Looking for Short Contemporary Romance Novels 想看现言短篇小说☜
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Lost in the Clouds, With No Way Home 云深不知归途
[Cool, aloof, bad-boy-charismatic, secretly calculating male lead × sharp-witted, carefree female lead] This is a collection of short stories, full of absurd humor and lighthearted comedy, with plenty of sweetness and no angst. "My Husband Doesn’t Love Me" I married a man who didn’t love me. My husband was perfect in every way: a gentleman, refined and unbelievably handsome. He had only two flaws. First, he had been in a car accident a year ago and now spent his days in a wheelchair. Second, he
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Slightly Tipsy in Blue 青色微醺
Signed for publication, with a short drama adaptation now streaming (Arranged marriage to love + the second male lead takes the lead + long-planned romance + cozy, low-key sweet romance) The day Fu Qingyin finally gave up on Song Ziyan, she went to see his uncle, Song Zheng. Two wooden signs hung at the entrance to the teahouse, one higher than the other. Each bore a line of writing: A joyful reunion, a happy occasion. The man sat ramrod straight, his expression calm and composed, with the refin
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Quick Transmigration: Playing the Cunning Ex of a Yandere Male Lead 快穿:扮演病娇男主的恶毒前任
[Original title: Quick Transmigration: The Crazy Male Lead Forces Me to Love Him from the Start. Content warning: coercive romance; the male lead is insane and can't live without the female lead; not a strong female lead, with a dominant male lead and submissive female lead.] [Both leads are devoted to each other + one-on-one romance + unhinged male lead + mutual desire + no rivalry between women + healthy love is important, but twisted love is just so entertaining] As a new employee of the Quic
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Now That I’m Reborn, Why Should I Keep Spoiling Those Ungrateful Brats? 都重生了,谁还惯着那群白眼狼啊
[Complete] [1980s Military Marriage + Cathartic Revenge + Portable Space + Adorable Kids + Vengeance + Family Life] In her previous life, Jiang Wan married Cheng Jinnian to repay a debt of gratitude. She donated part of her liver to save her gravely ill father-in-law, cared for her parents-in-law, and raised their eight unruly nieces and nephews into successful adults. The whole family lived a prosperous, happy life. She worked herself to exhaustion, lost two pregnancies, and was left infertile
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The Rose Crown 玫瑰冠冕
The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us
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Marrying Mr. Yu 嫁给喻先生
[The print edition of the same name is now available / The short drama of the same name is now streaming] [Cheerful artist vs. aloof, calculating professor] [Age gap + marriage before love + sweet romance + long-planned courtship + slow-burn love] Shi Sheng and Yu Wenzhou met on a blind date. But even on their wedding day, she still couldn't figure out what Yu Wenzhou saw in her. Since they didn't have much of a romantic foundation, Shi Sheng thought it would be good enough if they could at leas
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A Timely Rain in Hong Kong 港遇及时雨
Age gap + married-life slice of life + the hero falls first Liang Yuyin and Zhao Shunian’s marriage is purely a business arrangement, as everyone in Hong Kong’s wealthy circles knows. The illegitimate daughter of the Liang family, Yuyin is brought back by her biological father one day and made to take her half-sister’s place in an arranged marriage. She becomes the wife of Zhao Shunian, heir to the Zhao family. Everyone says she’s a sparrow that’s flown up a branch and become a phoenix. Yuyin t
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Back to High School Before the Divorce: This Time, I Won't Fall for You 离婚前重回高中,这次我不心动了
(Print edition signed) [Campus rebirth + regretful pursuit + bad-boy wins her heart + living-under-one-roof romance] [Slightly rebellious good girl x laid-back, aloof bad boy] After her grandmother passes away, both the Tan and Lu families feel sorry for Xu Entang, who has no family left, and want to take her in. When she arrives in Beicheng, she sees again the boy she never forgot after meeting him once. Lu Jin is brazen and unruly. Over the years they grow up together, she watches one woman af
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A Public Rivalry, a Secret Love 明争暗恋
[Childhood Friends + Mutual Secret Crush] [Airheaded Sweetheart X Cold, Scheming Type] Student representative Xu Youjing is handsome and distinguished, with the poise of a pine or cypress bathed in sunlight. Arts committee president Lin Xiyang is sweet, radiant, and talented, one of the school’s brightest stars. They’ve attended the same school for two years, but have never interacted. They’re so unfamiliar that they wouldn’t even glance at each other when passing by. That changes when they end
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A Love That’s Real 确有情
[Part Two Has Been Updated] Yang Huiqing spent many years abroad. The first thing she did after returning home was insist on marrying Ji Qinglin. Just how little did the two of them know each other? They didn't meet until the day of their wedding photoshoot, and neither of them even had the other's contact information. She had assumed that in this marriage of convenience, forged for the benefit of their families, they would at most treat each other with polite respect. But who could have guessed
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Let Us Revel While We Can [Reborn] 须尽欢【重生】
[One-on-one romance | Back to eighth grade | Sweet romance | Fate | Lighthearted] [Dog-like sweet girl vs. cat-like cool guy] Every second of her reborn life is precious. There are surprises everywhere, and shocks around every corner. Especially when Xia Jinhuan sees her new high school desk mate and realizes he’s the owner of the company that rejected her after an interview… Rubbing her chin, she can’t help agreeing with an old saying: Connections really are best made when you’re young. “Hello,
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Green Hills Like Jade 青山似玉
(The print edition is now available) [Love after marriage, age gap, slow-burn everyday sweetness] *A gentle beauty from a family of scholars × a refined, fatherly man *A comic artist with a billion in assets × an influential Beijing aristocrat and chamber of commerce chairman Chu Shuang knew from childhood that she was promised to the Sheng family of the imperial capital, but she had never met her fiancé. Later, by a twist of fate, she moved into the Sheng residence and met her friend’s older br
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A Vermilion Kiss 朱砂吻
[The print edition of Stars Falling into the Deep Sea is now available] [Devoted to each other | Mutual pining | Campus sweet romance] [Pure love at first | Love later] [Cool, cocky troublemaker] x [Sweet-tempered, gentle girl] At the beginning of the story, they fell for each other's cinnabar moles. By the end, they were kissing those same marks. Blurb: Tang Shi was a handsome, cocky troublemaker who did whatever he pleased. He had topped the entrance exam that year and was the “top dog” in the
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The Colors in Your Heart 听见你心底的颜色
[Scheming charmer x gentle, sickly blind woman] [Marriage first, love later + devoted sweet romance + secret identity revealed + 100% sweetness] The first time they meet. Her blind date says, “Sorry, I have no plans to date or get married.” Ming Ruo quietly says, “Okay.” The second time they meet. Her blind date says, “Would you like to have dinner with me?” Ming Ruo nods in surprise. The third time they meet. Her blind date says, “Would you marry me?” Ming Ruo: “...Huh?” - Ming Ruo and her blin
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
[Bright Flower Shop Owner × Cool, Distinguished Diplomat] [Devoted 1v1 First Love | Sweet Romance | Misunderstood Secret Crush | Love Returned | Flash Marriage] At sixteen, Shen Zhuying falls for a boy. He likes wearing white shirts, plays the drums, and gets dimples when he smiles. He's a blazing sun she can never reach. At eighteen, she repeats a year of school and gets into the same university as him, only to learn that he transferred to England half a year ago. At twenty-two, she sees him ag
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I Want a Winter Romance with You 想和你冬日热恋
[Gentle, resilient, cool beauty and classical dancer X proud, sharp-tongued, loving medical prodigy] Xu Cu and Chen Jinxu first met during a heavy snowfall in Qingyang Town. Back then, she didn't even know his name. The snow stopped, and he left. But she felt an inexplicable emptiness in her heart, not knowing what to call it. Later, she ran into him again on Wutong Street. He rode by on his bicycle, the breeze lifting the hem of his shirt and stirring her heart. At the opening ceremony of Xingh
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Roses and Odes 玫瑰与颂歌
[The physical edition of Roses and Hymns is now available] [Princess x daddy type: a mixed-race, spirited heiress * an older, scheming Daddy] [Marriage first, love later + long-planned romance + devoted couple + happy ending] Her childhood sweetheart and fiancé, Lu Jingran, is obsessed with playing the hero to Cinderella. Shen Jinyi decides to break off their engagement and find someone else. After much deliberation, she gathers her courage and approaches Lu Jingran’s older brother, Lu Huishi,
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Please Love Me Openly 求你明恋我
[The print edition is now available. Search for A Confession I Couldn’t Hide to get a signed copy] [Roguishly handsome, irresistible Jin Zhuo x sweet, alluring Qin Yingxia] [Both Pure + College Romance + Secret Crush Becomes Mutual + Sweet Romance + Light Ensemble Cast] Qin Yingxia had been secretly in love with Jin Zhuo for seven years. She worked as hard as she could to get into Imperial University, all so she could be a little closer to him. On the first day of school, she accidentally took t
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Professor Qi, May I Borrow a Marriage? 祁教授,借个婚
Just as Wen Zhixian is about to register her marriage to Gu Yuchen, she accidentally breaks a mug his ex gave him. Gu Yuchen’s slap shatters the affection they once shared. Mr. Qi always seems to appear when she’s at her most miserable. Her parents are unhappy that she broke up with Gu Yuchen, and, overwhelmed by heartbreak and their undeserved blame, she impulsively asks the first person she sees, Qi Yanjing, “Mr. Qi, would you marry me?” Qi Yanjing not only refuses, but gives her a long lectur
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Please, My Dad-Type Boyfriend Spoils Me Rotten! 拜托,爹系男友超宠的!
[Love at first sight + gentle healing + protective, fatherly boyfriend + age gap + devoted couple + sweet romance + happy ending] [Mature, steady, protective hero × adorable, sweet, resilient heroine] Xu Jinhuan, originally named Niandi, had a mother who was kidnapped and trafficked, a father who was a scumbag, and a grandmother who favored boys over girls. She had been beaten deaf in her left ear as a child, and remained deaf in it ever since. You could say she had every possible handicap stack
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The Equation of You 关于你的方程式
[Devoted, restrained poor boy x smart, clear-headed rich beauty] Shu Qiao couldn't accept breaking up with Li Zheng, so she swallowed her pride and went to talk things through with him. Instead, she overheard him telling one of her classmates, “Shu Qiao and I have no future. I dated her because I didn't want to have any regrets about my college years.” Love is a multivariable linear equation. Li Zheng, who had always aced math, knew perfectly well that Shu Qiao wasn't his optimal solution, so he
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Being a Star Is My Job, Cultivation Is My Life 当明星是工作,修真是生活
[No romance][Female-oriented][Group transmigration + everyday life + comedy + showbiz + cultivation] Song Jixing had diligently cultivated in the world of cultivation for over a century. Just as she finally managed to form her Golden Core, an explosion involving a divine artifact sent her back to modern times, where she became the obscure, eighteenth-tier star she used to be. After a century of cultivation, Song Jixing had no worldly desires and wanted nothing more than to laze around. But who c
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After Secretly Stealing a Powerful Expert’s Spiritual Energy, the Little Flower Spirit Offers Herself to Him 偷吸大佬的灵气后小花精以身相许
(One-on-one romance + Both leads are faithful + Sweet romance + Cozy, nurturing relationship + Cool, refined big shot + Quirky little flower spirit) Ruan Ruan was a flower spirit from the spirit world, undergoing a tribulation. She never expected to fail to withstand the final lightning strike. When she woke up, she found herself in a small world. More importantly, spirits weren't allowed to take form here after the founding of the country, and there was no spiritual energy. She thought she was
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I Became the Male Lead's Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend 穿成男主的怀孕前女友
[Angst, childhood sweethearts, physical and emotional torment, groveling for a second chance] Lin Zhizhi discovered that she had transmigrated into a romance novel called The Years of Secret Love. It was bad enough that she hadn’t become the heroine, but she’d ended up as the male lead’s beautiful yet wicked ex-girlfriend. At first, this ex-girlfriend put on a convincing act. At school, everyone adored her, though only the boys. She appeared just twice in the novel: first, when she suddenly show
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In the Mountains, There Are Trees; on the Trees, There Are Branches 山有木兮木有枝
The short drama “Where the Mountain Has Trees, the Trees Have Branches” is now available. [Publication deal signed + male lead fights to claim her + second male lead begs for her back + marriage before love] Jiang Chuyue has been in love with Xiao Ji for ten years. As his nominal “younger sister,” all she can do is watch him take one concubine after another. At a palace banquet, Xiao Ji protects his beloved concubine by forcing Jiang Chuyue to marry the regent. Xiao Ji tells her, “The regent is
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A Wife Above, a Lord Below 妻为上君为下
A Wife Above, a Lord Below
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A Snowy Encounter: The Snow Princess Falls for Hong Kong 冰雪奇遇——雪公主情定香江
A Snowy Adventure: The Snow Princess Falls in Love in Hong Kong
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What?! My Arranged Marriage Partner Has Had a Crush on Me for Seven Years 惊!联姻对象竟暗恋我七年
[Mutual first love / older man and younger woman / sweet and flirty romance / dating show] The fake heiress of the Xie family, Xie Weixi, married Fu Yanjing, and everyone was waiting to see her make a fool of herself. After all, everyone in the upper circles of the capital knew that Fu Yanjing, head of the Fu family, was young and powerful, a maverick who never let an insult go unanswered, with a cold, obsessive temperament and someone already in his heart. * Who would have thought they’d see no
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The Star Military Wife 大牌军嫂
Top-Tier Star Actress vs. Cool, Reserved Military Officer Lu Zhiyan never understood why the childhood-sweetheart romance that once seemed so perfect changed after they got married, until divorce felt like their only option. Lang Boqian had no idea what had gotten into his young wife. She kept demanding a divorce. As if he would ever let her go! He would just have to win her back all over again. As they rebuilt their marriage, Lu Zhiyan came to understand more deeply what it meant to shoulder re
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My Sister-in-Law Forced Me to Buy Lottery Tickets, So I Sent the Whole Family to Hell! 小姑子逼我买火彩,我送全家下地狱!
My sister-in-law forced me to buy firecrackers. I'll send the whole family to hell!
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My Company's Spoiled Wage Slave Courted Death, So I Made Her Fate Uncertain 公司娇牛马作死,我让她生死难料
The company's pampered workhorse brought ruin upon herself. I'll make her fate impossible to predict.
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My Puppy-Like Younger Brother Deceived Me. Is It Too Late to Regret It? 被奶狗弟弟欺骗,后悔还来得及吗
My Puppy-Like Little Brother Deceived Me. Is It Too Late to Regret It?
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Get Engaged to My Girlfriend! Are You Ready for the Consequences? 和我女友订婚!后果准备好了吗?
You're Getting Engaged to My Girlfriend! Are You Ready for the Consequences?
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After He Announced His True Love, I Took Everything Back 他官宣白月光后,我收回一切
After he went public with his one true love, I took everything back.
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After the College Entrance Exam, I Sent My Crazy Mom to a Psychiatric Hospital 高考后,我把疯妈送进精神病院
After the college entrance exams, I sent my crazy mother to a psychiatric hospital.
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I Have a Moonlight Lover Too 白月光,我也有啊。
You have a moonlight in your heart? So do I.
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The Top Student's Grade-Swapping System 学神的换分系统
The Top Student's Score-Swapping System
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My Brother Wants Me to Trade Lives with an Alpaca 哥哥让我和羊驼换命
My Brother Made Me Trade Lifespans with an Alpaca
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After I Missed the College Entrance Exam, My Parents and Sister Went Crazy 我错过高考后父母妹妹都疯了
After I missed the college entrance exams, my parents and younger sister all went crazy.
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My Husband Hid His Affair and Made Me Care for His Paralyzed Mother 丈夫隐瞒出轨,让我照顾中风婆婆
My Husband Hid His Affair and Made Me Care for His Stroke-Stricken Mother
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Find My Husband Eighteen Secretaries 给老公找十八个秘书
I Found My Husband Eighteen Secretaries
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Snake Bone Yin-Yang Incense 蛇骨阴阳香
My younger brother played with the snake woman until she died. My mother beat and berated me, ordering me to throw her onto the hill behind the village, but the snake woman bit me, sinking her fangs deep enough to expose bone. Grandma treated me with an ancestral snake-bone yin incense, and I discovered that the bones in my legs were snake bones. Grandma fell into a coma while saving me. Second Uncle said Grandma had drowned my three older sisters, and that I had been a snake's son when I was bo
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The Good Girl Strikes Back 乖乖女的反击
The Good Girl Strikes Back
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After My Adoptive Father Died, My Birth Parents Forced Me to Raise Them 养父死后,亲生父母逼我养
After my adoptive father died, my biological parents forced me to support them.
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Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女
[Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co
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Transmigrating to the 1970s, I Steal the Heroine’s Pocket Dimension and Turn the Tables 穿越七零,抢夺女主空间打脸逆袭
[Transmigration Period setting Spatial dimension Stockpiling + military marriage] Li Lezhi has transmigrated, but somehow didn't get a golden finger with her. She decisively steals the female lead's golden finger to save her own life. Now that she has a golden finger, she doesn't want to provoke the female lead. After all, life is hard for everyone in the materially deprived seventies. She just wants to sit back and watch the white-lotus female lead and the supporting heroine scheme against each
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Let Big Sister Steal Her Groom! I Have a Space That Connects Past and Present 长姐夺亲,由她!我有空间通古今
[Historical romance + love after marriage + bride swap + transmigration + revenge against scoundrels + doting romance] Gao Ying'er, a special forces soldier, transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the neglected third daughter of the Duke of Wei's household. After being reborn, her elder sister, Gao Feng'er, wants to swap their intended marriages. In her previous life, Gao Feng'er's fiancé was poisoned, and she became a widow just one month after marrying him. Meanwhile, the man Gao Ying'er m
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The Sweet, Gentle Educated Youth Gets Tangled Up with the Cold-Faced Warrior King 娇软知青,被冷面兵王给缠上了
[Period drama + sweet romance + military marriage + face-slapping and scumbag punishment + heroine who loves and hates decisively + equally strong leads] Wu Tiantian used to be a weakling in the apocalypse. To avenge her brother, she died alongside his killer. When she woke again, she had become a pitiful young woman in the 1970s whose parents didn't love her. Her beloved grandmother was already dead. A local hoodlum had set his sights on her, and her family wanted the job she held and planned t
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The Pampered Wife of the 1970s Uses Her Billion-Dollar Space to Conquer the Nation 七零娇妻开挂靠亿万空间躺赢全国
[Completed + stockpiling supplies + military marriage + black market + spatial storage + System + getting rich + triplets] Her parents are both dead. When she returns to China, all she finds is a tombstone. She doesn't even get to see their faces one last time. After getting repeated warnings that she'll soon transmigrate, she sells all her assets and goes on a shopping spree to stock up on supplies. On the very first day after transmigrating, she impulsively marries a soldier, cuts ties with he
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The 1970s: Keep the Child, Leave the Father? The Rugged Veteran Won’t Agree 七零:去父留子?退伍糙汉不同意
Just after graduating from college, Jian Chuyi has no idea which great power has smiled on her, but she somehow gets swept up in the transmigration craze, landing right at the moment when the original owner has to choose between three options. Jian Chuyi figures, with a golden finger, a job, and a man, what's there to hesitate about? Just leave the man behind and raise the child on her own. Then she can be a beautiful young widow, caring for her baby by day and keeping a young hottie company at
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