short series

Shh! No Romance Allowed Here

share time: 2026-02-26 02:31:46

Lin Xiaoman joins the "Time-Stilled" Secondhand Bookstore to find her missing sister, only to stumble upon the shop's rigid rule: "No romance between staff and customers." Her sister left a blood-stained "forbidden love" symbol on the wall before vanishing. While investigating secretly, she grows close to Gu Chuan, a quiet book restorer who always saves her from the "living books" on the shelves—and hides her sister's photo in his drawer. As the shopkeeper's warnings turn more eerie, the moving *Forbidden Book of Desire* at midnight and the faces of "vanished staff" in the mirror hint that rule-breakers are "trapped in books forever." When Xiaoman discovers Gu Chuan is a "living bookmark" who was swallowed by the bookstore a decade ago for love, she must choose between uncovering her sister's truth and breaking Gu Chuan's time curse…

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