The Alley Was Always This Long

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The Alley Was Always This Long

by Little Panda — Original Title: 小巷原来那么长 Author: 顾徕一 Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=8757389SCRAPER_CANARY: unauthorized reproduction detected. Source: https://bamboopandatl.net Description: Former salted fish / Future jewelry designer × Cold older woman / Another genius designer 1v1, HE!!!SCRAPER_CANARY: unauthorized reproduction detected. Source: https://bamboopandatl.net 1. As a , Cheng Xiang never expected her death to be so casual. One year and thirty-five days after breaking up with Tao Tianran, she was struck and…

Baihe • Coming-of-Age • Contemporary Fiction • Rebirth • Romance • Slice of Life

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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 7

by Little Panda — Bar "Teacher Tao, have you ever liked someone?" "Cough, cough, cough…" Cheng Xiang hid at the base of the red brick wall, nearly choking to death. "Why do beautiful women love smoking these?" She stared at the slim women's cigarette in her hand in disbelief. Coughing even harder beside her was her best friend, Qin Ziqiao. "Search me." Back then, Cheng Xiang and Tao Tianran hadn't broken up yet. She would pour out her profound distress to her best friend: I feel like she's so cold…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 10

by Little Panda — Then "Of course it's to dump Tao Tianran." Cheng Xiang called Qin Ziqiao on the phone. "I used to really not understand how anyone could like studying. Now I get it." "Even so," Qin Ziqiao said, "why exactly are you calling me?" "Just pretend we're really close," Cheng Xiang continued. "Now I really get it. It turns out only people like us who can't solve the questions hate studying. Those who can solve them get an explosive sense of accomplishment." "Who is 'us'?" Qin Ziqiao…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 11

by Little Panda — Height Difference A height difference perfectly suited for a kiss the moment she lifts her head. "Tap, tap." Cheng Xiang knocked on the door twice. "Come in," Tao Tianran said. The door was pushed open, but no continuous footsteps followed. Tao Tianran lifted her gaze to see Cheng Xiang leaning in the doorway, shooting her a languid, unhurried smile. It turned out that shirts could be so vastly different. Tao Tianran's crisp, structured shirt was used to conceal her figure, while…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 1

by Little Panda — Prologue The first snowflake of this winter. [The sky looked like the face of a girl who had just cried. Cheng Xiang lay on the zebra crossing with half-open eyes. The usually bustling street had turned into an empty city, and the first snowflake of this winter landed on her fine hair.] 【Xiao Xiang's Phone Memo: Day 291 since breaking up with TTR.】 What the hell was TTR? It was laughable. Cheng Xiang lay on her stomach on the narrow single bed, clutching her phone. Her chin…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 12

by Little Panda — Gangdao "When are you going to take me home with you?" - As the plane roared and thrust its way into the sky, Tao Tianran cast a glance at Cheng Xiang. "What?" Cheng Xiang didn't have the spare energy to entertain her in that moment. Growing up as a hutong kid in Beicheng, Cheng Xiang could count the number of times she had been on an airplane on one hand. This was largely because her mother, Director Ma, firmly believed that Beicheng was the absolute center of the universe. Every…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 2

by Little Panda — The Pinky Ring Tao Tianran is still wearing it. Cheng Xiang’s head was buzzing. It was the chaotic, buzzing din of a nightclub, spotlights sweeping everywhere, a DJ spinning records, a haze of high-grain static filling her eyes and ears. She figured she must be dead, because she didn’t feel an ounce of pain. The last coherent thought rattling around in her mind was: Sigh. I always said the name “Cheng Xiang” was bad luck. It sounds just like “Prime Minister.” What kind of…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 13

by Little Panda — Hotel Only one room was booked. After the plane landed, Tao Tianran didn't pause for a moment. She left their luggage at the front desk and immediately took Cheng Xiang to a dinner banquet. Gangdao was truly cutthroat. Even at nine in the evening, it was a noisy hour of feasting and neon lights. Tao Tianran hailed a cab, and she and Cheng Xiang sat together in the back seat. Cheng Xiang watched the fleeting, postcard-like scenery outside the window. A sliver of the window was rolled…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 3

by Little Panda — The Past She was the one who brought up the breakup first. Absurd. Cheng Xiang sat with her head bowed at the dining table, thinking: completely and utterly absurd. How on earth had she transmigrated? And to run into Tao Tianran before she had even sorted everything out. The Tao Tianran she had missed every single day before she died, yet hadn't seen in over a year. Thinking this, she quietly stole a glance at Tao Tianran. Tao Tianran was very sharp. She paused the porcelain…
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The Alley Was Always This Long – Chapter 14

by Little Panda — Don't Move "Let me look at you for a while." Stepping out of the client's company, Cheng Xiang raised her wrist to glance at her diamond watch. "It's still early. Would it be convenient for Teacher Tao to show me around Gangdao?" Tao Tianran replied without a hint of politeness, "Inconvenient." Cheng Xiang: … The corners of her eyes curled up slightly. "Then let me ask it this way. If an old acquaintance came to Gangdao with Teacher Tao, where would Teacher Tao take her?" Cheng…
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