#fourth love

Now, this tumblr side blog is for shedding light on the GB/Fourth Love C novel romance genre that I have found is quite popular in china and reading them along with everyone.

As a quick refresher let me explain what fourth love/GB is.

GB / Fouth Love is essentially another romance dynamic counterpart similar to Danmei/BL, Baihe/Yuri and BG/Het romance.

It is essentially adding a fourth relationship dynamic alongside the ones we already have. Hense the name fourth love. A genre with it's own conventions and tropes unique to it because of the nature of the relationship.

Fourth Love is different from BG in that even though it is a hetero relationship the gender roles and the sexual roles of the pair are completely flip.

It is not a purely sexual or kinky thing the couple is into, it is a part of there everyday lives. The female lead fits all the criteria for a typical male lead in a BG story and the male lead is the same fitting the criteria for his female counterpart in a BG story.

The Fourth love genre may not have as much attention on it as the other romance genre's but that does not mean there is little content.

How to find/read GB novels???

So far, I have 将军总被欺负哭 (Dandere General and his Lord) [doesn't seem to be fully translated, so I'll probably not read it], 買來的奴隸夫郎 (Slave Husband I Bought), 丞相今天上朝了吗 (Did the Prime Minister Attend Court Today?), and 重生爱上九千岁 (Reborn to love Lord Quansui) [not sold on the yandere ML tbh] on my PTR (went on Novelupdates and found 入侵[向哨] (Invasion), and 熔了佩劍，做副鎖鏈（女尊）(Melt the Sword and Make a Pair of Chains (Female Superiority). But finding info on these novels is difficult, so that's about it atm xD

Especially grateful for matriarchy stories because that's an itch I would really love to scratch.

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This blog is going to be me just yapping into the void about all the cool GB novel's and just in general novel's that I find interesting and want to put a spotlight on.

GB or Fourth Love is a Chinese romance genre seperate from you typical hetero romance dynamic where the roles are flipped. The man becomes the feminine partner in the relationship and the woman the more masculine one. Hence why it's called fourth love, it's a entirely new romance dynamic alongside GL, BL, and your typical Hetero romance.

I love finding these types of novel's and I would love to share my reading journey with you all.

I also Love Jinmao if my blog layout didn't tell you that already and I'll be talking about them when ever I starting thinking about them or I'm rereading the novel for the umpteenth time!

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Novel Recommendation Master List

A Post that redirect's you to the Novels I rec

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Fourth Love Reading TBR

Don't Touch Porcelain, Author: HongCi Be | JJWXC Raws

The Delicate Female alpha Stops Pretending, Author: Shiwan Cheng | JJWXC Raws

Her Little Rose, Author: Shiwan Cheng | JJWXC Raws

The Salted Fish Turns Over, Author: It’s Xiu Ya | JJWXC Raws

After marrying the Unattainable beauty, Author: You Song | JJWXC Raws

After Becoming the Cannon Fodder Master, I Was Locked in a Small Dark Room by the Female Lead, Author: At Crossroads | JJWXC Raws

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Currently Reading

Novel: Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui | Author: Jun Xiao

Time to read my First GB Novel here with everyone!!!

Now, as someone who loves all Xianxia because I was introduced to the genre by reading Danmei, I obviously ran to see what they had in stock for Xianxia GB because you telling me in a world were cultivators exist and unconventional relationships are everywhere there isn't GB anywhere?

I think not, and I was right!

For my first read, Introducing.

The Salted Fish Turns Over

✧✧✧ C-Novel

✧✧✧ 79 Chapters, Completed

✧✧✧ GB/Fourth Love, Devoted Love, Xianxia, ​​Cultivation, Strong Female Lead, Serious Drama, Cannon Fodder/ Salted Fish

✧✧✧ One-sentence summary: A salted fish turns its life around for love

✧✧✧ Theme: Revenge for every grievance, avenge every grudge.

✧✧✧ Author: 是阿修啊 (It's Ashu)

Synopsis:

Luo Xian, with four spiritual roots and at the third level of Qi Refining, was an ordinary outer sect disciple of Yingtian Sect.

She had liked someone for five years.

That person possessed astonishing talent, peerless beauty, and an unattainably high status. His name was Rong Jiuyu, the adopted son of the sect master.

Luo Xian had no grand ambitions and was content to drift along. Occasionally catching a glimpse of Rong Jiuyu or hearing some gossip about him was enough to make her heart content.

Until one day, Rong Jiuyu met his demise, and at the same time, the true young master of Yingtian Sect returned.

I'm caught between making a post whenever something interesting I find in a novel makes me want to share it with other people.

OR

Doing a bulk chapter schedule where I read about like 5 or 10 chapters of a novel depending on how long the novel is and giving my thoughts on what happens in those chapters.

With my tendency to go on and on about the topics that I find interesting however I feel as though the posts are going to be pretty long and idk if ppl wanna read all of that.

First chapter in and the defining character trait that you're going to learn about our girl Luo Xian is that she is down Bad! Like that's crazy but actually so real. I too would be more lenient in my spending if the pretty boy of my dreams was being praised. And she knows the old fart is scamming her too but she allows it because her favorite person is being given the praise and reverence he deserves.

Jokes aside her defining character trait is her devotion and her dedication to Rong Jiuyu.

Without any want for her feelings being returned, she is happy to love selflessly. All she wants is for him to shine brightly and be happy. All she wants is to watch him succeed and excel above everyone else because he is deserving of that and more.

Her love is a very selfless one and that she does not really care for her love to be reciprocated and I can relate to that so very deeply. I'm the kind of person who is very comfortable loving from afar. I don't want my love to be reciprocated all, and though that is not fully the case for her (there is more to it than that)

Just her being the kind of person who is comfortable loving someone selflessly and not expecting anything in return is so very refreshing.

I am so very used to people loving someone and then being adamant that they confess their feelings even if they're going to get rejected so the fact that she's not like that is just so heartwarming and also interesting.

And very early on, the first chapter, and you can tell that Luo Xian has exalted Rong Jiuyu and put him on a pedestal. He has effectively reached God's status in her head and I love that!! !

She is just so understandable in the aspect of her love towards Rong Jiuyu at first glance.

Not dumb at all! It's a very niche thing so most people don't know about it. I only learned about it recently myself.

GB/Fourth Love (四爱) is a Chinese term used to describe relationships where the woman leads and the man follows, basically another term for role reversal.

Not all GB is matriarchal or has mpreg, but it does lean into it more than I've seen anywhere else.

When I was younger and more awkward with women than I later became, my father told me that if I believed true love was 1 in a million, based on world population and rounding, there were at least 6,000 people I could fall in love with.

I remember agreeing to meet her.  I remember her suggesting we meet at the new coffee place that had opened between our respective dorms.  I remember agreeing, even though I kept quitting coffee during that period of my life.  I remember she brought a friend in case I was dangerous or weird, and that she almost immediately sent her friend home.  I remember choking on my hot chocolate in the manliest and most debonair fashion possible.  I remember not expecting to hear from her again after she hugged me goodbye.

I remember her telling me she was worried I wouldn’t want to see her again because I seemed weirdly disinterested in her.  I remember telling her I was trying to get over the third girl I fell in love with, and not to expect too much from me.  I remember her expecting too much from me, anyway.  I remember her telling me she was sure she was going to fall in love with me. I remember her breaking up with me because she believed she couldn’t keep me.

I remember seeing her again months later and thinking I was better than all of the other boys she had dated.  I remember trying to convince her repeatedly to give me another chance.  I remember her telling me she couldn’t be with a man who was only half in love with her before chasing after a man with a fiancé.  I remember being too foolish to walk away.

I remember crying in front of her, a single tear that fell on her chest.  I remember her telling me that tear kept her up all night, because I hadn’t cried about the third girl.  I remember her making me breakfast and telling me, casually, what she wanted to name our future daughter.

I remember her asking me to meet her parents.  I remember them not liking being surprised, not knowing their daughter was in an interracial relationship.  I remember driving her home afterward, not particularly caring what parents thought.  I remember her apologizing repeatedly about how awkward the meeting had gone.  I remember wondering if love was always supposed to be so hard.

I remember dating her off and on for years.  I remember realizing I worried that she was not ambitious enough for my dreams.  I remember her telling me she worried I would never be satisfied with her dreams.  I remember her wishing I could find happiness, and not believing she meant it.

I remember learning that love could be unselfish and still dangerous.