Cupid Is Waiting at the Traffic Light

[Currently updating: Immortal Maiden, Please Restrain Yourself!, a xianxia novel] [Important content warnings below the blurb. Controversial elements will not be part of the paid chapters or the rankings.] [Current progress: The first story arc is complete] Before leaving, He Youran's ex-girlfriend cleaned the entire apartment until it was spotless. The only trace she left behind was a browsing history on the computer: saved posts from an old forum that had become a wasteland, where no one had posted or replied in years. Her ex, Qin Huai, was sentimental, so it wasn't surprising she'd found a site like that. Her account was still logged in. He Youran hesitated, then opened the browsing history. There were three posts. He Youran opened them one by one, as if unfolding three distant letters, long covered in dust... In 1998, backstage at a gala marking the first anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China, Zhou Lingyi met Liu Chiying for the first time. The young and beautiful actress from the mainland repeatedly begged her to star in a film about two women in love. Zhou brushed her off, thinking she would refuse no matter what. Her image was flawless, and she would never do anything outrageous. Yet a month later, she starred in the film. Two years after that, she and Liu Chiying played lovers again, dragging each other's lives into a dark whirlpool of desire from which neither could escape. In 2008, Wang Ping experienced both overwhelming joy and sorrow in a single day. She and her junior took part in a traditional opera performance at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. At the celebratory banquet that night, her junior, the second-generation leading actress of the Nan Fang Yue Opera Troupe and a successor of the Fu school, confessed her feelings. Shen Suqiong was proud, bad-tempered, and very cute, with eyes full of affection. She told Wang Ping she loved only her and wouldn't allow her to love anyone else. Wang Ping froze, feeling as if her life were a speeding train that had finally derailed at that very moment. In 2018, do you need a reason to dislike someone? Yang Shu thought. She and Xie Zhitao were complete opposites. Yang Shu was bold and decisive, loved travel, adventure, and living life to the fullest. Xie Zhitao was cautious and quiet, with a world of her own that no outsider could easily touch, not even at its edges. But did love need a reason? Her colleague Xie Zhitao helped her, drunk, outside and gave her a piece of corn candy, just like when they were sixteen. Back then, her classmate Xie Zhitao had written on the birthday postcard she gave Yang Shu: "Being different can be a kind of complement." The tiny postcard had been stuck to a huge bag of Yang Shu's favorite corn candy. In 2024, He Youran broke up with her girlfriend. She had met Qin Huai on a badminton court when she was twenty-three. Qin Huai was ten years older, with a gentle name but a somewhat cold demeanor. He Youran had pursued her, and she was the one who ended things. Did that make them even? If Qin Huai were here, she'd surely say this was no way to think about relationships. There was no such thing as keeping score. He Youran and Qin Huai were incompatible in every way, from their outlooks to their tastes. Their total mismatch was like an unbridgeable chasm. He Youran opened Qin Huai's browsing history and softly asked herself: Sis, is there any other way for us? [Important content warnings] The heroines in the first and second stories were born in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of their views are conservative and outdated, and do not reflect the author's own. At the beginning of the first story, one heroine has a family and a daughter. In the second story, one heroine has had an ex-boyfriend. He will not be described in detail, but this is an unpleasant premise. * The blurbs for story arcs not yet written may change. * I may not update the whole novel continuously, but whenever I start a story arc, I will try to update daily at 18:00. Theme: Live for yourself.