
My Eight Years in Guangdong
我在广东的八年
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 943k Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Everyday
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Explore more →Looking for Urban Novels About Real Life
Any good urban novels that feel close to real life and are on the longer side?
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I'm recommending twenty-three literary classics to you all.
I'm Out of Books to Read and Everything's Getting on My Nerves. Who Can Help?
Any Good Novels? Male-Oriented Fiction
Please recommend something where the protagonist isn’t a saint and doesn’t act stupid or lose IQ for the plot. Thanks, guys (´•ω•̥`)
Worth Reading Three Times, Even If You Stay Up All Night
Reborn, Laid-Back, Reborn, Urban Farming, Reborn Again
Any Novels That Can Bring Out This Old Lady's Girlish Heart?
Navy, No Goody-Two-Shoes, Decisive and Ruthless, Admiral, Doesn't Fawn Over the D Clan, Got It?
Looking for books like "The Navy Takes Down Monsters".
Xianxia and Fantasy Romance Novels With Beautiful, Non-Cringe Titles!
I want to read books similar to "But That's All." The writing needs to be good!!! I genuinely can't think of any decent titles from Tomato anymore. The titles sound like clickbait topics, and the content is so bland and amateurish. I can't take it anymore!
Male-Oriented Cultivation Novel With a Straightforward Chosen One. No Stupid Villains, Please
Looking for books similar to Floating Sky Does Not Fall. No good-for-nothing protagonist making a comeback. The protagonist should be a genius from the start. No being reborn, no System, and no transmigrating into a book. Good writing, please.
Looking for Books for Readers in Their 40s and 50s
I'm looking for novels about married couples and all kinds of family life, everyday household matters, and relationships between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law. Thanks for the recommendations!
I've Read Too Many Power-Fantasy Stories. Give Me Some Slow-Paced Fantasy, Please!!!
Here to Save You from a Reading Slump
The First 200 Chapters Are Good, Then It Gets Worse and Worse
It gets worse and worse after chapter 200. The protagonist thinks they’re clever, plays everyone like puppets, is narrow-minded, and cares about nothing but money. So full of themselves. I gave up around chapter 400 because I just couldn’t keep reading.
Looking for High-Quality Books
I'm looking for books similar to "The System Grants Me Eternal Life, and I'll Eventually Become Invincible". Are there any without the same old tired tropes, like the protagonist going somewhere, getting mocked, and then turning the tables, and with no female lead?
Books Every Middle School Student Should Read! Please! 😭😭😭
Any Genre, As Long As It’s a Good Book
Ugh, I'm in a Reading Slump. Books Just Keep Getting Worse
I want something a little more original.
I'm Stressed Lately. Any Books That Are Heartbreaking from Beginning to End?
I'm Feeling Down Lately. I Want a Moving, Tearjerker Novel
I want a tragic ending. Could some kind soul please recommend a book? (crawling around in a dark, twisted way)
Are There Really No Books Worth Reading Anymore?
Looking for books similar to Chef God, Monster Beasts: Oh No, We've Become Ingredients. Are there any similarly humorous stories without the forced showing off and face-slapping? That gets so awkward. Ideally, lots of characters can get involved, each with a distinct and fun personality. Nothing that makes everyone stupid, please. Slaves...
Desperate for Something to Read: Any Genre, as Long as It Grabs My Interest
Looking for books like Pathological Capture.
Reader comments 36
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It's okay. I can feel the sadness of my father going out to work in the 1990s.
Where is Meng Hongying? Now
It truly describes the hardships of working in Shenzhen in 7Os and the post-80s generation. It is also a memory of a generation. It is very good! 👍👍👍
Very real, very twists and turns, very attractive
It truly wrote about my experience of working in Guangdong and allowed me to understand the real life in Guangdong at that time.
The experience of those born in the 1970s when we went out to work was similar to the situation described in this book. Reading this book feels like going back to the green days when I went out to work!
I don't understand one thing. How did Yaomei's cousin get the news and know that Yaomei was in Shanxi?
Very practical and in place In fact, many places in the book have been beautified. The local police
It truly describes the ups and downs of life as a migrant worker in the south.
Very good. This book can help you understand the hardships of being a laborer in the early days of reform and opening up.