“Ah Zan, I am Ran Ran.”... more>>

No person is an isolated island, except for you.

That day, he looked outside the window and saw a white olive tree in the open field.

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Reporter Song is quite different from her appearance.

Reporter Song works very diligently.

Reporter Song is a bit cute.

Today I saw white olive trees with reporter Song. It was very special.

My New Year’s wish is to to marry her.

——Li Zan

Ah Zan, you need to pay attention to your safety.

Ah Zan, I like the scenery that has you in it

Ah Zan, don’t be afraid. I will take you home.

Ah Zan, you are the best person I have ever met.

Ah Zan, you have worked hard.

——Song Ran

“Ah Zan, I want to be a bird in my next life.”

“Then I will be a big tree.”

After witnessing the deepest darkness, the most ferocious evil, and the ugliest horror, I am nonetheless grateful to have seen the light, the kindness, and the most beautiful of souls.

I am nonetheless thankful to have seen that grove of white olive trees with my own eyes.

I knew it was a mirage; the intersection of where the sky and the ground meet in the desert.

And you were always by my side; the brightest light in the dark boundless night. <<less

Ha Joyoon, a war correspondent for TPA, a foreign news agency, has been in a coma for five years after being involved in an accident in a civil war zone. Miraculously, he returns home and visits his ex-lover, but he was already with someone else … They were friends from birth, and lovers after they grew up. A man who never thought of breaking up with his lover and did not imagine himself with another person in his life, found his lover with someone other than him. ... more>>

The world blames all the consequences on his selfishness and irresponsibility. It took time and different ways to end, but Ha Joyoon, who never experienced such a thing, falls helplessly and clings to an old lover who is trying to forget him. But then another man came into his life. This new man doesn’t need affection and just wants to enjoy carnal desires. It is the first time that Ha Joyoon has experienced separation and the responsibility of love in his thirty-one years of life. <<less

“Don’t cry.”... more>>

With the first snow of the year as my witness, I promised something.

I will be with you and we will walk out of this cold night, this most difficult part of our lives.

There isn’t any hardship that is impassable; there is no darkness that reaches the end of the world.

“As long as we are hand in hand, heading forward together. ”

It was noon after a rainy morning.

It was a meeting filled with humidity.

At the beginning, no one had thought that two lives on parallel trajectories would suddenly change tracks and converge.

He is a driver who lives with his autistic brother.

She is a cold and aloof reporter.

He is like a winter cedar on the mountain,

Inconspicuous, monetarily worthless, but deep and tenacious.

She is more like a lonely and straight beam of light,

She knows the coldness of life, but she has never given up on grasping the wheel of fate in her own hands.

She is greedy for his inherently solid and rough existence. She also knew that behind him was the darkness of a fate she had been trying to escape all of her life.

However, in the inadvertent breeze, who loved first?

Who, after countless hesitations and sighs, decided to surrender to their heart?

Did they advance and retreat together, hold hands, turn around to meet their fate?

If we can’t say goodbye with a smile,

Is it possible to hug each other closely and jointly resist the cold torrent of this world? <<less

Ye Zhen, a female Ph.D. in the Department of Mathematics of Hua University, changed her career to enter the entertainment industry in order to investigate the death of her birth father, Movie Emperor Ye Yi. During her interview, she accidentally made CEO Rongcheng Jue lose face in public. Yet Rongcheng Jue, unlike what was to be expected, didn’t take old grudges into account and let Ye Zhen join his company. When everyone thought Ye Zhen would become Rongcheng Jue’s personal secretary, she actually joined the entertainment department. After several twists and turns, Ye Zhen became a script supervisor for Rongcheng Entertainment’s “The Great Tang Treasure”.... more>>

Her colleagues’ bullying towards her, the pressure of changing career, and the many obstacles in her investigation all left her confused. Under Rongcheng Jue’s silent guardianship, she didn’t forget her original purpose, overcame every obstacle, and eventually became an ace producer.

Ye Zhen and Rongcheng Jue shared a common belief: no matter how bleak the hope is, how th**ny and dark the road ahead, they had only one thought in their hearts: to uncover the truth, and therefore bring peace to the soul of the Movie Emperor Ye Yi. <<less

Jenna’s hatred towards Dex Peralta started since he has played with her because of an interview she has to get from him for their campus paper.... more>>

He was tagged as the “campus king.”

He was their university’s varsity team captain and the most infamous bad boy and campus heartthrob at the same time.

He does not want to be interviewed by her.

That’s why she has to make a move to make him agree to take the interview.

She has to change herself so he’ll take notice of her.

But that seems to be the root reason for him to play with her heart.

Fast forward to the present time. Jenna was now a media person.

And it seems that history is repeating itself.

With Dex’s come back to the basketball scene, she has to take an interview with him, again.

But she has learned her lessons.

This time, she would not let her heart be played by Dex again. <<less

The once wealthy and powerful Ryuuzen clan has been all but destroyed. Their misfortune began in 1960, when a majority of the family was wiped out when their vacation villa was buried under a landslide. However, search and rescue teams discovered something even more shocking: A majority of the bodies they discovered showed obvious signs of having been mu*dered before the landslide.... more>>

As though it were a trigger, what came to be known as "The Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan" spread throughout the descendants of the family's only survivor. By mu*der, by su*cide, by accident... it seemed none who held the name "Ryuuzen" could live to see the age of 35, and now, the family has been reduced to a single woman, lying in a hospital bed, days away from death.

Kamo Touma was once just another of the endless parade of sleazy tabloid journalists looking to exploit a prominent family's tragedy to sell magazines, but Ryuuzen Rena's kindness melted his frozen heart, driving him to quit his old job and become an investigative journalist specializing in overturning cases of false arrest. Eventually, he and Rena were married, but now, the curse threatens to steal away their happiness.

Kamo prays for a miracle, and his prayers are answered by the Hourglass of Miracles, an artifact spoken of in rumors and urban legends, said to grant one wish to anyone who obtains it.

"Meister Hora", a guide for those who obtain the hourglass, tells Kamo there is only one way to break the curse and save Rena: He must travel back in time to the year 1960 and catch the culprit of the original Ryuuzen Family massacre.

Who was the culprit of the mu*ders that took place almost 60 years ago? Why did they steal away the lives of the Ryuuzen clan? What is the true nature of the "Curse of the Ryuuzen Clan?" And perhaps most mysteriously of all... What is Meister Hora's goal in all this?

Winner of the 29th annual Ayukawa Tetsuya Award. <<less

Koizumi, Tangerine Weekly’s news reporter, quickly gains the nickname “Fire Witch,” in part for her vibrant hair and interesting methods. ... more>>

During a press conference, she realizes that the famous singer Senya Kaoru has fallen asleep.

No one believes her, so she devises a trap…

Note: This Chinese novel was originally serialised with Japanese names and locations. During publication, the name was changed to, “Afternoon Lavender.” The novel contained Chinese names and locations instead. <<less