Bei Lin
Alcove Press
29 September 2026
336
eBook - EPUB
MM Contemporary Romance
ARC via NetGalley
Daniel Wu’s life in Amsterdam is far from spontaneous. When his boyfriend dumps him on the same day a work mishap lands him on leave, he breaks all his rules by impulsively escaping to Beijing to visit his best friend Poppy.
There’s just one hitch—Poppy isn’t there.
Alone in the foreign city his late father grew up in, Daniel wants nothing more than to fly home early. After all, running away is what he does best. But then Poppy signs him up for a tour of the Great Wall.
Enter Yang Li, the PhD student moonlighting as a tour guide. A transplant to Beijing, Yang has never felt at home in the bustling capital—or with himself. Cynical and disciplined, he isn’t the least impressed when Daniel shows up to their tour hours late. The tour is painful in more ways than one, but at least it’s a one-time ordeal.
Then life pushes them together again and again, until time spent together over stunning sights and mind-blowing eats feels less like vacation and more like finally finding home.
From Beijing, With Love was a thoughtful and delightful MM contemporary romance tale. Both Daniel and Yang were well-drawn characters, and both of them developed and grew over the course of the novel. Their relationship felt real and believable, as did the general scenarios that played out. The pacing of the story was excellent and kept me engaged from start to finish. I was able to really get behind the characters and root for them, and there was also some useful cultural information imparted too which, as someone learning a little bit of Chinese at present, I found interesting. All in all, a fun and sweet read that I would recommend to fans of contemporary MM romance. There's plenty of angst along the way, but there's also a happy ending as pay off. I am giving it 4.5 stars.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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