Novels like An Imperfect Summer
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as An Imperfect Summer, best match first.
- 101 The Echo of a Secret Crush, and Then It Ends Badly 暗恋回声又be [A reckless, carefree young man vs. a sensitive, insecure girl] (Bad ending) One woman remains unmarried, trapped in the past. The other has a happy marriage and shines brightly. Zhao Huaili is a notorious playboy in Beicheng. He has an impossibly upright-looking face, yet lives a wild life. He may not be the darling of heaven, but he is surrounded by admirers. Lu Zhinan is the Lu family’s shameful illegitimate daughter. Bright-eyed and kind, she always gives people the impression of a girl with 661Reads8.7Score12414d adds
- 102 You Won’t Remember Me 你不会记得我 [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] Chen Yuanwang can seem gentle even when he isn’t smiling. But he shows no one any special warmth. Qin Qiu’s unrequited love ends in regret. She never gets to taste the candied hawthorn Chen Yuanwang promised to treat her to, and he never remembers her. In her youth, he will forever be the male lead whose name fills her diary and whose initials cover her scratch paper. But she will never become his leading lady. 215Reads8.8Score5214d adds
- 103 Behave Yourself! 学乖！ School Life | Healing | Family of Origin | Bittersweet Romance | BE “That person stumbled into your lightless corner and stood before you, backlit, holding out a hand. It was salvation, and it was a god.” Gentle and sensitive × Cold on the outside, warm within He had always been the center of attention, born into a prominent family and exceptional in every way. She was as insignificant as a speck of dust. To everyone else, they were like parallel lines that could never meet, destined never to cr 1.6kReads8.9Score29314d adds
- 104 He's Always So Good at Sweet-Talking Her 他惯会哄她 [Two Top Students x Childhood Friends x Mutual Devotion x Tragedy] Sunny ray of sunshine x Double-Standard Top Student Jiang Shiyuan was the brightest sun in Pei Zhiheng's world. They made many promises at seventeen, but the words "I'll be with you forever" were buried along with her in late autumn. The plane tree leaves had yet to fall from the branches in late autumn when Jiang Shiyuan's life came to an end. [My name is Jiang Shiyuan. Shi, as in time, and Yuan, as in wish. Pei Zhiheng.] [J 806Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 105 Four Years Apart, He Blushed in Secret When We Reunited 一别四年，重逢后他却偷偷红了眼 Reunion after years apart + Rekindled romance + He had a secret crush on her + Bad boy turns over a new leaf + Winning her back + Campus and city life + One-on-One, Both Pure + Healing Each Other + Bittersweet Romance The two people most famous and talked about at Qianhe No. 1 High School were Chi Jiazhou and Jiang Yi. Chi Jiazhou was wild, handsome, and unruly. Jiang Yi was radiant yet cool, sweet, gentle, and well-behaved. Nobody ever paired them together, and nobody knew he was the first to 1.2kReads8.2Score15314d adds
- 106 A Little Cloud 一片小云朵 [Sunny boy Xu Ji × sensitive, overthinking Qiao Tong] [Bad ending] When they first meet, midsummer sunlight falls across the boy’s clothes, and Xu Ji’s smile catches Qiao Tong completely off guard. Bit by bit, Xu Ji brings light to Qiao Tong’s dark world. After the college entrance exams, Xu Ji gathers the courage to reveal the secret he has kept in his heart for so long. “Qiao Tong, will you give me the chance to walk beside you?” “I like you.” Waves pound against the shore. Xu Ji’s words crash 42Reads—Score914d adds
- 107 This Guy's Handsome and Plays by His Own Rules 这个大哥人帅路子野 Possessive obsession + healing + sweet romance The unruly boy she met that year went mad and pulled her into his arms this year. A notorious troublemaker transferred to No. 1 High School. They said he was wild and untamable. Zhou Nian didn’t know how she’d gotten on his bad side, but after only a few encounters, he was already threatening to flip up her bangs. At last, one day, He Zhi saw that she had no impression of him at all. Unable to hold back, he gripped her chin and forced her to look at 93Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 108 Chasing Summer 逐夏 [From Campus to Wedding Dress + Both Pure + Sweet Romance + Healing] [Cheerful, sunny top student who seems like a good girl vs. cold, obsessive campus king] One day, the campus king of Jiang University was on his way to teach a few street thugs a lesson. When he arrived, he found that several of them had already been beaten black and blue. They were on their knees, kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Don't ask us. Our boss makes the decisions." "If you want to ask someone, ask our boss." "Boss, w 3.2kReads6.9Score47514d adds
- 109 I Don’t Want the Bellflowers Anymore 我不要桔梗花了 Yu Nianxu, Wei Mu is still here, still protecting you somewhere else. Wei Mu, don't go! Yu Nianxu, wake up! I'm still here. Wei Mu, I'm awake. Where are you? Wei Mu, I'm willing. Wei Mu, goodbye! I'll live well from now on. 154Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 110 Bridge and Harmony 乔和 I came into this world alone, yet I could not escape falling secretly in love. Qieqie never imagined a boy would burst into her life and become an indispensable part of her growing years. The boy she loved was exceptionally talented, pure and untainted. But in the blink of an eye, fate toyed with him, and he fell into an abyss. He suffered torment, and she stayed by his side. Neither of them was the other's cure, but they became each other's lifeline. The clown became a warrior, and the princess 546Reads9.4Score8914d adds
- 111 Stop Flirting with Me 你别再撩了 I hope Xiao Yijian will shine brightly and enjoy peace year after year. They say Xiao Yijian is wild, arrogant, and untouchable, a famous figure at No. 1 High School. After one exam, while people around him gloated and shared their study tips, the top student sat at his desk, staring pensively at the single-digit score on his paper. As someone crumpled the exam paper into a mess, a slender, beautiful girl finally rescued it from their clutches. Her voice drifted into his ears like misty rain ove 43Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 112 Together with the Light 与光同在 [A rebellious boy & an introverted girl] Because of her family circumstances, Lin Shuyue has become withdrawn. After transferring to the affiliated middle school, she meets Jiang Ze, the boy who saves her. The rebellious boy says, “Lin Shuyue, there is light in my world. I’ll cast it into your shadows, and from now on, you’ll live in a world filled with light.” The introverted girl says, “The person I love has light. It shines without dazzling, and I’ll always be by its side.” Jiang Ze is rebell 59Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 113 Wild Summer Nights 夏夜娇肆 [Cool, Gentle Fairy vs. Wild, Flirtatious Bad Boy] [School Life | Sweet Pure Romance | Mutual Firsts | He Pursues Her | Healing Romance | HE] Beijiang High School has a star student. Chi Jin is famous for being untamable. He smokes, gets into fights, and is a motorcycle fanatic, yet his grades are unbeatable, leaving his teachers both exasperated and impressed. Tang Mian transferred to Beijiang High. An incredible cellist, she is as cool and clear as rain, and as beautiful as an endless spring. 3.6kReads8.2Score38014d adds
- 114 Burning Bright Today 今朝炽热 (Malicious ratings are not what good kids do~) [Stubborn, Well-Behaved College Student vs. Unrestrained Rich Playboy] [Reformed Playboy + Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium] Lu Yun Zhao has always despised those playboy heirs, but then she met Jin Yue, and somehow he became the exception. He brought her into his circle, caught her in front of everyone when she fell, and knelt down to tie her shoelaces on a busy campus... Everyone thought the playboy had turned over a new leaf. Even she almost b 5.9kReads—Score26314d adds
- 115 Tenderly Soothed 柔哄 Completed ☆ Sweet and sensual, both pure / Extra sweet, no angst / Soft, sweet, tender crybaby girl x Tsundere, jealous, straightforward guy One day, a new dance student transferred in. She looked like a doll. The head teacher pointed to the empty seat beside Qi Zhenye. “You can sit there!” Everyone thought, “Oh no! She’ll last three days at most, then she’ll be crying to go home.” In other people’s eyes, he was unruly, aloof, and antisocial. He was ridiculously handsome and a top student, the 905Reads9.0Score12214d adds
- 116 She Won't Comfort Me Anymore 她不哄我了 [Signed, awaiting publication] Inspired by the author's own experience of secretly loving someone for six years, even though he already loves someone else. Xu Ci is outwardly a cool, gifted young man, but inwardly sensitive. Wanyue is outwardly sunny and cheerful, but inwardly sensitive and insecure, a sweet, well-behaved girl. One summer, amid the buzzing cicadas, Xu Ci and Wanyue fell in love at first sight. Xu Ci had to leave early for something, and Wanyue thought she'd never see him again. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Candy with a Tangy Bite 糖果偏酸 (The main story is complete.) The domineering, impossibly cool school bully vs. the beautiful, strong-willed, wounded little bookworm. School life, healing, and mutual secret crushes. Chutang was being bullied at school. The day she met Jihuai was the start of autumn. She was sixteen that year. Jihuai saved her, perhaps because he felt sorry for her. “You don't need to stick your nose into my business.” “Hey, I'm the one who helped you.” Desperate for a meal, Chutang shamelessly followed Jihu 89Reads—Score414d adds
- 118 Sacrifice to Spring 祭春天 In the first spring after the college entrance exams, Yu Xiaoxiao is sitting in the library at Peking University when it suddenly dawns on her: that pitch-black night when he laughed until he couldn’t breathe, he was crying. [Love at first sight + mutual healing + angsty campus romance, tragic ending] Gentle boy who pretends to be a school bully × girl who pretends to be aloof but is really a top student [Boy pursues girl + devoted one-on-one romance + the clear-headed one falls hard + equal par 937Reads8.9Score19014d adds
- 119 Leaves Fall in Autumn 惊秋落叶 [Campus Tragedy] [Mutual Secret Crush] Tang Qiu and Pei Jingnian On Ningchuan No. 1 High School's wall of outstanding graduates (its wall of fame), Pei Jingnian took the top spot that year, while Tang Qiu was relegated to the very bottom. "Wasn't Senior Tang Qiu a good student back then? Weren't she and Pei Jingnian the twin stars of the arts and sciences? How did she end up at the bottom?" "She wasn't even on the wall at first. They added her later." "I heard she didn't do very well on her exam 173Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 A Night of Kisses on the Edge 夜吻悬溺 [Cool, refined good girl in disguise × rebellious young heir] [From college to the city + mutual pining + both devoted to each other + powerful families in Beijing + academic overachievers] P.S. The rating just came out and is likely to rise. The notorious young heir of Beijing comes from an illustrious family. Rebellious and unpredictable, he exudes an innate air of privilege and freedom, making him seem untouchable to everyone around him. Xu Zhao is the campus beauty of Jing University’s law 5.7kReads8.6Score68814d adds
- 121 Don’t Come So Close, I Can’t Breathe 别再靠这么近，我呼吸不过来了 An incredibly sweet campus romance! The hero seems aloof, but is actually clingy and flirtatious, a “fox of a man.” At school, he’s the top student and a heartthrob. In private, he calls the heroine “good girl, wifey” at every turn. When this seemingly chaste man corners you against the wall and murmurs in your ear, “Don’t breathe so fast,” it’s enough to make your legs go weak! The heroine is just as charming: innocent but no pushover, and quick to strike back beautifully when bullied. Watch hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Camellia Tree 山茶花树 “A Huai, the camellias on the mountain back home are blooming. I really wish you could go see them with me again.” “The camellias on the mountain bloom and wither, then bloom again, but the camellia in my heart will never fade.” 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Girl I Helped Turned Out to Be My New Transfer-Classmate 出手帮助的女孩子竟是转校新同桌 Years after graduating, Luo Yuying found an old, yellowed diary. Its pages told her story from another person's point of view. “Ying, do you know I've liked you for a long time?” “Do you know how happy I was when I ran into you at the barbecue place that day? “As I got to know you, I found out what a thoughtful, warmhearted boy you are. “I don't know when I first fell for you. Your wounds made my heart ache, and your words stirred my emotions. “We shared difficult yet tender times. We liste 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 She Couldn’t Be More Obedient 她乖得不行 [A cocky, charming flirt x a conflicted, soft-hearted girl] [Secret crush becomes real + bittersweet sweetness + a glimpse of school life + both leads are virgins] Song Xi had a secret crush on Jiang Yubai, and she hid it so well that she thought her love would quietly fade over the countless days to come. She had no idea his eyes had already been drawn to her time and again. * Physics was the subject Song Xi struggled with most. Stuck on a problem, she banged her forehead against the test pa 1.1kReads8.8Score12114d adds
- 125 Hidden Jasmine 藏茉莉 The rating just went up. It’ll rise more later~ [Lin Mosheng × Zhou Yu] On a stormy day, the air was damp and oppressive. An old tune drifted from the music box on the table, and through her hazy consciousness, she returned to her first year of high school. “Shengsheng, what are you standing there for?” The woman smiled and urged her. “Hurry up and call him big brother.” Lin Mosheng looked at the boy in front of her, her eyes instantly turning red. Choking back tears, she said, “Zhou Yu?” The bo 519Reads8.3Score10214d adds
- 126 She Isn't Coming Back 她不再回来了 [Secret crush # campus angst # reunion after years apart # both are virgins # modern romance # tragic ending] [Animated comic coming soon] At the start of the school year that autumn, Lu Zhixia’s bright, starry eyes landed on him, and she froze. Was she really going to share a desk with Jiang Chiye, her longtime nemesis? And that wasn’t all. They were living under the same roof, too. She expected them to fight until the whole world shook, but instead, Lu Zhixia found that her nemesis seemed to d 5.1kReads8.7Score59814d adds
- 127 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Every moment spent near him was full of telltale slips. A performance called unrequited love is the hardest one to pull off. - (The male lead doesn't cheat. He appears as a ghost, hoping the heroine will finally give up on him and stop grieving. He also sacrifices his reputation so netizens will stop attacking her. If someone has to be swallowed up by public opinion, he wants it to be him. It's a self-destructive attempt to save her: he gives up his life and his good name, as long as she's all r 122Reads8.1Score10514d adds
- 128 Take Him Down 拿下 Original title: Win Her Over [A sweet on the outside, aloof fallen star VS a handsome, rakish golden boy] [Both devoted to one another + Both top students + Helping each other improve + Pure love + Intellectual romance + Rekindled love + Direct confessions + Happy ending + No angst] The story takes place during the summer before high school in Shuocheng. “Juanjuan, you’re the best at winning me over.”, Chen Zheng - During a game of truth or dare, Chen Zheng loses. Mu Zihuan is quick to ask the p 453Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 129 I've Secretly Loved Him, Year After Year 我偷偷喜欢他，一年又一年 Jiang Yuze will never know That a girl named Xiao Xi secretly loved him for seven years. Xiao Xi: a desolate hope. Just like her unrequited love, it would never see the light of day. She said, “I once loved someone with all my heart, too. But he never knew how I felt.” Reader's note: Based on a true story 2kReads8.6Score21414d adds
- 130 Waiting for the Wind, Waiting for Its Passionate Kiss 等风，等风热吻你 [School Life + Childhood Friends + Redemption and Healing] [Mutual Devotion + Sweet Romance + Top Students] At the funeral: Eight-year-old Niansheng timidly reached out and tugged at the boy’s sleeve. Her voice held a pleading note as she said, “Brother Huaixing~ I’ll give you my favorite lollipop. Please don’t cry, okay?” The boy saw the candy right in front of him, then slapped it away and shoved the girl aside. His eyes bloodshot, he warned her viciously, “Ji Niansheng, stay away from me from 4.8kReads7.0Score33514d adds
- 131 Trembling in His Embrace 搂腰轻颤 [Second Chance Romance + Intense, Top-Tier Romantic Tension + Marriage First, Love Later + Happy Ending] [Gorgeous Beauty Who Gets Away with Anything vs. Green-Tea Psycho, Pure-Love Puppy] Shen Qingli, the elegant young lady of the Shen family, had only ever done one truly unconventional thing: when she was young, she had a secret relationship with the son of her family’s housekeeper that lasted two years. Later, the Shen family fell on hard times, and she was reduced to going on blind dates. Th 1.2kReads8.6Score11014d adds
- 132 Yu Dongbie 于冬别 [Signed for publication in simplified Chinese] Yu Zhe said he'd wait for her, and he would keep waiting. But Shi Taoning had no way out. She couldn't go back. 875Reads9.2Score25114d adds
- 133 Holding a Wisp of Moonlight 捧一缕月光 [Fake sweet albino beauty × rebellious racer] [Passionate, pure-hearted girl with a short life × commitment-phobic auto mechanic] [1v1, both chaste, equally matched, half school life and half adult life, healing, angst] The rumors said Racer Fifth Brother was rebellious, ill-tempered, aloof, and never gave anyone the time of day. Boss Shen was the best-known mechanic on Huainan Road: skilled, handsome, and kindhearted. Wait, weren't they the same person?! Hold on, kindhearted? Wen Wan, who'd bee 382Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 134 The Unease Hidden Deep in My Heart 藏匿在心底的局促 “What a pity the wildfire blazed through, and the spring breeze never came to make things grow again.” “My dear boy, I wish you peace and safety year after year.” Then I'll bury my secret love deep in my heart. [BE] [Collection] 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Wind Kisses the White Rose 风吻白玫瑰 A cheerful girl with depression vs. a lonely, gentle top student Chen Yan meets a strange person at the hospital. That day, he sees many sides of her. One moment she is chatting away, the next she is silently crying. Since high school, she has called herself “Young Master Xiao Jiang” and become everyone’s mood-maker. Everyone thinks that is just who she is, but Chen Yan is the only one who has seen the side she keeps hidden. So he says, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to save you.” He has seen her at 79Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 136 A Love That Came to Nothing, Part 1 无疾而终1 A Love That Came to Nothing 1 208Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 After I Finished Tutoring the Top Student, He Clung to Me 给学霸讲完题后，他缠上我了 [Secret crush + mutual devotion + long-laid plans] [A level-headed, clear-minded young lady x a cold, ascetic young master] At their first meeting, the man sees Su Qingwan, the city's second-place finisher in the high school entrance exams, being confessed to. Word is that she's the heiress of the Su Group, beautiful, talented, and rich. Meanwhile, Lu Chuyao is a fallen young master. With their status worlds apart, what could possibly come of them? Three years later, they meet again at universit 94Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Don't Stand So Close to Me 你别离我这么近 [School life + he pursues her + healing + mutually devoted + happy ending] [Gentle, sweet fairy girl vs. unruly troublemaker] At Guancheng No. 4 High School, everyone knows Chi Fang. He is wild, devilishly handsome, and refuses to conform, a notorious delinquent at school. The new transfer student, Yun Dai, is also the talk of the school. She's beautiful and well-behaved, and famous for being a top student. Nobody would ever put the two of them together. That is, until someone sees Chi Fang corn 6.7kReads8.9Score71914d adds
- 139 He Lives in Heaven 他住在天堂里 [Signed for print publication] [He has loved her in secret for ten years, tragic ending + male lead dies of cancer + tearjerker campus romance] “The girl I’ve loved for ten years got married. I personally placed her hand in her future husband’s. The last time I called her by name was at her wedding.” Jiang Chi 692Reads8.4Score18714d adds
- 140 Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 《十七楼的月光》 Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 59Reads—Score114d adds
- 141 A First Love Nine Years in the Making 懵懂九年的初恋 A Naive First Love of Nine Years 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 142 We’re All Supporting Characters in This Story 故事里面的我们都是配角 The first time she noticed him, his eyes were lowered, a smile playing on his lips as he said in a low voice, “Little girl.” The second time, he gave her a note that read, “A full stomach leads to lust.” He gave her a knowing smile and asked what she thought of the phrase. “Sounds good,” she said. … And what happened next? Well, her secret crush came true, and they rekindled their love, but in the end, it still couldn’t withstand the cruel joke fate played on them… A short angst story about un 59Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 143 The Eighth Winter 第八年冬 The first time the sensitive Li Xiting fell in love, it was with Chen Nian, the boy who seemed to glow as he stood in the crowd. She carefully held on to every interest they shared, and eventually turned those interests into a goal: getting into Nan University and being with him. But life is always cruel. She got into Nan University, but she didn't get him. She was like Cinderella in a fairy tale, except she didn't have the right glass slipper. Without that slipper, she could never enter his wor 211Reads8.3Score10114d adds
- 144 Her Youthful Years 她的豆蔻年华 Her Sweet Sixteen 218Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Kiss the Breeze 吻清风 The boy standing against the light: Tang Qingxu. I used to write about you. Now, at last, I can write about us. My greatest delusion in this life was that I could try to hold back the wind. *Content warning: This is a tragic ending. The male lead moves on and gets married; the female lead dies the day he lets go. If you can’t handle that ending, feel free to skip this one. 101Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 146 His Silly, Sweet Girl 他的傻乖乖 Synopsis: [Cool, aloof boy × sweet, charming girl] Meng Fanchen was cold and distant, finding fault with everything in the world. He didn't understand love and had never been loved. He was like the loneliest star in the farthest reaches of the sky, surrounded by nothing but darkness and an abyss. When Meng Fanchen was at his most helpless and down on his luck, Xia Zixuan found him. His eyes reddened as he gripped her chin and demanded harshly, “What? You like me?” Xia Zixuan nodded, her little f 1.8kReads9.1Score15214d adds
- 147 Call Me Big Brother, and I'll Spoil You 叫声哥哥，我宠你 [School Life in the Early Story + Entrepreneurship Later On + Sweet Romance + Comedy + Mutual Devotion + Completed] A wrong-number call brings the defiant Gu Qingchen into the life of the timid and meek Qiao Weiwei. From the first time he heard her soft, gentle voice, he was captivated. Her voice was just so sweet, touching him right in the heart and leaving him utterly enchanted and unable to resist her. The first time he saw her at the school gate, he noticed her exquisite, palm-sized face and 1.2kReads8.9Score25614d adds
- 148 Secret Love Is Like a Green Plum 暗恋好似一颗青梅果 A heartbreaking BE that will make you cry your eyes out: youthful angst, unrequited love, and bittersweet longing Xia Xi's youth was shrouded in gray. Her parents' endless arguments, her classmates' distance, and the chains of social anxiety left her like a shadow in the corner, silent and invisible. That changed in her first year of high school, when the sunny Shen Yiqing became her desk mate. Cheerful and kind, he was a ray of light piercing her gloomy world. He taught her to be brave and help 5.9kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 149 Turns Out I'm the Campus Heartthrob's White Moonlight 原来我是校草的白月光 [Cute, sweet girl x gentle, obsessive man] Mu Yao was famous at Beizhong as a top student: gentle and considerate, refined and elegant, handsome and rich, but incredibly hard to pursue... Then Lin Jiao transferred into his class, and everyone realized that the great man's heart had always belonged to his white-moonlight girl. 251Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 150 Protect Me After School 放学保护我 [Complete❗❗] [Campus + Secret Crush + Urban + Lighthearted Comedy + Tragedy + Healing + Both Leads Pure + Bad Ending] The roguishly handsome, devoted Lu Yannian VS the resilient, sensitive Ruan Yi’an The day they first met. Thirteen-year-old Lu Yannian was bullied by a group of bad boys. He curled up in a dark alley and buried his head as he sobbed. A mysterious girl rushed forward and fearlessly stood in front of him. “How dare you bully one of your own in broad daylight? Are you even human?” 161Reads—Score—14d adds
