What Kind of Books Do People Over Fifty Want to Read? 50岁以上的人想看什么书？
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- 1001 Reborn in 1987: Making Potato Chips to Support My Wife and Kids 重生87：从做薯片养活老婆孩子 [Rural Life + Reborn Businessman + One Female Lead + Lighthearted and Witty] After returning to the past, Chen Xingbang faces a dilemma: his master has entrusted his orphan to him. Should he agree? Can he still live a brilliant life of his own? 3.6kReads8.8Score355Shelves
- 1002 Railway Archives: The Hour of Jingzhe 铁路档案之惊蜇时分 This book is set in a different period from the earlier novel Railway Archives. On August 15, 1945, the thirty-fourth year of the Republic, Japan surrendered. The espionage game had already been set in motion. Before the Liaoshen Campaign, Ye Tian was recruited by the Military Statistics Bureau under the codename Qingci. He became a double agent, using both his railway dispatcher’s job and his Qingci identity to wage a covert battle as a Communist underground operative. He supplied the Communist 6Reads7.4Score—Shelves
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Cultivating in the Mortal World: The Path to Enlightenment 红尘修行：证道之路
No System + No Transmigration + Ordinary Mortal’s Journey + Historical Fantasy + Traditional Xianxia + Detailed Cultivation Techniques + Insights into Cultivation Lin Qingyang was born deep in the Qinling Mountains in the third year of the Jiajing era. Gifted with a “White Jade Physique,” he dreamed of the starry sky from childhood and was guided by an old man with white hair, marking him as extraordinary. At twelve, he became the disciple of the wandering Daoist Li Sanren and began his path of
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- 1004 Railway Archives 铁路档案 A tale of wartime espionage and undercover work. Ye Tian’s soul transmigrates to the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, 1937, where he unravels a series of mysterious railway cases from the Republican era. Every inch of rail holds a code for life, and the names of espionage agents are revealed from sealed files. At Yixian Station, he meets Ma Yunfei, who introduces him to the Communist Party. Ye Tian recruits Zhang Laoliu, Liang Jincheng, and Jin Guozhong as grassroots Party members, providing i 3Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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1005
A Tenderness Woven into Time 揉进时光里的温柔
Guo Qianyu is the eldest daughter in her family. Her father never valued her, and her mother never cared for her, but she never gave up striving or standing strong. Then her father went away and vanished without a trace. Under pressure from her mother and younger sister, she had no choice but to leave home and travel far away, searching for her father while working to earn money and support the family. She endures not only the cruelty of reality but also the twists of fate, all while staying tru
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- 1006 The Poor Become Rich Through Their Own Reversal 穷人逆转才是富 After retiring from the special forces, Ye Tianxuan takes on espionage networks and creates the Veterans Group. Working with his partner Xiao Yue, he turns it into a world-class corporation. Together, they tackle social tensions and cutthroat business competition while resisting interference from foreign forces. He also fights criminal organizations through corporate espionage in the modern business world. This story is entirely fictional, yet reality lies hidden within its fiction. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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1007
The End of the Age of Dinosaurs 终结恐龙时代
His uncle is rebelling, and his nephew joins him in growing crops with technology! What's most important for technological development? Talent? No, no, no! Knowledge can transmigrate, but the key is: how do you get the raw materials? What, you have a System? How is that any different from being a lazy nobody? From saltpeter, green vitriol, and salicylic acid to gunpowder, ether, and aspirin; from black powder and picric acid to flintlock rifles, breech-loading cannons, and fixed ammunition; the
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1008
Smoke from the Kitchen Rises Like a Blade 炊烟如刀
Wu Dasheng keeps having one child after another, all for the sake of having a son who can avenge him, even in an era when family planning is a basic national policy... Wu Tong is called a bastard and a son of a bitch from childhood. Zhao Sanxing always stands up for him, but the villagers’ gossip inflicts deep wounds on the young boy’s heart...
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Love Between Two Generations: An Inescapable Bond 两代情之逃不出的羁绊
A bloody maelstrom was set in motion by a marriage swap in the late 1980s. One bride died, and the other fled. The humiliation Hua'er endured on her wedding night is enough to make anyone blush with shame, while the hardships Zijun faced as she fled her marriage are deeply moving. Though the story is named for two generations, it is really about three generations and the sweeping changes in their views on love, marriage, and life. It also shows China's tremendous economic boom and the profound s
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The Family's Hidden Guards 家族暗卫
A story about rural revitalization, bringing a family back together and creating an ideal life. Before the Spring Festival in 2025, my second uncle asked me to return to the village to meet him. He handed me a black stone passed down through our family and told me to inherit the duty of the family’s secret guards, protecting our family’s development from the shadows. I also inherited a fortune passed down through the family, along with the friendship of eight families who had been close to o
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- 1011 Drunk, I Took Advantage of the Neighbor I’d Secretly Loved for Three Years 酒后的我，把暗恋三年的邻居糟蹋了 After a Few Drinks, I Seduced the Neighbor I’d Had a Crush on for Three Years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1012 Call Me Sis by Day, and at Night... 白天叫姐姐，晚上…… She Calls Me Big Sis by Day, but at Night... —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Love in the Late Hours 恋恋晚时光
(Silver-haired heroine, no forgiveness and no getting back together, completed) Bai Yuwan is sixty this year when she accidentally discovers that her husband has been cheating on her for ten years! It all started with a package that should never have been opened. Every New Year’s Eve, her husband, Sun Zhenwei, claims he has to work overtime. In reality, he’s enjoying a candlelit dinner with his first love to celebrate the New Year! He even bought her a house! And Bai Yuwan? She spent her whole l
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- 1014 My Wife’s Downfall and Redemption 妻子的沉沦与救赎 My Wife’s Downfall and Redemption 4.6kReads—Score112Shelves
- 1015 Transmigrated as a Widow, I Find the Cultivation World's Big Shots All in My Shura Field 穿成寡妇，修仙界大佬齐聚修罗场 The moment Lin Nian opens her eyes, she discovers she has entered a cultivation novel full of admirers and become the stepmother of one of its lovesick male supporting characters. Her husband has just died, leaving her a massive inheritance. Looking at the hundreds of acres of spirit fields, several mines, and dozens of shops in her hands, Lin Nian sincerely decides that being a widow isn’t so bad. It’s like getting an early start on retirement. The problem is that her lovesick stepson does noth 1.3kReads8.4Score101Shelves
- 1016 I Flirted With a Stranger in a Game, Never Guessing He Was My Husband 我和游戏中陌生男人聊骚，没想到是老公 I Flirted With a Strange Man in a Game, Never Expecting Him to Be My Husband —Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Widow Is Reborn, but Her Proper-Minded Brother-in-Law Insists on Spoiling Her 寡妇重生，守礼大伯偏要宠
The heroine is reborn. Both leads are devoted only to each other. The hero is aloof and proper, and pretends to be impotent despite being the heroine’s uncle by marriage. She falls for his seemingly proper act, and he pursues his wife. [The rating is slowly climbing] In her previous life, Jiang Wanshu was forced by her father to marry into the Marquis’s household holding a memorial tablet, where she was expected to live as a widow. To her surprise, her “deceased husband” returned with his belove
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Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家，从七十年代开始
[Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem
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- 1019 The Spinster’s Comeback: Marrying Into a Prestigious Family 剩女逆袭，豪嫁名门嫡长孙 A story about an older unmarried woman from a fishing village marrying into a wealthy family, making a comeback as a rich lady, and being doted on by a powerful CEO... Nephew: “Auntie, you have kidney deficiency!” Xi Nanyan: “What kidney deficiency? I’m in the prime of my youth. How could I have kidney deficiency?” Father Xi: “Dear, some things should be done in moderation!” Xi Nanyan: “Moderation? You should be saying that to your good son-in-law.” He Jinyang pleaded, “Honey, just one more time 1.2kReads8.8Score103Shelves
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A Fox's Glimmering Shadow 狐光掠影
Mistresses have always been a desperate lot! No praise, no blame. I'm just telling their stories. In the eyes of the public, they're like rats crossing the street, hated by everyone and living in dark corners where the sun never shines. The smart and capable ones manage to get out in time. The foolish ones are left, bobbing up and down in the dark abyss... There are many ways to live a long life, yet this particular group chooses this one, and there are quite a few of them. At least, there are s
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1021
A City in a Foreign Land, My Dear You 异乡的城，亲爱的你
Ye Lian had had enough of living apart from her husband. Ignoring everyone’s objections and attempts to dissuade her, she resolutely quit her civil service job and moved to the big city to reunite with him. But while looking for work, she was targeted in a snatch-and-grab robbery, and every one of her documents was stolen... Cao Xueqian loved and cherished his wife, and all he wanted was to give her a good life. But he faced setback after setback. He thought he’d finally found a good opportunity
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Neon Taipei: My Seven-Year Descent 霓虹台北：我的七年堕落实录
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1023
The Female Bank President's Last Resort 女行长的穷途末路
A teller's act of withholding checks toppled the first domino in the bank run at Yunhai City Commercial Bank. Though bank president Ma Yuquan fought desperately to contain the crisis, she ultimately could not counter the enormous fallout from the sudden disappearance of the bank's major shareholder and the head of its controlling rural bank. Ma Yuquan sensed the situation was full of hidden twists and turns, yet never revealed the secret of who she had been with during her brief disappearance, w
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- 1024 My Girlfriend Is Eighteen Years Older, and She Spoils Me Rotten! 老阿姨大我十八岁，也太宠我了！ (Everyday romance with an older woman + no System + not reborn) I’m Gu Can, a recent college graduate with decent looks and excellent grades. I’m still single. In this age of cutthroat competition, I’m forced to join a lingerie company, only to discover that the beautiful boss is the older woman I accidentally married! When I think about it, maybe I should just go along with it... 92Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 1025 Young Girls Aren't Scary, but Women at Forty Are 不怕年轻小妹妹，就怕女人40岁 I'm about to graduate from university. Male, 22, fit and healthy! I'm looking for a kindred spirit to be my wife. She must be at least 18. Local women from Jiangcheng preferred… If the woman is exceptional, I'm also willing to marry into her family. Also: I can do homework for middle and high school students, and tutor them in math, physics, and chemistry… Price negotiable. 16.3kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
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Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了
Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri
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My Soul Travels Back to 1972, Where I Raise Beauties and Ride the Tide of the Times 魂穿七二，培养美人横扫时代浪潮
[Period] [Sign-In] [Divine Doctor] [Space] [Farming] [Sweet Romance] A real estate tycoon transmigrates into 1972 and binds to the Red Dust Karma System from the start! Ling Feng uses supplies and skills to establish absolute authority, winning hearts through “feeding” and “protection.” Ling Feng has a portable space, peerless medical skills, and deadly combat abilities. He knows that in these unusual times, supplies give you face, personal connections are the substance, and your fists are your
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My Rise Through the Ranks 我的官场升迁记
[Superpowers + Comeback + Inspirational + Political Intrigue + Inspirational + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] After Liang Zhiyuan was suppressed and jumped into a lake to end his life, Heaven granted him a second chance. Suddenly gifted with X-ray vision, telescopic sight, super hearing, and mind reading, Liang decides to work his hardest to win back his dignity. By chance, he earns Director Wu’s appreciation. The story of Liang Zhiyuan will brighten your outlook on life!
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1029
Master Jin’s Unusual Life 金大师的别样人生
An accident left Jin Yu blind. His father looked down on him, his neighbors mocked him, and everyone lamented that his life was over. No one expected him to step into a whole new world from then on. Fortune-telling, divination, character readings, storytelling, and predicting good and ill fortune. He and his fellow practitioners traveled across Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi, meeting people of great kindness as well as vicious villains. Though blind, he saw straight into peo
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A Marriage Shrouded in Mystery 扑朔迷离的婚姻
This is a sweeping novel that brings together marriage, love, and education. Originally titled The Rotten Chao Family, it is full of twists and turns, whether in Qin Qingqing's love life, the baffling marriages of Li Shunli and the others, Li Xiaolong's hilarious growing-up years, or the legendary experiences of Mayor Yang's family. Their joys and sorrows alike are deeply moving.
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My 99 Perfect Hunts 我的99次完美狩猎
[Realism] [High-IQ crime] [Masterful mind games] [No female lead] [For readers who love logic] The police in Xikang City received a phone call from someone calling himself Ghost, who claimed he would kill a certain person in three days. More than that, he wanted the police to rush out and protect the target. He intended to carry out the killing under the police's tight security. The police took the threat extremely seriously and made careful preparations. When the three days were up, the result
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1032
Adventures in Russia 闯荡俄罗斯
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chinese people flocked to Russia to seek their fortunes. Some were cheated, some were robbed, some grew rich overnight, and others were left penniless. Some abandoned the wives they'd married young to find someone new, while others stayed true to their vows and remained faithful to their marriages. The world is vast and full of surprises. A cast of ordinary people tell the story of Chinese immigrants striving to make a living in a foreign land.
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- 1033 Insurance Scams 保险套路 Also known as "The Days I Went Undercover at an Insurance Company". At a family gathering with friends, homemaker Lin Aijia was introduced to insurance for the first time. By buying insurance, canceling policies, studying insurance, and learning how it worked, she gradually lifted the veil of mystery surrounding it... 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1034 Officialdom: The Eyes of Insight 官场：透视之眼 684Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Country Bumpkin’s Triumphant Comeback 山村匹夫强势逆袭
[Period] [Mountain Village] [Daily Life] [Realistic] [Comeback] Everyone says coptis root is bitter, but his childhood was even more bitter. A mountain village, a beautiful young widow, and a boy: together, they write a new chapter in their fates.
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- 1036 A Book by Tiandi Xiongdi 天帝兄弟的一本书 Zhao Dagang is a top graduate of a prestigious university, but discovers that his wife is cheating on him and is framed by a coworker. Heartbroken and desperate, he chooses to give in to his female boss, setting himself on the path to a stunning comeback! 144Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 1037 Women Go Bad After Thirty 女人变坏三十开外 Her marriage lies in ruins, yet fate has been so generous as to present her with a cruel choice. On one side is her ex-husband, who has finally come to his senses and is desperately trying to win her back; On another is the young man who calls her “Sister-in-law,” stayed by her through the darkness, and brought light into her life; And then there is the suitor who turned his back on his family for her and has silently waited for years. Standing at fate's three-way crossroads, she is lost and 366Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in 1980: I Picked Up Four Wonderful Sons-in-Law 重生80：我捡了4个好女婿
Apricot Blossom was taken in as a child bride and abandoned in the countryside by her husband, Zhao Erzhu, who enlisted in the army, in an absurd “marriage” with no marriage certificate. She worked herself to the bone raising four daughters and a son, yet could never understand why her violent father-in-law favored her paralyzed eldest brother-in-law’s family, even as her sister-in-law constantly exploited and tormented her and her daughters. Only when her daughters were sent away one after anot
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- 1039 Tales from a Northeast China Prison 东北监狱见闻录 This novel is partly autobiographical. The author mainly hopes that by recounting his three years in prison, he can warn everyone who walks along the edge of the law: one stint behind bars brings a lifetime of regret. This novel has nothing to do with romance or poetic beauty, and it is not trying to grab attention. It simply records the author's real prison life in a wry, humorous style. 2.1kReads9.5Score220Shelves
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A Golden Marriage 金婚
One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide
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1041
Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记
[No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u
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- 1042 The Official’s Ladder: The Secrets of Power! 官梯，权力的奥秘！ Ten Rungs on the Official Ladder. Liu Feng’s career hits a wall, plunging him into the lowest point of his life. At the place where he’s been demoted, he unexpectedly runs into an old acquaintance. From then on, his path through life is smooth sailing. 612Reads—Score108Shelves
- 1043 Tales of a Con Artist 老千故事 Su Qing challenges the legendary gambler Mei Luo, hoping to avoid falling into someone else's trap. But her actions lead to her father's tragic death, and Su Qing herself is left in grave danger. After repeatedly risking her life, she sees the good and evil, and the injustices, in the world. To survive and avenge her father, Su Qing pushes herself to the limit again and again, ultimately escaping death by a hair. 146Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1044 Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺 Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special 149.4kReads9.1Score12.9kShelves
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The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘
[Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world.
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She Could Have a Better Life 她可以过得更好
From starting her career to falling in love and getting married, what might a modern woman experience, and how should she deal with life’s setbacks and endless messes? Lin Xiaoru is an ordinary, typical modern woman. Her experiences may be common, but we can often make better choices and find a better way…
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- 1047 The Fox Spirit of the Seventies 七十年代狐狸精 Her father died and her mother remarried. Just like her name, Xia Ku'er had a hard life from childhood on. She could work but couldn't talk, and everyone on the production team called her stupid. Then, when the little fool turned eight, she suddenly came into her own. She fought the worst of the lot, stood up to her cousins, and took on her aunt by marriage, turning the entire Xia family upside down and making herself the laughingstock of the whole production team. From then on, she set out on t 8.4kReads9.1Score781Shelves
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Late at Night, I Fell Under His Spell 深夜，对他着了魔
Their late-night story… It’s thought-provoking, and leaves you filled with regret. Was she too devoted, or was he too heartless? What can you even say about love?
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Shocking! Grandma at 76 Looks So Young 惊！76岁奶奶保养太好
Shock! This 76-Year-Old Grandma Looks So Young
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Chronicles of Twin Souls 双生魂记
In a deceptive world woven from lies, the fates of the twin-souled A Chu and Yan Chen quietly intertwine. A Chu bears a primordial chaos totem, while mysterious golden blood flows through Yan Chen's veins. Their seemingly heaven-ordained mission conceals a shocking conspiracy. They enter the Tianxuan Pavilion, a place filled with traps and evil spirits, and narrowly survive trials on the Soul Bridge and against their inner demons. But they soon discover that this is only the beginning of a much
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