I'm Out of Books. Looking for High-Quality Female Leads, No Idiotic Novels 书荒，求高质量女人，不要脑残小说
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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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We All Shone as the Cicadas Shed Their Skins 蝉蜕时我们都在发光
Life is like a game of Go: once you place a stone, there's no taking it back. Growth is like a tree: its roots must dig deep into the soil. Amid the many conflicts between city and countryside, social classes, and generations, what kind of love story will unfold between Zhang Zimo, a top student from the countryside, and Liang Yixun, the son of the Forestry Bureau director who is passionate about Go? My new work is here! Welcome to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to wr
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After the Cannon Fodder Transmigrated into a Book, Her Sharp-Tongued Junior Brother Set His Sights on Her 炮灰穿书后，被毒舌师弟盯上了
[A career-focused heroine x a sharp-tongued, narcissistic, clingy, adorable husband] [Straight-laced heroine + devoted husband + pampered hubby + angst in the middle + not a wish-fulfillment story + past and present lives] [The leads have their roles reversed: she dotes on him] [Synopsis] After Gu Tiandeng transmigrates into a book, her master orders her to help her junior brother find a spiritual herb that can cleanse his marrow. Along the way, she encounters all kinds of characters from the or
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
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Yan Ruyu Is in the Book 书中自有颜如聿
Jiang Ruishu thinks Qin Yu is the legal profession’s version of a bitter truth dispenser. The more handsome he is, the sharper his tongue. Love is too much trouble! Qin Yu thinks Jiang Ruishu is the queen of schemes among judges. The kinder she sounds, the more hypocritical she is inside. Stay as far away from her as possible! But neither of them expected to spend their whole lives falling for each other.
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Possessing Jiang Xi 佔有姜西
[One-on-One Sweet Romance + Two Strong Leads + PDA-Filled Romance + Mutual Devotion] A job interview at a bar leads two people with nothing in common to meet for the first time. One is a private tutor, the other a cold-faced King of Hell. One does the flirting, the other does the pampering. Later, no one could have guessed that the elegant, aloof Qin Zhan would turn into a clingy burr. Their everyday life after getting together is even too much to watch... “Wifey...” “Hmm?” “Could you comfort me
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Report to the Demon Lord: The Emperor Has Fallen for You 报告魔尊：帝君他对你动了凡心
[Completed] [One couple, strong male and female leads, doting romance] [A reserved, seductive emperor and a calculating demon lord: a perfectly matched pair who flirt and spar in this xianxia tale.] As the Demon Lord, Ji Liuli was sealed away for twenty thousand years. On the third day after being reborn, she started spouting nonsense and scamming people for free food, drink, and silver wherever she went, acting carefree, frivolous, and arrogant. Later, a remarkably handsome man pins Ji Liuli ag
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Nothing More Than That 不过尔尔
Er’er is a weak little immortal. She can’t fight monsters, and she can’t meditate either. With barely eight hundred years of cultivation, she loses it all the moment she ascends to the Ninth Heaven. But she has the gift of foresight. She knows that one day, the man before her will destroy heaven and earth and slaughter every living thing. Before he turns demonic, she must bind her little life tightly to his. Li Ye is a powerful High God. He ranks first at fighting monsters, first at meditati
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After My Ex-Boyfriend Acquired the Company 公司被前男友收购以后
[Lazy, bootlicking heroine + arrogant Capricorn who buys your company when you dump him + workplace romance + sweet pampering = rekindled love] The thing Tong Nian regrets most is making a bet with her best friend during her freshman year to flirt with the aloof campus heartthrob Liao Yuncheng. And somehow, it worked! Her second biggest regret is that a year later, she dumped him in a daze, only to be dragged onto his blacklist. His reason: he had no shortage of ordinary friends. N years later.
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She’s Soft-Waisted and Playful, and the Chaste Imperial Uncle Bewitches Her Every Day 她腰软灵趣，禁欲皇叔日日勾心魂
Word has it that Prince Rong has specifically asked to marry the Taifu’s infatuated legitimate daughter. The whole city says it’s downright shocking! Just a few months ago, hadn’t Prince Rong threatened to kill that lovesick fool? At the Taifu’s residence, a certain lovestruck young woman looks at a room full of betrothal gifts and pulls a long face. “Someone, please! Can you send all this back?” The noble young ladies of the capital burst out swearing. “Have some shame, will you?”
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Quick Transmigration: My Host Is a Max-Level Villain 快穿：我的宿主是满级反派
[Author’s note: A no-brainer story about crushing scumbags. It starts out okay, but has no ending. Read at your own risk.] Quick transmigration, no romance, strong female lead, scumbag takedowns, satisfying revenge [Max-level expert enters the beginner’s village and shows no mercy to scumbags] Qin Xia is a once-in-a-century cultivation prodigy, but a misunderstanding lands her in hell. After enduring endless suffering, she becomes a ghost immortal. For over a thousand years, the ghost immortal r
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The Immortal Lords' Four-Year-Old Little Darling 仙君们的四岁小奶团
[Everyone’s Favorite + Adorable Child + Secret Identity + Portable Space + Treasure Collecting] Xingwan, the village’s “ill-fated loner,” is sold by her relatives to an old street magician, but accidentally opens the gates to the Immortal Realm. When she sets out to gain experience, her senior brothers and sisters compete to accompany her. Her second senior brother teaches her cultivation techniques, her third gives her magical treasures, and her fourth gives her an adorable spirit pet. There’s
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The Abnormal Antagonist Research Institute: Quick Transmigration 快穿之非正常反派研究所
[Complete, with bonus chapters released occasionally + one-on-one romance + mildly yandere male lead] [The male lead has nothing to do with the System. He encounters the System in the first world because he’s obsessed with fluffy things. If you can’t accept that, don’t start reading.] Gu Yanying gives off the unmistakable scent of a single woman at all times. Because she’s such a nuisance, her own parents send her to different little worlds to complete missions and hide her body away. Bai Jiu sa
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She Came from Hell 她从地狱而来
[One-on-one romance, devoted to each other, short story] She died on the day she came of age. That day, she suffered a terrible humiliation. Everyone trampled her self-respect and dignity into the dirt, over and over again. She was reborn. This time, she would grow stronger before anyone else. She swore she would drag every person who had hurt her in her previous life straight to hell. After being reborn, she discovered at the age of eighteen that the world had changed beyond recognition…
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Male Leads, Get a Grip! I’m Really Just the Villainess! 男主们都清醒点！我真的只是恶毒女配啊！
Chi Xining should have been enjoying a comfortable retirement, but she unfortunately transmigrates into a cannon-fodder female character who got merged with another person because they share the same name! In one stroke of bad luck, she ends up with three doomed identities and manages to offend the male leads of three different books. Chi Xining clutches her secret identities close, trembling as she tries to get herself written out of the story. But the more she tries, the farther she gets from
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After Transmigrating into a Villainess, the Male Leads Eavesdrop on My Thoughts 穿成恶毒女配后被男主们偷听心声
(A comic adaptation of the same name is now available) After transmigrating into a book as a wicked villainess, she gets a System that makes her stronger whenever she roasts the plot. At first, all she has to do is make casual comments about the story, collect rewards, and play the wicked supporting villainess until the plot ends without a hitch. She never expected the male leads to unlock their own storylines, one by one abandoning their original characterizations and sending the plot wildly of
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A Female Doctor’s Murder Diary 女医生谋杀日记
The print edition has been published. Search for A Female Doctor's Diary. I'm a doctor, an obstetrician and gynecologist. I have only two goals: Make someone disappear, And have a child. But he reeks of medicine And stands in my way!
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On the Brink of Death 死亡濒临
On the very first day of the newly formed Nanjing City investigation team, a murder case breaks out. Gu Xiyi, a key figure in the case, is an expert at slacking off and sneaking in flirtatious jabs at the team captain. At first, Xian Wei tries every trick in the book to lock Gu Xiyi up, convinced that his very existence is a menace to society. Later, he never imagines that Gu Xiyi will end up being a menace to him alone... If you don't know death, how can you understand life? If the dead cannot
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Starting with Nothing, I Scheme to Build Mechs 一穷二白谋机甲
[Lighthearted + funny + passionate + friendship] Mecha engineer Lin Xing transmigrates to the interstellar era and becomes an abandoned, withdrawn little girl. To keep pursuing her dream of building mecha, she works hard at school. There, she meets her lifelong best friend, and together they strive to grow stronger. Plenty of funny and humorous things happen along the way. This is a lighthearted, witty story, and the whole main cast is a bunch of lovable idiots! A word of caution: After watchin
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The Divine Doctor Is a Beauty Who Captivates All 医妃她千娇百媚
Military doctor Xue Mei transmigrated to an ancient feudal society with a pocket dimension and a super personal terminal, becoming the eldest daughter of the Yongning Marquis's household. The original eldest daughter was the jealous type: she was devoted to her father, who only cared for her half-sister Xue Yutan, and got jealous; she adored her older brother, who took Xue Yutan's side, and got jealous again; she admired her fiancé, who shamelessly tried to flirt with Xue Yutan, and got jealous
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After Giving Birth, the Cold and Aloof Demon Emperor Begs Me to Stroke His Tail 生崽后，清冷妖皇哭求我摸他尾巴
[Cool, aloof seductress VS domineering female demon] The female demon Chu Qun was reborn. A thousand years had passed, yet her legends still covered the continent. The Saint of the Pill, the world-destroying Marquis Chu Yi, the sword-forging patriarch... They were all her secret identities! In her previous life, her siblings betrayed her. She was torn apart by chariots, and her soul was sealed beneath the abyss. This time, she returned in triumph, slaying prodigies, killing her enemies, and supp
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The Little Highness Has a Screw Loose 小殿下他脑子有坑
[Sweet, bold, and outspoken young princess X gentle, seemingly innocent but secretly calculating young prince] Shi Sui transmigrated into the heroine of a classic tragic romance. In the original, the male and female leads' melodramatic love story tortured them from the first chapter to the penultimate one, and still ended in a tragic finale. Shi Sui: Bye-bye, then. I'll pick the devoted second male lead. Basically, it's a story about a laid-back girl using her wonderfully quirky imagination to s
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A Villain’s Survival Guide 反派求生记
Bai Ning’s new novel has fans questioning whether its plot is too clichéd? A talented author can use her skill to make the haters eat their words. A clichéd plot? The author herself joins the story, and the unruly little devil turns into a sweet little sister, leaping straight into the role of everyone’s darling…
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President Mo, Stop Chasing Me: Your Runaway Young Wife Is Back 墨总别追了，逃走的少夫人回来了
Synopsis: [Rebirth + scum-bashing + face-slapping power fantasy + sweet pampering + secret identities + obsessive CEO vs. flirtatious temptress] In her previous life, Luo Nuanyan was a fool and was framed into a horrible death... Now reborn from the ashes, she oversleeps on the beach. The obsessive CEO, Second Master Mo, grabs her and pulls her close. “Run again, you little minx, and I'll break your legs! Then I'll make you give me a whole litter of monkeys!” She acts sweet and obedient in publi
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Reborn on My Wedding Night, I Was Kissed Senseless by the Possessive Tycoon 重生新婚夜，被偏执大佬亲疯了
[Revenge + secret identities + feel-good power fantasy + lots of sweet affection] After being reborn, Shi Jiunian looked at her handsome husband, so gorgeous he could make anyone's knees buckle, and swallowed hard. How blind had she been in her past life to reject such an incredible husband, trust a scumbag and a scheming woman instead, and end up with her family destroyed? In this life, she reclaimed her beauty and brains and set out to crush the villains and win powerful allies! But somehow, s
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Killing His Wife 杀死妻子
To deal with scumbag men, use their own tactics against them and leave them with nowhere to turn. Lin Xia is busy uncovering the truth, inheriting a fortune worth over a billion, and helping women hurt by their partners. Her enemies are formidable: a scheming man who marries into a wealthy family to exploit it, a crafty tycoon, a faithless husband who murders his wife for insurance money, a manipulative man who scams women out of money and sex, and an elite lawyer who commits sexual violence…
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Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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After Winning 300 Million, I Became the Luckiest Woman Alive 中奖三亿后，我成了人间锦鲤
Yu Shu, a struggling wage earner, suddenly wins 300 million yuan in the lottery. She thinks she's reached the pinnacle of life, but reality tells her that 300 million is only the beginning... Every car or house she buys comes with a grand prize from a scratch-off egg. She wins a pound of gold in a shopping mall raffle, scratches a lottery ticket on a whim and wins 50,000 yuan, gets her restaurant bill waived, wins every time someone shares a giveaway, and passes her graduate school and driving t
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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After Becoming the Villain’s Wicked Wife, I Restored a Wife’s Authority 穿成反派的恶妻后，我重振妻纲了
[Forced Love, Fake White Moonlight, The Husband Chases His Wife to the Crematorium, Everyone Falls for Her and Ends Up at the Crematorium] Yuan Jiujiu, head of a research institute, wakes up one day in the body of the vicious supporting villainess in a doting-all-around novel. Though the original owner was the true heiress, the reborn heroine stole her place, leaving her a useless country bumpkin everyone could bully. Her biological parents saw her as a bringer of bad luck; her biological brothe
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After Fleeing the Chaotic Era, I Became the Founding Empress 乱世逃亡后，我成了开国女帝
[Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. 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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After Reincarnating as a Wretched Old Woman, I Just Want to Live a Laid-Back Life 穿成极品老妇之后只想当咸鱼
The old woman was a real piece of work. She drove her eldest daughter-in-law to her death, then doted on her second son, who passed the highest imperial exam and married the daughter of the prime minister. She even encouraged him to favor his concubine and neglect his wife. In the end, the prime minister had the whole family killed. The old woman suddenly came back reborn, only to be scared to death by what she had experienced in her previous life. Manxing, a promising 25-year-old woman, transmi
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The Farming Life of a Fake Heiress Who'd Rather Be a Slacker 穿成咸鱼假千金的种田日常
Due to a System bug, psychological counselor Song Yunyan ends up in the wrong era and becomes a fake heiress sent back to the countryside by the Marquis's household. She decides to wait for the System to be fixed while continuing to laze around, only to discover that even being lazy isn't easy. The adorable twin babies cling to her and call her “Mom” all day, while the husband who had agreed to divorce her becomes increasingly difficult to deal with... With no other choice, Song Yunyan puts her
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I Became a Dating Show Contestant and Shot to Fame 成为恋综女嘉宾后，我爆红了
[Showbiz + dating reality show + putting scumbags in their place + top-tier star + mutual devotion] Li Xuanning was a complete nobody when she suddenly joined a dating reality show. As soon as it aired, a mob of haters attacked her Weibo. “Did you leave your emotional intelligence in the dog’s bowl? You’re a nobody, so what are you acting so high and mighty for? No wonder your career’s a total flop!” But no one expected the show to get more and more addictive as it went on! She crushed the scumb
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Back to the 1960s: Farming, Building a Fortune, and Raising the Kids 重回六零：种田发家养崽崽
Transmigrating into the impoverished 1960s wasn’t scary. Becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a book wasn’t scary either. What was scary was that her three stepsons would grow up to become major villains, and all of them, along with their upright, aloof father, would meet tragic ends. How could she let that happen? Lin Qinghe looked at the three future villains, none of whom was even ten years old, and made up her mind: changing a villain starts when they’re young!
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Tales of Farming in Ancient Times 远古种田记
How can a woman who transmigrates survive in prehistoric times? To stay alive, A Xi, a female, works hard to improve living conditions for everyone, with the company and guidance of A Nai, a male. When other females or ferocious beasts come looking for trouble, fighting back is the way to go. Polygamy is out of the question. One husband and one wife is the ideal...
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Reborn for a Comeback: The Young Lady’s Style Is All Wrong 重生逆袭：大小姐画风不对 [Sweet romance + putting scumbags in their place + an exceptionally bold heroine + feel-good power fantasy] In her previous life, she died with deep resentment. In this one, she rises from the ashes and tears the scumbags to shreds. Who could have guessed that Feng Xing, the formidable financial tycoon; Feng Bai, the world-renowned genius doctor; and Feng Jing, the top-tier star who captivates countless women, would turn out to be her own biological brothers? In her previous life, no one cared f 18.2kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
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The Abstinent Young Commander Flirts and Teases Me Every Day 禁欲少统领每天在我面前又撩又浪
She was once the world-famous King of Mercenaries, but after being reborn in the body of a fake heiress who had been switched at birth, she was cursed and despised by everyone, then forced to marry a cripple in place of the real heiress. “Hey, buddy, interested in crashing a wedding?” While fleeing, she casually jumped into a stranger’s car. The man turned the ring on his thumb, a deep chill flickering in his eyes. From then on, he wouldn’t leave her alone. The poor fake heiress made a domineeri
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After a Failed Blind Date, I Became a Singer 相亲失败后，我成为了歌手
[Farming Lit] [No System] [Not Reborn] [No Transmigration] [Singer] [Showbiz] [Fanfiction Writer] [Listening to Old Songs] A gathering place for anyone who wants to read about a young woman falling in sweet, romantic love! Want to know how an ordinary person can go from being an amateur to becoming a professional singer? If you enjoy lyrical old songs and easy-to-sing melodies in the mid-range, come on in. Yuan Yuan had always thought her life would just pass by like that: go to work, come h
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The Temptress 尤物
The print edition of The Enchantress will be released on March 25 at 8 p.m. (A devoted one-on-one romance, with both leads each other’s first and only.) Zhou Yi is notorious in their circle for being a shameless playboy. Everyone thinks he cares about pleasure, not feelings. That is, until a video leaks one day. In it, Zhou Yi looks like a devout believer, clasping a woman’s slender wrist in his hand. His eyes are filled with fervor and tenderness as he murmurs in a low, hoarse voice, “Jiang Yin
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Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he
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