Quitting Love

Wei Luo

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Word count
125.6K words
Chapters
20

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Featured Fiction Young Adult FictionGirls' Fiction Campus RomanceYouth CampusUps and DownsEmotional ShiftLove and HateCampus NovelFirst PersonWeb NovelTransfer StudentYouth

Summary

Quitting Love is a youth campus novel by the author Weiluo, serialized on Baidu Novel and now completed, running to about 120,000 Chinese characters. The story begins on the first day the transfer student A Ya arrives at her new school: there she meets the flamboyant campus idol Chu Yao and also Lin Ling, her half-sister. Years earlier, A Ya's father had left home and abandoned her, and it was for Lin Ling's side of the family that he did so; this childhood abandonment becomes a wound in A Ya's heart that never heals. She chooses to approach Lin Ling by "making friends first," and beneath the surface of listening, companionship, and sharing, she gradually sets her revenge in motion. Campus daily life thus grows complicated: classrooms, ball games, and the corridors during evening study all become arenas of probing and tug-of-war; Chu Yao's arrival keeps shifting the relationships among the three. Told in the first person, the novel has a cool, detached language, and its pacing does not rely on dramatic ups and downs; instead it centers on the girl's inner monologue and emotional shifts, portraying how the wounded are driven along by their own resentment and waver back and forth on the boundary between love and hate. A spoken-word audio version has been derived from the text, with slight differences in characters and details.

Editor's review

《戒爱》是典型的早期网络青春文:篇幅不长、章节短小、语言直白,胜在情绪浓度和沉浸感。它没有把校园生活写成单纯的甜宠,而是把“被抛弃”的原生家庭伤口放在中心,让复仇成为推动故事的核心动力。阿雅不是传统意义上的好女孩,她带着算计进入关系,又在相处中不断被动摇;楚尧、林龄也不是工具人式的配角,各自的心事让三人之间的张力层层叠加。作者克制、冷静的写法,反而让少女的偏执与孤独更显真实。如果你怀念那个读着手机连载、熬夜追更的年代,这本书能唤起很强的熟悉感;如果把它当作一部关于“如何与伤害共处”的青春成长故事来读,也会有额外的收获。适合作为通勤或周末的轻阅读。需要提醒的是,故事基调偏灰色,并非轻松甜文。

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Reading tips

  1. 先看“楔子”,把握阿雅的动机,再读正文,理解会顺畅很多
  2. 把书中的“报复”当作心理线索而不是情节爽点,关注人物情感变化
  3. 章节短小,适合碎片时间读,每天两三章即可
  4. 读完可对比有声版的人物与结局差异,感受改编带来的不同侧重

Contents

  1. Prologue
  2. How Should I Learn to Love Tomorrow More
  3. A New Environment
  4. A Campus Celebrity Appears
  5. A Plot Straight Out of a Soap Opera
  6. I Can't Escape His Grasp
  7. Open and Unabashed
  8. My Deskmate Is Mute
  9. Reaching Out a Hand
  10. Thank You
  11. A Basketball Game
  12. An Accident
  13. Everyone Shut Up!
  14. Trust Me
  15. A Wedding Photo
  16. Breaking Out of the Cocoon
  17. Haunted by Nightmares
  18. Falling
  19. You Were Born to Exist for Me
  20. Father

FAQ

《戒爱》的作者是谁,在哪连载? 作者是薇络,小说连载于百度小说平台,全书已完结,总字数约十二万字。
这本书有正式出版的纸书吗? 据现有资料,未查到薇络《戒爱》的正式出版信息。网络平台上另有同名书籍,如蝴蝶的《戒·爱》、陈景寰的散文集《戒爱》,需要注意区分。
故事大致讲什么? 转学生阿雅在新学校遇到校草楚尧,也遇到同父异母的妹妹林龄。因父亲当年抛弃自己,她一边与林龄做朋友,一边实施报复,三人的关系因此在校园里不断拉扯。
全书有多少章? 可核实的章节目录共二十章,从“楔子”到“父亲”,网络连载版面把楔子单独列出。
适合中学生读吗? 题材涉及家庭创伤、报复心理和情感纠葛,基调偏灰。中学生可以读,但建议家长或老师适度引导,不必把书中处理情感的方式当作范本。

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About the author

Wei Luo Author

Wei Luo (Chinese: 薇络) is a Chinese-language author about whom public information is limited; her nationality, dates of birth and death are not clearly recorded. Judging from the four works held in the collection, she is mainly active in ancient romance and youth literature. Her representative titles include The Khitan Princess 1: The Conqueror from the North, The Khitan Princess 2, Quitting Love, and The Invincible Little Demon Consort: One Baby, Three Fathers. These works are often grouped under premium fiction, premium ancient romance, girls' fiction, and ancient romance categories. Their subjects usually revolve around love entanglements and personal fate in ancient settings, combining romantic storytelling with a light, playful tone. The Khitan Princess series centers on the romance between a northern conqueror and a princess, showing the author's interest in ancient historical atmosphere and cross-cultural marriage plots, while Quitting Love and The Invincible Little Demon Consort suggest a range extending to modern emotion and costume light comedy. Overall, Wei Luo writes for female readers, emphasizing plot momentum and emotional tension, and has a certain recognizability among readers of ancient romance and youth literature.