Just as the Withered Leaves Herald Autumn 恰逢枯叶见秋

1. 1 潇 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance120k WordsCompleted 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 104.6kReads9.7Score16.7kShelves

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   The title of the book makes it clear that the final outcome of the story is not about a one-sided crush on the hero and heroine, nor about separation or death. The full text has a total of 150,000 words written by Ye Xiao and Ruan Yusheng. After waiting for a rain for 15 years, the full text only has 27 chapters. Ruan Yusheng got married when Ye Xiao was 27 years old. Ruan Yusheng learned that Ye Xiao also liked him not two days after the marriage nor two weeks after the marriage, but two months after the marriage. His New Year's wish was to hope that Ye Xiao's wish would come true. His New Year's wish was not to like Ruan Yusheng anymore. She thought Ruan Yusheng had someone he liked. He thought Ye Xiao hated him. The novel is very good, I recommend everyone to read it

2. 2 他 He's So Wild 他好野 Jiujiu Cat纠纠猫Modern Romance305k WordsCompleted The print edition is now available. [Qipao Designer & Bar Owner · Redemption] Chi Huaiye first truly sees Sheng Tengwei at “Bu Wu Zheng Ye.” She catches his eye in a blue-green qipao. Someone asks him if she's smoking hot, and he replies, “Slim waist, shapely hips. Not bad.” / Later, as usual, Sheng Tengwei leans against the bar and orders a “Life's Comings and Goings.” She quietly watches Chi Huaiye mix drinks before her, then says casually, “Chi Huaiye, why don't we get married? I'll support y 4.4kReads9.3Score518Shelves

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   Highly recommended, very good article

3. 3 见 After Meeting His Roommate’s Little Sister, the Young CEO Falls Head Over Heels 见了室友妹妹后，小夜总彻底沦陷 Superfan of the Awesome Female Lead超飒女主的死忠粉Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted [Mutual first-love purity, sweet romance, two strong leads, three-year age gap, both fall for each other, no melodrama, honest communication, youthful romance, half campus and half workplace] [H City's top wealthy heir VS A City's top wealthy heir] Ye Muli is the heir to one of A City's most powerful families. From the time he was little, his father taught him that his mother and younger sister were girls, so it was up to the boys to cherish them. Ye Muli always believed this wholeheartedly. Tha 11.4kReads7.6Score964Shelves

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   [Heir to the top wealthy family in City H vs. Heir to the top wealthy family in City SA] Ye Muli is the heir to the top wealthy family in City A. The concept his father has instilled in him since he was a child is that his mother and sister are girls and need their boys to pamper them. He has always believed in this concept. Until college, he often heard his roommate calling and asking for money from a girl named "Xueer", which he was very disdainful of. Later, after meeting his roommate's "financier sister", he understood that his roommate was a softie and wanted to become a softie. He was even willing to have a soft-bodied male roommate with her in order to have a soft-boiled life! But in the end, he discovered that his roommate was born to be a soft-boiled person.

4. 4 犯 The Usurper 犯上者 Li Ma李马Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [The new book, The Night of Absolution, is out now! If you enjoy Old Li's style, come show your support~] [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two. 250.5kReads9.4Score55.9kShelves

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   Quality Assurance Protagonist with high IQ

5. 5 神 Divine Sequence 001, Reporting for Duty! 神序001，参见！ Likes Eating Tangerines喜欢吃橘子Urban3.3M WordsOngoing [Print edition deal signed: no System, plot-driven, fast-paced from the start, no mindless decisions, thrilling and exciting, hard-hitting fights, told from the monsters' side!] Ever since the words [Divine Order 001: Undercover] appeared in Jiang Xia's mind, he felt that he wasn't normal. No matter what he ate or how much he ate, he never felt the slightest bit full. Hungry. So hungry he was about to lose his mind! Then, at the school beauty's eighteenth birthday party, he smelled the presen 577.3kReads9.1Score45.4kShelves

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   🔥When the whole class was celebrating the birthday of the school beauty, only Jiang Xia saw through the weirdness under her skin. In the late autumn camp, the bonfire was swaying, and the necklace around the neck of the school beauty Li Sitong glowed with blood - her shadow was split into two in the carnival of everyone. 💥"You are not Li Sitong." Jiang Xia exposed the false feast with one word, but was sneered and asked back: "There are still descendants of the Jiang family with blind pupils?" At this moment, the ordinary boy preparing for the college entrance examination completely awakened - his eyes can see through the truth of all things, and his bloodline is the sharp blade hanging over the heads of the gods! ⚡️Behind the neon lights of the city lurks a usurping god, and the laughter of classmates hides a millennium conspiracy. Jiang Xia used his mortal body as an undercover god to open up the first way for mankind to survive in the gap between the campus and the battlefield.

6. 6 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 737.9kReads9.6Score111.7kShelves

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   Highly recommend these are very nice to look at!

7. 7 重 Reborn: The Special Forces Soldier Returns 重生之特种兵归来 Mo Huo Huo沫嚯嚯Urban574k WordsCompleted A mercenary ace is reborn with bitter resentment and memories of his past life. He tears traitors apart and tramples his enemies underfoot! The thugs who bullied him beg for mercy, the first love who deceived him is disgraced, and the people who laughed at his poverty can only watch as he amasses a fortune and lives in luxury. Their former scorn turns to flattery in an instant! Beautiful women fall for him, allies lend him a hand, and his road to revenge is a smooth ride. The face-slapping is im 1Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 我 Me and My Transmigration Partner 我和我的穿越搭子 Little Ximiao of Lin Qiyu林栖瑜的小夕喵Ancient Romance1.0M WordsOngoing [Two female leads x strong women, a transmigration-era mashup (?), yuri] [Retro, slow-paced, dual narrative. Not a typical wish-fulfillment story, but it’s all about the thrills and shipping the couples. Ship whoever you like, and please don’t overanalyze the historical details or political scheming.] Yan Shunhua transmigrated. Sure, she’s a good-for-nothing liberal arts student, a wealthy young lady abandoned by her family, and a naive little butterfly who knows nothing about scheming. All she 46Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Then let's have some slow and slow healing articles [Sending Hearts]

9. 9 重 Reborn in the 1980s: Tremble, Time! 重生八零：颤抖吧！岁月！ Zhi Zhi 2046辄至2046Eastern Fantasy115k WordsCompleted At twenty-eight, He Yan was a full-stack engineer and technical architect at a leading company in 2024. After dying suddenly from overwork, he was reborn as an eighteen-year-old farm boy who had just been accepted into university in 1985. · Setting: The mid-to-late 1980s, at the dawn of reform and opening up, when the “springtime of science” arrived and society brimmed with opportunity and vitality. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I have wine, please tell your story...

10. 10 山 The Rivers and Mountains Still Run Red 山河血未冷 Zhi Zhi 2046辄至2046Urban189k WordsOngoing This is more than a simple tale of a king’s return. It is also a profound examination of heroism and national memory in peacetime. Let’s flesh out this brilliant concept together and build a story with both substance and soul. —Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 11 霸 The Conqueror Crosses the Vast Sea 霸王渡沧海 Zhi Zhi 2046辄至2046Urban109k WordsCompleted The waters of the Wu River were colder than he remembered. Leaning on his sword, Xiang Yu surveyed the Han banners surrounding him like a forest, and the faces once so familiar, now marked by greed and fear. He laughed, his voice ringing across the wilderness, then raised his sword to his neck. “It’s not that I, Xiang Ji, couldn’t win the realm. Heaven wants me dead!” The blade sliced through his skin, pain sharp and fleeting. Then came endless darkness and silence. He felt his soul swept into a —Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 心 My Heart Is Bound to You 心为君锁 Zhi Zhi 2046辄至2046Modern Romance115k WordsCompleted A naive little bunny accidentally stumbles into the world of a cold, overbearing tycoon, and a heartwarming romance sweeter than anyone can handle begins! Qiao Xiaoying, a newly graduated trainee teacher, arrives at her new school full of passion for education, only to encounter the biggest surprise of her life: Gu Yanlin, the man rumored to make the entire financial world tremble with a single stomp. Gu Yanlin is a top-tier dreamboat who commands a business empire. Young and handsome, he’s rich —Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 诡 Secret Records of the Uncanny 诡影密录 Zhi Zhi 2046辄至2046Mystery119k WordsCompleted A top-secret file sealed by the nation. A solitary old man who once played a game of wits with ghosts and gods. In official records, it is known as the Special Investigations Bureau. In folk legend, it is the last of the spirit-walkers. And Li An was the bureau’s founder and its final director. Now gray-haired and weathered by age, he has chosen, after all has fallen quiet, to use his pen to unlock the sealed chamber of memories that has remained closed for decades. This journal does not record —Reads—Score—Shelves

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