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Any Novels Suitable for Middle-Aged and Older Readers? Recommend a Few 有没有适合中老年阅读的小说,推荐几本

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  1. 551 Rose Works as a Tutor in a Wealthy Household 玫瑰在豪门做家庭教师 Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Awakening through divorce + elite-family tutoring + a comeback through political maneuvering + mutual salvation + a strong female lead's growth] Rose was once an elementary school Chinese teacher in the public sector, holding onto the coveted “iron rice bowl” of a secure job, until life forced her to break out of her safe routine with her own hands. Divorced, raising a child, starting over: she had her fears, but for her child and herself, she had to build a better life. When things were at t 319Reads9.3Score100Shelves
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  2. 552 The Bachelor and the Outsider 光棍汉与外来妹 7k WordsCompleted A Bachelor and a Girl from Out of Town 12Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 553 Scholar or Tyrant: Who Can Have a Good Life? 学霸和枭雄,什么人能过上好日? Modern Romance498k WordsCompleted (Dual male leads. Period story. Urban.) One is a poor scholar, the other a big shot in the underworld. They struggle for fifty years. What does it take to live a good life? And what is a good life? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 554 Usurp the Han? No, I’m Creating a New Heaven! 纂汉?不,我在造新天! Historical182k WordsOngoing “History calls Wang Mang a usurper of the Han. I’m here to tell history that he could have been the founder of a new world.” “When the Confucian ideal of Great Harmony took hold of the levers of modern technology, we moved the world itself.” “This isn’t transmigration. It’s assistance on a civilizational scale, a leap forward that leaves the past behind.” This is no simple power fantasy about a modern person steamrolling the ancient world. It’s the story of two idealists: One carries the foresig 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 555 A Collection of Quiet Stories 清静故事集 389k WordsOngoing My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 556 The Female Bank President's Last Resort 女行长的穷途末路 Modern Romance102k WordsCompleted A teller's act of withholding checks toppled the first domino in the bank run at Yunhai City Commercial Bank. Though bank president Ma Yuquan fought desperately to contain the crisis, she ultimately could not counter the enormous fallout from the sudden disappearance of the bank's major shareholder and the head of its controlling rural bank. Ma Yuquan sensed the situation was full of hidden twists and turns, yet never revealed the secret of who she had been with during her brief disappearance, w 794Reads9.3Score105Shelves
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  7. 557 A Shared Home on Jasmine Lane 茉莉巷的合租家庭 Modern Romance429k WordsCompleted (Modern Romance + Putting Scumbags in Their Place + Revenge + Suspense + Family) He thought blending their families would save them, but instead he fell into a terrifying trap carefully laid by a mother and daughter! When a fortune in demolition compensation comes their way, his gentle mother-in-law drops her mask, and the woman beside him bares her fangs... The helpless coward finally awakens and fights back against all odds with his daughter by his side! Together, they uncover a decades-old mu 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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  8. 558 The Guardian Angel of Heaven 天堂的使者之守护 Modern Romance459k WordsOngoing Jiang Xiaolan and Hu Bin adopted sixteen orphans: twelve girls and four boys. This novel follows the everyday lives of this big family as its members grow up, covering marriage, love, work, careers, and all the ordinary things in life. Love and being loved, hardship, growth, protection, support, and redemption. This book has no grand central theme, and it is not a feel-good transmigration story full of extraordinary people and events. It is a realistic story rooted in everyday life. Love is its 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  9. 559 Neighbors in the Ancient City 古城邻里 Modern Romance154k WordsCompleted A new work is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Set in Yuhè Courtyard, the central compound of Qinghuai Lane in an ancient riverside city in southern China, this novel traces a century of ups and downs among several longtime residents and their neighbors. Through their stories, it captures the changes in the city from the early years after liberation to the present day, the younger generation’s outlook on life amid a market economy, the bustle of its streets and lanes 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 560 Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社,我在60年代搞代购 Modern Romance3.0M WordsCompleted With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous 8.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
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  11. 561 Yu Jing, County Magistrate on the Frontier 于璟之边疆县令 Historical502k WordsOngoing A common man takes office and bravely heads to a remote frontier. His wife plans and advises, while the women around him are strong warriors. He wins the people’s hearts and earns the support of righteous men. Using his wits, he outmaneuvers the local chieftains, bringing peace to the people and prosperity to trade. As goods abound and the people grow wealthy, Han and non-Han communities live in harmony. Together, the various peoples govern the borderlands and build a shared future. 28Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 562 The Educated Youth of Wenhai Village 文海村知青 Modern Romance108k WordsCompleted A new work is here! Set in the 1960s and 1970s, this novel follows educated youth Ye Sijia and her companion Lin Can as they leave the cities for the countryside. It tells how they face all kinds of challenges in life and work, and eventually find hope. Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it! Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 42Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 563 Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年 Modern Romance387k WordsOngoing My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt 2.8kReads8.9Score292Shelves
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  14. 564 Reborn in the 1970s: I Became the Songbird of the Arts Troupe 重生七零之我成了文工团里的百灵鸟 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted When Zhang Qing opened her eyes after dying, she found herself back in 1969, at the age of seventeen. At this point in her previous life, the county cultural troupe had gone to the countryside to perform and had fallen for her lark-like voice. It was the only chance in that era for a country girl like her to change her fate. But because her mother stood in her way and she herself lacked resolve, Zhang Qing let the opportunity slip by and regretted it for the rest of her life! Reborn, Zhang Qing 1.8kReads9.2Score225Shelves
  15. 565 Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东:林二妮的颠簸幸福路 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol 30.2kReads9.4Score3.1kShelves
  16. 566 The Retainers of the Last Tusi of Tu'e 兔峨末代土司的眷属们 Modern Romance181k WordsCompleted About the Book: The Tusi chieftaincy of the Luo family of Tu’e, Lanping, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan, lasted nearly six hundred years, from the Yuan dynasty through the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China. It passed through twenty-three generations before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 brought the Tusi system to an end. This book was written by the granddaughter of Luo Xing, the last Tusi chieftain. It recounts the remarkable life of Yang Huizhen, wife of 11Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 567 The 1970s: The Little Village Girl Brings Honor to Her Country Through Education 七零小村姑,靠读书为国争光 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Family Drama + System + Academic Prodigy + Knowledge Changes Your Destiny + Ensemble Cast] Wang Zhaozhao becomes the unwanted granddaughter of the Old Wang family, part of the village brigade in Riverside Village in the 1970s. When she is five, her mother becomes her eldest uncle’s wife, while her father marries a stepmother who brings along a stepsister. Later, she gains two younger sisters, one born to her eldest uncle’s wife and the other to her stepmother. Her days are full 14.4kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
  18. 568 The Road to Fighting Back Against Online Loan Sharks 网贷维权路 Modern Romance104k WordsCompleted This book recounts a grotesque financial phenomenon from history: P2P lending. Some 320 million people took part, and tens or even hundreds of millions of lenders suffered devastating losses. To this day, those losses remain impossible to recover. Through the experiences of the victims Zhang Weichang, Lin Wanyu, and Han Xin, this story reveals just a glimpse of the full picture. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. 569 The Legend of Junxiang: A Prequel to The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Part 2 倚天前传之君襄风云录2 Male-Channel Fanfiction523k WordsOngoing Another work by the author of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: The Ming Cult's Revenge. [The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber] [The Legend of the Condor Heroes] [The Return of the Condor Heroes] [Wuxia] [System] [Transmigration] [Jin Yong fan fiction] This isn't a wish-fulfillment story about seducing other men's wives and taking in one's master's wife or junior sister. Xiangyang falls, and Guo Jing and Huang Rong die. On Mount Emei, the “Little Eastern Heretic” Guo Xiang uses her sword as a brus 13.1kReads8.7Score718Shelves
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  20. 570 The Taste of Life 人间味道 Modern Romance294k WordsCompleted This is a collection of short stories about family, friendship, love, and devotion to one's country. Life has no answer sheet; it is a journey. Every ordinary story celebrates the brilliant moments of ordinary people. My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 90Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 571 The Jin Yuanbao Family’s Sudden Fortune from Demolition Compensation 金元宝一家的拆迁暴富日常 Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing 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 2.1kReads8.8Score155Shelves
  22. 572 To Lower the Bride Price, I Went So Far as to Get My Girlfriend Pregnant! (Far Too Real) 为了压低彩礼,我渣到让女友怀孕!(内容过于真实) Marriage & Romance19k WordsCompleted To keep the bride price down, I went so far as to get my girlfriend pregnant! (A little too realistic) —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 573 The 1960s: The Walk-On Character Made Her Fortune Through Divorce! 六零:路人甲她靠离婚发家了! Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Period setting + satisfying revenge + strong heroine + transmigration + multiple male leads There’s a different male lead in every phase of her life, and the heroine won’t stay for anyone. She’s selfish. She has a pocket dimension, but she’ll have to steal to get it. Rather than deal with awful people, the heroine would rather make them furious. P.S. This story includes an unconventional romance. Please read with caution if that bothers you. After dying suddenly, the embittered office worker Zho 12.9kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
  24. 574 Chunfen 春芬 Modern Romance115k WordsCompleted Ni Chunfen had known since she was little that her parents were different from other children’s parents. They both spoke with sign language. But they lived a happy life. After Ni Chunfen graduated from college, her parents told her a secret: she was adopted. Now that she was grown up and looking for a job and a boyfriend, they decided to tell her. They didn’t want their daughter to become romantically involved with one of their biological sons. If she ever got serious about a boyfriend, she had 214Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 575 A Teacher’s Heart Endures, a Dream of Justice Takes Flight 师心未改,法梦初燃 Urban248k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 576 The CEO Is Chasing Me, a 50, Just to Marry My 60-Year-Old Best Friend? 霸总狂追50的我,竟为娶60的闺蜜? 9k WordsCompleted The CEO Chased Me Like Crazy at 50, Only to Marry My 60-Year-Old Bestie? —Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 577 Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零 Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ 27.8kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
  28. 578 Brother, I've Got Your Back 兄弟,我是你的后背 Urban195k WordsCompleted After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Kuomintang and Communist Party join forces once again to resist the Japanese invaders. Li Zhenhua receives orders to travel to Hunan and organize a guerrilla force to fight the Japanese. He also hopes to find the wife and child he has been separated from for five years. When he arrives in Changsha, the Kuomintang army has just fought its first major battle against the Japanese. With the army’s help, Li Zhenhua and his two assistants head into the mountai 87Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 579 The Cold-Faced Officer's White Moonlight 冷面军官的白月光 Modern Romance98k WordsOngoing That night, they sat on the steps outside the photography studio, eating wontons. The July heat in Shanghai was stifling as a steamer, and cicadas poured their cries from the plane trees’ canopies, spreading them across the ground. Shen Zhi prodded a wonton with her chopsticks, then suddenly asked, “How did you get by during those two years in Yemen?” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 580 The Old Days at the Bottom of a Cup and Through a Telephone Receiver 杯底与听筒里的旧年 Urban809k WordsCompleted Have you ever looked at the years settled at the bottom of a glass on a slightly tipsy night, as memories came rushing back like the tide? Have you ever heard a familiar voice on the other end of the phone and found yourself retrieving stories buried by time? In "Old Days at the Bottom of a Glass and Through the Receiver", you'll step into a friendship among classmates that spans decades. In the play of light and shadow across wine glasses and through the telephone receiver, stories of youth, dr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 581 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Become a Pretty Widow 穿越六零成为俏寡妇 Modern Romance350k WordsCompleted (Content warning: The heroine is ten years older than the hero. She’s a player and isn’t sexually inexperienced, so proceed with caution!!!) Shi Lan, a carefree, troublesome party girl who loves the high life, transmigrates to the hardship of the 1960s and gets three new labels: married, mother, and widow. From the start, she’s being introduced to a prospective match. As if! She thinks her new identity is pretty great: she has money and status, and gets to be a mother without the pain of childbi 7kReads9.2Score556Shelves
  32. 582 Sisters in Blue 双姊警花 Urban154k WordsCompleted Tao Ye and Qi Xin were carrying out a mission when Tao Ye was killed and Qi Xin was gravely injured, falling into a coma. While sorting through Tao Ye’s belongings, his mother found seven letters he had left for his childhood sweetheart, Qiao Kai. While Qi Xin lay unconscious with serious injuries, a medical examination revealed that she was three months pregnant. 50Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 583 What Happened at the Nursing Home 发生在养老院的事 8k WordsCompleted What Happened at the Nursing Home 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 584 Little Leopard 小豹子 Modern Romance472k WordsCompleted 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 588Reads8.6Score109Shelves
  35. 585 The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅 Ancient Romance372k WordsCompleted “A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
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  36. 586 My Very Different Retirement Life with Two Neighbors 我和两个邻居不一样的退休生活 7k WordsCompleted My Retirement Is Nothing Like My Two Neighbors’ 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 587 Sanxi: From Village Beauty to Village Bully 三喜:从村花到村霸 Modern Romance233k WordsCompleted A beautiful country girl marries in a daze, only for upheaval to strike her family. She goes from depending on others to growing strong on her own, but in the end, desire consumes her and leads her to ruin. In her final moments, she realizes that human nature cannot be controlled… 759Reads—Score101Shelves
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  38. 588 Through Life's Storms, She Blossoms 风雨人生,她自芳华 Modern Romance572k WordsOngoing Period drama, a woman’s journey of growth, overseas entrepreneurship, a strong female lead, and realistic romance. “One woman’s four marriages, three entrepreneurial ventures, two generations finding peace, and one extraordinary life.” In 1984, she was the pampered jewel of a prestigious family, but one ill-fated marriage sent her crashing to rock bottom. Her husband was cold, and her in-laws took her daughter. Overnight, she fell from the clouds into the dust. But she refused to be beaten. 1.3kReads6.9Score101Shelves
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  39. 589 My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代 Urban299k WordsCompleted Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a 11Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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  40. 590 Cloud, Crane, Nine Heavens: Nothing Beats Cao 云鹤九霄,不如一曹 18k WordsCompleted Of the Yun, He, Jiu, and Xiao generations, none compares to Cao. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 591 The Bronze Medal I Will Never Forget 永不会忘记的铜牌 15k WordsCompleted The Bronze Plaque I Will Never Forget 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 592 My Ex's Stupidity Tax: His Wife Valued at 200,000 前夫哥的智商税:老婆估值二十万 35k WordsCompleted The Ex-Husband's Stupidity Tax: His Wife Is Worth 200,000 392Reads—Score—Shelves
  43. 593 After My Wife Kicked Open the Company Doors, Everyone Started Gossiping 老婆踹开公司门后,全公司都在吃瓜 11k WordsCompleted After My Wife Kicked Open the Company Doors, the Whole Office Started Gossiping 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. 594 True to Myself 本心 Modern Romance151k WordsCompleted No one can live solely for others, but neither can we completely cast aside our responsibilities. In real life, we often waver between “living for others” and “living for ourselves,” all the while judged by moral standards. Family relationships are not static; they change over time. Families that endure hardship may fall apart, rebuild themselves, or eventually go their separate ways, living along parallel paths of their own. As we struggle to survive, how do we come to understand ourselves and 1.4kReads—Score—Shelves
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  45. 595 I Found 100,000 Yuan Under the Mattress and Finally Understood My Late Wife's Intentions 床垫下翻出十万块,我才懂亡妻的苦心 Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted I found a hundred thousand yuan hidden under the mattress, and only then did I understand my late wife's painstaking intentions. 632Reads—Score103Shelves
  46. 596 The Year I Earned Two Thousand a Month, the Goddess Married Down to Me 月薪两千那年,女神下嫁给我 9k WordsCompleted The Year I Earned Just 2,000 a Month, the Goddess Married Down to Be My Wife 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 597 After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后,她的人生开挂了 Modern Romance4.6M WordsCompleted [Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr 7.5kReads8.3Score785Shelves
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  48. 598 Haunted by a Bewitching Dream: I Killed That Ghost King Nine Times 诡梦缠情:我杀了那尊鬼王九次 7k WordsCompleted Haunted by a Bewitching Dream: I Killed the Ghost King Nine Times 85Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. 599 I Quit My Job on the Spot, Went Home, and Started Winning at Life in the Countryside 裸辞后回门,我在乡村躺赢了 11k WordsCompleted After quitting my job without notice, I returned to my family home and struck it rich living lazily in the countryside 11Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. 600 Reborn with a Child, I Married a Cold Military Doctor from a Prestigious Family 重生后,带娃嫁世家高冷军医 Modern Romance603k WordsCompleted [Reborn + adorable child + military marriage + true love + revenge + face-slapping] After being reborn, Su Ying’s first move is to divorce her husband. Her scumbag husband, Du Zhenyong, wants to have the best of both worlds and refuses to let her go. She takes her 38 yuan and chases after him to the military base, where she meets the aloof military doctor Gu Nanchen. With his help, Su Ying gets away from her scumbag husband. But the prestigious Gu family refuses to let Gu Nanchen marry a woman w 22kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves

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