Stuck at Home During the Pandemic and Out of Books to Read. Looking for Smart Novels with Smooth Prose 疫情憋在家，书荒，求高智商，文笔流畅的小说
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Super Scholar: Starting with Quietly Controlling My Scores! 超级学霸：从低调控分开始！
[Academic ace + System + Deliberately controlling test scores + Cutting-edge technology, lighthearted with no angst] After a surprise math test, the class monitor, an academic ace, scores just 50 points. The campus beauty gets 30, and the class representative and study committee member score even lower. But Jiang Nan, the king of dozing in class and the champion of the school cafeteria, racks up 90 points and takes first place??? Math teacher: “Kid, you can't hide it anymore, can you?” Beautiful
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I Asked You to Manage the Special Talents Class, So How Did They All Become Top Students? 让你代管特长班，怎么全成学霸了？
Three homeroom teachers have been driven away in just two months. When it comes to Class Seven, the special-track class for underachievers known as a teacher’s battlefield and a playground for poor students, even with the director of studies offering sky-high pay, the veteran teachers sit as still as mountains. Not one is willing to take the job. Just then, Chen Chu, a trainee teacher, activates the Strongest Teaching System. He volunteers to become Class Seven’s new homeroom teacher, starting f
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Xiaoci Xian's Collection of Novellas About Love 小辞仙中篇爱情小说合集
I highly recommend the sixth story, *Who Does the Lilac Bloom For?* She said, “The Ding family was wrong to substitute a daughter born of a concubine for the legitimate heir to save face. Your Highness was wrong to accept this marriage under pressure. This mistake began in the capital and must end in Qianzhou. Now that Your Highness has reclaimed your rightful place, this mistake should come to an end as well.” Her gaze was clear and candid, without the slightest trace of resentment, only the lu
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After the Selfish Legitimate Daughter Forced Her Sister to Marry in Her Place, the Concubine’s Daughter Turned the Tables... 自私嫡女逼妹代嫁后，庶妹逆袭了......
After a selfish legitimate daughter forced her younger sister to marry in her place, the concubine-born sister turned her life around...
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Empress Zhu the Sharp-Tongued 皇后朱怼怼
Empress Zhu the Quick-Witted
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The Empress in Commoner's Garb 布衣皇后
She was an empress, yet dressed in plain clothes and worked the fields in the imperial palace gardens. The people adored her, and even the emperor, who had never liked her, fell for her. Yet one autumn, she suddenly passed away! Who was it? Who killed this young empress, whose heart held all the people under heaven? After the empress died, the emperor spent every night singing and reveling with his consorts. Had he truly moved on, or was there something else behind it?
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I Came to the Capital to Break Off the Engagement 我来京城退亲的
Pei Xuan returned to his residence after court, and the steward hurried to report, “Miss Jiang from Jiangnan has arrived with her mother. They’re in the reception hall speaking with the Old Madam.” He stepped through the moon gate and saw his mother and grandmother seated in the main seats, their faces displeased. A woman in plain clothes stood in the hall, her back ramrod straight. “Old Madam, Madam,” she said, her clear voice shattering the heavy silence, “I am Jiang Hailan of the Jiang family
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Xia Suofangyan 夏锁芳妍
His father, the Marquis of Pingnan, has been sentenced to death, his mother, Commandery Princess Haiyan, is under house arrest, and he has been banished to a remote land. Does their marriage contract still stand? She breaks off their engagement when he falls on hard times. Is she kicking him while he's down, or does she have her reasons? To escape the royal marriage bestowed upon her by fate, she accompanies a princess to a distant land as a bride. Amid boundless snowy plains, Eagle Sorrow Ravin
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Wild Lilies Bloom in Spring Too 【野百合也有春天】
Important note in advance: This is not a story with two female leads! The platform settings are wrong! The male and female leads are devoted to each other, with absolutely no divided loyalties! As Zhou Xiaoyu looked at the profound sorrow in Song Chuyu’s eyes, she realized with absolute clarity that he still hadn’t moved on. That girl, Cen Baihe, had long since taken root in the softest part of his heart like the most tenacious vine, bound to him by blood and impossible to tear away. At that mom
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Code Among the Bamboo 竹间代码
The Code Between the Bamboos builds a multifaceted, multidimensional vision of rural revitalization. It is not only a story of personal growth, but also an ode to traditional culture, ecological resources, and collective effort. Through its carefully crafted plot and profound themes, The Code Between the Bamboos paints a hopeful, vibrant picture of rural life, while also offering thought-provoking insights into rural revitalization in China.
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Never Forget, and A Yuan Will Surely Come 念念不忘，必有阿渊
[No System Transmigration] [Pursuing Her Husband] During a great war, he fell while protecting the one he loved. To bring him back, she embarked on a journey to transmigrate through different worlds. In the first life, he was a prince hostage in an enemy kingdom, shunned by others and ignorant of love, while she was an empress high above him. "A Yuan, are they bullying you?" "A Nian, before I met you, I was already in an abyss. How could I deserve to meet you and have you?" In the second life, s
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My Heart Awaits the Pendulum 我心待钟摆
Bankruptcy, betrayal, humiliation... I fell from the clouds straight into hell. My only hope of turning things around was a financial dark web called the Hidden Origin Society. Here, every mission was like dancing on the edge of a blade, and the reward was the means to survive. Starting with just 1,000 yuan, I unleashed a storm of bloodshed across the global markets. Qin Hao, Su Wanqing... Everyone who had trampled on me would pay the price. But as I drew closer to the truth, I discovered that t
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Morning Bell 晨钟
Have you ever wondered: Where did civilization begin? Could civilization come to an end? Are the events behind it all mere coincidence, or is a “hand of God” pulling the strings? Let Zhong Yue travel across two eras and take us on a journey through the end and the beginning of civilization.
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The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行
The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person...
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Long Night Walk 2: A Portrait of Human Evil 长夜行2：人间恶绘
“The eyes are the angle observers are most accustomed to scrutinizing, so you must learn to disguise your eyes.”, Li Mu The sequel to Long Night Walk, Season Two: The Evil Portraits of the Human World!
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The Murderer's Sin 谋杀者之罪
In 2019, K-Tech, a leading company in Beidu, developed the first machine capable of unrestricted time travel, naming it the “Time Capsule.” K-Tech then partnered with the Beidu police to establish a new department, the “Special Cases Investigation Group,” and put the Time Capsule to work solving cases that had remained unsolved for years. Ouyang Yuzhi, a junior figure at the police station, was unexpectedly selected and granted the title of the country’s only person legally authorized to use the
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Autumn Wind Knows No Heart, But I'll Get It Done for You 秋风不知意，我帮你搞定
May the autumn wind understand my heart and scatter the troubles that weigh upon it. After watching film and television dramas for so many years, I've seen so many characters whose stories left me wanting more. I hope to give them better lives in this story. The nine-tailed fox Zi Ying has cultivated for tens of thousands of years but still hasn't attained the Great Dao. A novice System binds her and sends her into three thousand small worlds to give their original inhabitants new lives. Author'
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The Legend of Silly Er Zhu 傻二柱传奇
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novels. 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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Rain That Seals Our Fates 过命雨
The male protagonist is a man born in the 1980s. As a young child, he was abducted and taken to the remote rural village of Chenjia'ao, where he was raised by his impoverished adoptive parents, Chen Laoshi, who later became disabled in an accident, and Zhang Guifen, who suffered from chronic illnesses. Resilient, kind, quiet, and taciturn, he is deeply insecure because of his background and poverty, yet remains pure of heart. He makes a living delivering food in the city and has experienced the
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Dreaming My Way to Power 梦穿权倾
A new work is out! You're welcome to 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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The Preserved Smile 防腐微笑
My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Sorrow in the Mortal World 红尘愁
A twist of fate swaps their identities. On the surface, Xu Qingge is merely the general's household's adopted daughter, and to survive she shows respect to the matriarch, constantly dodges her legitimate elder sister's schemes, and pretends to be docile to please her legitimate elder brother. As time goes by, her elder brother can no longer hide his repressed love, driving Xu Qingge to flee. Her childhood friend, a sickly junior fellow disciple, also refuses to let her go. The new emperor eventu
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The Red Moon over Southern Chen 赤月南陈
Though An Ran is a woman, she swept through enemy ranks with her Scarlet Moon Halberd and earned the post of Infantry Commandant. But she has no intention of stopping there. Her dream is to become a great general like her father and expand the realm's borders. Yet dreams inevitably bend to reality amid political schemes and love, splintering into pieces. With the royal family locked in conflict and the court in turmoil, how will she choose between love and hate? This is a fictional story set in
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When Spring Leaves, the Birds Come 椿去啾来
After the war between gods and demons, the Six Realms were devastated. The original Six Realms became today's Four Realms: gods, demons, humans, and monsters. As a result, the Monster Realm became the lowest realm. Monsters must first cultivate until they reach the Human Realm, where they are then distributed equally between the God Realm and the Demon Realm. This allows gods and demons to keep each other in check and maintain the Four Realms together. The Chun tree that Immortal Lord Taibai res
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Years of Hope 希年
The Youqin Clan has held sway over the Central Province Continent. According to historical records, the clan has existed since the continent first took shape, and its members have produced one outstanding talent after another for generations. It has always dominated the Way of the Pill, and attaining sagehood or immortality was said to be within easy reach. But those are only legends. The true main line of the Youqin Clan consists of just one branch, and only its members can become sages or immo
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The Radiance of Sun and Moon 日月光华
Was this encounter with the Crown Prince an inescapable knot, or a calamity they could not escape? If it was a knot, then countless threads were bound together as one, as the saying goes: a knot of two hearts. If it was a calamity, then one careless move could mean losing everything, with no escape from fate.
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Drifting Through a Bloody Rain 飘伶血雨
The martial world is once again caught in turmoil, where the path is neither wholly righteous nor wholly evil. Where does justice lie? What is the way of the martial world? Come witness an extraordinary martial journey. Right and wrong, gratitude and grudges, are all decided by strength. A hero can also be a demon. But what is a demon?
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Like This Morning Star 似此星晨
The big boss, Zhao Yanchen, keeps secret the excitement of his youth. When he meets Ye Shumei, the new female neighbor who lives next door, he feels like he has become an acquaintance. Is it her? That girl at the foot of Yuncheng Mountain.
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The Journey Through Fuchuan 府川行
(A historical mystery with no special abilities and no transmigration. Every case is solved through logical deduction, and the schemes and power struggles are grounded in real insight.) Lin Wuwei looked at the corpse before him and said, “If this were the only corpse, it would be far too simple!”
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If the Male Lead Is Out of Reach, the Villain Is a Better Deal 不是男主要不起，反派更有性价比
The short drama adaptation of Quick Transmigration: Spoiled and Cherished is now available on Fanqie, the comic is out, and a print edition is in the works. Please show your support. [Sweet romance + yandere, one-on-one] To stay alive, Sheng Nuan must transmigrate into different worlds, play doomed cannon fodder, and save the darkest villains. They're cold-blooded, obsessive, and ruthless, capable of leaving a million corpses in their wake with a laugh and destroying the world with a wave of the
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System: The Savage Lands Crown Princess Just Wants to Herd Sheep 系统：蛮荒太子妃只想放羊
Also known as The Ambition Isn't Great: Just You and the World A Qi is clever and innocent. Her eldest brother is honest and just wants enough to eat; her second brother is sharp and wants to see the world. Their aunt is always fierce when chopping wood, their father is a wonderful cook, and their grandfather can recognize twenty characters, though he gets thirteen of them wrong. Their ambitions weren't great, but somehow they ended up winning the world. Content warnings: ...
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The Lamplighter: The Redemption of Civilization 执灯人，文明救赎
[This novel has a relatively slow start, but an absolutely vast world. It weaves major real-world civilizations into a fantasy setting and brings historical figures into the story.] Every civilization will come to an end. This world is shackled by a predetermined ceiling. Every civilization, no matter how prosperous, will hit a bottleneck when it reaches the height of its development. Over the long ages, countless civilizations have risen. They were brilliant, thriving, and prosperous. Yet witho
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The Legend of Doudou 豆豆传奇
My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy this inspiring coming-of-age story. Written in the style of classical Chinese poetry and prose, it aims to tell each story as well as possible!
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Tango in a Dream 梦中的探戈
The unexpected death of the author's mother plunged them into immense grief. They imagined a number of scenes and tried speaking from a completely new perspective, seeking to portray their mother's life.
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Tales of the Vast Sea 沧海演义
[Wuxia + xianxia + history + adventure + military] A sweeping epic of the jianghu and the imperial court, seen through the eyes of ordinary people as they grow, where romantic individual heroism intertwines with realism! The third year of the Wanli era, Chang'an, Shandong. A severe drought struck in spring, withering the crops. By summer, not a drop of rain had fallen, and the wells and springs had run dry. Thousands of miles of land lay barren. In the seventh month, locusts swarmed, and famine
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After Being Kidnapped, the Beloved Little Sister Turns Out to Be Sweet on the Outside, Dark on the Inside 被拐回家后，团宠妹妹成了白切黑
[Beloved by Everyone + Farming + Business + 1V1] The Su family's daughter, who was abducted three years ago, has returned! From then on, the Su family rises to the peak of success. Their crazy mother becomes clever and capable, while their simple-minded father finds a new purpose in life: spoiling his daughter without limit. Their straightforward eldest brother learns to dote on his wife. Their undercover second brother becomes a legendary detective. Their shrewd third brother turns into a busin
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The Farmhouse Bride Is a Crybaby 农家萌妻是哭包
To fill the military quota, the best marriage prospects from every village, along with the sniveling Xia Chuncao, are dragged into the Li household with a litter of piglets. What? Seven bachelors in one family? A father and six sons? Li Qingbai, the fourth son, is a sly old fox. He personally schemes against his five brothers, sending one hand off to military service and using the other to find them wives, all while setting himself up to become a general. His little wife bursts into tears at the
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Painting the Stardust of the World 绘世星尘
The universe is a prison, and fate is a lock. Beneath the calm of the Twin-Mind Planet, judgment has long been hidden in the cycle of reincarnation: older than civilization, more secret than breathing. “Deep are the mysteries of the star prison; the delusive crystal conceals the truth. Let the heart turn toward the hidden depths, and when illusion breaks, the Way remains.” The voice from beyond that lit the mind of Qingping Star Sovereign did more than that. It was the first beam of light to pi
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My Days as a Sugar Baby in Bangkok 我在曼谷傍富婆的日子
While traveling in Thailand, deliveryman Zhou Zihao meets Shilin Suolawei, the daughter of a Thai conglomerate, through a series of strange coincidences. Amid cultural clashes and class differences, he turns his life around with sincerity and smarts, all while staying true to himself... A down-to-earth story filled with warmth and emotions that slowly build.
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A Lifetime of Longing 念念余生
Lin Ming met Tang Feng'er and Tang Yuhua through two arranged dates. He loved Tang Feng'er, but circumstances forced him to spend half his life with Tang Yuhua. Throughout the years they shared, Lin Ming never stopped thinking about Tang Feng'er. When they were old, Tang Yuhua died of an illness, and Lin Ming finally got together with Tang Feng'er. Can they live happily together? Was Tang Feng'er truly the love of Lin Ming's life?
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Cicadas, Cicadas, How Can You Outlast the Spring and Autumn? 知了知了，焉能过春秋
I could speak ten million words, yet none would compare to following my heart. All the heavens and worlds are dogs, while every law and divine power reveals the gods. Let every god in the heavens come and fight me: I alone will take on Kunlun! Gods? Just their lapdogs... Justice? A joke... A thousand years of cultivation, and all for nothing. How sad, how pitiful. Cicadas... Cicadas, how could they ever outlive these seasons...
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Different Worlds, the Same Dream 世异梦同
Have you ever envied the all-powerful version of yourself in your dreams? If one day you could use those dream abilities in real life, what would you do? If you ever gain the abilities you have in your dreams, don't celebrate just yet. What awaits you may be an even faster death. Hunted by another version of yourself from a different world, pursued by enemies from your own world, and challenged by the dream world, where will you go from here? This is a chaotic world, but one full of possibilitie
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Loving You Between 0 and 1 在0和1之间爱你
When bestselling author Zhou Wei loses her precious manuscript at a café, tech company CEO Cheng Yuan appears like a precision algorithm. His long, slender fingers not only restore her words, but quietly make their way into her life. The media call him an "ice-cold CEO," yet he brings her the out-of-print book she has always dreamed of at her book signing. She styles herself the queen of the written word, yet in his VR lab she leaps about like a child discovering a new continent. As Zhou Wei im
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Chasing the Sword 逐剑
[Traditional fantasy] [One female lead] [Lone cultivator] [No transmigration or rebirth] One day, if I hold a sword in my hand, even the saints of the world will bow their heads! One man, one dog, and one sword: together, they stir up a storm across the Six Provinces! After enduring the darkest moment of his life, the boy leaves the city at sunset with a sword on his back. How does he end up with white hair overnight, wearing a ghost mask and wielding a sharp blade, becoming the “Executioner” in
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A Faithful Vigil 忠诚的坚守
The story takes place during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The protagonist, Yao Gui, is strolling around the market when he happens upon Cao Xin, a Japanese agent. Seeing that Yao Gui's bicycle is a Japanese brand, Cao Xin claims it for himself. When Yao Gui resists, Cao Xin's men subject him to all kinds of humiliation. Yao Gui vows to avenge the insult. He joins an agent unit under the jurisdiction of another district and begins building up his strength for revenge. By nature, he is kin
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The Blood of the War Against Japan Has Yet to Cool 抗日之血仍未冷
Special forces soldier Ye Dalong transmigrates to the blazing battlefields of the War of Resistance Against Japan, starting from the thrilling Battle of Nanjing. With his bloodline awakened, he ranges across the vast battlefields of the war, striking terror into the Japanese invaders. Old soldiers never die, and their blood still runs hot.
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The Road Through Life 人间路途
After an emotional affair, I ended up on an unusual path. That's life: the road ahead is full of unknowns, and wherever it leads, it is still life. The lewd find lust in it; the kind-hearted find sincerity; those who love life find romance. The self-assured find confidence. In truth, real life is more exciting than fiction. I'm simply a chronicler of life. The protagonist, Zhen Shilu, is someone like you or me. Hoping to rekindle an old romance, he ends up estranged from the one he loves. Experi
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Love on the Juma River 拒马河之恋
"The wind sighs over the Yi River, cold and bleak; the hero sets out, never to return." Long ago, Jing Ke departed from here to carry out his mission to assassinate the King of Qin. The hero never came back. The Yi River remembered him, and so did the people who lived here. The Yi River ends at what is now the Beihe Bridge. Stand on the bridge and look northwest, and you'll see the confluence of two rivers. It is not only the end of the Yi River, but also the middle stretch of the South Juma Riv
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The Guan Family Estate 关家大院
He was a servant in the prince's manor, yet he married a Gege... After the Qing Dynasty fell, he and his family settled in Yiling City, their ancestral home, and built the Guan family compound. Our story takes place in that compound...
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The Fragrance of Medicine 药箱药香
Not long after his birth, Niu Niu dies in a devastating plague. His body decays and disappears, while another soul quietly transmigrates to the Han Dynasty. At that time, war rages across the land, people struggle to survive, corpses litter the fields, and a rampant plague claims the lives of Niu Niu’s parents. With their dying breaths, they tell him to seek out his great-uncle Zhang Zhongjing, the governor of Changsha and a practicing physician. Impressed by Niu Niu’s extraordinary talent and g
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