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1. 501 当 What We Do When We Talk About Love 当我们谈论爱情时，我们在做什么 Qin Ang琴昂Modern Romance365k WordsCompleted Also known as The True Story of A-Dai. When we talk about love, we talk about romance and sweetness. When two people come together, there’s more than moonlit romance: there are also storms and thunder. Faced with the promises they once made, what should they do to weather life’s ups and downs? In a long relationship, if you do more than you say, you’re considered unromantic; if you say more than you do, you’re considered unreliable. Very Brothers is a contemporary urban novel in the Realistic Ci 9Reads—Score—14d adds

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   I recommend this!

2. 502 这 This Book Is a Little Fake 这书有点假 Two Fires, Ten Mountains贰火拾山Eastern Fantasy733k WordsOngoing [No System + Eastern Fantasy + Mystery + Freewheeling Style + Original Taoist Cultivation System + Twists + Light Humor + Philosophy + X (a story tag)] The mystery requires the first and second chapters to seem unrelated. If you’re here for the fantasy, start with Chapter Three. If anything doesn’t make sense later, you can go back and read the earlier chapters. Cultivators fight against Heaven and against themselves, all for the elusive promise of immortality. Shi Lang is a downright unlucky pr 14Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Let me be upfront about the worst-case scenario. The title might deter you, the synopsis might pull you back, but after the first three chapters, the content might leave you vehemently criticizing traditional Chinese culture! And what about after that? The content will leave you bewildered and exhausted! Anyone who can predict the future after just a few chapters will lose!

3. 503 走 Through the Trials 走过劫难 Li Xinxin李馨欣Modern Romance275k WordsCompleted Disaster strikes a once-happy family of five. After suffering a heartbreak so piercing it feels like ten thousand arrows, how will a mother who has only just reached middle age, and is already frail and sickly, lead her three underage children through hardship and toward the future...? 150Reads—Score—14d adds

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   There's no time travel, no rebirth, and no domineering CEO; it's just real life.

4. 504 今 What a Day 今天真精彩 Qin Ang琴昂10k WordsCompleted What an Exciting Day 1Reads—Score—14d adds
5. 505 浮 Life Is Like a Dream: I Take the Blame and Transmigrate to the 1950s 浮生若梦，我顶缸穿五零 I Promise You the Best Years我许年华Modern Romance309k WordsCompleted (Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don't compare this to reality!) History's number one scapegoat, Xu Duoduo, has grievances she can't voice. When disaster comes from heaven, it can still be avoided. When you bring disaster upon yourself, there's no escaping it. So what if life is hard? If you can stomach eating bitter greens, you can do anything. I'll give it my all! Come watch a post-2000s girl living the '50s version of a wild-vegetable-foraging life. Let's go! 1.8kReads9.2Score12614d adds

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   🤔[I also highly recommend it]😘👍

6. 506 南 The South Wind Knows My Heart, and I’ll Never Walk Alone Again 南风知我意，从此不孤行 I Promise You the Best Years我许年华Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted Some people say dandelion seeds look like pretty little parachutes, drifting lightly in the breeze, utterly romantic. But Xu Nanfeng thinks they look more like homeless children, wandering everywhere with nowhere to settle. Just like her: no real kin, no true friends, arriving without a ripple and leaving without a sound. There's an old saying: you reap what you sow. But I, Xu Nanfeng, refuse to believe it. I'll grow into the very person you all thought I could never become! Nanfeng knows my hea 1.1kReads9.3Score10314d adds
7. 507 多 Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我 Jiu Xiaoqi酒小七Ancient Romance216k WordsCompleted Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va 70.3kReads9.7Score9.3k14d adds

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   These ancient Chinese poems are really beautiful.

8. 508 簪 The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎 Kong Liu空留Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their 10.4kReads9.6Score1.6k14d adds
9. 509 与 With Jin Chang’an (Based on the Screen Adaptation Starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei) 与晋长安（宋轶、丞磊主演影视原著） Jiu Lu Feixiang九鹭非香Ancient Romance155k WordsCompleted The hit drama starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei is now airing! A beloved historical romance by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang! Female general vs. puppy-like boy. The child she casually picked up turns out to have two sides? A cold little gentleman by day, a loyal black knight by night. Is he a puppy turning into a wolf, and which side is the real him? A tale of love and hate between a female general and the heir of an enemy state! Li Shuang, the adopted daughter of a great general, guards the borders of the Grea 5.8kReads9.6Score92914d adds
10. 510 将 The Bride-to-Be 将嫁 Echoes Linger for Three Days绕梁三日Ancient Romance287k WordsCompleted Three years ago, to pacify the western frontier, he married the daughter of the Governor-General of Yongzhou as his empress. But during his lifetime, he met Huo Shiying, the one and only woman of her kind, and the sole female general in the Great Yan dynasty. She doesn't know, and no one else does either, that he has followed her life for twenty whole years. When he was six, he first heard his mother and eldest sister mention her name, and wondered how a two-year-old girl could have been taken t 25kReads9.6Score3.3k14d adds
11. 511 她 She's the Head of Gods and Demons, So What If She's a Little Willful? 她是神魔之首，任性点怎么了 Jasmine Milky White茉莉小奶白Fantastical Romance872k WordsOngoing [Three-way rivalry + love triangle + invincible heroine + shifting between light and dark + fantasy romance + transmigration and reverse transmigration + groveling redemption + hilarious farming with gods and demons] [A sweet, adorable heroine who switches between two sides, rules the Three Realms with invincible magic, and shares a healing romance with the supreme god and demon. Nothing but love!] She is the cosmic assassin who commands annihilation at the end of the universe. Wherever she goes 15Reads—Score—14d adds

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    New book recommendation! A ruthless, demon-demon hybrid heroine transmigrates to the spirit world. After being injured by the male leads, she transforms into an adorable and invincible fairy, learning everything without a teacher! A heartwarming and loving daily life, with love gradually blossoming! How will she handle these feelings after her villainous personality awakens later?

12. 512 一 The First-Rank Female Detective 一品女神捕 Zhao Ce诏策Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing Ye Zhiqiu was the sole survivor of the great fire at Forbidden Mountain, an orphan who lost everything in the disaster. The friends and fellow villagers who perished in the flames became an obsession that would never leave her. She swore to find the real culprit and avenge the dead. Eight years later, the chance for revenge finally came. She resolutely entered the fray, only to be saddled with a useless, makeshift team. From then on, she never once looked favorably at Xiao Jingzhen. Xiao Jingzh 21Reads6.7Score—14d adds

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    I highly recommend this novel that I wrote myself!

13. 513 大 Plum Blossoms Bloom Brightly Across the Ming Empire 大明天下梅花艳艳开 Sanxiang Daishui三湘带水Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsOngoing Wuxia + history + imperial court + bloodshed + political intrigue + multiple female leads + not a harem + not a wish-fulfillment power fantasy. Plum Blossom Manor, the guardians of a village in Huaxia. Nixiào, the ninety-ninth-generation young manor lord, secretly leaves the manor at fourteen, only to encounter an unknown force plotting against the Great Ming... 485Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Historical martial arts story, where both the protagonists and antagonists are intelligent.

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