Urban Slice-of-Life, Realistic and Immersive, with Vivid, Believable Writing 都市日常，力求写实有代入感，文笔细腻真实不做
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Adrift in a Sea of Debt 债海沉浮
The pressure of credit card payments, calls from bank debt collectors, relentless harassment over online loans, and reproaches and complaints from his wife and friends weigh on him like a boulder on his chest. Every breath brings pain. He works day and night, yet still cannot fill the bottomless pit of debt. For him, life has become an endless struggle of helplessness. Every time hope flickers to life, reality cruelly snuffs it out. Even his once-beautiful, virtuous wife gets into someone else's
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Overnight, the Uncle's Life Bounced Back from Rock Bottom 一夜之间，大叔的生活触底反弹
Gao Weiguo, a middle-aged man born in the 1970s, had thought he would retire from his insurance company in quiet mediocrity. Little did he know that an opportunity that suddenly came his way would completely change his life…
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You Want Me to Forgive You If You Kneel? I Just Want to Die in Peace 跪着我就原谅？我只想安静的死去
Modern urban slice of life, one female lead, no System, no magic, and a story of regret. As the youngest son of the Yang family, Yang Tian has been meek and obedient since childhood. His father and sisters have groomed him to be a pawn in the family’s rise to power. To his surprise, when he refuses to marry the hideously ugly eldest daughter of the Pang Group, his father and sisters kick him out of the family home. Not long before, Yang Tian had learned that he was terminally ill. Seeing how lit
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A Divorced Young Lady of a Powerful Family: How Can She Turn Her Life Around? 失婚豪门少妇，该如何逆袭人生
[Revenge + business warfare + mostly female-led + male lead included + angst before sweetness + bittersweet romance + highly intelligent cast] You thought marrying into a wealthy family would make you a winner in life. Turns out romance novels are all lies. Your mother-in-law and sister-in-law are impossible to deal with, the family business is full of crises, and your dear “husband” sends you straight to prison... At long last, you've served your time and gotten out. But there’s no golden finge
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Middle Age 人到中年
My wife cheated on me, my brother turned against me, and at thirty, I hit the lowest point of my life! When money is at stake, everyone shows their true, ugly faces. Betrayed by family and confronted with the greed of friends, I was pushed into an abyss of despair by countless grasping hands. I had no choice but to struggle back to my feet and reach for the sunshine that belonged to me!
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All My Tenants Are Crazy Girls 我的房客全是精神小妹
[Middle-Aged Comeback | Urban Power Fantasy | Spirited Girls | System] At thirty-five, I was laid off, swindled out of my down payment by a marriage scammer, and saddled with a two-million-yuan mortgage. Just when I was at the end of my rope, a chime rang in my head. [Rebellious Girl Shelter System bound: Only spirited girls may move in. Two hundred yuan per person per day, paid instantly. No empty promises.] To everyone else, spirited girls were foul-mouthed troublemakers who smoked, drank, ran
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Reborn with a Terminal Illness, I Won’t Treat It This Time 绝症重生后，这病我不治了
One-on-one warmth and everyday life + leisurely travel [A heads-up: no backstabbing or face-slapping, no domineering CEO or powerhouse heroine, and no sweeping aside all opposition. This is a pure slice-of-life story.] In her previous life, Qiao Qian was diagnosed with an illness and diligently followed her treatment, but sadly, it did little good. Later, she decided to spend what time she had left seeing the world, only to get into a car accident… After being reborn, Qiao Qian decided not to se
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Tides of the Political Sea 宦海浮沉
No cheating spouse At the end of the day, every rule follows one fundamental principle: the strongest force gets to decide. This is the “meta-rule,” the rule that determines all other rules. The martial world isn’t all about fighting and killing; it’s about human relationships and social conventions. The same goes even more so for politics. Chen Bo is drawn into an unwinnable game of chess because of a debt he has no choice but to repay. He thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison, but
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A True Account of a Dangerous Affair: Let’s Get Divorced! 危情实录，我们离婚吧！
Xie Yuxuan and Zhou Qianyi have a loving marriage and a happy life. But trouble strikes out of nowhere: Xie Yuxuan accidentally discovers that Zhou Qianyi may be cheating, plunging their once-warm home into crisis. Xie Yuxuan loves his wife deeply and decides to give their love one last chance. Yet as he tries to deal with the marital crisis, he is shocked to find that his wife’s suspected affair is surrounded by layer upon layer of mystery and dark secrets. Before long, he is drawn into a botto
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At 30, Living in a Rental Room, the Fortune System Arrives 30岁在出租屋，财运系统降临
Also known as The Awakening of an Honest Man A tycoon story with a focus on everyday life. The protagonist doesn’t rake in hundreds of millions right from the start. Instead, he gradually builds his wealth by changing the way he thinks. For the first half of Shen Mo’s life, honesty and poverty were constant companions... One day, he was celebrating his thirtieth birthday alone in his rented apartment when a Fortune System suddenly appeared. From then on, one extraordinary encounter after another
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Yizhi Xiaoqi's 17th Book 一纸小旗第17本书
A country boy with superb medical skills lands a job at an electronics factory in the kingdom of women. From then on, there's no stopping him. With charm and skill to back him up, he thrives and rises to the pinnacle of life!
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Country Doctor: From the Start, I Broke Off My Engagement to a Nurse 乡村神医：开局退婚女护士
[Rural Miracle Doctor + Getting Rich + Comeback + Easygoing Daily Life + Personal Growth] Ling Jun came to Suhai City to study and work. After graduating from Suhai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he became a male nurse at Suhai Zhongtai Hospital. After more than ten years of hard work, he finally became chief physician in the hospital’s Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the age of 35. He bought a car and a house in Suhai City and married Hu Yanfang, his 25-year-ol
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She and Her Eating Disorder 她与厌食症
[Adapted from the author’s personal experience] 2019, senior year of high school: I start losing weight. 2020, the “results”: 168 cm tall, 42 kg. 2022: Binge eating, a sharp weight gain, dropping out of school, and admission to a psychiatric hospital. 2023: Moping around at home, bored out of my mind, I start documenting my struggle with food, body-image anxiety, my family of origin, and even fate itself. 2026: Life is slowly getting better. Looking back on that time, I’m still grateful for my o
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Fog City: The Swallow Scheme 雾城：燕子局
Fog City: The Swallow Scheme
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The Miracle Doctor of the Village 圣手小村医
Li Fan, a village doctor, unexpectedly gained the inheritance of a deity and began a life of unstoppable success. He holds life and death in his hands, and can turn the world upside down. Wealthy tycoons kneel and beg to befriend him, while local thugs and bullies turn and flee at the first sign of him. Li Fan lets out a long sigh. “I'm just a village doctor. I really don't want to make such a big show of myself!”
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Me and My Dongguan Sisters 我与东莞姐姐
[A Tale of Passion and Brotherhood] [Love and Longing] Gao Yang, a country boy with an uncanny talent, leaves his hometown for the first time! He heads to Dongguan to seek refuge with his older sister, only to discover that people are far more sinister than they seem. Through a series of coincidences, he ends up working in a factory, quickly rises through the ranks, and finds himself surrounded by romantic prospects. In the end, he gets dragged into a gang war and sets out on a path of no return
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True to Myself 本心
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
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I Killed Myself for You 杀了自己还给你
[Obsessive, domineering CEO, intensely possessive, business is a battlefield, marriage alliance] [Innocent bunny, devoted and faithful, conservative, redemption] Qin Ye had always kept Wen Hao, the sunny boy she'd met in high school, tucked away in her heart after losing her mother. Years after graduation, she turned down every chance at love, waiting for the day she might meet Wen Hao again. But when she finally did, and they got together and married just as she'd hoped, Qin Ye discovered that
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I Returned to School After Graduation to Work as a Security Guard, and My Teacher Became My Wife 毕业回校做保安，老师变老婆
[Urban slice of life, school life, sweet romance, light comedy, one female lead] As the saying goes, college graduates these days go straight into unemployment. Vocational colleges are everywhere, bachelor's degrees are a dime a dozen, and a good bachelor's degree is said to be no worse than a vocational degree. Gu Chang Geng didn't realize how true that was until he graduated. His parents had always told him that if he didn't study hard, he wouldn't be able to find a job. Only now did he realiz
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A Sleepless Night in Hangzhou 杭州夜未眠
After ten years of dating, seven years of marriage, and three years of failed IVF treatment, my wife, Lin Yue, took me to file for divorce on my thirtieth birthday. That day, I felt as though the whole world had abandoned me. But when I began to understand my ex-wife, Lin Yue, better, I realized things weren’t so simple.
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Take Me Home, Mr. Chu Xi! 带我归乡吧！楚夕先生
[No System] + [One Heroine] + [Not Overpowered] + [Slow-Paced] + [Everyday Life] + [Romance] “My little Xixi is such a clever child!” “This child is kind. Everyone who meets him likes him.” “Xixi, remember: take a hundred steps after a meal, and you’ll live to ninety-nine!” Whenever Chu Xi, caught up in the bustle of the city, felt restless, he would think back to the blessings his grandparents had given him. In the end, he quit his well-paid job, boarded a rural bus home, and moved into th
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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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The Girl I Found by the Road Is from the Late Ming Dynasty 路边捡到的少女竟来自明末
There’s no boastful face-slapping Dragon King plot here, only a gentle, slow-paced healing story about two people finding their way to each other. “You said you’re from the late Ming dynasty?” “You said this is modern times?” “Stay here. It’s a thousand times better than the late Ming.” “Thank you, White Porridge.” “No need to thank me, Xie Cai. Besides, my name is Bai Zhou, not White Porridge.” Aren’t people from ancient times supposed to be reserved? Why does the heroine keep being so
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I Became an Immortal in a Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院成仙
Eras turn, old gods fall, and new gods rise. This is the eternal cycle of the universe. The Heavenly Court, ruler of the universe in the Thirteenth Era, stole a fragment of the Origin of the Great Way and escaped the calamity that befell the old gods when the era changed. It sealed itself away in a remote corner of the universe: Earth. The Supreme Council, ruler of the universe in the Fourteenth Era, discovered that the Origin of the Great Way was incomplete and declared war on Earth. Thus began
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City of Sin 罪恶之城
After enduring constant humiliation, Richard learned from childhood to keep his suffering to himself. It wasn’t until his tenth birthday that he discovered his astonishing talent and extraordinary potential. From the moment he watched his mother leave, Richard stepped into another world, one of sin and glory, holiness and filth. In the City of Sin, he struggles to survive. Will he rise from the ashes or fall into depravity?
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Overlooking the Lighthouse 眺望灯塔
When love has become a thing of the past, it may be better to forget what came before, let others find happiness, and set yourself free. We once loved each other deeply, but neither of us knew how to make love work. I’m nothing like the person I used to be. These days, I don’t even love myself.
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My Eight Extraordinary Lives 我的八次奇妙人生
From childhood through adulthood, Li Ruxi has always been the “perfect child” others compare theirs to: a top student, always excelling. By the age of thirty, her family life seems happy enough, too. But in a single night, her life falls apart: she is terminally ill, with less than a year to live, and her husband may not be the man he appears to be. What will happen to her aging parents? What about her young son?
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Life in Linqu Town 临曲镇生活录
A person can shine on a grand stage or reflect on life in a quiet corner. Even ordinary people possess great wisdom. Facing life simply is a way of life in its own right. What will Wu Xia experience in the little town of Linqu? What twists and turns lie ahead in her life?
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From the Start, I Sold Beer, and a Goddess Undercover Agent Took Out the Hitmen 开局卖啤酒，女神卧底坑杀手
Volume One: How Many Undercover Agents Are There? (Realistic Arc) [Undercover agents + goddess + no saintly heroine or simping + realism + values + intelligence] [No simps, white lotuses, self-righteous do-gooders, or scheming green-tea girls] [No sugary romance or obsessive romance fantasies, and no white-porridge sisters or cake sisters] (Read the realistic arc first, then the wild-imagination arc. It's funny and fun!) A major city in the south is a city that never sleeps. At ten at night, the
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King of the Reverse Scales 逆鳞之王
My name is Wang Kaixuan, and I'm sixteen years old. If fate were a card table, I'd have been dealt the rotten hand nobody else wanted. My father broke his spine falling at a construction site and has been bedridden for three years. His medical bills drained our family's last bit of savings. My mother works the sewing machines at the town garment factory by day and strings beads for people at night. What she earns in a month isn't even enough to cover my father's painkillers for a week. I get up
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Fantasy Crests 幻想纹章
An unknown cosmic phenomenon causes countless parallel worlds to overlap, forcibly merging people, powers, and places from different dimensions into an entirely new world: the “New Realm.” Here, characters originally from different works coexist, and their powers, memories, and worldviews collide, sometimes sparking conflict. Amid this chaos, a mysterious organization called Akatsuki quietly rises to prominence. It was founded by Cui Xuanming from the future, whose codename is “Wuming.” Its aim
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Homecoming 有归
Tao Bujiang is swept through time by an accident and arrives forty years in the future, where she meets her own elderly self. The older woman has never married or had children, and is plagued by illness. Her life seems pretty miserable, doesn’t it? She lives in a special retirement home for “leftover women,” where she matches wits with the caregivers every day. They call her “the potty-mouthed old hag” and “a nightmare even for ghosts.” Maybe things are even worse than they seem? A novice in the
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Xiaohuan in Beijing 小寰在北京
[Urban Life + Entrepreneurship + No Saintly Heroine + No Simping + No Idiocy + Realistic + Humor + Intelligence] Xiaohuan in Beijing is a full-length novel. The novel tells the story of Zhao Xiaohuan, a man born in 1991, as he works and lives in Beijing. After graduating from university, he worked for two years in his hometown of Shenyang, but he never forgot the boast he had made in college: that he would become the richest man in the world. However, reality left him increasingly dispirited, an
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Us in Xiangyang Lane 向阳里的我们
[#Real life, #warm neighborhood stories, #healing family bonds, #raising a child and turning life around] Delivery worker Wang Xiaojun had a pain he couldn't put into words: his six-year-old son Xiaobao lived in his own world, like a star. One moment of carelessness nearly resulted in Xiaobao getting lost, sending the entire Xingfuli residential community into chaos. The incident tore open the cracks in Wang Xiaojun and his wife Li Xiujuan's strained marriage, while also revealing the troubles
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Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风
[Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn.
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Suspended from the Start? I Join the Discipline Inspection Team Instead 开局停职？我转投纪委调查组
His superior was investigated, his girlfriend cheated on him, and petty people conspired against him, forcing him to take a leave of absence. Yang Dong faced the darkest moment of his life from the start, but he was not nervous in the slightest, because he had already experienced it in his previous life. Having returned to 2008, he could deal with all of this more calmly. What he never expected was that the course of his life would change because of a single phone call. To save his superior, he
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Thirty Years of Turmoil in the Southwest 西南三十年风云
What is the jianghu? Some people might say it’s not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and social conventions. They’re wrong. Let me tell you: the jianghu is about having no say in your own fate. Once you enter the jianghu, you’re a doomed soul. My name is Chu Shanhe. I’ve spent nearly thirty years in the jianghu. I’ve been a low-ranking underling and led a gang. I traveled far to the borderlands of Lincang to face desperadoes, and at the height of my power, no one in the
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The Comeback: From Wage Slave to CEO 逆袭！从打工仔到总裁
This book tells the story of Lin Qiang, an 18-year-old from a rural village in northwest China. When his family was struck by sudden hardship, with his father seriously ill and debts piling up, he had no choice but to give up his place at a prestigious university. With just 200 yuan in his pocket, he set off alone for the prosperous coastal city of Donghai to make a living. He started out hauling bricks at construction sites, then seized opportunities to learn new skills and struggle through the
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Amnesia and the Mystery of Divorce 失忆，离婚谜情
I wake up in the hospital and discover that I’ve lost my memory. I contact my husband, only to find out that we’re divorced. Little by little, I discover that I have a boyfriend, and that my ex-husband has a child with someone else. But there are troubling questions behind all of it.
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Love at Forty 不惑爱情
Xu Anqin, a middle-aged woman, has a life that's a complete mess: a mother with dementia, a selfish older sister, in-laws full of schemes, and a husband who can't see the bigger picture. Everything fuels her anxiety. At the lowest point in her life, her rich and handsome first love reappears. Maybe there's another path she could take, but clearheaded as ever, Xu says, “I'm almost forty. How could I still be some domineering CEO's unattainable first love?” Before her divorce, life had backed her
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A Girl Is Crying in the Hallway 楼道有女孩在哭
A girl is crying in the hallway.
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Woman, Let Go of Me 女人，放开我
The goddess I’ve had a crush on for seven years actually asked me to keep her best friend company. How could I agree to that? Then a few videos took over the entire internet, and overnight I ended up with the nickname “gigolo.” Was it the collapse of human nature, or the decay of morality? Youth never ends, but women have completely wrecked mine. Are beautiful women really such a curse?
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The Master Perfumer 超品香水师
[Also known as: Urban Life: I’m the Only One Who Can Control Ghosts] [Wish-fulfillment] [Career] [Well-rounded male lead] The tearful rags-to-riches story of a total loser. A stunning female manager joins the factory. To his surprise, she turns out to be his new neighbor, and she often invites him over. From then on, he and the beautiful manager enjoy a shamelessly intimate life as neighbors. [Zhao Yang never dreamed that he would possess the special ability of a necromantic alchemist. He will a
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Wang Next Door Is a Good Man 隔壁王哥是好人
Childhood sweethearts marry, but more than a decade of affection cannot withstand two years of emotional exhaustion. When a marriage cannot be made to work, it becomes a source of wear and tear. This is a story about a young couple who find happiness separately after getting divorced. I’ve written a few books before, but none did well. This time, I started writing casually, just practicing whenever I felt like it. But as I went along, I thought it might be nice to try a different approach and wr
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The Tearless Orphan 弃儿无泪
Abandoned by her family at birth, she was passed from place to place before being adopted by her current parents. Her adoptive mother, determined to support the household, always tries to control her life. Her future is in danger of being ruined, she has no say in whom she marries, and even after starting a family, she will still be under their control. Though she is only a little girl and has already reached the lowest point in her life, she possesses a powerful soul. See how she uses her unyie
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Wuhan: My Live-In Heiress 武汉：我的同居大小姐
[Ordinary People Making a Comeback] [Urban Romance] [Moving Up the Social Ladder] [Growth and Reality] A small-town exam ace and an ordinary young man work diligently for three years, struggling to get by in society. He works hard for a car and a home, living a life whose end is already in sight. And yet he falls in love with a rich girl who is far beyond his reach. The X5 she drives costs as much as he earns in five years. By a chance twist of fate, he ends up living with another woman who will
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Confession Game: Eight Seats 坦白局:八个位置
Confession Game: Eight Seats
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A Few Things About Property Management 关于物业的二三事
Here, property management companies are miniature bureaucracies, homeowners' committees are battlegrounds for human nature, and residential communities are arenas where everyone's interests collide. Welcome to A Few Things About Property Management, an “industry-banned” novel that once sparked heated debate for being all too realistic. See how the protagonist, Chen Guang, a deputy general manager stripped of his authority, survives an impossible situation without relying on connections or playin
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When the Starlight Turns Back 星光回溯时
From a forgotten left-behind child to a military cadet at the National University of Defense Technology, his life is a comeback story written in blood and tears. He lost his mother at two and lived alone in an empty house at five. School bullying wore away his smile, and his desperate longing for friendship nearly drove him to the brink. But the harder life became, the more determined he was to climb his way out. When the words “National University of Defense Technology” took root in his heart,
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A Glimpse of Time in Quancheng 泉城拾光
A tale of youthful memories: the moments that touched our hearts back then, the days when we charged ahead with passion, and those carefree springtime hours. They have become a song forever etched into our lives...
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