Every watch in every ad is set to 10:10. It makes the hands look like a smile. Lin Min-min built those smiles for a living while her own life sat frozen at the same angle: right job, right fiance, nothing true.

Then the engagement ends, and Min-min gives herself one Taipei summer and one rule. Six nights. Six strangers. Total honesty about what each night is, and no repeats.

A whisky bar owner who won't pour until she says what she wants. A night-market cook who feeds her first. A ceramicist who teaches her to receive. A neighbor in a typhoon blackout. A rider on a 2 a.m. mountain road. And last, a watchmaker who has quietly seen every version of her all summer.

One scorching, big-hearted novella about desire, honesty, and a woman deciding who gets the real her in daylight.

For adult readers who love high-heat romance with consequence. Contains explicit sensual adult content. All characters are consenting adults. 18+.