A Time Limit

Xu Xin thinks Cen Beiting is probably just fooling around with her.

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Cen Beiting loves to have fun,

and he's very good at it.

He's a star at school,

and it's hard not to like him once you've met him.

After the final exams, he said to her in his usual nonchalant way, "I broke a rib for you. How are you going to make it up to me? Be my girlfriend."

Xu Xin thought he was joking and said, "Stop messing around."

*

Many years later, they ran into each other again at an international trade fair. They were still friends.

She'd been drinking when Cen Beiting confessed to her again. "I mean it. Could you take me seriously just this once?"

Xu Xin was tired and said, "Okay."

They got together.

Xu Xin thought it was actually pretty nice this way.

Cen Beiting treated her too well,

pampering her all the time.

It was less like he was her boyfriend

and more like he wanted to be her dad.

Until the day the rain came pouring down,

and Cen Beiting called her from a phone booth.

Exhausted, he said, "Xu Xin, do you still think I was just fooling around with you? The one who was playing around, from beginning to end, was you."

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A few reading notes:

1. Couple dynamic: A husky wants a beautiful romance too.

2. The timeline runs from their first year of high school through college graduation.

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

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Coming next: "Love Ablaze"

An internationally renowned beauty photographer X a fantastically built fire brigade captain

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Having just finished an overseas photography exhibition, Ding Xizhen was asked by her elders to help take a set of promotional photos for the city's fire brigade.

That day, she walked into her studio as usual. Without looking up, she said to the model sitting with his back to her on a tall stool, "Take it off."

When she turned around with her camera, the sight was so dazzling she nearly dropped it.

Ding Xizhen: "I meant your jacket! Take off your jacket!"

The handsome, tall man, with a full six-pack, lazily pulled on a black T-shirt and said, "Oh."

*

Ding Xizhen had dated a model for six months and been cheated on twelve times. She swore that the type of man she hated most in this life was a dumb musclehead with an outrageously good body.

Pei Hangzhi fit every one of those criteria.

He could run twelve laps around the police academy, then scoop her up around the waist and spin her around.

He could do twenty one-handed push-ups, then hold her chin and kiss her without changing expression or even getting out of breath.

She, Ding Xizhen, hated this kind of man. Hated them most of all.

And then...

Lying on a hotel bed, she stared blankly at the ceiling. "Damn, he's really good..."

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At Ding Xizhen and Pei Hangzhi's wedding, countless friends and relatives came to celebrate with them.

Only then did Ding Xizhen realize just how many friends she and Pei Hangzhi had in common.

During the wedding video presentation,

Ding Xizhen saw a photo she'd never seen before. Wearing a graduation cap and holding flowers, she smiled brightly at the camera.

Behind her, a big, slightly goofy-looking boy kept sneaking glances at her.

In that moment, she finally realized that this young man had been watching her throughout his entire youth.

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The male lead's perspective:

I have two dreams. The first is vast, holding this land that I love. The other is small, containing only you, whom I love.

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Currently serializing a fantasy romance: "The Little Mermaid Became a Cannon Fodder and Shot to Fame [Book Transmigration]"

Trade her voice for love: No.

Use her voice to save the music industry: Yes!!!

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Yu Ning, the real daughter of the sea and a little mermaid, ends up in the body of a pitiful cannon-fodder character who was dumped by the scumbag male lead after she heard the Little Mermaid's tale and transmigrated into a novel with the same plot.

Does a little mermaid's story have to end with her turning into sea foam for love?

The original character's script has her as a little-known streamer from the start.

But no one expected her to open her mouth and hit a dog whistle note.

The voice that once lured sailors now wins over countless fans.

After her livestreams make her famous,

a variety show filmed on the water invites her as a guest.

Everyone assumes her face must look so good because of makeup, and that once she gets in the water, her true appearance will be revealed.

But Yu Ning just smiles.

Swimming?

That's right up her alley!

Standing center stage, with countless spotlights shining on her dress, the people who once hurt and tormented her can only look up at her from below, too lowly even to touch the hem of her skirt.

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As the heir to the wealthiest family in Chucheng, Huo Jianxiao wields immense power and can control everything.

But he is so refined and restrained that no heiress or peerless beauty has ever managed to win the favor of this unattainable man.

Then one day, his secretary was called into his office and asked to buy two glow sticks...

Secretary: ????

And so, at the concerts of the music industry's goddess, there is always an extraordinary-looking devoted fan who buys the most expensive ticket, sits right in the center of the front row, and waves glow sticks with a deadpan expression...

He says to her, "If one day an accident comes before tomorrow, then let me turn into sea foam."

Theme: Love at first sight