Chen Yu was still in high school when she first started writing fiction online. The initial rejections she received from publishers only spurred her desire to create, and her writing career began in earnest after she won the Cross Straits Literary Competition for her novel Deep Seas in 2011. Since then she has been publishing two books a year, never flinching from serious topics such as domestic violence and campus bullying. She has been one of the top five bestselling Chinese-language authors on Books.com.tw for the last two years, and her fifteen novels to date have combined sales of around five hundred thousand copies.