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Spring Branches, Autumn Rain 春枝秋雨
Preorders open at 7:30 p.m. on July 17, 2021. The first two minutes come with a signed copy. Print edition signed with Dayu Literature. The published edition will include a new afterword. We fell in love during the first rain of autumn, and parted when the first bud appeared in spring. Bad ending. Don't go to the song or bother the unrelated people over there. Theme: Everything will be all right.
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Respecting Mountains and Rivers 敬山水
On the day of Xu Zhengqing's wedding, he received a red envelope. On the back were eight characters: "A journey through mountains and rivers, three lifetimes of good fortune." · danmei / no real-life counterpart · Print edition signed; follow Weibo @Bie Siwei for related updates Theme: Respect the mountains and rivers, and respect you and me.
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I Only Sneaked a Glance at Him 我只偷看他一眼
[The full-length print edition is now available from major retailers] [Dream romance content and insults directed at the heroine will not be tolerated] [Sister story, Sinking into Mercury, is in my collection ovo] "In this one-woman show of unrequited love, she played her part to perfection, all by herself." *This is a short piece of prose. *Author's Weibo: Zhi Jiujiu Theme: Unrequited love hurts too much.
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Gold and Silver in Disarray 金银错
She specially allows him to call her by name when they are alone. Her maiden name is Wanwan, but ever since she received her title, that childhood nickname has hardly been used. With a faint air of melancholy, she furrowed her brow and complained to him, "When I die someday, I doubt anyone will even know what my real name was." *An alternate Ming-Qing setting. BE. Theme:
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The Number Six “六”这个数字
[This story has been included in a short story collection. See @A Yao's Musings for details.] A casual little piece, very simple and short. Read with caution. Six seating charts sum up the years of our youth. In the end, he never heard the cicadas sing in summer, nor did he ever hear me say, "I like you." Theme: Secret love
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Wutong Lane 梧桐巷
They first met in 2009, when an innocent young girl crossed paths with a cool, gentle genius boy in Wutong Lane. Heaven has its way, and would never separate two people in love. The boy she had secretly loved since childhood died tragically at the hands of scum while trying to save her. She was bullied and tormented, and when her parents and family weren't there for her, he held her in his arms. He told her that someone loved her. For four years, he pulled her out of the darkness time and again.
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White Paper and Affection 白纸与喜欢
[This story has been included in a short-story collection. For details, see @A Yao's Ramblings] She doesn't remember much about that year. Apart from him, she has very few memories of her youth. Theme: Unrequited love
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Ten Miles of Mist 十里雾
[The print edition is now available on all major platforms | New stories Ashes and Watching the Moon are both complete | Next up: Willow Branches Brushing the Embankment. Thank you all for your support! See @xingchiing on Weibo for details.] 1.// A mountain retreat stretches far and wide, shrouded in ten miles of fog. He walked through the thick fog for many, many years. Then one day, the fog lifted, and he saw the new grave that belonged to him. *Ji Jing x Zhao Yao A cool beauty x the heir
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Echoes of a Secret Crush: Bad Ending 暗恋回声be
This is now a full-length novel, expanded into a sweet happy-ending story. It's complete and available in my works. [My latest tragic ending, A Dream of Nanke, is complete and available in my works. Weibo: @Wan Yang] Blurb: After the college entrance exam, Ye Shuci sent Shen Ci an unsigned letter. "Shen Ci, secretly loving someone is like crossing a narrow bridge. I tremble and cower, timid and terrified, and make you my whole world. But whether I cry or laugh, whether I'm happy or angry, you'll
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I Know This Journey Will Come to Nothing 我知征途无果
[This story has been signed to a short story collection. For details, see @A Yao's Ramblings] I know this journey will lead nowhere, but my love is reaching for the light. Chen Zhu, it seems you'll never know that I've loved you all your life. Theme: Secret love
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Someone Has Had a Crush on Me for Eleven Years 有个人暗恋我十一年
[Preorders for the September 16, 2023 publication are open. See Weibo @Jinjiang Yinyin.] [Please add the author to your favorites!] At a high school reunion ten years later, Xie Lingling happens to find a wallet and discovers a photo of herself from high school inside. When she returns it to its owner, Xie Lingling takes a careful look at Yu Chao and realizes just how much he has changed. After the reunion, Xie Lingling leans against the wall, slowly exhales a puff of smoke toward the man in f
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I'll Wait for You Until You're Thirty-Five 我等你到三十五岁
Nan Kang Bai Qi (1980.04.13-2008.03.?), from Liaoning, was a writer of gay fiction. He wrote the autobiographical works Recollections of a Floating Life and I'll Wait for You Until You're 35, as well as danmei novels such as The Fox Demon, May We Live Long, and The Tribulation of Regret. His writing was delicate and elegant. Recollections of a Floating Life recounts moments from Nan Kang's life with his boyfriend. I'll Wait for You Until You're Thirty-Five was written after they broke up, expr
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[The Husky and His White Cat Shizun] Be: The Old Friend's Pity 【二哈和他的白猫师尊】Be-故人怜
Mo Ran kicks the bucket in the final great battle. Cat Ning is left home alone. A very, very short story, just one piece. Theme: Bad ending
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The Last Rose 最后一朵玫瑰
I'm thinking of expanding this into a full-length story. If you'd like to read it, add the long version to your collection. It's next door, and I'll start it once it reaches 3,000 saves. [My latest tragic ending, A Dream in Nanke, is complete and in my collection~ Weibo: @Wanyang] Blurb: Years later, Qiao Anning found an old photograph at home. On the back, there was a line she'd written during her school days: The only photo I have with you was taken on school anniversary day. I asked a classm
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He Should Be Like a Tree 他要像一棵树
A secret crush began with a joke, and ended with one too. Not every childhood sweetheart ends up together, and not everyone with a secret crush has the courage to confess. This story is told in a quiet, understated style, exploring love in the lives of ordinary people. It is about carefully guarding a heart in love from afar. Theme: A secret crush can be beautiful, even when it leaves regrets.
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Ends in Spring 止于春
[Signed for print publication with Qianshi Culture. The print edition will be available for preorder on May 25, 2024, at 7:00 PM.] Years later, at a class reunion, Sheng Yanshuang saw Jiang Yan again. She had been looking forward to meeting the boy he used to be, but all she got was the man's cold reply: "Are we close?" Sheng Yanshuang could only shake her head, her heart aching. So she'd lost her boy long ago. Later, spring came in 2016. It turned out her boy had stopped at spring and never
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The Crane Returns in the Seventh Year 第七年鹤归
[Physical edition available for preorder, includes a happy-ending version extra story. See Weibo @Wanyang for details] [The next book is Heatwave, Blazing Across the Plains. The blurb is below. Please add it to your to-read list~] Blurb: Unrequited love + redemption / bad ending When Song Wangning first arrived in Ancheng, she had hearing loss in one ear. She wore a school uniform washed pale and spoke poor Mandarin. Her classmates kept their distance, and she had almost no friends. Only Shen R
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Friends I’ve Loved for a Long Time (Short Story) 爱了很久的朋友（短篇）
(The full-length print edition is now available on all major platforms.) A Li, I beg the heavens to let you live a little longer. I'd give up all my luck and years of my life for you. [The full-length novel is complete in the author's collection.] Author's Weibo: Zhi Jiujiu Theme: A friend I've loved for a long time
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Tales of a Small Town (Short Story) 小镇往事（短篇）
[The expanded edition has been signed for publication. For details, please follow @CishuYaoJiayou] Night falls, and autumn has come to the mountains and rivers. For half a lifetime, I've crossed mountains and rivers, and in the end, become a stranger at the edge of the world. - Longing for something that never got a proper goodbye, a regret that lingers I'm not that sad. I think you once loved me. Bad ending - Reader advisory: 1. This short story has poor narration and limited prose. The wri
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A Paper Boat Drifting on the Sea 一只飘在海上的纸船
A paper boat slowly dissolves at sea. But that doesn't necessarily mean the paper boat feels lonely. Through countless long voyages beneath starry nights, only the sea and the little boat keep each other company. Even if in the end, the boat's body sinks deep beneath the sea. A short, bittersweet story. No real-life inspiration. Theme: Unrequited love
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Deep Within the Soul 灵魂深处
Acknowledgments: Cover art hand-drawn by Jiuyue, cover made by Master Gucha Lvxian Zhan Xing, a scatterbrained runaway, calls the deadpan tomb raider Lin Jingfeng "Little Master" and ropes him into his escapades. Together, they thunder their way through countless ancient tombs: The cat general beneath the sea, the headless Buddha in Tibet, the thousand-year-old ba in Liuzhou, the hanging-coffin corpses of Xiang and Qian, the ghost child of Changbai... And so begins Lin Jingfeng's tragic and her
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Seven Letters from the Obsessive Lover Who Died 偏执狂死后寄来的七封信
In the seventh year of being kept at home after their marriage, Yu Han’s possessive, obsessive husband dies, and his death is completely unexpected. At the funeral, Yu Han receives the first letter his husband sent before he died. There are six more to come. [A short bad-ending story. The full novel costs less than two yuan to subscribe to. Please support the official release!] Cover art thanks to @Wu Guan Lan, sweetheart. XOXO! Coming Soon: When I’d Given Up Hope, He Started Loving Me. Add
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But You Don't Have One 可是你没有
"If you'd just look back once, you'd see me right behind you. But you never did." A coin has two sides. Only together do the front and back make a whole coin. Chen Huaiyu was the back, and so was Yang Xiyue. A letter that could never be sent. Someone she loved but could never have. She walked beside him along the road called youth. Unrequited love / quiet and understated / tragic ending (2022.01.11) Theme: Learn to let go and become a better version of yourself.
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Evening Breeze 晚风
The years are so long, the regrets so deep. Can we let go by blaming everything on fate? The tide says nothing. The evening breeze gives no answer. So the tide rises in silence, and love hides in the evening breeze. - Characters: Radiant, vivacious heroine × cool, gentle hero Genre: Tragic ending, youth, school life, ensemble cast, bittersweet ★ The physical edition goes on preorder at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, 2023. Another tragic-ending story, Among the Brambles, is available in the aut
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Does the Crescent Moon Bend? 月牙弯不弯
[This story has been signed for an anthology of short stories. For details, see @A Yao's Ramblings] Behind a secret crush are countless glimpses of someone's back and hurriedly averted gazes. I want to turn a bad ending into a happy one. A rebellious delinquent boy x a quiet, reserved good girl "Lin Yizhao, look up." The boy's voice, brimming with youthful energy, sounded especially out of place in the stillness. She looked up at the sound and saw a crescent moon. A crescent moon in her eye
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I'm a Pro at Faking My Death [Quick Transmigration] 死遁，我是专业的[快穿]
[The first four worlds are complete. World 5 is in progress.] Faking his death is the top way to exit for the Transmigration Bureau’s number-one agent. Shen Buqi specializes in faking his death and ranks first in performance, with just one little problem. He’s the head of the Heartbreaking Melodrama Department, so before he fakes his death, he has to take him through every classic, cliché melodrama plot there is. World 1: Living off his partner x losing control x a dying man’s revelry [ABO] Ev
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Twenty-Six Letters 二十六封信
[Irregularly revised and proofread] The ending was decided from the very beginning. North and south are so, so far apart. We would never know each other. You Beining always believed that her first true encounter with Zuo Nanzhe had been in winter, beneath the school's rankings board. Sparse snowflakes drifted down from the sky. No special beam of light shone on Zuo Nanzhe that day, but whenever she looked back, she always thought: A boy like him is a ray of light all on his own. From the ve
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Eternal Silence of the Mountains and Rivers (Li Yu Fanfiction) 山河永寂（李煜同人）
A lifetime of glory, your burial. A splendid realm, yet no fate to rule. How laughable. Li Congjia wrapped himself in the trappings of a golden age and thought he could enjoy a world of song and celebration. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand. He understood too well, yet insisted on wagering his kingdom for love. With his elder brother closing in at every turn, could he truly find freedom amid the boundless waves? Phoenixes once roamed Phoenix Terrace. You broke your promise and left; I waite
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The One I Can't Wait For 等不到
He Qiyan's story is in another collection, titled "A Motley Crew." "My dear, though our roads are long and our paths diverge, I hope you get everything you wish for." This is original work. No unauthorized adaptations. If you use a video unrelated to "Never Waiting" as a blurb, please credit the source. Thank you for your cooperation. He Yuxi met him at seventeen, discovered his secret at twenty-two, and left this world forever at twenty-five. BE [No real-life inspiration] VB: Liliye LI Theme
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The Prosperous Age's Ghost 盛世鬼
Better to be a ghost in an age of prosperity than a person in an age of chaos. Theme:
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After the Clouds Part, the Moon Shines Bright 守得云开见月明
[The physical edition will go on presale at 7:30 p.m. on December 17. For details, follow @Suijianer on Weibo.] He Yun Kai loved Liang Yueming for decades. No one believed him but Liang Yueming himself. After the clouds clear, the moon shines bright. But his moon would be lost forever. *Unrequited love / bad ending *This story has been included in a physical short-story collection. Theme: When it comes to love, be brave, sincere, and steadfast
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Pilgrimage 朝圣
2012. The apocalypse foretold by the Maya three thousand years ago has finally arrived. The Maya invade Earth, and humanity rises up to fight back. Two kinds of intelligent life from across the multidimensional universe clash for the first time. Humanity is driven back at every turn, forced to take refuge underground. The Federation Army captures a particle generator belonging to the alien creatures. They come from the center of the Milky Way, from another parallel universe of a higher dimension
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A Certain Little Island 某枝小岛
[Print edition on sale September 20, with three new bonus chapters] @Jiangshengyi -- Blurb for "A Little Island Branch" -- Jiang Wenzhi has a secret crush on Fu Chiyu. In their third year, as they parted ways after the high school entrance exams, she wrote her first love letter. It ended with: "Fu Chiyu, will we... still have a chance to see each other?" In their sixth year, the first letter in her drawer had faded. Fu Chiyu had made a pact with her to attend university in the same city, and sh
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If You're Afraid of Pain, Why Not Turn It Down to the Lowest Setting? 怕痛的话痛感调最低不就好了吗？
Please check out my upcoming novels~ Would You Be My Family? A heartwarming little story about an ordinary person from a Lovecraftian world who transmigrates and builds a family with real people. [Important warning] [This was my first novel... I'm sorry it wasn't written very well. If parts of the later chapters make you uncomfortable, I recommend running away.] [Blurb] . . Nanami Akiko was born with a game System, and believed: "This world is a game. It's virtual. It doesn't really exist."
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Wushan Is No Cloud 巫山不是云
(This book has been signed for inclusion in a short story collection. For details, see Weibo: Zhi Jiujiu.) “The place I can never reach in this lifetime is Wushan, and it is also your side.” *The title comes from the poem: “Once you’ve seen the sea, no waters compare; save for Wushan, no clouds are worth a glance.” Theme: A secret that cannot be told
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Listen, Listen, That's the Sound from Back Then 你听你听，是那时候的声音
The print edition goes on sale on August 17, 2024, with about 40,000 additional words, including an extra from the male lead's perspective. Weibo: Shiheli a Blurb: Let's not stay here. Come back with me to when we were eighteen. Let's hide beneath the azaleas on campus. Let's not let fate find us. (Blurb adapted from Jian Zhen's A Summer Afternoon Meeting in a Foreign Land) Bad ending. Short story. Theme: Some moments deserve to be remembered
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The Boy Growing Under My Bed 我床下长出的boy
#What is it like to buy a house on top of a graveyard?# Me at eight: That chubby big brother who appeared out of nowhere keeps drooling over my sleeping face. I bet he has a secret crush on me! Me at eighteen: (patting the bed) Xiao Bai, come here. I've got something tasty for you. [Reader's Guide]: Boneless heteromorph. [One-line Summary]: The cutest evil force. Theme:
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The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记
*Signed for publication in a print collection of short stories. Follow Weibo @Shi Sui Ying for more updates. You were my salvation, yet you led me astray in the end. At the edge of sunset, blood stained the hem of a girl's skirt. It turned out that a fall took only a few seconds to end someone's whole life. Seeing you happy still makes me cry. The white magnolias on Nanxiang Lane have already faded. It feels as though that joy never made it past that spring. My last diary entry: "Maybe I'm
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The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Bingjiu 人渣反派自救系统，冰九
Whether it's angsty depends on what gets to you. The wife-chasing crematorium trope. Theme:
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There's So Much You Don't Know 你不知道的太多了
Lu Changze said, "Gu Xiu, there's so much you don't know." At first, Gu Xiu didn't understand. By the time he finally did, Lu Changze was long gone. Recently a young woman asked me for permission to print the books herself. If you'd like a copy, you can join the print run poll on my Weibo, "Zuo Jiu Le Tui Zong Ma." I think the plan is to make a combined edition of the first and second volumes~ Theme:
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Introduction to Advanced Mathematics 高等数学概论
An Introduction to Advanced Mathematics by Hua Luogeng --The Yi Xiuluo of the Chinese literary world isn't planning to update today, either. A short collection of GAO-level SHU materials for JIAO, under thirty thousand words. New installments will appear at irregular intervals. The style and subject matter vary. There's no guarantee they'll all be silly, sweet, and happy-ending stories, just like taking advanced math: some pass, and some fail. Theme:
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Rich Autumn Hues 秋意浓
(Free, not paywalled) During her 123rd fierce clash with the male ghost she shared an apartment with, Yu Jinmang broke down and shouted: “I’m calling a lawyer!!!” Lu Shian calmly washed his hands and corrected her: “For matters involving both the living and the dead, I wouldn’t recommend a lawyer. A medium would be a better choice.” Content warning: Bad ending Theme: Give her a future filled with boundless light
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The Twenty-Four-Hour Clock 二十四时钟
The full-length novel has been signed for publication. For details, see Weibo/Douyin: @Yuanzhangz Wen Tianyu x Xiang Qing I happened to glance over, and the rose in the corner had finally bloomed. Wen Tianyu Theme: Grow toward the light
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The Day I Didn't Peek 不偷看的那一天
[This story has been included in a short-story collection. For details, see @A Yao's Ramblings] Many years later, she happened to come across a viral video online. A man was playing the piano, while a graceful woman danced beside him. He was accompanying her. The man in the video was the secret she had kept hidden from the light throughout her youth. He had occupied her entire youth, while she was just one of many people in his world. Even a beautiful story can have its share of regretful ending
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The Eleventh Spring 十一春
[There's a modern-day extra on Weibo. See the author's profile.] Cheng Qing was picked up by Cheng Qi from his father's mistress. She was skinny and timid, tugging at his sleeve and calling him big brother. Cheng Qi thought, It might be fun to raise her. Cheng Qi was a great villain. He often threatened not to feed Cheng Qing, was fierce to her every day, and constantly said he would poison her. Cheng Qing often thought, This man really is rotten to the core. In the spring of the eighteenth yea
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The Vast Sea (Matrilineal) 沧海（母系）
In ancient times, when humans, gods, demons, and monsters coexisted, everyone knew who their mother was, but not their father. The Lord of the Northern Sea sought a wife unmatched beneath the heavens, so he came ashore to search... And so the course of history began to shift. A prequel to A Thousand Demons and a Hundred Enchantresses, set in a matriarchal society. Theme: The evolution of matriarchal society
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Among the Thorns 荆棘里
She once wrote on paper: "Roses have thorns, Silver Spring has mud, and Summer Green walks among the brambles." Much later, she happened to notice that someone had added a crooked line beside it: "Roses bloom among the brambles, their fragrance traveling a thousand miles." That year, she asked him, "Song Cuicuo, tell me, what makes a boy good, and what makes a boy bad?" He smiled and replied, "Good boys marry brides. Bad boys go to heaven." The ending was never supposed to be like this. But th
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A Boat in the Deep Sea 深海里的舟
(The print edition is out and available on major platforms.) If only I had met you sooner, perhaps my life wouldn't have turned out this way. My dear, I don't want to wait any longer for this hopeless sea of yours. [Younger man, playboy older woman vs. charming puppy-like younger man] The two of them keep tangling with and getting the better of each other. Note: The heroine has a terrible family life and spends much of her time in bars. The hero is a college student. Theme: I will remember you
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Fomalhaut (Complete) 北落师门（全文完结）
A young man wanders beneath apricot blossoms, petals drifting over his hair. More than a thousand years ago in Bianliang, the Eastern Capital, lanterns still blaze late into the night at Fanlou. We never know how or when love will come. But the warmth of her palm was enough to change his life. References include History of Song, Records of Dreams of the Eastern Capital, and Records of Dreams of Liang. I wrote this when I was young and ignorant. I chose this period because I like Emperor Renzong
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The Jade Well (Complete) 碧甃沉（完结）
At the bottom of the well, I drew up a silver vase; just as it was about to reach the top, the silk rope snapped. I ground a jade hairpin against a stone; just as it was nearly finished, it broke in two. The vase sank and the hairpin shattered. What could I do? Like me today, parting from you. A homeland thousands of miles away, snowy mountain passes, a turbulent age and a dream that startles one awake. A lifetime of splendor, yet in the end, she and he were deeply in love but never meant to be.
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