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Nine-Tenths Foolish 九分傻
“Marital relations” used to be a taboo subject, but these days, people no longer find it hard to talk about. Studies show that the quality of a couple’s intimate life in a typical family has a major impact on its overall happiness. Behind a divorce rate as high as 70% there is often a direct connection to whether a couple’s intimate life is harmonious. This reality is sobering, and it has prompted us to think deeply about the reasons behind disharmony in married life. One major cause is mental i
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The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母
[A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw
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- 353 Transmigration: I’m Crushing My Scumbag Ex in a Parallel World 穿越：我在平行世界爆虐渣男前夫 (Soul transmigration and a creative premise + healing from childhood family trauma) One morning, Tang Wanwan wakes up and discovers she has transmigrated... The wounds inflicted by your birth family must be healed within that family. Love is a kind of redemption, a light that gathers lost time. Somehow, it was all destined to be. She is financially independent, beautiful, and sophisticated. He is handsome and wickedly charming, but hopelessly addicted to gambling. It was love at first sight. She 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Human Life Lies Deep in the Loess 黄土深处是人间
This is a collection of true stories from the countryside. One book captures a century of life in all its variety on the Loess Plateau. Brotherhood, the warmth and coldness of family, partings in life and death, and the changes of an era: one independent story after another weaves together the fates of several generations. There is hardship, pain, tears, and warmth, portraying the struggles of those at the bottom as well as the resilience of ordinary people. There are no chosen-one advantages an
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The Fallen Heiress Is Spoiled Rotten by a Rough-Hewn Man 落魄千金被粗汉宠成宝
[Sweet romance + both leads are devoted to each other + rugged man and his sweet wife + farming + no transmigration + no System + doting on her alone + height difference] There's no logic to it, just a simple sweet romance about the everyday life of a rugged man and his delicate, helplessly beautiful wife.
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- 356 Reborn in the 1980s: The Space-Age Millionaire 重生八零：空间小富婆 She died a horrible death in 2023, then was reborn in 1980 and bound to an against-the-heavens spirit spring space. She takes down her awful relatives and kicks her scumbag boyfriend and his shameless mistress to the curb. Starting with a street stall, she builds a business empire and leads her whole family to victory, while her enemies regret everything until their guts turn to ash! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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- 358 The Qian Family of Taihang: From Rags to Riches 太行钱家，从穷根到首富 At seven, he became the village's great-grandfather. Bald as an egg and so poor that the whole village mocked him! With half a copy of the Herbal Compendium, he saved lives. With sheer courage, he plugged a breach and dug an iron mine! When a drilling accident struck, he jumped down to serve as a human support beam. When the funding ran out, he got down on his knees and begged, determined to rise again! From a hungry, bald kid to a mogul worth billions who built a city! After making five million 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 359 Power Struggles in the Countryside: The Rise and Fall of a Great Clan over Thirty Years 乡村权斗：望族兴衰三十年 Who in the surrounding villages doesn’t know the Wang family, the top-tier clan? After three generations of careful work, their family business flourishes. Every wedding and funeral stirs up the whole village, while the Zhao family, forever trying to compete, always comes in second. Then Li Yingqin, a bride from outside the village, marries into the Wang family compound. She is fiery and perceptive, unwilling to be trapped by old rules and pushed around. One marriage becomes the turning point th —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Qingshui Village Farmstay 清水村农家乐
When you've reached a dead end, go home, back to the vast fields and farmland. Help your parents sell peaches, grow vegetables in greenhouses, and run a farmstay. Then lead the villagers of Qingshui Village to prosperity and forge your own path as a new-generation farmer!
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My 1994: Starting with Wild Vegetables Across the Hills 我的九四，从漫山野菜开始
Xu Shouyi was an outstanding modern farmer of the 21st century. After serving as village chief for 20 years, he went to a neighboring village to advise them on a new planting method. Then, caught in a sudden downpour, his car plunged off a cliff… When he woke up again, he had returned to 1994. There was still time to set things right. In his previous life, he’d drifted through life and only come to his senses in middle age. This time, he would use his knowledge to lead his kind-hearted neighbors
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A Village at Dusk 乡村日暮有人家
Farming + family life + historically grounded + realistic + no transmigration + slow-paced + no formulaic tropes + no ridiculous characters + no monster fights + no leveling up + no storage space + not a power fantasy or pure romance + no high-ranking officials This is a story about a family. In a mountain village in southern Hunan, Qianqian and her family work hard to get by. They farm, grow cotton, process hemp, spin yarn, weave cloth, and do needlework. Later, she learns to dye patterned clot
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Half a Lifetime of Passing Years 半生流年
Though we have all lived through this real world, when we look back on the years gone by, most of us find them somehow unreal. Looking back, nearly forty years had slipped away from Zhang Xiaoji like a flowing stream. Sitting alone by the window, he quietly examined the course of his life. Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoji realized that he was much like Bai Jiaxuan from White Deer Plain, because both men took pride in having had seven women, or perhaps more. He was even more like Fugui from To Live: though
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The Number One Hunk 第1猛男
Style: urban survival, easy to understand, humorous and witty, lighthearted and fun, with plenty of romantic tension. System: Get rewarded whenever an exciting conflict breaks out. Language: concise and clear.
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The Left-Behind Child and His Grandfather, the Butcher 留守儿童与他的杀猪匠爷爷
When the youngest was five, his mother, egged on by his grandmother and several uncles, abandoned him and ran off. His father had to leave for work, so the youngest had no choice but to stay behind at his butcher grandfather's house, becoming a "left-behind child nobody wanted"...
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From the Start, I'm an Emperor: Building an Ancient Divine Sect 开局大帝境，打造太古神宗
After Wang Yi became sect leader, he activated a System and was rewarded with the cultivation of a Great Emperor. He vowed to build the greatest divine sect of the ancient era. Looking at the many prodigies hoping to join his sect... “What? You have a Supreme Bone and want to become a Holy Son? Sorry, in our sect, people with Supreme Bones are only good enough to guard the gate!” “You have the bloodline of a Heavenly Phoenix? Not bad! The kitchen needs a chef who can produce phoenix fire, so the
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- 367 A Thousand Years of Sign-In in the Underworld, Then Reincarnating Makes the Empress Cry 地府签到千年，投胎气哭女帝 After Li Heng died, his soul entered the underworld. He thought he would be reincarnated, but instead he unlocked a sign-in System in the Hall of the King of Hell. And so he became a lowly underworld officer who swept floors, wandering through every corner of the underworld. “Ding! You signed in at the Hall of the King of Hell and received the King of Hell's Sword!” “Ding! You signed in on the Eighteenth Level of Hell and received the Primordial Demon God Spear!” “Ding! You signed in at the Hall 14.6kReads8.6Score67.4kShelves
- 368 I'm the Hope of the Whole Village 老子是全村的希望 With the Divine Dragon’s legacy, a country boy laughs with delight... At Spring Creek, he catches pufferfish by driving ducks into the lake. In summer, he gathers lotus roots and picks purple mulberries for a snack. In autumn, he darts through flower fields in search of honey, while wild dates in the woods make his mouth pucker. In winter, he digs up cold-weather bamboo shoots and throws snowballs, chasing wild boars all over the hills. He cooks festive dishes, makes malt-sugar figures, pounds r 1.4kReads8.2Score142Shelves
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The Truth Behind the Gao Family Village Election 高家庄选举背后的真相
[True to Life]+ [Two Male Leads]+ [Face-slapping]+ [Customs]+ [Urban]+ [Legend] [The Han people’s greatest taboo]: body odor The Gao family, who migrated from the Great Pagoda Tree, has a large population and came from Shanxi. The local natives, with assorted surnames like Song, Du, and Xi, occupy the village’s best land, and most of their families are wealthy. Their population should be even larger, so why are there so few of them? These circumstances defy the natural order. Just like the rumor
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The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！
This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s
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A Woman's Strength Holds Up the Sky 弱女子撑起一片天
Born on the Qixi Festival in a desolate earthen cave, she has a stubborn, unyielding spirit. An unexpected encounter leads her to the love of her life, though it turns out their meeting was destined by an arranged childhood betrothal. Her in-laws favor sons and look on coldly as she struggles, but each time adversity strikes, she rises from the ashes reborn. Should she endure and forgive? What will humanity and hardship reveal? She chooses to be strong, and her selfless, uncomplaining devotion b
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- 372 The Childhood Bride Who Has Her Eye on Her Younger Brother 馋上弟弟的童养媳 “Zhou Zhengdong’s legs are ruined, and so is he. He’s not even a man anymore!” Xiao Qing swallowed a bitter laugh. Her big brother was ruined? She was the only one who knew he was nothing like a cripple! In a poor, isolated mountain village, swapping marriages was the only way poor families could bind themselves together through marriage. Xiao Qing was a gentle, pretty girl, but no matter how bright her eyes were, she couldn’t escape the shackles of a swapped marriage, much less the taboos of 49Reads5.2Score—Shelves
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Let Go of That Village Beauty and Let Me Have Her 放开那个村花，让我来
Su Mu, a veteran, traveled far and wide before finally choosing to return to his hometown. There, he devoted himself to rural development, helping people escape poverty, taking on local bullies, and protecting the village beauty. In my territory, I make the rules!
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Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！
Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing
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Simple-Minded Ni 憨妮
Hanni is a woman who seems a little dim-witted to outsiders. She marries three men: the first is an ordinary man, the second a tycoon, and the third a young hoodlum. This is the story of her and the people around her, and how Hanni changes her fate...
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- 376 Being Alive 在活着 Ordinary people's lives unfold amid little sorrows and joys. This is the story of a working-class family: how a country woman carves out her own path through the muck of life, and how her four children quietly stretch their branches toward adulthood amid poverty and an oppressive atmosphere. The weight of single parenthood bears down on them, and time slowly changes each person's character, like paper kneaded by the wind, creased in ways no one can see. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 377 Dust Settles in the Mortal World 尘落人间 Jinhai Niang says that life is all about suffering. If you don't suffer one way, you'll suffer another. Once you've endured your share, it's time to go. No System, no transmigration, just a straightforward story... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Living Together in Marriage 婚姻里的共居
For women, marriage is like a high-stakes gamble with no certain outcome. They stake their youth and surrender their fate, hoping luck will be on their side. No one can say what they’ll end up with: a “war without gunfire” full of hidden hurts, a metamorphosis like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, or the gentle, unremarkable flow of days worn smooth by time. From two people to a family of four, through the endless cycle of meals and changing seasons, life beneath one roof is wrapped in swee
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Hualong's 41st Book 化文龙第41本书
[City Life + Rural Romance + Sweet Romance + Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy] Everyone in the village says Li Dazhuang is a toad dreaming of eating swan meat for daring to set his sights on the aloof widow Lin Jiaolan. Caught spying? Li Dazhuang was so embarrassed he wanted to die. “I was… I was just looking out for the neighbors’ safety!” Other men bring her flowers, but he shows up carrying two sacks of rice. Other men whisper sweet nothings, but he quietly repairs the leaky roof of Lin Jiaolan’s hous
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The Warmth of the Human World, Those Years 人间烟火，那些年
Realistic fiction, mostly based on true events. The rough life of an ordinary woman in the 1990s: a difficult mother-in-law, too many children, fines and having her home searched, scraping by to make a living, and surviving two brushes with death. Even so, she never loses hope for the future... Her wedding is just around the corner when the matchmaker interferes, keeping her from spending her life with the man she loves. Forced to marry the suitable match her parents picked, she hears her mother
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Everyone Else Chews Tree Bark in the Famine, While My Family Devours Meat by the Mouthful 荒年家家啃树皮我家咔咔炫大肉
(Ancient-era farming + cozy everyday life + sweet romance + transmigration + space System + family squabbles + building a fortune + devoted to each other) Yiduo transmigrates to an impoverished mountain village in ancient times with her mother. It’s a year of famine, and on top of that, a creditor shows up demanding repayment. If they can’t pay what they owe, she’ll be forced to marry the landlord’s sickly son. After the village head goes to great lengths to mediate, both sides agree that the de
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The Plains' True Colors 平原底色
Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma
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Old Liu and His Daughter 老刘和他的女儿
Lao Liu is an ordinary, down-and-out farmer with nothing to be proud of. But his ideas about raising his children are completely at odds with the mainstream. After 18 years of perseverance, his daughter has given him his proudest reason of all. Is he happy or unfortunate? Everyone probably has their own answer.
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The Road Through Life’s Storms 西北人的新书风雨人生路
Welcome, everyone, to my story. It tells the separate stories of a family living in the countryside. The mother and older brother, in particular, have suffered many hardships, and their long illnesses have had a profound impact on the younger generation's physical and mental well-being. The story examines the kind, selfish, and ugly sides of human nature.
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Far Valley 远谷
With its bizarre and lively tales of country life, this work recounts the lives of four generations in Yuangu, from poverty and ignorance to absurdity, deceit, and strange, uncanny events. In the end, fate comes full circle, and all paths lead to the same destination: somewhere, the will of Heaven has already made itself known. Yuangu’s ancestors wandered into a mountain cave and uncovered a stone tablet. On it, an ancient young nobleman mourned his sorrow beside a stone he cherished, his extrao
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Song of Red Mountain 红山之歌
Told through the perspectives of A Meng and Sha Na, this book, originally titled Song of Hongshan, follows two generations of Hongshan healers as they save lives, and tells the stories of the generations of Hongshan people around them as they face birth, aging, illness, death, and struggles against fate. Through these stories, it also reveals the Hongshan people's simple kindness and their resilience in the face of hardship.
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- 387 Reborn in 1987: A New Chapter in Eastern Sichuan 重生1987之再话川东 A true period novel! Reborn, no System, no golden finger, slow-paced, one heroine. Carefully written: readers looking for instant thrills, please don't come in. In 2024, the despairing Wang Ping is reborn at the age of thirteen. This novel recreates the customs and everyday life of eastern Sichuan starting in the late 1980s. A mountain village boy's life of making up for past regrets... —Reads—Score—Shelves
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When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开
The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca
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A Little Village in the Countryside 乡野小村
Wang Tiezhu is the village simpleton, alone and helpless since childhood. After getting injured in an accident, he inherits the legacy of his ancestors. He grows medicinal herbs, starts a company, and puts his medical skills to use, embarking on a life full of surprises!
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Racing Wild on the Guizhou Roads 黔路狂飚
Reborn in 1980, he uses his experience from his previous life to avenge his father. He also rides the wave of reform and opening-up, setting up a cooperative, a construction crew, and a real estate company, then taking the company public. Step by step, he builds a business empire.
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Poor Chuntao and Her Men 贫女春桃和她的男人们
A period story, rural life, family and village gossip, realism, romance, and an ensemble cast After her former husband dies, Chuntao moves to town and opens her own vinegar workshop. As she runs her business, she meets many people who offer her plenty of help, and her vinegar business grows bigger and bigger. In the end, through her own hard work, Chuntao makes a fortune and meets a man she can entrust her life to.
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The Story of Three Working Girls 三个打工女孩的故事
Three young women of the same age, each from a different family background and with a different personality, head to Guancheng to find work. Set in the 1990s, their experiences capture the memories of an entire era. When their birth families are thrown into turmoil, should they stand by and do nothing, lend a hand, or sacrifice their dignity to help them through it? Some come to repay their parents' kindness, while others only cause their parents trouble. The three girls each have a different an
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I Became a Billionaire with Jianying: Everyone in My Village Is Worth Ten Billion 我靠剪映成首富：全村人均一百亿
[Farming to Build Wealth + Developing the Village + Transforming His Hometown] Xu Guan is framed and faces a prison sentence, but then he gains the ability to modify the genes of plants and animals. First, he grows fast-maturing vegetables, making quick money and helping the villagers escape poverty. Then he raises fast-growing fish, complaining when they gain less than a hundred pounds in a year. He plants coconut trees in the temperate zone, bringing tropical scenery to the borderlands. His he
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When the Sophora Blossoms Bloom Again 槐花又开时
A woman crawls out of the abyss and turns hardship into sweetness. Abandoned by her husband, crushed by rumors, and left penniless, Xi Zhou was trampled into the mud. A red hair tie bound her to a humble past, while a pig farm helped her stand tall again. A tough, one-legged man protects her with his life. Together, they weather a feed crisis, fight off thugs at night, and skillfully dispel rumors. From an abandoned wife everyone could bully to a businesswoman running her own enterprise, she hon
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The Story of Haitang, the Beautiful Widow 俏寡妇海棠的故事
The novel The Great Family: Spirit and Flesh, also known as The Story of Haitang the Pretty Widow, is a sweeping epic with a female protagonist and a rural setting, set against the backdrop of historical change. Volume One, Storms over Dianbei, follows three storylines: Haitang’s growth as she struggles against fate forms the main plot, supported by two secondary threads that deepen the narrative. One traces the trials and tribulations of the Fate-Changers, led by Wenzhiwu, while the other follo
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Warm Blossoms of the Eighties 八十年代的暖花
Lin Wanxing was known throughout the surrounding villages as a delicate young woman, too frail to carry or lift anything. After she married, she wouldn't so much as touch a farm chore. But no one knew she'd transmigrated into an 1980s military-wife novel, becoming a supporting character with the same name who had jumped into a river to win the male lead's heart. The man who rescued her was Shen Yandong, the toughest man in the neighboring village, and the future golden finger of the book's heroi
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A Love Affair Across Half a Lifetime 半世情缘
After a lifetime, the most painful thing is still parting. Chen Xiang has lived through love and affection, hardship and helplessness. Come along with this book, and let’s take a look at one man’s life so far. Who loves him? Whom does he love? Hardship and good fortune go hand in hand. Career and true love are both part of his life! What kind of lives do the people around him lead? This is a realistic story. Very realistic.
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Kidnapped for Fifteen Years, the God of War Returns to His Village to Sell Sesame Flatbreads 被拐十五年，战神回村卖烧饼
[War God] [Rural Life] [Older Woman-Younger Man Romance] [Divine Doctor] [Building a Business and Getting Rich] [No System] [Urban Power Fantasy] [Invincible and Passionate] When Mo Xiaoqi was eleven, he was “kidnapped” by a mysterious person. He later became the invincible War God guarding the northern frontier of the Yan Kingdom. Once the nation was peaceful and its people safe, he left without a word, hiding his achievements and returning to his hometown to live quietly as an ordinary village
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Childhood Memories of My Hometown 故乡的童年回忆
Childhood Memories of Home
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San Biaozi 三彪子
In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke.
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