Looking for Urban Novels About Real Life 广求现实生活的都市小说
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Making Money on the Side! 捞偏门！
[After graduating from college, I went from a shady fortune-teller to a political fixer] This book pulls back the curtain on political fixers, giving you an in-depth look at the scams hidden from view in both the underworld and the corridors of power. “Do you think officials are all fools? They know I’m a con artist. They just happen to need a con artist like me to do things for them.”
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Adopted Son, Part Two 过继二
[Wealth + power plays] [Reality + perseverance] [Life + passion] [Love + living] A man must be as tough as iron, but also as resilient as steel. Only then can he face the harshness of reality and the twists of fate, and rise to meet new challenges. I'm Zhao Erhai, and here's my story...
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My Proud Little Childhood Friend Is Sweet and Clingy, and She’s Sneaking Glances at Me Again 傲娇小青梅甜又黏，又在偷看我了
"Childhood Sweethearts + One Heroine + Mutual Pining + Everyday Life + No System or Golden Finger + Healing and Redemption" "A new book from a veteran author, quality guaranteed!" Yan Shu had a childhood sweetheart, the kind who'd been at odds with him ever since they were little. In kindergarten, he gave the girls in class strawberry milk. She went home and cried to his parents that he'd stolen hers. In elementary school, he traded Christmas cards with his deskmate. She turned around and angril
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The Crooked Path 走偏门
[Adapted into the short dramas Fishing in the Shadows, Taking the Crooked Path, and The Mastermind; and the animated dramas Fishing in the Shadows: Drifting North, A Crooked Road to Comeback, A Thousand Faces in the Underworld, and Tales of a Shady Deal. Check them out if you’re interested.] What is the crooked path? Those who walk it seek a way to survive for themselves and plot certain doom for others. Once you step onto this path, it stretches as deep as the sea. You’ll roam far and wide, mix
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After My Wife Altered My Memories, She Discovered She Was My First Test Subject 妻子修改我的记忆后，才发现她是我的第一个实验体
Only after my wife altered my memories did I discover that I was her very first test subject
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Karmic Debt 阴德借贷
Karmic Debt Lending
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Snake Scale Curse 蛇鳞咒
The Serpent Scale Curse
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A Cage of Desire 欲望牢笼
Based on true events, this story follows Li Nan, who has long struggled with the burdens of her family of origin. After unexpectedly having her material desires fulfilled time and again, she gradually loses herself and becomes increasingly consumed by greed, until her bubble finally bursts and she plummets to rock bottom overnight. Li Nan will pay a heavy price for the mistakes she has made, and a long journey of redemption begins.
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Sinking Into Desire 在欲望中沉沦
Sinking into Desire
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A Glimpse of the Turmoil as 1970s Educated Youths Returned to the Cities 七十年代知青下乡回城风波一瞥
A glimpse of the turmoil surrounding educated youths returning to the city in the 1970s
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Guangzhou Almost Got Snow 广州差点飘雪
A hidden heiress is cheated on by a gold-digging man who plans to leave her with nothing, only for her to give him a brutal face-slapping in return... My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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After My Sister-in-Law Tricked Me into Going to Northern Myanmar, I Found a Way to Survive 被嫂子骗进缅北后，我绝处逢生
My new novel 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!
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My Angel Investor Is My Adorable Husband 天使投资人是我的小娇夫
Told from the heroine's perspective, this story follows her journey from an innocent, inexperienced newcomer to the working world to a successful professional woman. Fang Yuwei and the hero, Lin Peifeng, meet on campus. He falls for her at first sight and takes care of her and stays by her side, but Lin Peifeng's identity is not so simple. As the heroine makes her way through the workplace, she encounters all kinds of unwritten rules, both obvious and hidden. She changes jobs several times and m
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The Desolate Seafloor 绝望海底
[Entertainment + Singing + Sickly Hero + Healing + Tearjerker + Positive Energy + Redemption] Bai Chen transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that he has cancer and needs a huge sum of money for treatment. A singing contest hosted by pdd is underway, drawing a massive audience and offering a huge cash prize! So Bai Chen joins to earn money for his medical bills. In the preliminaries, Bai Chen sings “Under the Sea,” and the entire livestream falls silent, lost in thought. In the knoc
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My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年
Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop
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You, Me, and Them in an Ordinary Alley 寻常巷陌里的你我他
[A Stubborn Life Can Overcome Every Trial; A True Dragon Rises from the Alleyways] A period novel set in the workers’ shacks of a porcelain factory. Qin Hairu was delivered by his own father. They said he was “born to bring ruin to his family”: his mother hemorrhaged, his brothers were taken from him, and all he inherited was humiliation. Growing up in an ordinary alley, he watched the children of high-ranking officials go abroad and the children of overseas Chinese seek refuge with relatives. H
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You're the Richest Man Alive, So Why Are You Opening the Car Door for Customers Yourself? 你一个首富，亲自给顾客开车门？
Standing before you is Yicheng City's top scorer in the college entrance exam, a millionaire entrepreneur by his freshman year, founder of Dami Tech after dropping out in his sophomore year, the man who made Dami Tech the country's number-one company by age 26, worth hundreds of billions by 28, founder of Dami Motors at 29, and the richest person in the country at 30. His bank account holds billions in cold, hard cash. He's the head of Dami Tech Group, founder of the Dami Standards Alliance, the
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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Mending Bones, Restoring Love 动骨恢情
[Face-slapping + scumbag takedown + a little angst with sweetness + humor + souls swapped between a man and a woman + down-to-earth and relatable + ordinary people with great wisdom + wealthy families + workplace business battles + youthful, sweet romance. Impossible to put down!] The years pass peacefully. Everyone has a first love in their heart, but not everyone can have a Jiang Miao Jie in theirs! In her previous life, Lin Muzi was robbed of her destined match, missed out on her dream guy, f
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Before Him, After You 在他之前，在你之后
“Maybe you think too highly of me,” she said. He looked into her eyes. “No one is loved because they’re that wonderful.” “Then why?” “Because they’re the right fit!”
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The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生
[Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe
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My Small-Town Girlfriend 我的小城女友
No matter how long people live in a big city, they eventually return to a small town. Xiyang, a genius who made his fortune through stock trading, finds his life going nowhere after his girlfriend cheats on him and his career hits a wall. He leaves Chengdu, a city full of memories, and returns to his hometown, where he meets the girl who will become his small-town girlfriend. This is an ordinary book, but the small-town life it tells of is anything but ordinary.
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When the Wind Rises Again 风再起时
He is the coldest blade among surgeons, his edge impossible to hide. Once infamous, he was sealed away in a blood-soaked past and thought his life was beyond saving. Now the turmoil has begun anew, and he teeters on the edge of fate. But this time, he is not alone. Someone would stand by his side even against the whole world. I am mired in the mud, yet I still struggle to spread my branches, longing to bloom in the sunlight, because there is warmth there, and you.
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Somewhere, Sometime 某时此地
When we were young, we thought love could cross a thousand mountains and rivers. We pursued neither fame nor fortune. There were other people's gossip and warnings from the wise. In the end, it wasn't us who came to our senses. It was time. Yes, it was as if a set of scales suddenly tipped one way at a certain moment. Giving each other time, even while hesitating, is a kind of courage. Of course, we wanted an “efficient” outcome too. Love and marriage don't begin as a straight road leading all t
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A Female Feng Shui Master's Work Diary 一个女风水师的工作日志
The author met a feng shui master and exchanged contact information with her. After seeing her work journal, the author found some of its contents worth reading. They also carry on traditional culture, so the author is sharing them here with her permission.
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I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought a Fiancé 我在二手平台花十块钱，买了个未婚夫
I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought Myself a Fiancé
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Adrift in Your Time 流浪在你的时光里
Some flowers bloom more profusely the harsher the wasteland they grow in. The Pan and Song families were bitter enemies. Their pharmaceutical companies kept each other in check, locked in a constant struggle both open and covert. Pan Yunyun, a clever and perceptive “outsider” affiliated with the Pan family, repeatedly crossed paths with Song Qiao, the deep and calculating head of the Song family. At their very first meeting, he pinned her against the wall, leaving her unable to move. No talk of
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Lie Flat Immortal Venerable 躺平仙尊
[Rapid-fire laughs + lighthearted + no romance] Lin Xian transmigrates to a cultivation world gripped by cutthroat competition. His previous incarnation was the ultimate grind king, who worked himself to death from cultivating nonstop. Lin Xian binds himself to a System that rewards him with cultivation whenever he rests, lies flat, or slacks off, but punishes him if he cultivates seriously...
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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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I’m Dead, But Not Entirely 朕死了，但没完全死
I Am Dead, But Not Entirely
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Living Together with You 和你一起住下去
A garden home in a lakeside neighborhood once held the most beautiful dreams of Xie Nan’s vibrant young love as a college student. Then, in the blink of an eye, it became a crushing burden she wanted to avoid at all costs. Seven years later, Xie Nan finally gathers the courage to move into the home filled with memories. With her neighbor Yu Mucheng’s forceful intrusion and her ex-boyfriend Xiang Xinyang’s return, she must make a decision: how can she continue living here...?
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Something’s Off About My Consort: Why Is He Prettier Than I Am? 我的驸马不对劲：他怎么长得比我还娇艳
My Prince Consort Is Acting Strange: Why Is He Prettier Than Me?
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The Age of Thirty 而立之年
That woman married me when I was on my way to success, but betrayed me when I was down and out, leaving me heartbroken and wishing I could die of shame! That day, I clenched my teeth and swore: “You weren't there when my sun was setting, so who are you now that I'm rising again?”
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The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend’s Marriage Died 老公变温柔那天，闺蜜的婚姻死了
The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend's Marriage Died
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You Strike a Chord in My Heart 动我心弦
The eldest young master of the He family is renowned for his aloof elegance, refined manner, and aristocratic upbringing. One day, the shrewd, laid-back CEO unexpectedly crossed paths with a little white rabbit, and fell for her at first sight. Faced with Zhou Yuxin’s whole entourage of male admirers, Big Boss He was consumed by envy and jealousy. Acting proud didn’t work, and forcing the issue didn’t work either, so in the end he had no choice but to… There are plenty of Cinderellas, but it tak
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From Abandoned Disciple to Demon Venerable: My Master Kneels Before Me 从弃徒到魔尊，师尊向我下跪
From Abandoned Disciple to Demon Lord: My Master Kneels Before Me
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My Landlady 我的房客大小姐
After getting dumped, a young man with nothing to his name left the city and opened an inn in Dali. His life took an unexpected turn, and amid romance and scenic beauty, a tangled love story unfolded.
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Fifteen Days in Two Capitals (Complete in Two Volumes) 两京十五日（全两册）
The Fifteen Days of Two Capitals is a historical novel by Ma Boyong. The story is based on a true account of Zhu Zhanji in the History of Ming: “In the fourth month of summer, as Nanjing was shaken repeatedly by earthquakes, he was ordered to go and guard the city. On a gengchen day in the fifth month, Emperor Renzong fell ill and sent an imperial summons for him to return. On a xinchou day in the sixth month, he arrived in Liangxiang, received the late emperor's edict, entered the palace, and a
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My Years Like Flowing Water 我的逝水年华
[Feel-Good Urban Slice of Life] + [Big Star] + [Surrounded by Beautiful Women] + [Happy Ending] (New book: She’s Really Not a Bad Woman) Please show your support. Finding a drunk beauty completely turned my life upside down. A few days later, I took her home again after running into her at a bar. This time, she threatened to make me marry her Good grief. Fine, let’s get married. I’m a man, what do I have to lose? Besides, she’s gorgeous and rich. Am I about to reach the peak of my life?
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When a Man Becomes a Country Girl, the Whole Family Starts to Tremble 当男人变成农村女孩，整个家都开始发抖
When a Man Turns Into a Rural Girl, the Whole Family Starts to Tremble
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The Snake-Man I Found in the Trash Pretends to Have Amnesia Every Day, but the Comments Say He Wants to Marry Me 垃圾堆捡来的蛇人天天装失忆，弹幕说他想娶我
The Snake Man I Found in a Garbage Dump Pretends to Have Amnesia Every Day, and the On-Screen Comments Say He Wants to Marry Me
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Snowfields and Seaside City: A Female Cadre from the Sanmen Has Her Springtime Too 雪域与海城：三门女干部也有春天
Su Man was on top from the start, beginning her career as a deputy section chief, only to plummet to rock bottom at breakneck speed. Her new boss sent her to a grassroots office, where she got a harsh lesson in the art of human relationships. On her journey back from rock bottom, she had the ever-present strategist Luo Ziqing by her side, offering advice and teaching her how the official world operates. She also had Ji Zizhou, a highly skilled career mentor who protected her from the open and hi
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The Buddha Pinned Me Down for Five Hundred Years, but the Monk Who Rescued Me Was Even Fiercer 我被如来压五百年，救我的和尚比他还凶
After the Tathagata Imprisoned Me for Five Hundred Years, the Monk Who Saved Me Was Even Fiercer
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Among the Old Stories 旧事里
Bullied by life a hundred times over, she still became a bright moon in the night sky. Eighteen years ago, he brought her home. Eighteen years later, she was doing everything she could to escape him... Amid old memories, every kind of person comes into view. Time rushes by, youth cries out, and stubborn boys grow up. Love blooms and fades, and those youngsters who laughed and cried together eventually grew into adults. But who was the one you lost during your youth?
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I’m Sneaking Glances at Her, and She’s Sneaking Glances at Me 我在偷看她，她也在偷看我
I was sneaking a look at her, and she was sneaking a look at me too
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The Little Housekeeper at Lawyer Mao's Home 毛律师家的小保姆
For the sake of the man she loves, who is ill, college student Lü Chenchen gives up her white-collar office job and chooses the better-paying work of a nanny. After a few twists and turns, she ends up in Mao Yuanning’s household. The Mao family has a complicated history. Mao Yuanning’s stepmother isn’t his biological mother, but his maternal aunt. His wife is the daughter of his stepmother’s first love, spoiled into a willful, delicate young woman. After more than ten years of marriage, the coup
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I Saved an Immortal's Life, and He Turned Around and Had My Whole Family Executed 我救了神仙一命，他反手把我全家抄了
I Saved an Immortal's Life, and He Turned Around and Had My Entire Family Arrested
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The Supreme Urban War God 都市至尊狂兵
[War God + Mystery Solving + Elite Soldier + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Pure Urban Fiction, No Cultivation] His name is Chen Feng. To the world, he is a madman. When the nation faces peril, he is its sharpest blade! The shocking Blood Sky Incident landed Chen Feng in the most terrifying prison in the world. Three years later, he broke out as the Grim Reaper and returned to his homeland, only to find that everything had changed and he had fallen from grace. The woman he loved most was now with his own
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After My Divorce, I Became the Dad of a Little Princess from Jinyang 离婚后，我成了晋阳小公主的奶爸
[The Little Princess of Jinyang’s Daily Life + Two-Way Transmigration + No System + Beloved Little Darling + Princess Changle] A folding screen connecting the Tang Dynasty and the 21st century opens a channel for Princess Jinyang and Li Chang’an to talk across time. During the sweltering Tang summer, the little princess’s palace gets an electric fan, a children’s mosquito net, cool silk mats, summer quilts, and more... And that’s not all. If modern children have it, this little princess will hav
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