The Southern Arbor

The Magical Diary That Predicts the Future

A mysterious diary records events that are about to happen in the future. The protagonist accidentally obtains this diary and starts acting according to its predictions, only to gradually realize that things are not as simple as they seem.

The Return to Capital

Shen Qingtang, the disgraced general's daughter who was exiled a decade ago, returns to the capital posing as a merchant. While running a rouge shop as cover, she secretly investigates her family's massacre, only to clash with imperial censor Pei Jingchen. As their childhood betrothal resurfaces, as political rivals' daughters approach with ulterior motives, and as a mysterious fire destroys crucial evidence—she must choose between vengeance and love. Meanwhile, in the palace shadows, the mastermind behind it all awaits her next move.

Winter Night Whispers

During a blizzard, bestselling author Su Nian receives an anonymous letter whose handwriting eerily matches her fiancé who vanished three years ago. Tracing clues to an abandoned house, she discovers a half-burned diary in the fireplace revealing the car crash wasn't accidental. As the haunting harmonica melody from that fateful night begins playing outside, the walls whisper buried secrets...

Kiss to Behave

Rebel school bully Zhou Ye fears nothing—until transfer student Lin Xiaoman accidentally discovers his weakness: one kiss turns him into an obedient puppy! When this secret spreads, Zhou's reputation crumbles. The worst part? He's starting to crave kisses from the nerdy girl who blackmails him with this power...

Original Heart, True Love

Lin Xiaoman, a small-town picture book artist, guards her late grandmother's old bookstore and spreads warmth through her *Original Heart Alley* series. Her peaceful life is shattered when a corporate giant proposes acquisition—led by Zhou Mingyuan, her first love who vanished seven years ago. Back then, he left without a word to "earn a better life for her"; now he returns as a cold businessman pressuring her to sign. A fight reveals his secret: an old picture book Xiaoman drew him at 18, *The Little Rabbit of Original Heart*. When Xiaoman learns Zhou's "acquisition" is to save the alley from demolition, and his "coldness" is fear of tainting her purity with his struggles, can they bridge seven years of misunderstanding and reclaim their original love?

Even the Spring River Is All Tears

A-Ruan, a boatwoman in an ancient town, has guarded an old wooden boat for three years—it’s her "Spring River Promise" with Lin Shen, a painter. Back then, Lin Shen came to paint the spring river’s evening scenery. They recited the line "Even the Spring River Is All Tears" in the morning mist, and secretly saved words of confession under the fishing lights. But he suddenly disappeared, leaving only half-finished painting *Tears of the Spring River*. One day, A-Ruan found Lin Shen’s notebook under the boat: he’d been diagnosed with leukemia and hid to avoid dragging her down. When she rushed to the dock with the notebook, a familiar bamboo flute sound drifted in the river wind—the boat carrying Lin Shen was sailing through three years of tearful mist, heading straight for her…

Hello, My Tsundere Junior

Senior Lin Xiaoman takes a part-time job tutoring a "tsundere junior" to earn pocket money, only to discover the student is Gu Yuchuan—the notorious sarcastic campus heartthrob from the next department. He deliberately slams his textbook in class, mocking her "explanations sound like a manual," yet leaves a warm milk tea when she pulls an all-nighter on her thesis and coldly steps in to protect her from a bullying club senior. Just when Xiaoman dismisses his behavior as petty mood swings, she stumbles upon his diary: turns out, he’s had a crush on her since freshman orientation, when she held the "New Student Guide" sign—all his "tsundere" acts were just unspoken "I care about you."

When the Fraud-Busting Guru Meets the Immortal Heir: I’m the Real One!

Lin Xiaoman is a famous "metaphysical fraud buster" online, specializing in exposing fake supernatural scams. Until Gu Heng, a man in a moon-white robe, stops her—claiming he’s an "immortal heir" sent to take her back to the Immortal Mountain to inherit her position. Xiaoman dismisses him as a scammer, but when she stalks him, she witnesses him using immortal magic to catch a falling child. Even more shocking: his "immortal jade token" fits perfectly with her family heirloom pendant! It turns out 20 years ago, the Immortal Sect was attacked, and she was adopted by mortals—Gu Heng is the "mountain guardian" tasked to find her. Now, the fraud buster must accept she’s the real immortal heir, and team up with the sarcastic yet reliable immortal guy to uncover the secret behind the sect’s past disaster...

Treasure Appraisal: My Global Antiques Hustle

Lin Xiaoman, a young antique appraiser at a domestic museum, receives a half-jade fragment from her dying grandmother, who asks her to retrieve the family’s lost heirloom—the Jade Screen. To fulfill this wish, she quits her stable job and becomes a "global antique hustler." But in a Paris flea market, she clashes with Chen Mo, a Chinese-American富二代 disguised as a street vendor, over a Qing Dynasty snuff bottle. To their shock, the bottle bears her grandmother’s name. Forced to team up—Lin needs Chen’s connections to find the Jade Screen, while Chen needs her expertise to recover his family’s stolen Song Dynasty porcelain—they travel across London’s old bookstores, Tokyo’s black markets, and Cairo’s spice bazaars. Along the way, they outwit forgers and smugglers, and uncover her grandmother’s secret: she once loved a British collector, and the Jade Screen holds their unspoken love and a promise to return cultural relics to their homeland. When they finally locate the Jade Screen in Chen’s family vault, they learn Chen’s grandfather was the collector’s apprentice. Now, the once-hostile partners face a conflict over the Jade Screen’s ownership. But her grandmother’s diary reveals the truth—she never wanted to "take it back," but to "bring it home." Chen, once a playboy, has become a true guardian of relics. Can they overcome family grievances and fulfill the promise of two generations?

Reborn in 1982: Winning Over the Mother-in-Law First

Lin Yang, a modern corporate slave, died from overworking on a proposal and woke up as Chen Jianguo, a penniless young man in 1982. Right then, his childhood sweetheart Su Xiaomei’s mother was chasing him out with a broom, shouting, “You can’t even afford the bride price—how dare you marry my daughter!” Having missed Su Xiaomei in his previous life, Lin Yang vows to turn things around: he uses modern memories to resell scarce electronic watches for his first pot of gold, helps Su’s mother sell the factory’s unsold defective fabric, and even ran ten miles in the rain to find a doctor when Su’s father fell critically ill. But prejudice isn’t easily erased. When he stood at Su’s door with the bride price he’d saved for three months, he heard Su Xiaomei crying inside: “Mom says now you have money, you’ll definitely change your heart…”