The Covered Boat

Many details throughout the novel have been revised. The official version is only on Jinjiang. I take no responsibility for pirated copies.

[Reading guide:]

Childhood sweethearts | rekindled love | the husband-chasing crematorium trope | both are virgins | happy ending

The romantic plot takes up most of the story.

The daughter will not forgive her scumbag father or unstable mother.

[Blurb:]

Lin Qingzhu had been secretly in love with Liang Chengzhou for years and thought he liked her too.

On the eve of her confession, she accidentally overheard Liang Chengzhou telling a friend that he thought of her as a younger sister.

Five years after they parted, Lin Qingzhu returned to the country and went out of her way to avoid Liang Chengzhou, doing her best not to run into him.

She used to call his name loudly, over and over: "Liang Chengzhou."

But after returning, she obediently changed how she addressed him, calling him "Brother Chengzhou."

Once, when they were drunk, Liang Chengzhou angrily grabbed Lin Qingzhu by the wrist and pinned her against the wall, glaring at her like a demon. "Can you stop calling me 'Brother'? Who wants to be your brother?"

Lin Qingzhu readily agreed. "From now on, let's act like we don't know each other. No need to say hello if we meet."

Liang Chengzhou sighed. "That's not what I meant."

Lin Qingzhu's red lips curved up. "It doesn't matter. That's what I meant."

A tall, sweet girl who's painfully awkward in love x a domineering CEO who's very good at saying what she wants to hear

Coming up next! [Wild Sour Tangerine], the story of Liang Wenxia and Qin Zhiyu.

Childhood sweethearts who love and fight each other.

When Qin Zhiyu was seven, he stole one of Liang Wenxia's candies and got punched to the ground, knocking out two of his front teeth.

When Qin Zhiyu was seventeen, he hugged Liang Wenxia while she was crying and got kicked down a flight of stone steps, leaving him on crutches for two weeks.

When Qin Zhiyu was twenty-seven, he said to Liang Wenxia, "Marry me," and got slapped, leaving his face swollen for two whole days.

From childhood to adulthood, Qin Zhiyu never once got the upper hand with Liang Wenxia. As a child, she beat him up on the ground. When they grew up, she pinned him down on the bed and beat him.

But he still married her and brought her home, where, with the door closed, he got beaten up.

Qin Zhiyu didn't think of himself as a masochist. He liked being beaten up by Liang Wenxia, liked being dominated by her, and even enjoyed it.

During the years they secretly dated, every time they kissed and got intimate, he would put Liang Wenxia's hands on either side of his neck and tell her over and over, "Baby, squeeze my neck."

Gorgeous and seductive x gentle and refined

Theme: Have the courage to love