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Long as We Have Loved
“As long as we have loved even once…”
Zhou Ruoheng’s mother wants her married. She thinks instead about Tang Guan, the red-haired girl who sat next to her in high school.
Bai yueguang (白月光), “white moonlight”, is the Chinese name for someone loved for years and never had: unrequited love, often for a childhood friend. In Remaking of the Unforgotten Love, an author who has pined for hers all that time hires her when she has nowhere else to go: 18 sections so far, in official English on Baiheverse.
The word
Literally “white moonlight”. The image goes back to Eileen Chang’s 1944 novella Red Rose, White Rose, where whichever woman a man does not marry stays perfect in his memory: the white rose as moonlight by the bed. English-speaking readers call it pining, unrequited or one-sided love, or childhood friends to lovers when it starts young. Pick a numbered phrase to see it in a story on this page.
Someone loved for years1, often since school or childhood2, who was never quite yours3, until one day one of them turns up again4.
Li Han now lives in Lu Shiyin’s apartment and works for her, and still has no idea. The same moments, as each of them sees them.
| What Li Han sees | Moment | What Shiyin means |
|---|---|---|
| “I only contacted her because I had no other option.” | “There’s no better birthday present.” | |
| Thinks she was hired out of kindness. | “I can’t tie her to me like that with money.” | |
| “I feel like such a failure.” | “Who said you have to ‘accomplish things’ to justify being alive? No one!” |
Remaking of the Unforgotten Love is ongoing in official English, free to start. A laid-off engineer moves in with the bestselling author who has loved her since they were children, and the author’s readers turn out to be the dangerous part.
18 sections so farSix chapter covers, Chapter 2 to Chapter 18
Ch. 2Headcanons
Ch. 4Old Friend
Ch. 5Unspoken
Ch. 11To Be Loved
Ch. 17Reunion
Ch. 18New Ending
“Shiyin, having long liked Li Han, accepts on the terms that Li Han becomes her assistant.”
“You’re just a good person, boss. Why hide that?”
“I’m really, really sorry. My childhood friend got sick suddenly…”
“Not everything needs to be said.”
“Wanting to be loved is nothing to be ashamed of.”
“You look a lot happier.” “It’s all thanks to Han.”
“Then let’s go home.”
Mu Yunzhao has loved Shen Qingshuang for years and spent four of them pretending she does not. 3 sections so far, ongoing and free to start. Open any picture to see it large.
“I love…”
Yunzhao, the marquis’s daughter they call the Flaming Rakshasa, has long been in love with the most proper girl in the capital. By the water she finally kisses her and gets two words out before the slap. To save face she calls it a joke, and Qingshuang leaves for the palace.
“That day, I realized I can only love women.”
Now they are consorts of the same emperor. Yunzhao turns him away, keeps punishing Consort Xian and turns up at her door before dawn. No one in the palace knows why. Alone by the water at night, she thinks of the only one she wants to get closer to.
An office romance, completed in 16 sections: the new hire has been waiting a year for her senior to remember her.
“I want to work with you!”
Sun Yunshan saw Chen Yue once, at a campus job fair a year ago. Asked at her interview why she applied, she says it straight out: because Chen Yue works here.
“Give me some more time. I’ll remember it on my own.”
Chen Yue, the canine senior in glasses, will not let Yunshan just tell her. When Yunshan finally confesses, she says she can wait as long as it takes.
A first love remembered years later, and a girl who met her witch at eleven.
“As long as we have loved even once…”
Zhou Ruoheng’s mother wants her married. She thinks instead about Tang Guan, the red-haired girl who sat next to her in high school.
“No matter what happens, I’ll be by your side.”
Yage was eleven when a young witch visiting the wolf village bandaged her hand and gave her fruit candy. Years later, looking for her sister in the city, Yage finds Qin Yu again.
Bai yueguang (白月光), “white moonlight”, is Chinese for someone you have loved for years and never quite had: a first love, a childhood friend, the one who got away. In GL it is usually the girl the heroine has carried a torch for since school. Remaking of the Unforgotten Love takes its Chinese title, 白月光回炉计划, from the word.
Yes. In Canine Senior and Dog Junior, the junior who waited a year to be remembered confesses in Chapter 4 and gets her answer; the story is completed in 16 sections. In Remaking of the Unforgotten Love, ongoing, Lu Shiyin’s feelings for Li Han are stated from the first page.
Yes. Remaking of the Unforgotten Love is Chinese GL manhua about two childhood friends reunited as adults, free to start on Baiheverse. How Do I Turn My Best Friend Into My Girlfriend? from Seven Seas is a Japanese manga on the same theme.
Yes, they name the same stories. Yuri is the Japanese word for girls’ love, baihe (百合) the Chinese one, and GL the English shorthand. Every work on this page is Chinese baihe, published in English as GL manhua. More in What Does Baihe Mean?.
Long as We Have Loved is free from start to finish, 8 sections, completed. Remaking of the Unforgotten Love, Jade Seduction and Canine Senior and Dog Junior are free to start.
Yage, a wolf warrior, and Qin Yu, a witch who writes romance novels. They met when Yage was eleven. My Food Looks Very Cute is new on Baiheverse; subscribe on the work page to hear when the first section is out.
