Rural Novels Set in the 1960s and 1970s 六七十年代的乡村小说

1. 501 七 The 1970s: Reborn Before the Scumbag Brought Someone to Report Me 七零，重生回渣男带人举报前 Qin Bao'er钦宝儿Modern Romance802k WordsCompleted In her previous life, Yan Wenyi was deceived by a scumbag until the very end. Only as she was dying did she learn that he had reported her grandfather, and that he had also killed him for his fortune. That man had been carrying on with her so-called best friend for a long time, too. The two of them abused her without restraint, draining her until she had nothing left. Even then, they wouldn’t let her go, and dumped her in a mental hospital. Thankfully, fate gave her another chance at life. She r 2.9kReads8.8Score284Shelves

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   The book is easy to read, feels comfortable, past lives and present lives, revenge without procrastination, the beginning is attractive, it was written in the 1970s, the rating is a bit low

2. 502 闯 Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东：林二妮的颠簸幸福路 Liu Piao留飘Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol 29.7kReads9.4Score3kShelves

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   Completed in three days, the Era Village Journey to Guandong series

3. 503 春 Love in the Spring Mountains 春山之恋 An Yiran安亦然Modern Romance231k WordsCompleted Military marriages are even more tantalizing. If he loves you, he’ll love you even if you’re another man’s wife. If he doesn’t, even bearing his child won’t make his heart yours. True love is priceless. Childhood sweethearts, falling in love at seventeen or eighteen, forced into marriage... A hotel hostess in a wine-red qipao stuns everyone and captivates the passersby coming and going. After enlisting and heading to the city for work, girls from the countryside find their choices in life changi 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Return to the purest love and look for our touch. If he loves you, he will love you even if you are someone else's wife. If he doesn't love you, even if you bear him a child, his heart will not be with you. In rural areas in the 1970s and 1980s, in order to get out of the mountains, boys joined the army and girls went to work in the city. Some became canaries, some did whatever it took to climb up, and some were sober. We look for the purest love from the most innocent era.

4. 504 林 Miss Lin's Unconventional Marriage 林小姐的非常婚姻 Shangguan Dangdang上官当当Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Chen Yaohui once reveled in having women on both arms, but now he is trapped in a painful struggle over love. How far will the temptations of power and desire push a man past his limits? As Lin Huanyan struggles, Chen Yaohui grits his teeth, determined to win back his beloved wife. "Fine, you want a divorce? Then I'll make that man lose everything and die without a grave!" A love affair of mutual torment, tender and torturous, with longing that cuts to the bone. Who will be consumed beyond redem 251Reads7.4Score—Shelves
5. 505 漂 The Gorgeous, High-Maintenance Mediator of the 1970s 漂亮作精在七零当调解员 Er Lulu二鹿鹿Modern Romance298k WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Beloved by the Whole Family + Hilarious + Military Marriage] You were supposed to mediate family disputes, not encourage people to get divorced! - After five years as a marriage counselor, breaking up countless unhappy couples, Jiang An'an was hit over the head with a brick and flung into the material-scarce 1970s. Her father was a lazy good-for-nothing, her mother was tough as nails, and all three of her older sisters were a handful. As for her, she was a beautiful airhead who 10.2kReads8.8Score879Shelves

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   Chronicles, rural areas, and things in the Northeast

6. 506 二 Two Couples Under One Roof After Remarriage 二婚家里的两对恋人 Wen Hai Shi Bei文海十贝Modern Romance117k WordsCompleted Kindhearted Qianqian is wooed by Yi Li, a rich second-generation heir. Her mother is then married by Yi Li's father, leaving the blended family with two couples in love. Qianqian gives birth to a son, their first child, and then triplets, one girl and two boys. She also accepts the daughter Yi Li ends up having after someone else schemes against him. How will all this affect her? Read the story and find out... 15Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Interspersed with educated youth from the 1970s

7. 507 尘 The Dust of Mortal Life 尘事 A Still Pool一池静水Modern Romance194k WordsCompleted 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! 3.1kReads8.9Score219Shelves
8. 508 穿 I Transmigrated to 1976 and Became a Rogue Scholar 穿越到1976年成痞儒 Yin Dang Chui Jun饮荡吹君Urban2.1M WordsCompleted My new work is out! Welcome to Tomato Literature. I am a storyteller and inheritor of Guangdong's Cantonese and Guangfu culture. I have worked in cultural media for many years and am especially interested in the Guangfu culture of the Pearl River Delta. I hope to tell the story of a red artist who is reborn in 1976 as a seven-year-old boy in a waterside town in Guangdong Province, a child who is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, and who sets out on a new path to becoming a roguishly charming C 136Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This book is a novel that travels to Guangdong Province and is very readable.

9. 509 穿 Transmigrated as a Little Lucky Charm, the Best Brother-Trapper Around 穿成小福宝，人称坑哥小能手 When Everything Comes To An End当一切以尽头Modern Romance588k WordsCompleted I’m a legendary film queen, and I’ve actually jumped on the transmigration trend! My billion-yuan villa! Damn it, Heaven, could you make my life any more miserable? At least I have a dimensional space! With the space in hand, the world is mine! Trying to rip me off? No way! The heroine, Ye Ying, thinks that with the supplies in her space, she can lie flat, live leisurely, and be a lazy fish, doing nothing at all. But it turns out she’s been dreaming! Ye Ying opens her eyes, sees a shabby mud-bri 783Reads9.4Score100Shelves

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   I recommend this book to those who traveled through the 1960s. It's very interesting.

10. 510 重 Reborn, I Won't Be a Simp: The White Lotus Chases After Me 重生不当舔狗，白莲花倒追 The Barking Teddy爱叫的泰迪Urban761k WordsCompleted In his previous life, Wang Yunfeng grovelled at the feet of a fake innocent woman. When someone framed him and broke both his legs, she turned on him and left. Crippled and miserable, Wang Yunfeng eventually died beneath an overpass. Wang Yunfeng was reborn on the night he was sent to the countryside as a sent-down youth and a wild boar broke his leg. This time, he defied fate and escaped that tragic night. From then on, he learned to make veterinary medicine, stumbled upon lucky opportunities, 277Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    The latest male channel, single female protagonist, and story about educated youth going to the countryside: ① In 1975, at the foot of Xiaocang Mountain, a branch of Baishan Mountain, there was an educated youth spot in Xiaoli Village. There were nine educated youths in total, 5 men and 4 women; the male protagonist Wang Yunfeng was reborn and returned to the countryside. When an educated youth was knocked off his leg by a wild boar, he changed his fate and escaped a tragic night. Since then, he has been preparing veterinary medicine, encountering adventures, nourishing his body, fighting bullies, and saving White Lotus. From then on, Bai Lianhua became enlightened and pursued the male protagonist.

11. 511 重 Reborn: The Prisoner Who Returned to Rule All 重生归来，铁窗汉权势滔天 Fat Elephant虚胖大象Urban401k WordsCompleted In his previous life, Yang Fei was framed and sent to prison. With a severe crackdown underway, he was sentenced to twenty years. While he was serving his sentence, his wife, Zhang Roujing, was violated by someone. Unable to endure the humiliation, she jumped into a deep pool with their five-year-old daughter. Two young lives were lost. His parents and siblings also died in a fire. After serving twenty years, Yang Fei accidentally fell to his death in prison and was reborn. Back in 1975, he look 486Reads6.8Score—Shelves
12. 512 民 The Gentleman of the Republic 民国的先生 Starry Words星星语话Urban1.8M WordsCompleted The plot is reasonable, with no System. An ordinary person transmigrates to the Republican era. I hope readers can find a touch of Republican-era charm here. The narration is grounded, with no exaggeration whatsoever… 5.6kReads8.6Score293Shelves

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    Bring it on! Take a look!

13. 513 村 A Corrupt Village 村滥 Jiang Zhu江煮Urban952k WordsCompleted Gen Zhuang goes to prison for three years after avenging his brother. There, he happens upon a strange man who teaches him “Daoist medicine.” After his release, he comes to the aid of others and earns the support of a benefactor. He later leads the villagers in growing vegetables in greenhouses and cultivating medicinal herbs, and has an extraordinary encounter with Bureau 749... 4kReads9.1Score510Shelves
14. 514 这 This Guy Is a Bit of a Rascal 这个家伙有点坏 E Fo Ge鄂佛歌Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [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 70.4kReads9.3Score6.7kShelves
15. 515 兔 Tu’er Ridge 兔儿岭 He Xulin贺绪林Historical216k WordsCompleted In the eighteenth year of the Republic, an unprecedented drought struck the eight-hundred-li stretch of the Qin River plain. The land lay parched for a thousand li, corpses of the starving littered the countryside, war and chaos raged, and bandits were everywhere. Dunzi, a respectable young man, lost both his parents to Luo Yuzhang, commander of the local security corps. The orphan escaped the jaws of death and, seething with hatred, fled far from home, only to stumble into a bandit den along th 8kReads9.5Score1kShelves
16. 516 消 The Vanished Old Village 消失的老村 From the Heavens天上来Historical440k WordsCompleted Set against the founding and disappearance of an ordinary village on the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong, this book uses time as its axis to examine life and human nature from multiple perspectives and in many dimensions. Against different social backdrops, it unfolds different lives, fates, and destinies. Ancient temples, old homes, kang beds, fields, and graveyards form the stage for characters from every walk of life. Over the course of several centuries, their stories intertwine joy and sorro 559Reads9.5Score—Shelves
17. 517 那 Love in Those Days 那年爱情 Luo Nanyue洛南月Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted I was born in the countryside in the 1970s. This book recounts my extraordinary upbringing, followed by all the ups and downs of getting married, starting a family, and raising children. At its heart is the clash between my generation’s outlook and that of my parents, whose views on marriage, love, and life were shaped by their era, as well as the clashes with my own children’s generation. Life is an experience we pass through, with no right or wrong. People in every era have their own beliefs, 386Reads8.6Score102Shelves
18. 518 重 Reborn as a Volunteer Soldier's Family Member 重生为志愿军家属 Wen Hai Shi Bei文海十贝Female-Channel Fanfiction273k WordsOngoing Reborn, Lin Daiyu demands the assets her father, Lin Ruhai, left behind, only to find that the Jia family has already used them. To save face, Grandmother Jia has no choice but to make Daiyu the principal wife and demote Baochai to a concubine, setting off a bitter feud of envy and jealousy. Eventually, both Baochai and Daiyu grow weary of this unrest and agree to transmigrate through time and space a second time. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu is born into a hardworking fa —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Rural life in the countryside

19. 519 小 Memories of a Small Town 小镇记忆 Nan Zhu楠铢Urban212k WordsCompleted A story of ordinary life in a small town in Northeast China, charting the town's changing fortunes over the thirty years of reform and opening up. No detail is too small to matter. Joys and sorrows come together in a song. A vivid portrait of the town's many residents and a lifelike panorama of life in a changing era slowly unfold. 129Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Strong sense of age. The town in memory is a chapter of life written by a group of native people. The rich flavor of life of the times is coming to your face. It is real and vivid, full of humor, joy and worry, laughter and tears. It takes you to relive that era when material was not abundant but spiritually rich.

20. 520 西 The Road Through Life’s Storms 西北人的新书风雨人生路 Northwesterner西北人Modern Romance119k WordsCompleted Welcome, everyone, to my story. It tells the separate stories of a family living in the countryside. The mother and older brother, in particular, have suffered many hardships, and their long illnesses have had a profound impact on the younger generation's physical and mental well-being. The story examines the kind, selfish, and ugly sides of human nature. 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Full of sense of age

21. 521 农 Spring Stirs in the Countryside 农村的春潮涌动 Northwesterner西北人Modern Romance377k WordsCompleted Since the reform and opening-up began, the Zhao family in Ganquan Village has undergone tremendous changes. Jianping and Jian'an started a brick factory and a home-renovation company. What stories will they encounter, and what of their love lives? Which of them will strike it lucky in the business world? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 522 七 The Fox Spirit of the Seventies 七十年代狐狸精 I'm Sang Sang我系桑桑呀Modern Romance859k WordsCompleted Her father died and her mother remarried. Just like her name, Xia Ku'er had a hard life from childhood on. She could work but couldn't talk, and everyone on the production team called her stupid. Then, when the little fool turned eight, she suddenly came into her own. She fought the worst of the lot, stood up to her cousins, and took on her aunt by marriage, turning the entire Xia family upside down and making herself the laughingstock of the whole production team. From then on, she set out on t 10.7kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves

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    Check out this rural novel from the 1960s and 1970s. As her name suggests, Xia Ku'er had a very miserable life experience, but when she was eight years old, she suddenly broke out, refused to accept her fate, and began to take revenge on those who bullied her...

23. 523 和 He Shen in the City 和珅在都市 Xu Muyu徐牧渔Urban2.5M WordsCompleted On February 22, 1799, Heshen received a white silk cord from the Jiaqing Emperor and met his end. Somehow, he found himself in the future, in 1983. As an ancient man in a modern city, how will he make his way in the world? 28.5kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
24. 524 哇 Wow! The Whole Family Is Full of Villains, Yet They Spoil Her Rotten 哇噻！一家子的反派，把她宠上天 Gold in My Pocket兜里有金金Modern Romance501k WordsCompleted [The 1970s: the whole family dotes on a blessed little girl with a pocket dimension and mind-reading powers. No brainless plot!] Xie Youyou transmigrated into a book as the only daughter of a family of major villains. At this point, though, the villainous family was still farming in a remote mountain village. The villainous grandma was a notorious shrew for miles around. If anyone said a word against her, she'd bring a rope and threaten to hang herself outside their door, cursing them until they 2.8kReads8.4Score289Shelves

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    These books are really good. The second one, Little Bamboo, and the fourth one, Shen Danluo, are my favorites. I personally think these two books are very good.

25. 525 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Getting Rich With a Pocket Dimension 重生七零：带着空间去暴富 The Years of Poetry and Wine诗酒年华Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn + Space + Sweet Romance + Getting Rich] Su Rongrong, who believes “talking about true love is bad for your wallet,” transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a young educated woman sent down to the countryside after being framed. Luckily, she has a pocket dimension, a spirit spring, and supplies. With her golden finger, Su Rongrong quietly amasses a fortune in the 1970s, then leads her family toward a prosperous life. But… wasn’t she supposed to swear off true love? So why is a handsome you 1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
26. 526 重 Reborn in the 1970s: Grandma, Today It's Your Turn to Get Divorced 重生七零：奶，今天轮到您离婚啦 Great Golden Immortal大罗金仙Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted Also known as: Reborn in the 1970s as a Lucky Little Carp with Space Tens of billions in supplies, serving the country, the family’s darling, adorable child, satisfying story In her previous life, Shen Danluo’s family was harmed by her wicked second uncle, and she avenged them all by herself. Now she has been reborn with a space that can exchange for all kinds of supplies. In this life, she will change everyone’s tragic fate. Take down the worst offenders and punish the scum. Then quietly make a 42.1kReads9.5Score5.6kShelves
27. 527 重 Reborn: The Underdog’s Comeback 重生以后包子的逆袭 Xufeng Niaoniao栩风袅袅Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Reborn + Period Setting + Pocket Dimension + Campus Life + Strong Female and Male Leads + Top Student + Character Growth + Patriotism) The female lead, Mu Wan, is kind but not a pushover. She has principles and always gets even with those who wrong her. The male lead, Xiao Jinyu, is the son of a military compound family and a military-affiliated scientific researcher. Before she was reborn, Mu Wan accidentally stayed up too late and died of cardiac arrest. A family heirloom, a Merit Pearl, took 4.6kReads9.1Score523Shelves

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    Late nineties

28. 528 重 Reborn to Help China Rise 重生之助力华夏崛起 Wings That Long to Fly想飞翔的翅膀Urban1.2M WordsOngoing When ordinary people are reborn, they can defy fate and change their lives. When top students are reborn, the story is even more exciting! This book has a well-developed overall plot and pays close attention to logic. It starts a little slowly, but the story gets very exciting later on. I hope readers will give it a little time. Thank you. Top student Yang Xiaofan has exceptional intelligence and emotional intelligence, but his career has been full of setbacks. While serving as a deputy director 1.7kReads9.3Score103Shelves
29. 529 锋 Blades and Spears 锋戈 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Historical630k WordsCompleted Alternate History: In an era when rites and music have crumbled, a grand struggle for supremacy begins. Heroes and ambitious warlords rise side by side. Who will be the one to contend with Heaven, bring the chaos to an end, and usher in a whole new age? —Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 530 混 Chaos Divine Tribulation 混沌神劫 Cai Yuanwai蔡员外Eastern Fantasy618k WordsCompleted He was once the Demon Lord of the Upper Realm. After his beloved betrayed him, the Six Realms joined forces to attack. On the brink of death, he escaped with a secret technique. To evade his pursuers, he erased his memories and reincarnated his soul. But who could have guessed that his beloved would betray him again in his new life? This repeating fate awakened the Demon Lord once more, setting him on an endless path of revenge... 39Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 531 重 Reborn in 1959: I Became My Father's Brother 重生五九，我成了我爸的兄弟 No Wood or Stone无木石Urban260k WordsOngoing Xu Mao was reborn in 1959 and accidentally became his father’s second older brother... He had let his parents down badly in his previous life, so this time he had to repay them for all they had done. From then on, he took meticulous care of his parents, helping them safely weather the years of famine... 74Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book, might as well collect it

32. 532 旧 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 The Second Kid in the Old Days旧时光里的小二Urban134k WordsCompleted The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 56Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author recalls his rural childhood life in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province in the 1970s and 1980s, and tells the story of the ups and downs, major family changes, and human relationships before he was 10 years old.

33. 533 逃 After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后，她的人生开挂了 Xi Wenjin席文锦Modern Romance4.6M WordsCompleted [Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr 7.8kReads8.3Score812Shelves

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    Good books and good stories. These two books are so wonderfully written, with ups and downs in their plots. They are a model of period writing, CEO romance, and military marriage and rebirth writing.

34. 534 重 Reborn with a Child, I Married a Cold Military Doctor from a Prestigious Family 重生后，带娃嫁世家高冷军医 Xi Wenjin席文锦Modern Romance603k WordsCompleted [Reborn + adorable child + military marriage + true love + revenge + face-slapping] After being reborn, Su Ying’s first move is to divorce her husband. Her scumbag husband, Du Zhenyong, wants to have the best of both worlds and refuses to let her go. She takes her 38 yuan and chases after him to the military base, where she meets the aloof military doctor Gu Nanchen. With his help, Su Ying gets away from her scumbag husband. But the prestigious Gu family refuses to let Gu Nanchen marry a woman w 21.1kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
35. 535 七 A Glimpse of the Turmoil as 1970s Educated Youths Returned to the Cities 七十年代知青下乡回城风波一瞥 Wen Hai Shi Bei文海十贝6k WordsCompleted A glimpse of the turmoil surrounding educated youths returning to the city in the 1970s 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The story of educated youth is here

36. 536 八 The Gluttonous Stepmom from the ’80s Marries a Cannon-Fodder Second Male Lead and Raises His Kids 八零吃货后妈嫁给炮灰男二养崽崽 Zheng Jingyun郑景云Modern Romance436k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + foodie stepmother + veteran + raising kids] (1980s + farm life + System) Zheng Nuannuan had planned to laze her days away. She was a total foodie, and in her dictionary, men were nowhere near as reliable as good food. She was no good at anything else, but she was number one when it came to eating. She never imagined she would transmigrate into a book, let alone an 1980s novel about a pair of switched-at-birth rich young men. The cannon-fodder second male lead, Qin Zha 134Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    A rough man dotes on his wife, but he dotes on his wife sweetly. . .

37. 537 向 Born to Follow the Sun 向阳而生 Li Xiangxiang李想想Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [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 139.8kReads9.6Score16.5kShelves

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