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The Eight Bitters of Life
A personal list of BE stories I've read.
Free, Great Novellas and Short Stories
Most are free, enjoyable novellas and shorter novels; a few are good but not free. Almost all are romance in various genres. A paradise for readers with eclectic tastes!
Sour, Bitter, and Angsty
There are sweet moments amid the angst, and angst amid the sweet moments.
Time Has a City That Never Ages
Books I enjoy (the ratings are just random stars, since I can't submit without them)
Free Food, Let's Eat!
Mostly romance, including stories with no couples. Some are sweet, some angsty. I'm a little picky, and my ratings are very subjective.
A Chaste Man's Best Dowry (1): 50 Books
Straight romance. I can only guarantee the male lead is a virgin; I can’t guarantee anything else, so read at your own risk if you have dealbreakers. In the 1v1 endings, the male lead is a virgin. In the reverse-harem stories, all the guys are virgins! Some are unfinished.
For Readers Who Love Logic, Worldbuilding, and Plot, and Have No Triggers
Updated regularly, but not necessarily completed. All kinds of genres, so proceed with caution if you have triggers! I haven't noted the romance perspective or whether there's a CP, so please check each book yourself.
You Are the World
Tell me what love is
8/10: Great Characters and Plot
As the title says.
Short, Sweet Stories
If it is not sweet, you do not pay. Includes fanfic short stories, including Haikyuu!! and The King's Avatar. I prefer female protagonists adored by everyone.
Short Bedtime Sweet Romance 7
As before, I'll mark which ones are free and which cost coins.
Romance
What I've been enjoying lately
The Goddess's Books
Qibao Su is a genius at writing contemporary romance!
Both Boys' Love and Romance
Some free stories to recommend
Iced Americano
Bad endings.
Short Stories I Absolutely Love
Trust me! It's really good!
Free Reads
These books are all free (? ̄?? ̄??)?? and rated 9.5 or higher, so you can dive right in.
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2025.2.3 Beginning of Spring Last night, I was lying in bed and clicked on the Jinjiang collection. I had collected several articles by Qibaosu but didn't read them. Then I clicked on the Qibaosu column and collected "Yu Qiu". I started reading at around eleven o'clock. I felt sleepy after reading eleven chapters. I got up this morning to read the remaining chapters. For me, this is a relatively new subject. Qibaosu did not choose to reveal the protagonist's life experience on the copy page or at the beginning of the article. Instead, as the article progressed and the story developed, the protagonist's life experience gradually emerged. Both Wu Yu and Ji Shiqiu (Yu Lang) were born into unhappy families and grew up in hardship. Wu Yu believes that all men in the world are like her stepfather. As mentioned in the article, she has given many men entrance tickets, but they are not sincere. Her mother has never given her love, and her stepfather has obscene thoughts towards her. Perhaps deep down, she longs to be loved, but is afraid, so she maintains an indifferent attitude. Ji Shiqiu was full of hope and expectation, and used the money he earned from working to take his mother to see the mountains. When he graduated from medicine and his level improved, he would take his mother to see a doctor, and then live happily. His father's long-term alcoholism and domestic violence were like a collapsing snow mountain, making him breathless. He wanted to wait until he took his mother to see the sea of clouds on the top of the mountain before passing away, but he met Wu Yu, and the two injured people depended on each other. At first, Wu Yu regarded Ji Shiqiu as no different from those men. The only thing she liked was Ji Shiqiu's face. Wu Yu didn't give Ji Shiqiu a good look at first. Their doi may have been just to satisfy sexual needs at the beginning, without any unnecessary emotions, just the collision of two young and injured bodies. After the change of their emotions, they became hot and hot. They wanted to embed each other into their bodies, which was the dual desire of spirit and sex. Wu Yu and Ji Shiqiu doi many times in the article, which is Wu Yu's desire, used to express his love and spiritual deception. Ji Shiqiu jumped into the pond to get a silk scarf for Wu Yu. He had selfish motives, not only for the silk scarf, but also for telling Wu Yu "I dare to take risks." Ji Shiqiu may have known that he was discovered by Wu Yu from the first time Wu Yu saw Yu Lang's wanted bounty on his mobile phone. He didn't know why Wu Yu chose not to say anything. It wasn't until he saw Wu Yu's anxiety while digging sweet potatoes that he knew Wu Yu liked him. At night, they used their bodies to feel each other's love and express themselves. Ji Shiqiu believed that Wu Yu was the bright spring, which should be surrounded by flowers, while he was the darkness that could not be seen clearly. That year, he was nineteen and she was twenty-four. They were both in their prime, a young man who enjoyed poetry and wine. Their miserable and impoverished native family caused them indelible pain and left long-lasting scars. Later, her original plan to get married at the age of thirty-five was moved forward four years. The red tallow leaves they saw one month after they met were packaged in an envelope and presented to her at her wedding seven years later. There was no one in the vast lawn, only the tallow leaves she had promised when she was young. Accompanying her was another person, and they were about to enter the palace of marriage hand in hand. In her memory, Wu Yu and Ji Shiqiu met and fell in love with each other in a foreign land. She gave him the hope of life. He made earrings from red sweet potato leaves. It was the second earring he made for his beloved Wu Yu after his mother. They lay on the sheets covered with osmanthus flowers and smelled the fragrance of the osmanthus flowers. Lianshan sweet-scented osmanthus and sweet potato leaves never see autumn again when I return to my old place. The tallow leaves turn red after a month, but they disappear and are hidden in an envelope for seven years. The above are my opinions on "Yu Qiu". I want to express more, but words cannot convey my meaning.
If I had known it was be, I wouldn't have watched it. Life is already so hard, I can't stand even a little bit of be.
This is my first time using Jinjiang and my first time writing a review. By chance, I saw a tweet about the author's new work. I looked through the previous works out of curiosity and read many of the author's previous short stories. This one really touched me so much. As someone who is often emotionally dissociated and unable to express my true emotions, I realized for the first time that this was painful for me. When I listened to this song at the end and rethought this article, I felt even more disappointed. I seemed to understand why Ji Shiqiu chose to say goodbye forever. We'llbeallright, don'tlooksosad We will be fine eventually, so why worry about it. BrAfter ten years, he managed to get out after six years, which shows that he worked very hard and actively cooperated to fight for a commutation of his sentence. If he did not appeal the sentence because he was responsible for and accepted the mistakes he made, then four years earlier was his answer to his 19-year-old self, to his 24-year-old Wu Yu, and to his mother. He would be fine. He would no longer destroy himself. He would have a beautiful sunrise and an autumn that he will never forget. Because of love, he used a tough attitude to force Wu Yu to let go. Being cruel to Wu Yu was also cruel to himself. In his eyes, Wu Yu deserves better. Let the autumn that has not come yet be left in the past forever. It has been too long. Everyone should move forward, for themselves and for love. In the end, Wu Yu, who was happy, was relieved. She might still think of autumn, but it had passed. My heart feels really bad when I hit this point. It's even worse when I want to cry but can't cry out to vent, haha. But in the end, my friend described the man as quite handsome, which meant that Ji Shiqiu was living a good life after he came out. One of the two people in the story is relieved and the other is letting go. Outside of the story, I wish Wu Yu found her happiness. I also want to send my best regards to Ji Shiqiu. You should be well too... Thanks to the tweet for letting me meet you! I think I will later find a teacher in Jinjiang that I should study with. Yes, teacher, you describe the emotions too delicately, the blending of love and desire, and all the contradictions and conflicts contain deep, sad love. This is an emotion that I cannot experience, and it is also an emotion that is difficult for me to imagine and describe, but in your works, I feel it deeply. Your work is really great! I'm going to read your long novels in a while!
No one is more affectionate and no one is more diligent. Feelings are inherently mysterious and difficult to explain clearly, so there is no way to compare them. For Wu Yu, she had been looking forward to a response for three years, but Xiaoqiu was more determined than she imagined, so the strong love became chaotic. The intertwining love clouds made her clearly feel that she had finally landed. She was sure that she was loved, and her previous persistence in being casual was no longer maintained, because Xiaoqiu's love left a space in her heart, and she could and dared to love others. So in the future, when she really enters life, she may meet someone who is different from Xiaoqiu, but Wu Yu is already capable of loving others. There is no way of knowing where this love comes from, but Wu Yu is already capable of maintaining this love, just like before. Xiaoqiu's envelope was probably the response to her three-year expectation, and the love that had been let go but still had regrets was made up for. It is also the end of the relationship between them. I don't know how long Xiaoqiu has been looking for Wu Yu after he was released from prison, and how long he has been spying on Wu Yu in the dark. Maybe the long seven years wasted on him and comforted him. He is no longer unwilling to give in. He has already made a decision at the end of the adventure. He came here specially to send this letter to say goodbye to her and Qiu when he was nineteen years old.
The tragic conflict is nothing more than the inevitable collision of two equally reasonable but one-sided ethical forces. This protracted debate of insisting on one's own correctness while denying the other's position ultimately led to a result - their own one-sidedness was "sublated" and a higher, more harmonious and more rational "eternal justice" was achieved. It is a pity that two equally beautiful people did not get together in the end, but on second thought, they complemented each other, became better selves, and moved into the future with complete confidence. Ji Shiqiu gained the courage to survive and the meaning of life from Wu Yu's love, and "surrendering" is the embodiment of this courage; Wu Yu also emerged from the shadow of childhood from his passionate love with Ji Shiqiu, believing in being loved and having the ability to love. Meeting the person you love before the age of thirty-five is a manifestation of this power of loving. Unfortunately, living in the South, you rarely feel the autumn mood when walking on city streets. Mountains can be seen everywhere in my hometown, but most of them are flat, not steep, not steep, and there are no places where people can "go to the Lijing Well, look up and breathe, and sit with their hands on their hands to sigh". I often wish that one day I could climb a high mountain to watch the sunrise, feel the seasons and autumn, and realize the peace and perfection of life.
I can accept this ending, but I still feel sad. The love that came to me when I was young, like a mountain falling apart, cannot withstand time and the other person's lack of response.
The story is complete and beautiful, even though it is be. I haven't read the physical book, but I can feel that the male and female protagonists have deep feelings for each other. How deep is it? The male protagonist will throw himself into a trap, cut off all relations with her, and finally send back a token of love between the two. He hopes that the female protagonist will not be with a man with a bad record, so he does this. The same goes for the female protagonist, who is bold, perverse, and dares to resist. When she escaped with the male protagonist, her whole personality deepened. Although she did not escape in the end and got married, this was inevitable because she liked him and she loved him, so she would completely understand his thoughts and motives. The emotions contained in just 30,000 words are self-evident. The scenery described by Qibaosu is really beautiful, such as the sunset and the mountains. The beauty is intertwined with love, which makes your eyes wet. Looking forward to the next one, this one can be considered a masterpiece.
😭 2025.1.17 It was so sudden, but maybe it was Xiaoqiu's wish. He didn't want him to trap her. Oh, what a great love. Ten years is too long. Things are unpredictable. A good person like Wu Yu should meet someone he loves again. I originally thought it was Wu and Qiu's wedding, but it turned out to be their separation. In fact, I also thought about Wu abandoning the groom and running away. Then I thought that the groom is also the person Wu Zhen really loves. There is no reason to embarrass the groom. In the end, everyone will be happy. It's Wu Yu, it's Xiao Qiu, and it's you in front of the screen.
Help, I thought the ending of the previous chapter was the most cruel, but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be so traumatizing that I burst into tears. I didn't cry when I saw Xiaoqiu was arrested, and thought I wouldn't shed tears for this article. But after reading this chapter about Xiaoqiu's life path, I really felt angry and regretful. In the end, my sentence should be commuted. Yeah, why is he so cruel to himself? Seeing the farewell at the wedding, tears really burst out. 5555555 Although I know that the heroine did nothing wrong by not waiting for him, I can't help but think about how good it would be if I persisted for a few more years. 55555 Qibaosu, you are so cruel 😭 😭 😭
Although I know that this is a very happy ending for both parties, Wu Yu has learned to love and accept being loved calmly, and Xiao Qiu has finally bid farewell to her 19 years of misery,,,, but I still feel sad. Xiao Qiu is 19 years old and Wu Yu is 24 years old. It is such an unforgettable autumn. (I will haunt you forever...)