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Morning Bakery: Reunion 276
During an early morning oven test, He Xia receives a bag of wheat flour discontinued years ago; the delivery person, Du Heng, once ran a street stall with her and had left over accounting issues. This batch of flour cann
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Bookstore After the Rain: A Letter 277
Following continuous rain, Xu Zhi finds a decade-old suggestion in the bookstore's feedback box; the writer, Tao Yue, happens to visit the shop to restore an old planner. Back then, she dismissed the suggestions as overl
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The Last Bus: A Letter 278
On the last bus, Mo Yun receives a letter folded into the size of a ticket; the sender, Li Yuan, hopes she can help confirm the time a regular passenger lost an item. She initially mistakes it for an abrupt pickup attemp
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Quiet Café: A Letter 279
Xu Feng receives a letter requesting the removal of background music; the sender, Xia Zhi, always sits at the seat closest to the window and was originally the guest least likely to make complaints. He worries that quiet
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Late Marriage
The narrator and his father engage in constant arguments over matchmaking: the father values practical conditions and worries that his son will miss the typical marriageable age, while the narrator is unwilling to accept
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The Corner Flower Shop: Letters 281
While practicing flower arrangement at the flower shop, Meng Ling receives a returned thank-you letter; the recipient, Zhou Yu, admits to having moved, but had not expected her to still remember an instance of design ass
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Married Life: Fan Fiction of a Soon-to-be Married Couple's Intimacy
After concluding their honeymoon, the flight originally scheduled to take Xiao Dong and his wife Jing to Shanghai makes a temporary diversion to Hangzhou. He contacts Brother Qiang at the airport; this unexpected stay br
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The Seaside Bench: Letters 283
On a seaside bench, Fang Lan receives a forwarded letter from Wen Yan, in which a traveler requests the removal of travelogue photos that reveal a private home address, having received no response for some time. She was
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Lending My Wife for 61 Days
The narrator, who runs a garment processing workshop, receives a phone call informing him that an employee, A Liang, may have had an accident. While worrying about the employee's situation, he also calculates whether his
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The After-Hours Restaurant: Letters 285
After hours, the restaurant receives a handwritten negative review; head chef Gu He recognizes the handwriting as belonging to Lin Ce, a longtime regular, but the complaint in the letter is not about the taste of the dis
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False Love: if
After seeing a post made by his roommate Liu Tianwen, Guo Yunfeng experiences intense unease regarding his relationship with Qin Ning. He constantly checks for new messages, wanting to prevent things from developing furt
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The Bookshop After the Rain: Keeping the Appointment 289
Fang Yue arrives at a post-rain bookstore to attend what was originally scheduled as a public sharing session, only to find just Xu Yan and two chairs remaining, making her worry that the event was an intentionally stage
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A Quiet Café · The Meeting 291
Shu Tong goes to a café to meet Jiang Bai, intending to discuss whether to continue their relationship, but he brings travel photos she once wanted to see, mistaking it for an ordinary date. Instead of following the ligh
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The Corner Flower Shop · The Meeting 293
He Ran asks Lu Zhi to meet at the flower shop to choose an anniversary bouquet, but what she receives is an unfinished flower stand he made and a request to cancel their expensive dinner. He had been hiding his recent ch
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The After-Work Restaurant · The Meeting 297
Yan Ning heads to a restaurant after work for a long-delayed friends' gathering, only for the others to drop out one after another, leaving her alone with Li Yu, who had confessed his feelings to her years ago. She worri
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Bright Moon Over Which Eve
After a clash in Luoxia City, turbulent spiritual energy still lingers among the ruins, where Mo Renju faces the unextinguished flames of pure Yang. The surviving fragment centers on the battle scene and the confrontatio
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The Weekend Exhibition · The Confession 304
Qi Ning intends to confess feelings to Fang Mo during the opening speech of the weekend exhibition, but upon seeing the other person's discomfort with public attention, decides to cut the pre-written section. After the v
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The Living Room Under the Lamp · The Confession 306
In the lamp-lit living room, Shu Rui receives a stack of old photos handed over by Wen Cen, one of which has "I like you" written on the back, but she wants to know first whether he is simply reminiscing about the past.
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The Station Before Parting · The Confession 311
At the station before parting, Chen Zhi tells Yu Zhou that she used to like him, and that speaking it now is to bring an end to the waiting, not in the hope that he will immediately buy a ticket to follow. Yu Zhou admits
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The Last Bus · Reconciliation 314
On the last bus, Lin Lan runs into Zhou Yu, whom she had previously stood up, originally thinking an apology would restore their commuting together, but Zhou Yu says what truly mattered was the continuous lack of explana
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Weekend Exhibition: Reconciliation 316
At a weekend exhibition, Xu Yin discovers that the photo captions have been abridged and angrily demands to withdraw the work; Mo Bei then produces the original manuscript, pointing out that a passage might reveal the su
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Living Room Under the Lamp: Reconciliation 318
Ning Shu and Xu Yuan sort through performance costumes in the living room and argue again over an old garment that was altered poorly, only to discover upon unpicking the lining that the fabric had long become brittle an
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The Single Man's Happy College Life
After the celebration gathering, dormitory life returns to the rhythm of attending classes, sharing meals, and making weekend plans. Hua Zai's leg injury has not yet healed, and his mother plans to come to the university
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Cinema in the Old District: Reconciliation 320
Song Zhen and Lu Zhao get into a dispute over seating arrangements for wheelchair users, only to discover after checking post-screening that the ticketing system had mistaken the old auditorium map for the currently avai
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After-Hours Restaurant: Reconciliation 321
Jiang An asks Chen Yue to meet at the restaurant after work to review the partnership dissolution inventory, and clear funding records for the old wine cabinet they had argued over for so long are finally found in the pu
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Evening in the Park: Reconciliation 322
Wen Yi asks Qi Zhou to stop disposing of paint rinse water openly in the park, which Qi Zhou misinterprets as an attempt to drive away open-air sketchers; only when they inspect the drainage outlet together at dusk is th
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My Aloof Ninja Maid…
After waking up, Cheng Ye and the ninja Feng Ling coordinate the day's plans together. Between them lie both the constraints of their master-servant roles and shifts in how they interact with one another. Learning that a
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Newlywed Wife: Fan Continuation
This fan continuation moves the story forward starting from the acquisition of the private club and personnel arrangements: the narrator plans to have Deng Xian handle external public image and operations, followed by re
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Black Sea
The story opens at the airport arrival gate in the early morning hours. The narrator is waiting for a female friend returning home after three years of overseas study; although they have stayed in touch, they have not se
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The Corner Flower Shop: Distance 329
Mo An and Yu Ce disagree over the relocation site of their shop: one wants to retain regular customers, while the other hopes to move closer to a larger market. A mere two kilometers apart on the map, the options reflect
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The Living Room Under the Lamp: Distance 330
He Rui and Shen Zhi share an apartment but avoid each other due to work-related noise, turning the living room under the lamp from a shared space into a corridor where they merely cross paths. Since moving is not immedia
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From Blindfolded Substitution to Sacrificing for Love
While spending time at home with her partner, Zhu Rong is presented with a new blindfolded arrangement, and the partner exploits her trust in their relationship to advance their own plan. Subsequent chapters depict bound
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The Old Town Cinema: Distance 332
Qin Cheng holds down a steady job managing an old cinema, while Ye Xu travels constantly with productions; their shared watchlist keeps growing, but the last film they actually watched together dates back to last year. W
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Verdant Cultivation: The Jade Heavenly Spirit Sect
The surviving chapters of "Verdant Cultivation: The Jade Heavenly Spirit Sect" center on the disparity in status between Ling Yun and Murong Jun. Murong Jun was originally the crown prince of Great Yan but is now subject
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The Park at Dusk: Distance 334
Yu Qing sketches an unopened new bridge in the park at dusk; the construction project Song Yuan manages will bring their homes closer together, yet it has also consumed nearly all their time with each other. She once hop
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The Fairy's Cultivation: Carefree Pursuit of the Heart
This derivative work introduces original characters. In the opening sect tournament, the masked man clashes with Nine Drunken Sabers on a formation-shrouded arena stage; the shifting forms of his white sword, along with
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