Are There Any Novels About Real Rural Life? 现实农村生活小说有没有
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Make That Little Dummy Cry 弄哭那个小呆子
Xu Qinlie is just like his name: fiery-tempered and hotheaded. He was supposed to be the product of his parents’ love, but instead turned out to be a little ancestor who had come to collect a debt. Xu Qinlie knows he’s a rascal, so he makes trouble at every turn. One day, his father finally can’t take it anymore and bundles him off in the middle of the night to Yunxing Town, a thousand miles from home. His father tells him to take care of the family’s wasteland. The pampered young master Xu turn
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The Sweet Young Lady Returns to the Countryside, and Her Village Doctor Brother Spoils Her Rotten 乖乖小姐回农村，村医哥哥宠上天
[Powerful CEO doctor + sweet, well-behaved heiress + both return to the countryside + intense, flirtatious push and pull + healing, down-to-earth rural life + slow-burn romance + both leads are sexually inexperienced] A big-shot doctor who loves to act spoiled and a sweet, soft girl who's both adorable and alluring The Song family's eldest daughter got into the wrong bed and, in a fit of anger, ran back to the countryside. She never expected to run into the man who had slept with her and then ru
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Men and Women in Seclusion 隐居男女
Florist Xiao Xue is making her own way in the city. Life is sometimes sweet and sometimes a complete melodrama. As she gets older, the dream deep in her heart grows stronger: to find a soulmate and build a secret garden for the two of them in the countryside or the mountains, where they can live in seclusion. It has been Xiao Xue’s dream since childhood. Before long, she meets Mu Tong, a musician. Can they find happiness in a secluded life together?
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Hunting in the Mountains to Protect My Family 赶山打猎守护一家
Reborn, she heads into the mountains to hunt and protect her family. That winter, her family was torn apart, and the little shadow who used to follow her everywhere was gone forever. Now she's back, and she won't let this life be filled with regrets...
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After Three Years in Retirement Back in the Village, I Lost but Was Not Defeated 退休回村三年，我输了但没有败
After retiring, I was sent back to my hometown to serve as the village's First Secretary. I had barely reached the village entrance when someone smashed a jar at me: “Huai Shu Village doesn't welcome you!” An old flame brought me a bowl of fish soup, with a letter at the bottom that had never been sent, forty years ago. Someone sent an anonymous report to the disciplinary inspection committee, accusing me of misconduct. Three months on the clock. Nobody believes me. Three years later, the person
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I'm Done Competing. I'm Going Home to Explore the Mountains and Seas 不卷了，回去看山海
All that hard work gets you nowhere, and then you get laid off? By the time you regret it, I’ll be lying flat by the sea, feeling the breeze, watching the sunset, and feasting on seafood. I’ll watch the wind brush my face and the willows droop along the riverbank, and listen to raindrops patter from the eaves.
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She Went to Heal Her Broken Heart, but Came Back with a Huge Surprise? 女生疗情伤，疗出个大雷？
On the eve of her wedding, bank supervisor Li Xiaoqi catches her fiancé cheating with her best friend. The next day, nude photos of her go viral across the internet. They were taken when online lenders coerced her into posing for them in college so she could pay her tuition. Pregnant with the cheating man's child, she flees to Huazhai, deep in the Dabie Mountains. Her neighbor, Wanxia, who cannot have children, promises, “You give birth to the baby, and I'll raise it.” During her pregnancy, she
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Qingshui Village Farmstay 清水村农家乐
When you've reached a dead end, go home, back to the vast fields and farmland. Help your parents sell peaches, grow vegetables in greenhouses, and run a farmstay. Then lead the villagers of Qingshui Village to prosperity and forge your own path as a new-generation farmer!
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The Top-Ranked Streamer's Comeback 榜一逆袭
Lin Yuan is a college graduate from a farming family. With no job after graduation, he reluctantly becomes a delivery courier. On his very first day taking orders, someone kicks him hard. Later, after being betrayed in love, he scrimps and saves to spend money tipping a livestreamer, becoming her top supporter. After struggling through it all, he successfully combines modern logistics with rural e-commerce, going from a courier who gets kicked around to the person his whole village needs most.
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A Love Story from Majia Village 马家庄的爱情故事
In a village so ordinary it could not be more ordinary, the hardworking bachelor Li Daqing and his neighbor Er Feng spend every day working in the fields, rising with the sun and resting at sundown. They have no extraordinary talents. With only their hands and their strength, they cultivate the barren land, filling their hardship-filled days with verdant growth in the courtyard and the warmth of everyday life.
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I Won the Lottery and Returned to My Hometown to Retire 中了彩票回乡养老
[Healing, slow-paced, family bonds, leisurely slice of life, no over-the-top villains] [A levelheaded, resilient heroine with a touch of vanity × a rapper superstar who seems like a cocky bad boy but is actually childish and proud] It was supposed to be just another ordinary business trip abroad, but Li Xiayu never imagined that the lottery ticket she bought on a whim would win the jackpot! With her unrequited crush going nowhere and no courage to confess, Li Xiayu quit her job without hesitatio
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The Mad Immortal-Demon Son-in-Law 仙魔狂婿
In his previous life, Zeng Wenyuan fell in love with his master, Fairy Wan Xuan, but the Immortal Realm would not accept their relationship. After arriving in the Outer Demon Realm, he was hunted by the demons. Reborn, Zeng Wenyuan starts out as a live-in son-in-law, cultivates both immortal and demonic arts, dominates the city, and stands tall above the Three Realms.
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The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人
Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie
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The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇
In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from
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Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌
This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil.
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The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹
This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that
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A Bitter Girl’s Rebirth 苦妹之涅槃重生
Inside Ku Mei’s five-year-old body lived the soul of someone who had died with a heart full of hatred. Reborn, she faced a spiteful grandmother who beat and berated her, a cold grandfather who enabled the abuse, and a mother who could only weep helplessly. Ku Mei concealed her boundless hatred and memories of her past life, pretending to be timid as she carefully plotted her every move. She outsmarted her relatives and broke free of her shackles, starting with a bottle of chili sauce from the mi
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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The Everyday Life of an Ordinary Beta 普通beta的日常生活
[Two male leads + ABO + earnest, down-to-earth He Ping × detached, slightly messed-up Cheng Xu + rural life at first, then working in the city + everyday life + slow burn + younger male lead + cases that happen around them described from an onlooker’s perspective + a touch of horror] Because his father is ill, He Ping quits his city job and comes home to help out. Summer in the countryside is scorching, and without air conditioning, it’s especially miserable. Then, for some reason, two young al
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The Swallow Who Crawled Out of the Dark Abyss 从黑暗深渊中爬出的燕子
Tell me, just how unlucky can one person be? Her own father married four women, and her stepmother treated her like a thorn in her side. In the prime of her youth, she was tricked by a villain and taken away. At long last, she found a little warmth and thought she’d found love, only for it to turn out to be another ill-fated relationship. She got married, thinking she’d found a home, but her life became a complete mess. And that wasn’t the end of it! One by one, all her loved ones disappeared...
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Choose One, and Find Peace 择一而安
Synopsis: [Campus romance + equally matched leads + mutual devotion + rekindled love] The year Yu Sui'an turned eighteen, he met Gu Zeyi, who was as warm and radiant as the sun. He thought that was the only sweetness in his bleak fate. But the world had never intended to let him go so easily. He gave up and returned to the world that had once been shrouded in darkness. No one in the world could find Yu Sui'an anymore. Until, eight years later, Gu Zeyi stood before him once again...
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Love Fills Peach Blossom Village 情满桃花村
[Miracle Doctor] [Countryside] [Multiple Heroines] A reborn Immortal Venerable becomes a village doctor, a powerhouse in both martial arts and medicine. He shows no mercy to local bullies, and no one protects the village beauty better than he does. The rich and powerful come to his door seeking treatment, but life or death is entirely up to him. He leads the villagers to prosperity and enjoys a carefree life with a beautiful wife.
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Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Blossoms Fly 春潮起处落花飞
[Urban Life + Countryside + Campus + Period Setting + Modern Romance + Childhood Sweethearts + Family + Marriage and Romance + Youthful Inspiration + Strong Female Lead + Building Wealth] Love and hate flow east with the river; partings and reunions scatter like falling flowers. Ice and fire, blood and tears, humiliation and glory, failure and success: every flavor of life can be found in "Where the Spring Tide Rises, Falling Flowers Fly"... Set from the 1970s through the turn of the century, ag
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We’re All Reborn, So Who Still Wants to Be Someone’s Lackey? 都重生了谁还拉帮套啊
In his previous life, Cao Chaoyang acted on impulse and chose the path of becoming his sister-in-law’s live-in helper, moving into her home. He worked hard to support his elder brother’s family for twenty years, only for his brother’s legs, crippled for years, to suddenly recover. Thrown out of the house overnight, he had no choice but to get away from people and become a forest ranger. Reborn in 1973, when his sister-in-law once again knelt before him, Cao Chaoyang said firmly, “No!” He would n
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A Garden of Students, Growing Old Together in Love 桃李满天下恩爱共白头
Wu Xiaomin was a country girl, born and raised in the countryside, but she had always been a good student and was naturally beautiful. Unfortunately, after she started high school, her surroundings changed dramatically, leaving her confused and lost. In her sophomore year, she met a new homeroom teacher who helped her find her way again. After graduating from college, Wu Xiaomin gave up a job placement back in her hometown and introduced a female college classmate to her former high school teach
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The Happiness We Waited For 等来的幸福
In this blended family, the male and female leads grow up calling each other brother and sister. After her mother dies, the heroine goes abroad with her biological father. While overseas, she and the male lead begin a relationship.
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Happiness Is Coming Home to Farm 回家种地快乐无边
What kind of life I choose is my decision. Why should I need your approval? I’m Wei Junqing. Why should I have to explain my choices to anyone? Unable to make it in the big city, Wei Junqing returns to his hometown with 350,000 yuan. His parents look down on him, his siblings humiliate him, and he eventually heads to Zhongnan Mountain to live in isolation, away from the world. By chance, he gets a recycling System. Follow his life as he learns to survive on his own deep in the mountains: fightin
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Lu Xueqi, Vocational School Student 中专生陆雪琪
Lu Xueqi, the Vocational School Student
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Legend of the Countryside 传奇乡村
Although women from the mountains may not know how to dress up as well as city girls, they make up for it with their natural, down-to-earth charm. Years of hard work and the nourishing mountain air mean they usually have great figures.
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Chasing Dreams in the Countryside, with Thorny Roads to Love 乡村逐梦，情路荆棘
Li Xiangqin and Zhao Xiaobing were college classmates and a couple. After graduation, Li Xiangqin returned to her hometown to build a career, while Zhao Xiaobing was unwilling to leave the big city, so they began a long-distance relationship. As time went by, their values and outlooks diverged. They often argued and struggled to understand each other, until their relationship finally fell apart. Because of her family’s circumstances, Li Xiangqin married the son of the richest man in her village.
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The Country Doctor King 乡野小医王
After suffering a setback in love, Chen Yang returns home in low spirits and becomes a barefoot village doctor in Qinghe Village on Yunwu Mountain, hoping only to live a quiet life. Unexpectedly, he awakens the legacy of an immortal-world ancestor, unlocking extraordinary abilities. His miraculous arts defy the laws of life and death, bringing the dead back to life and healing even the most hopeless injuries. He can cure every stubborn illness in the surrounding villages with ease. Supreme culti
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My Novel Is Also My Third Book 我的小说也的第3本书
My new book is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Zhao Ergou, a Left-Behind Youth in the Countryside 乡村留守青年赵二狗
[Countryside + Farming + Miracle Doctor + Modern Romance] This is absolutely worth reading. If you read the first chapter and don’t like it, follow the internet cable and come hit me. Zhao Ergou and Qingshan Village share an unbreakable bond. After graduating from university, he returned to the village to become its village doctor. By a stroke of luck, he gained mysterious powers and led the entire village to start businesses and get rich...
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Ding Ergou's Carefree Life 丁二狗的逍遥人生
The Dao can be a road, or it can be a principle. The righteous path is the correct road, or the correct principle. A person who takes a wrong turn can always change course and start over. But in the cutthroat world of business, every step leaves a mark. If it is the right one, that is only as it should be. If it is wrong, a bottomless abyss lies ahead. If Heaven had feelings, it too would grow old; the righteous path in this world is one of hardship and change.
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The Rustic Little Miracle Doctor 乡野小医神
[Countryside + miracle doctor + getting rich + farming + multiple heroines] Liu Ping'an of Qingshui Village gets beaten up for protecting his neighbor, but the misfortune turns out to be a blessing in disguise. From then on, he grows crops, raises fish, develops hot springs, builds a resort, and promotes tourism, transforming impoverished Qingshui Village into a thriving place. After that, Liu Ping'an enjoys a comfortable life in the countryside...
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The Rugged Man’s Overwhelming Love: His Sweet Little Wife Falls for Him 糙汉强势爱，娇软小媳妇沦陷了
Originally titled “A Lonely Bed Is Hard to Bear, While the Rugged Neighbor Scratches at Her Wall Night After Night” [lonely nights / maximum sweetness / period setting / delicate beauty / devoted love / slow-burn romance / building wealth / glimpses of an ensemble cast / love at first sight / close proximity / sisters-in-law as foils] Delicate young wife × iron-willed, rugged man Hua Xiaoyue is left alone in an empty bed, the long nights hard to endure. Her family scolds her, her in-laws berate
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The Countryside Village 乡野山村
(Countryside + fool + miracle doctor + farming + cultivation + getting rich) Wang Dazhuang, a college student from Taohua Village, was beaten into an idiot by the village bully over a dispute involving his ancestral home. While gathering herbs in the mountains for his beautiful sister-in-law, he stumbled upon the village chief’s secret affair and accidentally fell down a waterfall. He gained a Qilin physique and inherited the legacy of the Immortal Doctor. From then on, he began his rise to the
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Run, Wild Child 奔跑吧，野孩子
[Coming-of-age] + [Rural entrepreneurship] + [Friendship] + [Romance] He was a bastard with no father. His own maternal grandmother abused him, beat him, and locked him in the cowshed. But through his own hard work, he made it to the capital to study. After graduating, he returned home and poured his sweat into his hometown's soil. He transformed an impoverished village into a famous tourist destination, and truly ensured the villagers could be cared for in their old age and that the young would
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Zero-Degree Intimacy 零度暧昧
[The print edition goes on sale across all platforms on August 1] [Short drama now streaming] Previously titled: Zero-Degree Intimacy [One-on-one romance + both leads’ first love + happy ending + secret marriage + sweet romance ♥ Double-layer milk foam, 70% sugar!] (Rich, sharp-tongued, scheming investor Jian Yuchen VS money-loving, mischievous young designer Wen Ni) In a nutshell: She married her nemesis. In physics, zero degrees is the point where ice and water coexist. Zero-degree intimacy is
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A Song of Life's Sorrows 生命悲歌
[Human nature + family + first person + male and female audiences] (Adapted into an audio drama with real voice actors; a motion comic is in production and coming soon.) Fate is never set in advance, yet it always pushes people toward unknown wilderness when they least expect it. The Ballad of Life uses simple, heartfelt storytelling to unfold a journey through hardship, perseverance, and struggle, revealing the most moving strength found in an ordinary life. There are no earth-shattering legend
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The Domineering Village Chief Gets Caught 霸道村长落网记
Listen to the hottest novels, with over 100,000 online listeners! Story synopsis: Hu Gang, the tyrannical village chief, relies on his family’s influence to bully men, abuse women, and commit every kind of evil. The heroine, Hu Ying, is also abused by Hu Gang and his son, but manages to escape. With Yang Jun’s help, she eventually takes down the entire Hu family. But Hu Ying’s tragic fate is only just beginning… (You won’t believe it until you see it!)
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A Single Man's Worries 单身男的烦恼
Yang Zhuang moves from the city back to the countryside. In an era when men outnumber women, the 26-year-old has weathered many hardships before finally marrying a beautiful wife. He also starts a business. But life is full of surprises. The people and events around him keep influencing him, and he and his friends create one extraordinary story after another amid the fields and wide-open countryside...
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After Transmigrating to the 1980s and Becoming a Substitute Bride, I Became the Army Officer's Most Beloved 穿越八零替嫁后我成了军官心尖宠
[Transmigration + Substitute Marriage + Military Marriage + Stepmom + Mutual First Love] (Fictional Military Marriage + Everyday Life as a Military Wife) Yang Niannian, a college student, was so furious after losing ten ranked matches in a row in Honor of Kings that she blacked out and transmigrated to the 1980s. The moment she opened her eyes, her mother was pressuring her to marry, sobbing and sniffling all over her. “Lu Shishen is a soldier with a secure government job. If you marry him, you’
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The Peerless Immortal Healer in the Mountain Village 极品仙医混山村
He's a poor young man who unexpectedly turns his life around. He just wants to farm honestly and make a living, but somehow people keep trying to cozy up to him. Wang Xiaoer is baffled. “I'm not even handsome, so why am I so charming?”
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Happiness, Keep Going 幸福，走下去
After 2000, people’s lives continued to improve. With government support, a small village in northern China prepared to demolish the houses in its low-lying areas and build a more modern new village on higher ground, where it would be better suited for people to live. At the same time, Wang Meng, Wang Zhen, and Xu Lu faced the most important choices of their lives. Wang Zhen had always been a well-behaved girl. To help her family raise money to build a house, she followed her parents’ arrangemen
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Rustic Romance 乡野风月
Young Liu Feng becomes a country doctor, righting wrongs and healing the sick with miraculous skill...
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The Countryside: The Village Young Master's Extraordinary Life 乡村：村少的妖孽人生
A country boy despised by the village chief's wife gets involved with a wealthy young man's woman in town. When the affair is exposed, he has no choice but to flee the town in the dead of night and seek his fortune elsewhere. Will he live in obscurity from then on, or fight his way to a life of wealth and glory?
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The Rugged Man Next Door Is Too Wild, and the Village Beauty Blushes in His Embrace 隔壁糙汉太野，村花害羞怀里娇
[Rugged Hero + Pure Romance + Marriage Before Love + Sizzling Chemistry + Sweet Married Life + Building a Fortune] [Delicate Village Beauty VS Cold, Rugged Neighbor] The night Song Qingshan returned to the village, he heard cries coming from next door before he had even entered his own home. He climbed onto a haystack and stole a peek. Poor Wen Sui was bent over a millstone, being beaten. She trembled with pain and sobbed pitifully, looking utterly heartbreaking. The sight set Song Qingshan’s bl
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Burning Hot! 炙热沦陷！
(The print edition, titled Song of Sheng, is now available, and the online comic of the same name is complete.) [Flirty Romance]+ [Reborn School Life]+ [Mutual Healing]+ [Obsessive Sweet Romance] A striking, warm, and gentle girl with vivid features × a brooding, handsome, and rebellious young man Only when Shengge was dying did she learn that a boy had loved her with all his heart. The first time they met in her previous life, the carefree boy asked her, “Hey, new student, what's your name?” Sh
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The Carefree Little Country Doctor 乡村小神医真逍遥
A medical school graduate is diagnosed with a terminal illness and has little time left. One day, he accidentally disrupts someone else's good time, but fortune comes from misfortune: he receives the inheritance of a mysterious figure. From then on, his life surges forward like a mighty flood, impossible to stop. He brings blessings to the people, enjoys life in the countryside, and roams the world at his leisure...
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