A Secret Wish in the Dim Light

Coming soon: Years in Bloom, a marriage-first, love-later story with a chase-your-wife-to-the-crematorium arc. If you like it, please add it to your favorites~

Blurb: Xu Qingcen first met Zhou Huailuo at a pool hall. Soaked from the rain, she blundered inside and asked who was speaking, drawing a few bold, amused looks. Just as she grew flustered, he spoke up to rescue her: "It was me."

Later, one night, she was stranded at a bus stop. With nowhere else to turn, she called his number: "Zhou Huailuo, I can't get a taxi. Could you... could you come pick me up?"

Before she could finish, the call cut off. But half an hour later, a beam of headlights pierced the dark road ahead.

She looked up and saw him walking toward her through the wind, his steps unhurried.

Everyone in Mingzhou knew Zhou Huailuo as aloof, refined, and indifferent to others. Xu Qingcen didn't believe it at first, until the day she confessed to him. He looked at her and said, calmly and casually, "Xu Qingcen, I always thought you were pretty good at knowing your place."

Zhou Huailuo was reserved and composed, aloof and proud. Though he was surrounded by admirers, he never spared them a glance. No one knew that one day he would travel a thousand miles just to see someone and say to her, "Xu Qingcen, I was the one who didn't know my place."

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The night before Xu Qingcen left Mingzhou, Zhou Huailuo asked her, "Have you really decided you don't want me anymore?"

When she confirmed it, his eyes reddened, but he smiled. "It's all right. If you've made up your mind, then be brave and keep moving forward. But remember, don't look back. There's no turning back."

One night, a long time later, Xu Qingcen opened her contacts and stared at his name for a long time. As she tried to exit, she accidentally called him. A moment later, she heard him say, "Hello?"

She pretended to be casual and said she'd called by mistake.

He replied, "Okay. I'll hang up."

After the call ended, she broke down and sobbed.

But she didn't notice that the screen still showed the call in progress...

HE, single heroine

Years in Bloom blurb

Meng Shaoyu married Jiang Xunian for two reasons. First, to repay a debt: when he nearly drowned as a child, Jiang Xunian's grandmother saved him. Second, for revenge: as an adult, his mother fell from a building by accident, and Jiang Xunian's aunt was responsible.

So he agreed to the marriage, even though she had a disfigured face.

When she was eighteen, Jiang Xunian escaped a fire with a scar running from her left ear to her jaw. The fire also took her sister's life, and from then on, her parents saw her as a sinner.

At first, when Meng Shaoyu clutched his grandmother's hand and said he was willing to marry her, Jiang Xunian truly believed he would take good care of her. Only after they married did she learn that, in his eyes, she was worthless.

"Jiang Xunian, Mo Mo is back. She's the woman Meng Shaoyu has yearned for all these years. He'll leave you soon. He's going to marry Mo Mo."

Not long afterward, her grandmother passed away. As everyone had expected, Meng Shaoyu handed Jiang Xunian divorce papers and said he was marrying someone else. On the night she lost her last refuge, Jiang Xunian left Jingzhou alone.

Meng Shaoyu thought he had finally broken free, but after losing Jiang Xunian, he was swallowed by a tide of loneliness every night.

Later, everyone in Jingzhou knew that the usually cold, arrogant head of the Meng family was frantically searching for his disfigured wife, turning nearly the entire city upside down.

One day, six months later, Meng Shaoyu finally got news of Jiang Xunian. But he saw with his own eyes as she walked toward another man with flowers in her hand.

Unwilling to let her go, he did everything he could to cling to her, even pleading desperately. But Jiang Xunian spoke to him with the same coldness he had once shown her: "If we couldn't part on good terms, then let's at least part cleanly. Meng Shaoyu, we can never go back to how things were."

Obstinate, aloof man vs sensitive, solitary woman

One-on-one romance, both leads' first love, happy ending

Theme: Hold on to hope and keep living.