Recommend a Great Book for Middle-Aged and Older Readers! 推荐一本中老年人看的好书！
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- 451 Everyday Life in the Siheyuan Courtyard 四合院的小日常 An alternate-history setting. All content is fictional. No going to the countryside, no doing business, just an ordinary working man. Old Song is forty-eight this year. His wife, known as Madam Song, is forty-five. His parents are both in their late sixties and still alive. His younger sister, Song Huasheng, is thirty-eight. Her husband died in an accident, and she and her two children are currently staying with Old Song’s family. Old Song and Madam Song have three sons and one daughter. The eld 1.5kReads8.6Score111Shelves
- 452 The Delicate Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside Is Spoiled by a Rugged Mountain Man 娇气知青下乡，被山里糙汉宠坏了 [Delicate Young Educated Woman VS Rugged Country Man]+ [A Striking Difference in Build] “If you eat my food, you become my wife. Try to run, and I'll break your legs!” On a night of raging snow, for half a sack of white flour, Su Man tremblingly crept into the forest ranger's cabin at the end of the village, a man who terrified the whole town. The man stood bare-chested, a hideous scar slashing across his chest, his eyes as fierce as a wolf's. Su Man trembled with fear, the corners of her eyes r 2.9kReads6.4Score239Shelves
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年
This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare
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After Taking a Pay Cut and Quietly Giving Up, My Boss Begged Me for Forgiveness All Night 降薪摆烂后，老板连夜跪求我原谅
After My Pay Was Cut, I Started Slacking Off. My Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Forgive Him That Very Night
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Back to 2010: Starting as a Township Clerk 重回一零，从乡镇科员开始
This book is grounded in reality and rooted in everyday life. The world of officialdom is no ivory tower; it is where the bustle of ordinary life is most intense. The story begins at the grassroots and draws on real life, with the daily grind of food and bills alongside the twists and turns of power struggles, and the struggles and steadfastness of ordinary people set against the upheavals and transformations of a changing age. The world today is undergoing changes unseen in a century. Official
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- 457 During My Confinement, I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out 月子里，我赶跑了婆婆 I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out During My Postpartum Month 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in 1958: Grandpa and Grandson Stockpile for the Famine Together 重生58爷孙空间联动囤爆灾荒年
Peng Yi built his fortune from nothing, amassing billions, only to have his own children pull the plug and abandon him in his final years. He died full of hatred. Kneeling before the grave of his beloved Su Wanqing as he drew his last breath, he learned that she had once carried his child. At just twenty-three, she had died in a famine, and mother and child had suffered every hardship life could bring! Heaven had shown mercy: Peng Yi was reborn in 1958, on the eve of their flight from famine! A
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- 459 My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Her Grave 不听劝的婆婆归西了 My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Meet Her Maker 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
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My Past, Like Water Through the Years 我的过往，似水流年
The five-year-old heroine’s mother was often ill and hospitalized, leaving no one to look after her. So she and her three-year-old brother repeatedly crossed mountains to beg relatives for food. After their mother recovered, her relationship with her mother-in-law turned sour. Unable to cope, she drank pesticide in an attempted suicide. She was saved, but her personality became domineering and her temper erratic. She beat the heroine and her brother for no reason on multiple occasions. Trying to
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Reborn and Ruthless: Building a Business and Taking Revenge 重生不手软，创业复仇两不误
Reborn + redemption + revenge + true love + a love that goes both ways. Everyone envies those with secure government jobs, but after being reborn, Chen Yanqing is determined to leave that world behind! In her previous life, Chen Yanqing worked incredibly hard to pass the civil service exam and get a permanent position, only to be falsely accused and imprisoned for five years. When she was in her forties and finally eligible for release, she slipped and fell while taking a shower. When she woke u
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Blood-Red Sunset 残阳似血
[Female special forces soldier vs. heir to a financial empire] [Love and hate] [Suspenseful tragic romance] [Tragic ending] He commanded a vast business empire, and money and women were the things he had most of. They were also the things he loved most. He loved lots and lots of money, and women who were very, very special. She was the strongest special forces soldier, bar none. She had no desires and stood alone in the world. Watching her, he couldn’t help saying, “I think I’ve really fallen in
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- 463 My Father 我的爸爸 My Dad 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 464 Adopted Son, Part Two 过继二 [Wealth + power plays] [Reality + perseverance] [Life + passion] [Love + living] A man must be as tough as iron, but also as resilient as steel. Only then can he face the harshness of reality and the twists of fate, and rise to meet new challenges. I'm Zhao Erhai, and here's my story... 4kReads9.3Score490Shelves
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An Unbounded Official Career 官途无疆
Jiang Han, a billionaire who resigned from public office to go into business, is framed and reborn as a third-year college student. He makes a fortune in the stock market, becoming a hidden billionaire. To repay his hometown for supporting him for more than a decade, he returns as a village official while still a college student and leads the villagers to prosperity, embarking on a career in government. In the treacherous world of politics, his exceptional wisdom and insight, along with his sinc
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Her Secret Thoughts: A Young Man’s Hidden Diary in a Small Village 致她的心事：小村青年的隐秘日记
No formulaic plot | Not a wish-fulfillment novel | Realistic fiction | Zhou Zhiqiang grows up amid poverty and chaos in her birth family, with her father instilling in her the survival rule that “you have to please people to survive.” She gets into college and lands a job at a bank. A well-off man, Ke Qingyan, pursues her, but as the truth about her family comes out, she gradually loses her self-respect and her relationship. Later, burdened with debt, she returns to her hometown and, under he
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Humiliated at My Divorce Banquet, I Set Sail for a Brighter Future 离婚宴受辱，我的前程自此启航
On the day of his divorce, he endured ridicule and scorn. Everyone thought he would sink into despair, unaware that after lying low for so long, he was about to begin a whole new chapter in life. Free of the shackles of his past, he keeps his feet on the ground and breaks through prejudice with his own abilities. Through wind and rain, he presses forward step by step. The era that belongs to him is about to begin.
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After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后，她的人生开挂了
[Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr
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Don't Want to Work Overtime? Then Get Out! I Did, So Why Is My Boss Begging Me to Come Back? 不加班就滚？真滚了，老板又跪下来求我干什么？
“If You Won't Work Overtime, Then Get Lost!” I Really Left, So Why Is the Boss Kneeling and Begging Me to Come Back?
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A Mother and Daughter’s Crossing 母女渡
She is a daughter of Tibet, stolen away by fate. He is a swindler from another land, cloaked in kindness. One lie, half a lifetime in captivity. Amid yellow earth and snowstorms, she becomes a shore her daughter can call home. From Lhasa to Linxia, from despair to being reborn, they make their way through the darkest night, all to return to that first ray of light.
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- 471 After the Intern Was Thrust into the Role, the Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Take Over 实习生赶鸭子上架后，老板哭着跪求我上位 After the Intern Was Thrown in at the Deep End, the Boss Wept and Begged Me to Take Over 95Reads—Score—Shelves
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True Love Can’t Stand the Light, So She Married a Fool 真爱见光死，她嫁给傻子
At nineteen, He Yang met Chen Mo for the first time. Her card got swallowed, and she grabbed him by the sleeve. The restraint of a middle-aged man and the recklessness of a young woman threw everything into chaos from that day on. She married a fool as a cover, just so she could stay by his side. Years later, when she had everything, she finally realized that the person she loved had never been him. It was the respectable life that man represented, a life beyond her reach. Amusingly, the fool wh
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A Review of This Life 复盘今生
Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra
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- 474 Drifting Slowly Through Passion and Desolation 慢慢走过热烈与荒芜 From high school to the working world, three gentle, untroubled relationships unfold in a journey of growth and healing. She passes through the fervor of first love and the desolation of regret, slowly becoming a clear-eyed, independent person. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 475 I’m Being Hunted Across the City for Pursuing an Old Guy 为追老登，我被全城搜捕 I Went on the Run from the Whole City to Pursue an Old Geezer 103Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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- 477 Neighbors for a Lifetime, Case Files for Half a Life 一世邻居，半生案卷 One Lifetime as Neighbors, Half a Lifetime Among Case Files Volume One: Story Introduction After the executioner's blade fell, Lu Wenchuang had three hundred and sixty-five days left. In his previous life, he had been the most honest, lowest-ranking clerk in the Department of Household Affairs at Tianfeng Prefecture. After discovering a shocking shortfall in disaster relief funds for Jiangnan, he was framed by his superior, Liu Dechang. His wife and child died by smashing themselves against a 110Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 478 The Neighbor’s Affair 隔壁偷人 An Affair Next Door 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 479 Bodhisattva Pu An 普庵菩萨 This is a story of cultivation in a world of discrete particles. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, a baby was born in Yufang Village, Yichun, Jiangxi. Auspicious light filled the house, and a strange fragrance lingered for three days. His name was Yu Yinsu, and he would later be honored as Chan Master Pu'an. His life was legendary: he spent twelve years facing a cave wall before suddenly awakening through the Avatamsaka Sutra; he rebuilt Cihua Temple by covering the ground with a sing 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 480 Xu Fei's Wild Life 徐飞的浪荡人生 Just after the Lunar New Year, Xu Fei returns with a simple pack to the small northern city where he was born and raised, after three years away. He'd planned to find any wife and settle down to an ordinary life, but fate has other plans. He is pushed onto a path unlike any other, and begins a life far from ordinary. 799Reads6.7Score111Shelves
- 481 The Spy's Snow Fox 谍之雪狐 On the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month in 1945, snow was still falling in Xiangcheng. Inside the Ma Family Shaomai Shop on Second Street, a middle-aged man suddenly collapsed and began convulsing, foam bubbling from his mouth. At the shop entrance, a man wearing a felt hat and a scarf that concealed everything but his eyes hurried inside. He snatched up the fallen man’s briefcase, turned, and left, disappearing into the endless snow. 11.3kReads8.6Score955Shelves
- 482 I Became a Spy in Republican-Era China 我到民国当间谍 Zhang Yunxuan, a team leader in the Criminal Investigation Squad of Xiangcheng Police Bureau, is a spoiled rich kid who spends his days loafing around and making friends. He has a taste for eating, drinking, and gambling. The only thing he doesn't do is visit brothels. But what people don't know is that he is the military intelligence agent Judge, a man despised to the bone by the Japanese and their Chinese collaborators. 6.8kReads8.6Score432Shelves
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From the Start, I Revealed the Achievements of Ancient Emperors and Stunned the Emperors 开局曝光古人皇功业，惊呆皇帝们
[Historical retrospectives] + [a commoner's view of history] + [spoilers in the comments] + [emperors goofing around] + [A complete run-through of Chinese history from the Yan and Huang emperors, starting with the Shang] Chen Yong was hired to make a series of historical retrospectives. He planned to start with the Shang dynasty. To set his videos apart from the many others, he decided to follow standard historical methodology. Source priority: archaeological artifacts > official histories >
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The Great Yu Female Tutor 大禹女师
(Also known as: After Becoming the Matriarch, I Became the Whole Dynasty's Mentor) Qian Yixiang, a female professor of Chinese literature, worked through the night on her dissertation and died suddenly. When she opened her eyes, she had become the matriarch of an ancient marquis's household. The good news: she was alive. The bad news: she was on her third burial shroud. No golden finger, no System, and a whole family of wolves circling her. After working herself to death through cutthroat compet
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- 485 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 32.5kReads8.4Score2kShelves
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At Sixty, I'm Living Life on My Own Terms 60岁，我的快意人生
Teacher Zhao Dong devoted decades to education, nurturing countless students and dedicating his life to the classroom. Upon retiring, he unexpectedly unlocked a reward System. From then on, he enjoyed abundant wealth, beautiful women by his side, and a renewed career, embarking on a happy and carefree new life in retirement. My new work is out now! Feel free to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms 东周列国志
More than five hundred years of upheaval in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods unfold in this book! The Zhou royal house declined and the feudal lords rose. The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period took turns dominating, while the Seven Warring States fought for control of the Central Plains. From the brief hegemony of Duke Zhuang of Zheng to Duke Huan of Qi uniting the feudal lords; from Wu Zixu’s quest for revenge to the battle of wits between Sun Bin and Pang Juan; from
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A Promise in Blue Robes 青裳一诺
In their previous life, Qingshang (Heguan) and Duruo (Houpu) died together in a car accident, bound by death as they had been in life. In this life, Qingshang carries her memories of their past and journeys across mountains and rivers to reunite with him... But he no longer recognizes her, and love and resentment pull them in opposite directions... She practices medicine to save lives, solves one strange case after another, and uses her wisdom to stop a war between two nations and protect the pe
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- 489 A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！ Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e 4.3kReads8.5Score332Shelves
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The Wife's Mask: A Man's Revenge 妻子假面：男人的反击
On Qixi Festival, he suddenly received a promotion notice from the company. Overjoyed, he bought an expensive gift and hurried home to make his wife happy, only to be met with all kinds of disdain. But the moment his wife got up, he was horrified to discover a truth he could not accept. After learning what had really happened, he decided to take revenge!
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Yesterday Flowed into the City 昨日流入城
[Officialdom] + [Workplace] + [Business World] + [Family] A scholar, two business magnates, three boxing champions, four great families, the Gao family's five tigers, the Twelve Beauties of Jiangling, and 108 concubines... A man who had lost all hope and decided to lie flat is thrust into officialdom overnight, only to become the talk of the whole city as he indulges in wine, women, wealth, and power... Where does his path ultimately lead? Will there be an ending?
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Honey, If You Don’t Love Me, Let Me Go 老公，不爱请放手
After twenty years of sharing life’s joys and hardships with her husband, a wife is betrayed and left to struggle with heartache. For the sake of her child, she focuses on her studies while bearing humiliation and resentment alone. Time and again, she resolves to leave, only to waver when her husband begs her to stay and her own love for him, built over more than twenty years, pulls her back. It is like a drowning person struggling in the water, ready to give up from exhaustion, only for her hus
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Reborn in 1998: My Five Sisters Are in Their Prime 重生1998，五个姐姐芳华正茂
(Reborn + Revenge + Feel-Good + Building Wealth) In his previous life, Lin Jiabao had a great hand, but played it terribly. He had his parents' love and the affection of his five older sisters, and he was a hard worker too. He even landed a government job in the provincial capital. But his wife, Sun Rourou, tricked him into raising another man's child and bled his entire family dry. His life couldn't have been more miserable... When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to 1998, to the very
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- 494 A Red Thread Winding Around a Lifetime of Longing 红绳绕尽一生念 The Red String That Binds a Lifetime of Longing (A Crossover with A Lifetime with You) In an era filled with the warmth and bustle of rural life, fellow Gansu natives Zhou Yuan, Lin Yisheng, and Xiao Ning were all bound by the people they cared about for half their lives. The deepest longing in Zhou Yuan's heart was always for Wantang. He often reunited with her in his dreams: butterflies fluttered past a broken bridge, and Wantang's smile shone just as brightly as it had back then. But when he 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 495 On Our Wedding Night, My Blind Husband Saw Me and Got a Nosebleed 新婚夜，失明老公看着我流鼻血 A cripple and a blind man. Everyone in the imperial capital said they were a perfect match. Little did they know that Lin Yuxi was a skilled doctor. She had healed her leg long ago. But she gradually realized that there was something strange about her blind husband. He couldn't see a thing, yet when she undressed, he got a nosebleed. When she showered, he told her to close the door. When she was injured, he rushed to save her. Was it all just coincidence? Then one day, when she was nearly killed 6.4kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 496 After I Transmigrated, I Started Thriving 穿越后，混得风生水起 Reborn Merit King × Transmigration Scripted Murder Mystery After being reborn, I achieved the double feat of financial freedom and perfect merit. Then the King of Hell invited me for tea. In the Hall of Yama, that impossibly handsome, supremely powerful big shot actually invited me: “Would you like to stay by my side?” Me, on guard: “You're very handsome, but the underworld is damp. I'm afraid I'll end up with chronic arthritis.” Only later did I realize he simply thought I was amusing! The pet 599Reads9.4Score103Shelves
- 497 Why Should I Have to Support That Old Hag? 老太婆凭啥让我养老 Wang Fangping was reborn. Had she really been angered to death? In her previous life, her in-laws exploited her until she was destitute. She spent most of her life trapped in the countryside, slaving away for the extended family. She moved to the city and took on the heaviest, dirtiest work, yet still couldn’t afford a home. When her mother-in-law was able to work, she helped the younger son’s family. When she could no longer manage on her own, Wang Fangping was expected to look after her in 455Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 498 Belated Love Runs Deeper Than the Sea 迟来的深情，比海深 Eight years as a contract couple. In this fast-paced world, they stayed together for years, overcoming one challenge after another as they climbed from the bottom to the top, from a branch office to the company headquarters. At last, he got his wish and was promoted to group president. She thought she would be able to stay by his side with greater security. But once he’d made it, the first thing he did was cut ties with the woman in his bed! Eight years, eight whole years. Every beautiful dream 710Reads8.8Score197Shelves
- 499 EN The Dragon Son-in-Law 上门龙婿 The Ye family is one of the most powerful families in Yanjing and across the country. Yet Ye Chen is a live-in son-in-law everyone looks down on. No one knows who he really is. Those who despise him will eventually kneel before him, trembling with fear, and call him “Master”! 228.5kReads9.2Score9.4kShelves
- 500 Madam White Snake Livestreams Her Transmigration Through Leifeng Pagoda 白娘子直播穿越雷峰塔 [System + quick transmigration + livestream] During a livestream, psychologist Bai Su is sucked into the thousand-year-old digital prison inside Leifeng Pagoda. She's forced to become Bai Suzhen, dispel Bai Suzhen's obsession, and complete the trials of Leifeng Pagoda? And the worst part is, the whole thing is being livestreamed across the stars! “What? There's a System? And I can earn points to exchange for spells...” See how Bai Su rakes in comments, likes, and tips in her livestream to compl 19Reads9.3Score—Shelves
