The Sunken Dawn

A vulgar, melodramatic, coercive romance, with a pair of adversaries locked in a passionate feud. Brilliant, mean-spirited rich young lady and benefactor x outwardly gentle, inwardly cold older canary Celebrity x reporter | Younger top | HE | The young lady is head over heels - When twenty-four-year-old Bai Xixue rises to fame in the entertainment industry, twenty-nine-year-old Yan Zhen is still a reporter who has achieved nothing. They are secret lovers, passionately entwined in a dressing room, while the public has no idea. - When nine-year-old Bai Xixue sees her father cheating and nearly vomits, fourteen-year-old Yan Zhen still has a happy, loving family. One missed ice cream cone makes Bai Xixue jealous of Yan Zhen for nearly a decade. Yan Zhen has no idea. - When seventeen-year-old Bai Xixue stands in a room at a mansion halfway up the mountain, she sees twenty-two-year-old Yan Zhen in a white shirt, pushing her bicycle through a rainstorm under the green canopy of trees, kissing her girlfriend, Shen Fu. Bai Xixue clenches her fists and begins to envy that kiss. She loves Yan Zhen, though the young lady herself doesn't know it. - On a Christmas Eve ten years ago, the first snow drifted like glitter inside a snow globe. Someone spent the night in silence with another, while someone else gave away a heart that had long since sunk. “Before dawn, I once witnessed your silent eyes.” - Content warnings: 1. No real-life inspirations. Please don't draw parallels with real people. Those considering applying to journalism school should proceed with caution. 2. Both leads have ex-girlfriends. There is a love triangle and 1% role reversal. 3. Rather than a groveling ex chasing his wife, this is more like poetic justice. 4. Truly old-school, truly cheesy, truly formulaic. Nothing fresh or unconventional about it. Each chapter's blurb is a lyric. Search NetEase Cloud Music for “Sunken Dawn” to find the story's playlist. Thanks to the little angel @-Jjjiia for putting it together! See the next upcoming story below! To the Plains Brave, sunny 18-year-old x cool, detached 27-year-old career woman Not biologically related, sisters living together, bittersweet romance Xia Chao has never seen the plains before turning eighteen. For the first time in her life, she rides a high-speed train, heading north from an isolated southern town. Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, she travels a thousand kilometers to find the “older sister” she has never met. Twenty-seven-year-old Pingyuan is single, beautiful, and aloof. She is highly educated and successful at work, yet keeps to herself and refuses to talk about her background or being abandoned. Xia Chao's arrival shatters everything in her life. This is a story set in summer, with cold laughter, arguments, awkwardness, and reconciliation. It explores the hatred between sisters and mothers and daughters, and the love lost for twenty years. They will witness each other's tears, the adolescence that has passed and the adolescence unfolding before them, as well as the brilliant goldfish and fireworks at the amusement park. Each will count down, wondering whether a certain kiss should happen. A girl's feelings are like summer-night rain. By the time you realize it's raining, it has been pouring for a long time. Theme: Pursue true love, authenticity, and justice.