readers expecting pure workplace practicalities or serious social analysis

Reading tips

The early push-and-pull is dense; read at a chapter-by-chapter pace and don't force progress at emotional low points.
When the heroine quits and changes cities, pause to consider which drains in your own life are worth cutting off.
Treat Peng Qingyi and Wen Yuelin as two contrasting relationship models rather than simply picking a side.
After finishing, revisit the details planted by the opening lie to appreciate the echoes in the characters' choices.

About the publisher

Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. China · Founded in 2014

Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. is a cultural enterprise focused on planning and publishing literature and social science books. Public information is limited, and the available details come mainly from its in-house catalogue. Its publishing areas cover prose and essays, foreign literature, social science classics, mystery and detective fiction, and history books, with attention to reissues and boxed sets of classic works. Representative titles include Wang Zengqi's essay collection Renjian Youwei, Wanwu Youqu, The Little Prince, a boxed set of Western philosophical classics, Mao Dun's classic works, a collection of Yasunari Kawabata's award-winning works, Cai Lan's essays, and the Eddie Flynn courtroom mystery series. Its authors include Chinese and foreign names such as Wang Zengqi, Mao Dun, Yasunari Kawabata, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Plato, and Marcus Aurelius, reflecting a publishing profile that brings together Chinese prose, foreign literature, and philosophical and social science classics.

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FAQ

Is this an angst novel or a sweet one? Does it end in HE?

Overall it's modern romance that is angsty first and warm later, with dense emotional testing and push-and-pull early on, and an HE ending. The sweetness concentrates after the relationship is clarified; it is not light, sweet romance throughout.

Is the heroine boy-crazy? Is her growth arc clear?

No. Facing the lie, Ying Feiyu chooses to break up, quit, and change cities—she acts decisively. The novel focuses on her growth from being disciplined and drained to reclaiming agency, with her emotional choices tightly bound to her self-boundaries.

Is workplace PUA and power prejudice given much space?

It is rendered concretely and serves as an important force driving characters' choices rather than backdrop. Readers can see how workplace dependency and unequal discourse power affect emotional judgment.

Is it better read in one sitting or slowly?

The early emotional density is high; read at a chapter-by-chapter pace and avoid forcing progress at low points. Focused weekend reading or segmented commute reading both work—pause to think at key choices.

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About the author

佳鱼 Author · China

Jia Yu is a contemporary Chinese online-fiction author about whom limited public information is available. Two works by this author are currently known, namely Night Grass Grows and Trimmed Feathers, both belonging to the modern romance genre. Her writing takes contemporary urban romance as its basic setting and develops its narratives around characters' choices and changes within intimate relationships, with subject matter close to the reading tastes of present-day readers. Judging from the titles and classifications of these two works, Jia Yu tends to approach emotional themes in a restrained, imagery-rich way, presenting characters' inner states and relational tensions within the framework of romance rather than relying on strong external plot momentum. Because the author has not disclosed further biographical information, a complete picture of her writing, its stages, and its stylistic evolution is difficult to outline; the present introduction can only offer a brief summary based on the available works. Readers who wish to learn more about this author may begin with Night Grass Grows and Trimmed Feathers to appreciate her expressive orientation and emotional tone in modern romance writing.