Books with Advice You Can Use in Real Life 在现实中能用得上的书
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The Unknown Cause of His Death 他的不明死因
When faced with other people’s misfortune, most of us choose silence, compromise, or forgetfulness. The pressures of life, family ties, and fear of unknown risks make most of us hesitate. This is not cowardice, but a practical consideration. The sacrifices behind going to any lengths are often ones ordinary people can hardly imagine, let alone bear. Three years after the previous secretary of Shengjie Group died by suicide, Wan Sen, who also worked as a secretary, fell from the top floor. The of
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The Awakening of a Housewife 一个家庭主妇的觉醒
When the heroine, Song Xiaoying, discovers that her daughter is planning to kill herself, she follows the clues and uncovers her husband Zhou Yang's affair. This sets off a battle of interests between the wife and the mistress, husband and wife, and parents-in-law and daughter-in-law, laying bare the calculations and compromises, darkness and ugliness of human nature. It's a rare and compelling work of realistic relationship fiction.
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Lin Daiyu at Max Level: Reforming the Immortal Dao's Elite Families 满级黛玉:整顿仙道豪门
Lin Shu, a modern prodigy well versed in both the arts and sciences, with knowledge spanning ancient and modern times, died in the prime of her life because of a conspiracy. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the crying infant Lin Daiyu. In this world, the Story of the Stone still existed, but things were far from ordinary! The Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue families were four immortal cultivation clans that dominated China and monopolized its spiritual ley lines. The Grand View Garden was
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Schemes from the Dark Abyss 暗渊之谋
Lin Yue is a seasoned journalist. Influenced by generations of doctors in her family, she once dreamed of practicing traditional Chinese medicine, but had to give it up to honor her grandfather's dying wish. Even so, she never stopped studying it in her daily life. One day, she receives an assignment to conduct an interview, only to stumble into one bizarre incident after another. Linked together, they seem to be drawing her into a vast whirlpool: a strange bureau chief, missing children, a Taoi
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The Road Home: Finding Your Way Back Through the Mortal World 归途:在红尘中寻找回家的路
If you: · Lie awake at night, wondering what you are living for · Feel drained by work, as if you are spending your life away · Feel exhausted by relationships and don't know how to get along with people · Feel empty inside, trying to fill the void with entertainment only to feel emptier · Feel confused about faith and don't know what is real · Get warning signs from your body but don't know what it is telling you · Feel lonely and unsupported, as if the world has nothing to do with you This boo
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Southern Song, Northern Center 南宋北中
From the start, two strangers who accidentally ended up together transmigrate with their bare bottoms exposed, covering themselves with leaves before getting stung in their most sensitive spots by hairy caterpillars. No System, no golden finger. They mainly rely on what they've learned online to make their way in the world, and the story wins on plot alone. Humorous and funny, with an emphasis on realism.
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She Takes Odd Jobs in Shanghai and Refuses to Marry a Billionaire Investor 她,沪上打零工,拒嫁百亿投资人
When a ruthless Silicon Valley CEO who believes “everything can be assigned a value” meets a laid-back working girl from the bottom rung who believes “fate can be observed,” an intense tug-of-war over love, class, and perspective unfolds quietly in Shanghai. Zhou Ji is the founder of TS Capital, and “can't have it” has no place in his vocabulary. One unexpectedly delicious stew sparks in him the most primal urge to “acquire” Shen Ning, the cook who made it. He's used to dissecting everything thr
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Dark Face Reading 黑相术
After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail.
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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Dreams Can Be This Beautiful After All 梦,原来可以这样美好
A thousand years pass in a dream, as I witness the rise and fall of different civilizations in another world and the meteoric rise of Shenzhou. “My name is Zhu Feng. I’m not Mount Everest, blocking your way forward. I’m Zhu Feng, here to help you climb higher, one step at a time.” At an international exchange conference, Liu Mingyu said, “Please speak to me in Chinese. It’s a matter of respect for my mother tongue.” “Report! Plaster Island has sunk!” “The fortunes of Shenzhou have taken phys
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The Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, and Qiang: China’s Fierce Northern Tribes 凶奴鲜卑羯氐羌
Set against the Rebellion of the Five Barbarians during the Western Jin dynasty, the novel The Fierce Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, and Qiang spans the years from the late Western Jin (303) to 439. It paints a sweeping picture of the many nomadic peoples who migrated into northern China, established regimes, and fought one another during this period. Figures such as Shi Le, Fu Jian, and Murong Chui appear one after another as the fortunes of the various powers rise and fall. The story moves from Li
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A Ten-Year Dream in the Officialdom 十年官场梦
What ordinary people see as a grassroots success story may actually be nothing more than a pawn in the hands of powerful figures, sent out to fight on their behalf. To make the pawn serve its purpose, those figures grant it a measure of power and status for a time. Perhaps that's all a grassroots rise to success really is. The protagonist, Chi Mingyu, may be just such a pawn. During the ten years after leaving university and entering public service, he once enjoyed great success. But in the end,
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Mom Will Grow Up with You 妈妈陪你一起长大
Being a mother is a lifelong responsibility, and you can’t go all out from the very start. At first, all we want is for our children to be safe and healthy. Later, we find ourselves piling all kinds of expectations on them. This book records the warmth and everyday details of a child’s life from birth through graduation from kindergarten. It’s dedicated to all the mothers who feel anxious about their children’s growth at this age. We’ve all been warmed and encouraged by our children. Do you reme
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After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital Went Insane! 当我逃走后,京圈大小姐疯了!
After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital’s Elite Circle Went Crazy!
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On the Day We Were to Get Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love 领证当天,未婚妻跟白月光跑了
On the Day We Got Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love
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My Years as a Male Nanny 我做男保姆的那些年
[No harem, no cuckoldry, no invincibility. Urban slice of life + mystery. To be clear, this has mystery elements. Don’t read if that’s not your thing.] I only went to interview for a male nanny job, but after meeting the female employer, I was dragged into a room with eight doors, where I encountered all kinds of bizarre things. An ex-convict, a male model, a nun, a lawyer, a beautiful streamer, a UN expert, a rich second-generation heir, and a butcher: what will happen when all eight are trappe
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Hedong During the Wars of the Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Northern Qi 两魏周齐战争中的河东
This is one of the representative works by Song Jie, a scholar of historical military geography, and an extension of his book The Geographical Hubs of Ancient Chinese Warfare. It offers an in-depth look at the “Hedong geographical hub” in the struggle for supremacy among the Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Northern Qi. The author first traces the administrative evolution of Hedong from the Qin and Han through the Wei and Jin periods, defining the scope of the geographical term “Hedo
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A Civil Servant’s Path: From Gangster to Provincial Government Official 体制修行人:从混混到省直机关
This is a book about growth and transformation, written for ordinary people: going from thinking the sky is the limit to recognizing reality and accepting that you're nothing special. After graduating from college, Wang Yang worked for companies, made sales, sold insurance, and drove an unlicensed cab. He even tried starting a business and ended up deep in debt. Later, following his parents' advice, he took the civil service exam. Because his major did not match the requirements, there were very
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I Transmigrated into a Powerful Aristocrat and Spoiled My Chambermaid Until She Became My Wife! 穿越顶级权贵,我把通房丫鬟宠成正妻!
I transmigrated into the world of the highest aristocracy and spoiled my personal maid until she became my legal wife!
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Love in the Peach Blossoms 爱在桃花灿烂时
The male lead, Yang Tao, is an average-looking young man who secretly loves the female lead, Yan Haizhen, while they are at university. After graduation, they go their separate ways. For love, he leaves a major first-tier city and moves to Jiyuan, a small city in western Henan. There he encounters formidable rivals: the handsome and talented Yi Bin, and Li Qiang, a rich second-generation heir. With help from classical poets Dong Bin and Gao Feng, can he stage a successful comeback? This is a rom
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Life, with Nowhere to Land 人生,无处安放
By middle age, Li Shu's life had become a complete mess. Her marriage had turned cold and distant, her grown son was going down a rebellious path, and her body and mind were steadily wearing down. How could she go on living such a miserable life?
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A Middle-Aged Man's Redemption: The Phoenix Turns Toward the Sun 中年男人的自我救赎:凤自向阳
A man born in the 1980s, now middle-aged, who spent more than twenty years working as a clothing pattern maker. For the first half of his life, he lived trapped in self-doubt and inner turmoil, held back by all kinds of hang-ups about his name, appearance, education, marriage, and children. At middle age, he finally learned to make peace with his past self, slowly tear down the high walls around his heart, and let himself off the hook. This book records the pitfalls I've fallen into, the grie
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The Dust of Mortal Life 尘事
This book chronicles a family across a hundred years. An illiterate country woman is forced to abandon her newborn child, then wanders from place to place amid the chaos of a turbulent era, struggling to survive in the cracks. Told as a work of documentary fiction, this story depicts the joys and sorrows of several generations of an ordinary family, bringing a long-buried past to light. Let posterity decide who was right and who was wrong!
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The Ferocious Golden Scale 金鳞凶猛
“Heroine, wait!” “Be quiet!” … “Immortal maiden, don’t be afraid. I’m not a demon.” “I am.” … At first, Li Su only wanted to cultivate in peace. But the women in this world are too fierce, so he’ll just have to be a little bit more ferocious~
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The Freezer 冰柜
In today's restless society, people's innate kindness can easily be lost amid rampant materialism. Sometimes, love and devotion are repaid with betrayal, or even death. Based on real cases, this book warns readers that the dark side of human nature is always present, and that desire and dissatisfaction can corrode even the deepest bonds.
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I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案,晚上地府当差
I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha
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After the Divorce 离婚之后
[An animated series based on this book is coming soon. If you enjoy Qiuqiu's work, please keep an eye out for it!] This story tackles a subject close to real life, one I've always wanted to write about but never dared to. After writing a few feel-good power fantasies, I found myself returning to this subject, with an even stronger urge to express what I wanted to say. And so this book was born… Yang Zhixuan was a full-time homemaker who was divorced after fifteen years of marriage. On a snowy ni
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Math Olympiad: My Face-Slapping Comeback 数学竞赛,我打脸逆袭
I Turn the Tables in the Math Competition
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My Reborn Childhood Friend Keeps Trying to Trick Me Into Becoming Her Boyfriend 重生的青梅,总想忽悠我做她老公
[Two reborn heroines + college romance + love triangle drama + game startup + mystery + everyday life (This novel is 80% romance, 10% mystery, and 10% business. If that's not for you, please don't read.)] After graduating from high school at eighteen, Lin Yizhe originally planned to pursue his dream by going to college in Shencheng. But just before he was due to submit his college choices, Xia Churan, his classmate and childhood sweetheart, came to his home and clung to him, sobbing. After that,
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My College Entrance Exam Choices Were Altered 我的高考志愿被篡改了
I clearly put Peking University down as my choice, but I wasn’t accepted. From then on, I gave up on life. One night, after getting drunk, my younger cousin let the truth slip. She’d stolen my account and password and changed my university application. Reborn, I’m going to Peking University.
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After the College Entrance Exams, My Mom Secretly Changed My Applications 高考后我妈偷改我的志愿
After the College Entrance Exam, My Mom Secretly Changed My Application
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Before the Gaokao, I Was Bound to an Exam Score System 高考前我被绑定了考试分数系统
I was famous in my class for handing in blank exams. Every time, I handed in a blank paper and got zero. My mom only hoped I could scrape by and graduate from high school. I also thought there was no chance I’d get into college. I wanted to start working early and earn money as soon as possible. Then one day, an Exam Score System suddenly appeared inside me. Every time I improved my score by one point, it would give me another thousand yuan.
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Loved Ones in Leshan 乐山亲人
A man from the post-70s generation who made his way in Shenzhen, he was part of a group known as the “Lion Legion.” After leaving an executive position at a publicly listed company, he began a nerve-racking entrepreneurial journey. Then the COVID-19 pandemic struck without warning, costing him his family, his car, and his home. Overnight, he was back to square one. During his darkest days, he met Juan, a woman from Leshan, and found true love again. Together, they began an ordinary yet extraordi
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Life in Childhood and the Way We Live Now 小时候的生活与现在的生活方式
A new work is here! Feel free to 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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Auction Tycoon 法拍大亨
Just before An Dongming graduated from college, his mother ran off with all the cash and jewelry in the house. Their villa was auctioned off, and a fire at his father’s printing factory killed eight people, including his father. From then on, An Dongming went from a rich kid to a penniless nobody. When he begged his aunt to lend him 100,000 yuan so he could find somewhere to put his father’s urn, she drove him out and said something he would never forget: “If your father hadn’t taken that job, h
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Peeping: The Butterfly Effect 偷窥之蝴蝶效应
The male lead is a complete loser. By chance, he discovers a female colleague's secret, turning his work and personal life upside down. Two mature adults with sharp minds and social skills engage in an intense game of push and pull. Love begins for reasons unknown and grows deeper with every passing day: they love and are loved, hurt and are hurt, grow through their pain, then fade from one another's memories. This is also the story of an ordinary worker's growth.
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How Hard It Is to Be Born 生而何易
If life freezes over, what can be the sunshine? "In this world, each person has their own snowfall, their own hidden shadows and radiance." Based on real experiences. May you always have the courage to grow toward the sun.
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The Young Matchmaker 年轻的媒婆
Lin Yanzi got married and divorced in a flash at the age of twenty, but she still believed in love. As she searched for her other half, she kept accidentally giving the men she liked away to other women, earning herself the nickname of matchmaker. Finding the one was still a distant dream, while she ventured further and further down the path of matchmaking.
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Suspended from the Start? I Join the Discipline Inspection Team Instead 开局停职?我转投纪委调查组
His superior was investigated, his girlfriend cheated on him, and petty people conspired against him, forcing him to take a leave of absence. Yang Dong faced the darkest moment of his life from the start, but he was not nervous in the slightest, because he had already experienced it in his previous life. Having returned to 2008, he could deal with all of this more calmly. What he never expected was that the course of his life would change because of a single phone call. To save his superior, he
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Growing Up Again: Embracing the Child Within 重新长大:拥抱内心的小孩
Will your childhood heal you for life, or will you spend your life healing your childhood? If you had the chance to go back to your childhood, what would you do? This is a collection of stories about ten adults weighed down by painful pasts. A retired kindergarten principal opens an “Adult Kindergarten” for grown-ups. Among its students are all kinds of people with psychological struggles who can’t adapt to the adult world: a young mother with a three-year-old child, a shut-in in his twenties wh
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The Unrivaled Art 绝学无忧
Dear kindred spirits, hello! I am Mr. Qiankun. I wrote Peerless Wisdom Without Worry to promote the culture of China’s classical arts. I welcome all kindred spirits to follow my work. My book Peerless Wisdom Without Worry also carries on Chinese culture and creates classics of world civilization... My book Peerless Wisdom Without Worry also presents the ultimate wisdom for understanding every facet of life... My book Peerless Wisdom Without Worry is also a supreme work of wisdom that deciphers t
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The Great Path of Cultivation 修行大道
Hello, all those who are destined to cross paths with me! I am Mr. Qian Kun. I write The Way of Cultivation to promote the ancient cultivation culture of China. Those who feel a connection are welcome to follow along and cultivate together.
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I Wish Us Joy Forever 我愿常欢喜
[Women’s Growth + Romance and Marriage + Workplace + Relationships] Girls from different family backgrounds will all find their own happiness! A rose raised in a greenhouse will weather life’s storms, while a girl who grows like a weed will find her own spring. She is a rich girl from a big city, yet she falls prey to a gold-digging boyfriend, sexual harassment at work, and exclusion by her colleagues... She is a small-town academic who gets extorted by a fellow villager and drained by parents w
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Quick Transmigration: A Shen 快穿:阿蜃
When a seasoned author looks back at their earliest writing, it's hard not to find their younger self affected and pretentious, and to wish they could transmigrate back in time and cover their own mouth 🤭 The author is here to warn you: the first arc isn't good, so skip it. The “fight fire with fire” arc isn't good either, and the “wading through the waters” arc isn't good either. The apocalypse arc is, well, so-so. Basically, just skip whatever you don't like. This book is pretty divisive: the
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After the Divorce, Stay Away from Me 离婚后,前夫滚远点
[Grounded and immersive] Two years into our marriage, the husband I had overcome every obstacle to be with cheated on me. After two years as a housewife, I had no way of getting the better of my lawyer husband. I swallowed my pride and pretended to forgive him, then made sure the scumbag left with nothing. A college guy eleven years younger than me, a successful and mature man, a friend who once helped me through hard times... They all came calling. Why get married when dating is so much more fu
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A Professional Organizer’s Case Files 整理师实录
The story of a professional home organizer. As she tidies up, she witnesses the joys and sorrows, happiness and heartache of the people whose lives she touches. Through her work, she also comes to understand herself anew, transforms, and sets off on a fresh start.
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The Official Road, Starting at Level Three 官道,从三段开始
My name is Bu Qingyun. (I hold a senior government post and have a fortune worth over a hundred million.) Let me tell you a secret. Ever since I was in elementary school, entering politics has been the light of my ideals and the flame of my ambition. It was buried in my heart like a seed, ready to take root and sprout as soon as the soil was right...
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Adoption into the Family 过继
This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable...
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