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Discerning the Confusing, Proceeding with Care 辨惑徐行
When the gaokao is over and you stand at the first crossroads of your life, should you choose the major you dream of or the safer path? Once at university, how do you find your way through the maze of clubs, studies, and relationships? In graduate school, research dead ends collide with plans for the future, leaving you at a loss. Then, as you enter the workplace, overtime, promotions, and questions about the value of your career follow you like a shadow... "Finding Clarity, Moving Forward" foc
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I Am a Patient 我是一个病人
I was lucky enough to escape yesterday and live today, but I couldn't escape the truth that I had become a puppet. Somewhere in the world, there is always another person just like you, in appearance or personality, whether he, she, or it. When you meet, it is all part of fate.
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The Sassy Sister and Her Rascally Husband 飒姐，痞夫
A female surgeon and a male psychologist find their way to each other. At their first meeting, he lets himself into her home and says, “You take care of the outside, and I'll take care of the inside.” She is bold and spirited, but carries hidden wounds. He is a roguish ray of sunshine who openly warms and heals her. You head west to conquer, while I rely on Nan; we seem completely mismatched, going in opposite directions. He had loved her for a long time, through all the days no one knew about.
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The Fleas 跳蚤们
The Fleas is a crime novel about the struggles and ambitions of new Chinese immigrants in Flushing and Manhattan, New York. Set in the early twenty-first century, it follows three ordinary men, Li Xiaodong, Gao Wanli, and Xie Yuan, who came to America as immigrants, undocumented migrants, and international students. Through starkly realistic storytelling, it portrays their hardships and desires as they confront the challenges of building new lives overseas, revealing the difficulties of immigran
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The Rise and Fall of a Landlord in Republican China 民国地主沉浮
In the turbulent year 1941, war and chaos reign, and the people live in misery. Against the backdrop of the times, the Qi family landlord’s household experiences both joy and sorrow, as each member faces their own fate. This is the story of what the Qi siblings witnessed and experienced from the Republic of China era through the founding of New China.
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Slowly, Falling for You 慢慢，喜欢
One-on-one romance, mature adults. Neither lead is a virgin, so stay away if that's not your thing! Taking it slow is a beautiful thing: slowly meeting, slowly falling in love, slowly growing old together. Everything begins after I meet you! Bian Yue never expected to get divorced less than six months into her marriage! Wen Chaoshen never expected to be unable to forget a married woman! Bian Yue: “What do you want?” Wen Chaoshen: “We've hugged and kissed. Obviously, what's left is for me to slee
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Reborn in the 1990s: Is It Really Too Much to Want to Be a Rich Second Generation? 重生九零：想当个富二代不过分吧
Born in 1990, Luo Ye is 28 this year and works herself to the bone. She works 14 hours a day, puts in two hours of overtime, and never gets a day off. Even on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she's at work. After grinding away for years, she finally manages to buy two homes with loans. Then her family home and land in her hometown are requisitioned, making her a member of the demolition-and-compensation generation. If only she'd known, why work so hard? Hahaha, she's finally got money! Is th
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A Little Bit of a Crush 有一点心动
[Marriage Before Love + One-on-One Romance + Sweet Romance + Modern Romance] Overbearing CEO vs. sweet, innocent college student Also known as The Blush-Worthy Everyday Life of Marrying a Rich Husband Song Chiqian: “Some things in this world are hard to explain. Like meeting you. It wasn’t love at first sight, or falling for you the second time around. I just fell in love with you!” Xu Miao: “Little by little, I found myself falling for you. I don’t know whether to feel sad or happy.” Only later
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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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My Son’s College Entrance Exam Countdown Begins the Day He First Urges Me to Divorce 儿子高考倒计时，却是儿子第一次劝我离婚开始之时
With the countdown to my son’s college entrance exams underway, the moment he first urged me to get a divorce arrived too.
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Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事
A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers
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Love Among the Mountains and Rivers 山水情
(Urban slice of life, inspirational growth, a nostalgic era, rich in detail) The beauty of mountains and rivers, the many faces of humanity, the fickleness of the world. The protagonist, Jiang Nan, knows right from wrong and values loyalty and affection. He grows from a poor boy who suffers humiliation into a fine young man admired by everyone. This story is grounded in real life, with family bonds, friendship, romance, and a deep love for his hometown. He leads the villagers to prosperity, ris
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The Jin Yuanbao Family’s Sudden Fortune from Demolition Compensation 金元宝一家的拆迁暴富日常
Old Madam Jin dreamed of a golden ingot while pregnant. She asked each of her four favorite daughters-in-law, but none of them admitted it! Could it really have been Ying Canru, who could never get enough to eat and always burned the bottom of the pot when she cooked? ~~ In the delivery room, Ying Canru screamed as she gave birth. Outside, Jin Laifu paced back and forth, glancing at his watch from time to time as he muttered, “Please let the baby be born on the eighth day of the eighth month. Ot
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A New Life on Egret Island 鹭岛新生
This is a new work of realism, covering birth, aging, illness, and death, as well as exams, employment, civil service tests, job hunting, and work. The protagonist’s past is marked by pain, humiliation, joy, and glory. The author depicts the pressures, lives, ideals, loves, and resentments of ordinary people. Rebellious and reckless, unwilling to settle for mediocrity yet powerless to change things, they keep striving and gradually make progress through twists and turns. This is both the protago
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A Woman from a Poor Family 寒门女人
(Family melodrama + romance + revenge) Bai Xue's birth brought her mother untold hardship. Crushed by feudal beliefs, she and her mother struggled just to breathe, hoping to escape that man's clutches as soon as they could. Overwhelmed with grief, she could no longer face the love her boyfriend gave her. Every day was agony, and the hatred in her heart drove her to swear she would find the man who had violated her and make him pay. Will she find him? What will become of her and her boyfriend? R
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Out of School, the Golden Couple Falls Apart! 走出校门，金童玉女散了！
They Left School, and the Golden Couple Broke Up!
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A Tang Dynasty Physician's Consort: The Plump Doctor's Transmigration to the Tang Dynasty 大唐医妃，大夫胖姐唐朝穿越记
Su Wanwan, a modern doctor known as “Fat Sis,” accidentally transmigrates to the Tang dynasty, then returns three months later with treasures from the Great Tang. Dressed in Tang brocade and carrying a sandalwood box filled with gold, silver, and the deep affection of Emperor Li Chen, she stops at a convenience store to charge her phone. The moment it powers on, her parents’ worry over the past three months crashes over her: hundreds of missed calls, a screen full of anxious messages, her mother
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Crimson Haze 血色朦胧
Cops and criminals + tragic romance + fate. This is the first installment of the "Silence" trilogy, a tender yet sorrowful story. It follows the fates of two generations of police officers, Qin Dongzheng and Qu Jingsi, who set out to uncover the truth behind the 817 tragedy, only for one to die and the other to disappear. They are tall and handsome, in the prime of their lives, and steadfast in their convictions, yet their endings are tragic. Like the author, they are ordinary people. This is a
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A Lost Path Through the Ranks 基层仕途迷茫路
“Jiaming,” Third Grandpa said, “I just saw green smoke rising from your family grave. That's a good omen. I reckon Xinghe will grow up to become an official.” A fortune-teller told him, “You can become an official in the southeast.” Chen Xinghe was a grassroots official who spent more than twenty years struggling his way through the political world, constantly making waves on the grand stage of his own life. For a time, his efforts brought him fame and success, and he enjoyed a happy life. He wa
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The Mangroves and Lychee Fragrance Bay 红树林与荔香湾
[Troubled families + drifting careers + tangled romances + unpredictable personalities + tragedy] [A realist tragedy! Readers looking for feel-good wish fulfillment, stay away.] A group of young people who chose the wrong majors and ended up in the wrong fields! In reality, ideals beckon; in pursuit of ideals, reality pulls you back. How do you reconcile the two? Is a person’s misfortune caused by their circumstances, their personality, or fate? Two young women stood before Wu Yifan. Anxious and
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Reborn and Taking It Easy at School, I Really Don't Want to Compete Anymore! 重生留校躺平，我真不想再卷啊！
[Slice of life + entrepreneurship + university] Reborn at the moment of his university graduation in 2011, Jiang Hao faces another chance to stay on at the university. He gives up the grueling 996 work schedule he endured in his previous life and chooses to stay on as a librarian. Drawing on the memories from before he was reborn, he originally only wants financial freedom. But as his fortune grows, he ultimately becomes someone others admire as a success!
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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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Face Reality: Change Yourself 认清社会现实：改变自己
This book looks beneath the surface from multiple angles, exploring psychology, relationships, family of origin, and the state of society. How do you hold on to yourself in a complicated world and live with dignity under rotten rules? Recognizing reality doesn't mean going along with the crowd. It means finding a genuine path to change yourself.
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The Top-Tier Star Says He’ll Help Me Out 顶流说他带带我
He had always looked up to Ji Fei as his idol. He never expected her to become his girlfriend. [No real-life inspirations. Older woman-younger man romance, painfully slow burn. This isn’t a wish-fulfillment story or a tale of a strong female lead. The early chapters focus on the male lead’s growth, so he gets a lot of screen time. Later on, there are more scenes within the female lead’s performances. She isn’t a stunning beauty who takes everyone’s breath away. She only shines onstage; in every
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Reborn After Divorce, I Raise My Child and Quietly Get Rich 重生离婚后我带娃芶着致富了
Chen Hong opened her eyes and found herself reborn. She was back in the days before she was about to take her child to her parents' home. Unwilling to spend another life constantly walking on eggshells around others, Chen Hong decided to take a difficult but independent path this time. She headed up the mountains to farm and out to sea to fish, but unexpectedly ended up with a whole harem of men.
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The Mermaid, Key to the Elixir of Immortality 长生药引之人鱼
The Mermaid, Key to the Elixir of Immortality
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The Day After I Was Reborn, I Bought Five Houses 重生第二天，我买了5套房
No romance + reborn + lottery tickets + laid-back daily life Chen Lin was reborn in 2008, with a lottery ticket she hadn't had time to claim. Now that she had money, she could buy houses and storefronts, collect rent, and find a relaxing job. At last, she could live the dream life of a landlady. (The protagonist has no romance, no romance, no romance.)
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The Day I Saved the Richest Man's Daughter, My Life Went into Cheat Mode 救下首富之女那天我的人生开了挂
A story about creating against the odds. When you feel that your marriage and career have both ended in total defeat, see how Ji Wenyuan rises from the mire and builds a palace with his own hands, a place called the “Sacred Domain.” This is the epic comeback of a post-80s generation man, forged in despair and growing through the cracks as he fights to reclaim his dignity with blood, sweat, and wisdom! The novel uses the changes experienced by people born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as its canvas:
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Fate Is a Sunny Day 缘是晴天
Memories of youth, growing up, and heartbreak, buried by time and kept close to the heart. May the love shared by Xie Qiyuan and Jiang Ziqing touch your heart. Because they loved each other so deeply back then, their love turned into countless tears. Even so, at a fork in the road with no hope in sight, they would keep waiting for him to come.
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Xiaoming's Guide to Business 小明的生意经
[Urban] [Workplace] [Romance] Life is a business, and love is, too. It all depends on how you manage it... Mutual benefit is the secret to a lasting business. Don't expect to strike gold in one go. You might get away with cheating someone once, but next time, you could be the one who gets cheated... Wang Dongming takes that same approach: building things up little by little and putting himself in other people's shoes. He wins over influential people, clients, family, lovers, and friends with his
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Lameyue 腊月儿
A man at the very bottom of society. An ordinary story about an ordinary person. He is right there beside you. He might even be you. Life is like a glass of liquor. The longer it sits, the richer it becomes. Light a cigarette, lift your glass, and let's savor it slowly.
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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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Hesitation on Returning Home 近乡彷徨
One evening in 1993, an oil lamp glowed inside a dimly lit, tiled-roof house. The laboring mother, Wan Ziyuan, cried out in anguish. After a full day of grueling farm work, she was already too exhausted to go on. But making a living came first, and she couldn’t afford to care about the pain right now! All she could think was that she needed to give birth to a son.
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A Crooked Road Through Life 歪歪人生路
University admissions send Lu Xiaojun and Liu Yajuan down different paths. He follows her to her city for love, fighting his way up from the bottom, while she leaves without a word because of her own troubles. Years later, they meet again and rekindle their relationship, but their marriage soon faces another crisis. After their divorce, fate brings them close once more… Can this tangled half-life finally lead them to stay together?
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On the Day of My C-Section, My Husband Forced Me to Sign Divorce Papers 剖腹产当天，丈夫逼我签离婚协议
On the day of my C-section, my husband forced me to sign divorce papers.
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With Terminal Stomach Cancer, He Forced Me to Leave with Nothing 胃癌晚期，他逼我净身出户
With terminal stomach cancer, he forced me to leave with nothing.
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Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I Watched My Husband Run Off with His Sister-in-Law 确诊乳腺癌，丈夫带着小姨子跑了
After I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my husband ran off with my sister-in-law.
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The Commoner’s Revenge in Officialdom 官道之庶子的逆袭
Su Mu is an illegitimate son. After passing the civil service exam, his biological father urges him to give up his appointment for the sake of the family. When persuasion fails, his father uses threats and sends him to the poorest township in the most remote province in the northwest, planning to make him waste his life there. Watching his colleagues, a group of people on the verge of retirement, give up and coast through their days, Su Mu decides to shed the township's poverty-stricken label an
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On the Seventh Day After My Husband's Death, My In-Laws Forced Me to Give Up My Room for Their Nephew 丈夫头七，公婆逼我腾房给侄子
On the seventh day after my husband’s death, my in-laws forced me to give up my room for their nephew.
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Fed Cold Porridge During My Postpartum Recovery, I Opened a Restaurant That Took the Whole City by Storm 月子里喝冷粥，我开餐馆火遍全城
Fed cold congee during postpartum recovery, I opened a restaurant that took the whole city by storm.
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My Paralyzed Husband's Ledger Listed What He Paid Me to Be His Caregiver 瘫痪丈夫的账本有我当保姆的价码
The ledger of my paralyzed husband listed the price of my work as his nanny.
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The Failing Farmer 不及格农民
The Failing Farmer
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Ten Years of Teaching in the Countryside, Then I Returned with an Inspection Team 支教十年后，我带督查组杀回来了
After Ten Years of Teaching in the Countryside, I Returned with an Inspection Team
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My Brother Was Dying, but My Husband Transferred 500,000 to Save His Gambling Addict Brother 弟弟病危，丈夫转走50万救赌鬼弟
My Brother Was Critically Ill, but My Husband Transferred 500,000 to Save His Gambling Addict Brother
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Let's Not Talk About Love 不谈爱情
Don't Talk About Love is a purely fictional serialized novel. The novel tells of the inner torment of Zhao Xiaosong, a middle-aged man who works at Shenfeng Tire Factory and suffers from cerebral atrophy. It portrays his resentment, anxiety, loneliness, helplessness, despair, selfishness, longing, and, finally, his struggle... The story begins in the 1990s. Zhao Xiaosong, a country bumpkin from that era, is lucky enough to become a tire-molding worker at Shenfeng Tire Factory in Jiaoshi. Back
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A Carefree Youth 无脑的青春
Told in the first person, this is not a feel-good power fantasy. It’s about real feelings and real life. These stories may have happened to you, or to friends around you. This book captures life’s helplessness, the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and the endless variety of the world. Tao Yuhong was born in the countryside in the 1980s. With parents who were relatively open-minded for rural folk and fairly capable, his life should have been better than that of most people his age. But
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Springtime by Sunset River 夕阳河的春天
There was once a village called Sunset Village, with the beautiful Sunset River flowing to its west. One spring, Weipin, the son of impoverished villager Uncle Geng, eloped to Sunset Village with a girl named Xiuhua. Before long, Xiuhua gave birth to a son and a daughter. The hardships of life once made her waver, but after a brief series of setbacks, she had no choice but to return to Sunset Village. In Sunset Village, Xiuhua and Yurong were close friends. They supported each other while secret
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A Mother's Dangerous Love 危险母爱
Hoping their only son would have someone to rely on in the future, Wu Meiyu's parents married her off to Shan Ming, an unattractive man. She tried to resist, but eventually resigned herself to her fate. Shan Ming was clever and capable, yet Wu Meiyu often quarreled with him over the little things in life. After their children were born, she gradually adjusted to and came to enjoy the happy life her husband gave her. Then an unexpected disaster took Shan Ming's life. After briefly experiencing th
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