Time Has Never Slowed Down

[Coming Soon: "You Only Act Like This Because You Know I Like You," "My Dearest Mr. Bo," and "He Came for Her". Please add them to your reading list!] A story of redemption. The heroine is a photographer, and the hero is no good man. Meng Yao once had another name: Meng Shiyan. Later, she left home and changed her name, too. Back then, she loved someone who didn't love her and even despised her for a time. Years later, they met again. He had a woman by his side, while she was alone. As they waited for the valet to bring his car around, he suddenly turned to look at her. It was a cold winter night, and the hotel entrance blazed with light. He stood at an angle, smiling, his gaze deep. "Miss Meng, have we met before?" Meng Yao smiled but didn't answer. She had loved him for ten years without ever telling him. -- You are the warmth of human life, the sight I've gazed up at all these years. Fei Mingyi is inscrutable, his thoughts unfathomable. He has countless women by his side, but none stays for long. He's not a man who falls deeply in love, yet somehow he has remembered for ten years a girl with a beauty mark at the corner of her eye. Coming Soon 1: "My Dearest Mr. Bo" When Awu was fifteen, a Mr. Bo moved into the old family home. Mr. Bo was frail and sickly. They said he wouldn't live past twenty-four. Awu thought it was such a pity. Mr. Bo was very handsome, with gentle eyes and brows. When he leaned back in a wicker chair, holding a book, he was like a spring breeze beneath a bright moon, with plum wine flowing like a stream. Awu thought someone so handsome deserved to live a little better while he still could. Awu tried everything she could think of to be good to Mr. Bo. She brought him food and things to play with. But one day, when she came running back with a jar of freshly brewed plum wine from the old woman in town, hoping to make him happy, Mr. Bo had vanished from the old house. She asked her uncle, "Where's Mr. Bo?" Her uncle said, "Mr. Bo went home." Awu figured Mr. Bo had probably gone home to prepare for his own funeral. For a long time afterward, Awu was downcast. Another year passed, and Mr. Bo turned twenty-four. She thought he must have died. She was heartbroken. As Awu slowly grew up, she continued to believe Mr. Bo was dead. She mourned him alone, remembering to bring him his favorite pastries during the Qingming Festival. But one day, she was sent to an antique shop in Xiping, and there she saw her Mr. Bo again. She said, "Didn't you die?" But Mr. Bo asked, "Who said I died?" Awu said, "Everyone said you died when you turned twenty-four!" As he listened, Mr. Bo wiped a sticky bit of candied hawthorn she'd missed at the corner of her mouth. Smiling, he said, "I haven't even had my Awu yet. How could I bear to die?" A sweet romance: antique-world tycoon x young woman from a family of cultural relic restorers Coming Soon 3: "You Only Act Like This Because You Know I Like You" Zhan Yinong had once again had her boyfriend stolen by Gu Baoqing. She was done trying. She went to Gu Mingsen. "Gu Baoqing bullied me, so you're responsible!" Gu Mingsen was playing cards with several business associates. He looked at the indignant, self-righteous woman standing in front of him and smiled. Three years earlier, she'd woken up in his bed after getting drunk. Horrified, she'd immediately said, "Uncle Gu, you don't have to take responsibility for me. I was young and foolish. Please just forget it ever happened!" Then she'd grabbed one of his white shirts and hurried out. Ever since, she hadn't dared go near him. Asking him to take responsibility three years late? Gu Mingsen chuckled, then replied casually, "Sure." Gu Baoqing watched Zhan Yinong get into her third uncle's Rolls-Royce, give her a taunting look, and drive away. Her eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth. "Zhan Yinong, you really went too far!" Zhan Yinong had only wanted to stop her nemesis from stealing her man again. She never expected to walk straight into a trap herself! Bonus scene: A Nong: "Uncle Gu, I've actually always wanted to return this white shirt. I just never had the chance..." Gu Mingsen: "You can return it now. Wear it back the way you wore it out back then." A Nong: "Aww..." Zhan Yinong had always thought Gu's third uncle liked her. That day, she only meant to test the waters. But once she did, there was no going back... A lighthearted, doting romance. The hero is five years older than the heroine. Coming Soon 3: "He Came for Her" As the daughter of the Meng Group, Meng Chengxi's love for the Gu family's second son struck everyone as incomprehensible. Gu Jingshen was certainly handsome, but he was cold and unapproachable, making him hard to like. What's more, the Gu family didn't take him in until he was sixteen, and no one in the family welcomed him. He hardly seemed like a likely heir to the Gu Group. But Meng Chengxi didn't waver. She liked Gu Jingshen and intended to go on liking him. She devoted herself to treating him well, even though he looked at her with nothing but disdain. She kept thinking that if she persevered, one day he'd be moved by her. Then one day, news spread that Gu Jingshen was going to get engaged to the daughter of the Bo family. Meng Chengxi attended their engagement ceremony and watched him put a ring on her finger with her own eyes. In that instant, she finally gave up. She went overseas to study, cut off all contact, and never wanted to return to the place where her heart had been broken. Three years later, she returned with her studies complete and became a top jewelry designer. At the celebration banquet, glasses clinked amid rustling gowns and glittering jewels. She made her way through the crowd to get another drink, and there stood Gu Jingshen. Holding a wineglass, he lowered his eyes and said softly, "You're back." Gu Jingshen had walked alone for sixteen years, carrying the weight of all the darkness in his life. He knew that girl liked him. But until he had cleared away the darkness and obstacles, how could he hope to welcome her? Theme: Perhaps we should start over