Unrequited Love Stories!!! It Absolutely Has to Be Unrequited Love, I Really, Really Love Them 暗恋文！！！一定要暗恋文 ，暗恋文我真的超级爱
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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- 2 I Only Took a Peek at Him 我只偷看他一眼 During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli 16.8kReads9.6Score3.8kShelves
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The Years Have Slipped Into Twilight 岁月忽已暮
[Campus Romance] [Mutual Secret Crushes] [Coming-of-Age Feelings] [Happy Ending] When the prodigy Jiang He was sixteen, she followed the boy she liked, Jiang Hai, to San Francisco to study. Together, they won an outstanding award in mathematical modeling, conducted experiments, and wrote papers. Just as Jiang He thought they could keep working together in perfect harmony, a girl named Tian Xiatian appeared and slowly drew Jiang Hai's attention. Heartbroken, Jiang He went to Boston to pursue a ma
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Orange Soda 橘子汽水
Orange Soda is a coming-of-age novel about a heartwarming, healing love story between a young man and woman living in a small town in southern China. Zhou Yu and Cheng Yuzhou meet when they return to their hometown to take the college entrance exam, and grow closer while preparing for it. The gap between their family backgrounds gives rise to many differences in perspective and misunderstandings. They don’t see each other again for several years after the exam. Then, by chance, Zhou Yu and Cheng
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- 5 Seeing Through 窥破 [The print edition of Farewell Ceremony is now available on all major platforms.] [Reclusive, cold, troubled girl × possessive, hot-tempered young rogue] Wan Li pressed her fingerprints ten times, and from then on, lost her heart. “Tsk, it's not like you're signing a contract. Don't be nervous.” The young man raised an eyebrow slightly, a smile tugging at his lips. Everyone said Ji Lanzhuo was a dissolute playboy no one could control. Wan Li wasn't afraid. She threw herself in headfirst and fell 2.5kReads9.3Score373Shelves
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The NPC Says Nothing, Just Keeps Lowering Your Affection Rating NPC不语，只是一味降好感度
[The aloof, sanctimonious shou vs. the refined, depraved gong who falls hard] [Two male leads + both are virgins + sweet romance + a little push and pull] On the night he gets engaged to Qin Zhiyue, Ning Xihui discovers that he’s a villainous NPC in a sweet, feel-good novel where the character everyone hated becomes everyone’s darling. On the outside, he’s immaculate and refined, a cold, noble flower on a high peak. Inside, he’s dark and jealous. Just because Qin Zhiyue glanced at the protagonis
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- 7 Deep Oxygen 深氧 He just wasn’t Gu Qinyu’s type, so all he could do was watch him embrace one new lover after another. At the hotel elevator, Gu Qinyu brushed past Zhong Qi with his arm around his sweetheart, exchanging a polite nod and smile. But who would have thought that this mild-mannered, good-tempered man would end up in bed with him that very night... Pure love, one-sided crush Younger man, sweet romance Gu Qinyu × Zhong Qi 1.9kReads8.5Score178Shelves
- 8 The Butterfly and the Bad Dog 蝴蝶与坏犬 [Two male leads + unrequited love + dog-like, seductive top + self-conscious, sensitive butterfly bottom + happy ending + both are each other’s first] Shi Yang has been in love with someone for seven years. One day, the man he loves falls from the heights of power into the gutter. Just before he is to be executed by firing squad, he is kidnapped and taken abroad, where he is auctioned off like merchandise. To save him, Shi Yang throws caution to the wind and climbs to the top floor of a hotel. U 4.6kReads9.4Score594Shelves
- 9 A Turtle’s Secret Crush 一只乌龟的暗恋 Xu Chigui’s world was a small circle of gray. For a long time, He Zheng was its only light. Unable to help himself, Xu Chigui secretly followed that light, walking on and on… The road ahead seemed to have no end. Then one day, He Zheng left the little city. Xu Chigui didn’t go to see him off. He retreated into his shell again and hid away for years. Xu Chigui thought: Goodbye, He Zheng. Thank you for staying with me until I was sixteen. If you ever come back, I only hope… You’ll look at me, get 356Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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My Wife Says I’m His One That Got Away! 老婆说，他的朱砂痣是我诶！
[Two male leads] [Mutual secret crushes] [Both pursue each other] [Livestreaming + variety shows] What?! The King of Love Songs has never been in a relationship? Who would believe that! What?! It's true? What?! He's a hopeless romantic, too?! He's had a crush for ten years? A livestream interview shattered and then rebuilt the public's impression of Wanqi Chao, only for it to be shattered and rebuilt again... Wait, wasn't he supposed to have been secretly in love for ten years? How did they get
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- 11 This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧 A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome 21.6kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves
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The Future Sect Leader's Private Diary 准掌门的私密日录
[Senior and Junior Brothers + Secret Crush + Mystery Investigations + Mild Angst] [Calculating, Obsessive Senior Brother Xiao Ran × Resilient, Long-Suffering Junior Brother Lin Huaijin] Xiao Ran resented his junior brother, Lin Huaijin, for taking the sect leader's position from him. That is, until he opened the private diary. It was filled with the thoughts Lin Huaijin had kept to himself for years about his secret love for someone. Xiao Ran was certain that the person Lin Huaijin thought of
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- 13 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred 81.1kReads9.7Score14.1kShelves
- 14 Qingqing: The Aesthetics of Unrequited Love Tragedies, Part 3 清清（暗恋BE美学三部曲03） Back in middle school, Xie Zeyang met Shen Bingqing. Their names were almost the opposite of their natures: he was as cold as ice, while she burned bright as the sun. He could still vaguely recall every time they parted when they were young. At thirteen, beneath the lights at the entrance to an alley. She waved with a radiant smile and said to him, “See you tomorrow, class monitor!” At seventeen, on the beach on a midsummer night. She poked her head out of the tent, eyes crinkling as she called 23.3kReads9.6Score5.8kShelves
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After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨
[Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y
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Voices of the Heart in Midsummer 盛夏里的心声
[Secret Crush Turns to Love + Mutual Devotion + College Campus + Both Leads Are Chaste] A roguishly handsome, flirtatious yet secretly shy guy × a sweet, gentle girl who acts stubborn In the seventh year of her secret crush on Lu Yanhe, Wen Ling got into the university he attended and slowly drew closer to him. On his birthday, she told him she had liked a boy for seven years. He drank alone all night, and later pinned her against a wall, letting the alcohol embolden him as he pressed a kiss ag
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A Night of Kisses on the Edge 夜吻悬溺
[Cool, refined good girl in disguise × rebellious young heir] [From college to the city + mutual pining + both devoted to each other + powerful families in Beijing + academic overachievers] P.S. The rating just came out and is likely to rise. The notorious young heir of Beijing comes from an illustrious family. Rebellious and unpredictable, he exudes an innate air of privilege and freedom, making him seem untouchable to everyone around him. Xu Zhao is the campus beauty of Jing University’s law
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- 18 Lost in an Endless Summer 沉溺无尽夏 [Roguish, cocky heartthrob vs. sweet, gentle, resilient girl] [College campus + sweet romance + mutual pining turned love + both leads’ first time] Shen Zhixia carried a secret she couldn’t share with anyone. She liked the boy who was the brightest and most carefree person in any crowd. But she knew a whole galaxy lay between them. She never dared hope they might have a story together. Later, at Jiang University’s anniversary gala, Jiang Xuye, an outstanding freshman representative, took the sta 19.7kReads8.8Score2.5kShelves
- 19 After Reading His Mind, the Cold-Hearted Campus Heartthrob Goes Crazy Every Day 读心后冷酷校草每天都在发疯 Print edition | Short drama now available [School crush + mind reading + sweet romance and healing + big-brother vibes] [Cold and aloof on the outside, hopelessly lovestruck puppy on the inside VS cool and distant on the outside, soft, timid, and insecure little snail on the inside] At Monday’s flag-raising ceremony, Yun Xiang inexplicably gained a superpower: She could hear the school heartthrob’s thoughts. The handsome heartthrob stood on the flag-raising platform, dignified and stern, his fac 5.1kReads9.4Score646Shelves
- 20 Baby, Will You Choose Me? 宝宝，选我好不好 [Print edition under contract] [Forced romance + school days to city life + secret crush + both are each other’s only one] [Troublemaker heir x sweet, well-behaved girl] Shen Wumian’s younger brother rear-ends a luxury car by accident and is hit with a two-million-yuan bill. The creditor is Ke Ran. Ke Ran is a rich young master who has returned from Britain. Born into a wealthy family, he has a bold, carefree face and is a favored son of heaven at the very top of the social pyramid. Shen Wumian 89.9kReads9.1Score9.6kShelves
- 21 Aloof Young Master in Public, Clingy Puppy in Private 人前矜冷贵公子，人后黏人小狗 [Complete story. A seemingly gentle but actually scheming, clingy puppy × a girl who seems delicate but is actually sensitive and insecure] Bai Jing, the only son of the powerful Bai family, was the unattainable moon in everyone’s eyes. Cool and proud, he never lowered his head for anyone. Until the university’s freshman mixer. Leaning casually against the second-floor railing, he spotted a girl in a white dress among the crowd below. She was quietly hiding behind her friend, looking shy and tim 12.6kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
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Sweet, Sizzling Kisses! After We Get Our Marriage License, He Kisses Me Red Every Night 甜欲肆吻！领证后夜夜被亲红温
Jiang Jinnian, the current head of the Jiang family, is known for his self-discipline and propriety, and his cool temperament. Even though the Jiang and Shen families arranged a marriage long ago, no one ever connected him with Shen Nanzhi. For years, Shen Nanzhi thought the same. Jiang Jinnian spent most of his time abroad. He was cold by nature and rarely came home, so the two hardly ever had a chance to meet. Even when they did, Shen Nanzhi always kept her distance. She never imagined that, b
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I Married My Secret Crush First, Then Fell in Love 与暗恋对象先婚后爱了
[Cool, aloof beauty × rebellious young master] Jiang Shuyue is distant by nature and dislikes dealing with people. Even her parents are at a loss over her coolness, and often criticize her for it. She has always known the truth: her parents criticize her simply because they don't like her. The one they love is their adopted daughter, who grew up in the Jiang family. When she was twenty-five, she made a deal with her parents: she would agree to an arranged marriage, on the condition that they nev
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- 24 Zero-Degree Intimacy 零度暧昧 [The print edition goes on sale across all platforms on August 1] [Short drama now streaming] Previously titled: Zero-Degree Intimacy [One-on-one romance + both leads’ first love + happy ending + secret marriage + sweet romance ♥ Double-layer milk foam, 70% sugar!] (Rich, sharp-tongued, scheming investor Jian Yuchen VS money-loving, mischievous young designer Wen Ni) In a nutshell: She married her nemesis. In physics, zero degrees is the point where ice and water coexist. Zero-degree intimacy is 79.3kReads9.5Score9.4kShelves
- 25 I Married My Secret Crush First, Then Fell in Love 和暗恋对象先婚后爱了 A cold, abstinent, jealous CEO who’s a devoted husband x an adorable employee Marriage first, love later · secret crush becomes mutual · sweet pampering / one-on-one, first love for both, both pure At twenty-five, Jiang Mansheng married the high school heartthrob she had secretly loved. Back then, Lu Qichen came from a wealthy family and was exceptionally handsome, a favored child of heaven whom everyone envied. Jiang Mansheng, by contrast, was quiet and mild-mannered, just an ordinary girl fro 10.1kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
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- 27 A Gentle Seduction 软诱 The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us 73.1kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves
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Sour Plum Blossoms 青梅酸枝果
[Secret Crush ‖ Regret] That midsummer, some feelings burned fiercely Sunlight streamed through the gaps between the leaves and into the classroom He was the bruise of my girlhood The secret I never dared to speak aloud A girl’s heart is forever buried deep within her Like the clear water of a stream, pure and untainted Its sweet aftertaste can always make you imagine things As if touching him could make my heart beat faster Was it always just wishful thinking? The cicadas outside the window wer
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- 29 Heartbeat Over the Line 心跳越轨 [Signed for print publication] [Age gap + married first, love later + exceptionally gentle, fatherly male lead + both leads are each other's first] A restrained cardiac surgeon x a sweet young woman who grows into herself *Complete. A sweet, everyday romance with no melodrama. - On the eve of her engagement, Jiang Qiao catches her boyfriend passionately kissing another woman. As she stands there in a pitiful state, Pei Zhihe's tall figure appears beside her. His deep, dark eyes look at her from 68.9kReads9.5Score10.5kShelves
- 30 Don't Flirt with Me 别和我撒娇 40.9kReads9.5Score4.5kShelves
- 31 A Secret Crush Is Like a Sugar-Sweet Star! 暗恋是颗星星糖！ [Sweet, gentle, and soft-spoken heroine x roguishly handsome flirt] [College romance | Mutual pining comes true | Both leads are each other's first | Sweet romance | Flirty and romantic] In high school, Tan Xuze was a born winner, with a top-tier family and looks to match. His grades were always at the top, and everyone adored him. Shu Mian wasn't one of the stars surrounding him, and she never dared hope her secret crush would ever see the light of day. At college, Tan Xuze was still the cente 22.5kReads9.4Score3.1kShelves
- 32 Her Secret Crush Is Wicked and Flirtatious, and She Can't Handle Him 暗恋对象又坏又撩，她招架不住 Short drama now available A cash-strapped, gentle, resilient good girl × a rich, aloof, wicked young master [The heroine’s secret crush comes true + a fake playboy reforms + dating before falling in love] Lin Wu stumbled upon scenes she shouldn’t have seen, twice. The first time, in a torrential downpour, He Jingzhou sat in his car, watching indifferently as a bodyguard beat someone half to death. The second time was at a party, where she saw him get dumped on the spot as his White Moonlight ann 65.5kReads9.3Score7kShelves
- 33 A Bite of Sugar 咬一口糖 [Print edition now available] Cold, aloof bad boy × sweet, well-behaved girl. Secret crush comes true, reformed playboy, sweet romance. Shen Queyan of Jiang University was notorious for his womanizing ways. Everyone was betting on who could tame him. Then one day, a sweet, obedient girl appeared at his side, and he doted on her without question. Some said she was the younger sister of Shen Queyan's closest friend. Xu Tang had been secretly in love with her brother's friend for a long time. It w 37.5kReads9.4Score4.5kShelves
- 34 Captain, Please Route Around the Thunderstorm 机长先生，雷雨请绕飞 [Aloof, proud commercial airline captain x sweet-voiced, beautiful air traffic controller. She has a longtime crush on him; they marry first and fall in love later. The print edition goes on sale February 28; the short drama is already out.] Before she was urged to go on a blind date, Meng Liyue never imagined the man she was meeting was the person she’d secretly loved since her student days. She had written his name countless times in her diary. After she married him, everyone thought Meng Liy 41.1kReads9.5Score4.8kShelves
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Her Little Stroke of Luck 她的小幸运
[A Sweet Campus Romance] [Mutual Pining + Two Top Students + HE + They Choose Each Other] [Cool, Aloof Girl vs. Scheming, Chaste Academic Heartthrob] At fifteen, Li Xia ran into the boy who had dazzled her throughout her youth. He was the school heartthrob and top student every girl was crazy about: someone to admire from afar, but never touch. Li Xia assumed she was just one of many girls with a crush on him. She never expected him to run toward her against the light. “You silly girl, after kee
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- 36 His Iris 他的鸢尾 [Marriage Before Love] [Long-planned scheme] [Secret crush] [Sweet romance] [Devoted one-on-one couple] Pei Chi was a notorious playboy in the capital, a real ladies' man. Then, quite out of character, he agreed to the arranged marriage that the other privileged young heirs looked down on most. After the wedding, he came home late and left early every day, as if marriage had completely chained his freedom. The privileged young heirs were in an uproar. Ruan Yuan must be a tyrant! They had thought 34.6kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
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He Just Doesn't Like Me That Much 他只是没那么喜欢我
[Campus Tragedy] Sensitive girl x genius boy He was the bright, sunny boy who became the main character of my youth. His charming eyes left me dazzled for a long time. I knew he might have felt only the slightest bit of affection for me, and that I was just a passerby in his life. But it didn’t matter. Even if he hurt me ten thousand times, I would still like him. He always told me I would meet someone better, but I knew there could never be another him. As they walked down a path, they shared
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- 38 Sweetly Obedient 乖吝 Originally titled Well-Behaved and Willful [Sweet romance & mutual secret crushes & from campus to the altar & both leads are each other's first & healing] (Reserved, cool-headed rich heiress & unruly, roguish, devoted guy) In her senior year of high school, Wen Suwan transferred to Shanghai and fell for her deskmate, the school bully Shen Chi. Everyone said Shen Chi was a hooligan who got into fights and ran with street gangs. Only Wen Suwan knew how gentle the prickly boy really was. They prom 3.6kReads9.3Score398Shelves
- 39 I Heard You've Liked Me for a Long Time 听说你喜欢我很久了 [Campus | Redemption | Unrequited Love from the Male Lead | Open Communication | Pure Romance, 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Resilient, Frail Girl × Gentle, Guiding Boy] * To Chang Queyin, he was the moon in the sky. Bold and dazzling, he was the adored pride of everyone around him. She was the river below, reflecting the moon's image, beautiful from afar but never to be approached. An endless rainstorm raged in her heart. She was afraid conversations might touch on her family, wrapped herself up tight, 1.5kReads8.3Score318Shelves
- 40 Love at Seventeen 心动在十七岁 [Street-Tough Delinquent Boy vs. Sensitive, Insecure Poor Student] [Both Each Other’s First + School Life + Cherishing and Protecting + Mutual Redemption + Finding Their Way to Each Other] After enduring prolonged bullying at school, Jiang Nian met Shen Huai by chance, a swaggering, unruly street delinquent. From then on, a little girl appeared beside the fearsome boy. Shen Huai’s explanation to everyone was, “Can’t be helped. I accepted a week’s worth of breakfast from the girl.” Youth is the 922Reads8.0Score138Shelves
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The Ache of a Secret Crush 暗恋刺耳
The rating just came out and will rise later! [College life + sweet romance + love at first sight + secret crush comes true + happy ending] [Sweet, innocent, and oblivious girl × devoted top student with a secret crush] Yuncheng High School had two famous students. One was Yun Zhixia, a top student in the humanities. The other was Chen Shixu, who consistently ranked first in the science track. One excelled in the humanities, the other in science. Their paths could hardly have been more different
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- 42 Secretly in Love with You in Midsummer 在盛夏暗恋你 [Well-Behaved, Hardworking Girl x Sincere, Gentle Boy] [One-on-One, Both Pure + First Love + School Romance + Unrequited Love Becomes Mutual + Reunion After Years Apart + Female Lead’s Perspective + Extra Sweet + Happy Ending] This is a little story about a secret crush. Lin Simian has a secret: after the high school entrance exams, she fell for a boy she had met only once. Her three years of unrequited love in high school were like fizzy soda, bittersweet and bubbling nonstop. Gu Jingyu was an 5.9kReads8.8Score788Shelves
- 43 Stuck at Seventeen 停留十七岁那年 [Campus romance × Youth × Mutual unrequited love × Heartbreak] Cold, rebellious boy × Sweet, well-behaved honor student * [Xie Yixiao was born wild and unruly, proud and untamed. Yet somehow, this boy fell in love with a good student from a broken home, a quiet, sweet, and sensible girl.] * [Ye Mian came from an incomplete family. Her parents weren't around when she was growing up. Then, when she was six, she learned that both of them had died. She was raised by her grandmother.] * [To part beca 2.9kReads7.2Score267Shelves
- 44 EN Letters Tracing the Rain 溯雨信笺 [The physical book is now available. Its published title is Letters in the Rain] [Small-Town Literature | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Mutual Healing | 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Gentle and Resilient x Jaded and World-Weary] When Pu Yu was seventeen, she transferred to a remote town in southern China. There, she met Yuan Su. He had once been the town's brightest star, a prodigy destined for greatness. Now he had fallen from grace, and everyone avoided him. Everyone except Pu Yu. - An old street. A repair s 258.2kReads9.6Score49.3kShelves
- 45 A Mint-Flavored Summer 薄荷糖味的夏天 (The rating just came out, so it’ll go up.) [School life + two top students + secret crush + healing + mutual devotion] A sensitive girl who gradually opens up and becomes straightforward × a sweet-talking boy whose actions belie his words Song Yumo & Chen Mobai After transferring to Jingbei High School, Song Yumo finds a steady friendship for the first time. One day: Song Yumo tilted her head and studied him. “Take a look at me. Can you tell if anything’s different today?” “You’re wearing makeu 7.6kReads8.3Score1kShelves
- 46 The Transmigrated Female Side Character in a Youth Angst Novel 穿书女配，在青春疼痛文学 [Youthful angst + unrequited love from a male lead + female lead is not a virgin, male lead is + 1v1 at each stage + romantic rivalry] [The rating just opened, so it'll go up!] [A multifaceted, self-interested heroine who grows + a cool guy with a one-track mind in love + a gloomy, aloof top student] After being killed in an accident, Jiang Zhi finds herself inside a youth-angst novel she read before she died. It's 2008, the heyday of non-mainstream angst literature. The book has all the classic 5.3kReads8.8Score756Shelves
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Journey South in Search 南下追寻
[They meet at school + marriage first, love later + passionate newlyweds + both virgins + one-on-one romance] At sixteen, they were young and bright. At eighteen, they went their separate ways. At twenty-six, a marriage contract brought them together. Wen Li thought her journey was a solo one. She never imagined that one day her midsummer night’s dream from youth would bloom into a garden of flowers. ‘The heroine’s secret crush comes true; the hero gradually falls for her.’ / After years apart,
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- 48 Distant and Extraordinary 殊遥 [Secret crush + reunion + mutual pursuit + happy ending] Qin Shu loved someone, quietly keeping him in her heart for ten years. Just saying the name Mu Yunchen made her feel sweet. But she was only an ordinary schoolmate from Mu Yunchen's high school years. He could barely even remember what she looked like. Then, thanks to a beautiful misunderstanding, she and Mu Yunchen met again, and he remembered her from the moment he saw her. Using some rather clumsy tactics, he finally coaxed the young wo 967Reads8.9Score113Shelves
- 49 My Secret Crush Became My Brother’s Coworker 暗恋对象成了我哥的同事 That year, Lin Zhixia was twenty-seven. She was a high school Chinese teacher, a career she'd chosen at her mother's urging because it was stable. After graduating from college, Zhixia returned to her old high school to teach Chinese. By chance, Lin Zhixia ran into the person she'd secretly loved in high school at the hospital. At first glance, she fell into his gaze. That familiar feeling stirred up inside her all at once, making her restless and unable to calm down for a long time. 643Reads8.8Score102Shelves
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Summer Is Always Filled with Joy 盛夏之时常遇欢喜
Chang Yuhuan first met Xia Zhishi on the first day of junior high. The boy leaned against the doorframe, his bright, captivating eyes stirring the girl's heart. Like the dazzling morning sun, the boy was impossible to look away from. The girl drew closer, step by careful step, spending ten years secretly loving him. In the process, she changed herself too, becoming the person she had always wanted to be when she was young.
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