I’m Out of Books. Looking for a High-Quality Romance With a Happy Ending 书荒，求高质量的言情书要he的
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My Heartless-Dao Senior Brother Kissed Me into a Daze 我被修无情道的大师兄亲懵了
[A scheming, sharp-tongued ice-cold hero VS an adorable heroine who responds to kindness, not force] From the very first moment Yu Feiwan saw Yun Shiqi, she knew he was an idiot. Generally speaking, if you get a bad first impression of someone, things won’t get much better later. Sure enough, when the two of them were put in a situation where only one could survive, Yu Feiwan wanted to talk things through and come up with a plan that would save them both. Yun Shiqi said coolly, “There’s nothing
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Gentle, Wild-Boned 温柔野骨
[The print edition goes on sale across all platforms on August 1] [Short drama now streaming] Previously titled: Zero-Degree Intimacy [One-on-one romance + both leads’ first love + happy ending + secret marriage + sweet romance ♥ Double-layer milk foam, 70% sugar!] (Rich, sharp-tongued, scheming investor Jian Yuchen VS money-loving, mischievous young designer Wen Ni) In a nutshell: She married her nemesis. In physics, zero degrees is the point where ice and water coexist. Zero-degree intimacy is
72.9kReads9.5Score9.1kShelves
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A Joyous Wedding in the Capital 京婚有禧
[Marriage first, love later, secret marriage, older man-younger woman, both inexperienced and devoted, with plenty of romantic tension] In their third year of marriage, Fang Yipo’s company suddenly got a new boss. It was her husband in name only, whom she had barely seen outside the bedroom during his three years abroad. He wore a sharply tailored black suit. His features were striking and cold, and when his dark, indifferent eyes fell on her, they held only the faintest trace of familiarity, a
67.9kReads9.1Score31.6kShelves
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An Alluring Night 夜色旖旎
The short drama is now available Originally titled: A Bewitching Night [Powerful Beijing socialite + Shanghai heiress × simmering tension × groveling pursuit × both leads are each other's first] Everyone in their circle knew that Ying Hengzhi was the most untouchable man in the capital. He was privileged yet self-possessed, cold and composed, and ruthless in his efficiency. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' victory banquet was the first time Zhou Xi saw Ying Hengzhi outside Room 1308. He arrived
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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
218.8kReads9.5Score27kShelves
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Entangled in the Misty Harbor 雾港缠绵
[Marriage first, love later + Hong Kong tycoon family + sizzling chemistry + flirtatious desire + devoted couple] [Possessive, obsessive tycoon and powerful executive ✖️ alluring heiress and CEO] Song Qingyun, a daughter of one of Hong Kong City’s most prominent families, hides a wild, untamable nature beneath her good-girl disguise. Three months into their arranged marriage, she has completely forgotten her contract husband, name and all, and has instead picked up a hot guy at a bar overseas. O
55kReads9.4Score10.4kShelves
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Mr. Shang, Take It Easy on Our Wedding Night! 商先生，新婚请节制！
(Marriage first, love later + A gentle, slow-burn sweet romance) (Signed for publication) At twenty-seven, Wen Xi accidentally learns that she isn’t her parents’ biological daughter. Overnight, she has new parents, and even her fiancé changes. Her new fiancé, Shang Chen, is renowned in Beijing for being stern, cold, and taciturn. Everyone holds him in awe. People in their social circle all say that this newlywed couple, brought together halfway through life, probably won’t amount to much and won
69.7kReads9.1Score7.3kShelves
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Fallen in Jingni 陷落京霓
[Signed for print publication] Radiant, pampered heiress x powerful, ruthless tycoon Beijing’s elite circle | Ten-year age gap | Powerful man humbles himself for love | Sweet romance Shen Jingni, the youngest daughter of the Shen family, was born breathtakingly beautiful. Raised in luxury, she was adored by everyone. While trying to secure a copy of a Song brocade, Shen Jingni accidentally crossed paths with Zhao Zonglan, the feared tycoon everyone gave a wide berth. Everyone in their circle kne
186.2kReads9.3Score18.7kShelves
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How Could Anyone Resist Her? 怎敌她动人
[Physical book goes on sale September 19 at 7:30 p.m.] [Reborn in school + healing + secret crush from the male lead + both leads have no past relationships, happy ending] Bright, charming sweetheart x obsessive, restrained man * In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Jiqing was refined and aloof, a dazzling new elite from a wealthy family and a self-made miracle who had risen from poverty. Su Xia was unbelievably lucky to marry him at her most desperate. Only Su Xia knew that Xu Jiqing was a madman. She
238.8kReads9.5Score35.6kShelves
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Jinling, Where the Evening Sky Grows Clear 金陵重晚晴
Shen Zhiyan, heir to the Duke of Dingguo, is as bright and clear as the moon, and as gentle as jade. He has always been the finest man in the world in the eyes of his niece, Wen Yin. From the age of eight, Wen Yin lived with Shen Zhiyan in her maternal grandfather’s home, the Duke of Dingguo’s residence. The two grew deeply attached, spending their days together, but after she came of age, she no longer wanted to call him Uncle. Her feelings were secret but sincere, yet their love was painful an
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After Landing in a Reborn Novel, She Sets Her Sights on the Second Male Lead 穿到重生文后，她看上男二了
Content warning: the heroine is a hopeless romantic. This is a sweet little love story. Xi Nianqing transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character engaged to the male lead. The female lead has a script from her past life, and Xi Nianqing has the female lead’s script. Is this some kind of nesting-doll situation? To escape the original owner’s tragic fate, she decides to stay away from the male lead and cling to the second male lead instead. Xi Nianqing gets kidnapped as soon as she arriv
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Transmigrated Straight into the Army: I Married a War Hero and Found My Happy Ending 穿越即随军，嫁给兵王我圆满了
[1970s, Military Marriage, Pocket Dimension, System, Double Happy Ending, Sweet Romance] Mu Youyou, a graduate student in the twenty-first century, is transported to the 1970s by a rookie System on its first mission. It has found the wrong Host and forgotten the mission, too. Since she is already here, Mu Youyou decides to make the best of it. With a pocket dimension and a System at her back, she has nothing to fear. But what is going on with this decorated soldier she is contractually married t
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My Husband’s Brother Becomes My Husband? The Comments Say the Heir Is Head Over Heels for Me 夫兄变夫君？弹幕说世子他超爱
[1v1, both leads’ first time / wicked female supporting character turns over a new leaf × cold-faced, doting heir / bullet comments reveal the plot / married couple face-slapping villains / palace and household intrigue] The wedding night, with red candles glowing and the bed curtains drawn. She jolted awake on the bed, clothes in disarray, and thrust a golden hairpin at the man before her: her husband’s elder brother, the cold-faced heir Chu Linyuan! “You shameless scoundrel! I’ll kill you!” Ju
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After Giving Up, I Became the Immortal Sect’s Beloved Prodigy 摆烂后我成了仙门的天才团宠
In her previous life, Yan Sui worked diligently at cultivation and trained tirelessly with her sword, only to end up accused of always scrambling to be first and chasing fame, despised by the immortal sects. Given another life, Yan Sui decides to slack off. Let someone else cultivate. She’s done competing. But why is spiritual energy fighting its way into her body? She just takes a nap, so why does she wake up having dreamt an entire peerless sword art? She just drinks some water, so why does sh
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Master, Be Gentle: The Cannon Fodder Villainess Can’t Take It Anymore 禁欲师尊轻点宠，炮灰女配受不住
The rating just opened, so it'll go up. Don't run away! [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + shared senses + effortless success + System + devoted to each other + contrast characters + regret arc] Yu Qingge transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the doomed senior sister. The original owner worked herself to the bone to support her sect, only to have everything stolen by her junior sister. Unable to bear the humiliation, she self-destructed and died a tragic death. The good news: She ca
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Your Majesty, the Provisions Are Here! I’m a Goddess in Ancient Times 陛下，粮草已到！我在古代当神女
[The rating is low because the book just launched, so please don’t let that put you off.] [Connections Between Past and Present + Farming + Infrastructure + Getting Rich + Supply Drops + Sweet Romance] An outdated old phone became a VIP emergency hotline to another world. Short on food? Water? Medicine? No, no, no. She was just a lowly wage slave. There was nothing she could do to help. At most, she could send over some little bread rolls... A sacrificial offering tray worth a hundred thousand?
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Danger! The Powerful Official I Wronged Has Become My Brother 危！渣过的权臣竟成了兄长
[Controlled, unhinged Vice Minister of Justice × calculating, flirtatious, sweet-on-the-outside, sinister-within heroine] (Faux siblings + possessive obsession + flirtatious push and pull + secret midnight watching) Six months ago, Xie Wanyu seduced the local prefect, Pei Lin, to save her own life. But once the crisis passed, she decisively abandoned him and headed to the capital to find her father and take revenge. On the way, she met the Pei family's real daughter. Who could have guessed that
23.8kReads9.1Score3.9kShelves
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The Wicked Supporting Actress Tears Up the Script: Come on, No One Gets to Live 恶毒女配手撕剧本，来啊，都别活
[Rich Families + Entertainment Industry + Satisfying Revenge + Supporting Actress Fights Back + Sweet Romance, One Couple] Shen Zhi is kidnapped and killed in an instant. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the body of a vicious supporting actress with the same name in a brainless novel. The plot in a nutshell: a biased father, a cruel mother, a green-tea sister, and her, the good-for-nothing. As the male lead's number one devoted lapdog, she loves him without getting anything in return, eve
23.3kReads9.1Score3.4kShelves
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Reborn: I Become a Sensation on a Boy Band Survival Show 重生后我在男团选秀综艺爆火了
[Reborn / Top-tier star / Sweet romance / Two strong leads] Genius music producer Song Nanxing is reborn in the body of a newcomer covered in scandals before he has even debuted. The original owner entered a boy-band competition as a male contestant. Dead last in ability and ostracized by everyone, he became the target of ridicule across the internet! Then Song Nanxing arrived. The nobody who used to sing terribly and seemed good for nothing opened his mouth again, and his singing was breathtaki
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Beautiful Educated Youth Returns to the City, and Her Powerful Ex-Husband Comes After Her 貌美知青回城后，大佬前夫追来了
Lin Zhiwei, a young woman sent to the countryside, was desperate to return to Beijing. Under her mother’s relentless calls, she tearfully divorced Zhou Yi, her husband of one year, whom she was still deeply in love with. A month after the divorce, she clutched her stomach and realized she might… be pregnant. Meanwhile, Li Li, the second female lead, was eagerly waiting for Zhou Yi to divorce. She was reborn, and knew he would become a powerful business tycoon in Pengcheng, a real estate pioneer,
25.1kReads8.6Score2.1kShelves
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Spring Tide over Beijing and Macau 京澳春潮
[Print edition preorders open August 7, 2026, at 7 p.m.] [Heiress vs. Men from All Walks of Life] Also known as Spring Tide in Jing'ao The first time Wen Ning saw Xie Zhiyu on Aodao, she knew he was a dangerous man. Even though he was merely sitting quietly in a dessert shop, eating a bowl of mung bean soup. The little shop was packed and noisy, yet no one dared share a table with him. A few meters around him, an island of solitude had been deliberately carved out. “Who is he?” “Xie Zhiyu. No on
237.6kReads9.6Score36.4kShelves
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I Get Apocalypse Protagonists Government Jobs 我给末世主角们发编制
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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Why Not Cross the River Together? 何不同舟渡
"The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten
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The Female Side Character Opens Her Eyes to Find the Amnesiac Male Lead Coldly Washing the Bedsheets 女配一睁眼，失忆男主冷脸洗床单
[Print edition signed] [Everyday life / A slow-burn romance / Cohabitation before love / Both leads have no other romantic partners / Sweet romance] After transmigrating, Song Yunfei becomes the villainess who pretends to be the girlfriend of an amnesiac CEO. In the original novel, the villainess accidentally hit the CEO of Yanjin Group with her car. Afraid of going to jail, she pretended to be his girlfriend while he had amnesia. She even lied that he was a poor nobody, then took him to a remot
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A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常
(Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband
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She Drew the Gods Down from Heaven 她引神明坠落
Shen Daiyi comes from a prominent medical family in Jingbei. That year, her usually low-key mother suddenly holds a birthday banquet, drawing greetings from all the great families and landing Shen Daiyi a blind date. It’s snowing softly on the day of the date. The person she once had a crush on as a girl is seated beside her blind date. Like a snow-capped peak, like a god from the heavens, the man is just as he was back then: refined, extraordinary, and beyond reach, the sort no one would dare l
36.2kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
121.3kReads9.6Score16.4kShelves
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I Wish You a Love as Deep as the Sea 许你情深深似海
[One-on-One Sweet Romance + Two Strong Leads + PDA-Filled Romance + Mutual Devotion] A job interview at a bar leads two people with nothing in common to meet for the first time. One is a private tutor, the other a cold-faced King of Hell. One does the flirting, the other does the pampering. Later, no one could have guessed that the elegant, aloof Qin Zhan would turn into a clingy burr. Their everyday life after getting together is even too much to watch... “Wifey...” “Hmm?” “Could you comfort me
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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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Listen to the South 听南
Ten years ago, Xia Tingnan was in her third year of middle school, while her next-door neighbor Xu Bingran was a sophomore in high school. Both the Xia and Xu parents were busy, so Xia Tingnan, who loved sleeping in, was put in Xu Bingran's care. Xu Bingran was disciplined, sensible, a good student with dreams, and known as “Xu Bingran of No. 1 High School.” Xia Tingnan was lazy, scatterbrained, a happy slacker with decent grades, and everyone's beloved “cutie.” And so began a four-year routine:
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You Asked Me to Bless You, but I Cursed You: The Alluring Goddess Has Arrived 让你赐福你赐祸，美艳神明她来了
Man Yue, the God of Joy (and Misfortune), was kicked out of the Divine Realm by her grandfather, the Supreme God. The moment she opened her eyes, she had become an unlucky woman with the exact same name. She went from being a contestant to a judge on the show. Netizens: Who does she think she is? She’s not some big-shot sponsor. Man Yue: Those who believe in me will prosper. Those who curse me will have bad luck! * Short on cash? Buy a lottery ticket, and quietly chant, “Man Yue, you’re my god!”
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The Beautiful Stepmother Who Sweetened the Whole Family 漂亮后妈，甜翻全家
Publication deal signed. On sale August 28. [One-on-one sweet romance + marriage of convenience + lighthearted daily life + both leads speak their minds] Sheng Mumu transmigrates into a book. Other people transmigrate into books to date handsome men and become stars. But when it’s her turn, she has to become the stepmother of a 17-year-old rich young master? Help, she wants out! Wait, what? If she pretends to be married, she’ll get 500,000 yuan in pocket money every month and an additional card
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Shattered Tenderness 揉碎温柔
(Top-tier wealthy family, a modern Jiangnan beauty as the heroine, an obsessive male lead, the heroine pursues him at first, then he spoils her relentlessly, devoted to each other, happy ending) For the sake of the child in her belly, Lu Zhiling was forced to marry an obsessive tycoon. Everyone thought she wouldn’t live long enough to give birth. To stay alive, she began winning him over. Before she knew it, she had become the apple of his eye. Later, she prepared to run away. His car was perche
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
150.2kReads9.6Score21.1kShelves
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Meeting Her Made My Heart Beat Faster 遇见她心动不止
[Love at first sight + mistaken identity + mutual secret crushes + healing + female growth] Everyone is level-headed and knows what they’re doing, so read without worry. Jiang Nan, insecure and neglected by her family, meets He Chengyang. A twist of fate sends their budding romance down the wrong path. He Chengyang mistakes Jiang Nan, the girl he fell in love with at first sight, for her older sister, Jiang Xue, and they begin a brief relationship. (Nothing inappropriate happens between them.) W
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Love Will Come to Rest 爱会停歇
[A playboy turns devoted + love grows over time + sweet with a touch of angst + status gap] Chen Chao, a wealthy playboy, falls sincerely in love with Yu Jiawen, who comes from an ordinary family. He knows he isn't the kind of man she'd ideally choose, but he can't let go of his feelings for her. “Yu Jiawen, do you know? Meeting you made me feel like I could have a proper relationship too.” “I've thought about giving you up, but I can't bring myself to. Just imagining watching you date, marry, a
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Never Forget What You’ve Seen 过目不妄
[Older Woman, Younger Man + Redemption + Realistic Romance] Three-year age gap. [Secret Love Becomes Mutual, from the Male Lead’s Perspective; Marriage First, Love Later, from the Female Lead’s Perspective] Everyone is level-headed and clear-minded. The woman Zhou Wang had kept in his heart for three years. He thought there could never be anything between them and was ready to give up, but then he unexpectedly learned what she had been through. His heart ached for her, and at the same time, he f
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Meeting Xin Again 亦见倾芯
[Love at First Sight + Mutual Devotion + One Couple Only + Sweet Romance] Their first two meetings were accidental. Every coincidence after that was part of his carefully laid plan. When Jiang Yi Shen met Tang Xin, he fell for her at first sight. He quietly set his plans in motion, and the two got to know each other, fell in love, and walked hand in hand into marriage, sharing the warm everyday moments of life from the first flush of romance to raising children. Side story one: Xu Man thought sh
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A Long Road to Reunion 重逢路漫漫
[The right people will find their way back to each other, no matter how many twists and turns it takes.] [One true pairing, both leads are each other's only ones + reunion after a long separation + winning back his wife and claiming his child + adorable kids playing matchmaker] Zhou Yuan met Qin Yue by chance and fell in love at first sight. After one passionate night together, an urgent assignment sent him overseas. Before leaving, he thought he'd arranged everything properly, never imagining t
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After All These Years, We Finally Meet Again 岁月流转终相见
[Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Love + Healing Through Family + Realistic Happy Ending] After drifting apart like clouds, ten years passed like flowing water. When we met again, my heart recognized you before I did. A summer romance came to an abrupt end because of an unfortunate misunderstanding. More than ten years later, thirty-five-year-old Gu Yan discovered by chance that he had a daughter in high school, and was reunited with the girl he had loved when he was young. Long-buried memo
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The Time I Spent in Love With Her 和她相恋的时光
[Love at first sight + devoted one-on-one romance + rekindled love + healing with a touch of angst] A grounded, everyday story with smart characters. Gao Yuchen, an isolated orphan, happens to meet her next-door neighbor, Mu Yang. Mu Yang pursues her passionately, and they soon fall in love. She thinks they’ll be happy together, only to discover that their happiness was built on a lie, albeit one told with good intentions by the male lead. She coldly tells him she never wants to see him again. I
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I Couldn’t Hide My Heart’s Flutter When We First Met 初见心动藏不住
[Love at first sight + heroine pursues hero + nine-year age gap + sweet, down-to-earth romance + happy ending] The lively and spirited Chen Luochen meets Chu Yun when she's twenty. She falls for him at first sight, unable to hide the light in her eyes. She has only one thought: make him hers. After confirming he's single, she boldly confesses, “Big brother, will you be my boyfriend?” Chu Yun gently turns her down with a single line: “We're not right for each other.” But Chen Luochen doesn't back
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