Song Liang runs an auto repair shop in the city. One day, he received a call informing him that his close friend from the village had passed away. Following his friend’s last wish, he was asked to take care of his friend’s widow.... more>>

Three days after Song Liang brought the widow to the city, he noticed a strange scent of a woman on his pillow. It turned out that when he was away, the widow had been sitting on his bed, and masturbating <<less

Fan Ping fell drunk at his university department's party and awoke blindfolded and tightly bound, captured by an oddly familiar man who had apparently coveted... more>> him for years. A story of how an aloof beauty falls into lust as he gets trained by a mysterious man who wants Fan Ping to be unable to live without him. <<less

On the day Sun Ha proposed to him, the day she married him, and the day she first embraced him, she had a lingering hope that he would fall deeper in love with her; that perhaps in the future he would see her for what she was: his wife. But three years passed, the seasons changing. He had never looked her way despite being married, despite spending numerous nights under the starry skies. She could not figure out whether her birthday mattered to him than some lustful s*x without love. Sun Ha knew deep down that their marriage was at its wit’s end, and to want more than that was her fault.... more>>

Then, one day, she decided to divorce him; she needed to become a woman whose existence did not revolve around his needs but as someone who could love and give love. <<less

They only came to do a group assignment, but it suddenly started raining.... more>>

After her cellphone disappeared inexplicably, You’er and her four teammates played truth or dare to relieve their boredom.

But what initially started out as a normal game of truth or dare, how did it become more and more strange?

From kissing to… I don’t want to play anymore!

Want to play another game? Okay~

King’s game? What is that? <<less

This is the story of a lonely young man.... more>>

This young man comes from wealth and prestige, is well-endowed in both appearance and temperament, is a warlord by profession, and has no unhealthy avocations. In the opening of this romance, he is in the course of performing military service in some desolate dump, making a living from pillaging neighbouring towns and moonlighting as an opium dealer. <<less

Perhaps love is like a beauty.... more>>

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Cheng Yan is a talented but unsuccessful actor who has been in the entertainment industry for ten years. Because he always kept himself clean, refusing to accept the “unspoken rules”, he doesn’t have his company’s backing.

He is almost 30 years old, but due to a music video from his early years, he catches the eye of a wealthy businessman, Xia Shaoqian, who is seeking the feeling of a “first love”. Under his company’s pressure, and unwilling to accept that his career is going nowhere, Cheng Yan finally becomes a kept man.

This is a story about pain, ambition, and desire… but also a tender and unexpected romance.

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A Contemptuous Beauty is the name of a song set in the novel. The beauty refers to neither the shou nor the gong. <<less