When the Dream Ends [The Second Male Lead Takes Center Stage]

Mutual unrequited love | Healing | Be warned: bad ending

[Female illustrator x anti-drug police officer]

Jiang Fanshu was Chu Jing's only friend in Jianggang. They were classmates and desk mates.

Her first impression of Chu Jing was: single-parent family.

In her memory, the role of "father" had never been part of Chu Jing's life.

Later, Jiang Fanshu moved away from Jianggang with her parents. Years afterward, Chu Jing transferred to her school, and seemed not to have changed much.

Quiet and unsociable, she was the odd one out whom her classmates said had "no friends."

Jiang Fanshu, on the other hand, was an excellent student and class monitor, and she had her own "official CP." She had heard far too many rumors about herself and the vice class monitor.

In everyone else's eyes, she and the vice class monitor were a perfect match.

But she liked Chu Jing.

Although she had been absent from more than ten years of Chu Jing's life, in the brief six months after they reunited, she truly came to understand her.

But after secretly loving Chu Jing for a semester, she graduated only to find that Chu Jing had cut off contact without a word. From then on, they lost touch.

She had thought her youthful feelings would come to nothing, but a car accident brought her face-to-face once more with the person who had left without saying goodbye all those years ago.

"Xiao Shu, long time no see."

Years later, they met again and revisited the places they had once known. As the past became clearer and clearer, Jiang Fanshu finally understood why Chu Jing had left back then.

"Responsibility can be addictive."

Their youthful feelings had always been understood without a word.

But when the dream ended, she and someone else were the ones meant for each other.

[Reading Guide]

1. The second male lead is here to stay. He is here to stay the whole time.

2. There is a reason I am writing this story. Please do not give writing advice, except for pointing out typos.

3. I hope everyone enjoys chatting and reading!

(Blurb revised on 2026.2.20)

Coming soon: She Came from the Mountains

[Teacher returning to her village to teach x rural resident official]

Xia Zhenxing left the mountains with hope. After graduating, she landed a high school teaching job paying 20,000 yuan a month. Just as her career was taking off, her rich second-generation boyfriend cheated on her!

Everyone thought she would humbly beg him to get back together, but instead she turned around and returned to her village to teach.

People waited to laugh at her, only to see her on television receiving honors such as "National Model Worker" and "National Model Educator," with television stations competing to interview and report on her.

After her relationship with the rural resident official was exposed, people accused her of using her boyfriend's connections to get ahead.

Xia Zhenxing smiled faintly. "Using connections?"

On the first day Xia Zhenxing met Chen Ye, she rode her electric scooter straight into a field and knocked him into it. The first thing he said was, "Comrade, you're quite the driver! How do you manage to knock someone into a field on such a wide road?"

Later, she found out he was a rural resident official who had just been transferred there, and that he had rented an empty room in her home.

When the village head brought him over, the two enemies came face to face. Leaning against the doorframe, she teased him sarcastically: "Well, look who it is. The young master has come to the countryside to pad his resume?"

From then on, Xia Zhenxing had to prepare lessons and visit students' homes, while also keeping an eye on whether the young master was about to starve himself to death.

By day, a certain rural resident official visited households and brought them warmth. By night, he was practically on his knees before her. "Granny Wang, who lives at the top of the hill, refuses to relocate and called me a stinking outsider. Can you help me persuade her?"

So, who exactly was using connections to get ahead?

What Chen Ye expected from working in the countryside: picturesque scenery and simple, honest villagers.

What it was actually like: inconvenient transportation, language differences, a generation gap, a struggle to earn people's trust, and becoming a regular topic of conversation for the village entrance's intelligence network...

Chen Ye was really about to cry!

Xia Zhenxing: Come on, beg me~

[Reading Guide]

1. They are not each other's first, but both leads have only been with each other.

(Blurb revised on 2026.3.29)

Theme: Salute the heroes, and say "No" to every injustice!