Novels like The Rules of a Secret Crush
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- 1 Crying, Are You? 哭了啊？ A dear friend of her parents left behind an orphan, a tiny little kid with pale, delicate skin that reddened at the slightest pinch. They said you couldn't tease this kid. Tease them once and they'd cry. They couldn't hold back their tears, and they were allergic to them, too: as soon as they started crying, their whole face would swell up. Not long after the kid arrived, Shen Feiwei lost her home, too. She was barely more than a child herself, and now she had a deadweight to take care of. Shen 9.4kFavorites7.8kClicks/ch6.7kGifts
- 2 Falling in Love with a Runaway Bride 和落跑新娘恋爱了 *Lighthearted / switch / happy ending / complete / chapter comments are open Blurb: Her job was too competitive, her boss was a mess, her coworkers were crazy, and her clients were difficult. Just after turning thirty, Qin Zi decided to quit without another job lined up. Her first order of business was to go traveling. The trip 30.5kFavorites36.5kClicks/ch41.1kGifts
- 3 Make You Mine 占为己有 [The full story is complete. If you enjoyed it, please leave a five-star review.] New story: Second Chances, Echoes, now available 🥺 #Why expect the protagonist to have a conscience at the start when she's already forcing someone into a relationship?# #Before clicking, please check the genre, the genre, the genre. Thank you for your cooperation.# *Coercive romance / pursuit after rejection / status gap / class gap / both take turns topping / happy ending *The leads are the same age / bitterswee 69kFavorites68.9kClicks/ch185.4kGifts
- 4 Please Be a Little More Reserved!!! 请你矜持点！！！ [Bonus chapters updating] [The female lead's name is Jiang Ling, not Mei Ling. The female lead's name is Ji Chijin, not Ji Jincheng.] Blurb: Jiang Ling's girlfriend is celebrating her birthday and has invited her and a few friends to a summer resort in the neighboring province. But as the vacation goes on, Jiang Ling gets cheated on. Right under her nose, her girlfriend starts flirting with one of their friends. What's more, when Jiang Ling can't go out because of her period cramps, her girlf 32.7kFavorites42.7kClicks/ch35.6kGifts
- 5 She Started It 她先惹我的 ● 1v1, happy ending, founder of an independent womenswear brand x interior designer ● Please don't tell me if you drop the story. Thank you so much. Blurb: [Thank you for coming into my life and pulling me from the abyss back into the world.] When they first met, Meng Qingrang and Qi Xihe seemed to come from two entirely different worlds. One was a fashion-world celebrity, while the other was a struggling interior designer. No one would ever have thought to put their names together. Yet Meng Q 61.2kFavorites58.8kClicks/ch36.5kGifts
- 6 Tones and Rhymes 平仄 Chang Pan has known since childhood that she's adopted, but she's still spoiled and willful. When she's fifteen, her adoptive parents bring their biological daughter home, and Chang Pan has no choice but to return to her birth mother. Going from a rich kid to a poor kid, Chang Pan hates everything about her new surroundings. But she discovers that she can't bring herself to hate Fang You. A sister with no blood ties to her, the pillar holding their broken family together. Fang You's quiet char 20.7kFavorites27kClicks/ch11.4kGifts
- 7 A Fleeting Flirtation 临时暧昧 ● 1v1, happy ending ● Pure-hearted, loyal village secretary vs. seemingly awful but truly devoted, beautiful and tragic photographer Blurb: 1. Xie Anqing first met Chen Li at a railroad crossing outside the village. One turned sideways to slip on a high heel, so white she seemed to glow; the other stood barefoot on the field ridge, covered in mud. They couldn't have been more different. And yet, through one intentional or accidental encounter after another, Xie Anqing fell in love with Chen Li. 44.9kFavorites37.1kClicks/ch65.2kGifts
- 8 Bend at the Waist 折腰 Lu Shu was moving to a new place. Her friend had told her in advance that her new roommate was fair-skinned and beautiful, with a face that could take your breath away, though she was a little cold. On her first night in the shared apartment, Lu Shu got drenched in the rain and forgot her keys, so she awkwardly stood at the door and knocked. When it opened, the “cold roommate” her friend had mentioned stood before her, slender and shapely, wrapped in nothing but a bath towel. Lu Shu stared, dumb 98.6kFavorites124.9kClicks/ch105.2kGifts
- 9 Repeating the Same Mistake 覆辙 When former rivals meet again, things are often awkward. On the wedding guest list, Bo Yi and Xie Minshan came with a note: They absolutely must not be seated together. They had both pursued the bride, but she hadn’t considered either of them. Bo Yi was brilliant and beautiful, but aloof and taciturn. Xie Minshan was a rich heiress who seemed friendly and magnanimous, but was actually proud and held grudges. The two rejected suitors had a terrible relationship all the way through graduation. A 35.2kFavorites35.8kClicks/ch55.7kGifts
- 10 After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 和心机坏女人分手后 The story is complete! If you enjoyed it, please give me a five-star review Next up: Claiming What's Mine, with a little possessive, coercive romance. Scroll down for the blurb. *Six-year age gap / both take turns topping / HE *The one who left comes crawling back / bittersweet romance / the title's cheesy, but the story is delicious (if I do say so myself) *Early on: innocent little bunny office worker x gloomy, nasty female director *Later: CEO x CEO *Originally titled Spring Blizzard *Tia 71.3kFavorites58.3kClicks/ch163.6kGifts
- 11 Sugar-Fried Green Plums 糖炒青梅 · Childhood friends x childhood friends. Paragraph comments are open. · The title isn't Fried Childhood Friends (though you can call it that). · Radiant beauty x aloof ice queen (?) · A sweet-and-sour flavor, just like childhood friends Blurb: You Yuan has no secrets from Yu Lingshuang. Yu Lingshuang knows everything, from how she sleeps to her measurements, even the person she used to have a crush on. That's because they've been best friends since they were five. Their bond as childhood f 45.6kFavorites43.1kClicks/ch45.8kGifts
- 12 Enchanted 入迷 To get a male coworker to stop pestering her, Ji Xi declares, “Actually, I like women.” Her coworker doesn’t believe her. Drunk, Ji Xi blurts out, “I like President Qiao.” After getting rid of her coworker, Ji Xi turns around and finds her boss, Qiao Zhiyu, standing right behind her. Their eyes meet. Nothing is more terrifying than the sudden silence. Ji Xi gives an aw 155.6kFavorites214.3kClicks/ch93.2kGifts
- 13 Seize the Opportunity 趁机 Two things have happened to Ji Li recently. First, she got cheated on. Second, the famously aloof and impossibly haughty beauty Tan Weijin sent her a friend request. Theme: When it's time to act, act. 33.1kFavorites47kClicks/ch46.3kGifts
- 14 Lover with Two Faces 两面情人 Blurb 1 Not long after returning to the country, Bo Mingyan happened to pick up a drunk beauty outside a bar. The beauty sobbed so hard her tears fell like pear blossoms in the rain. Clinging to her leg, she whimpered, "Love me one more time!" On a whim, Bo Mingyan asked, "How do I do that?" The beauty kissed her. * When the holiday ended, Bo Mingyan found a new job and moved to a new place. The new 73.9kFavorites80.8kClicks/ch63kGifts
- 15 An Equal Relationship 对等关系 ● Complete ● 1v1, happy ending, rekindled romance ● Readers who value research and strict attention to detail, please read with caution. The author is not an expert. ● The protagonist is flawed, and the plot is melodramatic, melodramatic, melodramatic. ● Some plot details were revised for objective reasons. Please refer to the version on Jinjiang for the definitive text. Blurb: Qin Yue grew up in an orphanage. As soon as she graduated from high school, she went to work as a welder at a nearby f 87.9kFavorites104.1kClicks/ch136.3kGifts
- 16 Close Friend 密友 [My next story will be Tonight, the Typhoon Blows In: an obsessive, forceful romance] Also known as: What Should I Do After Accidentally Sleeping with My Best Friend? Jiang Qingdai and Wen Shanyi had been best friends since high school. Their twelve-year friendship was as solid as a rock. They could talk about anything: childhood, posters, pop singers, their ideal types. They would lie in the same bed and talk until dawn, sharing every secret they kept from the rest of the world. Until one da 92.6kFavorites76.6kClicks/ch340.7kGifts
- 17 Give Me Your Heart 予我心动 When Ye Qizhen ran into her “love rival,” Wen Yu, again at university, she thought they’d clash like fire and water. But when she got sick, Wen Yu brought her medicine. When she felt lonely, Wen Yu quietly kept her company. When she was sad, Wen Yu hugged her and comforted her. And what did Wen Yu mean by kissing her? Weren’t they supposed to 115.3kFavorites126.9kClicks/ch84.7kGifts
- 18 Crossing the Line 越界 The night Lin Ji returned to the country was also the night of the birthday banquet for Song Ti, Jiang Siyi's arranged-marriage match. Jiang Siyi had carefully chosen a huge bouquet of cinnabar bowls for the occasion, but Song Ti ignored her. When he saw Lin Ji's car, Song Ti immediately got up to leave, knocking the flowers to the ground and scattering them everywhere. Song Ti eagerly opened the car door for Lin Ji and followed after her, calling, “Cousin!” Lin Ji stayed on the phone and didn' 73.1kFavorites68.9kClicks/ch186.5kGifts
- 19 After Going Undercover, I Got Tangled Up With the Heiress of Hong Kong Island 卧底后被港岛大小姐缠上了 1. The first night Shen Wu met Pei Boyan, she was washing the blood off her hands. A woman flushed an unnatural red threw herself into Shen Wu’s arms, begging for help. “Save me. The Pei family will give you whatever you want.” The drugs had turned Pei Boyan’s eyes red at the corners, and she was close to losing control, yet her voice still sounded commanding. Shen Wu wasn’t interested in the Pei family’s money. She wanted the woman in front of her, and the immense power her family wielded in 183.1kFavorites186.9kClicks/ch1MGifts
- 20 After Breaking Up with the Heiress 和豪门大小姐分手后 This book has been acquired for publication in simplified Chinese. Updates on progress will be posted on Weibo. @Xiao Jia counts sheep every night The sister story, "Echoes", is also being serialized! 😋 [Originally titled "Better Than Meeting Once"] *Sweet-and-sour pursuit of an ex; reader comments are open. If you like it, please leave a five-star review. *Early story: fiercely possessive, refined heiress x pure, resilient, poor college student (?). *Later story: CEO x executive assistant (at 147.8kFavorites156.3kClicks/ch224.1kGifts
- 21 Fourteen Years of Time Difference 时差十四年 In 2019, Lin Zhi Que was 27. Single and beautiful, yet still stuck as a miserable wage slave. Burdened with the humiliating label of “illegitimate daughter,” she was like a bird that could not cry, crashing into a brick wall again and again. Her thorn-covered wings shielded the heart she called “dignity.” After her grandfather died, Lin Zhi Que was asked to go to her father’s hometown, Jincheng, to sell the old family house. She hadn’t been there in years. Everything was unfamiliar and worn, f 46.9kFavorites30.1kClicks/ch44kGifts
- 22 All My Colleagues Are Animals 同事都是小动物 [Writing is hard. Ye Qingyu has had enough of working herself to the bone, so she quits without hesitation and decides to find an easy job where she can coast toward retirement. That day, her new boss, a beautiful and gentle woman, interviews her personally. She asks just one question: “Do you like animals?” “Mm-hmm! I love red pandas...” At that, the new boss’s eyes light up, and she hires Ye Qingyu on the spot. - After starting at her new company, Ye 46.4kFavorites49.9kClicks/ch133.7kGifts
