Any Sweet School Romances? Nothing Too Pretentious or Cringey, Please 有没有纯爱一点的校园文，不想要那种太装太尬的
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Pretty Fools Were Born to Be Spoiled by Their Husbands 漂亮蠢货天生就是要被老公宠坏的
Original title: Pretty Idiots Are Born to Be Their Husband's... [Reincarnated Shou + Awakening Gong + Romantic, Supernatural Mystery + Ages 27/19 + Heights 193/176 + Both Inexperienced + Semi-Period Setting] Stupid, “vicious,” bitter-melon sweetie shou X frustrated, scheming, dirty-talking, bad-dog, fatherly gong Gong's perspective: Zhou Gangxun has a dream in which his wife is the vicious shou in a novel, while he is the novel's villainous gong. His wife is only with him to latch onto a rich s
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I Can Sweet-Talk, But I Can't Stop 会哄，不会停
[Two male leads + charged push-and-pull + both devoted to each other + sworn enemies + melodrama + no moral compass] On his nineteenth birthday, Ran Ting makes a wish: he wants his nemesis, Jie Zhishen, to be captivated by his charm. It was just an offhand wish, but it actually comes true. Damn it! Except the wish-granting god clearly misunderstood what he meant! He meant for Jie Zhishen to worship him and admire him, to willingly kneel at his feet and become his lackey! Not, not... not to fall
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After Pretending to Be My Brother’s Girlfriend, We Ended Up in Bed Together 假扮兄弟女友后，被生米煮成熟饭
[Male-to-female romance] × [A System that specializes in screwing over its Host] × [Male-to-female transformation] × [School and city life] × [Parallel, fictional world] × [Sweet everyday life] One night, Su Yan gets drunk. The next morning, he wakes up to find his little elephant gone. Worst of all, his best buddy Xu Muling is in the same room. Leaving aside the question of safety, can someone tell him why pretending to be his best buddy's girlfriend would actually turn him into a girl? His bud
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You Were Supposed to Win Over the Male Lead, Not Turn Him into a Gay Man 让你攻略男主，你把他发展成同志
(If you read it and think it's bad, feel free to come argue with the author.) [Sci-fi Brainstorming] + [Comrade] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Cultivation Through Technology] + [Virtual Game] + [System] + [Gender Swap] My name is Xia Tian. I'm an iron-blooded straight guy who transmigrated into the body of a sweet, delicate heroine. “What?! I'm supposed to win over the domineering CEO male lead? I, Xia Tian, would rather die, die out there, or jump off this building! There's no way I'm going to pursue hi
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Mind-Reading Dog Food: My Adorable Wife Is Fierce and Sweet 狗粮心声：超可爱老婆又凶又甜
[The cover girl is the heroine herself] [Yang Chen, enter your 2008 rebirth wish list] Wish One: [Drain the pretty Su Luoli’s secret stash] Wish Two: [Make tons and tons of money and buy Su Luoli out of the Su family] Wish Three: [Well, I hope I get a System to help me make money. I just want to slack off] That’s all!!
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Gesar Knows My Heart 格桑知我意
Genius straight-A student vs. proud, cocky athlete and school bully [Redemption + school life + both devoted to each other + love at first sight + mutual pursuit] Chi Sang's life changed drastically during the winter break of her sophomore year of high school. She moved alone to the city where her mother lived. Everything was unfamiliar, and with a difficult stepsister and younger brother, her life became dull and lonely. But there was light in her life, too. The arrival of Nan Zhiyi lit up her
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The Sang Method of Secretly Loving You 桑式暗恋法则
[Print edition now available] Sang You transmigrates back to the first day of her senior year of high school. The three years she struggled so hard to get through have been reset to square one. Thinking about those high school days, when she had nothing and even lost her hair, makes her want to die. Later, she stops wanting to die, but everyone says she’s gone crazy because, as a first-year student, she skips straight to her senior year not long after the school year begins. Why skip grades? To
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My Campus Heartthrob Roommate Is Actually My Fiancé 校草室友竟是我未婚夫
[Two male leads + one-on-one + both leads' first and only + equally matched + college campus + mutual pursuit + personal growth + slow burn] Set on a university campus. The protagonists are 21 and both adults. Jiang Yizhou couldn't take any more of his mom's nagging, so he had no choice but to go on a blind date with his childhood betrothal partner. Who knew he'd get stood up? At the same time, his date, Tan Chi, was complaining to his friends: “A childhood betrothal? What era are we living in
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Starlight for You, Irreplaceable Starlight 星光予你，无法替代的星光
[Pure romance + contract relationship + opposites-attract couple + ambitious leads + equally matched] The quirky Lin Wanxing, a photography major, gets unexpectedly entangled with Shen Xubai, the icy computer science prodigy, while working on a “campus heartthrob” feature. Their contract romance, which begins with secretly taking photos, eventually makes them each other’s irreplaceable guiding light. Highlights: 1. An opposites-attract couple: an energetic, healing heroine × a top student who’s
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Glass Flame 玻璃焰
[Born bad x aloof campus belle, coercive romance // university campus] Li Xing was famous throughout Xijing University. Top scorer on the college entrance exam, beautiful, and poor. For someone like her, beauty wasn’t a blessing. It was a sin. Lou Chong was born at the very top of the social pyramid. A privileged family and a face to die for, but an absolute scumbag. These two people had nothing to do with each other, until one day they were seen inside Lou Chong’s Aston Martin, with Li Xing l
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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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Chasing the Light in Midsummer 盛夏逐光
[Print edition signed] [Short drama adaptation now streaming] [Secret crush comes true | Playboy reforms | Lost love rekindled | Both leads are devoted to each other | Sweet romance] At the senior-year New Year's Eve party, the girls of Dorm 501 drank and chatted merrily. For a party game, everyone had to share a secret no one else knew. Xu Nanzhi had a little fruit wine and her cheeks flushed. She whispered, "I like Fu Shijin." Her roommates went from eager anticipation to disappointment. "How
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A Perfect Summer Crush 盛夏满分暗恋
[Signed for print publication | Secret crush becomes reality | Reunited after a breakup | Sweet romance | One-on-one, both leads faithful in body and heart] Shen Shengyi was known in Peking University's finance department for being carefree and flirtatious. He was picky, handsome, and hard to win over. With the cards stacked in favor of Heaven's Chosen, he was bold and rebellious, always surrounded by admirers and never short of friends. At a design competition, Chi Wu was pulled onstage at the
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Don't Stand So Close to Me 你别离我这么近
[School life + he pursues her + healing + mutually devoted + happy ending] [Gentle, sweet fairy girl vs. unruly troublemaker] At Guancheng No. 4 High School, everyone knows Chi Fang. He is wild, devilishly handsome, and refuses to conform, a notorious delinquent at school. The new transfer student, Yun Dai, is also the talk of the school. She's beautiful and well-behaved, and famous for being a top student. Nobody would ever put the two of them together. That is, until someone sees Chi Fang corn
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Old Stories, New Beginnings 旧故新长
A hugely popular, tearjerking yet heartwarming novel about two men, death and rebirth, falling and redemption. The vulnerable young man with depression, Li Chishu × the gentle, devoted Shen Baoshan For years, Li Chishu’s attempts to take his own life failed, thanks to me pulling him back from the brink time and time again. But I never imagined his resolve to leave this world was so absolute. At last, on a night when I wasn’t watching closely enough, he jumped from the building. I couldn’t reach
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A Perfect Match 匹配百分百
[Love at first sight + bickering enemies + male leads + sweet fluff] [Feeling down? Come by for a sweet treat~] (A product of the author's youthful cluelessness. It must have been several years ago.) First meeting: Song Po: Hey, do you know who Ren Jian is? Ren Jian: Uh, him? He's a year ahead of us. We don't really know each other. Meeting again: Ren Jian: I have bad breath. I'm afraid I'll stink up the place for Song. Song Po: Teacher, I have body odor. If we sit together, the whole room will
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The Stubborn School Bully Is a Hopeless Romantic: Flirt with Him and He'll Say Yes to a Kiss 嘴硬校霸恋爱脑，撩好吻他都说好
[Complete] BG romance [School bully and top student × sweet, soft-hearted girl with a feisty streak] [Sweet school romance with a focus on five friends + everyone speaks their mind + romance and friendship both get plenty of attention + both leads are virgins + happy ending] The Experimental Middle School gossip group has recently been discussing the relationship between transfer student Gu Huaishu and school bully Jiang Shixu. Everyone: Brother Xu has a thing about cleanliness. Why would he le
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A Boy’s Coming-of-Age 少年思春期
[Print edition officially signed] Homeless, I Was Taken In and Raised by My Archrival Original title: No Secret Crushes for Honest People Campus romance + secret crush + happy ending + rivals to lovers + growing up together + third-person narration Benevolent, compassionate top VS unruly, stubborn, insecure bottom My father didn’t care for me, my mother didn’t love me, and somehow I got saddled with the blame. After my landlord kicked me out, I stood alone on the street and began to questio
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Madly in Love the Very Next Second 下一秒热恋
[Devoted, cocky, handsome school bully & sweet, well-behaved top student] [Both pure + Sweet romance + Childhood meeting + Reunion after years apart] When Xie Nanzhi was ten, she found a badly injured boy in the alley outside her home. Full of righteous indignation, little Nanzhi took him straight home. The boy's father didn't come for him until half a month later. Once he was taken away, Xie Nanzhi gradually forgot all about it. At fifteen, Xie Nanzhi scored 706 on the high school entrance exam
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ABO: A Record of the Aloof School Heartthrob's Secret Love ABO高冷校草暗恋实录
Synopsis: [Two male leads + ABO + healing] Lu Xu was a blond troublemaker who pretended to be an Alpha. He was famous for being hard to deal with, and everyone at the university gave him a wide berth and called him Brother Lu. But only Lu Xu knew the truth: he was a little Omega. Lu Xu thought he could keep up the act and stay on top forever. Then one day, his aloof, handsome classmate pinned him to his dorm bed and confessed his feelings. The pressure was intense. Jiang Shubai: “Lu, please give
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Light in the Palm of My Hand 只手捉光
[Signed for print publication] [Print preorders open March 21. See you there!] [Campus romance + sweet indulgence + mutual devotion + straightforward pursuit] Everyone knew Shen Heyu was cold and ruthless, with fists of iron and a stubborn refusal to yield. No one at school dared cross him. That is, until a girl transferred to Class Two from Jincheng. Everyone: Brother Yu hates having a deskmate more than anything. Shen Heyu cleared the clutter from the seat beside him and raised his hand. “Tea
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Morning Light, Shore of Muo 以晨为光，以谟为岸
[Two male leads + redemption + sweet romance + mutually faithful 1v1 + happy ending] Sunny, outgoing, bursting with a sense of justice, cute and gullible bottom × solitary, dark, calculating, doting-on-his-husband top One comes from a broken, muddy background, but fights to live like a dazzling little sun. The other comes from a privileged, glittering world, yet is trapped in a dark and closed-off life. Their paths should never have crossed, but fate brings them together as classmates. Bottom:
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When the Paintbrush Meets the Pen 当画笔撞上钢笔
On a campus where phoenix leaves carpet the stone steps, romance blooms like colors blending on a palette, meeting the precision of financial formulas. When Chi Ye, who paints his dreams into being, meets Zhou Xubai, whose every inch radiates cool composure, their love, born of a young heart’s first stirrings, fills with countless moments of longing and attraction. From the cicada-filled height of summer, it stretches all the way to the neon lights of the city. He is an artist who hides tendern
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A Lifetime! Best Friends? 一辈子！挚友？
Are Xiao Jun and A Hui really just friends? Or is Xiao Jun the only one who has feelings for A Hui? Will they become lifelong best friends in the end, or will they eventually forget each other? None of us has only one friend in a lifetime. With every stage of life come new sights and new people. For those relationships somewhere between friendship and love, and for the people who matter so much, will we have the courage to break through society's expectations...?
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I Tried to Steal Someone's Lover and Ended Up with a Blind Little Guy 挖墙脚挖到一只小瞎子
The domineering, clingy puppy-like top Shen Guyuan × the calm, gentle, adorably innocent beauty bottom Lu Man. Content warning: The bottom is blind at first, but will be cured later. He has a boyfriend before getting together with the top, but their intimacy is extremely limited: they’ve only held hands. Both are virgins, happy ending. Shen Guyuan is a pampered rich kid. One day, he suddenly discovers that the sweet, obedient little blind guy in his dorm has a crush on him. Shen Guyuan thinks, S
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He's So Wild, Yet He'll Bow His Head for Me 他那么野，但会为我低头呀
[The print edition of Years of Wildness is now available!] [School days to city life × second-chance romance] [Sweet girl × cocky guy] [Female pilot × tattoo artist/air traffic controller + mutual devotion and healing] 1 At Nangao High, Li Sui and Tan Ye both became famous for being so different from each other. One had failed the college entrance exam and was preparing to retake it. The other was the school's star student, about to be recommended for university admission. When they first met
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How Can I Resist His Deliberate Flirting and Kisses? 怎抵他蓄意撩吻
Sweet romance + reunion after a long separation + rekindled love + mutual devotion + school life On the first day that Chi Yanbei, a famous figure from his old military high school, transfers to the school, a post appears on the school forum: “I've got my taunts ready for when Chi Yanbei crushes the ‘Queen Jingxu’ Ji Chutang in every way.” But what everyone sees is After every exam, the honor roll goes up, with Ji Chutang still at the top and Chi Yanbei right behind her. Chi Yanbei's motorcycle
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You Should Fall for Me Soon 劝你趁早喜欢我
A sweet, restless coming-of-age romance you’ll want to devour in one sitting. A timid, struggling student heroine meets a seemingly aloof top student hero. Also known as The Boy Next Door’s Brother Is So Amazing, I’m at My Wits’ End. Tell me, if the boy your childhood sweetheart is dating is lively, cheerful, and devastatingly handsome, could you still fall for anyone else? Jiang Youlu says, of course not! The problem is, her childhood sweetheart doesn’t like her, and his older brother has set h
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Pursuing You Is Like Taming a Hawk 追你跟熬鹰似的
[Sweet and Satisfying] [Brooding Boy x Martial Arts Girl] [Happy Ending] [Male Lead Is Crazy and Possessive] [Original title: Chasing You Is Like Taming a Wild Falcon] Quan Zhishui couldn’t understand why people from other schools beat up Wei Shixu every day, forcing her to rush in and save him from danger time and again. Later, she discovered that those people were being paid to do it. By Wei Shixu. “I’m done with you!” she said sternly, drawing a clear line between them. Wei Shixu grinned, utt
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I’ve Caught the Eye of Someone at a Noble Academy Full of Villains 在全员恶人的贵族学院，被盯上了
[Two Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book + Harem Magnet + F4 Love Triangle] Jimo transmigrated into a book, becoming an ordinary person in a melodramatic, Mary Sue school romance set among the wealthy. To keep the plot on track and finish his mission, Jimo diligently played the part of a perfectly ordinary background character. So when the delicate, sweet male protagonist was bullied, Jimo sneaked in to rescue him. When the sweet boy showed off his body on social media, Jimo reported the post
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Late Summer Never Becomes Autumn 迟夏不入秋
Should she choose the person who grew up with her, or the one she met later in life? Chi Xia's childhood friend, He Qiu, has liked her since they were children. But in high school, Chi Xia meets Shen Sheng. After many things happen between them, she begins to develop feelings for Shen Sheng, who quietly watches over her too. After the college entrance exams, an admissions letter leads Chi Xia to decide to study abroad. He Qiu stays by her side throughout her time overseas, while Shen Sheng never
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Late Summer 夏迟
After a year of a business marriage, He Chi, Wen Yu's Alpha husband, has never marked him. The day Wen Yu is rushed to the emergency room with gland failure, He Chi signs the critical condition notice without a flicker of emotion. When he opens his eyes again, he's back on the rainy night when Wen Yu was unconscious with a high fever. Seeing Wen Yu lying in bed, trying to keep up a calm facade, He Chi clutches his hand, the corners of his eyes red. From that day on, there's warm milk and neatly
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A Confession in Late Summer 迟夏告白
My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Late Summer. 迟夏。
Late Summer.
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Late Summer 迟夏
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Echoes of Late Summer 夏末回响
[A novel within a novel | Second-person unrequited love] I’m an editor. By day, I revise other people’s stories; at night, I secretly write a book that belongs only to you. In the book, I call you only “you.” Outside it, everyone calls you A Chao. I thought you were just too busy, thought you just didn’t want to talk to me, thought you were only growing distant little by little. I wrote year after year, waited day after day, but never got a reply from you. It turns out some silences aren’t becau
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The Monsoon in the Second-to-Last Row 倒数第二排的季风
At the start of their second year of high school, the science honors class is reshuffled. Ye Xin, a top student with a solitary personality, is used to keeping to himself, while Jing Zhu, the cheerful captain of the school basketball team, is the center of everyone's attention. When Jing Zhu chooses to sit next to Ye Xin, no one could have guessed that these two very different boys would become the most important people in each other's lives over the next two years. Ye Xin is calm and rational,
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The School Bully Turned Omega, and Now the Obsessive Alpha Is Losing Control 校霸B变O后，撩得偏执A失控了
[ABO + sweet romance + two powerful leads + happy ending + college setting, adult protagonists] [Arrogant campus bully young master x scheming, seemingly proper alpha] Shen Xingyan, a notorious campus bully at Jin University, had been unlucky since childhood. He choked on water, tripped while walking, and was plagued by all sorts of ailments, big and small. As a beta, he loved chasing after people. Once he won them over, he would break up with them in less than a day. The whole school even sta
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After I Was Reborn, My Rhinitis Was Cured Along with His 重生后，我的鼻炎和他一起痊愈了
Bai Lu wakes up after drinking and cries, “What! I really died because my rhinitis made me suffocate?” During winter break of his sophomore year, Bai Lu is dragged to a party by his childhood friend. After getting drunk, he suffocates because of his rhinitis and dies. When he wakes up, a System appears and tells him he's been reborn. Completing missions can cure the severe rhinitis that drove him into depression in his previous life. Of course, he won't pass up a single mission. But he gradually
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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 under the title Planetary Effect] Chen Zhijuan is the top orthopedic surgeon at Beicheng People's Hospital, usually cold and taciturn. Dr. Chen is strikingly handsome. His white coat only adds to his restrained, chaste air, and he's tall and elegant. The girls who pursue him could circle the hospital three times. Unfortunately, his heart belongs to someone else. He's been secretly in love with his good friend for nearly ten years. That friend is straight as an
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When He Arrived, the Stars and Moon Fell Into My Arms 他来时星月落怀
Xu Dongxing is in a car accident and dies on her way to attend her ex-boyfriend Lu Qing's wedding. When she wakes up, she discovers she's reborn in the year she first met him. She made too many mistakes in her previous life, and now she swears to make them all right. Her first priority is to stay away from Lu Qing, the man who ruined her family. But that's much harder than it sounds. She steps out to get some water, and Lu Qing breaks her cup. She changes seats, and ends up sitting in front of h
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Kiss You in the Breeze 随风热吻你
Signed for print publication! The short drama I'll Always, Always Like You is now streaming. [Two top students] x [mutual devotion] x [mutual crush] x [from school uniforms to wedding gowns] x [the sweetest romance] x [fast-paced, secretly satisfying story]. You won't regret giving it a try. Blurb One: Gu Sinian is the universally acknowledged unattainable beauty of No. 1 High School. Everyone says he has no heart. Then everyone points at Jiang Wan in his arms and says, “Who said he has no heart
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My Deskmate Isn't Cute at All 我同桌他一点都不可爱
Of course you have to sing “The You at the Desk Beside Me” to your deskmate. A sweet first love at school. How do you get the attention of the biggest shot in your grade? Simple: become his deskmate first! At the opening ceremony, Chou Yehuhu is called up to the podium to read his self-criticism. He reads in a nonchalant voice: “Looking back on those turbulent years, I can hardly believe I wasted my life in internet cafes. The dark surroundings and noisy crowds should never have been the backdro
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Just Kidding 逗你玩儿
The sky that year. He was the dark cloud that lingered in Yu Ning’s heart, gloomy and oppressive, impossible to escape. Yu Ning was the gentle breeze he longed to chase, impossible to touch and impossible to hold on to. “Yu Ning, did you ever really like me, even just a little?” “Never.” He fell silent, smiling faintly, his heart pierced with pain. If only that summer, he hadn’t been so cruel and hateful, personally pushing her into the abyss and coldly watching her struggle with all her might.
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Crossing Autumn 渡秋天
[Insecure, sensitive girl x gentle, gentlemanly golden boy] [Angst] There were two boldest things Lin Yan ever did in her life. The first was secretly loving Tang Jinxu for many years. On a drizzly evening, Lin Yan sat on the back of his bicycle, gazing at his broad back. Carefully, she reached out and lightly touched the hem of his shirt. She pulled away at once, her touch so slight it could easily go unnoticed. Blushing, Lin Yan suppressed the fierce excitement and joy surging inside her, pre
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