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When the Clouds Are Deep and the Waters Clear 云深清浅时
Xiao Yunxing is the dashing, top-of-the-class heartthrob admired by every girl at school: someone to admire from afar, but never touch. Yet he smiles only for Chen Qinghuan, the “childhood sweetheart” who transfers to his school, and spoils her in every way. Chen Qinghuan is a proud, domineering, yet adorably naive math genius. Math is her talent, and loving him is her dream. She stays by his side, always. One waits, the other pursues, and together they earn places at their dream university. Aft
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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
15kReads9.6Score3.5kShelves
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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
63.3kReads9.5Score12kShelves
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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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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
70.9kReads9.7Score12.8kShelves
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
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
85kReads9.6Score15kShelves
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I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月
[The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian
71.8kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
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Hush, Let Me Save You 嘘，让我拯救你
[Dual Male Leads + Angsty Suffering Bottom + Bittersweet Romance + Healing + Mutual Firsts + HE] A self-conscious, depressed, pitiful bottom VS an overbearing, theatrical, love-struck top Xu Han × Cheng Yu Synopsis: Xu Han is insecure, sensitive, timid, and meek. His social life is painfully lonely. But he wasn’t always like this. Once, he was just like an ordinary person. He was introverted, but he had close friends and a healthy social life. Then his friend left. Later, someone spent four year
861Reads8.7Score131Shelves
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I Won’t Fall for You 我不会喜欢你
Mo Qian spent six years trying to warm a cold, unyielding heart. But life is full of disappointments, and love is one of them. Even on the day he died, he never received the love he had yearned for. But he could never have imagined that after his death, the one he had loved in this world would finally awaken, overcome with grief. Day after day, they knelt before the tiny pile of ashes he had become, sobbing and weeping, until they died beneath those ashes. ***Content warnings: * A groveling ex a
1.3kReads8.8Score103Shelves
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The Trouble with Keeping Pets 养宠为患
[Two male leads + unhinged + yandere + angst for the bottom + satisfying read] = The ex regrets it and chases his love at the crematorium After his secret was exposed, Bai Feicheng was brutally beaten and tortured for two whole years. Unable to bear the humiliation, he fled with a broken heart. Only then did Bai Chenghao realize he had fallen in love with him. But he pursued him the wrong way, deepening the misunderstanding between them once again. Angst, bad ending or happy ending: I’ll let y
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Everyone in This Story Is Crazy. Please, Won't You Kill Me? 全文疯批，请杀了我好吗
[Power couple + Mutually faithful] [Angst early on, more angst in the middle, the male lead turns into a lovesick puppy later; tragic ending, but with rebirth] The pursuer thinks the pursued betrayed him. The pursued spends two years hiding away, then gets caught and brought back. The pursuer starts beating and tormenting him in every way, and even brings his fiancée to see him. She'll stop at nothing and wants to kill him every day. After enduring endless humiliation, Bai Feiying tries to escap
2.3kReads9.0Score287Shelves
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Before He Dies, He Wants to Give Up His Allergen 临死前，他要戒掉过敏源
[Male-male romance + angst + late-blooming devotion + the hero’s long road to winning him back] Shen Pei’an was ill. On his birthday, the doctor told him he didn’t have much longer to live. He hadn’t planned to hide it. He meant to wait until Ren Xu had celebrated his birthday with him, then tell him the truth. But the big star Ren Xu never came. All Shen Pei’an got was a birthday cake that would trigger his allergies. He was twenty-eight. It was his ninth year in love with Ren Xu. There would
1.2kReads6.6Score107Shelves
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Longing Unanswered 念念不忘，再无回响
[Two Male Leads \ ABO \ Angst Novel \ Substitute \ Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium] Important warning ❤️ The main love interest gets a bad ending; the second male lead ends up with him~ Yu Moyi had a white moonlight in his heart, but they couldn’t be together because their pheromones were naturally incompatible. So he found an Omega who looked a lot like his white moonlight: Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan was obedient and devoted to him. No matter how badly Yu Moyi treated him, he never got angry. Yu
6.2kReads9.2Score506Shelves
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Waiting for You to Turn Around and Say You Love Me 等你回头说爱我
[Boys' love + emotional torment + physical torment + a perfect deception + innocent on the outside, dark within + obsessive and twisted + bad ending + strong characters + yandere] No one is simple. Please don't look at people too naively, especially those who seem harmless. Shen Yan is the child of a wealthy family. In other people's eyes, he's nothing but a commodity with a price tag, something to be passed around and bullied at will. He tries with all his might to learn how to love others and
1.2kReads9.2Score164Shelves
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Our Love Was Deep, Yet Never Reached Forever 情深未可到白头
[Two male leads | Bad ending] They met in the prime of their youth. Both hid their feelings, each thinking their love would last forever. It wasn't until Kong Huan met Lin Zhaonan that he believed the saying: “The first person you fall for is the one you'll love for your whole life!” He did just that. Sadly, his whole life lasted only a couple of decades... Lin Zhaonan cried as he told Kong Huan, “You have to come on my wedding day, promise me! I can only feel safe if you're there!” Kong Huan pl
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This Villain Really Loves the Protagonist 这个反派对主角是真爱啊
(The novel is complete.) Note: This is a dual-male-lead novel written in the style of a male-oriented story. Please proceed with caution if that's not your thing! [Two male leads][System][Villain][One-sided crush][Friendship turning into something more][Sweet moments!][A touch of an ensemble cast] After transmigrating into a fantasy world as the young master of a demonic sect, Lu Chen awakens the Villain Self-Rescue System. He plans to trample the Child of Fortune underfoot, marry the holy maide
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死
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
141.1kReads9.8Score16.1kShelves
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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.
27.1kReads9.1Score5.1kShelves
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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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After I Died, He Began to Love Me 死后，他开始爱我
Sang Yuan never expected that, after an accident, her husband Gu Yuhui would have his memories sent back to when he was eighteen, a time when he loved someone else. Every night, Gu Yuhui would regain a month’s worth of memories. In those dreams, he fell in love with his unrequited love all over again. He was convinced there was no love in his marriage to Sang Yuan. Then Sang Yuan died, and his memories returned to the moment they first met. She had been a ray of light that illuminated his world
7.2kReads9.1Score520Shelves
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
55.9kReads9.7Score8.2kShelves
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After I Died, the Tragic-Novel Heroine Went Mad 我死后，虐文女主疯了
I fell in love with the heroine of a tragic romance. When the male lead abandoned her at the altar, I walked up to her. We got married, and I thought she could finally break free of her scripted fate and spend the rest of her life with me. Then, three years later, the male lead came to his senses. He knelt outside my home and confessed his love to her. Without hesitation, she shook me off and ran straight to him. The two embraced in the rain, a scene straight out of a romance. But she didn't kno
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Quick Transmigration: After Torturing the Big Shot to Tears, I Faked My Death and Escaped 快穿：把大佬虐哭后我死遁了
[Two male leads, scum gong regrets his actions, chases his wife to the crematorium, sickly, coughing blood, forced love, shou fakes his death and escapes, BE in the small worlds, HE in the end] [System: Reminder, Host Yun Chen, this is an S-rank conquest world. The principal gods of every plane are extremely powerful!] [Yun Chen: Oh.] - The domineering CEO, wealthy enough to rival a nation: You’re nothing but a substitute picked out of the mud. My one true love is the chosen one! Yun Chen fell i
21.5kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves
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I'm the Hero of a Wish-Fulfillment Novel. How Could I Put Up With This Miserable Romance? 我，爽文大男主，能受虐文的气？
[A mix of gut-wrenching angst, satisfying triumphs with no humiliating setbacks, domineering Dragon King CEOs, ignoring the rules, memes, and variety] After transmigrating to another world for eighteen years, the angst-novel System finally showed up. Su Chen said he had no use for it, absolutely none. The System would only slow down his unstoppable progress. The worlds of angst novels are crawling with protagonists? Just watch me speedrun one in a month! If killing an entire family solves the pr
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Shock! The Tragic Romance Hero Is Actually My Brother 震惊，虐文男主竟是我哥
[Book Transmigration] + [Lottery System] + [Character Growth] + [Cultivation and Leveling Up] After a sudden Book Transmigration, Xiao He Yi was stunned to discover that the handsome, wealthy, powerful guy in front of him was the male lead of a tragic romance! What was he supposed to do? He didn't want to suffer emotional and physical abuse. Three rules for staying alive: First, stay away from the heroine. No halo, no danger. Second, get stronger. Once you get your chance, make a quick escape. T
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Quick Transmigration: After Becoming the Protagonist of an Angsty Novel, I Slaughter My Way Through the World 快穿：穿成虐文主角后杀穿全世界
[Quick transmigration, no CP + lots of men with one-sided crushes + crowd favorite + physically unbeatable protagonist] Tang Lanqing, a victor in an infinite-flow world, accepts an invitation (or rather, gets tricked) by a romance System and enters tragic romance worlds as the protagonist… No matter. They may not understand plain speech, but he knows a thing or two about fighting (*^ー^) 1. Reborn as a devoted, long-suffering love interest looked down on by the scum gong and all his friends? He’l
6kReads9.3Score703Shelves
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Short Stories That Will Make You Cry 把你虐哭的短文
Short Stories That Will Make You Cry
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The Tragic-Romance Male Lead Seems to Have Some Serious Issues 虐文男主好像有内个大病
[Feel-Good, Feel-Good, Strong Moral Compass, Quick Transmigration] A villainess from a tragic romance takes over the heroine's body and beats the domineering CEO into submission from the start. While the delicate white-lotus rival is still sobbing and playing the victim, the heroine has already taken control of the underground assassins' guild…! Stirring up trouble, stirring up trouble, stirring up trouble She is Jian You, a major villain who died in an accident and came to various worlds to ea
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Quick Transmigration: Back Off, You’re Asking for Trouble 快穿：别过来，你在找虐
[Dual Male Leads + Fake Coercion + Frail Health + Faking His Death + A Melodramatic Grab Bag] The small worlds all end badly. As a member of the Torture Fiction Team with exceptional professional skills, Xu Bai travels with the System, Xiao Liu, conquering one challenge after another until they reach a Grade B world. He is determined to max out the affection ratings, reach Grade A as soon as possible, and get promoted with a pay raise! There are two targets to win over in each world. The title h
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A Collection of Short, Tragic Bad-End Stories 短篇be虐文合集
I originally wanted to write a collection of angsty stories, but in the end I decided to write just one and bring it to a close. I can't change the title now, so come on in and have a look. Legend has it that the Demon God was gravely wounded by the Divine Clan and suffers excruciating pain every night, teetering on the brink of death. Only one thing can ease his suffering: the inner core of a Divine Fox. For hundreds of years, the Demon God has repeated the same words in his mind: I must take
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Quick Transmigration: The Right Way to Play Out a Tragic Romance 快穿：论虐文剧情的正确打开方式
[No CP + dual male leads + feel-good face-slapping] 1 System: [Host, we're following an angst novel script. We'll activate the angst-then-sweet mode. In this world, you'll gradually go through heart-wrenching angst, getting kicked out of the house, wandering the streets, being penniless, and getting into a car accident while saving the male lead, among other scenarios. In the ending, the male lead will come to his senses and remember how good you were to him. He'll finally fall in love with you
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Just Tormenting the Male Lead of a Tragic Romance 就虐虐文男主
Just Make the Male Lead of This Angsty Romance Suffer
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Quick Transmigration: The Tragic Novel's Heroine Turns the Tables on the Hero 快穿：虐文女主她虐男主啦
[Invincible yandere heroine + ruthless male leads + multiple male leads] Warning: The heroine is not a good person and will not avenge the original heroine. Modern setting The male lead, who controls the lifeblood of the global economy: “Su Ye, spare the Gu family. Don’t kill her! I hate you! But I love you too.” Su Ye curled her lips in a faint smile. “Who do you think you are? You’re nothing but his substitute.” What difference is there between a male lead whose wings have been clipped and the
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I'm Trying My Best to Die in This Torture Novel 我在虐文里努力求死
A Lan is a newcomer to the White Moonlight Group for quick-transmigration angst novels. Her task each time is to die by the end of the story so the male and female leads can live happily together. She has always thought she did a great job, and every rating from her System, Qi Wu, has been above SSS rank. But maybe she did too good a job: after she dies, the male and female leads end up either strangers or acquaintances. That's not right. A Lan can't figure it out, but she still has to carry out
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Turning a Tragic Romance into Horror: No Grudges Last Longer Than a Page Turn 虐文爆改惊悚流，主打没有隔页仇
[Romance with a female lead and male love interest: warning] [A battle of predators runs throughout] [The male lead goes crazy later on, but the heroine stays cold-blooded and in control] For no apparent reason, Xin Que transmigrates into a romance novel about a man who deludes himself into thinking all is well, then tries to win back his ex in a torturous, drawn-out saga. The original plot's big idea is that even though the heroine loses her life, the male lead loses the love of his life, so he
8.6kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
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This Is How You Properly Write a Tragic Romance 这才是虐文的正确打开方式
[Strong heroine + satisfying wish fulfillment + transmigrate into a book + tormenting the male lead] Jiang Youli, a killer who does nothing but kill people and read CEO romances, pulls an all-nighter reading and drops dead! She transmigrates into the heroine of a tragic romance. As soon as she opens her eyes, she's being dragged off to donate 1,000 cc of blood? Jiang Youli: “Officer, someone is drawing my blood illegally.” They want to transplant her kidney into a scheming woman? Jiang Youli: “O
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Time to Hunt: The Tragic Novel's Heroine Awakens 猎杀时刻，虐文女主觉醒之后
[Green tea scheming + love-triangle chaos + punishing scumbags + genuine regret and redemption + strategy] There’s a pitiable creature in this world called the tragic-romance heroine. She’s abused in body and soul by scumbag men and wicked women, only to be forced into a happy ending in the end. Ever since Lin You took on commissions to help tragic-romance heroines escape their fates, she’d been running wild through one tragic romance after another. Some regretted everything: “I’m sorry. Please
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Bloodstained, a Wild Rose with an Unyielding Spirit 血染，傲骨野玫瑰
[Women's Fiction] Important note: The heroine is not actually Xi Lianyue. This will be explained later. Because she looked like someone else, she was made to take the blame. Four years in prison were not enough. Even after her release, she still couldn't escape the mire of reality. She was forced into a pond of piranhas, used as a live test subject, made to fight Tibetan mastiffs, and had both legs broken. After all the persecution, the truth was finally revealed piece by piece. The men who had
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The Big Shot Woke Up with a Start: I'll Be the Tragic Novel's Heroine Myself 大佬酒醒惊坐起，虐文女主我自己
[Strong Female Lead + No CP + Satisfying Wish Fulfillment + Lighthearted + Face-Slapping and Revenge] Yanli is a powerhouse in the cultivation world, so invincible that everyone wants to kneel at her feet and sing her praises. But after one careless mistake, the System binds her and sends her into an old-fashioned angst novel. From the start, the male lead is carving out her heart to save his beloved... System: Host, just lie flat and let the male lead stab you in the heart. Yanli: ??? What did
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Help! This Couch Potato Transmigrated into a Tragic Romance Heroine 救命！咸鱼的我穿成了虐文女主
[No CP] Lin Sheng barely scrapes through the beginner assessment at the Plane Stability Office, placing last. She’s set on joining the Cannon Fodder Division and slacking off, but instead she becomes the heroine of an angst novel and is forced to follow the plot. She and the original male lead’s white-moonlight are kidnapped together. The cannon fodder asks the male lead: “Who will you save?” The original male lead points his gun at Lin Sheng. “I’ll personally send her to hell.” Lin Sheng: !!!
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Since I've Transmigrated Into a Tragic Novel, What's Wrong With Causing a Little Trouble? 都穿进虐文了，作死一点怎么了
[One Couple] [Both Pure] [Three-Lifetime Setup] [The Female Lead Transmigrates to the Real World and Then Back Again] [The Male Lead Enters the Female Lead's Body] When she wakes up, Jiang Mian discovers she has transmigrated into the delicate, innocent female lead of an angsty romance novel, and is about to have one of her kidneys removed. WTF?! Oh, get lost, you absolute idiots! Before they can inject her with anesthetic, Jiang Mian swiftly pins the doctor down and escapes. Damn this plot! The
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Ode to White Hair 白头赋
In a daze, she seemed to see that young man again, standing in the spring sunshine as he asked her: “Do you have feelings for me?”
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