Novels like Escape into the Summer Night
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- 1 Today, He Decides to Live 今天他决定活下去 Print edition in simplified Chinese: see @Jinjiang Yang Mingye A rich young lady who is a veterinarian x a black-hearted stray cat 🐈⬛ On the day of the Beginning of Spring, Shen Lizhou decided to die. He put all his affairs in order. Just before turning off his phone, he saw a message in the long-silent high school group chat. After hesitating for a second, he opened it. [Classmate A: Shi Ran is back in the country tonight! Sign up for the reunion, hurry!] [Classmate B: Is her husband coming 22.1kFavorites22.7kClicks/ch13.7kGifts
- 2 Daydream Believer 白日梦信徒 I know daydreams always come to an end. I just foolishly and stubbornly want to believe in one a little longer. · A journey through mountains, a journey through rivers, A watch of wind, a watch of snow, No sound like this in my homeland. - First person | BE | Huge age gap Many potential triggers, read with caution Theme: No sound like this in my homeland 8.2kFavorites25.4kClicks/ch2.1kGifts
- 3 Tales of Wan Tang 晚棠纪事 Clear-headed college girl VS powerful man from the capital's elite circle (eight-year age gap) [The bonus chapter for Sheng and Ji's couple is a gift for everyone. Subscribe to 80% of the main story to read it for free.] Xia Qingwan first met Ye Peixiu at a dinner party. As she happened to pass by, she heard a few wealthy young women excitedly whispering that Mr. Ye had arrived. When she went inside, she didn' 55.5kFavorites55.9kClicks/ch21.4kGifts
- 4 Universal Gravitation 万有引力 Chen Qianfan became famous because of a photograph. In a classroom at C University, a man sat sideways at his desk, pen in hand as he wrote on a piece of paper. Gold-rimmed glasses rested on his nose, adding to his refined, otherworldly air. Wen Xueying had once gone to sit in on his lecture. A classmate shook her head and pointed at the ring on his hand. "Too bad. He got married young." What Wen Xueying remembered most vividly was a blind date a month ago, when the man had sat across from her 32.3kFavorites41.8kClicks/ch10.7kGifts
- 5 Late Listen 迟聆 When they first met, she was learning calligraphy from his uncle. He happened to walk by, and was asked to demonstrate. He was a laid-back sort, even holding the brush casually. Standing behind her, he wrote a few characters: “Tan Jizhou.” Teacher Fang laughed and scolded him, asking who’d told him to write his own name. “Sorry, I’m just used to it.” He handed the brush back to her and smiled. “Little miss, remember that.” Wen Zhiling really did remember for years. She couldn’t make herself forg 43.2kFavorites41.4kClicks/ch16.7kGifts
- 6 Hard to Say Aloud 难宣于口 Print edition sales are now open. For details, see Weibo: Eat Your Carrots, Summer Bonus story, alternate timeline: Just This Feeling, formerly titled No Wonder, now complete. See my author page. - Content warnings below -++++ The neighboring novel, Unspeakable Addiction, is complete. Synopsis: [Lu Yinong] At fifteen, her aunt Lu Qing married up, becoming the wife of wealthy Beicheng businessman Zhang Peiming. Lu Yinong went north with her and stayed at the Zhang residence, where she met Zhan 44.9kFavorites49kClicks/ch12.9kGifts
- 7 Snow Blankets Chang'an 雪满长安 [The entire novel has been revised repeatedly and differs greatly from pirated copies. Thank you for supporting the official version.] - Radiant general's daughter x gentle young crown prince - - Marriage before love x hero has a secret crush x simmering tension - 1. Jiang Kui, the young lady of the General's Residence, is nicknamed Xiaoman. By day, she poses as a frail beauty at home. By night, she slaughters her way through the martial world. Then one day, a marriage contract betroths her t 36.8kFavorites33.4kClicks/ch11kGifts
- 8 The Thirtieth Year: A Moonlit Night 第三十年明月夜 In the thirtieth year, on a bright moonlit night, the land was splendid, and the lotus pond was filled with moonlight. Princess Li Ying of Yong'an was gentle and kind. Yet at sixteen, she mysteriously drowned in the lotus pond in the palace. The emperor was inconsolable. Upon investigating, he discovered that the princess had been pushed into the pond and drowned by her husband. Enraged, t 97.8kFavorites87.3kClicks/ch31.7kGifts
- 9 Spring Snow in the Ninth Year of Anhe 安和九年春雪 (This novel has been contracted for publication in simplified Chinese. Follow my Weibo for updates.) Blurb: After a car accident, An Sheng finds herself in Qiu, a dynasty that never existed in history. She wakes up alone in the mountains. It is the third month of spring, yet snow is falling. Shivering, she searches for shelter and finds a small hut. She pushes open the door... “Hello, may I ask...” Before she can finish, someone pulls her i 27.8kFavorites26.6kClicks/ch18.5kGifts
- 10 Wild Crabapple 野棠 “Do you like bad women?” “I like you.” * Ying Rujie has only ever looked back twice, both times for the same person. Love means knowingly doing wrong, clinging on through pain, and refusing to change. Just call, and I'll bow to you. [Reading Guide] ▲Happy ending / conventional romance / short story ▲Neither lead is a virgin / imperfect characters / heroine has an idealized former love / hero is a substitute / eight-year age gap The cover font and image are free resources that may be used comme 75.2kFavorites110.6kClicks/ch33.6kGifts
- 11 The Mad Bodhisattva 疯菩萨 A dark, dreamlike urban romance fairy tale with a distinctly Chinese flavor. Psychiatrist × heir to a century-old family The first time Bai Tingni saw Liang Jingfan was at the birthday banquet for Old Master Liang. In the bustling hall, he was poised and gentle, conducting himself with impeccable courtesy. He had the refinement and depth that only a distinguished old family could instill, yet there was also a hint of detachment about him, as though joy and sorrow could never touch him. And yet 89.4kFavorites71.2kClicks/ch35.9kGifts
- 12 Together with You 与君同 [The main story is complete. Let it pile up until it's ready to binge. The next story, Cloud Gazing, is available in my author profile.] Story blurb: In the fifth year of the Shuo Kang era, the Qi imperial house fell into decline, and warlords rose up everywhere. To win over Lin Ji, the Grand Minister of Works, whose power overshadowed the entire court, the Son of Heaven summoned his full sister, Princess Consort Sui Tang, back from her distant fief and bestowed her in marriage upon him. On th 45kFavorites43.1kClicks/ch21.2kGifts
- 13 Lost and Adrift 荡失 Li Xu’s boyfriend cheated on her. The night she caught him, she ran into Yan Shuli downstairs in her residential complex as he returned from playing basketball. An old acquaintance who always looked at her coldly and with disdain at parties. On a whim, Li Xu asked, “Want to sleep with me once?” Yan Shuli replied expressionlessly, “I don’t do fast food.” Li Xu respected his decision and said goodbye politely. But before she’d taken two steps, he grabbed her wrist from behind and pulled her into 42.3kFavorites60.9kClicks/ch21.2kGifts
- 14 A Romantic Farce [Marriage Before Love] 浪漫闹剧[先婚后爱] ★ My next book will be "When the Supermarket Delivery Gets Sent to the Handsome Guy Next Door" ★ Please add it to your reading list! ■ A mischievous, cocky guy × a mild-mannered girl with a temper ■ Married first, love later | Healing | Everyday comedy | A bickering married couple Jiang Zao had always thought Xie Lisheng disliked her, and even looked down on her a little. Fortunately, the feeling was mutual. After years without contact, they met again on a blind date. She set down her teacup, l 99.7kFavorites100.1kClicks/ch51.7kGifts
- 15 Butterflies in the Fog 迷津蝴蝶 Old-school melodramatic angst | A whole basket of tired tropes | Read with caution “Lou Wenjin, let's get divorced.” “Ah Jiu, you've forgotten. We never registered our marriage in the first place, so we aren't technically husband and wife.” · They first met in July, six years ago. Just after she stepped out of the mansion, a young man emerged from beneath a tree. The cool green shade and dapples of sunlight swayed over his white short-sleeved shirt like rippling water. She stared, struck dumb, 53.7kFavorites72.2kClicks/ch24.6kGifts
- 16 Clear Spring 清沅 May all who love one another be joined together. Their union was destined in a previous life, so don’t let this marriage slip away. Gu Qingyuan, wife of the Duke of Chengguo, is a celebrated talent and paragon of filial devotion in the capital, as well as Empress Dowager Gu’s favorite niece. She enjoys great prestige in the palace. Only Gu Qingyuan knows that she has never been happy in this life. After being reborn, she finally gets the chance to make amends for the past. But she never expecte 43.6kFavorites117.3kClicks/ch39.1kGifts
- 17 After Being Reborn, I Married My Late Husband’s Older Brother 重生后嫁给亡夫他大哥 When Ying Shi was sixteen, her childhood sweetheart and betrothed died in battle. She wiped away her tears, took his memorial tablet, and married into the Liang household. In the best years of her life, she wore mourning clothes and willingly became a widow whose husband had died before their wedding. Unexpectedly, six years later, her husband, supposedly killed in battle, returned safe and sound. Behind him was the wife he had married while wandering with amnesia. He came back with his wife an 100.4kFavorites93.8kClicks/ch82.4kGifts
- 18 The King Bows Before Her 国王向她俯首 * An aloof, proud young gentleman who gets jealous easily x a gorgeous office worker with a razor-sharp tongue * Primarily set in the city, with flashbacks to their school days * Rekindled love | Constant bickering | Class differences [Synopsis] After seven years of dating and five years of marriage, Jiang Yi finally realized that Chen Shuhuai and she came from different worlds. So she asked for a divorce. They sat down to discuss the divorce agreement. Jiang Yi: “The assets are negotiable, b 60.2kFavorites87.4kClicks/ch18.3kGifts
- 19 Snow Blankets the Southern Mountains 落雪满南山 [The revised print edition goes on preorder October 2. Your support is much appreciated~] Fine wine reflects the lamplight; falling snow blankets the southern hills. - On December 15, 2022, the complete revised edition was released. Message: The central struggle of a person's life is to avoid becoming someone they hate. 124.3kFavorites245.1kClicks/ch27kGifts
- 20 First Wisdom Tooth 初智齿 [The print edition is now available from major retailers.] 🦷 School life and city life | Unrequited love becomes mutual When Su Yu saw the topic “What's it like to have a secret crush?”, the first person she thought of was Xie Zhuo. “He's my brother's best friend, like the summer breeze on the day we first met: beautiful and distant, someone I could never reach, no matter what.” In the dim pool hall, he showed her how to play. Before he even touched her, her fingertips burned, and she instinctiv 78.8kFavorites81.6kClicks/ch39.5kGifts
- 21 Stealing Blue 窃蓝 [Complete | Stealing someone’s partner / pseudo-siblings / bickering couple] The third time Liang Jingchuan saw his friend Chen Boyu let his parents pick apart his girlfriend, Lan Yan, without saying a word in her defense, he couldn’t help thinking: If you don’t know how to treat your girlfriend, let someone else do it. He didn’t say it out loud. He put it into action instead. "You are the spring I had no right to claim." The messy love-triangle version: (1) In her first year of high school, 111.5kFavorites117.9kClicks/ch81.9kGifts
- 22 You Are the Long Night, and the Light 你是长夜，也是灯火 [The collector’s edition of You Are the Long Night and the Light is now available in print at major online retailers.] “One day, Pujisi Temple suddenly announced it would close for renovations. It shut its doors for a day because his mother was going there to pray.” “His ID says his surname is Ye, his passport says Liang, and every document has a different name.” “She went to his friend’s place to find him. She had the address, but insisted that the street didn’t have a number 1599. Yang Qianna 223.5kFavorites320.8kClicks/ch80.3kGifts
- 23 Snow Over the Northern City 北城有雪 The third young master of the Tan family had a falling-out with his family, nearly severing ties with his father. The story spread like wildfire, and apparently the reason was utterly absurd: it was all over a “bird”? People speculated, “What kind of priceless bird could it be?” Tan Yanxi laughed. “You could say that. It won’t stay in its cage, and nothing I do can soothe it.” Zhou Mi silently rolled her eyes at him. · Snow fell beneath a gray sky. Tan Yanxi stood by the window, motionless for a 268.8kFavorites440.9kClicks/ch80.2kGifts
- 24 After My Memo Got Synced to His Phone 备忘录被同步到他手机上后 [The print edition is now available. For details, follow vb@Jinjiang Suisui Wuyang. Please don't confuse us with pirated copies; support the official release!] 1. The man I’m technically married to is the sharpest-tongued person Li Sui has ever met. When a guy hit on her and asked her to go for a walk with him: Zhou Jinghuai: "Sorry, she’s already taken the dog for a walk." When her mother urged them to have a baby: Zhou Jinghuai: "I got a vasectomy." Her mother: "Why?" Zhou Jinghuai: "It was 2 95.9kFavorites119.8kClicks/ch33.4kGifts
- 25 You or Someone Like You 你或像你的人 Plenty of people were waiting to see Liao Qingyan make a fool of herself: Everyone knew her family had gone bankrupt years ago and that she no longer belonged in their social circle. She was only hanging around because she had been Zhou Jin's first love in high school, hoping to use their old feelings to climb the social ladder. But the Zhou family's status was far beyond the reach of an ordinary person. At one gathering, Zhou Jin planned to propose. Naturally, the woman he intended to marry wa 156.1kFavorites180.1kClicks/ch111.7kGifts
- 26 Lime Green Daydream 青柠狂想 [Story complete! The full book costs less than 2 yuan to subscribe to. We worked in the same office building, waited for the same elevator, and took shelter from the same rain. I didn’t know his name. X stood for the unknown, so I decided to call him X. · In the eighth month of my secret crush on X, fate finally beat its wings for the first time. - Mu Ning: “Have you heard the saying that whoever first asks, ‘What are we now?’ is the one who loses?” “Never 127.5kFavorites140.9kClicks/ch126.2kGifts
- 27 Narrow Escape 狭路 Late in her master's program, Lin Wanxing had an accident and was forced to return to her hometown to work at her former high school. She had studied psychology, a flagship program at Yongchuan University, but ended up in charge of the school's quietest department: the sports equipment room. After starting work, Lin Wanxing encountered one strange thing after another. "Free ball rental, 100 uses" cards, "riddle cigarette boxes," "treasure maps"... The school used to have a soccer team, and some 98.2kFavorites125.4kClicks/ch212.8kGifts
- 28 21+ Green in the Mist 雾里青 300.8kFavorites408.8kClicks/ch133.5kGifts
- 29 During the Blizzard 在暴雪时分 Look at life: sometimes it sucks, sometimes you win. May this love have no blizzards, only clear skies. Theme: 317.5kFavorites855.4kClicks/ch107.1kGifts
- 30 In the Name of Love 以爱为名 [Shi Wenli’s book, April’s Clear Skies, is available to follow in my author profile] [Blurb]: Shi Miao and Min Ting moved in together only seven months after registering their marriage. By then, they still weren’t particularly close. Her coworkers were curious. How had a woman from an ordinary family married into Beijing’s elite, and how had she made Min Ting insist on marrying her? There was no insistence on marrying her. They had married because it was conven 245.4kFavorites304.9kClicks/ch224.9kGifts
- 31 Twelve Years, an Old Friend's Play 十二年，故人戏 After all these years, we still perform the same old play, and we are all actors in it. When she first met Third Master Fu, he was a young nobleman who had rented out half the venue to show off for someone. He liked to sit with one leg crossed over the other, turning aside to whisper to the person next to him. In the lamplight, his profile carried a languid, worldly charm. Only later did she see clearly that in that half-lit, half-shadowed world, he sat amid heaps of bones and guarded the vast 255.6kFavorites643.6kClicks/ch107kGifts
- 32 Night Voyage on the Dream River 梦河夜航 The print edition is now available. For details, follow @Yan Xuejie. - Once we’ve reached the finish line, the two kings never meet. Theme: People have to learn to look ahead 181.1kFavorites201.8kClicks/ch107.4kGifts
- 33 The Third Miss Decides to Go… 三小姐决定去…… Her eldest brother eloped with the crown princess-to-be. Her second brother accidentally killed the empress’s nephew and became an outlaw. Her parents went mad, and now they wanted to help a prince rebel. Zhong Yao had nowhere to turn for help. She imagined all the possible endings for her family and decided that dying before their tragic fate arrived would be better. Since she was going to die anyway, that day she unhesitatingly took a sword meant for a stranger. And then She didn’t die? 255.9kFavorites271.4kClicks/ch143.4kGifts
- 34 Azure Cloud Terrace 青云台 “I’m trapped beneath Xijin Terrace, and I’ve nearly bled dry. Yet all I can think is that little girl absolutely must not come here. If… she really does come, I’ll just tell everyone I saw her and that she’s already dead.” Theme: When the tower collapses, build another in its place. 338kFavorites351.4kClicks/ch170.4kGifts
- 35 Reborn to Save the Big Shot 重生之拯救大佬计划 Published under the title To See You in Our Youth, available everywhere! My next novel is Wet Fireworks. [Blurb] 1. More shocking than Li Wei winning the world’s highest award in theoretical physics at a young age was the fact that he was found dead at home the day before the award ceremony. He was 35. In a letter to his student, Jackie, he wrote: “For all these years, I’ve been doing one thing obsessively. Physics is everything to me. The day 359.2kFavorites686.7kClicks/ch131.6kGifts
- 36 Lemon Soda Candy 柠檬汽水糖 [Both volumes of the print edition are now available. For details, visit Weibo @Su A Su Shi Wu. The next book will be Do You Know or Secret] In high school, the second boldest thing Zhou Anran ever did was secretly slip two lemon soda candies into Chen Luobai’s desk on a day when he looked particularly unhappy. Back then, he was a favored prodigy, admired by everyone. She was an ordinary classmate whose name he couldn’t even remember. When they met again in college, Zhou Anran, who had fought 453.6kFavorites461.6kClicks/ch234kGifts
- 37 Long Street 长街 [He Was Like an Endless Street in a Dream] The first time Xiang Yu met Jin Fubai, he took off his expensive shirt, casually balled it up, and handed it to her as she sat on the ground. “Sit on this. The ground’s cold.” The second time she saw him was in an unfamiliar city battered by one rainstorm after another. Her flight was delayed, the trains were running late and not departing, and a hotel employee politely told Xiang Yu, “Sorry, we’re fully booked.” Jin Fubai leaned nearby and asked her 713.5kFavorites943.2kClicks/ch213.2kGifts
- 38 Summer Solstice, Year Eleven 十一年夏至 [Carefully revised on July 7, 2023, with 25,000 new words. The additions aren’t in pirated copies. “I like his name. I love being alive, though I was born in this time.” · A former high school classmate got married, and that day everyone gathered for a reunion at a friend’s house. Somehow, they started talking about the foolish, romantic, secret things they’d done as students. When it was Xia Li’s turn, she said, “On his birthday, I abused my position at th 334.4kFavorites423.9kClicks/ch178.5kGifts
- 39 Little Fish and Mint 小鱼薄荷 Xu Yitong had a cousin who was cocky and loved showing off. Later, her cousin went pro and “accidentally” got on the wrong side of a famous player in the scene. Unfortunately, that player was no pushover, and his fans were fiercely protective. For a while, Xu Yitong's cousin was hunted down all over the internet and torn to shreds by the comments. Xu Yitong sighed. “What kind of people like him, anyway? Don't they have enough homework?” Later, in the middle of the night, Xu Yitong messaged 606.7kFavorites642.9kClicks/ch468.7kGifts
- 40 Notes on Watching Cranes 观鹤笔记 [Main story complete. Taking a few days off before posting the bonus chapters.] [Coming soon: The Lady Buddha and Letters to a Rose. Please add them to your reading list.] [Blurb] Deng Ying in history was convicted and died by lingchi, the slow slicing execution. Even after his death, Grand Secretary Yang Lun personally inscribed the words “Pure and Clean” for him. Yang Wan, who lives in the twenty-first century, has spent ten years studying Deng Ying, poring over every detail of his life. Ten 520.5kFavorites495.9kClicks/ch359.4kGifts
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