The Sunk Cost of Loving Professor

The Female Lead Loses All Hope and Cuts Ties, Leaving Him Full of Regret!

I'd like to read something like The More You Force It, the More Bitter It Gets: The Reborn Her No Longer Pursues the Campus Heartthrob. When the female lead likes the male lead, he's cold as ice and ignores her. She decides to let him go, and only then does he realize how important she is.

Begging for Angst-Ridden Romance

I've read too many sweet stories, and now they're starting to make me feel sick. I want an angsty story that's both sweet and heartbreaking, but not cloyingly sweet or relentlessly tragic. The leads should have reasons for both their sweet moments and their painful ones. I don't want angst for angst's sake or sweetness for sweetness's sake.

The Male Lead Was Married but Is Now Divorced, the Female Lead Is a College Student, and There’s an Age Gap

Older Man, Age Gap, Angst

Looking for angsty stories where the female lead was adopted or there’s an age gap between the leads, or they have a faux uncle-and-niece relationship.

They Break Up Over a Misunderstanding, but the Male Lead Is Gentle and Loves Her Deeply

The male lead is gentle and deeply in love with the female lead. They break up at some point.

Looking for Age-Gap Stories with a Mature, Steady Male Lead Who's Been Married Before and Has a Child!!

Bittersweet Stories Where the Leads End Up Together: Not a Tragic Ending, but It Feels Like One!

Something like *Typhoon Eye* or *Between Wanting and Saying*. The angst doesn't make you cry, and the sweet parts don't make you smile. They end up together, but the journey there still makes your heart ache.

The Male and Female Leads Argue and Give Each Other the Cold Shoulder

Back Then, They Both Had Their Reasons

Any stories about breaking up and getting back together, reuniting after a long separation, or a remorseful partner desperately trying to win back their spouse?

Reunion + Heartache + Getting Back Together

I really love that kind of story: they gradually get together and have a wonderfully sweet time, but split up for various reasons, then meet again years later 😭😭😭 Does anyone have any good recommendations with this kind of premise? 😭

Any Bittersweet Romance Novels?!

Looking for bittersweet, heart-wrenching stories.

The Male Lead Is at Least Ten Years Older Than the Female Lead

None.

Any Teacher-Student Romance Novels?

A teacher and student fall in love, and then the teacher calls the student's parents. The parent says, “I approve. A girlfriend can keep him from smoking and drinking, help him dress well, and care about him. That's all beyond what I can do.” Then the teacher says, “That's great, Auntie. He and I will come visit you together this weekend.”

There's a Big Age Gap, but He Spoils Me

An age-gap romance with lots of sweetness and pampering.