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- 101 A 68-Year-Old Woman Finds True Love in the Park, Then Looks Through Her Boyfriend's Phone and Is Left Heartbroken 68岁阿姨公园邂逅真爱，翻看男友手机，我瞬间心如刀割 A 68-year-old woman meets true love in the park. When I look through my boyfriend’s phone, my heart breaks in an instant. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 My Pension Is 5,800 a Month. I Refuse to Move into a Nursing Home and Rent My House to a Caregiver Instead 退休金5800，我选择不住养老院，而是把房子租给保姆 With a pension of 5,800, I chose not to live in a retirement home. Instead, I rented out my house to a caregiver. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 A 68-Year-Old Principal Recalls the College Entrance Exam: I Arrived Ten Minutes Late and Fell in the Mud, and It Changed My Life 68岁校长回忆高考，迟到十分钟摔满身泥，竟改变我一生 At 68, the principal looks back on the college entrance exam: arriving ten minutes late and falling into the mud changed my life forever. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 On the Double Ninth Festival, I Added My Son to a Mutual Aid Group for People Living Alone. He Left Instantly and Mocked Me 重阳节，我拉儿子进独居互助群，他秒退还嘲讽我 On the Double Ninth Festival, I added my son to a mutual-aid group for people living alone. He left immediately and even mocked me. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 At 65, I Returned to Work After Retirement Was Delayed. I Opened a Drawer and Found the Lunchbox My Mother Left Me 65岁延迟退休返岗，我拉开抽屉，翻出母亲留我的饭盒 At 65, I went back to work after retirement was postponed. When I opened a drawer, I found the lunchbox my mother had left me. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 I Was Hospitalized with Diabetic Foot, My Children Only Paid the Bills and Never Visited, and a Poor Student’s Gratitude Moved Me to Tears 我糖尿病足住院，儿女只出钱不露面，穷学生报恩暖哭我 I was hospitalized with diabetic foot disease. My children sent money but never showed up, while a poor student repaid my kindness and moved me to tears. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 At 68, I Returned to My Hometown for the Demolition Compensation. While Reaping the Rewards, I Uncovered a Secret My Mother Had Hidden for 30 Years 68岁我回老家拆迁，收割韭菜，翻出母亲藏30年的秘密 At 68, I returned to my hometown for a demolition payout, hoping to cash in. Instead, I uncovered the secret my mother had hidden for 30 years. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 At the Senior University’s Showcase, I Played “Für Elise” and Made My Daughter Cry 老年大学汇报演出，我弹了〈致爱丽丝〉，女儿哭了 At the senior university’s showcase performance, I played “Für Elise,” and my daughter cried. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 A 75-Year-Old Man Uncovers Old Grain Coupons and Sends Them to His Son Abroad, Revealing 50 Years of Bitterness 75岁大爷翻出旧粮票，寄给国外儿子，揭开了50年的辛酸 A 75-year-old man uncovers some old ration coupons and mails them to his son overseas, bringing 50 years of hardship to light. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 At 65, He Quit School to Support His Brother, Who Became a Rich Man and Forgot His Kindness: 40 Years of Regret Unveiled 65岁大哥弃学供弟读书，弟成富豪忘恩，揭开40年亏欠 At 65, an older brother gave up his education to put his younger brother through school. His brother became rich and forgot his sacrifice, bringing 40 years of debt to light. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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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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The Victor Becomes King, the Loser a Bandit: The Story of Today 成王败寇话今朝
This book tells the story of three generations from the Chen and Liu families of Chenjiashan, Liuyang County, in northern Sichuan, from 1958 to 2007, tracing how their fortunes rose and fell amid the country’s development and changing times. Through the eyes of two ordinary families, it records the migration of people brought about by rural urbanization, beginning with the First Five-Year Plan. It recounts the course of reform, from the rural household responsibility system and the contracting o
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- 114 The Century-Old House 百年老宅 An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l 49Reads—Score102Shelves
- 115 I'm a Bachelor, Not a Fool 我是光棍汉，不是傻瓜蛋 Told in the words of a lifelong bachelor, this novel depicts a century in the history of an ordinary family from a unique perspective. It reveals the tragic lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society, especially older bachelors who have never married; condemns the selfish and despicable side of human nature; and celebrates sincerity, kindness, and moral character. One of the few literary works in China to focus early on the tens of millions of lifelong bachelors, it hopes to inspire peopl 24Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Rough-Hewn Hunter’s Lucky Marriage 糙汉猎户的旺夫妻
The good news: The former owner of a farm has been reborn with max-level experience! The bad news: She starts with only ten eggs, and a snake has its eye on her. On the first day, she crouches by the stove, checking the eggs’ temperature. The villagers react: “Has she gone mad? She’s hatching eggs herself?” On the twenty-first day, eight chicks hatch. Her awful relatives react: “You’ll never keep them alive. Just wait and see!” By the third month, the hens are laying eggs like crazy. The local b
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The Rat King Forced Me to Cultivate, and I Got Rich Across Worlds by Snagging Bargains 鼠王逼我修仙，我靠捡漏暴富万界
[Ordinary Mortal's Treasure-Hunting Cultivation] [Treasure Hunts and Mysteries] [Secret-Realm Expeditions] [Unearthing Treasures Across the Myriad Worlds] [Laid-Back Immortal Cultivation] [Secret-Realm Dungeon Adventures] [Lighthearted and Relaxed] Qin Lie: “Immortal, demon, or Buddha, I don't care. Anyone who gets in the way of my treasure hunt and path to immortality dies!” Treasure-Hunting Mouse: “Kid, you've got a big mouth!” Qin Lie: “If we can't kill them, we'll just run!” From antique s
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After Returning to the Village, I Help My Cousin’s Wife Get Justice 回村后我帮表嫂讨公道
The night I returned to the village, I saw my cousin's wife sneaking out in the early hours of the morning. The whole village called her immoral, pointing fingers and abusing her without mercy. No one knew she was secretly investigating the “accidental” death of my cousin! The landslide three years ago was no accident. It was Zhao Defu, the village tyrant, who deliberately killed him to seize the family property! He thought five thousand yuan would be enough to settle things quietly and perman
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Ma Dao's Failed Attempt 马稻不成功
In the eyes of refined scholars, the countryside is a place of poetry and picturesque dreams, a source of inspiration for verse and visions of faraway places. But for those born and raised there, it means the weary lot of facing the earth from dawn till dusk, and the countless absurdities that accumulate over the years. The ugly faces forged by hardship, the secrets hidden before the sun sets: Ma Dao handles them all with ease!
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Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶，我回农村混得风生水起
Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was
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The Taste of Being Alive 是活着的味道
The taste of being alive.
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- 122 Living Is About More Than Just Staying Alive 人活着不光要活下去 Being alive isn't just about staying alive 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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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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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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Getting Rich After the Family Splits: Five Uncles Regret It Too Late 分家暴富：五个舅舅悔不当初
[Transmigration + No System + Farming + Street Vending + Family Separation and Comeback + Everyday Family Life] I transmigrate into the body of a farm girl. The Lin family is large and full of strife. My uncle is weak and useless, and my aunt is mean and greedy. On the day the family splits up, my uncle’s household objects to a married-out daughter claiming any land. Fortunately, my grandmother stands up for us. The whole family pulls together and protects the foundation we need to make a life f
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Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年，1974从悔婚开始
In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an
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How to Become the Richest Man by Losing Money, Starting with Short Dramas 亏成首富从短剧开始
[No female lead] [System] [Business and farming] Jia Luo was laid off by his company and returned to his rural hometown with 120,000 yuan in savings. By chance, he bound himself to the “Lose Money to Get Rich System”: At a loss, his rewards doubled. If he made a profit, he only got a base salary of 3,000 yuan. Once Jia Luo figured out how it worked, he was ecstatic: The more money he lost, the more he earned! Wasn't this just easy money? He carefully chose the short-drama market, recruiting only
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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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The Lucky Village Doctor: Building a Happy Village 福运小村医：打造快活村
Zhang Xiaotian, the wild young donkey of Nanshan Village, has studied the Treatise on the Yin and Yang of Zi and Wu since childhood. His medical skills are unparalleled: with a single needle, he can take on the village bullies and cure the sick, no matter how baffling their ailments. His miraculous treasure space nurtures fertile fields where he grows medicinal herbs and helps the poor, transforming the poorest village beneath Zhongnan Mountain into a famous village of joy. Equally skilled in me
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A Valiant Woman in Troubled Times: One Lone Blade to Avenge a Sea of Blood 乱世烈女：孤刀报尽血海仇
A Fierce Woman in Troubled Times: One Lone Blade to Avenge a Blood Feud
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- 133 A Fox's Claw Marks Appeared on the Bride's Back on Our Wedding Night 新婚夜，新娘背上现出狐伤 On their wedding night, a fox-shaped wound appears on the bride's back. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I Followed a Beauty into a Cave, and Ten Years Later I Became a Monster 追美女进山洞，十年后我成了妖怪 I followed a beauty into a mountain cave. Ten years later, I became a monster. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Six Years in the Cold Palace: I Nurtured an Emperor for the Ages with My Life 冷宫六年，我以命养出千古明君 Six Years in the Cold Palace, I Nurtured an Eternal Wise Ruler with My Life 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Clear Words Hidden in Reed Leaves, Carried on the Wind for Twenty Years 芦叶藏清词，风吹二十年 Pure Words Hidden in Reed Leaves, Carried by the Wind for Twenty Years 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 The Longqing Murders: A Scholar's Wrongful Conviction, and I Set His Spirit Wife Straight 隆庆奇案：秀才冤狱，我判灵妻归正 The Longqing Mystery: A Scholar's Wrongful Imprisonment, I Rule That His Spirit Wife Be Set Right —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 I Didn't Kill My Best Friend, But He Did Die Because of Me 我没动手杀挚友，但他确实因我凉透了 I didn't kill my best friend, but he did end up dead because of me. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Hongwu's Wrath: A Lowly Clerk Defies Heaven, Three Hundred Households Lose Their Heads 洪武怒：小吏抗天，三百户枭首 Hongwu's Fury: A Petty Official Defies Heaven, Three Hundred Households Beheaded —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 The Tang Banner in the Far Reaches 绝域唐旗 The Tang Banner in the Forbidden Lands 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 A Carefree Fairy Descends to Earth and Takes the Internet Giants by Storm 逍遥仙女下凡，卷爆互联网大厂 A carefree fairy descends to earth and takes the internet giants by storm 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Ink and Tang Style: The Biography of Xue Tao 笺染唐风：薛涛传 Ink on Silk, Tang-Era Style: The Story of Xue Tao 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Burning the Manuscript at Qingzhi Cove: The Southern Song Poetess Refuses to Cross Over 焚稿青芝坞：南宋才女不肯渡 Burning the Drafts at Qingzhi Dock: The Southern Song Talented Lady Refuses to Cross the River —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Pines and Cypresses at Xiling Betray Our Promised Time 西陵松柏负佳期 Pines and cypresses of Xiling, missing the promised day 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scrounging Meals 逍遥仙：下凡后，我靠蹭饭飞升了 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scoring Free Meals 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 I Became Fahai and Discovered Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 穿成法海，发现白素贞是我前女友 I Transmigrated as Fahai and Discovered That Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Unluckiest Young Master in the Great Song Dynasty 大宋第一倒霉少爷 The Song Dynasty's Unluckiest Young Master 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Warlord of a Chaotic Era: I, Yang Zhong, Lay the Foundation for Sui's Eternal Empire 乱世战神：我，杨忠，奠基大隋万古江山 War-Torn Era’s War God: I, Yang Zhong, Laid the Foundation for the Sui Dynasty’s Eternal Reign 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 No More Meetings at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Are Selling Riverside Apartments in Heaven 鹊桥别相会了，牛郎织女去天庭卖银河江景房 No more meeting at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl head to Heaven to sell Milky Way-view apartments 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 I'm Dead! Bajie Works with His Old Flame at Huaguoshan Tourism 笑死！八戒在花果山文旅和旧情人上班 I’m dead! Bajie is working at Huaguoshan Tourist Resort with his old flame. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
