Looking for Realistic Novels with a Peaceful, Cozy Feel 求现实平淡温馨的小说
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Crossing the Clear River 清舟渡
[Rekindled romance] [Contemporary romance] [Sweet doting romance] [Lawyer Su Qingxu, who grows into her profession, × Lu Hanzhou, a genius pharmaceutical researcher] A reserved, aloof male lead at first, who later becomes an adoring “one-woman-only” uncle × a seemingly carefree heroine who is actually insecure The breeze drifts gently by, while the little boat makes its own way here. When they met again three years later, Lu Hanzhou suddenly felt that Su Qingxu was like a bone spur. He had neve
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- 602 When Will I Come of Age? The Campus Arc 何时而立之校园篇 This story, based on real people, is the first installment in the When Will I Come of Age series: When Will I Come of Age: Campus Days. It follows the events in the life of the protagonist, He Li, during his university years, including his daily life, studies, and romance. His self-discipline in both life and study ultimately takes him to the top of his academic field. The novel feels so authentic that readers can relate to it and feel as though they’re right there in the story. Its gripping plo 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Woman in a Man's Body: Winning Easy in the Mission Worlds 女穿男：我在任务世界躺赢
[Two male leads × school life × golden finger × woman transmigrates into a man] She transmigrated for no reason and became a baby. Even worse, she turned into a he. Other people who transmigrated got golden fingers, but he was just a golden finger delivery service. Gu Qingmian always thought his mom was the heroine of a comeback story. As the heroine's son, all he had to do was shout, "You can do it! 666!" whenever she needed him. It wasn't until he stepped in to help someone in middle school th
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It’s My Turn to Face This Miserable Fate 难念的经该我了
The author's debut, a family slice-of-life serial told in the first person! It may be lighthearted and funny, warm and dramatic, youthful and inspiring, or full of everyday trivialities. Come and take a look! I hope all you wonderful Tomato Novel readers enjoy it! If you like it a lot, I'll do my best to post extra chapters! If you have any valuable feedback, please share it. Thank you all for your support. Love you, mwah ^3^
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Then I'll Go Back to the Village and Farm 那就回村种地
After the workplace devoured her, she used a hoe to make her whole village famous. She entered the workforce full of hope, only to run headlong into a cold reality. A well-connected colleague easily snatched away the position she had fought so hard to earn. Her sleazy boss’s harassment clung to her like a curse, and she nearly ended up being offered to a client as a “gift.” Just as she was giving in to despair, news that her beloved uncle back home, who had cared for her like a father, had sudde
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- 606 In the Mountain Breeze That Year, A-Gexian and Xiumei's Love Was Hidden 那年山风里，藏着贤哥与秀妹的情 That year, the mountain breeze held the love between Xian Ge and Xiu Mei. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Just Because You Can't See It Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Exist 你看不见不代表不存在
There are many strange events involving spirits, ghosts, and monsters in this world. To most ordinary people, they're just jokes or stories. Science explains them as changes caused by magnetic fields. But science ends where the occult begins. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ji Shisan grows from a novice who has just entered the spirit world into a powerful figure who shapes it. Alongside his companions, he safeguards order throughout China, gathers ancient div
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Wild Sweetheart 野甜心
Sweet, straightforward childhood friend vs. fake-good, aloof childhood friend [Lighthearted sweet romance ~ childhood friends ~ HE ~ devoted to each other ~ reunited after years apart] On the first day of term, a group of female student assistants camped out at the sign-in desk. They just wanted to find out... whether the rumored handsome, refined new student really looked that good in person. Well... it turned out the impossibly handsome top student the upperclassmen had been raving about was
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The Down-and-Out Wife's Comeback: A Powerful, Abstinent Tycoon's Heiress 禁欲豪门大佬的落魄娇妻逆袭之路
[Healing] [Growth] [Age Gap] [A mature, steady business tycoon × a down-and-out, impoverished young woman] At 26, Fang Ziye is unemployed, dejected, and at a loss when she meets the mature, steady, and elegant Shen Wenbin. Like finding a warm, safe refuge on a cold winter night, he gives her heart, battered by chaos, somewhere to belong. He is her light, her salvation, her mentor in life, and the person for whom she would willingly give her life. In the first half of her life, no one loved her.
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A Widow Remarries in the 1970s 七十年代之寡妇再嫁
At twenty-four, Qiao Dani became a widow with two children, known throughout the brigade as one of its poorest households. At thirty, Lin Hengjue fell from the heights overnight. The distinguished Professor Lin, once admired for his elegance and brilliance, became one of the notorious “Black Categories” whom everyone in the cowshed avoided like snakes and scorpions. People kept urging her to remarry. Qiao Dani finally hardened her heart, stamped her foot, and marched into the cowshed to ask Li
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The Bar Owner Is the Hero of My Comic 酒吧老板是我漫画男主
[One-on-one romance, both leads are devoted to each other, five-year age gap] [A sweet-and-salty, affectionate comic artist x a tough, handsome bar owner with a deep voice] Not a wish-fulfillment story. Just the sweet everyday life of two ordinary young people who fall in love at first sight. No scumbag-punishing plot. There was no reason or explanation. You were just standing there, doing nothing, and the moment I saw you, my heart started pounding against my will. So this is love at first sigh
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The Boy I Let Down 那个被我辜负的男孩子
I met him because he was a classmate of my deskmate’s younger brother. We went to the same school, and he was a year below me. When they were students, four classmates rented a room in my home, and we spent several years living under the same roof. After I graduated, I went away to work. They still had another year before graduation. When his roommate began hinting that he wanted to date me, he made the first move. Before his roommate could act, he sent me a love letter. But I turned him down.
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- 613 The Folks of the Hutong 胡同人家 ☆ [Main story complete] ☆ [No transmigration, no rebirth, not a feel-good power fantasy, no golden finger] ☆ [An ordinary person's ordinary story, with a focus on everyday life] In 1972, seventeen-year-old Zhong Wenshu took over her mother's job at the state-run supply and marketing cooperative, avoiding the mass campaign to send young people to the countryside. In 1973, eighteen-year-old Zhong Wenshu married a young police officer from the neighboring courtyard and started a home with just th 15kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
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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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- 615 Peach Juice Invitation 桃汁邀邀 [Tsundere, pure-hearted professor VS timid philosophy top student. They are each other’s first and only, and dote on each other] A young mathematics professor joined the century-old University of Science and Technology. He was handsome, gentle, and composed. He loved peaches and peach juice, and his irresistible peachy scent successfully bewitched an outstanding student from a completely different field. From then on, she had a new daily task: resisting the irresistible professor’s attempts to c 1.5kReads9.4Score194Shelves
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Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老
[Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr
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- 617 The Good Life in the 1970s 七十年代好生活 Chen Xiangju left her hometown in the countryside and came to the city to stay with her good friend Chen Chunyan. She hoped to find a partner in the city, since she had no intention of returning to the village. Li Gang happened to be looking for a wife. They were introduced and hit it off at once, and Chen Xiangju began her life in the family compound. 12.2kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 618 The 1960s: A Quiet Life Like Hers 六零年代：平淡如她 [Everyday Family Life] [Slow-Paced, No Power Fantasy] [Raising Kids] [No Fixed Plot] That year, something unexpected happened in Cheng Xi's family. Before she could even get to her feet and object, she somehow ended up married. After the wedding, she followed her soon-to-be husband, Lu Qian, south into the mountains. For the first few years, Lu Qian would be away for a year or half a year at a time, hardly ever coming home. When she first arrived, she was busy tidying up and decorating her littl 1.3kReads8.0Score—Shelves
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Far from Home 在他乡
One-on-one romance, both pure-hearted, with ten years of devotion and love A career-driven heroine who seems cool but is warm inside (Qi Yu) A steadfast, warm, and devoted hero (Mu Yunfei) “I’ve already moved in. Do you really think I’m going to move out?” Mu Yunfei looked at her with a sly grin. “It’s not living together, we’re just sharing a place,” Qi Yu muttered, her head lowered. Mu Yunfei’s eyes shone like stars.
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- 620 The Bank President’s Daughter-in-Law from the Countryside 银行行长家的农村儿媳妇 Brother-and-sister dynamic + Urban romance + Marriage first, love later + Childhood sweethearts + Female growth The wealthy male lead and the rural female lead were born in neighboring hospital beds, just one day apart. The female lead is stunning and attracts admirers wherever she goes, yet she’s gentle and well-behaved. The male lead is a roguishly handsome man of the world, considerate and capable, a born CEO and the king of jealousy. Though their values and upbringings are worlds apart, fate 2.9kReads8.7Score297Shelves
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I've Decided to Truly Love Someone 我决定好好去爱一个人
After getting hurt in love, when I meet someone who treats me well, I think I should try to love them wholeheartedly. Even if it ends in failure, that would be better than living with regret. Learning to love again and loving someone I have no feelings for without holding back is not easy for a Scorpio woman. It took me half a lifetime to realize that the person I most needed to love properly was myself.
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A Few Stories from an Ordinary Worker’s Life 小人物的打工两三事
From “Am I the one getting laid off?” to “I got a better offer,” Yang Sanyue's growth isn't a matter of suddenly getting lucky. She got there one step at a time. Her boyfriend, whom she sees once a year, is hard to reach by phone, but his love is always there. It's not domineering, over-the-top pampering, but tenderness in the little things.
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A Summer When the Stars Shine 群星闪耀的夏天
[Youthful campus life] [Two top students] [Ensemble cast] A passionate, haughty, slightly vain heroine x a gentle, slightly sharp-tongued hero who never overthinks Xia Qianxing x Shen Sinan The high school where I met you was a summer when the stars shone bright. Years from now, many memories may slowly blur, but none of us will forget the hot summer breeze, the cicadas singing outside the window, the sound of pen on paper, and the carefree smiles on one another's faces.
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- 624 Transmigration: I Picked Up a Cat Demon as My Boyfriend 穿越：捡个猫妖做男友 [From campus to showbiz + transmigration and reincarnation + one challenge after another] Their love is tangled with both passion and resentment, yet they never give up on each other. Though surrounded by layers of schemes, they keep pushing forward. After completing her mission on the Spirit Mirror Continent, Bu Jin transmigrates back to the modern world. Ji Changxing, a black cat spirit, comes along with her. The two stumble into the entertainment industry. While filming, they unexpectedly enc —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Minnan Accent 闽南腔
A super-outspoken heroine with an accent x a brooding, secretly smug, stoic hero Shen Qingjia takes her best friend along to catch her dad cheating, only to discover his mistress going on a date with her son in tow. Even worse, the mistress and her son are moving into Shen Qingjia’s home! This story is very slow to warm up. It’s simply about a teenage girl’s life, with no angst, just everyday family stuff. The heroine’s family speaks with an accent, so feel free to look it up. It’s really cute.
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On My Wedding Day, My Fiancé Eloped Overnight with My Sister-in-Law, So I Chose Someone Better 大婚之日，未婚夫和嫂嫂连夜私奔，我另择良人
On my wedding day, my fiancé eloped with my sister-in-law in the middle of the night, so I chose someone else
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Senyue 森月
[At first: gentle, funny, adorable girl × cool, roguishly handsome genius boy] [Later: actress × celibate professor] Song Jiayue first met Chen Sen in a narrow lane west of the city. The boy sat in the cold, gloomy alley with his head bowed slightly, blood dripping from his fingertips. “Are you all right?” she asked, only to receive a baffled look. They met again at a school assembly, where Chen Sen was making a public self-criticism beneath the flagpole. Only then did she learn that he was a fa
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- 628 Farewell to Moonlight Among the Pines, Once the Mist Clears 雾尽松间别风月 Where the Mist Fades, Beyond the Pines and Moonlight 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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Pray for the Year, Know You 祈年知尔
Praying for Years, Knowing You | Second-Chance Romance, Dating-Show Edition [Versatile, foxlike novelist × flirtatious, devoted TCM top-tier star] The dating show Tipsy Heartbeat becomes an instant hit when Bai Qinian, a top-tier star in the world of traditional Chinese medicine, takes off his gold-rimmed glasses and reads a passage from the novel by web-fiction sensation Song Zhier to the camera: “He pressed the stethoscope to her chest and said, ‘Your heart is beating too fast here...’” Seven
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- 630 The Sixth Time I Saw You 第六次看见你 The Sixth Time I Saw You 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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You Are My Glory: Having You Is All I Need for the Rest of My Life 你是我的荣耀：余生有你足矣
Qiao Jingjing: Yu Tu, having you with me for the rest of my life is all I need! Yu Tu: Same here! So many people have treated me wonderfully, yet none of them ever stirred my heart. Only you. The moment you smile, flowers bloom in my heart. It’s as if just standing there, you’ve already outshone everyone.
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- 632 After My Intellectually Disabled Big Brother Took My Place in the Marriage, His IQ Soared to 208, and I Became the CEO's Wife 弱智大哥替婚后，智商狂飙208，我直接当总裁夫人 After my intellectually disabled older brother married in my place, his IQ skyrocketed to 208, and I became the CEO's wife 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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Year After Year with Mr. Cheng 我与程先生的岁岁年年
[1v1 healing romance + childhood sweethearts + first love + warm, mutual devotion] [Catlike Miss / history teacher × Bunny Gentleman / piano tuner] * Eight-year-old Sheng Yi vowed to be the eyes of ten-year-old Cheng Zui for the rest of his life. Cheng Zui laughed. “You silly girl. Forever is impossible.” Sheng Yi disagreed. “You’re the silly one! When I say forever, I mean forever.” Cheng Zui muttered under his breath, “Don’t say silly things.” Sheng Yi playfully bobbed her head and told him,
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- 634 I Want You 我渴望你 Sweet romance, both pure A sister who knows how to act cute The first time Leng Muchen met his friend's younger sister, he thought enviously, Having a sister who knows how to act cute must be pretty nice. Later, he thought, Having a girlfriend who knows how to act cute would be nice too. The first time Wen Jianing met Leng Muchen, she thought, No wonder his surname is Leng. He has the built-in freezing function of a refrigerator. She was genuinely curious whether a guy who was so cold and looked 296Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 635 A Second New Beginning 二次新生 [No System] [Not Reborn] [Realistic Urban Life] [Restaurant Startup] [Slice of Life] It wasn’t until the day I got divorced that I understood: closing the noodle shop wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was watching my ex-wife get into someone else’s car, then having to smile as I served the last pot of bone broth to my summer customers. Later, I won a bet to take over a restaurant. I thought my life was finally turning around. Until I realized that every step I took was a square on someon 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Old Hand and the Spitfire 老油条和小辣椒
At eighteen, Zuo Luo flirted with the rugged owner of the hotpot restaurant by her school, Boss Shi. Later, he became her very own Old Shi. At thirty, Shi Jingzhan was approached by a pretty young girl. Later, that pretty young girl became his girl. A romance with a twelve-year age gap. I really, truly like you.
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Niu Meili, Your Dad Says Come Home and Farm 牛美丽，你爹喊你回家种田
My name is Niu Meili. I’m 30 years old, the first college graduate in my village. After working for seven years, I got laid off, and then my boyfriend dumped me too. My dad said he’d left me two million yuan. When I went home, I discovered it was two million yuan in debt and five hundred mu of wasteland. “Farming? Not even a dog would do that!” But there was no getting out of farming. If I was going to do it, I’d do it in the most unusual way. Cloud-based vegetable farming, a real-life crop-stea
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Landing in Her World 在她的世界降落
Who has ever had a dating KPI to meet?! A cool, frail, bestselling author VS an avoidant genius comic artist Jian Ru's friend Zhizhi forced her to download a chat app, demanding that she talk to ten people a month, for thirty minutes each. She'd never been interested in any of that. “If you don't meet your KPI, I'll end our friendship!” “Fine, I'll chat.” “Hey, gorgeous. Want to have a romantic late-night chat?” “I have an assignment to do, so we'll talk for thirty minutes, not a minute more.” “
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The Best Lyricist 最佳词作
[Film and TV rights sold] One is a heroine, the other a pampered youngest son who’s always smiling. They work together seamlessly to resolve an unexpected crisis the first time they meet. The second time, she warns her younger cousin not to fall for someone like him. Then comes the Nth meeting, and with it, a lifetime together.
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- 640 The Day We Divorced, I Had a Whirlwind Marriage with a Young Man from the Compound 离婚当天，闪婚了大院子弟 [Period setting] [Family life] [Second marriage] In 1990, Jin Lihong was twenty-five. Her parents were rural residents without jobs. She had married quietly a year earlier, but divorced a year later, stirring up all kinds of gossip. Her ex-husband said, “She’s just a half-trained quack who graduated from a medical school for nurses. Do you really think she can treat patients and save lives? Apart from being pretty, she’s useless.” Her colleagues said, “She wanted to keep her pride, so she went 11.2kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 641 His Beautiful Jin Cheng 他的似锦钱橙 Hedge fund star He Mingchuan gets a new neighbor downstairs: tall and beautiful. He wonders which big shot's kept woman she is. She looks like a schemer. After graduating, Qian Cheng moves into a relative's house so she can live closer to her game company. There she meets a man who is exactly her type, but he doesn't seem interested in her. He Mingchuan later: You can cling to my thigh. *smiling face.jpeg* Qian Cheng: Making money. Don't bother me! P.S. The heroine is a little bit of a tease 12.1kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
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Reborn and Dating a Stalker 重生和痴汉谈恋爱
Lin Ruirui was murdered. As she lay dying, she saw the obsessive man she had always feared and despised take revenge for her, willing to die alongside her. His devotion moved her. But when she was reborn, she discovered a new pastime: teasing that obsessive man...
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The Village Girl Who Went to College 山村女大学生
[Workplace romance] [Modern romance] [Countryside] Li Wanqing and Zhao Qingshan were classmates at the provincial medical university and a couple. After graduation, Li Wanqing returned to her hometown to build a career, while Zhao Qingshan stayed in the big city to pursue greater opportunities. They began a long-distance relationship. After spending so much time apart, their relationship ran into trouble, and their years of love came to a complete end. Back home, Li Wanqing thought she had fo
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An Old Salty Fish 一条老咸鱼
Lin Xiaohui is an older single woman. At first, she works as a PE teacher at a private school in a small county town in her hometown, earning a modest salary. After passing the civil service exam, she switches into clapback mode: We were all people for the first time, so why should I have to put up with you? The story starts at a leisurely pace and focuses on everyday life. Later, it centers on leveling up as she tackles challenges in the workplace!
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- 645 My Heart Belongs to Tingting 汀汀我意 What would you do if you confessed to the wrong person, then fell into a hilariously auspicious pose for begging New Year’s money right in front of them?! Xu Ting, a freshman, covers her face and hurries off! But what if the person you accidentally confessed to lives right next door, has been “shaken down” by you, and has “cruelly” recorded your hilariously awkward square-dance moment, when you kept stepping with the same foot?! Xu Ting, the popular pink-and-cute pastry blogger, hides for as lon 1.1kReads9.5Score185Shelves
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Little Leopard 小豹子
After her grandparents, who had raised her, passed away, the abandoned Situ Lingzhi was left with no one to rely on. Taking the Medical Prescriptions of the Situ Family that her grandfather had left behind, she went to America to find his relatives. Six years later, the first major event that awaited Situ Lingzhi, now a medical doctor returning home, was her classmate Dongfang Xiangrui trying to force her into marriage. The Dongfang family had once been a leading force in Yunhai City's business
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- 647 Mingchuan Knows Xia 明川有知夏 They first met on campus. Wen Xia was drawn to Li Zechuan’s handsome face, and shamelessly pursued him again and again. She said, “My hero has golden skin, ash-gray hair with a hint of green, monolid eyes, and a slight break in his eyebrow. He’s saved me twice, and I think I’m starting to like him.” Who knew her words would come true? He really did become the hero of this world When she met Li Zechuan again, she was drawn to his compassion and his secrets. In Hoh Xil, with a dog at his feet and 2kReads9.6Score685Shelves
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Becoming His Little Glimmer of Starlight 成为他的点点星光
[Gender-swap + male-to-female transformation + no romance + city life + daily life] A super-brainy academic named Niu Qiang, the fun-loving Yang Jian, and the artsy Lin Sheng were once rivals. After unexpectedly becoming women, the three become sisters. Niu Qiang has worked relentlessly at her studies since childhood, determined not to disappoint her family. But the more she loses herself in the ivory tower, the more her promising future slips away, until she ends up as a university teacher in a
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The Sweet, Flirtatious Nanny Makes the Aloof Lawyer’s Heart Race 保姆甜美撩人，禁欲律师脸红心跳
[Housekeeper + Age Gap + Sweet Romance + 100,000-Character Short Story + Northeastern CEO + Foodie Novel] After resigning from her job, Cheng Nuo found herself a live-in housekeeper position. It paid 10,000 yuan a month, with room and board included. All she had to do was cook and clean, which was ridiculously easy for someone like Cheng Nuo, who was skilled at just about everything! But as she went about her work, Cheng Nuo began to notice that her employer was looking at her in a rather strang
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They've Got It All Under Control Ta手拿把掐
Shen Qing has no grand ambitions. She’s young, but all she wants is to take it easy. She doesn’t really care whether her guesthouse makes money, as long as she has enough to eat, warm clothes, and a good night’s sleep. That is, until she meets Xu Wang in a town called Zaosheng, where there isn’t a single jujube tree. He can do just about anything under the sun... The first time they meet, he’s a tricycle driver giving people rides, and his bizarre driving nearly throws her out of the vehicle. Th
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