Hongjian was one of the most famous brothels in the capital. New arrivals either racked their brains trying to escape or focused on climbing the ladder. Xu Shi was the only exception.
She had sold herself to Hongjian decades ago. She never tried to escape or curry favor with those above her. She only kept a shard of broken glass hidden in her sleeve, sharpening it for decades.
One fine spring day, she found a garbage bin and was about to let the shard fulfill its purpose, ending everything and moving on to her next life. Then she heard a baby crying inside the bin. The sound startled her, and the glass she had held for so many years fell to the ground and shattered.
Xu Shi stood frozen in place, then carefully picked up the abandoned baby from the bin. From that moment on, she had decades of good days ahead of her, and could no longer leave this life early.
Amid the trials of this mortal world, you are my radiant light.
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Xu Shi x Xu Weiguang. One-on-one, happy ending. Set in a fictional world inspired by the late last century. The blurb was screenshotted on 2019.10.09.
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Fell in Love with My Love Rival
Years later, Su Chunyan still remembered the scene of her first meeting with Fu Erqiu.
Back then, she was brash and carefree. She kicked open the classroom door and stood in the doorway, demanding, "Who's Fu Erqiu?"
The girl quietly writing at the back of the classroom looked up, her expression cool. "I am."
Su Chunyan, who had been standing with her arms crossed, froze. Despite all the ways she'd prepared herself for this moment, she hadn't expected Fu Erqiu to be so... beautiful.
She strode over and grabbed Fu Erqiu by the collar of her school uniform. "You're the vixen who seduced Lu Fang?"
Later, Su Chunyan followed Fu Erqiu around every day, calling her Qiuqiu this and Qiuqiu that, fawning over her so openly that everyone knew what she was after.
Fu Erqiu was fed up. She pinned Su Chunyan against the wall. "I'm not interested in men. Stop pestering me."
Fu Erqiu turned and left, never noticing Su Chunyan blushing behind her. So Fu Erqiu likes women?
A cool, beautiful top student x a mischievous little tyrant. A fake love-rival-to-lovers trope.
Marrying a Ghost
Overworked adult Yin Shangshang takes life as it comes. Her greatest wish is to eat well, drink well, and work less overtime. She never expected a run of bad luck to leave her not only pressured by her family into a ghost marriage, but also plagued by the same strange dream over and over.
In the dream, a young woman in red, with a face like a painting, looks up and says shyly, "Yunniang, I've come to marry you."
Outside the dream, Yin Shangshang wakes up in the bridal bed after the wedding ceremony. A stunning beauty in a phoenix coronet and bridal robes stares at her, cold as ice, and says ominously, "Hell is so cold. Would you come down and keep me company?"
Theme: Core socialist values
