Are There Any Novels About Real Rural Life? 现实农村生活小说有没有
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Those Who Left the Village 从村里走出去的人们
Meng Ziqiang started out on the village construction crew and became the richest man in Linqu County. After six divorces and seven marriages, he was killed in an explosion on New Year's Eve. Qiao Yu'er entered a business school and escaped her peasant upbringing. Through diligent writing, she began to make a name for herself, then threw herself into politics and set out on a career in government. Wu Yuexia built up a fish farm and fought her way forward, eventually becoming the deputy county mag
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My Brother Is Hard to Resist 哥哥不经撩
[Print edition now available under the title A Thousand Heartbeats] [Short drama now streaming] [Gorgeous, lively internet celebrity × serious, no-nonsense fire captain] [Both devoted + she pursues him + sweet romance] [Cold and distant at first, clingy later] Su Nianyi is fast asleep at home when she dreams that her house is on fire. When she wakes up, she realizes it wasn't a dream! Dazed, she watches the firefighters rushing around, and that's how she falls in love with Shen Zhinan at first s
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The Village Miracle Doctor Knows How to Live 乡村神医好会活
Wang Hao worked night shifts at a factory. When he got home, he discovered his girlfriend cheating with her boss. He lost his job because of it and had no choice but to return to his hometown. Then one chance encounter changed his fate completely, and from that moment on, he began living a very different life!
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Off the Rails 脱轨
No kissing, no sleepovers, no flirting in public... Those are the rules between them. No matter what happens in bed, they must always keep their distance outside it. Yu Huan and Gao Yan have always been good at that. That is, until a new intern joins Yu Huan's law firm, and the newcomer turns out to be Gao Yan's nephew. That's when things start to go off the rails.
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The Wife's Secret 娇妻隐秘
Chen An never imagined he would contract AIDS, and that it would already have progressed to the symptomatic stage. He's an honest, upright man who has never strayed, so he suspects his wife infected him...
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The Secret of the Dongguan Sisters 东莞姐姐的秘密
"Roaming the Martial World" "Multiple Heroines" Chen Yang and Wang Tao grew up together. By chance, they became disciples of a great master and headed north to Guancheng to seek out Chen Yang’s older sister, Xu Chunhua. When they arrived, they discovered things were nothing like they had imagined. From then on, they chose different paths, and each of their lives changed beyond recognition…
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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Skewers Are All Delicious, Book 19 串串都很香第19本书
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Yizhi Xiaoqi's 17th Book 一纸小旗第17本书
A country boy with superb medical skills lands a job at an electronics factory in the kingdom of women. From then on, there's no stopping him. With charm and skill to back him up, he thrives and rises to the pinnacle of life!
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Chunhua's Happiness 春花的幸福
Period drama + countryside + political intrigue A woman from a mountain village believes only love can save everything. In her dictionary, poverty is nothing to fear, having no power is nothing to fear, and having no money is even less of a worry. But life's cold rain repeatedly douses her gentle heart, and she learns that money and power can indeed take precedence over love and marriage. The moment her boyfriend appears with the woman he loves, she realizes that the one she needs to save is her
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Tender Allure 娇引
[The print edition of A Captivating Temptation is now available] [Sweet romance in Beijing’s elite circles, both leads are devoted only to each other] A refined, aloof, secretly seductive big shot × a wild, rebellious young heiress with a wicked streak! Seduction! Tension! A long-planned pursuit! The first time they met, Wen Yu played Beijing power player Pei Yi. He saw right through her. “Don’t want to take responsibility?” The second time, Wen Yu barged into the restroom and caught a glimpse o
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Me and My Dongguan Sisters 我与东莞姐姐
[A Tale of Passion and Brotherhood] [Love and Longing] Gao Yang, a country boy with an uncanny talent, leaves his hometown for the first time! He heads to Dongguan to seek refuge with his older sister, only to discover that people are far more sinister than they seem. Through a series of coincidences, he ends up working in a factory, quickly rises through the ranks, and finds himself surrounded by romantic prospects. In the end, he gets dragged into a gang war and sets out on a path of no return
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An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家
I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv
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The Village Schoolteacher 山村女教师
Yang Xiaowei and Li Li were college sweethearts. After graduation, their different choices set them on separate paths: Yang Xiaowei went to teach in a mountain village, while Li Li stayed in the city. They went their separate ways, and Yang Xiaowei married the local village chief's son. After enduring a series of hardships, including marriage, childbirth, and domestic abuse, Yang Xiaowei finally found the courage to break free from the prison of her marriage. In the end, she discovered that what
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The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲
Liu Peiyun was ready to enjoy a quiet retirement, but instead transmigrated into a book as Lu Xuebi, a village girl whose engagement had been broken off in the 1980s. Since she was already here, Lu Xuebi decided to make the best of it. She studied for college entrance exams while leading her whole family to seize the opportunities of the times. Only later did she learn she had transmigrated into a book: she was the heroine’s shrewish adoptive mother, an obstacle on the heroine’s road to wealth a
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The Extraordinary Mountain Doctor 极品山医
[Medicine + comeback + revenge + invincibility + revitalizing the countryside] Lin Feng, a simple-minded young man from a mountain village, is gravely injured while trying to protect his sister-in-law from local thugs. By chance, he awakens an ancient mountain-healer inheritance left by his ancestors and learns peerless acupuncture and medicinal techniques. His life takes a complete turn: benefactors appear one after another, and his connections reach far and wide. He reclaims the old homestead
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A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常
After learning she has transmigrated into a historical-era novel as a pawn meant to whitewash the protagonist's group, Jiang Yanqiu first steals half of the original heroine's golden finger, then gives away half of the transmigrated heroine's golden finger. Then she keeps her head down, stays away from the protagonist's group, and enjoys the show. With nobody at the educated youth station willing to talk to her, bored Jiang Yanqiu has nothing to do but gossip to pass the time. She has to admit,
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So Wild, So Steamy! This Is What Adult Romance Looks Like 很野很欲！这才是成年人谈的恋爱
[Marriage before love + fourteen-year secret crush comes true + sweet romance + both are each other's first and only love + intense mutual flirting] [Sensual and untamed bank president × gentle, radiant qipao-clad beauty] Gu Qingcheng meets Fu Xiaochen in a hotel bed. He's wild and seductive, crazy and bad. She thinks it'll be a one-night stand, but instead, he clings to her relentlessly. He pins her against the hotel's floor-to-ceiling window, refusing to let up, coaxing and tempting her as he
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All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心
The comic adaptation is coming soon! [Traditional] [No gimmicks] [Not a power fantasy] [No cheat abilities] In the 1970s, Li Laoman had no sons, so he wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for his third daughter, Li Fan. Li Fan refused and stole her second sister Li Ting's fiance instead! Now Li Ting had not only lost her man, but also had to take on the responsibility of finding a live-in son-in-law for her younger sister. With Li Laoman pressuring her, she had no choice but to take Zhong Wensong
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Be Good, Big Sis. Your Little Brother Will Take Care of You 姐姐乖，弟弟疼你
[A sweet, clingy puppy-like boy + a fair-skinned, beautiful older girl] Ling Yue thought she could never fall for a guy younger than herself, until she met her younger brother’s classmate, Jiang Chi. That sweet, innocent little kitten of a boy. Then one day, the little kitten knocked on her door. “Big sister, I’m nineteen this year.” Ling Yue was puzzled. “And?” The young man’s eyes seemed to brim with tears, his gaze alluring and full of longing. “Big sister, you still don’t want to date me?” L
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Tales from the Xuefeng Mountains 雪峰山区的往事
This story follows three generations in the Snowpeak Mountains over half a century, tracing the love and hatred that bind them. Centered on the blended family formed by Shi Shanbao and his son, and Chen Wanying and her son, it tells of the joys, sorrows, separations, and struggles of ordinary people trying to make a living in that era.
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This Guy Is a Bit of a Rascal 这个家伙有点坏
[No formulaic plot][Not a wish-fulfillment story][No cheat abilities][Traditional][Realistic][Period][Countryside][Hardship] A boy who is both bad and good, a family made up of people with no blood ties, a difficult yet sweet golden age, and a story full of humor and warmth... Beginning in the 1980s, this novel spans forty years and strives to recreate the changes of the times, telling the story of one person's growth. Above all, this is a realistic story, with both sweetness and heartbreak. Rea
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Life Afloat on the Riverbank 江岸浮生
[Contemporary realism + period chronicle + rural ensemble cast + women’s struggles] Spanning half a century of rural China, this book tells the story of three generations of women on the Jianghan Plain. Caught in the tides of history and the shackles of their families of origin, each struggles against fate in her own way and faces her inner demons, ultimately learning to live for herself. (I’m only here to tell the story as it is. I won’t give the characters perfect personalities. I’ll portray h
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The Country Doctor: A Village’s Immortal Charm 乡野神医：小村仙韵
[Countryside] [Multiple Heroines] [Divine Doctor] A foolish young man saves a beauty and receives a legacy, becoming a master of both medicine and martial arts. He leads the whole village to prosperity, and powerful figures from every walk of life come to follow him. He makes a fortune trading across the Three Realms, cultivates immortal arts, and takes beautiful wives. Blessed with a sacred constitution and powerful techniques, he returns to the Immortal Realm and defies fate.
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A Ridiculous Romance 荒唐情缘
This is a story about what happens to a man after his divorce. It feels very true to life, so reading it is bound to stir up some thoughts. Is it good? Is it bad? Either way, it feels incredibly real. ...The factory suddenly lost power, so everyone got a day off. Chen Yong came straight home without telling his wife... And that’s where the story begins...
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After the Frail CEO Moves to the Countryside, a Little Farm Girl Spoils Him Rotten 病弱霸总下乡后，被小农女娇宠了
Li Sui'an is a poor farm girl with no parents. All she wants is to find a husband willing to marry into her family and settle down to a cozy life with a man, children, and a warm bed. But every man she meets is a scumbag. Then one day, she sees the new neighbor. He has a slim waist and long legs, and he's delicate and handsome, a rare beauty among men. Li Sui'an falls for him at first sight. Smitten by his looks, she decides to marry him and bring him home. He can be the pretty one, while she ea
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A Love Affair Across Half a Lifetime 半世情缘
After a lifetime, the most painful thing is still parting. Chen Xiang has lived through love and affection, hardship and helplessness. Come along with this book, and let’s take a look at one man’s life so far. Who loves him? Whom does he love? Hardship and good fortune go hand in hand. Career and true love are both part of his life! What kind of lives do the people around him lead? This is a realistic story. Very realistic.
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A Happy Country Life 幸福的乡村
[Comedy + lighthearted + feel-good power fantasy + urban + rural] He Huan returns in triumph, leaves the special organization, and goes back to his village. He keeps a low profile and settles down to an ordinary, peaceful life! He helps the disadvantaged and works with the villagers to build prosperity! But what he doesn't expect is that a crisis is about to come crashing down on him!
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Appointment Denied? 任命否
When you feel there's no hope left in life, what will you choose? Will you trap yourself in the mire, cycling through pain, or hope someone will kindly reach out and pull you free, or grab the straw beside you and struggle with all your might?
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The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂
When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could
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Tales of a Bandit Woman from Northeast China 东北乡女匪事
The story begins at the Chen family mill A steadfast, valiant bandit chief; a bold and easygoing rogue who seduces a pretty widow; a sinister, scheming dwarf fairy maiden; two daring, sharp-tongued female bandits; a meek child bride who is also a poison doctor; a loyal and ruthless casino owner; a glamorous undercover agent who charms Japanese officers; a spirited mother and resistance fighter... These vivid lives tell the story of how ordinary people struggled against the cruelty and devastat
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She's Worth Less Than Rice 她比米贱
That year, in exchange for a sack of millet, Yu Xiaofeng's parents promised her to the simple-minded son of the Liu family in the neighboring village. It was a rural village in northern China during the famine years of the last century. The stove was taller than she was. In the bitter winter, she smashed ice to wash clothes, her hands covered in chilblains that festered with pus. She didn't dare cry aloud. At seventeen, she was made to share a bed with Dazhu. He knew nothing, and tied her to a c
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San Biaozi 三彪子
In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke.
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Jiang Xiaohua 姜晓花
In the bitter winter of 1976, Jiang Xiaohua was sixteen. Her family had almost nothing; her father was gravely ill, her mother weak-willed, and her younger brother still a child. Desperate for food, she was forced into a bride swap and nearly sold off, struggling on the brink of life and death before finally marrying into the Chen family, the most quarrelsome and favoritism-ridden family around. Her sisters-in-law ostracized her, her mother-in-law mistreated her, her husband stumbled, her childr
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Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老
[Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr
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Mountain Flowers Face the Sea Trees 山花对海树
Mountain Flowers Facing Sea Trees
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I Became a Fussy Old Lady: While Everyone Else Fled the Famine, I Reclaimed the Land 穿成作精老太，别人逃荒我开荒
(No space, no System, no romance. A short drama with the same name has already been released. A warm, rustic story. Everyone says they wouldn’t survive three episodes after transmigrating into a chaotic era. Read this book, and you’ll survive ten more!) She transmigrated into a book, becoming the villainous aunt who abused the protagonist in a male-oriented novel, and was destined to be killed off. Jiang Zhi didn’t cling to the protagonist. She left him behind and relied on her extensive knowled
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After Being Reborn in the 1970s, I Was Carried Off by the Village Bully 重生七零年代后，我被村霸叼走了
Su Qinran opened her eyes again and found herself back on the train bound for Daqing Mountain. Lin Yaotang had never seen such a beautiful woman. At first glance, she seemed like a celestial maiden, while he was nothing but mud at the bottom of a pond. Su Qinran glanced at Lin Yaotang. In her previous life, he had pursued her relentlessly, only to die saving her in the end. She owed him her life. Lin Yaotang: “Aah!!! The goddess looked at me! I’m going to adult education classes! I’m going to le
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In the 1970s: Picking Up a Madman as My Husband 七零年代疯批夫妇
Historical era + green tea schemer + obsessive love + unhinged + powerful lead + everyday family life + pocket dimension + food + healing + transmigrate into a book This is the story of two unfortunate souls saving each other. After transmigrating into the countryside as a little orphan, Ming Dai meets Zhou Sinian, a mad powerful man who loves wearing red headscarves. Under the protection of his reputation, she manages to establish herself in the village. Zhou Sinian was a cannon-fodder characte
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The Little Girl from Secretary Zhang's Family 张书记家的小姑娘
After graduating from college at 24, Sang Ning chose to return to her hometown and take a job in the public sector. A year later, her employer sent her to a township government office for two years of support work. She became Secretary Zhang’s subordinate, and eventually, Secretary Zhang became part of her family. At 32, Zhang Yizheng was a veteran and the head of the township government. One day, a young woman joined the office. She was young, capable, and full of personality. For the first ti
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The Loves of Women 女人们的爱情
Women’s Love: Family Memories Across Time is a long-form work of documentary fiction by Hen Jiangyin. Based on true stories from the author’s own family and enriched by extensive interviews with local people, it focuses on the Zhang, Xia, and Li families, vividly tracing the lives of the four Li sisters, the six Xia siblings, and the three Zhang brothers. Their stories are full of twists and turns and deeply moving moments, leaving a lasting impression. The women’s love stories are especially st
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The Pretty Widow of Peach Blossom Creek, Loved by a Young Man 桃花溪的俏寡妇，小年轻爱上她
The night twenty-two-year-old Li Yuchuan returned to his village, he stumbled upon a woman bathing by Peach Blossom Creek. In the moonlight, her skin glowed white. Water slid from her collarbone to the small of her back. She tipped her head back to toss her hair, then flicked out her tongue to lick a drop of water from the corner of her mouth. That one little movement nearly made his soul fly away. Later, he learned she was the “jinx” everyone in the village talked about. Jiang Yuwei. Thirty-fiv
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My Five Sisters Raised Me, So I Bought Each of Them a House 五个姐姐养大我，我送每人一套房
When I was seven, Mom and Dad were gone. My five older sisters took turns raising me. The eldest dropped out of school to work a sewing machine. The second scavenged rotten vegetables at the market. The third earned money competing in tournaments. The fourth never had an entry labeled “for herself” in her ledger. The fifth cut off her long braids and sold them for eight yuan to pay my tuition. Chen Zi'en lived next door. He was the school bully, feared by everyone. He'd never lost a fight, but
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Dongguan, Dongguan: The Blossoming '90s 东莞，东莞，90繁花年代
This story is based on real life. One day, Er Gou said mysteriously to Li Minghui, “Ah Hui, did you know? I heard a new Taizi Bathhouse opened nearby. They say it offers a service imported from Thailand.” The story follows a protagonist who turns his fortunes around in the electronics business of the Pearl River Delta. In 1990s Dongguan, KTVs, nightclubs, and bathhouses offered a different kind of splendor. There were also pure-hearted romances between migrant workers over beef brisket rice nood
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Love Between Two Generations: An Inescapable Bond 两代情之逃不出的羁绊
A bloody maelstrom was set in motion by a marriage swap in the late 1980s. One bride died, and the other fled. The humiliation Hua'er endured on her wedding night is enough to make anyone blush with shame, while the hardships Zijun faced as she fled her marriage are deeply moving. Though the story is named for two generations, it is really about three generations and the sweeping changes in their views on love, marriage, and life. It also shows China's tremendous economic boom and the profound s
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My Old Home Connects to the Modern World: A Village Girl's 1970s Office-Worker Life 老宅通现代：七零村花的社畜日常
[From the 1970s to the modern day] Chen Qiaoyu, born and raised in the 1970s, has been feeling a little panicked lately. She and her younger brother were driven out by their father and stepmother, sent to live in the dilapidated old Chen family home with only two threadbare quilts. Who could have guessed that the crumbling old house hid a passage to another era? [From then on, Chen Qiaoyu begins traveling back and forth between the 1970s and the modern day every day] The villagers of Yaojia Vil
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Born to Follow the Sun 向阳而生
[A new book from a veteran author] [Daily life] [Romance] [A little heartbreak, then overwhelmingly sweet] He Zhicheng gave his son He Shu a perfect demonstration of what a scumbag looked like, leaving He Shu terrified of marriage before he was even an adult. The little tree, withered before it had even grown, was chased by another stubborn little sprout who kept urging him to stand tall. Well, maybe it takes going through all that pain to appreciate the happiness of an ordinary life. Life comes
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That Touch of Moonlight in the Mountains 山间的那抹月色
At the start of this century, a wave of migrant work swept through China’s countryside. The able-bodied young men and women left their homes for jobs in the prosperous coastal regions, leaving their young wives behind to care for the elderly and children and tend to their small plots of land. The women left behind faced loneliness and emptiness, love and hate, and the struggle to build a life, refusing to bow to fate! The men working far from home faced the temptations of a dazzling world while
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I Have a Special Place in My Heart for You 我对你情有独钟
They met the most dazzling person in their lives at the age when first love blossoms. They fell for each other, and with their families’ support, got engaged. But then he vanished without saying a word…
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Village Miracle Doctor: I Have the First Cauldron 乡村神医：我有第一鼎炉
The fool Chen Fan is picking wild fruit in the mountains when someone kicks him into a bottomless abyss. He should have died at the bottom, but in his moment of greatest despair, the ancient world’s greatest cauldron unexpectedly recognizes him as its master! The cauldron can refine spirit medicines, command yin and yang, and cultivate the Great Dao. It also holds an unrivaled medical scripture. The fool of old is reborn anew. He cures the villagers with miraculous skill, and repays every past h
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