Niche but Excellent Novellas and Short Stories~ 小众但优质的中短篇们~

1. 1 我 I Will Light an Everlasting Flame for Her in the Dark of Night 我将于漆夜中为她燃起长明的灯火 Zero Procaine零诺卡因Sci-Fi14k WordsCompleted Can I really dispel the darkness before her eyes? I hope the answer to that question can be yes. Thinking this, I let my mind go blank, allowing the sound of her heartbeat and the firelight before me to fill my senses completely. After all, the light before us... was so bright, so warm. - The Eternal Flame I Will Light for Her in the Lacquered Night Originally titled Blank Movement: Lantern 0Tickets6.2kClicks150Favorites

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   A unique post-apocalyptic experience, a dark violence, and a lighthearted romance. Let this post-apocalyptic world, where the fire burns down the trenches, be it!

2. 2 听 Listening to the Rain 听雨 Qiu Mi La秋米拉Urban30k WordsCompleted Before her final moments, the blind girl said, "I want to hear the rain from my hometown one last time." 0Tickets115.9kClicks5.5kFavorites

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   This heartwarming and delicate story comes from a dying girl who wishes to return to her hometown to hear the rain one last time.

3. 3 我 What the Heck, You Won't Even Let Me Leave Out the Title! 我丢居然不让不写作品名！ Little Pot Rice Noodles小锅米线Urban617k WordsOngoing The work description can't be left blank?! 0Tickets107.2kClicks1.4kFavorites

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   (A collection of Teacher Mi Xian's works) (This is not a joke) A wildly imaginative plot combined with excellent writing is enough to pique your interest. There are poems, novels, scripts, and some weird but fun things.

4. 4 遗 Forgotten Girls' Band 遗忘少女乐队 Bai Bai Shang Shang白白尚尚Urban128k WordsCompleted This is the story of a band formed by a group of girls with very different personalities and a down-on-his-luck middle-aged manager. "We want the world to forget us!" Standing beneath the spotlights, they shouted out the wish that belonged to them. 0Tickets12.2kClicks240Favorites

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   Japanese light novels paired with a girl band, like MyGO from BLB (a Japanese light novel series)

5. 5 于 She Gazes at the Storm from the Swamp 于泥沼中仰望风暴的她 Qian Xiaonan千小南Mystery147k WordsCompleted Zhou Jian, an "inferior" who works at a bar, finds a remarkable girl on a rainy night in the early hours of the morning. Meeting her changes his life, his view of himself, and even his view of the world. These are the very things he has always been running from. Their encounter has even begun to secretly change the course of the entire world and the fate of humanity. 0Tickets27.5kClicks882Favorites

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   A master of the medium-length novel, need I say more?

6. 6 天 Sky Train 天空列车 Phosphate Zi磷酸盐子Campus15k WordsCompleted "You mean a train appears in the sky every evening?" As expected, no one believed the girl. But she remembered it clearly. One afternoon, while she was hiding in an abandoned building and crying as usual, Ji Ran suddenly heard a rumbling whistle overhead. She looked up at the crimson-streaked sky and saw... A train was speeding through the clouds. "Life left me covered in wounds, but wings grew from them." 0Tickets5.2kClicks238Favorites

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   The pacing is tight, the story is infused with the author's genuine emotions, the dream core is thought-provoking, and the realism is superb. Beneath the boundless imagination lies a soul yearning for attention and understanding.

7. 7 到 To the Lighthouse 到灯塔去 Want to Be Her Shimamura想做她的岛村Urban11k WordsCompleted Watanabe Rin wants to go to the lighthouse. Her beloved is waiting for her there. But fate always seems to toy with her, toy with her love. 0Tickets1.6kClicks107Favorites

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   A beautiful yet sorrowful love story. The lighthouse is the eternal light of love.

8. 8 你 You and I Will Create an Illusion of Pastoral Bliss Together 你将和我一起创造田园牧歌的幻景 L-ThreonineL苏氨酸Sci-Fi19k WordsCompleted At last, she stood smiling at me in the fields ripe with harvest, with a large swarm of fairies fluttering all around her. 0Tickets27.9kClicks1.1kFavorites

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   Ah, cyberpunk, ah, absurdity, ah, pitiful love. Excellent narrative and description, coupled with multiple plot twists at the end, make it a truly remarkable story.

9. 9 有 The Man with a Shadow 有影子的人 Want to Be Her Shimamura想做她的岛村Urban11k WordsCompleted When Shimura woke up, he discovered that his shadow was gone. 0Tickets371Clicks34Favorites

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   It's abnormal to have a shadow.

10. 10 最 In the End, We'll Go to the Riverside Together 最后我们会一起去到河边 Mystery Bread bread谜之面包breadWestern Fantasy28k WordsOngoing Albot and Fermina will embark together on a journey fated for them. They will bring back hope for the world's continuation, then stamp it to pieces. Their mission is false, life is humble, and love is nothing more than happiness that costs nothing. Everything will fall silent again after a single peal of thunder. The tree that grows the world, the river that floats upon it. What could be worse than this? Could it be the delusion and void waiting at the end? 0Tickets840Clicks46Favorites

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    The style of dreams, a continuation of magic. A very interesting narrative technique

11. 11 2 21 Years Old 21岁 Qian Xiaonan千小南Mystery279k WordsCompleted Alice, a young girl, lives in a beautiful yet lonely world. Ever since she was little, she had been waiting for the day she turned twenty-one... The day she would leave this manor. A girl all alone waits in the empty manor for the fateful age of twenty-one; a timid boy gradually discovers the strange things happening around him; a researcher holding humanity's fate in his hands prepares to unveil his work to the world; a slightly neurotic killer steadily closes in on his number-one t 0Tickets17.4kClicks740Favorites

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    Huh? You mean this counts as a long novel? But it's so good that I included it.

12. 12 金 Goldfish Day 金鱼日 L-ThreonineL苏氨酸Western Fantasy10k WordsCompleted At the seventh second, she turned into a goldfish and swam far away. 0Tickets1.1kClicks70Favorites

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    The language has become so clichéd it's outrageous!

13. 13 阿 A Rong Decides to Live Until the First of Next Month 阿荣决定先活到下个月一号 Han Pei韩培Urban58k WordsCompleted The story really happened in Tiexi District. To protect people's privacy, some names have been changed. I began collecting material in 2017 and finished in March 2022. Some things happened to me, some to others. For various reasons, some of these people had died by the time I finished collecting material. They came without a sound, and left without a sound, like tears dissolving in the rain. The bodies of rats, dreams, love, friendship, and everything else that matters will eventually be burie 0Tickets40.6kClicks1kFavorites

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    (Real, real) A true story, gripping. The humor between the lines, paired with the poignant story, creates a bittersweet experience.

14. 14 梦 Dreams, You, and Everything Else 梦与你，还有其他 Mystery Bread bread谜之面包breadWestern Fantasy52k WordsCompleted The clock tower that turns the world stands at the end of a dream. Everything we cherish, everything from the past, everything we cannot forget is there. Look back on the past, face the future, and then go on living well. For those we once loved. Dreams and reality, love and everything else. 0Tickets7.6kClicks602Favorites

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    What is romance? What is love? What is a dream? What is reality? A rare, elegant and soothing style in bread art; dreams and you, where we meet.

15. 15 灵 The Soul Garden 灵魂花园 A Piece of Scrap Paper一张废纸Western Fantasy40k WordsCompleted An endless sea of flowers, wandering souls, and a young girl's warm smile. And the beautiful blessing: "May you be happy." All of this is the story an elderly traveler wants to tell. 0Tickets61.7kClicks1.5kFavorites

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    Death, dreams, reality, reincarnation) The film has a beautiful fairytale style, the atmosphere is perfect, and the delicate emotions it conveys are quite captivating. It only takes less than half an afternoon to watch, but its aftertaste can linger for days.

16. 16 不 Disobey the Instructions, and You Can't Leave This Pure White Room? 不听指令，这纯白房间就出不去? Ponytail Sauce马尾酱Mystery148k WordsCompleted [Danganronpa Fan] [Werewolf-Style Game] [Some Kind of Paradise Game] Too many elements, enter at your own risk!!! This is a sealed white room. Twelve students from the same prestigious high school were kidnapped and brought here on the night before their college entrance exams. That is, until a cold, gender-neutral announcement rang out. "Once you enter this room, you must obey my commands." Lu Ye and Su Xue, the class monitor he'd had a crush on for three years, found themselves in the same ro 0Tickets58.1kClicks689Favorites

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    Trick, trick, trick, trick... A trick to overheat the CPU. (Contains various elements such as werewolf game bullets) It explores some profound topics, but it's okay if you don't fully grasp them, as the plot is still interesting.

17. 17 请 Please Do Your Best to Contain Them 请努力收容她们吧 Ponytail Sauce马尾酱Mystery137k WordsCompleted I know you're in desperate need of clean energy, Chief. So, to provide a steady, reliable supply, our Renneng Corporation has found a solution. That is, "Transfer the contained entities from the foundation under your leadership to us. We'll observe and protect them, and transport the energy they produce to you." - These contained entities usually have unique "personalities." - Renneng Corporation can convert the output of these different "personalities" into energy. Healthy contained entities ca 0Tickets36.5kClicks567Favorites

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    Scp) The plot is quite interesting, full of metaphors, and the various twists at the end keep the reader on the edge of their seat. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the core plot; the story alone is enough to ignite your desire to read on.

18. 18 别 Don't Think Too Highly of Yourself! 别太把自己当回事儿！ Mystery Bread bread谜之面包breadWestern Fantasy76k WordsCompleted Why write an intro? It's not going to fill your stomach or help you find someone. Us? Losers should stick together and keep each other warm. Sorry about that! You ask what the hell kind of band we are? That's right! We're some kind of band! Dreams? Screw your dreams! Tonight's goal: make enough money to eat 0Tickets12.7kClicks439Favorites

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    A grotesque yet extreme emotional outpouring; what kind of crappy rock is this?

19. 19 十 A Lover of Ten Winters 十个冬天的爱人 Mystery Bread bread谜之面包breadUrban28k WordsCompleted Ten winters ago, the world was still young. 0Tickets3.9kClicks139Favorites

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    Through the mirror, a love story spanning 10 winters. Yes, ten winters ago the world was still young, and the end times had not yet come.

20. 20 月 Moonflower Water Eye 月花水目 L-ThreonineL苏氨酸Western Fantasy10k WordsCompleted Just kidding, we're not going to see a movie. Take off your shoes. We're going to cross the stream. 0Tickets1.5kClicks58Favorites

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    I really liked the ending; it even inspired me to imitate it.

21. 21 献 A Ballad for Winter 献给冬日的歌谣 Qian Xiaonan千小南Mystery148k WordsCompleted Mystery and sci-fi. So... where, exactly, is the source of all calamities and anomalies? First, there's the girl standing beneath the eaves to shelter from the rain. She's reunited with an old friend after a long separation, acting cheerful and lively on the surface, just as she always has. But inside, she's long kept a dark secret. Or perhaps it's the young man living alone underground? He's endured more than ten years without ever seeing the sun, all for the sake of a faint, intangibl 0Tickets3.4kClicks103Favorites

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    It's still a gold medal, no further explanation needed.

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