Looking for a School-and-Youth Novel. Something Ordinary and Low-Key, Please 寻本校园青春文，希望普通，平淡一点，非常感谢
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A Secret Love Poem in the Dust 尘埃里的暗恋诗
(Print edition signed) + (Animated series coming soon. Search “The Small-Town Girl's White Moonlight” to reserve your spot) [Based on a true story + both leads are each other's first and only + happy ending] [In the beginning: innocent schoolyard crush; later: mutual devotion and a mix of sweet and steamy love] Xia Changjun's crush was so hard to bear. It began too early. She had liked him since elementary school. The gap between them was too wide. He was the prince of their small town. Every te
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- 102 What If I Were a Parasitic Vine? 假如我是菟丝花 Signed for a print edition, publication pending | Instinctive attraction | Pure love in the early stages | Passionate love in the later stages | When they first met, Su Yunluo never dared imagine that Xie Chen would actually seduce her. After all, back then he was the teacher's pride and joy, the top student admired by the whole school, the God of Xie. Everyone said that this God of Xie was aloof and chaste, untouchable, and above worldly concerns. Only Su Yunluo quietly saw through it. It was a 72.9kReads9.4Score9.8kShelves
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The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途
[No System] [No golden finger] [School belle] [Multiple heroines] [The struggle of an ordinary guy] Zhang Bo is a poor kid from the countryside. He doesn’t have much going for him, except that he’s pretty lucky with girls...
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Qi, Are You Really Giving Up on Pursuing Me? 祁同学，真的不继续追了吗
An utterly unremarkable boy writes the girl he's secretly loved for three years into an essay for a mock exam, letting everyone know how much he favors her. But in real life, he's never had the courage to say a single word to her. He's too ordinary, while she's far too outstanding. Years later, at a blind date arranged by his friends, his heart recognizes her before he does. But when a sudden crisis hits his family, his insecurity and sensitivity make him avoid her at every turn. Yet she's like
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- 105 Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光 So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real! 465Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Cultivating the Great Dao in a Human Classroom 我在人间课堂修大道 Cultivation? Pah! I just want to spend my days with the campus beauty, enjoying the simple pleasures of life and living it to the fullest. Is that too much to ask? And of course, I wouldn't mind having a few more beauties around either… 91Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考 A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too… 387Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记
[No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u
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Sweet Lime 甜青柠
[Complete] Sweet romance + school days + mutual secret crushes + from school uniforms to wedding gowns + each other’s first and only love + a little healing, with a touch of ensemble cast (A shy, sensitive, kind-hearted good girl + a fake delinquent who’s really a gentle, considerate guy) In the first semester of their sophomore year, a transfer student arrived at No. 1 High School. Rumor had it that Song Yizhou was violent and had sent someone to the hospital after beating them up. He was a bon
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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When the Magnolia Blossoms 玉兰花开时
[A cool but warmhearted university professor VS a slow-on-the-uptake graduate student] The first time Li Nanqiao sees university professor Chen Mo in class, her heart skips like a spring bubbling over. At last, she understands: the first feeling when you fall in love isn't happiness, but helpless confusion. In the April weather, her heart sinks into the season of blooming magnolias, into every move the person at the podium makes, and into an inexplicable sense of inferiority. One day, Chen Mo ca
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My Childhood Friend Has Loved Me for Years 竹马爱我好多年
[Childhood sweethearts + he has a crush on her + romantic push and pull + a touch of angst + happy ending] [Noisy little ray of sunshine Zhu Qingtian × sharp-tongued, stubborn boy Shi Youyu] - She thought it was dislike. She never realized that she was only putting on an act to hide her stubborn pride. Her constant denials and avoidance came from not wanting to admit that she had long since fallen into the sea of flowers he had planted. - “Do you know? The person I hate most is you, Zhu Qingtian
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- 113 I’m Confused: Does This Female Classmate Like Me or Not? 疑惑？这位女同学到底喜不喜欢我 “Mr. Lin, when I came to Sumiao to watch a show last year, I took this same road. Guess what I saw?” “A toad blocking the road with a knife?” Chen Xinyao giggled. “What? It was actually a firefly.” “A firefly?” Lin Hao found that hard to believe. “Do we really have fireflies here? I’ve never seen one.” “Could it be that Mr. Lin is just unlucky?” “Hmm… I don’t feel like I missed much. I heard fireflies have very short lives, and their glow only lasts about seven days. It’s such a rare sight, so i 2.7kReads8.9Score257Shelves
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Whispers Beneath the Honey Locust Tree 皂荚树下的密语
One is the class “invisible,” the other is the widely acclaimed “Chemistry Prince.” One exam turns them into rivals who can’t stop bickering. And so begins a story of youth...
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Martial Arts School Graduate 武校毕业生
Martial arts school / traditional martial arts / realistic / passionate / brotherhood / jianghu Adapted from real experiences. No fantasy, no System, and no cheats. A true-to-life portrayal of what life at a martial arts school is really like. A boy defies his family's objections to pursue his martial arts dream. Day after day, he trains relentlessly at school, enduring the long, monotonous years of practice alongside his fellow students and brothers. After graduation, he enters the wider world,
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I’ll Do Everything I Can to Be Someone You Can Shelter Under 我愿尽我所能，做一位撑伞人
Would you still hate studying if you met a teacher like this? Having been caught in the rain himself, he wants to hold an umbrella for others. Another kind of person, though, wants to tear other people's umbrellas apart. Everything the protagonist experienced at school strengthened his resolve to help others after becoming a teacher. Will he be someone who tears umbrellas apart, or someone who holds one for others? Follow the perspective of Zhang Yixi, a witty and humorous male student teacher,
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When the Wind Meets a Boy in His Prime 风遇少年正当时
[Ensemble School Story | Inspiring Coming-of-Age | Passionate Youth | No Romance] Summer winds sweep across campus, stirring the hems of the students’ clothes and carrying their burning dreams toward distant horizons. In the classroom, pens race across pages, each stroke a testament to their determination to fight for their dreams. On the field, they run free, embracing the unique fervor of youth. Classmates stand by one another, offering support as they overcome confusion and hardship together
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Two-Way Longing 双向缺爱
[A Handsome, Androgynous Soccer Heartthrob Meets a Gentle, Sweet Girl] When she was young, she met someone special. The boy's aloof pride was a striking contrast to his fair, delicate appearance. She was determined to heal him. Only in the end did she realize: The truest way to love someone is to become like them.
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Reborn in High School, Striving Together with My Childhood Sweetheart 重生高中，与青梅竹马一起奋斗
Yang Shu was reborn in his senior year of high school with the ability to simulate memories, and was reunited with his childhood friend and desk mate, Su Hanyue. In his previous life, he had missed out on her love, leaving her to spend her whole life alone, never marrying. In this life, Yang Shu swore to warm her heart with all the love he had, keep her from suffering, build a brand-new business empire together, and give her the perfect love and future. “Su Hanyue, I’ll protect you for the rest
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- 120 Twin White Moons 双生白月光 [School Life + Substitute + White Moonlight + Mild Angst + Secret Crush + Love at First Sight] In high school, Ling Yizhi was the shining star everyone adored, radiant without being dazzling. Everyone thought that someone as proud and brilliant as him deserved love and happiness. But reality didn't quite measure up. He never understood what it meant to be someone's substitute. Naively, he thought every person was one of a kind. Until his five-year relationship with Jiang Tian, in which he had no —Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Perfect Score on the College Entrance Exam Is Only the Beginning 高考满分，只不过是个开始而已
[No System + satisfying read + no regrets + invincible + multiple heroines + college entrance exam] In his previous life, Ye Chen was looked down on by the girl of his dreams. To get into the same university as her, he deliberately handed in a blank exam paper at the college entrance exam. In the end, he failed to get into a good university and was dumped by her. Then, on an otherwise ordinary day, the girl of his dreams suddenly showed up. The two quickly got married, and a month later she beca
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- 122 Secret Crush: A Big Deal 暗恋：这件大事 [Cold, handsome top student and school heartthrob × cheerful, sweet, well-behaved girl] [High school crush + mutual devotion + both leads are each other’s first + sweet romance] At the student-teacher assembly in their first year of high school, Lin Tingyan stood onstage to give a speech, and Xu Yutang fell in love with him at first sight. Thus began Xu Yutang’s long, secret crush. To get a little closer to him, she kept it from her family. She chose the science track, despite being completely u 788Reads7.2Score126Shelves
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The Year We Turned Eighteen 那一年，我们十八岁
Love in college is so pure. Anyone lucky enough to go from campus to the wedding aisle is truly blessed! People say marriage is the grave of love, but a good marriage can be a paradise, too! My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 124 Chasing Summer 追夏 [A youthful, healing story by popular author Aspirin, featuring two gentle, top-performing students in a school romance.] [Serene beauty x cool, handsome boy. Dust and mountains, sunset and sunrise: together, they become winners in life in a future that goes on without end.] Two people who barely know each other and feel a little awkward about it become roommates. As long as they respect each other’s boundaries, they should be able to get along just fine. But whenever they’re together, unexpecte 13kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves
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Youth Through the Lens of Memory 记忆下的青春
[Secret Crush + Coming of Age] (A coming-of-age story about an ordinary girl. The writing is simple, and the story takes its time, so please be patient as you read.) The dazzling will always shine, while ordinary people strive to catch up to where they began. Xia Qiao is unfortunate. In a childhood that should have been full of childish innocence, her elders rob her of the joy and carefree spirit a child should have. All that remains is a dull, joyless girl who rarely smiles. Yet she considers
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Innocent Youth: Turns Out You Fell First 纯真青春:原来是你先动心
The story begins with the male lead, Liu Ming, the female lead, Wang Jia Ci, who was born with a heart condition, and Lin Qiao Man, his impoverished deskmate. It follows the three of them through the hazy feelings, secret crushes, heart-fluttering moments, and growing pains of youth.
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All I Wish Is to Spend Every Year with You 只愿与你岁岁年年
I've always felt that words are the most refined kind of romance. Recording all the little moments of classmate Xiaokang's life... My dear fiance, classmate Xiaokang! It began with our first meeting and will last until old age.
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- 128 Spring and Moonlight 春与月光 [A Million Readers' Highly Praised Favorite! Childhood Friends / Secret Crush Comes True / Tension Builds / One-on-One, Sweet Romance!] After a family crisis, Zhou Yue temporarily moves in with Lin Qi. The two grew up together and have always been close. Zhou Yue's striking looks and height, along with his excellent grades, make him the center of attention. As everyone keeps probing, Lin Qi repeatedly insists otherwise. What Lin Qi doesn't know is that, in Zhou Yue's heart, he built himself a ga 41.3kReads9.7Score5.7kShelves
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Reborn with the Top Student Training System 重生，我觉醒了学霸养成系统
[Single heroine] + [Campus life] + [Everyday romance] + [From academic slacker to top student] + [Meme references] + [Healing] + [Lighthearted comedy] . Chapters 001–165: High school life Chapters 165–330: Competitions and campus life Chapters 330–435: Everyday college life Chapters 436–540: Controllable nuclear fusion . This novel blends campus life, youth, a System, academic excellence, romance, being reborn, and other elements. A slow-paced story of everyday campus life, with romance and the
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Childhood Friends to Sweethearts? Ten Years of Friendship, Changed Just Like That! 发小变青梅？十年友谊说变就变！
[Childhood Friends] [Romance] [Sweet Romance] [Everyday Life] [School Life] [Lighthearted] Qin Zhi had a childhood friend. They went to school together, played together, and grew up together, as close as siblings. Then, in their third year of middle school, his friend's family moved far away. They never saw each other again, and three years passed. When they met again, the lively, outgoing “Brother Qiu” who used to take Qin Zhi everywhere had become a girl with hair down to her waist. Qin Zhi: “
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- 131 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
- 132 Waiting for You Amid Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moonlight 我在风花雪月里等你 We were all pretending to be sad, comforting someone else who was sad. It wasn't until one day, when I went to another city, that I finally understood: how could sorrow be something you could fake? Whether in Shanghai or Dali, the cities were ablaze with lights, yet the only lonely thing was the human heart! This is the story of a disillusioned man who flees the city for Dali and finds himself caught up in love. 84.7kReads9.3Score10.3kShelves
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A Sweet Summer Romance 夏日恋甜
Rebellious school bully VS. sweet, well-behaved top student Mutual devotion and a mutual secret crush, from high school to college to the wedding aisle At sixteen, Xia Tian fell for Ren Mu, the rebellious, unruly boy at school. She excelled in class, while he was always at the bottom of the rankings. She was obedient and well-behaved, while he was wild and carefree, the brightest presence in any crowd... They were like two parallel lines that would never meet. She buried her secret feelings in h
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Blossoms Fall in Ashes to the South 花落烬南
Hualuo is a girl who hides her feelings between the pages of books. Every morning, when the first rays of sunlight creep across the classroom window, I always find an excuse to sneak a glance at the boy sitting not far away. He's my crush, and my undoing. Jinnan is a boy who's both sharp-tongued and kind. He's smart and good-looking, and plenty of people have a crush on him. Hualuo's crush is filled with insecurity and bitterness. When the misunderstanding is cleared up and the orange candy is s
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- 135 After the Campus Belle Dumped Me, I Met Angels 被校花抛弃的我遇到了天使们 [Campus] [Love rivalry] [Romance] [Multiple heroines] [Everyday life] Could the campus queen really confess to someone like me, who’s never been in a relationship? Why? I’m still trying to figure that out. “Do you really think she likes you? I know her better than you do.” When another girl said that to me, I finally realized this romance had ended before it even began. But after I was dumped, it seemed like my life began to change too. “I like you. I mean it.” “I’m sorry I didn’t confess first, 3.2kReads8.6Score353Shelves
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Unrequited Love Is an Inner Monologue 暗恋是一场内心的独白
[Schoolyard secret crush + win-her-back redemption arc] Happy ending. A story about me secretly loving someone who falls for my best friend. The heroine suffers first, then the hero. Because of the wounds left by her family, she has been sensitive and insecure since childhood. He, meanwhile, is outstanding in every way, a talented and popular figure at school. Little by little, she is drawn to him, and by the time she realizes it, she has fallen deeply in love. In high school, she secretly lov
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My Youthful Crush Will Not Be Toyed With 我的青春暗恋不被玩弄
The first page of the diary read: Today I met a very quiet boy. He was the first person to sit beside me after I transferred schools. I feel like he's not at all the way the teacher described him. He's kind of spacey, and his eyes seem to see nothing but books and writing…
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Half a Heart in Midsummer 盛夏半颗心
[Sweet romance + campus life + secret crush] A warm, carefree summer. A chance encounter. It set off the alarm bells of love in a young girl's heart. It was the first time her older brother brought him home. He looked at her, smiling with warmth in his eyes. It felt as though something had seized her heart.
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- 139 A Realist Teen's Story of Youth 现实主义少年的青春物语 Li Zhi is a troubled, idealistic boy who believes in realism. His dark past has made him sensitive and unable to trust others. A stubborn loner, he keeps saving others as he grows up, and in doing so, finds his own redemption. 787Reads8.8Score107Shelves
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The Riverside Scene of Muling 穆棱上河图
The Muling River is an important river in eastern Heilongjiang and the largest tributary on the left bank of the Ussuri River. It runs for 834 kilometers and drains an area of 18,427 square kilometers, passing through Muling City, Jixi City, Jidong County, Mishan City, and Hulin City. Locals call it the “Mother River.” I was fortunate enough to live there until I came of age. I left as an adult and have never been back. Some memories of people and things from those days are still vivid, and ther
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- 141 Let's Walk Together Into the Next Ten Years 一起走到十年之后 Online acquaintances become neighbors, neighbors become deskmates, and deskmates become... boyfriends /ᐠ .⸝⸝⸝. ྀི It took them ten years to go from meeting to understanding each other to falling in love. After those ten years, will the next ten be different, or will they be just the same? A little bit of sci-fi, with angst later on. Most of what happens in the book comes from the author's own experiences. I'm usually busy with school and don't have time to update, but I promise to post on statut 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Youth in the Falling Rain 雨落下的青春 My name is Han Yuluo. I’m a girl from the countryside. My mother is a farmer, and my father works at a brick kiln. When I was in school, I had a crush on a boy named Lu Ran. We were meant to meet but not meant to be together. We got into the same high school and the same class, but because of his health, he took time off and later retook the high school entrance exam, enrolling at a different school. My own high school life was only just beginning. The boy who sat in front of me was a mischievou —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Listening to the Wind as I Sleep 听风于眠
A cool, aloof freshman assigned to the astronomy department × A gentle, frail school beauty senior The winds of Jinling swept through the plane trees and carried him into a galaxy of unexpected encounters. Song Yi'an arrived in silence, the most unusual student assigned to the astronomy department, while Lu Wanhe was the pale but gentle guiding starlight beneath the sunshade. A gust of wind, a form, an instinctive act of protection, and two quiet souls slowly drew closer amid the vastness of as
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- 144 After We Fully Understood Meeting and Love 在相遇与爱被完全理解之后 We all have things in our hearts that we’re unwilling to give up, even when they make us suffer terribly. We are who we are, and that’s that. Like the bird in the ancient Celtic legend, with thorns pressed against its breast, crying out as it bleeds, it dies after pouring out its bloody heart. It has no choice; it is forced to do so. Some things are clearly impossible, yet we do them anyway. But knowing our own limits can’t affect or change how things end, can it? We make our own thorn bushes an 102Reads—Score—Shelves
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Lend Me a Winter Sun I Won’t Regret 借我一场不后悔的冬阳
[Top student’s comeback, campus life, coming of age, heartbreaking romantic entanglements, postgraduate entrance exam comeback, bittersweet secret crush] Ai Jing’s motto in life is: I’d rather work myself to the bone than ever admit defeat to fate. In her third year of biological engineering, she decides to apply to a different school for a different major, hoping to rewrite the future of a woman in science and engineering. Her roommate, meanwhile, opens a civil service exam textbook, determine
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- 146 A Rebellious Teenager Won't Meet an Art Student 青春叛逆少年不会遇见艺术系少女 “Ning Xia’an, we’re all ordinary people among the masses. Sometimes you may feel lost, but I think you’re already doing great.” “You like writing little essays in your textbooks. Will I get to read one of your novels someday?” “Will it be our story?” 109Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 147 I’m Just a Nobody, So Why Does the Campus Belle Keep Looking at Me? 我只是透明，校花怎么一直看我？ [Everyday Romance, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story!!!] After the high school classes were reshuffled, Xu Zhou, who had always kept a low profile and stayed quiet, barely noticeable like a breath of air, suddenly realized that Shen Zhi, the cool and outstanding campus belle admired by everyone in their grade, was always looking at him. In class, in the hallways, by the sports field, and after evening study, her gaze would always find its way to him. She remembered his habits, showed him little kindn 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Whole World Knows You Like Me 全世界都知道你喜欢我
[School life + childhood sweethearts + mutual pining + both leads have no past relationships + reunion after a long separation] Everyone in the world knew you liked me. I was the only one who didn’t. But what you didn’t know was that I liked you just as much. A youthful crush is like a dream. Only after waking up do you realize that all the signs were there. The figure I could always see in the distance, our fleeting glances, and that summer breeze brushing my face as you carried your easel over
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- 149 Tell the Peach Blossoms They Need Not Bloom: The Haoxue Arc 告诉桃花不必开了，浩雪篇 I used to think that my youthful ignorance had made me see through the ways of the world after she and I parted. But then a transfer student joined our senior year, and I fell in love again. I used to think I was just an ordinary kid from a small city, raised by a family of tobacco farmers. I never imagined my elders were sitting on a fortune. I used to think she and I were simply bound by an uncommonly strong fate, but I never expected that, in the end, I wouldn’t be able to let her go either. 415Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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I Want Your Persona 你的人设我要了
Strong Bro vs. Gifted Sis A light ensemble cast, slow-burn, with no contrived misunderstandings Jiang Chi never imagined that all it would take was a nap in the library for him to switch bodies with a girl from his class who got average grades. Just as he feared losing his hold on first place in the year, he watched her confidently step up to receive an award with a report card showing scores more than twenty points higher than his own. Wait, is this right?
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