What Should I Do When Everyone Who Likes Me Is Younger?

Bo Yizhi was a pampered little princess from a wealthy family. With loving parents, a devoted fiance, and dazzling artistic talent, she seemed to have all the happiness in the world. But at twenty-seven, her parents passed away, her fiance betrayed her, and she returned home in disgrace, a loser with no work experience, no job, and nothing going for her, still unmarried at an age when people expected her to be settled down. A world she'd never encountered before opened up before Bo Yizhi. Her relatives and coworkers ignored her circumstances and talent, all while insisting they knew what was best for her: "Don't wear cartoon prints to look younger. Aren't you embarrassed at your age?" "Adults have to face reality. How are you supposed to make money from art?" "What's the use of being pretty? You're too old to get married now." "The guy next door, Old Wang, is divorced with a kid. How about meeting him this weekend?" Bo Yizhi answered them only with a soft, sweet smile, as innocent and carefree as a little white flower. They were exasperated with her: "You should do what people your age are supposed to do. That girl is so silly. They should have pushed her to get married when it was time, but now she's been dumped and wasted her whole life!" What they didn't know was... When Bo Yizhi got home that night, a hot young guy had her wrapped in his arms. He looked triumphantly at her former fiance outside the door. "Sis, good thing you dumped him. That guy is terrifying when he won't take no for an answer." Her childhood friend, a year younger than her, gently patted her head. "You turned down his proposal five times. It just goes to show that what you take from someone else was never yours to begin with." The newly crowned top-tier star, a fresh-faced young idol, snuck into the women's restroom in full disguise. His innocent public image was completely shattered, and he was so furious that smoke practically poured from his head. "Hey, are you really not going to take responsibility?" The aloof, handsome school heartthrob, drunk at an adulting party, clung to her hand like a wounded cub whose fierce disguise had fallen away. "Sis, I don't have any family left. Can you promise never to leave me?" At New Year's, an elder fussed over Bo Yizhi at the dinner table. "Zhizhi, eat more. You're too thin to have children. And you look like a twenty-year-old girl, but you can't exactly find a twenty-year-old boyfriend." Bo Yizhi continued to smile sweetly. "But the only people pursuing me are around twenty." The elder didn't believe her. "How can that be? Twenty on the left or twenty on the right?" Bo Yizhi blinked adorably. "Hmm... Which one do you mean?" -- [Older Woman/Younger Man] [Male Rivals Competing for Her] [Love Triangle Showdown] [Plot and romance are split 70/30, no endgame couple] Here are a few more upcoming novels. Please add them to your to-read list! ## [Coming Soon 1] The Art of Being a Simp! After dying alongside the insect queen, interstellar war god Lou Gan is selected by a System and becomes the early-deceased white moonlight of the male leads in an old-school Mary Sue novel. Her mission is to turn the white moonlight into a simp female supporting character, lowering the male leads' affection for them to -100. According to the System, readers these days love sweet romance and absolutely can't stand the heroine's man flirting ambiguously with other women. The System looks back on Lou Gan's life as a human weapon and is deeply reassured: You can do this. You don't even understand what flirting ambiguously means. Remembering how she sacrificed herself for the people in her previous life, Lou Gan feels immensely proud: I can do this. I'm the best at being a simp. Everything is going well. The first male supporting character's affection score is steadily falling, and the System trusts Lou Gan completely, so it leaves behind a submodule and takes off to pursue a side hustle. A year later, the System returns and nearly crashes in disbelief. -The original heroine, who should have been proud and aloof, has become a scheming, jealous shrew. But the people she's targeting aren't Lou Gan: they're the first, second, and third male leads. -Lou Gan, who should have staged her own death several times, leans against a crowd of beautiful companions with a calm expression and waves to the System: Plans changed, but it's no big deal. The affection score is still -100. The System stares in horror at the first, second, and third male leads, all gazing at Lou Gan with devotion despite their "affection score of -100." It urgently investigates the affection-score submodule, only to find its data scrambled. It discovers that the affection scores are displayed backward. Positive appears as negative, and negative appears as positive. So an affection score of -100 is actually a positive 100. The System asks Lou Gan: Now that things have come this far, would you be interested in being the heroine? Lou Gan calmly presses her sword against the System's throat: Send me home. You're the one who deceived my feelings. The System looks at the male supporting characters, who have gone from male gods to simps, and can only weep: Who the hell is deceiving whose feelings here? ## [Coming Soon 2] The Female Dorm Manager at the Magic Academy Everyone in the empire knows that the empire's future king is a hopeless romantic. He is unfailingly attentive to his fiance, even bending down to lift the hem of her dress in public. He grants her every request. They say he once cleared every monster from an entire deserted island just because his fiance wanted the purple crystals found there. Everyone in the empire also knows that the heir's possessiveness is frightening. None of the empire's people have ever seen the Crown Princess Consort's true face. Rumor has it that this noble lady is breathtakingly beautiful and has incredible magical power. Some even say her magic surpasses that of the prince and the heir, making her the most powerful person in the empire. So when news breaks that the Crown Princess Consort is a fake heiress, that her magic has been stripped away and she has been demoted to commoner, and that the heir has broken off their engagement to marry her real younger sister instead, the whole empire erupts! Shu Wen, the Crown Princess Consort whose title was stripped and magic taken away, has lost all the skills and magic she learned as a noble lady. After a long struggle, she finally manages to find a job through a connection: caretaker for the men's dorm at the magic academy. Shu Wen spends her days growing flowers, feeding birds, and enjoying the youthful energy of the male students. Life is easy and peaceful. She begins to think she could live this way forever. It would be even better if all these young men, her former fiance, and her old friends... didn't look at her with such intense eyes. ## [Coming Soon 3] Forced to Become a Player to Avoid the Crematorium Qin Jiu has lived for seventeen years before learning that her world is a novel. The good news: She's the heroine, destined to become the greatest under heaven. The bad news: She's the heroine, and this is a novel where the heroine suffers a brutal fate after chasing the hero. At first, she treats the hero with indifference. Later, the plot grinds her to dust. Apparently, in the novel, she's a truly despicable woman. Here are her crimes: 1. When the hero and she were strangers, he asked her for help, but she didn't help him for free. 2. Before the hero had feelings for her, she openly accepted gifts from other male cultivators without considering how her future hero might feel. 3. Before she had feelings for the hero, another female cultivator confessed to him. Instead of getting jealous and catfighting with her, she told the hero to follow his heart, truly breaking his heart. Qin Jiu: ? Say that again. What exactly makes her deserve to die? In the novel's comments section, readers curse the heroine and wish her a horrible death. They beg the author to make her suffer as much as possible, preferably scattering even her ashes. So the author lets loose completely: Qin Jiu loses an arm, suffers a miscarriage, has her golden core shattered, and loses all her cultivation. In the pouring rain, she weeps and kneels in apology to the hero in front of every sect in the world, but he simply turns away and puts a coat over the second female lead's shoulders. Readers cheer and finally relent, graciously granting Qin Jiu the right to have a happy ending with the hero. Qin Jiu: ? Say that again. Who's graciously granting what? Qin Jiu has no idea what she did to deserve this, but to avoid a horrible death, she has no choice but to steel herself and identify the hero. From the start, she enthusiastically returns the affection of every candidate who might be him. She thinks that one day the hero's love for her will stand out from the rest, and his identity will become clear. Who could have guessed that, encouraged by her, all their love would grow stronger and stronger? Worse still, their existence in relation to one another... -She's about to get found out! >A Theme: A person's life should not be defined by age.