Looking for Books That Feel Especially Realistic 求特别真实的书。
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Travel the World in a Custom Camper Van 自改房车行天下
[This book isn’t really a novel. More accurately, it’s a travelogue based on the author’s real experiences, chronicling the entire journey along National Highway 219 by car. If you enjoy traveling, come take a look.] What’s the most important thing about going out for fun? Of course, you have to get out there! What does traveling mean? Some say that traveling ten thousand miles is better than reading ten thousand books. Hu Yonggang believes that the meaning of travel is something you have to dis
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A Billionaire Finance Mogul’s Rise from the Ashes 千亿财经大佬逆袭沉浮
A book written entirely by hand. A famous philosopher once said: Lust is a primal drive. It isn't base. Su Huoda wasn't highly educated, but he was especially good at using women, including his boss's wife. He climbed to the top by stepping on women. After successfully turning his life around and becoming a tycoon, he met Feng Chengcheng and Liu Zihan. Would the two sisters become trusted partners in his next business venture? A modern-day household battle unfolded among his former flames, old l
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Luoyang, Please Forget Me Tonight 洛阳,今夜请将我遗忘
Zhou Yu has just graduated when he meets Xiaoning, a rich heiress, and Qi Fei, the son of a high-ranking official. What kind of story will unfold between them? A very realistic urban novel. It’s not a wish-fulfillment story, and there’s no fantasy indulgence. It’s as calm and uneventful as a flowing stream. It uses words to capture those days of youth, when the older we grow, the more those days seem as beautiful as a poem. I hope it can take those of us born in the ’80s back to the days we’ve l
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Yifan Is Anything but Ordinary 一凡不凡
My new work is out! 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!
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The Overseas Gold Rush: Turmoil in the Underworld 海外淘金路之江湖风云
[Gold prospecting overseas + underworld intrigue + no saintly protagonist + no System + realistic, not over-the-top] Unfortunately, my business venture back home left me with nothing. Fortunately, I can still try my luck prospecting overseas and start a new life. But abroad is no paradise, and the underworld there is even more dangerous. Human life is truly worth nothing there! If you have anything at all to lose, don't travel to a foreign land. Our beloved homeland is the perfect world we all d
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The Struggle of a Troubled Marriage 婚姻的困境挣扎
The Struggles of a Marriage in Crisis
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Reborn as an Oil Tycoon 重生之石油大亨
Overnight, he is back in 1993. With a penniless family, a faithless girlfriend, and waves of layoffs looming, what should the protagonist, Li Si, do? Of course, he should turn his family's fortunes around, make his ex-girlfriend so furious she spits blood, and ride the oil boom to become the most legendary oil tycoon around. Have you ever seen a woman give herself up for the sake of a subsidized apartment? A scoundrel stab his own brother in the back to climb the ladder? The rich trample on the
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Shi Shun's Growth 石顺的成长
About Growth At the foot of the Dabie Mountains, a young man named Shi Shun journeys forward, one step at a time. Over the first half of his life, he experiences sincere family affection, treasures friendships forged through hardship, encounters tender love, and strives to build an ordinary career. He grows from a naive, awkward youth into a steady and responsible man, tempering his character amid the everyday bustle of life and coming to understand what life means through the companionship of
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Tea Fragrance on Jingling Ridge 镜岭茶香
A new story is here! You’re welcome to read my work 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!
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The Golden Phoenix Isn't a Chicken 金凤不是鸡
An age when lovers were everywhere, an era dominated by online loans, and the emotional high of a night at a karaoke club… Wealth became the sole measure of success, affection turned into a bargaining chip, and labels of status rose above personal character. Amid the drunken, glittering world, he and she were drawn into a chain of scams woven from money, power, and desire. Each tried to stake a lifetime of innocence on finding an answer to the question, “I’m not a prostitute.” They were willing
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I Debate the Classics with Great Scholars in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫跟大儒辩经
Yang Zhi, a top salesman and philosophy graduate student in his previous life, transmigrates to the end of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty. Through a twist of fate, he joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard, passes the imperial examination, enters the Hanlin Academy, and debates the classics with the great scholars at court!
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Drifting to Golden Island 流浪黄金岛
I often feel that my soul is stranded on a lonely island, surrounded by sea, with only one great ship sailing back and forth. I can never catch the ship before it leaves. I am always left with regret, mourning a life riddled with wounds. Who am I? Amid the distant lights and glittering splendor, the towers are too tall and the avenues too wide. People care only for money and know nothing of you.
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My Rebellious Youth at the Factory 我在工厂里的逆乱青春
This book blends my real-life experiences with the backdrop of the times, gradually telling the story of my colorful rise to wealth and my tangled love-hate relationships with various women. You know the drill. Feel free to keep reading. No matter how well this book does, I’ll keep writing it, but I hope you’ll all stay active in the comments.
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From Shepherd Boy to Writer 从放羊娃到作家
Wu Beiyan, a shepherd boy and the child of a military family, doesn't know whether his parents ever got married. Four shepherding companions are lured to a remote village by a “TV director.” As the four escape, some survey workers take them to an air force base. Later, a criminal police team escorts them. After Wu Beiyan rescues a girl in red, Du Xiaojuan, from a flood, he stays with a retired official's family in Linquan City and receives special care. When he returns to the Shazaoyuan Farm, th
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I’m a Monster. What Have I Got to Fear? 我是妖怪我怕谁
What would you think if one day you suddenly became the big boss of the monsters, and they all came to pledge themselves to you, eating your food, using your things, living in your home, and even hanging you from a tree? What a nightmare! My name is Mu Dongqing. I'm an orchard owner, and a pretty handsome guy, too. One night, an old fortune-teller in the park suddenly told me I was the Demon King. From then on, monsters and cultivators alike started coming after me. Street punks? Get lost! Don't
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The Forbidden Island 荒岛禁地
Li Xu is stranded on a deserted island with a beautiful CEO, a rival in love, and his ex-girlfriend's family. He thought it was an ordinary island, but bizarre creatures lurk deep in its interior. The island nation established Research Base 791 during World War II. There are huge stockpiles of firearms and monsters. Think that's all? This is only the beginning. Watch me conquer the island and build an empire that will endure for all time, one step at a time.
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Pingyang Prefecture in the Sunlight 阳光下的平阳府
During the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jinfu, a soldier from the South City Guard in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi (now Linfen and Yuncheng in Shanxi Province), left the military and became a constable in Pingyang Prefecture. Over the next twenty years, he shared both hardship and fortune with Zhao Jian, a chief officer in the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and Mo Yaozu, a merchant, as their fates rose and fell. Nearly a hundred characters reveal the lives, inner worlds, and faces of off
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After the Divorce, Dr. Su Caught the Eye of a Powerful Man 离婚后,苏医生被大佬盯上了
[Season One of the motion comic is now available] [The early chapters focus on family disputes, with more emphasis on her career] [The male lead appears later] [It only gets better as the story goes] She's a cold, sharp cardiothoracic surgeon who wields a scalpel and is divorced with a child. He's a roguishly handsome power player with connections in both the underworld and the legitimate world. It was love at first sight for him, and he won't stop pursuing her. Then there's a gentle, refined yo
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Boss, Let Go of Me! I Have a Husband 老板你放开我,我有老公
After a car accident leaves my husband disabled and unable to have children, I take a job in the hope of helping him recover. From then on, my life takes a difficult turn...
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My Wife Deng Xiaoyang, I'm Li Chaoyang 媳妇邓晓阳我叫李朝阳
[Realism, political ups and downs, contests of human nature, and the turbulent 1990s] Political connections are the greatest resource. In 1985, I was discharged from the army and returned to my hometown. Though I had fought on the front lines and earned a third-class merit, I was still prepared to spend the rest of my life tending crops. While handling my paperwork at the township armed forces office, I met Li Shangwu, the head of the office. He was a transferred officer from another division in
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Selling Buddha Amulets in Thailand 我在泰国卖佛牌
I’ve been a Buddhist amulet dealer for years, handling quite a few amulets and encountering all sorts of strange things. The truth behind some of them is far more terrifying than you’d imagine. Some things exist all around us, whether you believe in them or not...
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Father and Son 父子
A father's love is as deep and vast as the sea. This is a story about a father's love. Lao Gao is a father who doesn't know how to express himself, but he loves his two sons in his own way. Both sons resent him: the elder one hates his favoritism, while the younger one hates that he won't let him live freely. As children, they dared not voice their anger toward their father. When they grew up, all they wanted was to get away from him. It was only many years later that they understood how great e
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Snowflake Town 雪粒镇
[Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue
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The Sixth Man's Strange Tales 老六诡事
A collection of true stories about all kinds of inexplicable, supernatural events personally experienced by people around me. Just think of it as my attempt to pass off some tales as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! I’m repeating it three times because it’s important! I don’t make up stories. I’m simply passing them along!
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Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事
Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era.
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A Man's Life 男人活着
From the moment he entered the working world, Yang Zheng embarked on a relentless pursuit of wealth. Amid the tides of the times, a man's grit and perseverance carry him forward through the abyss, undaunted by wind and rain.
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Seventy-One Years of Sorrow 悲伤七十一年
This novel tells the story of an ordinary rural woman whose life was accompanied by hardship. She lived through the years of war and worked tirelessly to raise her children, fighting against every hardship and placing her hopes in her son. Yet in her later years, she never enjoyed the family happiness she had hoped for. She suffered so much. Life kept dealing her blow after blow without ever offering comfort. Her story reflects the lives of so many rural women, and her experience should give peo
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A Tomboy's Guide to Buying a Home 女汉子买房记
Gu Cancan was a tough, no-nonsense woman. Just when she had introduced her boyfriend to her parents and was ready to buy a house and get married, he dumped her. The worst part was that he immediately started dating one of her coworkers. They worked at the same company, so she had to see them every day, and it made her furious. She decided to buy a place of her own, and by chance mistook the wealthy Ma Lie for a real estate agent. The two of them soon embarked on a loving relationship...
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The Eldest Sister Rules 大姐最大
[Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No formulaic tropes] [Getting rich in the 1980s and 1990s] [A big sister who can take on the world] The eldest sister came home with emergency relief grain, only to discover that Little Seven had been given away. The second sister’s place in medical school had been stolen. Little Five and Little Six had been beaten so badly they sat huddled in a corner, too afraid to raise their heads. Little Eight was being led around in circles by the neighbor’s children. Their
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Crimson Haze 血色朦胧
Cops and criminals + tragic romance + fate. This is the first installment of the "Silence" trilogy, a tender yet sorrowful story. It follows the fates of two generations of police officers, Qin Dongzheng and Qu Jingsi, who set out to uncover the truth behind the 817 tragedy, only for one to die and the other to disappear. They are tall and handsome, in the prime of their lives, and steadfast in their convictions, yet their endings are tragic. Like the author, they are ordinary people. This is a
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Those Years in Dongguan 在东莞那些年
This book tells the story of an ordinary loser who finds love while working at a factory. After his future mother-in-law demands an outrageous bride price, he works hard, sets out to build a business, and pursues his dream. Giving up a high-paying job, he leads his friends back to their hometown to start a business, transforming a place so poor that no one could find a wife into a place young women are eager to marry into.
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A Life in Gray 灰色的人生
This story is set in the 1960s. Born in an era that favored boys over girls, the girl in the story was hastily given away by her birth parents. Her heartbreaking childhood left her feeling that her life had no color, like a gray sky without the sun.
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A Mother’s Sorrow 悲苦的母亲
Everyone gets one life in this world, and each has a different fate. Some are blessed with happiness, while others suffer their whole lives. In the early 1950s, a few infant cries rang out from a family in Ma Village, tucked away in a remote mountain hollow. Ma Jinfang had entered the world, beginning her tragic life...
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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An Age of Suffering 苦难的时代
This is not a war. It is a small glimpse of an age of chaos. This is a fragment of history, a story of an ordinary person struggling to survive amid the turmoil. A journey of drifting from place to place, stumbling along the way. In the face of disaster, not everyone gets to be the protagonist. P.S. This isn't the history of the book. It's just a little story, told for what it's worth and heard for what it's worth. Brothers who've finished reading can leave a comment or give it a rating. My new
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The Security Guard Blocked My Food Deliveries for Three Years, So I Tore Up His Son's Ten-Million-Yuan Bid in Public 保安拦我三年外卖,我当众撕碎他儿子的千万标书
The Security Guard Blocked My Food Deliveries for Three Years. I Tore Up His Son's Ten-Million-Yuan Bid Proposal in Front of Everyone
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A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封,我亮出紫袍天师法身
Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello
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The Strongest Military Logistician: Following My Wife to the Army in the 1970s 70年代跟老婆去随军最强后勤
After earning numerous merits, Zhu Mantong becomes a regiment commander at a young age. She takes her husband Qin Mobai, who is six years younger than her, with her to join the army. She never expects that Qin Mobai, whom she assumed would be a burden, is a genius in mechanics and electromechanical engineering. Once at the military camp, Qin Mobai not only helps Zhu Mantong earn merit on multiple missions, but also, with the support of Zhu Mantong and the military district leaders, solves the ca
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The Grassroots College Student’s Rise to the Top 草根大学生的逆袭人生
My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's. What I tell is not only the story of how I fought my way up from the bottom to build a business, but also the story of my youth. My name is Han Yu. I'm from Qingcheng, Zhejiang Province, and I'm 32 years old. I'm the lead wolf of an entrepreneurial team, the founder of more than a dozen companies, including ML and CL, the chairman of CC Group, and the first person in my family to break with the past and show the way forward. Through my own efforts, I esc
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A Career in Public Service 为民官路
[A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic
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The Lingnan Swordsman 岭南剑客
The miasma of Lingnan hung over Mount Cangwu like ink that would never dissolve, sealing it off completely. Liu Nanren gripped his rusted iron sword. Its tip sliced through the dense fog, revealing an old crescent-shaped scar on his wrist: the mark left fifteen years ago, when he crawled out of a mountain of corpses after Tianyu City fell. “Your Highness, it's time to leave.” A hoarse voice came from behind him. The old minister Yuchi Chun leaned on his bamboo staff, the hair at his temples whit
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Summer's Not Warm Yet 夏阳未暖
During his junior-year summer break, Xia Yang is in Tianjin with his girlfriend Wen Qing, preparing for their internships, when news arrives that his younger sister, Xia Qian, has been in a car accident back in their hometown. Grief-stricken, Xia Yang has no choice but to return to the northwestern city that holds so many memories. In the stillness of the night, his thoughts drift back ten years...
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Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985:东北往事
These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap
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A Lifetime of Humiliation, All for the Day of Reckoning 半生忍辱只等清算时刻
As a child, he lost his mother, who called him a good-for-nothing, and his father, who was useless alive. He barely survived the beatings and abuse from his stepfather and the others. Later, he discovered that his father hadn't actually died by suicide. He endured countless humiliations, and over 37 years, through patience and cunning, rose from an insignificant nobody to a wealthy power broker. He pulled off a breathtaking comeback! He spent half his life enduring humiliation, not just to survi
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Mr. Pi's Three Beauties 皮总的三红颜
Several young women head south to Guangzhou to pursue their dreams. In a remote little workshop, during those passionate years of youth, they gradually become strangers to one another. Are they building a better life, or is life wearing them down? Only in middle age do they begin to understand that cause and effect always come full circle. There are no shortcuts or secrets to getting through life; they only mean borrowing against your future happiness.
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The Storms of Beicheng 北城风云
Synopsis: (This story is entirely fictional. Its original title was Northern City’s Turmoil.) What is the jianghu? Wherever there are people, there is a jianghu, and wherever there is a jianghu, there is conflict! The jianghu is about fighting, killing, and the law of the jungle, but it’s also about human relationships and social conventions. This book will take you back to the jianghu of the 1980s and 1990s, where you’ll witness the extraordinary path of Chen Yanan, a generation’s ruthless hero
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The Immortality Trilogy 长生三部曲
Many people dream of living forever. But immortality first gave Changsheng enormous freedom in life, then brought him great restrictions. Do you still yearn for immortality?
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Zi Jinting 紫瑨婷
Zi Jinting
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The Broken Imperial Seal 残玺
“Anger is commonplace, but a smiling man is inscrutable...” Inspired by a hidden chapter of real history, this tells the story of a wild strategic-level scientist’s rise and growth. The premise is fresh, fantastical yet grounded in reality, and encompasses history, the workplace, the military, scientific research, national security, criminal investigation, elaborate schemes, murder, and modern high-stealth espionage, high-tech hacking, and high-intensity aerospace electronic warfare. The ending
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The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹,谁的错!
This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s
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