Misty Treeline

Qiu Ling is an utterly ordinary, lazy high school freshman. Her greatest hobby is sleeping, and being bad at school is simply her nature.

Yet she has a deskmate who ranks first in the entire school: Yan Xiao.

On their first day as deskmates, Qiu Ling woke up, glimpsed Yan Xiao's cool, handsome profile, and wrote in her diary: "Yanmiao: a treetop rising high into the clouds."

On their tenth day as deskmates, Qiu Ling complained to her best friend in front of the whole class: "Yan Xiao's a cactus. He never talks, he's boring, and he's so cold he pricks you. I never want to sit next to him again!"

The person in question heard every word. Yan Xiao shot Qiu Ling a cold glance.

Everyone assumed the two had become enemies and couldn't stand the sight of each other.

But later, Qiu Ling left without looking back, carrying the cactus Yan Xiao had saved, and bid farewell to the undercurrents that had played out over the years beneath the sunsets outside their window.

Yan Xiao, meanwhile, stayed behind alone, with the view outside the window he could share with no one and a useless train ticket.

Years later, Yan Xiao was teaching a class at B University. Everyone said he was cold and uninterested in everyone. Then one day, he caught a few students skipping class. "Get back to class."

"Come on, Professor, give us a break! The band Bitter Moon is performing on campus today. I've been in love with their accordionist forever. She's gorgeous and plays so well. Her name is Qiu..."

Qiu Ling.

Yan Xiao's expression turned cold, and the chalk snapped in his hand as he wrote on the board.

Yan Xiao let the students go. But after the performance, when they went backstage to ask Qiu Ling for her contact information, they saw a tall man leaning toward her, his fingers brushing over her lips and lightly tracing the vivid lipstick at the corner of her mouth.

Who else could that man be but their Professor Yan Xiao?

The girl in his arms blinked her doe eyes, her ears already turning scarlet.

The man's eyes were dark and sharp. His voice was slightly cool, like snowmelt running down a pine-covered mountain, yet it made her heart itch. "Now it's my turn to watch you from the audience, and only you. Is that okay, Lingling?"

#Isn'tYanXiaoTheUntouchableFlowerSupposedToBeAloof#

#HowManyThingsHaveYouBeenHidingFromUs#

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"You were the secret I had a crush on for so long when I was young. I want the moon to stop for me."

[Lazy, wisecracking accordionist in a band, heroine] * [Untouchable flower, geology graduate student, hero]

He falls first, 50% campus romance, 50% urban romance

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Drowned in Green Moonlight

A ring, a promise, a marriage certificate... None of it made Tai Wuzhang feel that her marriage was real.

Only when the snowstorm buried her mother's name on the gravestone, and Fu Boyue held a black umbrella over her to shield her from the snow falling from the pine branches, did Tai Wuzhang look up into his bloodshot eyes and realize that this husband in name only had been sharing her pain for a long time.

This marriage had been forced upon them while her mother was seriously ill. Back then, Tai Wuzhang stood in the sudden autumn downpour at night, watching the lights of a Rolls-Royce pierce through everything and crush the curtain of rain into shards of glass that cut at her dignity.

But Fu Boyue didn't make her wait long.

"Tai Wuzhang." He pulled her into his arms, shutting out despair and cold. "Don't worry. I'm better at playing a husband than you are."

As a film director, Tai Wuzhang had once soared to success, then fallen into poverty and disgrace, before making a triumphant comeback with Fu Boyue by her side.

After she drank too much at her celebratory banquet, the paparazzi caught Fu Boyue carrying her home.

The next day, the trending headlines exploded: #FuGroupCEOSpendsTheNightWithRisingDirector#

He made an official announcement right away: I'm taking my wife home.

Then he held down the hand trying to punch him and smiled. "How is that a rumor?"

"Silly, you really forgot we were married because you drank too much."

[Reading Guide]

1. Tai Wuzhang * Fu Boyue (genius director * business tycoon)

2. Marriage first, love later, one-on-one romance, he falls first, intense push and pull, seven-year age gap, and the heroine is quite young.

3. The heroine has a complex personality and goes through character growth. There are family and friendship subplots, and a female-female romance between side characters. Please don't read if that bothers you.

Theme: True love has no easy road