Is This Flower in Bloom?

[This story will be completed and locked on September 10. If you’ve read it, please take note!]

[The sweet romance Suppose I Fell in Love is being written. Also coming soon: the childhood-friends story I Want to Confess to You and the bickering-lovers story A Little Bit of Love. Please add them to your favorites! The blurbs are below.]

On the fourteenth day after breaking up with Lin Guo, Lou Wen receives a letter. Inside is a train ticket to Lhasa and a little note that says, “Please come with me.”

She assumes it’s a ploy by her ex-boyfriend to get back together, but it turns out to be a trip for her alone.

As the train heads toward an unfamiliar destination, her fellow passengers talk about unrequited love. She suddenly remembers that summer ten years ago. The boy was bright as a beam of light when he entered her difficult world. From then on, she sank into his tenderness and could never pull herself free, willing to spend her entire youth as a shadow he couldn’t see, a passerby he couldn’t remember.

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Prayer flags flutter atop Nagin Mountain. Lou Wen scatters the paper offerings from her hands. However many times the wind blows, she prays just as many times for Lin Guo’s peace and happiness, even if he has no place for her by his side in the end.

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No one knew that Lou Wen’s unrequited love began that scorching summer.

Later, everyone knew that Lin Guo and Lou Wen would always be passionately in love.

“Do I love this boy? Is it ridiculous? Do these flowers bloom? Do these flowers bloom?”, “Can’t Quit,” Ouyang Yaoying

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Blurb for Suppose I Fell in Love

Mu Nian, the aloof beauty at the top of the entertainment industry, a heavenly star who focuses on her career, is suddenly exposed as dating an ordinary man outside the industry.

The public is stunned, the haters rejoice, and her fans rush to debunk the rumor. Her studio also issues a statement clarifying that the man in the photos is Mu Nian’s biological older brother.

Just as everyone has had their fill of the drama and is ready to move on, Mu Nian, who has been unreachable all day while filming deep in the mountains, suddenly posts her marriage certificate: We didn’t date. I’m already married.

After digging into it, everyone discovers that the man in the certificate photo is none other than Xie Baiyu, the youngest university professor at a prestigious university, whose name has recently been on the rise.

Weibo crashes. Mu Nian’s fans urge her through tears to reconsider, and the physics community is devastated.

Just when everyone thinks they won’t last without public support, Mu Nian, who has never appeared on a variety show in her six years since debut, suddenly announces a slow-paced reality show about married life.

When the show airs, the aloof goddess turns out to be a goofball who loves making funny videos, while the icy professor becomes a doting husband with a double standard.

Mu Nian’s fans say: “Our brother-in-law is wonderful! Keep it up, brother-in-law! Thank you for taking care of our adorable airhead.”

Xie Baiyu’s colleagues say: “Mu Nian, please stay with him a little longer. His poker face has come back.”

Onlookers say: “I’m locking this CP together forever. I’ve thrown the key into the Mariana Trench.”

An icy man who makes an exception only for you × a fool with maxed-out cuddling skills and a straightforward heart

All characters are fictional. Please don’t make assumptions about real people!

Both are virgins, 1v1 sweet romance (guaranteed sweetness!)

Blurb for I Want to Confess to You

Yin Qiuqiu, nicknamed “Trumpet Flower,” has friends of every age, from an eighty-year-old hard-of-hearing grandpa to an eight-month-old baby who’s just been weaned. She has so many friends they could circle the neighborhood three times. The only person she’s never been able to deal with is Zhao Qimo, who lives across the hall, the other people’s child she could never escape while growing up.

In elementary school, she got 100 on one test; he got 100 on every test.

In middle school, she became a group leader; he became class president.

In high school, she exceeded expectations and was named an outstanding student in her class; he underperformed and only won the award for an exemplary student.

So every year, one of Yin Qiuqiu’s birthday wishes is always: Please make Zhao Qimo move away. The farther, the better.

Perhaps heaven was moved by her unwavering wishes over the past ten years, because on her eighteenth birthday, Zhao Qimo’s family finally announces they’re moving abroad.

Yin Qiuqiu is more excited than someone who’s won fifty yuan on a scratch-off ticket. She’s so happy she doesn’t sleep all night, and even finishes the three math worksheets she’d been putting off.

But early the next morning, just as she’s about to lie down and catch up on sleep, someone knocks on her door. When she opens it, Zhao Qimo is standing there with a stack of books, smiling sweeter than peach blossoms in March.

She must have opened the door the wrong way!

She opens it again, and Zhao Qimo has already moved his things into her guest room.

She’s heard of people leaving a sofa behind when they move, but never of someone leaving their son behind!

Little Scene

After their one hundred and first time making eye contact, Yin Qiuqiu finally points at Zhao Qimo across from her. “Admit it, you have a crush on me!”

Zhao Qimo doesn’t even change his expression. “If people find out, it’s not a secret crush.”

Yin Qiuqiu frowns. “Then what is it?”

“An open crush.” He suddenly grabs the finger she hasn’t lowered, and the man across from her smiles triumphantly, bright as the morning sun.

Zhao Qi (pronounced like “chee”) Mo

HE, both are virgins, sweet romance

Blurb for A Little Bit of Love

Meng Zhizhi became famous as a game streamer called “I’m a Pretty Girl” for three reasons: she’s beautiful, sings sweetly, and has terrible luck.

Half the people in her livestream are there for her looks, and the other half come to feel better about themselves.

After all, her gacha games always make her miss the featured character and pull a permanent one instead. In horror games, she’s always the first to get attacked, and even in a match-three game, she can get stuck for 365 days on the hardest level that shouldn’t even be there.

Whoever enters her livestream has to type one thing: “I feel for you.”

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Ying Huai, art director at a famous game studio, is known as “Little Dai,” the king of filling in for others. He can do a single pull for someone and get the rare character, or speedrun a horror game and unlock every achievement. He can even win every match-three game for 365 days straight.

Many people admire him. Half are impressed by his art, and the other half want to borrow his luck.

Unfortunately, as the office’s one and only hotshot, his only daily pleasures are shutting his door, slacking off, and drawing anime girls.

“Waifus are the best!” Ying Huai says.

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When Meng Zhizhi was in college, she found an online game apprentice who was unbelievably annoying.

Every day, the moment he logged on, he had to say, “Good morning, unlucky Master!”

When Ying Huai was in college, he took an apprentice in an online game who was the worst of the worst.

Every day, the moment he logged on, he had to reply, “Your waifu has an official pairing!”

Until one day, a blind date turns into a face-to-face meeting between master and apprentice.

“Damn! Where’s the 192-centimeter hunk with abs you promised me?”

“Ugh! Where’s the 170-centimeter long-legged beauty you promised me?”

A childhood friend who hadn’t been seen in years turns out to be my master/apprentice.

Theme: May you all get what you wish for in the end.