Rosmei has revealed the cover for its standalone Vodka and Mandheling.
The publisher based in Singapore dropped the cover for its modern danmei Vodka and Mandheling (伏特加与曼特宁). The cover shows the two main leads with one of them carrying a large bouquet of flowers. According to its progress report, the translation for the single volume is now complete with the preorder scheduled for the second half of the year, and will also have physical and e-books available. Rosmei has not yet announced if the e-books will be co-published with Publang. Vodka and Mandheling will also have an exclusive extra chapter.
Written by Yu Dao Qiao, Rosmei has provided the following synopsis:
Zhu Jingru, the charismatic owner of a bohemian bar, lives like a wandering spirit—bold, restless, here one second and gone the next. Bai Qinglin, the reserved barista of the elegant café across the street, is his opposite in every way: disciplined, distant, and content within the quiet walls he’s built around himself.
Their paths cross on an ordinary morning over coffee, but something in Bai’s careful stillness sparks a fascination Zhu can’t shake. What begins as curiosity turns into deliberate courtship: calculated encounters disguised as coincidence, small gestures that accumulate like falling snow. Zhu coaxes warmth from a man who seems untouched by desire, one whose acknowledgments come only in glances held a moment too long, in silences that say everything.
Yet Bai is not unmoved. Beneath the ice lies a hunger he’s spent years suppressing, a longing sharpened by Zhu’s persistence. The more Zhu pushes, the harder Bai tries to hold his ground—until resistance becomes impossible.
A story of patient pursuit and the slow unraveling of emotional defences, Vodka and Mandheling shows how love arrives where it’s least expected—and transforms everything.
Fans can read the preview on Rosmei’s website.
Source: Rosmei
