Until the Rain Stops

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Back in high school, Xia Ting told herself more than once that when the rain stopped, she would stop liking him.

But once the rain passed and the skies cleared, the feelings she had hidden in her heart still would not go away.

In the end, her secret crush never saw the light of day.

After graduating high school, they each went their separate ways, never to cross paths again.

At twenty-five, Xia Ting and he were trapped beneath the same roof by a heavy downpour.

She was reaching out to catch the falling raindrops when he suddenly said with an easygoing smile, "Xia Ting, you probably didn't know that I liked you in high school, did you?"

Xia Ting replied blankly, "I really didn't..."

"What about now?" He turned to look at her. His voice mingled with the rumbling thunder and the patter of the rain, yet every word was crystal clear. "Do you know that I still like you very much?"

- When this rain stops, let's start dating.

In their youth: aloof, taciturn heartthrob x reserved, gentle girl

After their reunion: heir to a conglomerate x assistant prosecutor

Mutual pining, a reunion after years apart, and a guaranteed happy ending.

A short novella of 100,000 characters. The full manuscript is complete, and the first half alternates between the present and the past.

[Major content warning: This novel is an outlet for my desire to express myself. It may be too idealistic, too dreamlike, and too unrealistic, but I still won't accept writing advice. Thank you for understanding.]

Revised and polished the blurb on 2024.07.31, with a screenshot saved for the record.

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Tang Juying was in a car accident and suffered a head injury, losing some of her memories.

When she awoke from her coma, she remembered everyone else, including the man she had always loved, but had completely forgotten Fu Chengyu, the man she had married in an arranged match.

She had also forgotten that she had agreed to marry Fu Chengyu because, for all these years, the man she loved had only ever treated her as a stand-in for someone who had died.

She had agreed to marry Fu Chengyu after giving up on love.

When told she was already married, the amnesiac Tang Juying was shocked and incredulous. "How could I possibly marry someone I don't love?"

Fu Chengyu pressed his lips together, then left the hospital room to find her attending doctor.

The doctor told Fu Chengyu that the patient might have selectively forgotten the memories that caused her pain.

Fu Chengyu: "..."

Tang Juying was absolutely certain she didn't love Fu Chengyu. She couldn't bring herself to live under the same roof with a man who was a stranger to her, let alone share a bed with him.

So, the day before she was discharged, Tang Juying took the initiative and asked Fu Chengyu for a divorce.

Fu Chengyu stayed awake all night. In the end, after daybreak, he went with Tang Juying to the civil affairs bureau and divorced her.

However, not long after divorcing Fu Chengyu, Tang Juying discovered she was pregnant.

A few months later, Tang Juying, now visibly pregnant, went to the hospital for a prenatal checkup and ran into two men.

The man she had always loved had realized that he had fallen for Tang Juying long ago. "Xiaoying, I don't mind being a stepfather. I can raise the baby with you. I promise I'll love you and the baby. Please give me another chance."

Her ex-husband Fu Chengyu spoke coldly beside them. "The child's real father is right here. There's no need for you to volunteer to be the stepfather."

A secret crush from the male lead's perspective, and an arranged marriage from the female lead's perspective.

Divorce first, love later + pregnancy before love. The leads will remarry in the end.

A captain who goes from heartbreak to secret satisfaction x an illustrator who goes from indifference to falling hard

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Years later, they met again in an ophthalmology clinic at the hospital.

"Jasmine." Liang Xingsheng still called Luo Ying by the nickname he had used for her back then. In his deep voice, he gently asked, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Luo Ying said nothing. She turned and walked away.

One day, Luo Ying woke up in the bed in Liang Xingsheng's bedroom.

He was leaning by the window, looking down at her with an unhurried gaze. The belt of his bathrobe was tied carelessly, and a prominent line of scratches marked his chest.

Blushing, she raised her voice to bluff her way through her embarrassment and snapped, "Liang Xingsheng, are you even human?"

Liang Xingsheng smiled. His gentle tone held a note of indifference. "Didn't you figure that out long ago? I'm a bastard."

With evident pleasure, he told her, "Jasmine, you called me that last night, too."

[No one cares about me the way you do, yet no one can break my heart like you can.]

- Pretentious gentleman x fake sweetheart

- Ophthalmologist x cultural relic restorer

- Reunion after years apart, with a seven-year age gap.

Theme: A secret crush can be returned, and those separated for years can meet again.