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A Widow in Name Only! The Neighboring Roughneck Has His Eye on Her 活守寡！邻家糙汉馋上她
[Rural life in the 1980s, realism, ensemble cast, family squabbles, building a better life] Adapted from real events, this story is set in a small village in southern Henan in the 1980s. Pretty Li Chuntao is married off in her brother's place to a “living corpse,” becoming overnight the “living widow” everyone whispers about behind her back. Just as her life seems like a stagnant pool, a rough-hewn man barges into it. Family ties bind her hand and foot, while her growing feelings are a fire sh
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- 152 Rural Love: The Marriage Swap 乡村爱情之换亲 The village looks peaceful, but undercurrents churn beneath the surface. Love, family affection, and illicit affairs intertwine to create a sweeping portrait of life. The beautiful village flower is forced to marry the poorest man in the village, and their story begins... 5.7kReads8.8Score475Shelves
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Who Let Him Become the Village Doctor? 谁让他当村医的
[Country Doctor + Urban Cultivation + Fool's Rise to Power + Farming to Wealth + Many Women Compete for His Attention + Click on Chapter One and You'll Never Get Away] Li Yongchun lost both his parents and was beaten into a fool, suffering humiliation and contempt wherever he went. When he risked his life fighting thugs to save his childhood sweetheart, they kicked him straight into a river. By a twist of fate, he inherited the legacy of the Dragon Maiden. From then on, he slays gods and demons
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- 154 A Village in the Mountains 山间野村 Read the first three chapters. If you don’t like it, come yell at me. [Rural miracle doctor + urban cultivation + farming and getting rich + multiple female leads] After Wang Dachun’s parents died in an accident, they left behind a sister with an intellectual disability. The siblings depended on each other, struggling through a life of poverty, never having enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and being looked down on since childhood. When the village bully targeted his sister, Wang Dachun had 14.5kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
- 155 Wild Lilies of the Mountain Village 山村野百合 An eighteen-year-old village beauty married a thirty-three-year-old simpleton. A month after their wedding, her husband drowned, and she was branded a woman who brought death to her husband… This story offers a true-to-life account of the loves and hatreds, joys and sorrows of ordinary rural people. It faces the ugliness and greed of human nature head-on, while reflecting on the sincerity and warmth found in this world. 276Reads—Score—Shelves
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A-Lian in the Mountains 大山里的阿莲
A Lian had been married for three years, but her husband was impotent and she still hadn't gotten pregnant. She had a foul mouth but a soft heart. Later, she married Old Wang next door. Old Wang died in an accident, leaving A Lian a widow. Later, she was jailed for tomb robbing, but got out two years before him. Her life with Xiao Chen started out as one disaster after another. A Lian cursed and grumbled, but little by little, she came to think of this man who had served time as one of her own.
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A Cottage Amid the Green Hills 青山可结庐
The rating is low because this novel just came out, dears. The tags are wrong: it's historical romance and farming. In the first year of Tianyuan, something extraordinary happened in Lijiazhuang, a small village under Fengshui Township. The family of Li Zhijin was actually asking for the hand of Xu Lansi, the second daughter of the neighboring Xujiacun. The Xu family had two daughters, but the elder, Xu Jinxiu, was the real beauty, both talented and lovely, with suitors coming one after another.
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Extreme Growth 极致生长
This is not AI-generated fiction! A special note: This is an extremely slow-burn story. The first two arcs focus mainly on the protagonist's growth and laying the groundwork for the plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! Many readers who started with the third arc went back to read the first two. A naturally frail child from a mountain village, through his own efforts and various strokes of fate, gains the supernatural ability of the Five Elements Seal. After trying his hand at all kinds of
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The Country Doctor: A Village’s Immortal Charm 乡野神医：小村仙韵
[Countryside] [Multiple Heroines] [Divine Doctor] A foolish young man saves a beauty and receives a legacy, becoming a master of both medicine and martial arts. He leads the whole village to prosperity, and powerful figures from every walk of life come to follow him. He makes a fortune trading across the Three Realms, cultivates immortal arts, and takes beautiful wives. Blessed with a sacred constitution and powerful techniques, he returns to the Immortal Realm and defies fate.
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Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】
Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks.
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Lady He Xiang 荷香娘子
I wrote this to earn coins. I don’t have an outline, so I’ll just make it up as I go. They won’t approve it unless it’s at least fifty characters, so what can I say to pad it out? Handsome guys and lovely ladies passing by, have you ever dreamed of living in the countryside?
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- 162 The One Who Returned Home 返乡的人 An ordinary young man with no education, connections, or family background, going from the countryside to the city and then back again. We are the ones born in the seventies and eighties, running as fast as we can... The accident seemed to have been foretold, but so much still took us by surprise. For example: losing our jobs... 21Reads—Score—Shelves
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Graduation Means Unemployment: The Joys of Growing Melons in the Countryside 毕业即失业：农村种瓜乐趣多
From the start, it's “hell mode”: Huang Pu suffers one job-hunting defeat after another in the city, crushed by the label “unemployed upon graduation.” Rejecting the rat race, he flees back to the countryside with nothing but his diploma, declaring that he'll grow “premium-priced melons” on farmland and build a landscaped melon farm. But village bully Han Erhu makes trouble at every turn, while the villagers look on coldly. With no resources or connections, how can Huang Pu defy the odds and cha
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Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌
This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil.
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A Joyful Gathering 欢喜聚
The joys and sorrows of a blended family in ancient times. [A fictional setting: family life and affection that grows over time] An older half-brother who shares the same father. A younger half-sister who shares the same mother. An older sister they took in. A stepsister and stepbrother with no blood ties, after their mother remarries. Yang Xiyue is somehow thrust into a family with a full set of siblings. Life is hard, and people are complicated. Let’s see how this big family eventually finds a
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- 166 At the Crossroads of Fate 站在命运的十字路口 This book explores Standing at the Crossroads of Fate through five major sections. 1. Fleeing for Their Lives: This section recounts how the protagonist Sun Shigui’s grandparents left their landlord’s household to make a life of their own amid the hardships of the old society, and how, after enduring countless trials during the War of Resistance Against Japan, they fled all the way from Nanjing to Shiqi Village and finally settled there. 2. A Life of Hardship: This section follows the many hards 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The Farmer’s Little Plum Blossom 农家小青梅 If her elders gave her a humiliating name because they favored boys, she would choose her own. If they wouldn't spend money on her, she would earn her own and buy what she needed. She did not transmigrate or come back reborn. A country girl orphan, born and raised in a mountain village in an age when boys mattered more than girls and human life was worth less than dirt, she used her medical skills to escape her plight and become a renowned physician. He had no family status or connections. A you 68Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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A Hunter's Legend 一个猎人的传奇
I used to be a real hunter. Over more than twenty years of hunting, I experienced all kinds of wonderful adventures. Now, I’ll tell them in the first person and take you along to experience the thrill and excitement of hunting in the frozen wilderness. In my stories, you’ll feel the heart-pounding struggle against ferocious beasts and the wits-and-cunning battles with crafty prey. You’ll also encounter the eerie terror of many supernatural events, the rock-solid bonds between brothers, and a lov
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Tales of the Northeast: Women Who Climbed Over the High Walls of Grand Estates 东北往事之翻过深宅高墙的女人们
In 1946, on the black soil of Northeast China, Chunxiang, daughter of tenant farmer Wang Mazi, marries Liu Laogen, the landlord's son. Her father receives several acres of good farmland and dozens of silver dollars as a handsome betrothal gift. She thinks she has married into wealth and will live a secure life as a young madam, but Liu Laogen has a hidden ailment, and their marriage proves to be one in name only. Chunxiang is determined to escape the prison that has trapped her, but her greedy f
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- 170 My Ordinary Neighbor 我的普通邻居 What does it take for a girl to grow up safe and sound? Her mother is a mirror, her sister is a mirror, and every woman around her is a mirror. Even men are mirrors. Other people's fates are horrifying to witness. She secretly prays: I must never end up like them. I must live a completely different life. She managed it, though she was only an ordinary girl. 4Reads9.1Score—Shelves
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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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A Peaceful Mountain Village 悠然山村
Life is about more than just getting by in the here and now. There are also... a daughter and fields. After leaving the bustling city and returning to his hometown, he unexpectedly acquires a mountain god’s realm. He plants crops and vegetables, picks fruit in the fields, climbs trees to raid bird nests. It’s all easy and relaxing. He raises chickens and walks the dog, goes into the mountains to look for herbs, and catches shrimp and crabs in the river. There’s no shortage of fun in the wild. Da
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- 173 A Fortune in Rural Seclusion 乡村隐居有财运 Ye Meng arrived in Kaoshui Village, rented a few little houses, and planned to lie flat in seclusion. Who knew a mysterious energy would appear inside him? In this little village, his fortune began to soar! 47Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 174 I Quit My Job and Returned to My Hometown to Build the Most Beautiful Home 辞职回老家，建设我的最美家乡 [Daily Life] [Unity] [Development] [Farming and Helping the Whole Village Get Rich] [No Scheming or Cheap Tricks] [Heartwarming] On his very first trip into the mountains, he discovers five wild ginseng roots that are a hundred years old! By chance, he also finds wild Longevity Grass, a "man's gas station," which sells for ten thousand per root! Then he stumbles across wild black goji berries, worth five thousand per pound! A pet that understands human speech, and a protagonist who can talk to a 7.8kReads8.9Score724Shelves
- 175 Rural Livestream: From the Start, the Adorable Kids Are Having a Blast 乡村直播：开局萌娃嗨翻天 [Pure farming + lighthearted comedy + livestreaming + countryside + adorable kids + cute pets] Tired of the fast-paced hustle and bustle of city life, Li Yiming quits his job and returns to his hometown of Heliu Village. He unexpectedly binds himself to the Countryside Livestream System, beginning a leisurely career as a rural streamer. His very first livestream is a huge hit thanks to an adorable child with hair tied up in two spiky tufts, giving him a perfect start. He streams silly dogs climb 3.2kReads8.7Score228Shelves
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Those Things That Happened in the Mountain Village 山村里的那些事儿
A young man from a mountain village leads the villagers on the road to prosperity. With the help of the women by his side, he overcomes every obstacle, makes his mark on the world, and ultimately rises to wealth and success.
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For a Better Life 为了生活更美好
Set in contemporary times, this novel explores the effective transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization. Against the backdrop of a great era, an imbalanced population, the preference for sons over daughters, and a mass influx of migrant workers into the cities have left many young men in the countryside unable to find partners. Sun Jiawei is one of them. Hoping to find a girlfriend, he goes to Shanghai for work, only to suffer the miserable ordeal of having his engagement broken
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The Small-Town Farmer, Master of Medicine and Martial Arts 医武双绝小农民
Zhang Xuan was the first person from Huangni Village to get into college. But after protecting his girlfriend from the harassment of a rich playboy, he was beaten into an idiot and forced to drop out. What was even more heartbreaking was that afterward, his girlfriend Xiao Qinghan became the playboy’s girlfriend. In front of Zhang Xuan’s parents, she cursed him for overestimating himself and said he deserved to die! When Zhang Xuan returned to his village, he became a laughingstock for miles aro
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- 179 Idiot, Have a Taste! 傻子，尝尝鲜！ The fool Zhang Fan and the mute Wang Fang depend on each other for survival. When she is bullied, he stands up for her. By chance, he inherits the legacy of a Celestial Master and embarks on the path of cultivation. Medicine saves lives and heals the wounded; martial arts punishes the powerful and protects the weak. He uses these skills to befriend the powerful and expand his connections. Leading the villagers to work hard and strive for success, he takes them farther and farther down the roa 10.6kReads7.9Score953Shelves
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The Left-Behind Wife 留守妇女
Xiyun was just one ordinary woman among countless women in the countryside. She had always thought her life would be like that of other rural women: getting married, having children, looking after her husband, and making ends meet, just like her own parents. But when the winds of a new era blew into the countryside and the tide of reform made her one of the many women left behind in their villages, she began to deeply question her past life and her marriage. The hopes for life and love she had c
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- 181 With X-Ray Vision, I Conquer the Antiques World Through Appraisal 透视后，我靠鉴宝称霸古玩界 After his family's business went bankrupt, Li Jin went overnight from a rich second-generation heir to a down-on-his-luck young master, learning the true nature of human relationships. A six-eyed dzi bead that his friends had conned him into buying at an exorbitant price turned out to be a wondrous artifact. It introduced Li Jin to the Ancestral Shaman Scripture and gave him the power to see through things. From then on, Li Jin began a legendary life. He spent his free time hunting for bargains 6.5kReads8.8Score886Shelves
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Those Who Left the Village 从村里走出去的人们
Meng Ziqiang started out on the village construction crew and became the richest man in Linqu County. After six divorces and seven marriages, he was killed in an explosion on New Year's Eve. Qiao Yu'er entered a business school and escaped her peasant upbringing. Through diligent writing, she began to make a name for herself, then threw herself into politics and set out on a career in government. Wu Yuexia built up a fish farm and fought her way forward, eventually becoming the deputy county mag
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Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零：我成了外婆的妹妹
[When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand
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Flowers Falling in a Fleeting World 浮世花落
Zhao Yulan was a gentle, virtuous, loyal, kind, and lovely woman, yet she had an affair. Li Fugui was a hardworking, honest, and upright man, yet he went to prison twice. Cao Rui was a village Party secretary and a successful entrepreneur, yet he coveted a married woman. What's wrong with people… This book explores marriage, family, society, life, human nature, and ethics… There's love and desire, life and death, madness, the folly and greed of human nature, and the warmth and compassion of huma
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- 185 Even the Honest Get Tired of Being Bullied and Fight Back 老实人欺负久了，也是要反抗的 Even Honest People Will Fight Back If They're Bullied for Too Long —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Back to 2001: Allocate Points and Level Up 重回2001加点升级
[Reborn + Pocket Dimension + Status Panel + Proficiency + Daily Life + Cultivation] Luo Zhengyang, a middle-aged man, was laid off and returned to his hometown after many years away. When he woke up one morning, the world had changed, and he was back at the start of middle school in 2001. Then, by chance, he awakened an attribute panel that let him add points, record skills, and continuously raise their levels through practice. Luo Zhengyang realized that the things he had cared about in his pre
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Divine Oil 神油
The waters of the Gui River cannot wash away old blood debts. A jar of miraculous oil can keep the secrets of a powerful family locked away. The Republic of China is in chaos, the country teetering on the brink of collapse. At the command of his ancestors, the sole surviving heir of the Shi family enters the fray, disguising himself as an anonymous laborer at the Wen family’s oil mill. He appears plain and timid, but in his heart he is plotting a sweeping revenge. The miraculous oil the Wen fami
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Old Huang and Old Hei 老黄与老黑
[Period Drama] [Countryside] [Married Life] Set in the early 1980s, this novel tells the story of four families, the Lins, Wangs, Lius, and Chens, in an unremarkable village on the Loess Plateau in the Great Northwest. They scheme and struggle against one another, while brothers and sisters-in-law within each clan bear their own grudges and grievances. But it is better to resolve enmity than let it fester. Lin Junjie is the first young man in the village to get into college, bringing honor to th
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- 189 Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实 The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy. 212Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 190 Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事 Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era. 127Reads—Score—Shelves
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Memories of 1931: Hunting, Fighting the Japanese, and Raising a Family 回忆一九三一养家打猎打鬼子日子
In 1931, the Japanese invaded China. Ling Feng hunted to feed his family and fought the Japanese to capture supplies. He and his good brothers enjoyed the good life, built houses, and got married.
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We Met Through Transmigration, and I'll Stay by Your Side for Life 穿越遇到你，我愿伴你一生
Business magnate Lin Xuan is struck by lightning and suddenly transmigrates into the past. He now has a beautiful wife, an adorable daughter, and a large family. Life is difficult, but with the memories from his previous life, Lin Xuan has nothing to worry about. He's confident he can give his family a happy life. Before he knows it, Lin Xuan has built another business empire of his own. But in an era of unrest, plagued by war and banditry, money alone isn't enough. Lin Xuan builds an invincible
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- 193 My Ex-Wife Wants to Come Back, but I Just Want to Run 前妻要回来，可我只想逃 His wife divorces him from the start and goes off with someone else. How could any man put up with that? The male lead seizes his chance and rises to success. His ex-wife regrets it and begs him to take her back. But by then, he already has too many women around him. How could he possibly go back to the way things were with his ex? Yet she keeps clinging to him. What should he do? A real dilemma. 1.2kReads6.6Score—Shelves
- 194 My Life Is on a Countdown, and I'm Done Being a Simp 生命开启倒计时，我不想再做舔狗 Ye Qingfeng had pursued his girlfriend, Zhou Jinyu, for years, only to discover that she was a gold-digging, two-faced woman. He decisively broke things off with Zhou Jinyu, but never imagined he would become Chi Yutong's live-in son-in-law. Just as Ye Qingfeng fell in love with Chi Yutong, the man she had always cherished appeared, 186Reads5.5Score—Shelves
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Flowers Bloom in the Mountains 山间花开
Xu Ergou, a good-for-nothing from a poor mountain village. But he firmly believes that poverty is nothing to be ashamed of, and that a true man must know when to bend and when to stand firm. He gathers wild produce and mushrooms, opens a restaurant that becomes a huge hit, and gets down to business. With the neighbor, the village doctor, and the policewoman, he weaves a web of connections. At the same time, a secret dating back a hundred years suddenly comes to light, completely changing his lif
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- 196 The CEO's Wife's First Love Is Back 霸道总裁老婆的初恋回来了 His aloof wife has a longtime crush, and a beautiful wife is bound to attract trouble. Jiang Meng is exhausted by life as a live-in son-in-law. He has to chase away the lecherous men who covet his wife and compete with the man she holds dear. Jiang Meng has no standing in the family, but he refuses to accept it. So what if his wife has someone else in her heart? He can even stand up to his mother-in-law, so why should he fear some old flame? See how Jiang Meng, a live-in son-in-law, defeats the 1.6kReads5.8Score106Shelves
- 197 My Wife Doesn’t Love Me After All 我的老婆居然不爱我 Fang Yuan discovers that his wife has a lover on the side. If you don’t love someone, don’t hurt them, so Fang Yuan decisively divorces Xu Ya. Xu Ya soon announces that she’s marrying the man and invites Fang Yuan and their child to the wedding... Xu Ya’s lover keeps pushing Fang Yuan’s limits, until at last he can’t take it anymore. 1.8kReads6.2Score100Shelves
- 198 A Motherless Child, Cared for by His Sister-in-Law 没妈的孩子，嫂子疼 [Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life... 98Reads6.2Score112Shelves
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Room 302: A Wage Earner Clears His Father's Name Against All Odds 合租302：打工仔逆风洗清家父冤案
Roommates in 302: A Wage Earner Clears His Father's Name Against All Odds
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Rugged Farmer Dotes on His Simple Wife: Growing Rich and Winning Her Heart 糙汉宠傻妻：种田暴富伴红颜
[Rugged Husband and Delicate Wife | Tough on the Outside, Tender Within | Born Lucky | Everyday Life in the Seventies | Building Wealth | Heartwarming Healing] [Many Admirers] In a poor northeastern village in the 1970s, farmer Li Changgen has the most miserable life of all! His home is bare, he's forced to marry a sweet but mentally disabled wife, and the villain Liu Ergou has his eyes fixed on him, laying traps at every turn and relentlessly trying to ruin his family and leave them penniless!
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