Campus Secret Crush Stories (The More Heartbreaking, the Better) 校园暗恋文（越苦越好）
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The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记
[Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] I only used looking at the flowers as an excuse. All I really wanted was to see you once.
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wutong Lane 梧桐巷
[Bright and kind-hearted Ning Wan x gentle genius Song Qingyan] [Love at first sight + Secret love comes true + Youthful heartache + BE] When the innocent, sunny Ning Wan fell in love with Song Qingyan at first sight, he was the golden boy in everyone's eyes. She wrote her secret feelings in her diary, planning to keep them to herself. By a twist of fate, Song Qingyan became her temporary guardian. During the days when she was ostracized and bullied, he became the light in her life. She held on
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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A Bitter Summer of Loving Mu Ru San Fen in Secret 暗恋木入三分苦夏
A Secret Crush, Bitter as Summer
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Wind Tracing the Clear Bamboo 风溯清筱
[Campus] [Secret Crush] [Healing] [Male POV] [Bad Ending] Many years later, whenever his friends asked Su Heng about it again, he would always remember how he was a bad student back then, and the feelings he had secretly kept in his heart. He was sorry that this was the only way he could look back on that past, buried deep within him.
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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Summer in Xiachuan Town 下川镇的夏天
Summer in Xiachuan Town was a passionate, heartfelt regret. I never had him, yet it felt as if I’d lost him a thousand times over. A bus approached from afar. Jiang Yihuan couldn’t tell if it was the right one. She looked up through the window and saw Li Chengze’s face. He was standing by the bus door. As soon as the bus stopped and the doors opened, he rushed down and pulled Jiang Yihuan into his arms. “Jiang Yihuan, I’ve missed you so much.” Li Chengze rested his head on her shoulder and spoke
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The Phoenix’s Summer 不死鸟的夏
The gardenias bloomed, but the person watching them with me wasn't the boy who had dazzled my youth that summer long ago. He had gone to protect another girl for the rest of his life. I love white magnolias in summer. They usually bloom during the season, and their fragrance, like that of orchids, evokes an image of pure, jade-like beauty. After meeting Xu Yue, I fell in love with gardenias. They bloom every year around the summer solstice, their petals a pure white that symbolizes a promise to
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Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠
She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back.
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The Blue Gum Tree Waits in Vain for the Mistletoe Bird 蓝桉等不到释槐鸟
“If I loved you a little less, would I be able to say a little more to you?” The girl, Ru An, had a secret crush on Lin Fu, the brightest star in school. She loved writing in her diary. Over her three years of high school, she filled five diaries. Not once did she mention Lin Fu by name, yet every line was about him. She described Lin Fu as full of life and spirit, but couldn't find a single word that suited herself. She had always lived by the rules, following the same routine. The only courage
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Astringent Wet Kiss 酸涩湿吻
[Physical Edition Preorders Open on All Platforms at 7:30 PM on October 24] [Small-Town Fiction | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Mutual Redemption | 1v1 | Happy Ending] [Gentle and Resilient x Disillusioned and Weary of Life] When Pu Yu was seventeen, she transferred to a remote town in the south. There, she met Yuan Su. He had once been the town's brightest star, a prodigy beloved by all. Now he had fallen from grace, and everyone avoided him. Everyone except Pu Yu. - An old street. A repair shop. The
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One Journey Through Mountains and Rivers, Then Another 山水一程又一层
[Small-Town Story | Bittersweet Unrequited Love + Mutual First Love + HE] [Campus | Insecure Girl | Beloved Son of Heaven | Mutual Healing | Realistic] - A celebrated figure arrived in a poor, backward little town. Everyone liked him. Jiang Yunduo was the only one who disliked him, though that only lasted a little while. - Jiang Yunduo had a one-sided crush on Xie Cheng for fifteen years, from the age of twelve to twenty-six. If an unrequited crush is bittersweet, then Jiang Yunduo's was like a
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He Kept Summer Hidden 他藏了夏天
That night, the young man slowly bent down, bracing his hands on his thighs so he could look her in the eye. It was as if he were declaring that they stood as equals in matters of the heart. Keeping his voice low, he asked, “Senior, I like you. Do you like me?” Ji An raised her hand to stroke Xu Linxi’s cheek and softly ordered him, “Close your eyes.” Xu Linxi trembled, then obediently lowered his lashes. Ji An’s lips curved into a smile. She placed both hands on either side of his face, rose on
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Looking Toward Jiangnan 望江南
[Healing / Campus Romance / Bittersweet Ending] Dedicated to a brief, blazing youth! Ji Mengnan only remembered that night’s heavy rain and the river behind her, churning like boiling water. Is loving someone a lifelong thing? Everything Ji Mengnan did afterward, all the ways she tried to keep living, was because of that love. If it weren’t for Jiang Qing, she would have died at seventeen. The boy was the only ray of light in the darkness, but light never stays forever, and it doesn’t shine on h
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The Eighth Winter 第八年冬
The first time the sensitive Li Xiting fell in love, it was with Chen Nian, the boy who seemed to glow as he stood in the crowd. She carefully held on to every interest they shared, and eventually turned those interests into a goal: getting into Nan University and being with him. But life is always cruel. She got into Nan University, but she didn't get him. She was like Cinderella in a fairy tale, except she didn't have the right glass slipper. Without that slipper, she could never enter his wor
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Mu Sinan 暮思南
Blurb drafted on 2022.10.6. [At last, dawn arrives, and she lies buried in the earth as it breaks.] On her barren, cracked land, he planted sunflowers for her with his own hands. She had been in the dark for so long that she had forgotten what it felt like to be bathed in light. Then one day, she finally found the sun. It shone on her for so long that she foolishly began to think she could make it her own. But she forgot: the sun and she belonged to different worlds. When she was eighteen, s
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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
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No One Came to Save Her from the Deep 无人救她于深海
[Signed for publication] [Youthful unrequited love + prodigal son turns over a new leaf + bittersweet romance + plenty of unresolved heartbreak + tragic ending (The male lead is hard to like at first. It's not exactly a tearjerker, but sensitive readers should proceed with caution.)] Youth is a foolish thing: foolishly falling for someone. At the beginning of the story, Xu Nuo falls in love with Zhou Yiming at first sight, as if sinking into the deep sea. At the end, Xu Nuo holds the box contai
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Unrequited Love: A Grand, Silent Collapse 暗恋，是一场盛大的无声溃败
Some feelings are destined to remain unspoken, hidden away by the passing years. Like fireworks no one came to see, they burst into brilliant life and faded into lonely silence. We are destined to lose the people we love. Otherwise, how would we know how much they matter? The insecure and sensitive Jiang Wanyue × the bright and accomplished He Jinsheng Adapted from real personal experiences. [The psychology book Love Yourself More, Live Better is expected to be released in November]
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She Said, Long Live Friendship 她说友谊万岁
[Just received a rating, and it may go up] [Campus | pure love and healing | mutual unrequited love, bittersweet BE] [Please see the book reviews for an explanation of the age issue] After she turned thirteen, Xi Ying had a secret preoccupation: Chen Yunzheng. “Hey, help me down, would you?” Thirteen-year-old Xi Ying stood on a wobbly stool and looked down to see Chen Yunzheng holding out his hand. Sunlight spilled behind him. The boy's voice was soft, but she remembered it for ten whole years a
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A Coward's 1,001st Confession 胆小鬼的一千零一次表白
[Not reborn, no System, high school setting, youthful literature, a story of being saved, personal growth, no harem] Cowards don't dare to confess their feelings, and they're afraid of being confessed to as well. If your confession is rejected, you'll be mocked and condemned by everyone. If you reject someone's confession, you'll lose a friend and go your separate ways. Can't it work out? The answer is no, because success doesn't like cowards! But what if one coward likes another? This isn't a l
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You Won’t Remember Me 你不会记得我
[Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] Chen Yuanwang can seem gentle even when he isn’t smiling. But he shows no one any special warmth. Qin Qiu’s unrequited love ends in regret. She never gets to taste the candied hawthorn Chen Yuanwang promised to treat her to, and he never remembers her. In her youth, he will forever be the male lead whose name fills her diary and whose initials cover her scratch paper. But she will never become his leading lady.
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A Blind Date with My Secret Crush 相亲相到暗恋对象
[Marriage First, Love Later + Secret Crush Comes True + Reunion After Years Apart] If you can't forget someone, you'll meet again. What do you do when you run into your old high school crush on a blind date? Zhou Zhouzhou stayed happily single until she was twenty-eight, but in the end, even she couldn't escape being set up on a date. Who could have imagined she'd end up sitting across from her high school crush at the blind date corner, trading lines back and forth like it was a proper date?
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Spring Breeze Never Comes 春风不至
[Proud, privileged Li Chang’an] VS [Timid, insecure He Suiyu] [Bittersweet, tragic romance] They say the person you meet at sixteen is the hardest to forget. He Suiyu met that person in the bright days of March. The first time she saw him, the boy was giving a speech, bathed in sunlight, as if a god had descended. From then on, she could never take her eyes off him. The boy said he wanted to study medicine, and from then on, she dreamed of going to medical school, too. But their happiness did
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Because It’s You, I Don’t Want to Let Go 因为是你，不想放手
When Shu Wennning was seven, her parents died in an accident, and the Xie family took her in. After arriving at the Xie home, Shu Wennning went to play alone in the courtyard and nearly got lost. By a small fishpond, she spotted a chubby, fair-skinned boy who was very handsome. Shu Wennning smiled sweetly and called out, “Big Brother, what are you doing here?” Xie Yubai looked up at the cute, chubby-cheeked girl before him. “I’m looking at the goldfish Dad just bought me.” Six months after movin
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A Youthful Plum-Rain Season in Midsummer 盛夏青涩的梅雨季
[School Romance + Secret Crush + Bittersweet] [Good Girl VS “Bad” Boy] The summer she was fifteen, a long spell of plum rains fell over Wen Yiyao's world. She was the good girl in the eyes of teachers and parents, and thought of herself as an unremarkable, dull person. He was a dazzling “bad” boy, a young man chasing the wind on the basketball court. He treated her like his best “bro,” asking her to pass along love letters and give him advice. She hid all her heartache and watched him fall
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No Official Relationship 无实名关系
New rating just in: [Brooding, insecure sweetheart vs. aloof on the outside, warm-hearted young master] [Rekindled romance | School life first, then city life | Each other's first love | Happy ending] * Cheng Zhike witnessed a farcical debt-collection scene in a dead-end alley. He was just an onlooker enjoying the spectacle, but somehow ended up taking home the filthy schoolmate who was being hounded for money. The schoolmate was beautiful, with sparkling, limpid almond eyes that seemed able t
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I've Secretly Loved Him, Year After Year 我偷偷喜欢他，一年又一年
Jiang Yuze will never know That a girl named Xiao Xi secretly loved him for seven years. Xiao Xi: a desolate hope. Just like her unrequited love, it would never see the light of day. She said, “I once loved someone with all my heart, too. But he never knew how I felt.” Reader's note: Based on a true story
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My Secret Crush Became a Superstar 我暗恋的人成了大明星
[Print edition coming soon] Proud male singer × gentle, resilient graduate student *The person I had a crush on became a superstar One winter, Wen Shuyue saw a post on Weibo: “The person I had a crush on became a superstar. Overnight, I became one in ten million.” Wen Shuyue thought of the boy she had secretly loved throughout her youth. They hurried past each other at graduation. When they met again, they were separated by cold LED screens, by city after city, and by the endless sea of people a
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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
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A Brief History of the Cool Campus Beauty's Secret Crush 高冷校花暗恋简史
(New author, new novel) [No rebirth or transmigration] + [One female lead] + [High school campus] + [Sweet romance] + [Secret crush] A secret crush is a lonely expedition. Li Mubai, a withdrawn young man, struggles between silent longing and crushing insecurity. To him, love is both a luxury and a light just beyond his reach. Until the night before the college entrance exams, with the bright moon hanging overhead. The girl suddenly took his hand and lifted her clear eyes to his. “I know.” Her vo
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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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The Day the Wind Blew 风吹过的那天
He Lin, congratulations on your wedding. On the day you got married, the wind blew. I thought I was finally ready to let go.
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Keep Moving Forward, Don't Look Back 向前走，别回头
At 18, Zhao Xingyang fell in love with someone. To her, the boy was a ray of light in her life, the best gift heaven had ever given her. He was brilliant and flamboyant, carefree and unrestrained. Unfortunately, he didn't know she existed, and she was too much of a coward... Perhaps because she'd met someone so dazzling in her youth, it took her a full ten years to let go. At 28, Zhao Xingyang told herself: “Keep moving forward. Don't look back.”
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I Almost Dared to Say I Love You 我差一点就敢说喜欢你
(A new author and a new book! It has just received its first rating, and the score will go up!) [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no stock trading, just authentic everyday Chinese school life] People say youth is rose-colored, but that's only true for the protagonists. As an NPC in Earth Online, Ye Zhouhong's youth has no dramatic plot twists, only a secret crush he doesn't dare to speak aloud. He doesn't dare get close. He doesn't dare confess. He thinks this silent drama will end with
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Sunlight Through the Cracks 裂缝里的阳光
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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No One Loves Him 没有人爱他
No One Loves Him
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Her Youthful Years 她的豆蔻年华
Her Sweet Sixteen
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Jiadou's Little Red Flower 嘉朵小红花
Jiadou's Little Red Flower
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Living Alone 一个人过
Living alone
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Borrowed Moonlight 赊月光
[Aloof, insecure girl VS radiant, gentle-hearted boy / unrequited love / both are each other’s first and only / bittersweet romance / the kind that makes you lose ten pounds] Lin Sheyue has a secret known only to the wind, hidden among the clouds. It is a bright moon hanging high in the sky. Each time she catches a glimpse of it from afar, she is content. Eight-year-old Lin Sheyue loves the moon, but the moon doesn’t know. Eighteen-year-old Lin Sheyue loves the moon, but the moon doesn’t kno
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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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Back in High School, My Childhood Friend's Nemesis Made Me Blush 重回高中，被竹马的死对头撩红脸
[School-life rebirth + groveling for forgiveness + second male lead wins] [A well-behaved heiress vs. a handsome, hard-hitting cool guy] To outsiders, Zhu Zhixi and Gu Qishen were childhood sweethearts, a perfect match destined to be together. When he was a teenager, Gu Qishen treated Zhu Zhixi like a precious jewel. In his twenties, he kissed another woman, and Zhu Zhixi slapped him hard across the face. Zhu Zhixi couldn’t believe Gu Qishen would fall for someone else, just as Gu Qishen couldn’
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A Bittersweet Campus Romance 校园苦涩爱情
This is a campus romance about a boy and a girl whose misunderstandings lead them from dislike to love, and eventually to a bitter breakup. It reminds us that sometimes, once you miss your chance, you miss it for a lifetime. Treasure everything you have now.
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The Sky Will Clear Eventually 天终会晴朗
[Based on a true story + mutual unrequited love + everyone gets a bad ending + regrets + growth] Reserved girl × sunny boy Twelve-year-old Xiang Jin spent every year of her life in a world of damp, endless rain, until a boy named Fang Ji barged into it. “I hate the rain.” The boy grinned. “I know how to make it stop raining in your world.” Suddenly the sky cleared, and the rain really did stop. At fifteen, she casually remarked that someone else's wedding candy tasted so sweet. The boy ran his
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