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She’s Not Easy to Win Over 她不好哄
The elegant young gentleman, gentle as jade: Qiao Shuyu The true “go-with-the-flow girl,” single-minded Xiao Qingqing Childhood sweethearts + mutual unrequited love + both devoted only to each other + one-on-one romance + older woman, younger man Their story began as childhood sweethearts, innocent and carefree. She would make a fuss while he laughed. She would call him “Monk Qiao” in her fierce little voice, and he would ask again and again, “Qingqing, when are you going to marry me?” Their sto
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Beautiful Years 景年
[Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst!] My name is Jiang Nian. I was born in the height of summer and died in the depths of winter. Fate was always fleeting, and even meeting you was a blessing. We were destined to meet in this life, but not to be together. May we continue our bond in the next. The debts of this life must be repaid in this life. On the road to the afterlife, don’t look back. May we have a better fate and grow old together in the next life! I still remember the words Lin Anjing said to
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Brother, the Rain Has Stopped 哥哥，雨停了
[Chi Nian × Jiang Shi] I held a bouquet of roses, wanting to give them to the brother I loved most. Sadly, I never got the chance... In 2007, I saw my brother for the first time. The young man stood by the window, looking relaxed as the bow in his hand played a beautiful melody. In 2010, the rain stopped, and my brother left. In 2012, my brother promised that the following summer he would return to Beicheng and never leave me again. In 2013, the white flower pinned to my chest kept reminding me
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Misplaced 错位
After 21 years of living each other’s lives, the real heiress was brought home, while I, the fake heiress, was about to lose everything I had once been proud of. To make it up to the real heiress, my father ordered me to take my younger sister’s place and marry into a poor village in the countryside. I thought my life had fallen into endless darkness, but he was like a ray of light, illuminating the depths where I had fallen. [Published in print]
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The Light of the Thirteenth Month 第十三月的光明
Hello, my name is Ji Xiaochuan! Hello, my name is Su Li! ** From now on, I'll call you Su Pear, sweet and juicy! Ji Xiaochuan, look! The light is here. My light is here! Little Pear, if there's another life, I'll spend it making it up to you! Ji Xiaochuan, if I could do it all over again, maybe I'd choose never to meet you! I walked through a dark abyss, and seemed to smell something rotten. Instinctively, I looked back. Countless wolves and tigers charged toward me, their sharp fangs
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Moonlight No Longer Shines on Dreams of the Past 月光不照昔时梦
[Angst Warning] Qu Zhao: “Are you afraid…” “Afraid of what?” “That someday, your daughter will meet a man like you, just as I did.” Even the sun will one day die. The Milky Way and Andromeda are expected to collide in three billion years. Everything has an end. What about her and Fu Zongxian? Surely this madness would end someday. In his thirty years of life, Fu Zongxian had never asked for anything for himself. But at that moment, gazing at the photograph of his mother, he couldn’t help praying
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It Turns Out There’s No Light in the Deep Sea 原来深海没有光
Girls from the south, most of them love the romance of snow drifting through a northern winter night. But what they don't know is that once the snow has fallen, howling winds soon follow. In an instant, they sweep away all the romance, exposing the bone-chilling cold beneath.
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There Was Once Someone Who Loved Me Like Life Itself 曾有一个人，爱我如生命
For more than twenty years, Shen Siyan had stubbornly loved a man named Xiao Zonghan. Even when he resented and hated her, she had never thought of giving up. But now, she was reaching the end of her strength...
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I'll Never Love You Again 再也不要爱你
A short, heart-wrenching story. Extremely heartbreaking! So much melodrama and angst! Read with caution! Please ignore the extra chapter. The author wrote it while losing their mind, and sincerely apologizes! Jian Meng is dying, and Ji Jing’an doesn’t know. He’s busy worrying about his wedding to someone else, indifferent to the poor woman at home. He has always believed Jian Meng would wait for him forever, just as she has for the past ten years. It was the last winter, and Jian Meng’s last bir
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The Makeup of Years Past 昔年妆
Mu Ran transmigrates as a princess sent to marry for peace, but her younger imperial uncle, Mu Shiyuan, forces her to get close to the Crown Prince. She thinks she’ll be found out soon, but the gentle and refined Crown Prince treats her with such care that he seems like a god sent from heaven. When Mu Shiyuan sees the Crown Prince lovingly stroke her head and carry her away after she’s injured, he loses control. Gripping Mu Ran’s chin, he says forcefully, “Don’t even think about anyone but me.”
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A Prayer for Spring 春的祷告
Sui Xiran’s life was marked by uncertainty from the very beginning. Her parents divorced, and her world was confined for years to the pale walls of hospital rooms. On sheets of paper, she drew the sea she had never seen, again and again. Then one day, a boy as warm as sunlight opened the door and entered the silent remainder of her life, bringing light and warmth with him. They met in a hospital room where the smell of disinfectant mingled with the light of spring, and fell for each other amid
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Leaves Fall in Autumn 惊秋落叶
[Campus Tragedy] [Mutual Secret Crush] Tang Qiu and Pei Jingnian On Ningchuan No. 1 High School's wall of outstanding graduates (its wall of fame), Pei Jingnian took the top spot that year, while Tang Qiu was relegated to the very bottom. "Wasn't Senior Tang Qiu a good student back then? Weren't she and Pei Jingnian the twin stars of the arts and sciences? How did she end up at the bottom?" "She wasn't even on the wall at first. They added her later." "I heard she didn't do very well on her exam
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The Tree Behind the Vermilion Wall Has Withered 朱墙树已枯
A Ming dynasty ancestral rule: If a wife bears no children, she must be sacrificed in death. As the only daughter of the Cui family, Cui Xilan was once a bird soaring freely through the heavens. But her family used her, and an imperial decree turned her into a caged bird kept by the royal family. Ning Yan’an knew that from the very beginning, everything had been a doomed game, yet he was still willing to risk his life to take her out of the palace. He entered the palace as an imperial physician
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A Disastrous Start: The Strongest Bandit Chief Has Taken the Women of My Family. Should I Pretend I Don’t Know Them? 天崩开局，最强寨主掠夺我家的女人们？我该装不认识吗
A disastrous start: the strongest bandit chief is after the women in my family? Should I pretend I don't know them?
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Mr. Gu, Don’t Cry. Come Call Me When the Flowers Bloom 顾总别哭，花开记得来喊我
Mr. Gu, don’t cry. When the flowers bloom, remember to come call for me.
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Reborn, Mr. Fu Completely Loses Control 重生归来，傅先生彻底失控了
Both leads are reborn + regretful pursuit + the heroine isn't very strong; she's soft and sweet. In her past life, he believed she had hurt his family and had her locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Unable to endure the abuse, she took her own life there. Reborn, she does everything she can to stay away from the scumbag. So why is this man chasing after her and refusing to let go in this life? To keep Su Yaoyao by his side, Fu Yanchuan stops at nothing. He imprisons her, destroys her dream of s
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Candy with a Tangy Bite 糖果偏酸
(The main story is complete.) The domineering, impossibly cool school bully vs. the beautiful, strong-willed, wounded little bookworm. School life, healing, and mutual secret crushes. Chutang was being bullied at school. The day she met Jihuai was the start of autumn. She was sixteen that year. Jihuai saved her, perhaps because he felt sorry for her. “You don't need to stick your nose into my business.” “Hey, I'm the one who helped you.” Desperate for a meal, Chutang shamelessly followed Jihu
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Bridge and Harmony 乔和
I came into this world alone, yet I could not escape falling secretly in love. Qieqie never imagined a boy would burst into her life and become an indispensable part of her growing years. The boy she loved was exceptionally talented, pure and untainted. But in the blink of an eye, fate toyed with him, and he fell into an abyss. He suffered torment, and she stayed by his side. Neither of them was the other's cure, but they became each other's lifeline. The clown became a warrior, and the princess
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The Twelfth Second 第十二秒
Nine years ago, she vanished without a trace while pregnant, leaving him only one clue: an eleven-second phone call to his police station, and a longing she never got to express. Nine years later, a strange warning call and two photographs of her set ablaze the longing he had buried for so long. As the police investigate and he makes inquiries of his own, a flood of astonishing secrets and buried memories comes to light. Through layer upon layer of mist, her face gradually emerges... Once, t
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I Was Twenty-Eight When I Died 我死的时候二十八岁
At twenty, Song Jiniao was hailed by the entertainment world as the “Nation's Goddess,” while Lin Ti died unexpectedly at an awards ceremony. She would never forget what happened that day, or the bone-chillingly cold look in that man's eyes. From then on, Shen Jiulin dragged her from her pedestal and plunged her into the abyss. The Nation's Goddess fell from grace overnight, her fame as fleeting as a flower that blooms for one day. At twenty-one, forced to choose between her mother and stepfathe
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At Thirty-Six, I Finally Dumped That Good-for-Nothing Scumbag 三十六岁，我终于甩掉了烂人渣男
At thirty-six, I finally dumped my worthless scumbag boyfriend
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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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All Things Return to Dust 零落归尘
[Fantasy Romance / Tearjerker / Fate / Light Ensemble Cast] This is not a power fantasy, nor does it follow the usual tropes. There is no harem and no mindless heroine. A long-form mystery, with a light ensemble cast in the early chapters and the main plot taking center stage later. The setup takes its time, and the main story is heartbreaking, so reader discretion is advised. When sorrow congeals into an eternal night, and fate is ground to dust by the passage of time, can you still pick up th
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A Love That Came to Nothing, Part 1 无疾而终1
A Love That Came to Nothing 1
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The Stunning Supermodel's Forceful Love 绝美超模强制爱
[Coercive love + controlling behavior + conspiracy and romance] Wang Yijin is an orphan. At ten, she is adopted by the wealthy Xi family, a powerful family in the capital. She spends her days caring for their young master, Xi Lier, who suffers from anger issues and depression. Xi Lier’s love for Wang Yijin suffocates her, and she does everything she can to escape the Xi family. When she grows up, she reunites with Luo Jiaye, who was also an orphan as a child, and falls in love with him. After a
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Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: Sold into Prostitution by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years 蝶影归尘：被婆母卖入风尘，前夫寻了我整整十年
The Butterfly’s Shadow Returns to Dust: Sold into a Life of Vice by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years
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Pain at Minus 7 Degrees Celsius 零下7摄氏度的疼痛
He missed him, then missed him again. He was a flirt who couldn't stay away from beautiful women. Their meeting was accidental, yet tinged with a sense of fate. A love that isn't accepted always runs into endless obstacles in real life. Is he willing to open his heart and love again? Can he let go of the heartbreak and the person he left behind? The pain of seven degrees below zero: may brighter days come after it.
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Come See the Sea with Me Tomorrow 明天陪我去看海
She filled a faraway fantasy into an insubstantial relationship, while he mixed a love close at hand with cold, tangible benefits. Fate finally sent them in opposite directions. “If I could turn back time, I wouldn’t mind traveling ten thousand miles. I’d come see you.” The storm raging out at sea lasted a full forty-one chapters. Fine raindrops beat against the surging waves. Bloodstained white tiles, reeking of earth, pierced his mind like thorns. He remembered. Xiao Yan had left with the shar
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Love Before Midsummer 爱在盛夏以前
A youthful love story about three men and three women whose lives are bound together in the city. It begins when Luan Xiaoqi is cheated on and gets her heart broken, and ends with, “Xiaoqi, as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. I’ll listen to you and do whatever you want.” [A little heartache] [A little angst]
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Anonymous, Dyed Warm 匿名染温
A collection of three stories: “Crossing the River Alone,” “Waiting for Winter,” and “The Promise That Came Too Late.” [School Story] + [Bad Ending] Ever since “the clay bodhisattva” showed up, Jiang Ye could tell his standing in the family was on shaky ground. Wen Ni was a “good girl” in everyone else’s eyes, but to him… “…What kind of fairy? She’s more like a bodhisattva.” Bai Lin: Jiang Ye, make sure you look after A-Ni. Jiang Ye: …So I’m just being ignored, huh? Yep, that’s definitely my re
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He's More Irresistible Than Spring 他比春色撩人
Original titles: When Secrets Burn / It Turns Out We Were All Cowards Everyone gets a bad ending | A touch of ensemble cast | Bittersweet youth Su Qing'an thought that if he hid his love for Mu Xi as best he could, then after he died, she wouldn't grieve or feel sad for him. He also knew full well that he wasn't worthy of her. The only thing he could do was spend the three years he had left quietly by her side as a friend. But when a boy named Xu Yinan appeared beside Mu Xi, he still lost contro
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I Spend My Life Running Toward You 我用一生奔向你
Cheng Wan thought she was the only one who knew how much she liked Cheng Du. She never imagined that one day she would become hopelessly entangled with him. Cheng Du drew Cheng Wan into falling for him while keeping his unspoken secret to himself. He kept her trapped at his side, giving her no chance to catch her breath. He used every means at his disposal and stopped at nothing. He would drag Cheng Wan down into hell with him.
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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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A Summer of Roses and Gardenias 浅瑰栀夏
(Be) Ending. At school, she was a poised, pure, and brilliant student. At night, she was his treasured possession. Shen Ruozhi was born into a family of scholars, but when her family fell on hard times, her beloved grandmother entrusted her to the Lin family, their longtime friends, before she died. Alone, she dragged along a pure white suitcase, dressed in a white dress as pristine as a gardenia. Her clean, fair face seemed almost luminous. A speeding car splashed mud all over her, and she frow
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Tonight, the Crescent Moon 今晚，是上弦月
[Nontraditional Historical Romance + Two Strong Leads + No Damsel-in-Distress Heroine + Tragedy + Bad Ending] The main story is complete; bonus chapters are in progress. When she was ten, a noble and beautiful young woman brought her into the hidden guards’ camp at the prince’s manor. She became the only one among those children to survive. When he was fourteen, he saw her for the first time in the hidden guards’ camp. Leopard’s blood dripped down her face, yet she smiled, a smile as eerie as a
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The Old Grass of Zhaoxi 昭奚旧草
Across the vast lands of Huangyan, more than a hundred states rose in Huaguo. The feudal lords were enfeoffed, and their domains became the nations of Zhaoming. The archives record more than three million books, each containing the lives of eighty million people. Among those countless lives, each person is little more than a speck. Turn the pages with one hand, and fifty years pass in the blink of an eye, like spring blossoms falling. In one of those books stood a begonia garden. Inside it was a
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A Long Farewell 长辞
[Palace intrigue + tragic romance + both leads reborn] Another heartbreaking historical romance from Zhihu’s popular author Zhier, following An Ending at Dusk! Through a haze of consciousness, she relived her entire life, finally pausing on that sunny afternoon. He stood beneath a tree, his eyes covered with white cloth, smiling as he asked what she wanted. A young gentleman, handsome and refined as jade. One glance was enough to stay in her memory for years. If only she had known that meeting h
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My Deskmate Picks Fights with the World 同桌他怼天怼地
Stop reading: old embarrassing history - - - - [Tragic Ending + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion + Slow-Burn Romance + Campus] [Easygoing, Sweet-Natured, Wild Comic Artist Girl × Cocky, Mischievous, Chuunibyou Campus Hunk] Having seen the warmth and coldness of human nature, Xia Yan was determined to be “invisible.” But when she started high school, she was paired with Gu Wei, a sociable classmate. Her new deskmate had a handsome, refined face and elegant calligraphy, but a mouth that could t
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The Journey 走过
Walking Through is a poignant romance novel. The carefree days of youth are beautiful, but they can also be painful. Everyone’s growth is its own story of youth, and every story is different. Some lives are smooth sailing, filled with happiness and joy; others are quiet and ordinary, with gentle days; still others are passionate and dramatic, full of fervor and determination... Chunyan’s youth was full of twists and hardships. Yet, in the face of one trial after another, she never gave in. She c
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Remember, I Love You 记得，我爱你
[Based on real experiences × End-of-life diary × True BE] This is a heart-wrenching story of unrequited love, and the tragic account of a girl with depression. At seventeen, Yan Yue unexpectedly falls for a man named Xiao Yi. He is nine years older than her, and his sexuality is a mystery. He has incurable kidney failure... “Little girl, what did you just wish for?” “Xiao Yi, the wish I made on my birthday seven years ago was... I hope you’ll always remember me.” This book is divided into fo
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You're the Moon I'll Never Be Able to Hold 你是我永远拥抱不到的月亮
At eighteen, all he knew how to say was “I’m sorry.” At thirty-two, all he still knew how to say was “I’m sorry.” And you, girl, how can he make you understand that the little bit of love he has for you could never be enough to help you fight this worldly prison?
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Rose and Lychee Candy 玫瑰荔枝糖
[Love at First Sight, Two Academic Stars] [Tsundere Demon King x Tough Little Airhead] [If They Both Die, It’s a Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Lu Ziyao fell in love with Shi Nian at first sight. All Lu Ziyao remembered was that the weather was beautiful that day, so beautiful he couldn’t remember it clearly, because he had met her. The boy approached her cautiously, afraid of frightening the girl he liked. He just didn’t know that once you get close to some things, they can stay with
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May I Caress You Again 愿再轻抚你
Zhou Qiyue of West Wu No. 3 High School was a bona fide school bully. He did everything the school rules forbade. Then one day, a new girl joined the class next door. He called her ugly, yet warned his buddies not to chase after her. He wanted to get close to her, but carefully kept his distance. You are a star I can never reach. Later, rumors about the two of them dating reached the teachers’ office, and the teachers were alarmed. The homeroom teacher pointed at him and said, “A social degene
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Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: My Husband's Enemy Seizes Me by Force 蝶影归尘：丈夫的的仇人对我强娶豪夺
Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: My Husband's Enemy Forces Me into Marriage
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Decorate Your Dreams 装饰你的梦
[University Campus] [Unrequited Love] [Tragedy] A love story at Zhongshan Medical University. The male lead, Tan Shengxu, is devoted to the female lead, Zhong Mengwei. But because of a misunderstanding born of circumstance, she thinks he is her enemy and rejects his advances. In truth, he is the one she has been longing for. Heartbroken, Tan Shengxu gives up on their relationship in despair. Zhong Mengwei regrets it too late and starts pursuing him, but to no avail. Her love leaves her depressed
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