As I Began to Lose You

The print edition is now available at major online bookstores. For details, follow Weibo @MianbaoYouDuDuDuDu. [The new novel, The Storm Has Arrived, is complete. If you’re interested, visit the author’s page to save it to your favorites!] #Secret Crush #Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium Zhu Yiyi is an ordinary, unremarkable girl, the kind who could disappear into a crowd. The only extraordinary thing in her life had to do with Xue Pei. She liked him, and they had grown up together. As children, they drank from the same bottle of cola and played marbles together. She even stayed at his house for an entire summer vacation, and whenever she couldn’t finish her summer homework in time, she copied his. No one would think there was anything but friendship between them, because she was so plain and Xue Pei was so dazzling. She knew there were no fairy tales in her life, and she knew Xue Pei would never like her. She was more like a witness to his love life, watching him go from one relationship to another, from high school through college. Later, after the college entrance exams, Xue Pei got into Peking University, while Zhu Yiyi got into an ordinary college in Beicheng. Just as the Xinhua Dictionary said, they both had bright futures ahead of them. In her third year after graduating, Zhu Yiyi’s family started pressuring her to go on blind dates. Soon, they found her a suitable marriage prospect. He didn’t necessarily love her all that much, but their circumstances matched. They were both equally ordinary. The day before she was supposed to get engaged, she called Xue Pei and told him she was getting married. From that day on, Xue Pei suddenly seemed to go crazy. [Before reading the story, please take a minute to check the content warnings!] * Content warnings: * Cheesy, melodramatic, and Mary Sue-style, with a happy ending. * The heroine gradually becomes more accomplished later on, though only as much as an ordinary person could. She won’t get a golden finger. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you. * The hero gets put through the wringer later on. Feel free to criticize him; he’s responsible for his own actions. Please don’t take the characters’ values as a reflection of the author’s. No need to announce if you drop the story. * Both leads are sexually inexperienced, but the story does depict intimate moments between the heroine and a supporting character. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you. Several people left multiple negative reviews over this, so I’m making it clear here. Note: * While the hero has a girlfriend, nothing ambiguous happens between him and the heroine, and she keeps her distance from him. * “Peking University” in the story refers to Beicheng University. Please don’t connect it to the real world. The Storm Has Arrived #Secret Crush #Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium Wen Suichang often felt that his wife was like a transparent person: bland, boring, ordinary, and utterly forgettable. She even spoke softly when they argued, making it impossible to get worked up. He often felt that their marriage was just a compromise. They had been married for three years, and apart from their physical relationship, he knew nothing about her. Before they married, his strongest impression of her was from their first year of high school. She always sat in the least noticeable seat at the back of the classroom. When a teacher called on her, all she could do was blush and shake her head. He had never imagined that she would one day become his wife. Their marriage began absurdly and ended just as absurdly. One day, she told him she loved someone else and wanted a divorce. On the day their loveless marriage ended, he felt a sense of relief unlike anything he had ever known. Wen Suichang had always thought that he and Cheng Yan had settled for each other. What he didn’t know was that the wife he found so boring had been so excited on the day she learned she would marry him that she couldn’t sleep all night. He also had no idea how hard she had worked, from high school through college, to keep up with him and earn the right to stand by his side. * Cheng Yan made a playlist on NetEase Cloud Music called “Marrying Mr. W.” It had dozens of songs suited for a wedding. But Wen Suichang never gave her a wedding. A very long time later, Wen Suichang finally admitted that Cheng Yan was the only storm he had ever experienced in his life. “Whose youthful dream is ever fulfilled and celebrated?” Theme: Sincere love is priceless.