Love Late by Lan Lin

Translator and raw provider: dairytea
3/21/14: synopsis proofread by Micky

3/9/18: added some things here and there

2007 cover

Title: Love Late - 遲愛

Official English Title: Late for Love

Author: Lan Lin - 藍淋

Total volumes: 2 // republished as 1 volume with extras

Related novels: Uncontrolled // Not Found // Unspeakable Desire // Expected Degree // Leaving Against the Wind // Round Trip // Pandora's Box

NSFW warning

Translator's comment:  I listened to the audio first and couldn't help but fall head over heels for the strong Lee even with all his flaws.

Volume 1:

Lee Mo Yan, known as "Lee", an elite of the legal world who is approaching his forties, had worked hard to pave the way to get to where he was. However, all that he worked for vanished into thin air when a political scandal broke out involving a politician he backed and when his lover dumped him. Finding himself in a worrisome situation, Lee received an unexpected invitation from an upperclassman from his past.

Upon returning to T City to become an office worker after living in Los Angeles, he encountered Ke Luo, the boy who had left him without saying goodbye. Pretending it was nothing, he continued to live frivolously. That is, until he fell apart after realizing that he was a substitute for someone else…

Could this sadness be love arriving a little too late?

Audio Drama link:  here

Novel Translation links:

Volume 1 - Prologue // ch1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11
Volume 2 - 12 // 13a // 13b // 14 // 15a // 15b // 16a // 16b // 17 // 18...
2016 edition - ...19 // 20a // 20b // 20c // epilogue // Xie Yan's Diary // extra 1 (translating)  // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // extra's extra // Lin Jing's Interview // postscript

Pdf files: (Chapters will be compiled into pdf files.)

Extras:
Fan-made trailer
Fanart 1 //

Re-translated by other groups:
Spanish translation 1 // 2 // 3
Italian translation 1 // 2 //
Korean translation 1 // 2
Russian translation

2016 Traditional Chinese cover

2016 Simplified Chinese cover
2018 Thai cover: click here