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Unrequited Love Is a Pantomime of Insecurity 暗恋，是一场自卑的默剧
(A new author and a new book! It has just received its first rating, and the score will go up!) [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no stock trading, just authentic everyday Chinese school life] People say youth is rose-colored, but that's only true for the protagonists. As an NPC in Earth Online, Ye Zhouhong's youth has no dramatic plot twists, only a secret crush he doesn't dare to speak aloud. He doesn't dare get close. He doesn't dare confess. He thinks this silent drama will end with
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- 2 Ordinary People Like Us Need to Fall in Love Too 我们普通人也要谈恋爱 (New author, new novel) [No rebirth or transmigration] + [One female lead] + [High school campus] + [Sweet romance] + [Secret crush] A secret crush is a lonely expedition. Li Mubai, a withdrawn young man, struggles between silent longing and crushing insecurity. To him, love is both a luxury and a light just beyond his reach. Until the night before the college entrance exams, with the bright moon hanging overhead. The girl suddenly took his hand and lifted her clear eyes to his. “I know.” Her vo 32kReads9.4Score4.3k14d adds
- 3 Secret Crush: A Coward's First Brave Step 暗恋，胆小鬼勇敢的第一步 [The rating just came in, but it'll go up ✧٩(ˊωˋ*)و✧] (Hello, fellow readers of The Cowardly Incantation! If you think this is a lot like that popular novel, that's understandable. I did take inspiration from it, but the story is definitely different. Give this struggling author a chance and read a little first, okay~) [No harem + not reborn + coming-of-age + Chinese high school + everyday campus life] A youthful, one-sided crush is a bittersweet candy for everyone. For cowards, even more so. Ch 4.6kReads8.5Score45914d adds
- 4 A Coward's 1,001st Confession 胆小鬼的一千零一次表白 [Not reborn, no System, high school setting, youthful literature, a story of being saved, personal growth, no harem] Cowards don't dare to confess their feelings, and they're afraid of being confessed to as well. If your confession is rejected, you'll be mocked and condemned by everyone. If you reject someone's confession, you'll lose a friend and go your separate ways. Can't it work out? The answer is no, because success doesn't like cowards! But what if one coward likes another? This isn't a l 35.1kReads9.5Score4.7k14d adds
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A Rainy Day You Can Hear 听得见的雨天
[Mutual Healing | 1v1 | Both Pure | Happy Ending] I met Lin Ting in Yicheng, in winter, on New Year's Eve, amid brilliant fireworks. Ji Yu gave her every wish he had for the rest of his life. In times of confusion and pain, some people's arrival sets ripples of all kinds spreading outward.
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- 6 Through the Sea of People, I Run to You 绕遍人海奔向你 Everyone says Wen Zheng spent every last flutter of her heart on Lu Zhi'ang. And indeed, ever since that midsummer when she was in eighth grade, Wen Zheng had devoted her whole heart to the boy. Setting and characters: A tender teenage romance set in middle school, with both of them crossing paths, and a long, unrequited crush stretched across different classes and schools. Yet a veil always seemed to lie between them. They chatted online every day, but rarely crossed paths in person. Conflic 180Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
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- 8 Her Secret Crush Is Wicked and Flirtatious, and She Can't Handle Him 暗恋对象又坏又撩，她招架不住 Short drama now available A cash-strapped, gentle, resilient good girl × a rich, aloof, wicked young master [The heroine’s secret crush comes true + a fake playboy reforms + dating before falling in love] Lin Wu stumbled upon scenes she shouldn’t have seen, twice. The first time, in a torrential downpour, He Jingzhou sat in his car, watching indifferently as a bodyguard beat someone half to death. The second time was at a party, where she saw him get dumped on the spot as his White Moonlight ann 63kReads9.3Score6.7k14d adds
- 9 After Sharing Senses with My Husband from an Arranged Marriage, I Became a Hit on a Dating Show 和联姻老公通感后，在恋综爆火 [Golden finger + face-slapping + showbiz + variety show + livestream + everyone falls for her] Chi Sui, a young woman with ALS, enters the world of a novel as a universally disliked supporting female character. Because she likes the male lead, she drags her husband, whom she married for an arranged alliance, onto a dating reality show and gets flamed across the internet. She was ready to give up, but unexpectedly binds herself to a shared-sensation System. From then on, her husband will bear all 4.5kReads8.3Score72314d adds
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The Fierce Top Student: The Top-Tier Star Solves Problems Through Tears 学神好凶，顶流她边哭边做题
[School life + entertainment industry + top-tier star + sweet romance] [Adorably sweet and good-natured sweetheart X aloof on the outside, warm within, and fiercely possessive top student] Lu Xue’an grew up in front of the cameras and has always been beautiful, with no awkward phase to speak of. But she’s rarely at school, and her grades are a disaster. With the college entrance exams fast approaching, she has no choice but to turn down every performance and return to school. Shen He has held th
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- 11 My Childhood Friend from Heaven Is Such a Flirt 天降竹马他最撩啦 [Sweet and obedient heroine X sharp-tongued, domineering hero] There are two things Su Tian fears most in the world. One is any bug bigger than her pinky fingernail. The other is Jiang Chiyu, who lives next door. Luckily, as the girl grows up, she slowly overcomes her fear of the former, while the latter, who’s always bullied her, suddenly moves away. Until the year she starts high school... A tall, long-legged, handsome transfer student arrives in her class, prompting hundreds of girls to form 13.2kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
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After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨
[Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y
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- 13 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 79.3kReads9.7Score13.8k14d adds
- 14 The Sang Method of Secretly Loving You 桑式暗恋法则 [Physical edition now available] Sang You transmigrated, landing back on the first day of her freshman year of high school. The three years of high school she'd finally made it through had suddenly been reset to square one. Thinking about going back to a high school life where she had nothing, not even a full head of hair, made her want to die. Later, she stopped wanting to die, but everyone else said she was crazy. She was a freshman, yet not long after the term began, she skipped ahead to seni 69.2kReads9.6Score10.2k14d adds
- 15 I Have Both the Starlight and Him 星光与他皆得 [Reborn + top student + sweet romance] In her previous life, Mu Fuxin was a well-behaved girl, but her family background made her insecure and sensitive. Because she was pretty, people spread rumors about her. She fell into depression, tormented herself with overthinking, and could never let herself be at peace. After her mother remarried, other people stirred up trouble, making her already sensitive nature even gloomier. She failed to see her stepfather’s kindness and thought she was standing u 10.2kReads9.4Score1.3k14d adds
- 16 What If I Were a Parasitic Vine? 假如我是菟丝花 Signed for a print edition, publication pending | Instinctive attraction | Pure love in the early stages | Passionate love in the later stages | When they first met, Su Yunluo never dared imagine that Xie Chen would actually seduce her. After all, back then he was the teacher's pride and joy, the top student admired by the whole school, the God of Xie. Everyone said that this God of Xie was aloof and chaste, untouchable, and above worldly concerns. Only Su Yunluo quietly saw through it. It was a 75.2kReads9.4Score10.3k14d adds
- 17 This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧 A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome 20.9kReads9.6Score4.2k14d adds
- 18 A Secret Love Poem in the Dust 尘埃里的暗恋诗 (Print edition signed) + (Animated series coming soon. Search “The Small-Town Girl's White Moonlight” to reserve your spot) [Based on a true story + both leads are each other's first and only + happy ending] [In the beginning: innocent schoolyard crush; later: mutual devotion and a mix of sweet and steamy love] Xia Changjun's crush was so hard to bear. It began too early. She had liked him since elementary school. The gap between them was too wide. He was the prince of their small town. Every te 58.2kReads9.4Score9.1k14d adds
- 19 To Our Youth That Will Fade Away 致我们终将逝去的青春 At eighteen, Zheng Wei told Ruan Ruan, “Who am I? I’m the unrivaled Jade-Faced Little Flying Dragon. What could I possibly fail to get?” At twenty-two, she stood on a mountaintop and shouted, “America, you evil capitalist country! I hate you! Give me my man back!” At twenty-six, slightly tipsy, she looked at him and said, “I can’t keep believing you, again and again. I can’t…” Zheng Wei, who calls herself the “Jade-Faced Little Flying Dragon,” is brimming with youthful energy and deeply in love 2.4kReads9.6Score48114d adds
- 20 Waiting for a Midsummer Romance 等盛夏热恋 [A passionate, carefree boy × a resilient, ambitious girl] [Two top students / school life / light comedy / a touch of ensemble cast] The first time Xia Xu met Jiang Yisong, she thought he was handsome but didn't seem easy to get along with. After they became classmates, she learned that he was actually quite easy to get along with. He was simply aloof by nature, and never hesitated to turn down anyone who pursued him. Jiang Yisong, who had turned down so many people, finally got his own “come 2.6kReads8.6Score42114d adds
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The Stubborn Childhood Friend: Brother Lu Was the One Who Fell First 嘴硬青梅：是陆哥他先动的心
[A new author and a new novel. Not a wish-fulfillment story, no System, no one reborn.] [Both leads are inexperienced in love; one-on-one romance, a little angst and lots of sweetness, with a focus on everyday life.] [Everyday life, Chinese-style school setting.] When Lin Jing starts at Experimental Middle School, she has two wishes. First, she hopes no one finds out that the aloof heartthrob Lin Yi is her older brother! Second, she wants to stay far away from Lu Yun. She manages to keep her fir
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- 22 Oh No! The Villainess Is Actually a Hidden Big Shot 坏了！极品女配她竟是隐藏大佬 Sweet romance, transmigration into a book, lighthearted A romance novel, mainly about falling in love. In The School Heartthrob's Sweetheart, Chu Yang is a scheming supporting female character. Her family is poor, and she has the delicate, helpless look of a fragile little flower. She spends all day pretending to be pitiful while following the hero and heroine, secretly looking for a chance to drive them apart and take the heroine's place. When her true nature is eventually exposed, everyone des 16.2kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 23 I’ve Already Won Over the Cold, Top-Ranked Student 高冷学霸已被我拿下 Tang Xueyao transferred to Haishi No. 1 High School. Her deskmate had clear, handsome features and stunning good looks, and on a whim, she bought him an iced Americano. Before long, he had become her boyfriend, just like that. “I'm this good-looking. Want to give me a try?” Top student Lu Qingyu was the school's pride and joy. Before he met Tang Xueyao, everyone knew him as a cool, quiet academic ace who cared about nothing but studying. “What's so great about dating? You'd be better off studyin 1.9kReads7.9Score24414d adds
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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The Riverside Scene of Muling 穆棱上河图
The Muling River is an important river in eastern Heilongjiang and the largest tributary on the left bank of the Ussuri River. It runs for 834 kilometers and drains an area of 18,427 square kilometers, passing through Muling City, Jixi City, Jidong County, Mishan City, and Hulin City. Locals call it the “Mother River.” I was fortunate enough to live there until I came of age. I left as an adult and have never been back. Some memories of people and things from those days are still vivid, and ther
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