Never Thought I'd End Up Here
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Publisher Description
An Instant New York Times bestseller!
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller I Hope This Doesn't Find You comes another hilarious and romantic romcom, this time following a former model determined to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.
Leah Zhang has just ruined her cousin's wedding. She didn't mean to wish the bride a depressing marriage and poor health, but she's forgotten most of her Mandarin. Her parents stage an intervention: Leah will be sent on a travel program across China's most beautiful cities. To them, it's the perfect opportunity for Leah to get back to her roots. To Leah, it's simply a much-needed escape.
But before Leah can even begin to enjoy the luxurious hotels, stunning scenery, and mouth-watering cuisine, she finds that also on the trip is cynical, sarcastic Cyrus Sui, who's somehow only gotten more annoyingly handsome since the day he told a lie that ruined her life.
While Leah might be tempted to shove him off the peak of the Yellow Mountain when nobody's looking, she can't get rid of him just yet. After all, she might never get another chance to get revenge.
Yet the deeper they wander into China's provinces, the deeper Leah finds herself falling in love - with the boy she once thought she despised, the home she never thought she'd call her own, and the parts of herself she thought were already lost.
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In this quintessential rom-com by Liang (I Hope This Doesn't Find You), a former model turns a cultural excursion into an opportunity for revenge on her childhood nemesis. Chinese American 17-year-old Leah Zhang isn't the strongest Mandarin speaker in her family. So when the language barrier leads to a mortifying faux pas at her cousin's wedding, her parents enroll her in a travel program voyaging across China, hoping the experience will help their daughter reconnect with her roots. For Leah, though, the trip offers a chance to escape from L.A. and the remnants of her past modeling career. That is, until she learns that cynical, sarcastic, and handsome former classmate Cyrus Sui is also attending the program. Leah still hasn't forgiven him for a past incident that forced her to transfer schools, and while she's tempted to shove him off the Yellow Mountain range, she instead hatches other revenge schemes. But as she learns more about Cyrus, she's torn between vengeance and romance. Hilarious and heartfelt, this story of budding young love simultaneously emphasizes the connections between romantic partners, between the characters and their culture, and with themselves. A comedic supporting cast adds further layers to this fast-paced trip of inward and outward discovery. Ages 12–up.
