Any Stories Like But That’s All, With a Tsundere Male Lead? #类似于《不过尔尔》那种的而且男主傲娇有没有～
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Through the Sea of People, I Run to You 绕遍人海奔向你
Everyone says Wen Zheng spent every last flutter of her heart on Lu Zhi'ang. And indeed, ever since that midsummer when she was in eighth grade, Wen Zheng had devoted her whole heart to the boy. Setting and characters: A tender teenage romance set in middle school, with both of them crossing paths, and a long, unrequited crush stretched across different classes and schools. Yet a veil always seemed to lie between them. They chatted online every day, but rarely crossed paths in person. Conflic
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Sweet Romance: The Divine Lord Wins the Delicate Flower with His Good Looks 甜宠：神君他靠美貌拿下小白花
[The story went off the rails. Don't read.] Everyone praises Fu Yanning as a man of impeccable character and striking appearance. He's like a celestial being high above the world in the Three Pure Realms, free of desire and ambition. Only Jiang Zhao knows that Fu Yanning has no heart. She treated him so well in her past life! And yet he was always picking on her. In the end, she died on the city wall, killed by his arrow. After being reborn, her greatest wish is to stay away from him. But it's a
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Journey to the West: Nezha, the Red Lotus and the Green Carp 【西游】哪吒：红莲花与绿鲤鱼
The proud, distinguished Third Prince, a god of slaughter from the Heavenly Realm, x a carefree little blue carp. The story begins before Journey to the West. The female lead is a carp spirit who serves before the Buddha. I’m terrible at writing blurbs (rueful smile, holding forehead). P.S. The story may be a slow burn, and the female lead is a somewhat scatterbrained, silly girl. She and the Third Prince complement each other like the strong and weak elements in a birth chart. She won’t trans
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In the Prime of Youth, Love Flows Like Water 风华正茂情似水
This book follows the ups and downs of Zhang Yan’s career, Jia Hui’s efforts to find true love, and Lin Feng’s difficult, winding journey as an entrepreneur. It portrays the post-80s generation’s ambition and dedication to their careers, the post-90s generation’s longing for the stars and the sea, and the post-00s generation’s hopes for a brighter future. We all need dreams in life. No matter how winding the road ahead, or how muddy the path beneath our feet, we will never give up.
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A Collection of Short Stories About Living Toward the Sun 向阳而生短篇小说集
Every story is a journey toward making peace with life; Every step forward is the courage to draw closer to the light. May these words help you find hope in the darkness and regain your strength when you are weary. Keep your heart turned toward the warm sun and your eyes on the stars. Fear not the road ahead, and follow the light. An inspiring short story collection about brilliant flowers blooming in the cracks of a wall.
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My Fiancé, the Heir, Wants to Marry a Farmer's Daughter? I Wish Them Well 未婚夫世子要娶农女？我尊重祝福
In her previous life, Song Chulan couldn’t stand losing to a farm girl. She fought tooth and nail to honor her betrothal and marry Yu Chaoyue, heir to the Marquis of Leyi. From then on, she endured endless grievances and humiliation, and was ground down to death at a young age. “You owe Qing’er a life. This is your just punishment!” Her last memory of the world was Yu Chaoyue’s vicious, disgusted glare and his furious roar. Given another life, Song Chulan decided to break off the engagement. He
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My Ex Wanted Me to Take the Fall for His First Love, but Reborn, I Won't Marry Him 前夫要我替青梅坐牢，重生不嫁了
Everyone in the compound knew that the daughter the Shen family had brought home, Shen Qi, was hopelessly in love with Fang Yi. She spent three years lowering herself to chase after him, using the fact that she had saved his life to force him into signing a marriage agreement. But Fang Yi was in love with the fake heiress he had grown up with, and thought nothing of Shen Qi. Still, Shen Qi married him without a second thought. In the end, she took the blame for someone else and went to prison, w
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Aunt Chen Is Back from the Cultivation World 陈姨娘从修真界回来了
[Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Satisfying Revenge] Chen Qingzhu, a prodigy of the Yuqing Sect, is struck back into her previous life by a lightning tribulation during her Golden Core breakthrough. She is now a long-neglected concubine in the Jingnan Marquis's household. The mistress she loyally serves wants to make her the scapegoat, while the husband who once swore eternal love makes no effort to learn the truth before ordering her beaten to death. Even her own son looks down on her servant
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Favoring a Concubine and Neglecting the Wife? I Won't Be the Marquess's Principal Wife! 宠妾灭妻？这侯门主母我不当了！
[Annual Top-Rated Novel Ranking] Voting has begun! Search for “Annual Top-Rated Novel Ranking” to vote for this book, A Return to the Boudoir. Thank you! [Traditional historical romance + inner-courtyard drama + reborn revenge and face-slapping + a prince pursues his wife] Lin Yunwan was the legitimate daughter of the prestigious Lin clan. When her Marquis household was on the verge of losing its title, she married Lu Zhengliu, the heir to the marquisate. On their wedding day, her husband coldly
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The Duke's Estate Maid 国公府小丫鬟
Su Liyue was a low-ranking maid in the Duke's mansion, not even qualified for the ranks of household maids. She had no interest in climbing the social ladder. She just wanted to leave the mansion and live a quiet life. After hearing that only first-class maids could buy their freedom, she rushed into the main kitchen and embarked on a difficult journey up the ranks. She made sweet soups, prepared pastries, cooked elaborate dishes, bought farmland, rented a butcher shop, and tended the ancestral
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The Foolish Girl Returns 傻女归来
[Strong female lead]+ [No CP]+ [Revenge]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Decisive and ruthless]+ [Multiple secret identities]+ [Strong allies] Suffering can wear down a person’s resolve and break their backbone, but it can also awaken their potential and forge a new beginning. When Lian Hui was five, a sudden illness took both her parents. A high fever left her intellectually disabled, and her own relatives drove her out of the family home. Alone with a dog, she struggled to survive in the wilderness ne
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An Island and You, Beneath the Warm Sun 屿你暖阳
Why did we meet? Because it was fate. Before I met you, I didn't know what love was. I can't explain why I love you, but I know that you're the reason I could never love anyone else.
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Growing Toward the Sun Amid Shattered Light 碎光里的向阳生长
My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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A Match Made in Splendor, Her Beauty Rules the World 锦绣良缘之男颜倾天下
Shen Heng was an unremarkable young lady among the official families of Shangjing. Aside from her somewhat striking looks, the one thing that made people take notice was her “remarkable achievement” of being jilted by the Prime Minister’s legitimate son.
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Peach Blossoms Topple the River and Mountains 桃花折江山
The TV drama Peach Blossoms Reflecting on the Mountains and Rivers, starring Liu Xueyi and Meng Ziyi. Zhao has a beauty named Taohua. Her fate is full of hardship, and she is married off to Wei far away. All she wants is to stay alive and climb her way up. Wei has a handsome chancellor who is ruthless and sharp-tongued, sweet on the surface but treacherous within. He cares nothing for anyone's life, so long as he gets what he wants. Taohua thinks everyone loves beautiful things. Surely he can't
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The One by the Tower Is Like Jade 楼边人似玉
The proprietress of the Zhangdeng Inn is truly insufferable: sharp-tongued, money-grubbing, flirtatious, and shameless. He cultivates the Way of Shangqing and slays the myriad demons of the mortal world. He absolutely must not let her bewitch him! (Demon-hunting, scheming magistrate Song Liyan x money-loving, self-obsessed innkeeper Lou Siyu. The story involves only the human and demon realms. They fall in love in a different setting, with no cultivation. Happy ending, with both sweet and angsty
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
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Nothing More Than That 不过尔尔
Er’er is a weak little immortal. She can’t fight monsters, and she can’t meditate either. With barely eight hundred years of cultivation, she loses it all the moment she ascends to the Ninth Heaven. But she has the gift of foresight. She knows that one day, the man before her will destroy heaven and earth and slaughter every living thing. Before he turns demonic, she must bind her little life tightly to his. Li Ye is a powerful High God. He ranks first at fighting monsters, first at meditati
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Help! Why Is the CEO Hell-Bent on Claiming Me? 救命！霸总为何誓死强取我
[Jealous genius CEO × everyone’s favorite lucky heroine + one-on-one, both chaste / love after marriage / contract / sweet romance] Also known as “I Suddenly Got Rich and the CEO Won’t Stop Clinging to Me and Spoiling Me” In the age of artificial intelligence, AI legislation is still incomplete, yet people are mysteriously disappearing. Qin Ningxiang makes a lot of money with AI, then suddenly disappears from her original space. When she wakes up, she has eaten the System from the start and fall
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Where the Green Mountains Meet the Paulownia 青山见梧桐
[Ensemble cast + romance pairings + female lead's growth + dual cultivation in swordsmanship, talismans, and alchemy] (Her secret identity is an ancient god; in the later story, she resolves the lingering remnant and helps the new Heavenly Dao take its place) After dying, Jiang Zhiqing opens her eyes and transmigrates to an unknown cultivation world, where she is saved by the heir to a mysterious island lord. Later, she goes to the Central Plains to attend a sect's disciple-selection ceremony an
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Lin Zi'ang and Su Wan 林子昂和苏晚
Su Wan died on the delivery bed from postpartum hemorrhage. Just before she passed, she heard her husband, Lin Ziang, calmly choose to "save the baby." When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three years earlier, to the very night Lin Ziang had used a glass of wine to "set her up" and get her pregnant, binding her to him in marriage. At the time, she was still the "Mrs. Lin" envied by countless people, the group's sharpest investment director, pouring her heart and soul into her hus
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Book Three by Kabading 卡巴胺的第3本书
Fate watched them silently, its voice low. “So, your choice is...” Nezha's lips curled into a defiant grin. Without hesitation, he said: “To smash you.”
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A Soft Warmth in the Night 夜光微暖
Sweet, innocent girl meets icy CEO. Both are virgins + no angst + doting romance An iceberg that even sunlight couldn't melt encountered a heart warm enough to glow through the night. At that moment, all he could think of was love. This word, so often appearing in his nightmares, no longer tore at his heart. Instead, it shone with a warm light, filling his heart to the brim.
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Assistant Jian, Get a Grip! 简助，你清醒一点！
[Devoted to each other + sweet romance + scheming + falling for her all on his own] Qin Heng is cold, abstinent, and a neat freak, with a reputation for being impossible to deal with. Jian Ning is cool and stunning, with outstanding professional skills as a special assistant. As Qin Heng's assistant, Jian Ning has never made a serious professional mistake. She never imagined that one day she would wake up beside him. Having broken the rules, Jian Ning immediately hands in her resignation. Then Q
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Forced to Become a Lucky Bride, I Became the Tyrannical Prince’s Darling 被迫冲喜后，成了暴戾王爷掌中娇
[Mad Dog Prince x Sweet Beauty, married first and fell in love later + doting husband + both are pure + face-slapping power fantasy] Shen Youying's father and brothers are falsely accused of treason. The Shen family falls into ruin overnight, and everyone keeps their distance. Even the Lu family, who had arranged a marriage with her long ago, can't wait to break off the engagement. On the day the betrothal gifts are to be exchanged, her fiance doesn't show up. Instead, a eunuch from the palace a
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So Glad I Got to Meet You All 能遇见你们真好
We barely knew each other, then got married in a game and met in real life. Is that really a thing? Do people still meet through games? It feels unreal. I'm so glad I met you all. We played together until we couldn't stop... It all feels unreal...
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Tales of Xingzhou 杏州往事
Dreams and reality collide with fierce intensity, and the spark of hope is nearly extinguished beneath the crushing weight of survival. He struggles in a mire of desire, love becomes a pawn in a power game, and brotherhood teeters on the edge of a blade sharpened by self-interest. Mysterious figures flit through it all like ghosts, and every deal seems to lead into an endless abyss. Can they break free of fate's shackles and find a glimmer of light in the darkness?
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From First Meeting to Forever 相识相知长相许
Luo Fanjin: "Who am I, really?" Luo's mother: "You're my daughter, of course!" Luo Fanjin: "They all say my father is a prince. Is that true?" Luo's father: "It is. I found you." Second Female Lead: "You're not a princess. You're a princess from an enemy nation!" The Heavenly Emperor: "None of that matters. I am the one who banished you to endure the suffering of six cycles of reincarnation." The Demon Realm's prince: "My lady, no matter who you are or which cycle of reincarnation you're in, I s
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From the Start, I Had Iced Tea, and I Conquered the Immortal Realm with It 开局冰红茶，我靠冰红茶纵横仙界
One-on-one, happy ending, both leads devoted only to each other [Warm-hearted, money-loving sunshine tea fairy vs. seemingly cold, actually tender, tragically beautiful and lazy Spring God] [Transmigration / Golden Finger / Feel-Good Story / Face-Slapping and Punishing Scum / Healing / Sweet Romance / Love Grows Over Time] Shen Miancha transmigrates to the immortal realm and becomes a tea fairy with barely any spiritual power. She can’t earn spirit stones or afford a place in an immortal palace,
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Meet Me, See Me 遇见我，看见我
Zhou Junjie, the young master of a business empire who has face blindness, is startled when the new transfer student turns out to be Li Ziyi, his childhood friend whom he hasn't seen in years. What happened between them in the past? They run into each other on a cruise ship and discover that Zhou Junjie has been locked in the infirmary by his own bodyguards and injected with drugs... In his memories, Zhou Junjie was sunny and cheerful. Now, he's cold and distant. But he bids on a shell necklace,
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Crossing Mountains and Rivers to See You 奔赴山河来见你
Sequel to The Girl Who Sold Fried Dough Sticks All it took was one promise: "See you at Q University!" She really came, he really waited for her, and they really kept their promise. Fate is truly a marvelous thing, as if everything is destined... Guan Chao was peeling a tangerine. He looked up and raised an eyebrow. "Well, I remember someone saying that when it comes to repaying a life-saving favor, if you like the guy, you say, 'I have no way to repay you, so I offer myself to you.' If he's ugl
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The Girl Who Sells Fried Dough Sticks 卖油条的小姑娘
[Sweet] What sweetness? There is too little sweetness in life. [Bitter] What bitterness? Life itself is bitter. [Hardship Before Happiness] That will be Guan Chao and Fang Cheng in the future. [Happiness Before Hardship] That was Yin Danfeng at the beginning. Fang Cheng appeared in his life, but was only a passerby. They appeared in her life as passersby, and only in the end did they become friends. The first book has no sweet romance, only the harsh realities that wear down a boy's youth.
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The Love Between Yang Guifei, Prince Shou, and Emperor Xuanzong 杨贵妃和寿王，唐玄宗之间的爱情
The Love Triangle Between Yang Guifei, Prince Shou, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
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A Summer of Love in Chongqing 爱在山城重庆的夏天
Set against a romantic backdrop, City Love Stories follows the romances of two generations: Su Jinyu and Yang Pingping, and Yang Xiaoran and Li Ming. With a clear theme, a twisting plot, and vivid characters, the story tells us that true love conquers all: as long as there is love in your heart, you can overcome any difficulty or challenge. It also conveys an optimistic outlook on life and encourages people to bravely pursue their own happiness and dreams.
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Ten Years a Widow, Then I Heard My Dead Husband Knocking at Midnight 守寡独居十年，半夜听见去世丈夫的敲门声
After Ten Years of Widowhood and Living Alone, I Hear My Late Husband Knocking at the Door in the Middle of the Night
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Princess Taiping’s Palace Romance 太平公主的宫廷艳遇
Princess Taiping's Courtly Affair
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Love in Shanghai 爱在大上海
Shanghai, the Pearl of the Orient, draws countless dreamers with its unique charm. Here, amid dazzling lights and bustling streets, countless moving love stories unfold. This is a modern romance about love, dreams, and perseverance: Love in Shanghai. The story follows two young lovers from very different backgrounds. The male lead, Liu Xian, is a born-and-raised Shanghai local, while the girl is a born-and-raised Chongqing native. She is clever and independent, with her own convictions and aspir
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I Waited for Ten Years, Only for My Husband to Bring a Courtesan Home and Demand a Divorce 痴情等待十年，夫君携花魁青楼小翠逼我和离
After Waiting Faithfully for Ten Years, My Husband Brought a Famous Courtesan to the Brothel and Pressured Me to Divorce Him
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Dumped for My Poor Background, I Ran Away and Met a Tycoon 被嫌家境差抛弃后，转身逃跑遇到霸总
After he dumped her for coming from a poor family, she turned to run and ran into a domineering CEO.
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The Twenty-Third Year of Yuanhe, Eighth Day of the Twelfth Lunar Month: Reborn to Turn the Tide 元和二十三年，腊八，重生之逆转乾坤
The Eighth Day of the Twelfth Lunar Month, Year 23 of Yuanhe: Reborn to Turn the Tide
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A Post-90s Girl's Mysterious Experience 一个90后女孩的神秘经历
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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Crazy, All Crazy, A Little Madness Is Good 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
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Green Lime, Never Too Late 青柠不晚
[Fake Siblings + Marriage First, Love Later + Reunion After Years Apart + Mutual Healing + Sweet and Angsty] [Independent, Sensitive Heiress ✖ Devoted, Jealous Young Noble] 1. Six years after they parted, Zhou Chuning saw Pei Chi again at her father’s funeral. She attended with the boyfriend she’d been dating for a year. He reached out to Pei Chi first. “Hello, I’m Chuning’s boyfriend.” Pei Chi’s lips curled into a faint smile. “If you’re her boyfriend, then who am I?” 2. Everyone knew that when
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Mountain and Bamboo 山与竹
Childhood friends x reunion after a long separation. This is a story about a secret crush, about a boy and a girl who met the very best versions of each other in their teenage years. After all, “Alone, a slender bamboo grows; its roots entwine Mount Tai.” To her, he was Mount Tai, and she was the bamboo at its foot. Some are childhood friends, innocent and carefree together. For others, their entire youth is spent looking up at someone. Luckily, one day, he finally turned around and looked
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Love Song by Nightlight 夜灯恋歌
Everyday romance + an ordinary person’s rise to success + nostalgia for the 2010s + no System or golden finger + a somewhat slow start I’m Chen Mingyao, a small-town exam grinder about to graduate from college. At a 24-hour convenience store, I meet Long Ge, a tough girl with a head of bright golden hair. Having been single my whole life, I’m captivated by her and decide to pursue her. The good news is that Long Ge seems to like me too. The bad news is that she has a boyfriend with a complicated
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Sweet Dreams 祝你好梦
# A kind, accomplished goldfish who doesn’t know her own worth catches a glimpse of the sun A roguishly handsome, proud boy & a cool, steadfast girl * Small-town school life, healing and gentle, a slow-burn coming-of-age story Sixteen-year-old Li Shuyue squeezes her eyes shut. In her dream, she stands on an awards podium beneath the spotlights, surrounded by lovely pink flowers and the admiring gazes of teachers and classmates. The figure of someone in the audience fades from view. Applause ri
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Drunk on the Fragrance of Books 书香惹人醉
Reading classic texts, creating new stories. This collection brings ancient books to life, carrying on their literary traditions. It offers reflections on classics such as The Romance of the Western Chamber, The Palace of Eternal Life, The Peach Blossom Fan, The Peony Pavilion, A New Account of the Tales of the World, The Scholars, What the Master Would Not Discuss, and Notes from the Thatched Abode of Close Observations, while also creating sequels, adaptations, and entirely new stories.
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A One-on-One Relationship 一对一关系
You fall in love with her, and she falls in love with you. One stubborn thought, a lifetime of heartache. A destined match made in heaven, yet not a couple despite accepting fate; a passionate romance, a life together driven by primal instinct; a fated union born of harmony, an love story that passed each other by.
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My Plan to Create Humanity 我的造人计划
The only creatures on Earth associated with dragons are dinosaurs, but they've been extinct for ages. And I don't have the power to bring them back to life. Even if I could, a dinosaur and I wouldn't be a good match, would we? So I used scientific technologies such as quantum technology, artificial intelligence, gene editing, robotics and automation, the metaverse and blockchain, digital twins, and 3D printing to begin my human-creation plan.
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