Any Low-Key Novels Focused on Everyday Life? 有没有平淡点的小说，倾向于日常生活那种的
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I’m Just a Couch Potato, Please Stop Pursuing Me 我只是一条咸鱼，请不要逆推我了
[Everyday Romance] [One Female Lead] Chen Xingjian had only two requirements for life: eat well and take it easy. While everyone else was busy chasing success, his biggest worry was whether to braise or stew tonight’s ribs. His dream was simple: find a wife who could earn enough to support the family, then settle down as a househusband. That all changed the day he carried over a bowl of plain congee and, on impulse, rescued the neighbor across the hall, who was doubled over with a bout of gast
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He Pursued Me After Losing the Bid 竞标失败后他追我
Seven years ago, beneath the osmanthus tree on the back hill, a warm osmanthus cake became the only light in Lu Siyan’s darkest hour. When they meet again seven years later, the boy who once stood on the brink of collapse has become the ruthless CEO of the Lu Group. He schemes to get transferred to her project and draws closer step by step, quietly folding seven years of unspoken love into lattes with just three pumps of syrup, umbrellas tilted toward her, and plate after plate of osmanthus cak
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That Year, the Summer Breeze Was Cool 那年，夏风微微凉
On the loess plateau, like a fiery young colt, he grew freely in the boundless wilderness of time. Youth is the most beautiful time in a person’s life. But whose youth is untouched by love, desolation, pain, and confusion? Lin Yuzhi was a sunny boy who grew up on the loess plateau. He knew the grief of losing family, but he never let it defeat him. Instead, he kept moving forward against the wind. In middle school, he met her, and him, both destined to become part of his life. Yet youth is a bea
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My Down-and-Out Sister Leads Our Whole Family to Wealth 落魄姐姐带我全家一起暴富
A Down-on-Her-Luck Big Sister Leads My Whole Family to Wealth
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Oh No, It's Her. I'm Done For 不好，是她我没救了
Oh no, it's her. I'm done for
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The 1970s: The Villainous Bigwig Is Super Clingy 七零，反派大佬超粘人
[Period Setting + Parallel Timeline + Male Lead Is Love-Struck + Loves to Imagine Things] After finally outliving her deadbeat father and inheriting tens of millions, Luo Minyan was at last able to live the way she wanted: eating and sleeping all day, then playing as soon as she woke up, with every day as luxurious as possible. But after going skydiving, she opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into a book. Most people who transmigrated into books became beloved heroines surrounded by
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Me, So Ordinary 我，如此普通
I was born ordinary, with an average appearance and an unremarkable family. I have no legendary life filled with dramatic twists, nor any grand, stirring story to tell. Most people in this world are ordinary, living out their days in obscurity. I am no different. I cannot write earth-shattering plots or create dazzling protagonists. I write only of everyday life, recording the meals and seasons of ordinary people, their confusion and struggles, their helplessness and compromises. No filters,
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I Just Got Here and Already Got Caught 刚来就被抓包呀
Caught red-handed as soon as I got here!
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Tales of Fun from Northeast China 东北那旮旯的乐子事儿
There’s enough fun to be had in the Northeast to stretch from the kang to the cornfields! Lao Wang, nicknamed “Wang the Daring,” is a bona fide rough-and-ready Northeasterner who’ll run shirtless through the alleys in the dead of winter and chase a dog for a jar of liquor. His life is one hilarious disaster after another. Neighborhood gossip is packed with juicy secrets, and the tiniest little thing can become more exciting than New Year’s. There are no earth-shattering events here, just the Nor
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Little Moon 小小月亮
The first story: Zhang Yan × Zhang Beiheng. Because she wanted him to live, time started over. Because she wanted him alive, his bones and skull became flesh and blood again. The second story is about the Mountain God × a female ghost. It is more of a side story, and I haven't written the main characters' story yet. Maybe I'll write it someday. The third story: Jia Xibei, who is actually Wen Si, × Ruan Ruan. Wen Si and Bai Hehuan had a less-than-happy past life. Jia Xibei and Ruan Ruan come la
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Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你
[Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t
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Wanbei 宛北
Only after returning in the second half of his life did Shan Chengye realize that Zhu Qingwan was still embedded in his soul, the other half of the jade he could never be parted from. Their story began when they were seventeen and lasted until the end of their lives.
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As It Turns Out, Fine Days Are Just Like This 算来好景只如斯
What? The princess wants to break off the engagement? What? You’re going to wipe out your entire royal clan? What? You’re about to die, and you still want to have a baby? Princess, your secret identity is showing! The legitimate daughter of a general is cold by nature, yet she has a whole crew of fiercely awesome best friends. And she has a husband who dotes on her without question, and has secretly loved her since childhood.
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Don't Touch My Rabbit Tail 不要碰我的兔尾巴
Sweet romance + comedy + healing + a woodland fairy-tale love story + rabbit × wolf Annie the rabbit is the real deal. The male lead is someone she’d genuinely dare to boil in a pot. After her poison plot, assassination plan, and shameless plan all failed, Annie decided to give up on turning the wolf into a potion. But the wolf refused to leave her house and even tried to become her mate. Hmph! She was the strongest witch in the Black Forest. How could she possibly agree? Arthur, king of the jun
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The Flowers Have Bloomed on Nanshan 南山花已开
Feng Jinqing only realized later that the leap in his heart when he saw Ye Ya, eyes brimming with tears beneath the Chinese wingnut tree, was the feeling of falling in love. From that moment on, he couldn't help wanting to treat her well, just as he had when they were children, and even better: to spend a lifetime making up for the four years he'd been gone.
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The Bittersweet Trials of Marrying Far from Home 远嫁的那些酸甜苦辣
Marrying far from home is a gamble. You may never feel at home with your in-laws, yet be unable to return to your own family. Amid the chaos of childbirth, raising a child, and life with a second baby, marriage becomes a mirror that reflects the most honest truths about human nature. Marital happiness has nothing to do with whether you marry far from home. It depends on whether the person you marry truly loves you and understands you. The joys and sorrows of marrying far away are part of the exp
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The Homebody Landlady and Her Kangaroo Tenant 宅女房东和她的袋鼠房客
This is an ordinary, heartwarming story about two women, full of the little details of everyday life. No melodrama. Wei Ci is a homebody and a bit lazy. She orders takeout every day, so she decides to rent out one room in her little apartment for cheap and find a tenant who’s willing to cook. Then she meets Dai Shu, and the two begin a life that goes from secret crush to openly in love. I love you, regardless of desire, gender, having children, or self-interest. I just want to spend the rest of
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A Single Mother’s Road to Redemption 一个单亲妈妈的救赎之路
I was a woman left single, and by the time I reached middle age, becoming a single mother was bound to turn my life upside down. At the halfway point of life, I’ve been through everything you can imagine, and even things you can’t. So what? The middle of life is a battlefield, and I am a shield, guarding a corner of tenderness amid the chaos. Halfway through life, I’ll be my own rock, pressing forward through disorder, gentle yet strong. Through half a lifetime of storms, I give it everything. A
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Writing and Lying Flat on the Northern Frontier 我在北境边境笔耕躺平
Orphan Lu Ze had had enough of workplace hypocrisy and the clamor of the city. He took his entire fortune of 560,000 yuan and headed for the northeastern border, where he found an empty village that had been erased from the map: Wangbeitun. As the youngest border resident in Wangbeitun’s history, his life went like this: · Annual income: a few hundred yuan from writing flop novels, plus a 3,500-yuan border-resident subsidy. The main goal was simply to stay alive. · Daily KPIs: write 4,000 words
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Until We Meet Again 不見不散
[Reunion after years apart + bickering couple + modern romance + second chance at love + heartwarming healing story] The hero and heroine meet in middle school. When they go off to different universities, their immature, youthful personalities gradually drive them apart. Years later, they reunite and rekindle their relationship. It's a little story about finding their way back to each other. For a relationship to blossom and bear fruit, the right people must meet at the right time in the right f
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Chronicles of a Plain Maiden's Cultivation 素女修仙录
The female lead, Xia Suxin, is both talented and hardworking, righteous and kind. Along with her powerful mother, who returns from a life of seclusion after being injured, and her steadfast, clever older sister, the three support one another without holding each other back. In the end, they rise from ordinary cultivators to a family with three Emperors, going from obscurity to being followed by countless people. In ancient Chinese tradition, the Plain Maiden was a beautiful goddess. The term ca
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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
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My Eighteenth Birthday 我的十八岁成人礼
A story about a left-behind child. A story about a left-behind child growing up. Also known as The Boy Left Behind in the Countryside and The Unhealable Years of Youth.
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Rust and Blossoms 铁锈与繁花
1990s + inspirational realism + female awakening + a determined comeback + making a life far from home + workplace transformation + family ties + sincere romance + friendly neighbors At seventeen, she never imagined that the peachwood talisman her mother pressed into her palm would accompany her through so many storms: from the crowded sleeper cars of a green train to the fluorescent-lit workshop of an electronics factory; from an old night-school building overgrown with ivy to the desk in her o
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Life Is Like a Dream, So How Much Time Do We Have for Joy? 人生如夢，為歡幾何
My grandfather, Zhang Songling, courtesy name Huating, died many years ago. This is the story of his life, in his own words. As his granddaughter, I hope this novel and this platform will help more people learn about his story, and that those who find their way to it can gain some insight and experience for their own lives. It is also a glimpse into a turbulent period of history, told from the perspective of an ordinary person. The story covers the years before 1917, the sixth year of the Republ
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The Waning Glow 最阑珊
[Not a wish-fulfillment novel + neither lead is perfect + real people with real feelings] (Heir × Commandery Princess, a political marriage between two kingdoms, marriage before love, both devoted to each other, happy ending) The hero becomes a loyal puppy later on, with a world that consists only of the heroine and everyone else. The heroine is wise, noble-born, and deeply unfortunate. * She still remembered that Qixi Festival, when colorful lanterns hung high and candlelight filled the sky. Su
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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…
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Young Madam, Your Husband Is Actually Reborn 少夫人，少爷居然是重生的
[Main story complete; extra chapters still in progress] [Historical Romance + Modern Person in the Past + Reborn + Transmigration + Both Leads Are Each Other’s First + Fictional Dynasty + Nontraditional Palace and Household Intrigue] This is hilarious. What transmigrator ends up in the past as something other than a baby and still has to learn how to talk? After her soul travels a thousand years into the past, Xie Jing’an has to learn the language of the Qi dynasty, pass herself off as a Qi nati
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An Extraordinary Life After Being Hit by a Meteor 被流星砸中后的超凡人生
[Urban Life + Artificial Intelligence + Advanced Civilization] A “life-evolution serum” from an unknown civilization came crashing down from the sky disguised as a meteor, granting Xiao Ran, an ordinary young man, an evolved life and setting him on the path to turning his fortunes around. During college, he used hacking and AI technology to create “Xiaoling,” an artificial intelligence with self-awareness. With Xiaoling’s formidable capabilities, he achieved breakthroughs in drones, robots, lit
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Empress of the Xie Family 谢家皇后
In her first year in the palace, she is a Talented Lady. In her fifth, she is a Jieyu. In her tenth, she wants to become empress. As empress, she can hold on to everything she treasures and keep it from being taken away. She can protect herself and her child, and she can... stay by his side. This is a road with only one direction: take a single step back, and all will be lost. The bright yellow ceremonial parasol moves forward, and the emperor's procession slowly enters the city gate. A yellow p
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A Ten-Year Dream in the Officialdom 十年官场梦
What ordinary people see as a grassroots success story may actually be nothing more than a pawn in the hands of powerful figures, sent out to fight on their behalf. To make the pawn serve its purpose, those figures grant it a measure of power and status for a time. Perhaps that's all a grassroots rise to success really is. The protagonist, Chi Mingyu, may be just such a pawn. During the ten years after leaving university and entering public service, he once enjoyed great success. But in the end,
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Let My Heart Wander Free 任我心意悠悠
A wealthy-family marriage, and just four years after the wedding, the company goes bust and the husband disappears! The family has no other options, and in the end, the problem is solved by a deus ex machina! If only they'd said so earlier. Once the problem is solved, the husband comes back, doesn't he? You said he was a domineering CEO, so why is he only a general manager? Don't panic. It's a family business, and after the father-in-law is finally out of the way in the last few chapters, the hu
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Falling for a Tough Girl From the Urban Village 爱上城中村女痞子
He's a country boy who made it big; she's a rich second-generation city girl. He's an honest man; she's a tough-talking tomboy. His defining traits are being poor and stubborn. He lives in a tiny room in an urban village, and at twenty-seven, he's still single. She's genuinely tough, with money, looks, and a whole group of young, beautiful bodyguards and girlfriends. They should never have crossed paths. But one chance late-night entanglement brought their fates together, and they fell in l
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The VIP Heroine’s Soap Opera Life VIP女主的狗血日常
Gou Xue was born with yin-yang eyes and has been able to see what others can't since she was little. She often suffers from sleep paralysis... Our hardworking heroine, who was constantly on the front lines of the supernatural and never dated once in school, is forced to face blind dates and having children after a bolt from the blue. By a twist of fate, she meets Dai Richang, a yin-yang feng shui master... After a chance encounter with the Matchmaking Boy at the Moon God Shrine, she unexpectedly
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The Years of Jinyu's Story 嫤语书年
The realm was in chaos, and enemy troops had reached the city walls. Fu Jin, a highborn woman whose entire clan had been wiped out, was forced to marry Wei Tan, the eldest son of a warlord at the height of his power. The world had turned upside down: the once princess-like darling of heaven was now an older bride marrying for the second time, while the obscure son of a minor official had become her husband, a warlord who looked down on all under heaven. Survival in turbulent times was hard, and
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A Simple, Peaceful Life Is Enough 余生平淡就好
I’m Li Jie. I’ve missed too much in this life. I wanted to live well, but I always find myself thinking about the past. People say it’s all over, yet they still use the past against me. I always come to an abrupt stop...
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Happiness, or the Lack of It 幸福不幸福
If memories were a game, Happiness would have died many times over. If reality were a game, Happiness would often be left battered and bruised. She wanders the streets of memory, where every shop is shuttered. It seems this world has no room for Happiness. Even as she scrapes by, enduring harsh words and cold looks, she still isn’t ready to give up...
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The Girl He Brought Home Walked into My Room 他带回的女生，走进了我房间
The girl he brought home walked into my room
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I Flash-Married a Tycoon's Son, and Now He Begs for Affection Every Day Back in My Village 闪婚豪门公子，回村后他日日求宠
[One devoted couple, 1v1 + marriage first, love later + witty, affectionate relationship + warm and healing + everyday family life + adorable cutie] A rich woman who keeps forgetting she's rich ✖️ a sweet, naive young master Lin Chule finally gets married in a whirlwind romance after her eighty-eighth blind date, just to have someone keep her company and claim her inheritance. Now that she's rich, who'd keep working that lousy job? Lin Chule decides to take her new husband back to her rural h
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A Pair of Delicate Red Hands 一双红酥手
Reborn in 1996, I planned to strike it rich with the lottery numbers from the one thing I remembered about my past life. Who knew it would still turn out to be just a dream!!! There are only 98 days left until the college entrance exam, and I’ve forgotten every bit of what I learned in my previous life. What do I do... Fine, I’ll come clean. I just want to be a couch potato, enjoy life with a beautiful wife, and live a quiet little life... This story is entirely fictional. Any similarities are p
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Transmigrating to Farm and Raise Children 穿越之种田养崽
[Farming + Nurturing + No portable space + Few terrible people + No golden finger] [Career] When Shi Xinyu wakes up, she finds herself at the very moment she is being sold off as a child bride after transmigrating? Looking at her frail body and ragged clothes, she roars, “Heavens, how did I end up with such a disastrous start again?” This dilapidated home is dirt poor, and there’s a scrawny little chick of a child peeking at her from behind the door? With all the answers in hand, how could she p
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The Brocade Zither and the Jianghu 锦瑟江湖
The martial arts alliance, which ruled the jianghu for years, collapses overnight. Sects led by the Jiayang Sect, the Canglan Cult, and the Ruyi House rise to power, locked in open and covert struggles as undercurrents surge. Evil lies hidden beneath the calm. See how the Jiayang Sect finds a way to break the deadlock in a jianghu as treacherous as it is unfathomable. In a nutshell: one case shakes the entire jianghu. Male lead: The martial arts alliance, which ruled the jianghu for decades, fal
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A Tale of High School Youth 普高青春志
An Ordinary High Schooler's Youth: Sophomore Year High school + ensemble cast + friendship At an ordinary high school in a small Yunnan town, a group of teenagers with middling scores on the high school entrance exam spend their sophomore year. Some are ambitious, others take things as they come. Sometimes they’re cheerful, sometimes gloomy. They come from different families and carry different hopes, but they’re all pushed forward by the college entrance exam. Their repetitive lives of studying
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Reborn to Plot a Rebellion with Prince Jing 重生之叫上景王爷一同谋反
Reborn: Bringing Prince Jing Along in a Rebellion
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Who Starts Farming by Sending Three Piglets as a Gift? 种田谁家男主开局送礼送三只猪崽
Completed. Dive in without worry! (Farming + No golden finger + Family life + Romance + Building a fortune + Cozy + No awful characters) No System! No pocket dimension!! No golden finger!!! No awful characters!!!! (We’ve said it three times because it’s important. The male lead appears late. The story focuses on building a career, with romance as a side plot x3.) Baihua Cave is a village deep in the mountains, home to nearly a hundred households. Everyone says it’s a poor and remote backwater. S
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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…
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The Lucky Carp Pig Flirts, and the Hunter Husband Blushes and His Heart Races 锦鲤猪撩拨，猎户相公脸红心跳
Other people hunt wild boars for meat. Gu Hongyuan hunts one and marries it as his wife. Everyone says Gu Hongyuan got a raw deal: his wife is lazy, greedy, and dim-witted. Only Gu Hongyuan knows he struck it rich with this marriage. As soon as his little wife arrives, all kinds of good fortune come knocking. Game practically leaps into his traps, all the chickens in the yard lay double-yolk eggs, and he even finds valuable things just walking down the road. And that's not to mention how rich he
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Listening to Snow in Jiangcheng 在江城听雪
They meet in Jiangcheng for an appointment to listen to the snow~ They were senior and junior at university, went their separate ways after graduation, then let go of past grievances when they met again. They were also Dunhuang princess Song Fanyin and Han dynasty general Qi Dingchu in a radio drama, as well as Chang'an (A Man), sect leader of the Yun Yin Sect in the cultivation world, and Guli, young master of the Medical Sect… They met when they were young, weathered many storms, and grew into
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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…
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A Life Blossoming Between Ice and Song 冰与歌之花漾人生
Showbiz romance: Music Producer VS Retired Figure Skater One raised the national flag of their homeland to the highest point of the Winter Olympics figure skating arena, while the other created one legend after another in Chinese pop music… He fell for her after hearing an interview about her competition during a time when he felt lost. Cool and distant on the surface, he devoted all his deep affection to her… She was clever and strong-willed, juggling both her athletic career and her s
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