Playing the Black Moonlight in a Painful Hong Kong Novel

Name: Playing the Black Moonlight in a Painful Hong Kong Novel
Author: residue

在疼痛香江文学里当黑月光

by residue

Status: Ongoing
Length: 145k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Modern Romance High-Concept
Updated: 2d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Ensemble cast!!! A jumble of eight couples, ship them however you like.

The blurb tells the previous generation's story, and their story is realistic and full of melodrama! It only lasts for the first eight chapters, so please don't let that put you off.

The previous generation's agonizing love and bitter resentment will help you understand why this generation is so complicated: they want to love but can't, and want to let go but can't.

Female lead: Ren Ruyi. Male lead: Xin Xia.

If you want a sweet, innocent young couple with bittersweet romance, skip ahead and start at Chapter 9!

Blurb:

The neon lights of Temple Street never went out, their colors spilling into the glass tank at Cheung Kee's goldfish stall and stirring into a dream of red and green.

Zhong Aixiao never smiled.

She had a baby face and was born with a mournful expression.

When she was seventeen, Xin Tongda tossed her a pack of mint tissues. From then on, her youth had only one flavor.

"When I'm sad, I think of Tongda a little more," she said.

"I like girls who smile, but you're not that girl," he said.

He loved Xia Guang's red hair and the laughter that shattered the night.

But Xia Guang was carrying someone else's child, and his world collapsed on a typhoon night.

He fought for three days and three nights, then drank himself senseless for a night. When he sobered up, he pinned her to the damp mattress. Blood from the web of his thumb smeared across her neck. "You're a good girl. I don't deserve your love."

Her face was streaked with tears. "I just can't help being pathetic."

Xia Guang died in the delivery room after a difficult labor.

Xin Tongda left five hundred Hong Kong dollars and said, "You take the child." Then he turned and boarded a ship bound for the Philippines.

Zhong Aixiao crouched in front of the fish tank. Goldfish had only seven seconds of memory, but a human life was too long, long enough for one betrayal to consume the rest of it.

She only pressed the corners of her mouth down a little, shaping them into the way they had been when they first met

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