[After she rises to the top, the love of her previous life appears]
Ji Wen has a secret.
He's a thief. Carrying memories of his previous life, he changed his own future, and switched places with someone else to steal their lover.
But the strange thing about fate is that no matter how many detours it takes, it still returns to its original course.
An extra movie ticket in her pocket, the faint scent of an unfamiliar man's cologne on her, her increasingly late returns home, and the way her eyes dart away.
Ever since the person whose love he stole appeared, his life has never been the same.
[After finally breaking free of the plot's control, he gets dumped]
Zhou Lin wakes from a nap to discover she's the heroine of a romance novel about an older woman and a younger man.
The male lead is devoted, clingy, and good at acting cute, but he isn't her current boyfriend.
Her cheerful, sunny boyfriend, meanwhile, will become a successful man in a decade or so, cheat on her, and turn into the ex-husband who gets publicly humiliated.
“Young love and the freshness of youth will eventually fade. What the merciless passage of time leaves behind is a mess and feelings as dried up as a river.” - From the original novel.
Zhou Lin thinks that if he's going to turn bad sooner or later, there's no point wasting her youth on him.
She decides to dump him when the time is right.
[It turns out he was only a mistaken entanglement]
The arrogant rich second-generation Chen Qiusheng falls in love with a beautiful but ordinary poor girl.
Everyone around him laughs at the match and advises him to put her in her place, so she understands her status and won't start throwing her weight around over the young master later.
Chen Qiusheng is utterly confident in their relationship. After all, he can see just how much she loves him. Besides, she's a fox spirit who claims they were fated to be together in a past life.
Until he discovers that the jade pendant, their token of love, doesn't belong to him, but to his cousin, who went abroad when they were young.
[I wish you an ordinary, free life]
After suddenly losing her job, Fang Chan has nowhere to turn, so she takes a tutoring gig to support herself.
Her client is a man who lives in an upscale neighborhood. He's gentle and refined, and always treats her with impeccable courtesy.
He also has a sweet, clever daughter who hugs her leg and calls her “big sister.”
He's practically the best employer in the world. After tutoring the girl for a whole year, Fang Chan finally saves enough to start her own business, and finds a wonderful romance along the way.
On her wedding day, the man arrives with his daughter again, a gentle smile on his face as he presents her with an expensive wedding gift.
Fang Chan happily accepts it.
But after the wedding, the man staggers and leans against the wall.
The girl sobs as she clings to his leg. “Dad, does Mom really not remember us?”
# A collection of four stories
[A personal wish-fulfillment project, written because I couldn't find the stories I wanted to read. In short, it's about a group of men who were meant to be cannon fodder but insist on becoming the male leads.]
* Every story has a happy ending, but not necessarily a one-on-one pairing.
* Some stories have a very prominent second male lead, who may even be the official partner.
* Some stories include regret and a redemption arc, with plenty of melodrama.
* The women suffer, but the men suffer even more. That's the kind of wish-fulfillment fiction this is.
* All the male leads are virgins.
Theme: Love must overcome every obstacle, and love must swim against the current
