Wuxia Novella: A Night of Romance | Eternal Night
The Cold family's eldest son, Leng Chuan, was a "monster" who had killed countless people. He was imprisoned in a basement for ten whole years.
Green Oriole came from a poor family. Desperate for money to treat her father, she became his servant, tasked with looking after him.
Every maid before her had met a mysterious death within three months.
As she spent day after day with him, Green Oriole realized that Leng Chuan wasn't the bloodthirsty, cold-blooded monster people claimed he was. In fact, he was a refined and elegant gentleman, and she gradually fell in love with him.
But Madam Leng's warning continued to echo in her mind.
"If you don't want to die, remember what I told you. No matter what the man in the basement says, don't believe him."
Which side of him is the real one?
Who is lying?
"Oriole, believe me. I'll take you far away, and from then on we'll be together, our hearts as one, growing old side by side."
"Not one of them will live."
Coming soon: A Dream Suddenly Wakes to Summer's Long Breeze
Thirteen years of friendship turn to love | Bickering couple | Maximum romantic tension
A clingy golden retriever who always wants his girlfriend's attention x a tsundere cat who thinks the golden retriever is an idiot
During military training at the start of her first year of high school, Jiang Yu was invited by a classmate to go see the school heartthrob.
But there were so many people along the camphor-lined avenue that, after wandering around for ages, she still couldn't see his face.
Only later did she find out that the heartthrob she had craned her neck to see was the idiot sitting next to her, Xu Muyuan.
Xu Muyuan was her closest buddy in high school.
He was also the secret crush she couldn't bring herself to confess.
Her winter thermos was always topped up with hot water. She never had to take out the full bucket of trash on cleaning duty herself. Fruit and yogurt appeared whenever she reached out for them, and she could stack cans of Want Want milk high enough to build a wall...
Even though Xu Muyuan always said, "You're my best friend. It's only right."
With all that special treatment, Jiang Yu thought Xu Muyuan liked her too.
After the college entrance exams, she summoned all the courage she'd had as a teenager and wrote him a letter to confess. But then she heard Xu Muyuan call another girl after getting blackout drunk.
After that, Jiang Yu decided to hide all her feelings, dig a hole, bury her secret, cover it with dirt, then pour a layer of reinforced concrete over it so it would never see the light of day.
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Years later, Jiang Yu returned to China from an overseas assignment and crossed paths with Xu Muyuan again.
Xu Muyuan was still an idiot, and she still played the role of his "best friend" flawlessly.
Even the special treatment he had always given her remained unchanged.
Xu Muyuan replied to her messages instantly and came whenever she called.
He took her to try every kind of food under the sun, went out in a suit to buy her barbecue, picked her up from work in the middle of the night, pestered her to see him several times a week, and did everything he could to make her happy...
He even held her hand during an escape room game.
But Jiang Yu, who already knew the right answer, wouldn't believe him anymore.
A delusion was only a delusion.
There was nothing wrong with being "best friends."
But this time, Xu Muyuan didn't agree.
"I've fallen for a really, really wonderful friend."
In the thirteenth year of their friendship, they crossed the Milky Way called "friends," and all the things left unsaid became a single "Merry Christmas."
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"If we're still not married by thirty, let's just settle down together."
I'm sure lots of people have made a promise like this with someone during their school years, half-seriously and half-jokingly.
This isn't giving up or settling. It's just summer, arriving very late.
Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.
