Looking for Urban Life Novels That Feel Close to Reality 求都市生活，接近现实的
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I'm Azhen: One Livestream to Tear Apart Atao's Hundred-Billion Empire 我是阿珍，一场直播手撕阿涛的千亿帝国
I'm A-Zhen. I tore apart A-Tao's trillion-yuan empire during a livestream.
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My 26-Year-Old Rich Woman 我的26岁富婆
“Everyday realism” + “A small-town underdog’s rise” + “A wealthy woman’s tangled past” This story follows Qi Lan, a down-on-his-luck young man from a small town, and the strange experiences he shares with Chen Cheng, a wealthy 26-year-old woman. My name is Qi Lan. I never imagined that I’d get rich overnight. A cold, wealthy woman has somehow moved into my house. What am I supposed to do? What’s more, I’m a pure-hearted virgin. Surely I can’t be expected to offer myself to her? As an upstanding
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Moonlight over Goddess Lake 女神湖的月光
As modern pollution encroaches on the home of the gods, a Mosuo girl who refuses to accept her fate and a young man who relies on science must join forces. By bringing modern science and technology into harmony with traditional culture, they must restore vitality and help humanity and nature thrive together.
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- 654 She Went Crazy After Falling for a Young Hunk 恋上小鲜肉后，她疯了。 She went crazy after falling for a young heartthrob. 18Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Country Bumpkin’s Triumphant Comeback 山村匹夫强势逆袭
[Period] [Mountain Village] [Daily Life] [Realistic] [Comeback] Everyone says coptis root is bitter, but his childhood was even more bitter. A mountain village, a beautiful young widow, and a boy: together, they write a new chapter in their fates.
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Two Abnormal Humans and a Motorcycle 两个非正常人类与摩托车
Love that defies social norms has often been seen as a symbol of courage and freedom, admired and celebrated. This is the one kind of love people will always despise. This is not a novel, just a story from real life. There are no thrills, no climaxes, no pacing, only despair and oppression. It might be of some small help to people who truly love motorcycles, but be prepared to be mocked. This story has an unconventional outlook on life, values, and the world, and portrays a world of abnormal peo
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My Food Deliveries Are So Good, the Young Moms Won't Leave Me Alone 外卖太香，少妇妈妈们缠着我不放
(Multiple heroines + everyday life + college + urban life + all-around delivery rider + sister-in-law) “Ding-dong! Ms. Tang, your delivery is here.” Mu Changsheng, dressed in his delivery uniform, knocked on the door, holding a takeout order in his hand. “Just leave it by the door!” A pleasant female voice came from inside. Mu Changsheng gently set the food down outside. Just as he was about to turn and leave, the door suddenly opened, and Ms. Tang stepped out in her pajamas. “Hey, young man, wa
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We Are Each Other's Time 我们互为时光
You are the road I have walked, and I am the poem you have read. Lin Zhixia and Cheng Yan, from the age of eighteen to thirty-eight. One went to Beijing, while the other stayed in the county town. One became a journalist, the other a photographer. One lost herself in marriage, while the other found herself again as she cared for her mother. Twenty years: Fourteen handwritten letters One hundred and thirty-two photographs Countless late-night phone calls That same photograph together every Spr
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Tang Tiantian Meets the Third Young Master of the Mo Family 糖甜甜遇莫家三郎
When she was five, her mother died by suicide after battling cancer and depression. When he was ten, his parents divorced because of their troubled relationship. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, he was dumped by his girlfriend when he proposed. He then shut himself away in S City and spent six years writing online novels. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, she became a high school teacher in S City, only to be driven out of her home by her stepmother. Two people from trou
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A Japanese Travelogue: Meeting Sakura, My Blind Senpai 日本旅行物语：遇见盲学姐樱咲
This is a story about a fourteen-day summer graduation trip, and meeting a blind Japanese girl. Her name is Ono Sakurasaki. Her eyesight is poor, but she can make out colors. We first met at the airport, then traveled to many places together: the wind on the Enoden, the night beside the Kamo River, flowers atop a mountain in Nara, and the sight of her standing before Mount Fuji in a milky-white dress. I thought it was just a trip. Only later did I realize I was learning how to say goodbye.
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I Was Once Dust in His Eyes 我曾是他眼中的尘埃
What can ten years change? Over ten years, Su Ran went from a nine-square-meter subdivided room in Shanghai Hongqiao to the floor-to-ceiling windows on the twenty-sixth floor in Lujiazui. It also took her ten years to go from a girl everyone saw as dust to the light of her own world. She met many people. Wu Kai said, “I’ll take care of you,” then disappeared into the crowd. Zhang Peng said, “We need to fight side by side,” then turned and walked away. Gong Ruixin said, “My mother wants me to fin
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I’m Going to College: I Break the Chains and Escape the Cruel Den 我要上大学：劈断铁链逃离恶毒窝
[This isn't fiction. These are countless girls waiting for daylight. Any one of them could have been one of us!] At six, her own mother shoved her head into a bucket of urine. At thirteen, she was chained up in a pigpen. At seventeen, she cut through the chain and fled into the mountains. This isn't a horror movie. It's Lin Xiaoman's everyday life. In a mountain village where sons matter more than daughters, her father drinks, her mother is deranged, her little brother is treated like royalty,
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The Distance of Love Is Just Right 爱的距离刚刚好
Yu Kai saw the morning light streaming through the skylight fall across Qi Ji's face. Her eyes lowered slightly, and her long lashes veiled them like a mist. Her smooth forehead, straight, graceful nose, and faintly upturned lips formed a delicate, alluring profile in the sunlight. With her gaze lowered yet oblivious to everyone around her, she walked briskly past Yu Kai toward the South District office, her steps light but purposeful. A breeze followed in her wake, lifting her shoulder-length s
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Night Patrol in Nirvana 泥洹夜巡
At a quarter past four in Chinatown, Jie Shu pushed open the restaurant's back door and crouched beside a huge gray dumpster, smoking. Sunlight reflected off the glass curtain walls of the office buildings, illuminating scraps of raw meat on her apron. Her figure, misshapen from eating too much junk food, cast a shadow on the asphalt that looked just like a Russian nesting doll. She might have almost forgotten that while she was inhaling nicotine in great gulps, she was also breathing in the ste
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The A-Share Market Is My ATM A股就是我的提款机
[Urban life + stock trading + corporate warfare + play the pig to eat the tiger] (The protagonist isn’t invincible, there’s no System, and the story isn’t brainless. It also doesn’t teach stock market technical analysis. The protagonist trades solely through investment strategies, so read with caution if that bothers you!) On the surface, Luo Feng is a carefree, irreverent internet traffic specialist. In reality, he leads a crowd of hot-money investors and retail traders. His favorite way to spe
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Finding a Divine Realm Communicator Made Me Rich Overnight 捡个神界通讯器，一夜暴富
After his girlfriend betrays him, a loser throws away his ring in a fit of rage, only for a member of the Divine Realm to fall from the sky. Fatally wounded, the visitor leaves behind a Divine Realm communicator. Using the communicator, the protagonist gets rich overnight, turns his life around, and embarks on a mega-rich lifestyle. But in the process, he also racks up a mountain of romantic debts.
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Scarlet Lips 烈焰红唇
After eight years on the job, Chen Dalong is still just an office clerk. He gets caught up in a power struggle among the company’s top executives and becomes a pawn. Then his wife cheats on him, his friends betray him, and his future looks bleak. But after he inadvertently helps his female boss, a shake-up in personnel changes everything... He rises through the ranks and becomes the most sought-after man around!
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My Husband Advocated for a Child-Free Life, Yet Had a Child with Someone Else 主张丁克的老公，却和别人有了孩子
Her husband was all for being child-free, but he had a child with someone else.
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- 669 Rising Step by Step in Middle Age 人到中年：步步高升 Cheng Dawei has offended his beautiful boss and is constantly being targeted by her. He never expected that one good deed would turn his luck around and send him climbing the career ladder. From a nobody in the company whom everyone bullied, he rises to become the darling everyone fawns over and curries favor with... 823Reads8.7Score10514d adds
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One Glance, A Lifetime of Love 一次回眸，一世情
[Workplace Romance] + [Modern Romance] + [Family] + [Love at First Sight] + [Secret Crush] This is a tangled love story between one woman and three men. Ouyang Bo, a top student from a prestigious university, gives up his promising future to follow her to a remote mountain village and continue a love they both chose. Cheng Xi, the city’s top official, remains true to his first love for twenty years, letting the feelings sparked by their first meeting deepen into a profound love. Rich and handso
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I'm Good! Please Don't Hurt Me! 我很乖！请你不要来伤害！
[Contemporary fiction] [Ensemble of women] [Scheming] [Red and Black] [Playing dumb while taking down enemies] [Clear-eyed heroine] A must-read for anyone born in the seventies, eighties, or nineties! This is a northern take on The Red and the Black, set in a glittering world of fame and fortune where everyone wears a false mask. The heroine seems sweet and obedient on the surface, but she sees things more clearly than anyone! She can live without love, but not without money! She can put up with
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My Company Refuses to Pay, So I Fight Back 公司赖账我反击
I simply fronted 9,999 yuan for a proposal on behalf of my company. My manager said to pay it first and claim reimbursement later. The company used the project, but then said I hadn't gotten approval. When my contract expired, they pressured me into signing a blank form, trying to make it look like I'd left “for personal reasons” and “resigned voluntarily.” Worse, they told prospective employers during background checks that I'd had a dispute over expenses, was difficult to communicate with, and
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We’ll Always Love Our Innocent Selves Most 永远最爱懵懂的我们
Wang Yuxin, a post-85s college student and top Chinese-language major, is fair-skinned, beautiful, and exceptionally talented. Her admirers form a line all the way to the United Nations, but she always stays true to herself. Before long, she graduates and enters the workplace, gets married, becomes a mother, and turns into a housewife for the sake of her child. But she never loses herself. Instead, she works hard to improve, eventually becoming a writer! As she grows and takes on the arena of l
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The Inn by the Leaves 路过叶子的客栈
Eight stories of love and longing, some sweet, some heartbreaking, some magical, some moving... The First Leaf: Xia Jiu'er doesn't just eat so many of Master A Nan's delicious tea snacks that he wins her stomach, he wins her heart too. When she falls in love, she throws caution to the wind. Is the one she meets her true love, or something other than human? The Second Leaf: Art student Feiyu's chance encounter over orange juice is beautiful, yet inexplicably tinged with regret... Better to chase
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I’m a Heartbreaker, So What? 我是渣女，我怕谁
If no amount of hard work can change your fate, what’s the point of striving? What good is hard work? You might as well throw away your conscience. That’s the only way to live well, though you may end up bringing disaster upon yourself. By the time you regret it, it’ll be too late. There’s no cure for regret in life!
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Fading Lights Upon the Sea 海上灯火阑珊
This is a story about music, dreams, and love. Yang Cheng, a musician who left his hometown of Shanghai for Beijing, staking everything on his dream, was crushed by powerful industry interests, betrayed by his lover, and had his work stolen. His heart completely broken, he slunk back home. After withdrawing from the noise and ruins of the music scene, he couldn't bring himself to return to his family and lived alone in a rented place, sinking into despair. In the apartment he shared with others,
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- 677 The Zhar Woman’s Struggle 渣女的奋斗 A beautiful young woman refuses to become anyone's kept woman. When she faces a string of sinister schemes, she unexpectedly finds a benefactor. By a twist of fate, she escapes the danger of being framed. Hoping to change her circumstances, she runs into troublesome relatives, then heads abroad to work and build a better life. There are outrageous twists, nerve-racking schemes, fights for survival, and deceitful deals. She not only finds love and happiness, but also makes a great success of hers 32Reads6.4Score—14d adds
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In the Midnight Rain 极夜微雨时
[Lone Wolf Hacker of the Endless Night × Audit Queen Who Works Quietly Behind the Scenes | Two Strong Leads, Mutual Healing | Fated Romance Amidst Love for Country] In Manlan’s perpetually hot and humid rainy season, an unexpected downpour sends two paths that should never have crossed crashing together. Ye Xiao, codenamed Y, is a top hacker who moves through the lightless dark web, a solitary operator driven by fierce patriotism. His fingertips can tap out code capable of bringing down the worl
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- 679 Escaping a Life Under Someone Else’s Control 逃离被控制的人生 My parents divorced. My sister went with my father, while I followed my mother into her new marriage. Then Mom had a son. My biological father keeps hounding me, always wanting me to change my name and take his surname. I took my stepfather’s surname, but when I need money, there’s no one there for me. I can only keep going on my own. All I want is to escape a life where I’m controlled. 26Reads—Score—14d adds
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Summer and Fate 夏季与天意
An ordinary encounter: one is a talented young woman at a crossroads in her life, and the other is a dedicated high school teacher. A sweet story about down-to-earth life and love. Xu Huanyi met Xu Tian in the summer. Once lost and uncertain, she gave up the job she already had and came to this small town for a fresh start. To her delight, she discovered that Xu Tian was part of that new beginning. Back in high school, Xu Tian had inexplicably taken a liking to a girl, though all he did was wa
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The Twelfth Second 第十二秒
Nine years ago, she vanished without a trace while pregnant, leaving him only one clue: an eleven-second phone call to his police station, and a longing she never got to express. Nine years later, a strange warning call and two photographs of her set ablaze the longing he had buried for so long. As the police investigate and he makes inquiries of his own, a flood of astonishing secrets and buried memories comes to light. Through layer upon layer of mist, her face gradually emerges... Once, t
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The Irresistible Her 魅力迷人的她
I worked hard day in and day out for my family and my wife, never imagining she would cheat on me. Now that I've been made a cuckold, I'm going to rewrite my life and turn things around, so my wife can see that even without her, I can still have beautiful women by my side.
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- 683 The Scoundrel's Struggle 人渣奋斗史 I came with nothing and leave loaded with everything. Conscience? What a useless piece of shit. I ditched it ages ago. Kindness is for God; evil is what belongs in this world. Sure, I didn't get much schooling, but I'm not asking for much. I just want a good life. I had nothing to begin with, so what have I got to fear? Just do it! 283Reads8.2Score—14d adds
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Four Seasons in the Mountain City 山城四季
2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the Three Gorges Dam beginning to store water. The Three Gorges migrants of that time left their hometowns with reluctance and hope, and years later, some returned for one reason or another. Xiao Ying was born in the reservoir region and moved to another province with her family as a young child. After graduating from university, she worked in Beijing, but when a misdiagnosis led her fiancé’s family to look down on her, she angrily called off their engagement.
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A Mindless Farce Between a Doctor and a Security Guard 大博士和小保安的无脑之戏
With the Lunar New Year approaching, the annual matchmaking pressure arrived right on schedule. Su Qingyi, a PhD graduate from a prestigious university, was hounded by her family to get married. She was over thirty and still single. On the campus of Jinghua University, she ran into Lu Yuan, a fellow hometown native and former soldier who now worked as a security guard. They were around the same age and in similar situations, both overwhelmed by their families’ pressure to marry. To appease their
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- 686 A Scoundrel's Ambition 人渣的野心 Being honest and keeping your head down gets you nowhere. You get framed, slandered, and made to take the fall, then have no choice but to work for others. You toil like a fool and get bullied without a word. When dumb luck finally makes you rich, anyone who looked down on me can expect to regret it. Benevolence and morality are bullshit. The only right thing is to make sure you can live a good life. 159Reads8.0Score—14d adds
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I Reincarnated as Sha Zhu, and From the Start It Was a Night of Passion with Lou Xiaoe 魂穿傻柱开局是与娄晓娥的销魂夜
Haiwang Tong Yajun's soul transmigrates into Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan. From the start, it is the very night Lou Xiao'e is about to flee to Hong Kong with her parents and gives herself to He Yuzhu! Lou Xiao'e leaves without a word, and the jade bangle she leaves behind for Silly Zhu is accidentally stained with blood, turning into a portable pocket dimension that helps him grow and make progress in the Siheyuan... The former Haiwang now has Qin Shuiru, Yu Li, Qin Jingru, Ran Qiuye, Yu Haitang, a
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Running Toward the Far Side of the Mountain 向山那边奔跑
Why we recommend it: This is an uplifting novel for young readers... A story that helps children develop a better understanding of growing up. Life is full of all kinds of challenges, and this book teaches readers how to think clearly and face them with optimism and a positive attitude… Synopsis: The protagonist, Xiaoyong, grew up without a father, born at the foot of the mountains and subjected to endless humiliation. He has many battles of wits along the way. The brief time he spends livin
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The Thief's Way 贼道
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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- 690 Just Tell Me, Do You Regret It? 就问你后不后悔 I take life and death in stride. If you won’t back down, then let’s fight. I’ll keep at it until you give in. Just tell me, do you regret it yet? You don’t? Fine, then we’ll keep going. I refuse to believe you’ll never regret it! I may die on some distant road, but I absolutely won’t die without having gone there! I’d rather die in all my glory than ever surrender! 91Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 691 The City's Ultimate Player in Love 都市情场高高手 Lao Liu, an urban office worker, unexpectedly runs into the girl he had a crush on as a teenager. After much hesitation, he decides to pursue his youthful dream. Through a twist of fate, he ends up meeting his dream girl’s cousin by accident. Caught between the two women, he is confused and carried away by his feelings, yet too timid to act... 445Reads9.4Score10514d adds
- 692 Unnecessary Desire 非必要情动 Four women: Shen Jun, Yun Mei, Yang Lanlan, and Bai Jie. Faced with the ambiguities of the internet age, the complexities of the real world, betrayal in marriage, and unspoken rules in the workplace, they are all trapped in a vast web… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 693 A Scoundrel’s Repentance 人渣的忏悔 I was born into poverty and grew up through one hardship after another. My heart had died, but I had no regrets. An unexpected stroke of luck turned my life around and let me experience a different kind of life. If there is another life, I would never be reincarnated as a human again, because this world is too terrifying! 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 694 Setting the Trap 做局 A mastermind uses the martial world as a game board and people as pawns. Those drawn into the game are at their mercy. My grandfather was a Feng Shui master and a master schemer, yet he died after a charlatan set him up. My father was killed, my mother took her own life after being humiliated, and I ended up in prison. To avenge my family, I joined the Golden Sect and became a charlatan myself, rising to become a master strategist. I’ve set countless schemes in my life. Living schemes and deadly 16.9kReads9.1Score1.8k14d adds
- 695 A Female Agent's Soul Lands in a Little Beggar, Who Makes Medicine to Save Lives 女特工魂穿小乞丐炼药救人 Ling Lan, a 22nd-century female agent, transmigrates into the body of a little beggar named Ling Lan and saves lives through her mastery of medicine. The moment Ling Lan opens her eyes, a bully is trying to steal her food. She counters with a series of martial arts moves and teaches him how to behave. She secretly refines an antidote in a corner of a dilapidated temple, only to amaze a passing medicine merchant with her skill. When an epidemic breaks out in the capital, one prescription saves co —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 696 A Mature Couple (Originally Titled: Thirty Like a Wolf, Forty Like a Tiger) 熟龄夫妻（原名：三十如狼，四十如虎） Twenty years ago, when Yang Cuiling left her family in Huluwan to marry into the Wang family in Caiyuan, she never imagined that she would one day become involved with a man other than her husband, Deng Jinzhu. She still believed what the older generation always said: marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog; marry a carrying pole and hold on to it. Through all the ups and downs, warmth and cold, bitterness and sweetness of life, you simply stay with him. But a seri 5.6kReads9.3Score48814d adds
- 697 Qin Ling’er’s Cultivation Journey 秦灵儿修仙 In the Qin Family Silk Shop in Linjiang City, Qin Linger led an ordinary life, keeping the books and managing the stock, until a demonic tide swept through the city one day and claimed the lives of her loved ones, shattering her peaceful routine. Just then, news spread through town that Tianyun Sect was recruiting disciples. When her parents heard the neighbors say that cultivating immortality was harder than climbing to heaven, they tried to stop her from signing up. But Qin Linger was determin 57Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Cruel Mother, a Broken Home, and Me, Unbroken 狠心的妈，破碎的家，不屈的我
[Male-Oriented, Rural, Family, Comeback, Power Fantasy, Inspirational] Abandoned by his own mother, abused by his stepmother, and struck by his father's sudden misfortune. Su Yang, a poor boy from the mountains, has been left battered by his family's cruelty. With no one to lean on and no support to count on, he can only fight his own way to survival. He studies hard, weathers turmoil on campus, and makes his way in the business world. His heartless relatives come crawling back to latch onto his
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A Bewitching Beauty: My Wild, Chaotic Romance 红颜祸水:我的迷乱野情
Chen Man leaves the mountains to seek refuge with his widowed sister-in-law, but the glittering, decadent city soon leaves him lost. Starting as a bar bouncer, he climbs step by step to the top. Along the way, a glamorous female boss and others gather around him...
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Together Until the End 与子同归
The heroine never stops striving. From home to abroad, her love finally bears fruit, and her career flourishes. But she never expected that a man who couldn’t have her would scheme relentlessly, setting trap after trap... Unable to bear leaving the human world, the heroine is forced to return to the ranks of the immortals. Life is merely an interlude designed by some System. In the end, dust returns to dust, and earth to earth.
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