Looking for Realistic Novels with a Peaceful, Cozy Feel 求现实平淡温馨的小说
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- 701 Wang, the Northeastern Guy in the Women's Dorm, Don't Panic 女工宿舍楼里东北汉子老王你别慌 Wang Xinyan is a strapping Northeastern man, tall and broad-shouldered. But because his mother loved watching romance dramas, she gave him a feminine name. After graduating from college, that name got him assigned not only to a female factory-worker position, but also to a dorm room on the women's floor… 1.3kReads8.5Score—Shelves
- 702 Restarting My Life and Winning Over Several One True Loves 重启人生拐几个白月光 So what if he was rich in his previous life? He couldn't even find his wife and daughter! In this reborn life, he'll protect his family first... A life of wealth and luxury? He wouldn't mind! But the simple pleasures of everyday life are what feel most real! 465Reads—Score—Shelves
- 703 My Online Romance Didn’t Go Horribly Wrong When We Met 网恋奔现没翻车 A minor sweet-romance author x the aloof campus heartthrob at a media college I fell in love with him at first sight, went after his looks, and did everything I could to win him over. But he rejected me, and not just once. So I decisively called it quits. But to my surprise, he now wants to go through hell to win me back! 698Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 704 The Merchant’s Road to the West 西部商途 [No System] [No golden finger] [School belle] [Multiple heroines] [The struggle of an ordinary guy] Zhang Bo is a poor kid from the countryside. He doesn’t have much going for him, except that he’s pretty lucky with girls... 391Reads—Score—Shelves
- 705 Great-Aunt Xile's Happy Life 姑奶奶喜乐的幸福生活 Home is a sheltered harbor, and family is always there to support you. This is a story about three generations of the Song family living happily in an old building on Tianjin's Five Avenues. It features Tianjin's delicious food, as well as the family's joys and sorrows over the past thirty years. 757Reads9.1Score104Shelves
- 706 One Sword to Slay the Fairer Sex 一剑斩红粉 [Urban Martial Arts]+ [Traditional Cultivation]+ [Multiple Heroines] Lin Che, young master of an ancient martial arts family in the city, was framed and killed in his previous life while enjoying himself beneath the peonies. His lover, a minor internet celebrity close to him, had joined forces with his family's sworn enemy to set him up. His path to being reborn is also a path to rising to power… 369Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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Love Takes Time 爱，要慢慢来
[Tang Li VS Shen Yuyou] [Marriage Before Love] What does the darkness of night swallow? Loneliness. Shen Yuyou, what kind of person are you, really? From agreeing to marry me back then to cooperating so well now and being willing to live with me, even if I’m not a complete stranger to you, there must be a reason for all this. There can only be two reasons: either you like or love me, or you don’t care. Not caring. Deep down, Tang Li hoped Shen Yuyou simply didn’t care. They could keep their rela
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- 708 After Succeeding in Cultivation, I Transmigrated to Earth to Farm 修仙有成却穿越到地球种田 [Cultivation]+ [Farming]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Chen Xing, an immortal with a spirit body from the Ziling Sect, had cultivated to the peak of the continent. Just as he was reveling in a life of pleasure with six beautiful concubines, the Trial of Worldly Desires struck. His soul transmigrated into the body of a young man with the same name on Earth, who had died after slipping and falling 103Reads—Score—Shelves
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You’ve Always Had a Place in My Heart 你早已长居我心中
Li Xin was gifted and exceptionally intelligent from a young age, but fate always seemed to enjoy playing tricks on her, making the first twenty-odd years of her life a series of ups and downs. Li Xin resigned herself to fate and became an English teacher at a rural middle school in a remote town. Just as she thought this was how she would spend the rest of her life, the prince charming in her heart traveled thousands of miles to take her home. Li Xin looked at Jiang Chen and said, “Brother
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Everyday Ways to Prosper on the Farm 农家致富日常
[Farming + Street Stalls + A Gentle Pace + Everyday Family Life] This is a warm and cozy farming story with no outrageous villains. It's a warm, funny daily-life story about a family focused on making money. There are no villains and no golden fingers. The main characters are ordinary people without any golden fingers, and the whole family works together to build a better life, with a focus on the gentle rhythms of everyday life. At daybreak, smoke rose from the chimneys of many homes in Peach B
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- 711 You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考 A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too… 387Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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A Family of Three Goofballs Transmigrates to 1959 and Turns the Whole Clan Upside Down 一家三颠穿越59年代，掀翻全族
Synopsis: The whole family transmigrates + 1950s + space + difficult relatives + years of famine + family life + island + fishing + System + no brainless decisions Lin Haishen and his wife, Huang Shuyao, went skydiving to celebrate their son Lin Yanxi's twentieth birthday. They plunged from the sky and seamlessly crossed into another era, arriving in an island fishing village in 1959. From the start, they got straight to work, wielding a butcher's knife with impressive skill. Clan leader: “This
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- 713 Reborn in 1998: The Hundred-Day Countdown to Life System Activates 重生98百日生命倒计时系统启动 At forty-five, Lu Bufan lay in his rented room, dying of end-stage stomach cancer and waiting for death in despair: His first love had died in a car accident, his virtuous wife had left because of his debts, and his son had cut ties with him. His whole life had been a joke! As death drew near, the Life’s Regrets Correction System bound itself to him. [100 days of life remaining. Correct your regrets after being reborn to extend your life. Fail, and you will die permanently.] He gritted his teeth 127Reads—Score—Shelves
- 714 Transmigrated: A Violent Couple Spoils Each Other 穿越，暴力夫妻互宠 Modern-day workplace ace Yang Mengmeng drinks herself to death at a business dinner while celebrating a million-yuan commission. She transmigrates into the body of a girl in the Great Banner Dynasty who shares her name. The girl had been beaten to death by her parents and older brother. Following the principle of not wasting anything and putting useless things to good use, Yang Mengmeng is sold into a ghost marriage. The widower Wang, a hunter from Big Tree Village, buys her as his wife because 3.9kReads9.2Score347Shelves
- 715 I Don’t Want This Kind of Rebirth 这样的重生我不想要啊 Being reborn isn't about having an easy, satisfying life. It's about walking the human road again through blood and tears! The hardships I've endured and the burdens I've borne aren't anything to be proud of. I'll just leave them in my memories. A simple, honest life, surrounded by a beloved wife and beautiful companions, is what truly matters... 284Reads—Score—Shelves
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Me, in 1982 82年的我
Could you see ghosts when you were little? I could! In the early 1980s, a country girl born in rural Beijing encounters all kinds of strange and wondrous things. There are everyday family squabbles, romance, absurd and eerie happenings, and an imaginative coming-of-age story. ❤️ A good book is like tea: it should be savored slowly. The title went awry and can't be changed, so it is what it is. The good thing is, readers finish this book at a remarkably high rate. It's one of those books you won'
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Just as the Fish Leaps, I See You 恰好鱼跃时见你
[Passionate High School Life + Ensemble School Cast + Sweet and Angsty Love Triangle + Redemption] (The Flirtatious Little Sunshine VS The Sharp-Tongued Bad Boy VS The Gentle Newcomer) “Actor” is a forbidden word in Cai Yuyu’s family, yet she dreams of becoming a stage actor. After giving it much thought, she decides to persuade her family to let her take the arts entrance exam and pursue her dream of joining the theater world. Along the way, she meets a handsome guy who bears a striking resembl
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- 718 A Beauty’s Scheme for the Realm 红颜谋天下 [Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [No Transmigration]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] An imperial edict of marriage sends the icy, beautiful female general Murong Xue storming into the residence with a sword. Turmoil erupts in the Song household's rear court, while strange butterfly shadows from the Xuanming Cult appear, concealing a shocking conspiracy that could overturn the world. As one beauty after another gets drawn into the gam 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 719 A Spring Dream Takes Me to Ancient Times: I Become a Workaholic in Dayin 春梦穿古我在大胤当卷王 [Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Just because he begged his goddess for a hug in a romantic dream, Lu Xiaochuan was kicked straight into a river in the Great Yin dynasty, launching his mortifying Transmigration adventure! The moment he climbs ashore, he's branded a suspect in the Witchcraft Cult case. He lets slip what he said in his sleep, then reveals the secret that he once saw a celes 45Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Playboy and the Five Golden Flowers 风流之子与五朵金花
[Completed] If you happened to click on this, please read a few more pages, or even a few dozen, and help boost my stats. Thanks for your support! This is the story of a group of people who came from elsewhere to work and put down roots in Zhuhai. They fall in love, get married, buy homes, and have children. The first half covers their lives up to marriage. The second half explores marriage, human nature, changes in society, and growing up in middle age. This novel has a calm and gentle tone, pe
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- 721 Cultivating the Great Dao in a Human Classroom 我在人间课堂修大道 Cultivation? Pah! I just want to spend my days with the campus beauty, enjoying the simple pleasures of life and living it to the fullest. Is that too much to ask? And of course, I wouldn't mind having a few more beauties around either… 91Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Sweet Young Lady Returns to the Countryside, and Her Lovesick Admirer Is Shocking 娇娇小姐回乡村，痴汉手段太惊人
[Both leads’ first love + a domineering CEO from the southwest goes rural + intense romantic push and pull + quiet devotion gets a response + realistic, sweet romance] A gentle, abstinent old flame × a stunning, pure and alluring little white rabbit City girl Chen Man returns to the countryside to care for her grandmother and discovers that her neighbor is an incredibly handsome, domineering CEO. In outsiders’ eyes, Chen Man is refined and elegant. But no one has ever seen her other side. In
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The Little Bridge Cave Family Compound 小桥洞家属院
[Period Setting] [Ensemble Cast] [Everyday Life] The results came out a few months after it was completed. This novel is fantastic! Zhang Yan and Deng Yang were born in the Xiaoqiaodong factory compound and grew up beneath the chimneys of the State Chemical Plant. There was no glamour or respectability here, only the bustle of daily life, sweat, arguments, and warmth. In 1997, as firecrackers exploded to celebrate Hong Kong's return, they still thought their parents would wear their work uniform
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The Evening Breeze Never Asks When You'll Return 晚风不问归期
In a bustling, noisy city, Lu Ze is a struggling programmer, weighed down by heartbreak and the pressures of daily life. Lost and lonely, he no longer knows where he is headed. This is a story about loss and growth, a journey through love and self-redemption. Perhaps we have all lost our way in the evening breeze, but there will always be a light waiting to guide you home.
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The No-Drama Casebook 不抓马风云事件簿
A healing little ray of sunshine and a devoted, faithful boyfriend: twenty years of ups and downs, the secretly affectionate couple! The woman isn’t called Keyun or Xiyun. Her name is Tan Yun. The man isn’t called Lifeng or Mufeng. His name is Lu Feng. There’s no earth-shattering first meeting, no all-powerful golden finger, and no melodramatic, messy entanglements, just twenty years of enduring devotion and favor.
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- 726 Han Caiyi’s Journey of Ten Thousand Miles 韩彩依万里路 Han Caiyi's Journey of Ten Thousand Miles 71Reads—Score—Shelves
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Better Than Working: Winning Over the Crown Prince, the Client 打工不如打甲方太子的主意
[Based on true events + urban life + workplace + strong female lead + smart characters + sweet romance] A wonderful workplace romance set in the urban financial world, inspired by real-life experiences in the modern workplace. It lays bare the dark side behind the financial sector’s glamorous facade. The writing is delicate, the scenes vivid, the emotions genuine, and the plot is full of unexpected twists. The heroine is a rookie auditor, but a strong woman at heart. She stays sharp and emotiona
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Never Mess with a Pisces Woman 千万不要招惹双鱼座女生
[Workplace] [Urban Life] [Marriage Before Love] Mumu is a Pisces woman who entered the workplace with two labels already attached to her: timid and easy to bully. But no one knows that beneath the soft exterior of a Pisces lies the heart of a great demon king. When everyone thinks she’ll be swallowed up by the workplace, Mumu proves to the world through her actions: Don’t make a Pisces cry, because once she’s done crying, it’ll be your turn. This novel could also be called Mumu’s Rise to the Top
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- 729 My Fiancé Ran Off, So I Hired a Coach to Train Me at Home 未婚夫一跑，我请教练上门指导 As Soon as My Fiancé Ran Off, I Hired a Coach to Train Me at Home —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Yan Zhi Qiqi 言之七七
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Where the Clouds Come Home to Rest, First Meeting Becomes Forever 云有归栖，初见终成
[Youthful Romance + Love Grows Over Time + Two Top Students + Mutual Secret Crushes + School Life] After the students were split into arts and science classes in their second year of high school, Lu Yunqi unexpectedly found herself sitting in front of Fu Chucheng, the handsome, cold-faced guy she'd accidentally offended. She braced herself to be ignored or given a hard time, but as they spent their days together, she gradually chipped away at his icy facade that warned others to keep their dista
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- 732 An Atypical Female Protagonist 非典型“大女主” An Unconventional Strong Female Lead —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn at Sixteen, I Meet the Cool, Aloof Academic Genius 重生十六岁，遇到清冷学神
[Reborn + love that grows over time + two strong leads who dote on each other + lighthearted daily life] [Cool, gentle business tycoon VS clear-headed, independent top director] Ying Xue, an ordinary office worker, dropped dead at her desk. When she woke again, she had been reborn at sixteen!!! She had drifted through life in her previous one, but this time she was determined to work hard and plan her future carefully. Once, she had only one friend. This time, she had a whole crowd standing beh
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The Happiness We Waited For 等来的幸福
In this blended family, the male and female leads grow up calling each other brother and sister. After her mother dies, the heroine goes abroad with her biological father. While overseas, she and the male lead begin a relationship.
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The Rules of the Children's Home 儿女家的规矩
To help their children raise the grandchildren, a couple in their sixties were forced to live apart. From the day Zhao Youlin moved to the city to help care for his son's child, he became a “guest” in his son's home. A man from a small town, he couldn't fit into life in the big city. He had to speak softly, keep the TV muted, and even watch his son's expression before giving his grandson a piece of meat... Though Zhao Youlin was careful about everything, he still couldn't avoid falling into conf
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- 736 A City Romance Between a Top Student and a Sales Goddess 逆袭学霸和销售女神都市情缘 A City Romance Between a Comeback Scholar and a Sales Goddess 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 737 Awakening to Longing 悟相思 The Palace Eunuch Falls for a Transmigrated Woman 1V1 Born into poverty, with a father who died young and a mother gravely ill, Wei Lanren became a eunuch. Wei Lanren knew Heaven had never favored him, so he had always lived cautiously, swallowing every insult. He was as soft as the grass by the roadside, someone anyone could trample underfoot. He had no lofty ambitions. All he wanted was to survive in the Directorate of Palace Eunuchs, with food to eat and clothes to wear. But life is unpredict 5.2kReads9.0Score630Shelves
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At 21, I Worked Every Kind of Odd Job at the Bottom of Society 21岁，我打遍了底层的各种零工
For four years, I've been trying to cure an incurable illness by working odd jobs. [A slice-of-life story, light comedy, nothing too dark, personal growth, and a comeback. Give it a try...] Everyone cries at some point in their twenties. I'm no exception. What about you? Have you found a job? How is it going? At an age when our ambitions reach for the sky, I want to be the master of my own life. If I work fast enough, even the capitalists can't keep up with me! In the bustling city, everyone in
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After Returning Home to Farm, I Bound Myself to the Rich Beauty System 回家种田后，我绑定了白富美系统
[The heroine only wants to farm, no romance, a cozy everyday story] Lin Anshu is an ordinary, lowly office drone. Her company is rife with cutthroat competition, and her boss loves docking pay and dangling empty promises. She spent a whole year working in fear and trembling, only to find she owed the company 1,800 yuan when she checked her year-end bonus. She’d be better off going home to farm. Whoever wants this lousy job can have it. In a fit of anger, Lin Anshu fired her boss on the spot, pac
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After Becoming a Rich Man's Wife, I Gave Up Trying 穿成豪门太太后，我摆烂了
Lin Wan, a celebrated young lady of the Great Jing dynasty who managed the household affairs of a marquis’s estate, spent half her life as a widow. Her unruffled bearing was etched into her very bones, and she excelled at refined traditional arts such as Su embroidery, ancient incense crafting, and tea ceremony. Gentle, yet possessed of quiet strength. After her soul transmigrates into the modern world, she becomes the wealthy wife of a man who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances aft
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- 741 Making a Simple Life in the Quick Transmigration Worlds 在快穿世界中经营小日子 [Quick Transmigration + System + Staying Away from the Plot + No Fixed CP] Chen Qian, an ordinary woman from the 21st century, transmigrated into the apocalypse after a car accident. But she failed to survive there and died again, only to encounter System 003. With the System’s help, Chen Qian began to transmigrate between different worlds, becoming a female supporting character in each one and collecting records of its civilization. Thus began her ordinary life in each new world. The heroine is 8.7kReads8.7Score463Shelves
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I’m the Boss in Italy 我在意大利当老板
In late-1990s Italy, Hu Liu’an, a stranger in a strange land, takes you on a journey through an overseas world unlike any other, filled with its own bittersweet experiences and tangled loves and hatreds...
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When I Became Everyone's Hated White Moonlight 当我成为了万人嫌的白月光
Slice of life / slow burn / second chance romance / long-planned pursuit *Two storylines told in alternating chapters: his many ways of winning her back in odd-numbered chapters, and their memories in even-numbered chapters. *Sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside younger wolf-dog x seemingly emotionally clueless but actually sensitive and passionate, pretending to be calm In their second year of high school, Wang Yang boarded a plane abroad, leaving No. 4 High School and Bai Qingxu behind. Fr
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- 744 My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍 [Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her 106Reads—Score—Shelves
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Yun Ye Is Clueless 云叶不自知
Su Yeye is a newly hired rural schoolteacher, fresh out of college. A true ray of sunshine! She loves her work and has a happy family, and she shines as she devotes herself to teaching in the countryside! Yun Yu is a psychology expert, an associate professor of psychology at Jiang University, and a psychotherapist. Calm and reserved! Though their lives follow completely different paths, the turning wheel of fate keeps bringing them together, entangling and binding them to each other. One leaf kn
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Twenty Years Side by Side: A Memoir of Youth 二十年并肩：青春备忘录
[A must-read for anyone born in the 2000s: a yearbook of youth for our generation] [Realistic youth + ensemble cast + growing up + regrets + period piece] Twenty years in the lives of five boys and girls, from youth to middle age. An unspoken crush, ideals crushed by reality, friendships that slowly drift apart. No over-the-top comeback stories, only the pain and warmth of growing up for real. We once thought youth would last forever, but in the blink of an eye, it was all over. This is the echo
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- 747 Shufen, You Four-Times-Married Woman 淑芬，你这个四嫁女人 [Based on real events + Rural revitalization + Hardship + Countryside + The struggle and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This isn’t a feel-good story. It’s a true story. Shufen’s surname was Zhao. Zhao Shufen. She was my great-great-grandmother. My great-grandmother lived boldly and did as she pleased, sometimes even making a real mess of things. She married four times and traveled far and wide. She ran a business, fled famine, ate Guanyin clay, and took up arms! Life k 1.1kReads—Score104Shelves
- 748 A Garden of Students, Growing Old Together in Love 桃李满天下恩爱共白头 Wu Xiaomin was a country girl, born and raised in the countryside, but she had always been a good student and was naturally beautiful. Unfortunately, after she started high school, her surroundings changed dramatically, leaving her confused and lost. In her sophomore year, she met a new homeroom teacher who helped her find her way again. After graduating from college, Wu Xiaomin gave up a job placement back in her hometown and introduced a female college classmate to her former high school teach 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
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A Conspiracy Within the Marriage 婚内合谋
After the passion fades, the leads settle into a dull married life, paying off their debts and living without intimacy. Then the male lead's best friend cheats, and through a twist of fate, the female lead receives hush money of 300,000 yuan. Her desire to make money suddenly awakens, and she joins forces with her husband to start a business. As they make money hand over fist, they rediscover the passion of their romance. Greed and the desires of love and hate collide in a tangle of human nature
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As I Gaze Up at the Moon 如我仰望月亮
“I don't know her.” Zhou Ji spoke carelessly, looking at her as if she were a stranger. When Chen Yang saw that familiar yet unfamiliar face again, she froze. The boomerang from three years ago had hit her right between the eyes. In that classroom mottled with the fading light of sunset, Zhou Ji looked at her seriously. “Are we still friends?” Chen Yang slowly raised her head. “No.” Zhou Ji met her gaze in surprise, wanting to say something but stopping himself. In the end, he could only fall si
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