Looking for Urban Life Novels That Feel Close to Reality 求都市生活，接近现实的

1. 851 冷 The Cold-Faced Officer's White Moonlight 冷面军官的白月光 Bai Zhe白柘Modern Romance98k WordsOngoing That night, they sat on the steps outside the photography studio, eating wontons. The July heat in Shanghai was stifling as a steamer, and cicadas poured their cries from the plane trees’ canopies, spreading them across the ground. Shen Zhi prodded a wonton with her chopsticks, then suddenly asked, “How did you get by during those two years in Yemen?” 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Urban life, real experience

2. 852 不 I Refused to Help with Corporate Fraud, and the Company Fired Me Overnight 不肯配合业务舞弊，我被公司连夜优化 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官33k WordsCompleted I refused to go along with business fraud, and the company laid me off overnight. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The first book recommended, adapted to the real city

3. 853 自 Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了 Qian Xiaqi钱夏七Modern Romance365k WordsCompleted Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri 31Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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   These books are all good and I recommend them to book lovers!

4. 854 从 From Nightclub Darling to Down-and-Out Ride-Hailing Driver 从夜场宠儿到落魄开网约车 BeardMan须根Man7k WordsCompleted From Nightclub Darling to Down-and-Out Ride-Hailing Driver —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Here comes [sending heart] [sending heart] [sending heart]

5. 855 被 After the Immortal Granny Controlled My Life for Half a Century, I Eloped with Her Doomed Daughter 被大仙妈操控半生，我带苦命她私奔了 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官8k WordsCompleted After the Great Immortal Matriarch controlled my life for half a lifetime, I eloped with her ill-fated daughter. —Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 856 婚 A Love Triangle in Marriage 婚姻里的三角恋 Qian Xiaqi钱夏七Modern Romance388k WordsCompleted [Contemporary realistic fiction + the married life of ordinary people in Beijing + love triangles in marriage + real struggles] Bai Xue and Wang Yang are a young married couple living in Beijing. Wang Yang is a typical “phoenix man,” a country boy who made it big in the city. After ten years of marriage, he cheats on her. After they divorce, Bai Xue meets another man, and her new life begins… What makes this book special: A woman faces betrayal in her marriage, but after the hardship comes 790Reads8.8Score104Shelves
7. 857 情 Half a Lifetime of Attachment 情结半生 A Page from Nanshan南山一页Modern Romance237k WordsCompleted [Naive First Love] + [Workplace Romance] + [One Woman, Three Men] + [Happy Ending for the First Love] Su Xiaoduo never imagined that the true love she believed in would fall apart before she made it to the altar. The workplace superior and lover who once doted on her turns out to have been hiding so many secrets... Her first workplace romance ends in failure. Just as she loses heart and flees to another city, a ray of warmth appears to comfort her... But fate refuses to show her mercy, taking th 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This realistic work is based on the love entanglement between the heroine Su Xiaoduo and the two male protagonists. It is absolutely close to life. There are ignorant first loves on campus, romances in the workplace, sweetness and abuse. Those who like it come to ask for help [Blow kiss] [Blow kiss] [Blow kiss]

8. 858 从 Starting with a Street Stall: My Entrepreneurial Journey 从摆摊起步，我的创业人生 BeardMan须根Man7k WordsCompleted Starting with a Street Stall: My Entrepreneurial Journey 27Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 859 为 I'd Happily Overturn the Three Realms for You 为你倾覆三界，我亦甘之如饴 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官11k WordsCompleted I'd gladly overturn the Three Realms for you. —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 860 都 Urban Temptations: Love, Intoxicating as Poison 都市诱惑，人间中毒 BeardMan须根Man9k WordsCompleted Urban temptation, intoxicated by life. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 861 遗 Estate Clearance Specialist: The Closet Holds a Deadly Mystery Three Years in the Making 遗物整理师：那间衣柜里，藏着三年死局 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官11k WordsCompleted The Estate Clearer: A Three-Year Deadlock Hidden in That Wardrobe —Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 862 别 Don’t Be Foolish, He Only Likes 18-Year-Old Girls 别傻了，他只喜欢18岁小妹妹 BeardMan须根ManUrban121k WordsCompleted “Ran, how long does it take to train like you?” Chen Nan asked curiously. His eyes shone with admiration and envy for Xiao Ran’s strength. Xiao Ran smiled faintly and replied with conviction, “I’m at Level Five of the Beginner Martial Arts rank now. I’ve been training for three whole years.” At that number, Chen Nan’s eyes widened in surprise. He murmured to himself, “It takes that long...” He seemed to feel a little pressure about the training that lay ahead. —Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 863 夜 Midnight Funeral Attendant: I Hear the Dying Words of the Dead 夜半宠殓师：我聆听亡魂临终遗言 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官8k WordsCompleted The Midnight Mortician: I Listen to the Dying Words of the Dead —Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 864 成 After Making a Comeback, My Ex-Wife Wants to Remarry Me 成功逆袭后，前妻找我复婚 Where Does My Heart Drift?心漂向何方Urban216k WordsCompleted Ding Peng and Fang Jia graduated from the same ordinary university and were among countless ordinary wage earners. They fell in love in college. Ding Peng was handsome, tall, and strong, while Fang Jia was gentle and beautiful, with a stunning figure. They built a happy family that everyone envied. Wherever they went, people admired them as a couple. Ding Peng had always been very clever. As a child, he watched martial arts movies and took up martial arts because he wanted to become a great hero 300Reads5.0Score—Shelves

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    Bread 🍞 or love/: heart, which one is more important? Fang Jia was really unbearable, living a life of three to four thousand yuan a month, not eating well, and starving to death. Looking at my husband who has no pursuit, no desire to make progress, and only plays games. She was frightened. These days were really coming to an end at a glance. Although Fang Jia deeply loved her husband Ding Peng, she filed for divorce without hesitation. Can Fang Jia really live the happy life she longs for? Is Ding Peng really worthless?

15. 865 一 A Gambling Addict's Return to the Right Path 一个网赌仔的浪子回头 BeardMan须根ManCompleted A Gambling Addict's Turnaround —Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 866 阴 Supernatural Affairs Broker: I Handle Ghostly Business for the Living 阴事中介：我帮活人办鬼事 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官13k WordsCompleted The Occult Affairs Broker: I Handle Ghostly Business for the Living —Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 867 2 The 27-Year-Old Beauty Boss Won’t Leave Me Alone 27岁美女老板赖上我 Brilliant as the Sun金辉万丈Urban266k WordsCompleted Wherever there are people, there are rivalries. On my first day at work, I ran into my beautiful 27-year-old boss, Tang Ruoran. We had only just met when she accused me of being the father of her daughter. Heaven knows, it was my first time meeting her! I asked for a paternity test, but the results showed that I really was her daughter's biological father. Watch as I turn the tables, uncover layer upon layer of mystery, and finally discover just how greedy human nature can be... 3.1kReads8.5Score117Shelves

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    All of them are realistic themes. The first one is a masterpiece that reveals all kinds of tricks. You can prevent cheating by reading it. The second book is the sequel to the first one and it is very exciting. The third one is about personal struggle. The last two books are both realistic themes and they are also very interesting.

18. 868 老 Honey, Why Are You Leaving? 老婆，你为什么要离开 Where Does My Heart Drift?心漂向何方Urban386k WordsCompleted After his wife went to Sichuan for a class reunion, she began treating her husband coldly. Their relationship had nearly reached the breaking point, leaving the husband, who loved her deeply, in unbearable anguish. At last, one day, his wife left. She left the city where they had lived for years, left the home they had shared for years, and went far away to Sichuan. Unable to bear life without his wife, and determined to understand why she had left, the husband kept wondering what had happened 1Reads5.8Score—Shelves
19. 869 我 My First Online Girlfriend 我的初恋女网友 BeardMan须根Man10k WordsCompleted My First Online Love —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 870 需 The Way of Demand: A Sales Mogul’s Journey 需求之道：销售大佬的来时路 Gazing Up and Down at the Galaxy俯仰星河Urban358k WordsOngoing Sales are the foundation of this world’s development! You might think I’m talking nonsense. What is the essence of sales? Exchanging what we have for what others want. Exactly: a transaction! Isn’t sales about making money? Money is just currency, a medium, a tool. Think about it: in your work, daily life, and studies, whenever you deal with people, what isn’t a transaction? At work, you trade your time, physical strength, and intelligence for a salary, bonuses, recognition, appreciation, self-f 33Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Surreal novel

21. 871 7 Reborn in 1978: My Ungrateful Children Want to Sell My House? Not a Chance! 78年重生，不孝儿女要卖我房？门都没有！ Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官Modern Romance13k WordsCompleted Reborn in 1978, and my unfilial children want to sell my house? Not a chance! —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 872 荒 A Ridiculous Life: Winning Back, Loving, and Cherishing My Wife 荒唐人生之追妻，爱妻，宠妻 Where Does My Heart Drift?心漂向何方Modern Romance154k WordsCompleted Fang Yong had loved watching wuxia and gangster movies and TV shows since he was a child, and they had deeply influenced him. He admired the martial arts of the heroes and their code of brotherhood. He roamed the streets, thinking he was a hero, but people had long since written him off as a street thug. Still, he had kept his kind and upright heart. One day, a beautiful girl named Su Xin suddenly appeared in his life and insisted on marrying him. They got married, and only afterward did Fang Yo 4Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 873 金 A Golden Radiance, Book 21 金辉万丈第21本书 Brilliant as the Sun金辉万丈Urban537k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads6.7Score—Shelves
24. 874 我 I Want to Be Rich 我要做个有钱人 BeardMan须根ManUrban107k WordsCompleted In 2023, Lin Hua was buried in debt because of the mask shortage during the pandemic. While hiking on Baiyun Mountain, he heard a debt collector harassing him over the phone. He accidentally fell from a high stairway near the summit and crashed into Chen Nan, a simpleton. Their souls switched bodies. There was no transmigrate, no System, no reborn, and no golden finger. It was simply an ordinary soul swap between two people, in a story of urban life, entrepreneurship, romance, and messy love and 18Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 875 曹 Caojiagou Shadow Puppetry: The Shadows Have Not Faded 曹家沟皮影：皮影未凉 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官22k WordsCompleted Caojiagou Shadow Puppetry: The Shadows Have Not Yet Faded —Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 876 雨 Rain Falling on the Sound of Books 雨落书声 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官15k WordsCompleted Rainfall and the Sound of Reading —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 877 不 I Didn't Want to Work in a Factory, So I Became a Security Guard 不想进厂打螺丝，选择干保安 BeardMan须根Man6k WordsCompleted Didn't Want to Work on an Assembly Line, So He Became a Security Guard 2Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 878 我 I’m a Psychiatric Patient, Yet You’re Sending Me to Slaughter Pigs 我一个精神病人，你却让我去杀猪 Brilliant Splendor1金辉万丈1Urban115k WordsOngoing I’m a mentally ill man, and I’m also the village butcher. I make a living slaughtering pigs for people. One night, I passed by the village chief’s house and noticed the lights were still on. Curious, I peered through a crack in the door and saw… —Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 879 重 Reborn, I Refuse to Be My Brother's Cash Cow: A Fearless Soldier Defends Her Country 重生拒当扶弟魔，飒爽女兵守山河 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官20k WordsCompleted Reborn, She Refuses to Be Her Brother's Cash Cow: A Fearless Soldier Defends Her Homeland —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 880 二 A Twenty-Year-Old College Student Falls for a Middle-Aged Security Guard 二十岁女大学生爱上保安大叔 BeardMan须根ManModern Romance11k WordsCompleted A 20-year-old college student falls in love with a middle-aged security guard. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 881 禾 The Language of He Flowers 禾之花语 33 Xiaoyu33小语Modern Romance312k WordsCompleted A love story about Ye Xihe, a talented and beautiful landscape architect who cares for her older brother, Ye Chen'an, who was born with autism, as they both search for true love... Because of her brother's condition, she was hurt and abandoned. Zheng Jiawei does everything he can to win back the pure love he and Ye Xihe have shared since their school days... Zhou Ye, Ye Xihe's second older brother and someone she considers family, remains devoted to protecting the Ye family... Because of her fam 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The secret and hot emotional rhythm, staying with love in ordinary real life, touches people's hearts. It is recommended to friends who like delicate writing.

32. 882 财 The God of Wealth Appeared in My Dream and Gave Me Fifty Million 财神爷托梦给我打了5000万 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官6k WordsCompleted The God of Wealth appeared in my dream and deposited 50 million yuan into my account —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 883 我 I Made My Start in Real Estate 我做房地产中介起家 BeardMan须根Man7k WordsCompleted I Got My Start as a Real Estate Agent 4Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 884 败 I Squandered a Hundred Billion, Jumped Off a Cliff, and Reborn 败光百亿家产跳崖自杀后我重生了 Ninth Heaven's Sun九天之日Urban821k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Business Warfare + Tycoon + Capital + Industry + Atonement] Qin Muyang, a spoiled young master, inherited the family business after his father died of liver cancer. He squandered the billion-yuan fortune built up over two generations, beginning with his grandfather. His mother, utterly disappointed, took sleeping pills and killed herself. His younger sister was mocked until she became depressed and jumped off a building. Only when he drove off a mountaintop in a thunderstorm, intendin 397Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    Urban rebirth, more down-to-earth

35. 885 奥 Aobiao Bula's Third Book 奥德彪不拉的第3本书 Aodebiao Doesn't Carry Bananas奥德彪不拉香蕉Urban240k WordsCompleted The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up over time. Feel free to listen and read! [First Person] [Based on Real Experience] [Everyday Urban Life] This book recounts the true story of an ordinary person who stumbled into online gambling. At first, he joined in thinking he could get lucky. But the lure of winning and losing drew him in deeper and deeper, until his savings were gone, he was buried in debt, and his life sank step by step into a dark abyss. He endured the pain of being 4.2kReads6.7Score111Shelves

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    The author's own experience is real enough, right?

36. 886 日 Day After Day 日子一天又一天 Mu Yushu木雨书Modern Romance451k WordsCompleted In the 1980s, two families lived across the street from each other: the Sun family, led by Sun Lanying, and the Chen family, led by Chen Guangtian. On a snowy morning, a teacher from Zicheng No. 1 High School arrived at the Sun family’s home, disturbing their usual peace. The eldest daughter, Ding Hong, ran away with Gao Yong, a married man, and her younger sisters were drawn into the fallout… Across the street, Chen Guangtian suddenly died of a heart attack. His wife, Liu Jinfeng, clashed with 12.4kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves

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    It's both books.

37. 887 她 Her Age of Intelligence 她的智能时代 Wangzai's Cat Butler旺仔的铲屎官34k WordsCompleted Her Intelligent Era —Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 888 外 The Legend of a Food Delivery Guy 外卖小哥的传说 BeardMan须根Man7k WordsCompleted The Legend of a Food Delivery Guy —Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 889 有 A Glimmer of Light 有一抹光亮 Mu Yushu木雨书Two Female Leads185k WordsCompleted Men and women come and go in this world, like a ceaseless river. Liu Fang, a sixteen-year-old girl from the countryside, was chased away by her father and uncle after sneaking a bite of a white-flour bun. Meanwhile, Zheng Nan, twenty-seven and living in the city, was struggling to stay afloat in the whirlpool of survival and marriage. Liu Fang was determined to make a life for herself in the city, and was willing to trade her young body for it again and again. Zheng Nan wanted her husband, who k 478Reads8.2Score—Shelves
40. 890 婷 Sister Ting's Love Story 婷姐的爱情故事 BeardMan须根Man8k WordsCompleted Sister Ting’s Love Story 7Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 891 打 The Circle That Can't Be Broken 打不破的圈子 False Words and False Talk假言假语Urban130k WordsCompleted While raising his cup in toast after cup and indulging in every pleasure, the protagonist, Zhen Yucun, loses his head and does many absurd and laughable things. He believes that eating and sexual desire are human nature, and in pursuit of fleeting affection, he disregards ethics and social order. In the end, he is ruined and disgraced, his family destroyed, and his life ends in tragedy. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Very realistic and worth watching

42. 892 都 Everyday Life in the City: A Rich Heir in Beijing 都市日常：富二代在京城 Xu Qifeng徐奇峰Urban1.6M WordsCompleted "Love in the Mortal World: My Wild Wife in the Capital" My name is Tang Feng. I used to be a combat sports athlete and achieved some impressive results. After retiring, I started a new life. I came to the capital to experience life, embarking on a winding, realistic, and thrilling journey. From the start, I shared a rental apartment. The landlady would later become my wife. She was beautiful and wild. 5.9kReads8.7Score428Shelves

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    Daily life in the city, male coach, rich, really good-looking, don't be dissuaded by the ratings

43. 893 负 The Negative-Equity Lovers 负资产恋人 Wuchuan Wind五川风Urban171k WordsOngoing (A work of realism. The story starts slowly, but its impact builds.) A middle-class man in his thirties is hit by the property bubble’s collapse. With his assets shrinking and his marriage all but over, I had planned to give up and lie flat in this city. Until one day, Lin Shu, a fragile-looking college girl full of contradictions, barged into my chaotic life under the guise of a mysterious tenant. She’s sensitive and vulnerable, yet has an instinct for influencer culture that runs deep. To put 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    There are not many readers and writers like you [laughing and crying] then read this realist masterpiece

44. 894 暗 Light in the Dark Abyss: A Boy and a Heiress’s Road to Redemption 暗渊逢光：少年与千金的救赎之路 Falling for a Big Fool爱上大笨蛋Urban111k WordsCompleted [Urban]+ [No Harem]+ [No System]+ [Heiresses]+ [Love and Hate]+ [Slice of Life]+ [Personal Growth] The deepest love in the world is when someone accompanies you through the darkest stretch of your life, then does everything in their power to pull you out, even at the cost of being left covered in scars. And yet, in the end, they were only ever passing through. The story begins with a hopeful question: “Do you still remember me?” It ends the same way, only this time, we both hope we’ve forgotten —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The subject matter is really special, somewhere between campus literature and urban literature, but it's really the kind that makes you laugh when you look at it, and makes you cry when you smile.

45. 895 我 I Sold Used Cars and Earned My First Fortune 我做二手车，赚了人生第一桶金 BeardMan须根Man6k WordsCompleted I Made My First Fortune Selling Used Cars 36Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 896 家 The Househusband Who Lives Off His Wife 家庭主男，软饭硬吃 BeardMan须根Man6k WordsCompleted A Househusband Living Off His Wife, and Loving It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 897 高 After the College Entrance Exam, He Wants a Divorce to Run to His White Moonlight 高考后，他要离婚奔赴白月光 Milana from the Divine Origin Palace神元皇宫的米拉娜9k WordsCompleted After the Gaokao, He Wants a Divorce So He Can Rush Off to His One True Love 1Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 898 都 The Urban Hunt 都市围猎 Night Talks of the Jianghu夜语江湖Urban344k WordsOngoing This story follows the tangled struggles over power, profit, and desire within modern corporations. Everyone is a hunter, and everyone is prey. In the end, justice catches up with them: each person is destroyed by the consequences of their own actions. Then a new hunt begins somewhere else. The novel features a large cast of characters, and the author has done their best to pack a miniature society into its pages. 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is not about approaching reality, but about showing real life like a video.

49. 899 我 A Million in Debt: Starting Over 我负债一百万之重头再来 BeardMan须根Man7k WordsCompleted I Was Buried in a Million Yuan of Debt, Then Started Over —Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 900 开 After Getting Fired, I Maxed Out God-Tier Traits Just by Breathing 开除后，我靠呼吸刷爆神级词条 Moon-Devouring Sky Wolf噬月天狼Urban650k WordsOngoing Just after getting laid off, I was told that my breathing could put labels on anything? Stick “Indestructible” on a pair of flip-flops and they can go toe-to-toe with a Ferrari. Stick “Never Misses” on a slingshot and you can knock a rich kid’s drone out of the sky from three blocks away. Stick “Friend to Animals” on the stray dog downstairs, and the next day every cat and dog in the neighborhood will come guard my home. - Ex-girlfriend: Lu Chen, I was wrong. Let’s get back together! - Me: Oh, l 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Who would have understood, my family, that the protagonist, unemployed and heartbroken, unexpectedly unlocked a god-level entry and became the lord of the old street. His ex and rich second generation came to visit and were dumbfounded.

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