Shall We Watch the Snow Together This Winter?

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■ Love at First Sight | Ensemble Cast | Urban Fairy Tale | Realistic Leaning | Slow Burn

Tan Qiuning graduated from university, and her boyfriend was going to work in Suizhou.

To give Tan Qiuning a sense of security, they decided to get married.

She married at 22, had a child at 23, and divorced at 25.

After the divorce, she picked up all her old hobbies again.

She worked as a translator and university lecturer, gave a TED Talk, and went to teach in remote areas...

Just when she thought she would never love anyone in this lifetime, Jin Fan, the best man in the world, appeared.

That winter, snow was falling. Jin Fan stood downstairs, phone in hand. "Tan Qiuning, it's snowing."

"Mm, I see." Standing at the window, Tan Qiuning's gaze settled on Jin Fan beside the streetlamp below. The man wore a black overcoat, snow resting on his shoulders.

"Want to go look at the snow?"

"Guoguo should be asleep by now."

After saying that, she hung up. Before she knew it, tears had slipped from the corners of her eyes.

"Coward."

Jin Fan held the disconnected phone and murmured to himself, head bowed.

In Tan Qiuning's haphazard life, she thought she had met a good man, just too late.

As Akhmatova put it: "The evening light is golden and distant, and April's freshness is so tender. You came many years late, but I am still glad you came."

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Male lead's point of view:

In the 29 years of his life, Jin Fan had never imagined he would fall in love at first sight with a woman. But life was full of chance encounters and surprises.

The first time, outside a hospital, he caught a fleeting glimpse of her and did not even see her face clearly.

The second time, at a law firm, they passed each other, and he went to great lengths to take on her case.

The third time, outside a film set, he contrived to see her, worried about her making the two-hour journey home at night.

But Tan Qiuning's words, "Attorney Jin, you don't have to do this," shattered every little moment of happiness he had cherished.

Jin Fan spent a long, agonizing 48 hours confirming one thing: he liked Tan Qiuning.

He said, "Tan Qiuning, we're both lonely hedgehogs."

Only those on the same wavelength can see the hidden elegance deep within each other's hearts.

The night they made their feelings clear, snow blanketed the streets of California.

Jin Fan lowered his head and said to Tan Qiuning, "Tan Qiuning, let's bury the past beneath this heavy snow."

"Let's move forward together, all right?"

He had waited a long time for her answer. At last, it came.

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Female lead is not a virgin; male lead is a virgin. The female lead is divorced and has a child. Proceed with caution if this is a dealbreaker!

The original blurb was archived on November 2, 2022.

The final version is dated July 20, 2025.

The next novel will be Walking Fish.

In western Sichuan, Tan Wu met someone.

He was aloof and self-possessed, like a blue sky at dusk.

They went together to watch the golden sunlight spill over the mountains.

On summer nights, languid and charged with ambiguity, they held each other and kissed.

It was a trip taken at the lowest point in Tan Wu's life.

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She saw Xu Weili again at her mother's wedding reception. From the center of the hall, she stared at him standing behind her stepfather, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

Then her mother's words pulled her thoughts back:

"This is your older brother."

She narrowed her eyes and said nothing, watching him with interest. Her dark eyes grew ever more intense as her gaze locked onto him. No one knew that through countless nights, they had been entangled in passionate, intimate embraces.

First version written on September 7, 2025, and archived.

Note: "We're both lonely hedgehogs. Only those on the same wavelength can see the hidden elegance deep within each other's hearts" is from The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

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