[Fresh, Heart-Fluttering Campus Romance]
A reserved, deeply devoted genius student x a gentle yet strong-willed girl. Love at first sight.
Coming up in my column: the sweet romances "Thank You" and "Princess for a Thousand Autumns." Feel free to add them to your collection.
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It was May of senior year. After the bell rang, the whole building settled into quiet evening study.
The class representative and the study committee member were carrying stacks of tests, one going upstairs and the other down, when they ran into each other in the stairwell.
A teacher on patrol could appear at any moment.
Top student Jin Qian glanced around. His expression was perfectly proper, but he boldly and recklessly held on to her hand.
His usually quiet eyes sparkled with passionate light, as if teasing her, or waiting for her gentle reproach.
Lan Yan's face turned scarlet. She tried to act calm. "...Do whatever you want. I've practiced piano so much my hands are numb."
She was about to walk around him when the feel of his palm changed, its skin smooth beneath her touch...
Right there in the brightly lit hallway,
the boy held her hand against his cheek. He blinked slowly, gazing down at her with an even deeper smile.
"...How about now?"
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"Lan Yan, we made it through the Mayan apocalypse together, and watched the British vote to leave the EU.
I never had the heart to delete a single message you sent me on my Nokia phone.
I know the world is complicated, but what does that matter?
As long as we still love each other."
From Mr. Jin's wedding vows.
A reader's guide:
1. Sports days that always seemed to get rained on, eye exercises that involved rubbing your eyes all over the place, little scraps of paper with copied song lyrics, memorizing the Reading passage for English class, names secretly written on fogged-up windows, and the scent of the summer breeze.
2. The heroine is a student specializing in traditional Chinese music, and they're both top students. They work hard to get into the same university and become better versions of themselves. They don't break up along the way.
3. Believe it: even in the days when phones could only store 200 text messages, romance could still be passionate and steadfast.
☆ Blurb for "Thank You":
A mature, wealthy analyst x a quiet, serene beauty. Eight-year age gap. Set in Hong Kong.
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The Nth time Gu Congze secretly tried to woo Yu Ran,
she still sent him packing with a calm, casual, "I'm still young. I don't want to think about that."
Until one day,
when Yu Ran blushed and called him a "jerk" and a "pervert" in certain moments,
Gu Congze held her even tighter and moved with even greater vigor, mumbling, "...I knew it. You can't trust what a young girl says."
My column also features the historical romance "Princess for a Thousand Autumns": a princess who seems lovesick but is actually devious x a reserved general who dotes on his wife. One-on-one romance, extra sweet.
Author's Weibo: @Qingmeijiang.
☆ Time to recommend a whole bag of sweet treats:
My completed sweet romances: healing campus story, "The Boy by the Green Wall"
"A Thousand Smiling Eyes" and "Taro Balls with Milk Cream".
Premise: You appear on every page of my poems.
Why is the last chapter locked?
Why is the last chapter locked? I really want to read it!!
I cried out. The last chapter is locked. Look at the children. I want to see the baby!
It's so hard for me! I want to see the car too!!
It's actually locked!!! Want to see the car?
Lan Qiao, this brother is so gentle
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh use me.
This can only be regarded as a car tire at best.
Sorry, you call this a car??? Not even a bicycle, right????
Does this count as a car? I don't think it really does.