I've Recently Gotten Into Childhood Friends Romance, and I'm Desperate for Recommendations 最近迷上了竹马竹马,书荒严重求
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Who Taught You to Be a Brother Like That? 谁教你这么当兄弟的
[The print edition is now available, published under the title Planetary Effect] Chen Zhijuan is the top surgeon in the orthopedics department at Beicheng People's Hospital. He's usually cold and taciturn. Dr. Chen is strikingly handsome, and his crisp, slender figure in a white coat gives off an air of restraint. The girls chasing after him could circle the hospital three times. Too bad his heart belongs to someone else. He's been secretly in love with his best friend for nearly ten years. The
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After Going on a Livestream Variety Show with My Archrival 和死对头上直播综艺后
[Two male leads + equally powerful leads + childhood friends + devoted couple + first love] A devoted, straightforward top who pampers his husband × a charming, flirtatious bottom who doesn't realize how adorable he is Gu Yubai × Jiang Ling (For this story, same-sex marriage is legal.) As everyone knows, movie star Gu Yubai and top-tier star Jiang Ling have always kept their distance from each other. They entered show business in the same year and have been in the industry for five years, yet th
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The Beauty Is Sweet Yet Fierce, and the CEO Clings to Him, Spoiling Him Until He Cries 美人又娇又飒,霸总贴贴宠哭他
[Two male leads + sweet romance + devoted to each other + childhood friends] Su Mian was both handsome and talented. Just five years after his debut, he became a top-tier star in the entertainment industry. But one day, a video sparked rumors that Su Mian was being kept by a sugar daddy. As the entire internet began attacking him, Flowing Cloud Technology Group, the leader of Z Country's tech industry, issued a statement: “He is the second young master of our group.” Its CEO made an even bolder
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The Lu Family's Beloved Little Darling, Come On, Spoil Me 陆家团宠小娇娇,请对我撒娇
Everyone in Beicheng knew that Lu Xingwan was the pampered little princess of the Lu, Qi, and Feng families. She was spoiled and willful, and no one dared cross her. As the Feng family’s sole heir, Feng Jiale had also grown up with every privilege. His family connections and every step of his future had been meticulously arranged, leaving his life dull and flavorless, except when he was with Lu Xingwan. As long as they were together, life was full of color. - Lu Xingwan hated it when Feng Jiale
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The Day We Broke Up, Young Master Lu Took Me to Get Our Marriage License 分手当天,陆少拉我去领证
Qi Zhinuo, the little princess of the Qi family in Beicheng, fell for a boy named Wen Shaoyu when she was young and naive. From then on, she chased after him for three years, despite her family's objections. Wherever Wen Shaoyu went, Qi Zhinuo was sure to be there. Three months into their relationship, however, the young woman overheard Wen Shaoyu teasing someone else: “I only wanted her family's connections.” “She's so spoiled. Who could really like her?” That very afternoon, Qi Zhinuo left him
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Saving My Cannon-Fodder Childhood Friend: The Aloof Beauty Stakes Herself on the Game 拯救炮灰竹马,清冷美人以身入局
[Two male leads + 1v1, both pure + childhood friends + devoted to each other + super sweet] Cool, aloof beauty who knows how to reel them in on the receiving end × tall, handsome, straight-laced top In his second year studying abroad, Jiang Shaoli awakened to his own existence and discovered that he was living inside a danmei novel. His childhood friend, who had a one-track mind, was apparently a hopeless simp for the novel’s protagonist on the receiving end, destined to become a cannon fodder
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The Frail Beauty Pants After Three Steps, and Her Childhood Friend Carries Her Home 病美人三步一喘!竹马摇尾抱回家
[Two male leads + childhood friends growing up together + brotherly affection turns into something more + wooing a big puppy] [Cool, aloof, long-haired beauty with a sickly constitution who knows how to reel them in × silver-haired, handsome, wolfish athlete who turns into a loyal puppy; genius painter × archer; sweet romance, one-on-one!] Yun Wulian had been sickly since childhood. He was out of breath after three steps and coughing after five, and would suddenly faint or come down with a fever
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The Spoiled Heiress: The Black-Bellied CEO's Beloved 作精大小姐:腹黑总裁的心尖宠
[Beijing elite circle / marriage between prominent families / marriage first, love later / two powerful families / mutual pining / devoted to each other] (Refined, abstinent business tycoon × gorgeous, proud heiress) * On the night of Shi Qingyun's eighteenth birthday, she got drunk and kept mumbling, “Why... why can't you love me?” Chi Yanzhou's gaze darkened. He cautiously asked, “Who doesn't love you?” Shi Qingyun pouted but didn't answer. “Qing'er...” “Li Yi, you promised me...” Hearing this
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My Childhood Sweetheart Follows Me Every Step 竹马步步相随
[Childhood friends]× [Mutual pining]× [Sweet romance] Their story began when they were children. Gu Jingcheng: Cool and handsome, quiet by nature, a rising star in Beijing's elite circles. Tang Shuyao: Delicate and lovely, cheerful by nature, a beautiful painter. Gu Jingcheng held the woman in his arms, his eyes brimming with intense love. “Shuyao, are you leaving again?” His voice was low and husky, his eyes betraying his restraint and self-control. Tang Shuyao smiled as she met his gaze. Her
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Marriage Before Love: Mr. Gu's Sweet, Adored Wife 先婚后爱:顾先生的甜宠娇妻
Ye Chenxi caught her boyfriend in bed with her half-sister that very day. The scumbag even had the nerve to say, “I only made the same mistake every man makes.” She went to a bar for a drink, only to attract the attention of a few hooligans. Just then, she ran into Gu Shaoting and begged him to save her. “Mr. Gu, I’d like to make a deal with you.” “I want you to marry me.” After they married, one day she glared at the man beside her, holding her aching waist. Wasn’t he supposed to have no intere
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Quick Transmigration: The Childhood Friend Beats the Newcomer and Wins the Girl 快穿:竹马打败天降成功上位了
Why does the childhood sweetheart always lose to the guy who shows up later? After countless late-arriving male leads beat childhood-sweetheart rivals, the childhood sweethearts who were treated as mere tools have had enough! He was the one who stayed with her through every tear and laugh as she grew up. He was the one who secretly guarded her and comforted her when she was down. He was even the so-called male supporting character who started out as her first love and later clung to her desperat
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Childhood Sweethearts' Inferno, as They Fight Over the One Who Appeared Out of Nowhere 竹马火葬场,因为天降又争又抢
[Dark, Unhinged Childhood Friends + Childhood Friend Gets His Comeuppance + Newcomer Steals Her Away + True and Fake Young Master Trope + Love Triangle + Both Leads Are Inexperienced] [Pretends to Be Sunny, Actually a Yandere Childhood Friend × Pretends to Be Frail, Actually an Unhinged Childhood Friend × Pretends to Be Rebellious, Actually a Devoted Newcomer] Xia Han was about to confess to her childhood friend, but Song Xiangqiu only wanted them to remain friends. Their entanglements and push-
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The Campus Belle Has Always Been Devoted to Me, Because I Raised Her 校花始终如一,因为是我养的
[Romantic Everyday Life] [Nurturing] [Multiple Love Interests] [Daily Life] [Light Novel] [No Love Rivals] [Super Sweet, No Angst] [Happy Ending] For the sake of his first love, his ex-girlfriend runs away from their wedding on the spot and indirectly causes his parents’ deaths. He thinks his life has turned completely bleak, until a twist of fate leads a girl with absolutely no common sense to take him home. Only then does he realize just how many wonderful girls are already in his life. His ch
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God-Tier Choices: From the Start, I Contracted the Raiden Shogun 神级选择:开局契约雷电将军
Urban fantasy + beast taming + original setting + academy + stress relief + no brainless plot + one heroine. (Updated daily with a steady 4,000 words.) Ye Ye, who spent all his time grinding maps at home, unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world full of beast tamers. A year later, just as Ye Ye seemed destined to fail the Awakening Ceremony, he unexpectedly awakened a System. What’s more, his very first contracted spirit turned out to be the legendary Electro Archon, Baal Zebul. As long as
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What Makes You Think I'll Keep Liking You? 你凭什么认为我会一直喜欢你呢
[Everyday romance] [One female lead] [Mutual healing] Because of a promise made in childhood, Chen Lu spent seven whole years pursuing the girl he’d grown up with. In the end, all he got was a cold rejection. Chen Lu smiled in acceptance, but his heart had turned to ash… until he met the sweet, clumsy girl who’d come to thank him. The girl was lovely and innocent, standing alone in the rain right where the two of them had agreed to meet. “Why haven’t you left…?” The girl slowly lifted her head.
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Reborn in 1999: From the Start, I Get Beaten Up by the Cool School Beauty 重生1999:开局被清冷校花揍
[Rebirth + Campus Beauty + No System + Multiple Heroines + Romance + Everyday Life] Campus beauty: “Wang Yi, my feet are sore. Rub them…” Campus beauty: “Wang Yi, I'm scared of the dark. Hold my hand…” Campus beauty: “Wang Yi, you're mine now. You can't get away!” … Wang Yi woke from a deep sleep, reborn twenty years in the past at the college entrance exam. Faced with a paper that might as well have been written in another language, he was completely stumped. The exam had gone badly enough,
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I Found a Secret on My Childhood Friend's Computer 我看到了竹马电脑里的秘密
I Found a Secret on My Childhood Friend’s Computer
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I Took Shelter from the Rain at the Brooding School Bully’s House, Only to Find My Lost Things in His Closet 躲雨留宿阴湿校霸家——发现衣柜里全是我遗失的东西
I took shelter from the rain at the damp, brooding school bully’s house, only to find my lost belongings filling his wardrobe.
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Transmigrating to the 1980s, Becoming a Stepmother, and Getting Rich While Joining the Army: The Vile Ones, Get Lost 穿八零,当后妈,致富随军极品滚
[Super-sweet romance + military marriage + having and raising children + getting rich + spirit spring space + everyday life] Lin Shuyan transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder supporting female character in a period novel! Her military officer husband is the heroine's biggest golden finger: Rich and powerful, handsome and wealthy. Too bad she's not the heroine. * When he hears that Lin Shuyan is beating the children, her military officer husband comes home with divorce papers. Befo
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What?! My Arranged Marriage Match Is an S-Rank Big Shot? 惊!联姻对象竟是S级大佬?
[Dual Male Leads + ABO + Intense Seduction + Face-Slapping and Falling for Each Other + Two Strong Leads] A sharp-tongued but secretly devoted top versus a bottom who plays dumb to outsmart his enemies After an accident, Shi Yanci is framed. With nowhere else to turn, he rushes into a bar restroom and stumbles into a man's arms. The man's rich, whiskey-like pheromones leave him entranced. When they meet again, Shi Yanci locks eyes across the crowd with the man seated at the head of the table.
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My Heart Races! A Secret Crush! My Childhood Friend Is Beautiful and Sweet-Voiced 心动!暗恋!小青梅她人美声甜
[The print edition of Heart-Pounding Secret Crush: My Childhood Friend Is Beautiful and Sweet-Voiced is now available. Search for it on major platforms. Details: @Yueye Shanhu] [Sweet Campus Romance | Childhood Friend Takes the Lead | The Pursuer’s Road to Regret | Secret Crush] Qiao Zhen dreams of fragments of memories from her past life: “For seven years, she followed the aloof campus heartthrob Ji Xian, obedient and gentle, offering him her whole heart, only to be casually cast aside.” When
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The Divine Physician of Spiritual Awareness 神识医圣
The night his enemy smashed his skull, Li Tieniu heard an ancient call as he lay in a pool of blood. Three feet beneath the ancestral hall, the Divine Farmer’s Herbal Classic in a bronze casket turned to golden light and sank into his brow... From then on, the village fool became the most dangerous man in Qingshan Village. By day, he is a barefoot doctor with miraculous healing hands. He saves dying children with silver needles, and golden citrus ripened with spiritual energy fetches a thousand
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The School Bully’s Little Ancestor Is Back 校霸的小祖宗回来了
[Sweet, well-behaved top student Song × ruthless, taciturn big shot Su] Su Yue Bai was famous at No. 9 High School for being unruly and rebellious. The students thought the school bully would keep his distinctive personality all the way through graduation. They never expected it to change when a little fairy transferred in during the second semester of his sophomore year. The school bully chased after her every day, acting cute and begging her to forgive him, while she remained cold and unfeelin
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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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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
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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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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 Invincible Mountain Village Miracle Doctor 无敌山村神医
Feel-good medical fiction | Rags-to-riches comeback | Farming and fortune Xiang Yunfei, an orphan with an intellectual disability, had endured countless sneers. While helping a friend, he unexpectedly awakened a divine healer’s inheritance! One needle cures a hundred illnesses, one medicine brings the dead back to life! From then on, the village bully feared him, his neighbors respected him, and beautiful women fell for him! Put the worst troublemakers in their place, heal the sick and save live
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I'm Panicking! I Didn't Mean to Flirt That Much [Quick Transmigration] 好慌张,不小心撩过头了【快穿】
[Pretending-to-be-innocent seductress + Dark, scheming male lead + Best friend takes the place of the boyfriend + Sweet 1v1 romance] Hurting your wife feels good for a while, then comes the hellish chase to win her back. But if your buddy has his eye on your wife, he can scatter your ashes and step over your corpse to take your place. After accidentally binding to a win-back-your-wife System, Jiang Xin is forced to travel to different worlds, take the place of girls who have been hurt by scumbag
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Youth, Until the Rain Stops 青春,等雨停
This is a campus romance novel. After three years of hard study, the heroine, Tong Lu, heads to S City with her best friend to attend university. By coincidence, her friend Xun Feng gets into the same university. Xun Feng has always loved Tong Lu and quietly watched over her. There, Tong Lu runs into Jiang Yi again, the boy who makes her heart flutter. From then on, many wondrous things happen to the three of them. In the end, who will Tong Lu choose? This story is told mainly through dialogue,
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Fake Lessons, Real Schemes: The Childhood Friend Tutor’s Epic Fail 假教学真套路,竹马导师翻车实录
The Fake Lesson, the Real Seduction: A Record of My Childhood Friend Mentor’s Epic Backfire
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I Was an Ace Assassin, Now I’m the Pathetic Girl at an Elite School 我,王牌杀手成了贵族学校小可怜
She was the world's number-one ace assassin, elusive and able to kill without a trace. After an accident, she was reborn as an ordinary schoolgirl. Looked down on by teachers and classmates because of her terrible grades? Humiliated in front of the entire school when the campus heartthrob she'd secretly admired made her love letter public? Her father ruined and bankrupt, while a classmate borrowed money and refused to pay it back? Luo Ying sneered: “You're all dead. Not one of you is getting awa
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Would You Like to Come Over for Dinner, My Deaf Boyfriend? 听障男朋友,要来我家吃饭吗?
[A gentle top who loves to cook x a deaf dance student who knows nothing about life] [Two male leads + childhood friends raised together + top's perspective + four-year age gap + very sexy size difference + doting on his wife + strictly monogamous 1v1 + mutual secret crush + older, fatherly top + sweet romance] During the six months since the neighbors moved in, Fang Yuling had stayed home and never once gone out of his way to meet them. By chance, Shen Yan agrees to Fang Yuling's father's reque
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