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 Chapter 1: A meeting long overdue
 To "see you again" is a terrifying phrase. It implies reunion, whilst also signifying farewell.
 When Xu Tingsheng saw Xiang Ning again, he was already 31 years old. On that fateful day, he was sitting in the small shop he had opened by a side street. The store had been open for over a year, and was the sustenance of his aimless, meandering life, during which successive entrepreneurial failures had drained away all the spirit of his soul.
 Having surrendered to the winds of fate, Xu Tingsheng no longer had his heart set on business ventures, instead spending most of his time fixated on the computer screen.
 "Boss, how much is this?"
 Perhaps due to having been numbed for so long, Xu Tingsheng had actually already fallen to the extent of having forgotten this voice, despite how much he had once loved the owner of the voice.
 Even still, he remembered this headband. The design was a little out of date, but his shop still had many of them, as that person had always liked to wear headbands, which revealed her reportedly priceless "Emperor Fu Hsi" forehead. And this, was her most loved design.
 Usually, Xu Tingsheng did not like establishing eye contact with his customers, as if in fear of others seeing through his inner struggles. However, he would always raise his head to look at girls who bought this brand of headband, not because he yearned for her appearance, but just…fine, he yearned to, in what was just limited to a simple yearning, just once more- to have just one more glance at her.
 In that moment in which Xu Tingsheng raised his head, he saw that familiar face, that same familiar smile, any change in her appearance tiny, very tiny-or perhaps there had been absolutely no change in it at all.
 The ancients have long conveyed many emotions well, for instance 'a sudden regretful twinge of the heart'. Sorrow and grief rise in the chest; the tears well up, unable to fall in the moment.
 "What brings you back here?" Xu Tingsheng enquired.
 This was the city of her university, also the city where they had once met and fallen in love.
 "I'm here to attend a course," Xiang Ning said.
 "Where do you teach now? I did find out that you were admitted, third for the written examination, third for the interview, with the physical examination passed as well. However, I wasn't able to find out which primary school you are at now," Xu Tingsheng said.
 "Wenyan Primary," Xiang Ning answered whilst paying for her items.
 This pace of events left Xu Tingsheng feeling very helpless. He attempted to return a little more change, but Xiang Ning politely handed it back, leaving Xu Tingsheng even more pressured and helpless.
 Xiang Ning walked towards the door.
 "Have you gotten married?" Xu Tingsheng couldn't stop himself from asking.
 Xiang Ning looked back, smiling as she gently shook her head.
 "Can, can you stand here for a while?" Xu Tingsheng stood up, raised his hand and then put it back down, unable to find an appropriate place for it.
 "No. I just wanted…to see you again, and, tell you I always believed that you would come and find me," Xiang Ning swung away, and before Xu Tingsheng could catch her expression, she was already unfurling her umbrella, vanishing off into the rainy night.
 Xu Tingsheng blanked out for a minute before fishing out his handphone to call Huang Yaming and Fu Cheng.
 He said through his phone, "She just appeared, a minute ago, in my shop."
 Both of them understood at once. Having been best friends for more than ten years, they were aware of Xu Tingsheng's situation, including his feelings.
 "Hurry up and go chase her already," they said one after another.
 "Should I?" Xu Tingsheng replied.
 "Of course! Just having come back to see you proves that she still hasn't forgotten about you yet, isn't it?"
 "Alright."
 The same conversation played out twice.
 Xu Tingsheng stood up, knocking down the stool behind the counter in his haste.
 "Bang…"
 Those customers leisurely browsing through his shop turned to look at him.
 "Boss, you're not going to look after your shop?" a customer asked in jest.
 This remark reminded Xu Tingsheng about his current life and his current circumstances as a voice seemed to reverberate within his mind, "Even if you manage to catch up with her, what next? … What would you say to her? On what basis would you be able to get her to stay? … Get her to stay, and then become a burden for her?"
 "So what if you find her?"
 "So what if you find her?"
 "So what if you find her?"
 Xu Tingsheng sat down, looking as though the last dregs of his energy had finally been drained from his soul.
 ……
 Xu Tingsheng had been born in the outskirts of a small district into a rural family. When he was 19 years old, he lost his father to an accident. From then on, his household had struggled constantly, placed under difficult circumstances.
 Xu Tingsheng had later gained admission into a teacher's training institute, and upon graduation had become a history teacher at a senior high school in Jiannan City.
 He stayed in this position for 4 years.
 During this period of time, his younger sister graduated from university, easily gaining employment at the city municipal office, his mother remained healthy, her mood jovial and he repaid the debt owed by the family from a few years prior, though he had still been unable to afford the downpayment for a new flat.
 In 2011, when Xu Tingsheng was 27 years old, his pals from university invited him to invest in a joint venture, setting up a small construction materials company. With a desire to completely turn around his fate, Xu Tingsheng had spared no effort in the endeavour, resigning from his previous job to take a leap into the great unknown.
 On the third day after he resigned, he and his fated one – Xiang Ning, who had then been in her third year at Jiannan University, crossed paths.
 One year later.
 The company ran into trouble, one of the three business partners running away with the funds. Xu Tingsheng's business had failed, saddling him with a debt running into the millions.
 Not long after, Xiang Ning had graduated from university, successfully making it through the required tests and becoming a language teacher at a primary school. Yet, she had found herself unable to locate Xu Tingsheng afterwards.
 Just like that, Xu Tingsheng had suddenly vanished from Xiang Ning's life.
 At that time, Xu Tingsheng had still held onto hope, dreaming about the day that he finally made it big, whereupon he would immediately go back for Xiang Ning. This matter weighed down on his mind every single day, he who remained ever in anticipation.
 Yet afterwards, his business ventures had failed twice more.
 ……
 In the year 2015, the next time Xu Tingsheng saw Xiang Ning, he was already 31 years old. The him at this point was still standing, but barely; just like people in their declining years – a dead, lifeless shell, pathetic beyond compare.
 ……
 That evening, Xu Tingsheng shut up shop early and wandered the streets aimlessly.
 This city had too many places which held memories of their time together; their silhouettes, sweetness, laughter, fortune, and sorrows. It was as if Xu Tingsheng could see their past selves, a familiar yet alien image. There they were, standing in the distance, holding hands, waving happily towards him.
 There was a street junction at which Xiang Ning had once sat and cried.
 Back then, when Xu Tingsheng had brought up the matter of breaking up, Xiang Ning had sat at this spot and cried. She had cried as she walked, and Xu Tingsheng had not chased after her. That night, Xiang Ning had called Xu Tingsheng and told him that she had lost her wallet while crying and walking home. She wanted Xu Tingsheng to accompany her in looking for it, only breaking up after it had been found.
 Xu Tingsheng knew, of course, that it was all a lie. But when a proud girl, having once been pursued and pampered by many suitors, was willing to shamelessly and blatantly lie like that just for you, just what more was required for one to feel satisfied? Just what kind of heart wouldn't soften?
 That day, they had searched for a long, long time, both pretending to be very earnest and meticulous in the search, till finally their gazes met and they couldn't help but chortle out loud.
 Here now was another street junction where Xu Tingsheng had once sat and cried.
 "Uncle" Xu Tingsheng did not like taking selfies. The first few times when Xiang Ning had wanted to take selfies with him, he had refused to do so. Thereafter, she had not persisted on the matter. Once, when Xiang Ning had gone to the washroom, with Xu Tingsheng responsible for carrying her bag, he had casually browsed through Xiang Ning's phone.
 He had discovered that there was a folder entitled 'Sweet' in Xiang Ning's phone, and that this folder was filled with photographs of the both of them together, only that in those photos, Xu Tingsheng was either sleeping, looking off in another direction, or doing something else. Only Xiang Ning was looking at the camera in the pictures, leaning her face close, smiling like a flower…she had stealthily taken all these photos, stealthily…taken photos together with her boyfriend.
 Back then, Xu Tingsheng had cried very terribly. When Xiang Ning had returned from the washroom, she had jumped in shock. Then, Xu Tingsheng, his face smeared with tears and mucus, had held onto Xiang Ning and insisted on taking photos together with her, making for an unpleasant and messy yet comical sight.
 ……
 Xu Tingsheng walked towards that couple in the distance.
 An Audi sped towards him.
 Caught in its bright, dazzling headlights, he forgot to evade it.
 The piercing, screeching noise of friction resounded as hasty deceleration fought against tarmac, the beautiful lady in the front passenger seat screaming in panic.
 Xu Tingsheng felt himself fly into the air, the sensation of weightlessness momentarily overtaking him.
 There was also the sensation of pain, but it persisted only for a fleeting moment.
 After that, was infinite darkness.
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 Inexplicably reborn in the year 2003, having failed terribly in his previous life, the prevailing concern with Xu Tingsheng, that stands above all else, is none other than her. But alas, he is just months away from entering university, while she is but in her first year of junior high… Regarding this, all he can do is wait silently…for now.
 In the meantime, other matters remain. There were quite a few things that went…rather badly, back then. Given the chance to change things, how would it not be the best decision to give that roulette wheel another spin with the odds stacked a better way, to attempt to change those dismal fates? And in some matters, does the alternative even truly exist? Hence flaps the butterfly’s wings…
 In Xu Tingsheng’s new ‘second chance’ life, the power of foreknowledge coupled with intelligence pre-empts excellence, and that, coupled with personal charisma and character, begets women. Here he strives for success, while always keeping foremost in his mind that for which he exists, that which his achievements are ultimately meant to protect and cherish. And amidst all this, the season of youth does bloom for the young, deep, complicated romance and spontaneous, hot-blooded fighting never failing to inspire.
 Philosophical and deep amidst the great, original tale of modernity it tells, this is a thought-provoking story of life, on life, on living.
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 This novel is also known as Crush on You
 “Luo Zhi loves Sheng Huai Nan, but nobody knows about it.”
 Have you ever loved a person, loved him so deeply to the point that your love was engraved in your bones, and yet, nobody knew about it?
 As a result of a chance meeting that occurred when they were young, in the eleven years during which she grew up, Luo Zhi’s life always had indistinct impressions of Sheng Huai Nan.
 His subsequent reappearance was so dazzling and so blinding, that from then on, Luo Zhi’s diary transformed into a one-act play – a one-act play that belonged solely to him.
 Luo Zhi’s love was so humble, so careful, and yet, so proud. Her internal demons grew at such an alarming rate, there was no way she could easily and cleanly retract her love for him.
 He was just there – in Luo Zhi’s heart, in front of Luo Zhi’s eyes. As long as she took a single step forward, she would be able to break the distance that had built up between them within the past ten years. However, the furthest distance in the world is not the distance between us when I stand in front of you, loving you despite you having no idea that I love you. Rather, it is when I love you, and yet I am unable to touch you.
 In the noisy and busy city of Beijing, P University stood there with its spacious grounds, and yet it was like the faraway Zhen Hua High School in the North – leaving Luo Zhi with absolutely no place to hide.
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 The prettiest girl in the class, the campus belle queen, an attractive policewoman, a cunning reporter, a charming businesswoman, a mesmerizing commando, and a millionaire spendthrift, all shall lose themselves to passion.
 Be it a Lolita, a virtuous woman, a regal queen, a mature racy woman, a cold-blooded goddess, or a sexy baby-faced doll, all beauties shall come to his embrace.
 Young and inexperienced, equipped with the [Flower Pickup System], young schoolboy Su Ke, felt his life become more and more chaotic…
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 When Su Qingxu successfully returned to the rich, her family became a mess because of the fake daughter fell in love with her brother. After returning to the rich, her brother was swept out because of fake daughter, and she targeted Su Qingxu in various ways. Later, she found out that this brother was not hers, but the cousin was hers. Maybe it’s popular among the wealthy to hold the wrong child recently.
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 After Ji Xiaotiao, an ordinary girl, was forced to run for a whole block by a handsome stranger, her life ceased to be ordinary.
 Her IQ was 179.99, but she was called a moron. She just wanted to live a regular life, but now it was full of drama. It was one thing to be treated like a maid, but to dress like a guy and audition as his assistant at his private high school? Well, she was so tough now she could deal with whatever happened when it happened.
 Xu Moqi didn’t care about Ji Xiaotiao’s internal dialogue as he said, “One final thing you have to remember. Even if you forget who you are, don’t forget about this! Sakura and Maple Leaf are not far apart. We’ll meet again, but pretend you don’t know me!”
 Xiaotiao rolled her eyes. Didn’t he just say to pretend to be his maid when they met again? Now they had to pretend they didn’t know each other? You think everyone wants to know you? I wish I could ignore you!
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 When Yu Ci woke up, he was perched on top of a 20 meter high branch with an unknown bird standing on his head. With a dull tone, the bird said, “Look downwards, this is the land I had conquered for you.” Unfortunately, the gifted land was barren. Then the strange bird gave him two options:
 1- Turn the wasteland into a farm
 2- Friendship gifts a pile of shit, so he’ll kick him down to become a pile of shit.
 Yu Ci, trembling in fear, picked up the small hoe and started the story of forced farming.
 Since then, Yu Ci diligently tilled the land, until one day he stumbled upon a pearly white egg in the wasteland. A beautiful man hatched from the egg.
 When the man was happy, it would be a peaceful, sunny day with soft, gentle breezes.
 When the man was angry, there would be thunder rumbling and lightning flashes.
 When the man pursed his lips and was being uncommunicative, there would be an overcast.
 Yu Ci: ??
 Qi Huai noticed the youth who hatched him was always smiling at him, gently and patiently coaxing him, buying him clothes and sweets. As long as he requested something, there would be nothing that can’t be done. Afterwards, Qi Huai found out the truth. This person was cajoling him into a humanoid weather controller to make the farm crops grow better.
 Qi Huai: Scum.
 On this day, the sun was blazing hot and all the plants on the farm were drooping their heads. Yu Ci was extremely distressed at the sight, pulled on Qi Huai’s hand and asked, “Could you please cry for a moment? This place needs a good rain. The more tears, the better.”
 The other party had a faint smile as he pressed against Yu Ci, “I can cry, but I can also make you cry. It won’t matter how loud you’re being.”
 Yu Ci: …..
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 Outsiders all say that Xie Zhongxing had hit the jackpot marrying the prince of the Qin Enterprise, Qin Zhongyue, even being treasured and favoured for five whole years. They were well-recognized as a loving couple.
 However, they didn’t know that Qin Zhongyue had a lot of dissatisfaction with this marriage. He complained to his good friend, “He micromanages everything. Won’t let me drink or smoke, won’t let me go clubbing, and he even set me a 10pm curfew!”
 “I have to hand over all my salary and bank cards and he would only give me a hundred yuan a day! Only if he is in a good mood, he would give me a few hundred more!”
 Qin Zhongyue felt angry and wronged, “And I even have to wait on him!”
 “If I ever get the chance to do this again, I will never marry him! I used to get eight million yuan a month as spending money!” The prince said this to his friend.
 The day after he said this, Qin Zhongyue found himself reborn to the time when he was seventeen.
 The Xie Zhongxing at this time was eighteen years old and poor to the point where he only had one set of old clothes to wear, holes in his socks and a pair of dirty shoes whose soles were coming off. Even if he had a nice-looking face, he was despised and looked down upon, and known in the school as a pauper.
 When Xie Zhongxing’s parents came to handle the withdrawal procedures for him, Qin Zhongyue only then found out that he was a study tyrant ranked first in his grade, receiving scholarships every year, and that he was a seedling with good prospects the school had high expectations for and not the ‘useless high school dropout who didn’t like to study and only has money in his eyes’ as claimed by his younger brother.
 Qin Zhongyue couldn’t bear the sight of this. He pulled Xie Zhongxing into his arms, angry, “Continue studying! Our Qin family has never had a top scorer before, you must keep studying!”
 Xie Zhongxing raised his eyes and looked at him in confusion. The look in his eyes seemed to ask: Who are you?
 Qin Zhongyue thought of Xie Zhongxing’s dictatorship after their marriage and shuddered. He then maintained a look of righteousness, “I am just a kind-hearted person who does not wish to reveal his name!”
 Later, Qin Zhongyue asked Xie Zhongxing shyly, “If we get married, can you give me a thousand yuan a day as spending money?”
 Xie Zhongxing, “?”
 Qin Zhongyue, “…..Five hundred is also okay.”
 NB: The actual title is literally “The Sand Sculpture Gong was Reborn”. Sand sculpture (沙雕) is a homonym for 傻屌 (Sha Diao) which is a derogatory term for an idiot/a fool. Sand sculpture is often used with a more humourous/joking intention to describe something or someone as silly or foolish.
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 In a distant future, the empires of mankind span the galaxy, and glorious Earth has devolved into a peripheral backwater.
 In Shanjing city in the Asian region, Wang Zheng’s dreams of becoming a mech pilot are crushed when his college entrance exam genetic score turns out a pathetic twenty eight, barely above an animal.
 To make things worse, people get the impression he attempted suicide after being rejected by the campus beauty.
 Then the closest thing to a family he has, the old man in the book store across the road, goes missing, leaving him only a mysterious birthday present.
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 A stubborn story in love.
 Everything is correct, and the erosive poisonous wine is buried deep under the sweet correctness.
 The reason to live is taken away by someone you love deeply.
 The heart that only knows how to beat is taken away by the one I love deeply.
 The last spirit is also taken away by the beloved.
 …………Today, as always, he looked up at the people who pushed him down the abyss with nostalgic eyes, the girls he once loved deeply and still remain unchanged.
 ——Even so, he still yearns for fairy tales.
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 “Wen Wenyao is so good-looking, don’t you feel moved?”
 The system began to doubt…
 Song Nanqiao: “No… I don’t…”
 System: “But your match value with her is 100%, you will definitely like her…”
 Song Nanqiao: “I don’t!”
 Song Nanqiao is all about study and work, not about love
 But Song Nanqiao slowly discovered that the heroine was quietly paying attention to her.
 One night, Wen Wenyao grabbed the corner of her coat, deliberated, and said shyly, “Did you used to…liked me…”
 Song Nanqiao: “Ah…that…used to like, but now probably not.”
 Wen Wenyao took her hand and whispered in her ear, “But I’ve liked you for a long time…I like you so much…Can you give me a chance to chase you?”
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 Su Hao has always believed that his sister is the most beautiful and handsome human girl in the world.
 Chopping mice with bare hands, pushing walls with one hand, and punching dozens of gangsters easily.
 Until one day, this handsome elder sister dismantled even the warship that had attacked from the depths of the sea.
 “As an older sister, of course you must protect your younger brother.”
 “Sister Richelieu, I don’t want to be a brother, I want to be a commander!”
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 Qiao Lan transmigrated into a novel. 
 She became a cannon-fodder who was rescued by the heroine after being bullied. But was jealous of the heroine because of her love for the hero and ultimately ended up miserable. 
 When she first entered the novel, Qiao Lan met a cannon fodder more pitiful than her. He was bullied, severely autistic, and had crippled legs. 
 Qiao Lan: … 
 Thinking of the male partner who had only been able to live for two years, Qiao Lan had a distressed conscience and began to take care of the gloomy boy. 
 Tan Mo is the most popular character in a best-selling novel. Fans are dissatisfied with Tan Mo’s bleak ending, so they wrote a fan-made novel featuring Tan Mo. In the book, Tan Mo had crippled legs when he was a child and was bullied. Later, he stood up again and became a powerful businessman. 
 Many years ago, Tan Mo was still the gloomy young man who felt inferior because of his body. A friend laughed behind his back that he was a fool that could not stand. Tan Mo clenched his fingers on the wheelchair until they turned a stark white. Suddenly, a thin girl rushed in from the crowd and punched the laughing friend. 
 Later, the girl gently pressed his atrophied legs, Tan Mo’s face turned pale, “Don’t look, it’s ugly.” 
 Qiao Lan looked carefully, “It’s not ugly at all.” 
 “Will you always stay with me?” 
 “I will.” 
 Tan Mo clasped her waist fiercely, “Then never leave me.” 
 Qiao Lan nodded because Tan Mo only stayed alive for another two years. 
 Two years later, Qiao Lan was hugged tightly by Tan Mo who was struggling to stand up. At that time, Qiao Lan realized that there seemed to be something wrong. She seemed to have transmigrated into the wrong book.
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 Everyone said that Wen Yufeng was the school bully of No. 1 High School.
 Cutting classes, fighting, poor grades, smoking and clubbing to make girlfriends, he did all kinds of bad things.
 Until a young talented girl from middle school skipped some grades.
 “Brother Yu, the grandsons of No. 3 High School are looking for trouble again! What should we do?”
 The boy flung aside his cigarette, his eyes narrowed, and his handsome face was lazy and ruthless: “Kill them.”
 At night, the fiendish entourage arrived at the door of the No. 1 class.
 A slender beautiful girl was standing at the boys’ desk.
 Her voice was soft.
 “He hasn’t finished his vocabulary, so he can’t go.”
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