Urban Romance with a Realistic, Angsty Edge 都市情感文，偏现实偏虐
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Our Story Will Go On 我们的故事会继续
[Reunion After Years Apart | Boss and Employee | Age Gap | Secret Crush | Workplace | Woman Pursues Man | College Dormmates | Healing | Women’s Growth] Late one night, I got a call from Wu Yan, my college roommate and best friend. “There’s something I don’t know if I should tell you.” “Is it about Jiang Ping?” Wu Yan and Jiang Ping were both in Yuecheng, and they’d stayed in touch. For five years, I’d relied on Wu Yan to find out how Jiang Ping was doing. “Yeah. He’s getting married. I got an in
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Dustbound Love, Nan Nan 尘缘楠楠
The marriage between Chen Yuan and Nannan, the everyday business of rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea, and all the twists and turns of life, its sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty moments, a jumble of emotions... [Urban Life] [Married Life] [Ordinary Lives]
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Love of the Zhǐ Tree 枳爱
The canary Bai Yi had kept captive for three years suddenly started fighting back. Only then did he realize he had never understood this woman at all.
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Don't Date at the Office 别在公司谈恋爱
Listen to office gossip with the heroine. Get caught up in office politics with the heroine. Secretly crush on the same male coworker as the heroine. Some people say the workplace is a great place to fall in love...
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After the Divorce, Miss Jiang Takes the World by Storm with Her Child 离婚后，江小姐携崽火爆全球
Jiang Yi is the illegitimate daughter of the Jiang family, and everyone calls her a shameless schemer who stole her sister’s husband and stood by while her sister died. She couldn’t defend herself. Her father threw her out and disowned her. To make matters worse, two years later, her husband abandoned her too. With no choice, she hid her pregnancy and went abroad to seek refuge with her mother. Four years later, she returned with three adorable children and entered the entertainment industry. A
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Reborn Under the Tutelage of the Guesthouse Owner 我在民宿老板娘的调教下重生
[Roguish CEO and Rich Young Master x Fierce Big Sister and Money-Loving, Loyal Heroine] Older Woman-Younger Man Romance, Packed with Satisfying Moments On a stormy night, Lu Qiming, president of the SM Group, is ambushed by his own uncle. He fakes his death in a car crash and escapes, covered in blood, before pounding on the door of a mountain lodge for help. To his surprise, the person who opens the door is a young proprietress with even more grit than he has: Murong Laidi. At just twenty, she’
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Shadows of the Heart Beneath the Sun 阳光下的心影
(Ex-Wife Regret, Single Heroine, Overpowered Romance) His brother Lin Mo couldn't let go of the lingering feelings in his heart. He resolutely left the battlefield and returned to Longguo, where he ran into his college sweetheart at a reunion. And so began an over-the-top story of a man winning back the woman he loved, with plenty of regret and heartbreak along the way. Lin Xi looked at the coldness in Lin Mo's eyes. “Brother, after all these years, you still can't forget her?” Lin Mo lowered h
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She Fell for His Charm! Her Scheming Childhood Friend Became Her New Boss 诱她沦陷！腹黑竹马竟成我新上司
[Scheming childhood sweetheart, possessive pursuit; devoted, calculating boss vs. sweet-and-salty subordinate; workplace + healing + both leads are inexperienced in love + sweet and angsty] At last, Han Xingyou got to marry the senior she'd had a crush on for years. But on the eagerly awaited wedding night, her husband actually “sold” her to that man... When they met again, the mysterious man had become her aloof new boss. In public, he was impeccably dressed and made things difficult for her at
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Digital Humans: The Continuation of Future Life 未来生命的延续数字人Ai
[Future Sci-Fi] [Virtual World] [Digital AI] [Clones] [The Mystery of Life] [Romantic Love] Her name is “An Ti.” She is a digital AI being who can bring other digital beings to an end and control their lives. She has no idea that she is a clone herself. She falls in love with her boyfriend, a cyber-police officer, while a rich heir pursues her. There are so many mysteries surrounding her. Will she ever learn the truth?
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Don't Be Afraid, Honey. I Have a Redemption System to Help Me Win You Back 老婆别怕，我有赎罪系统换我追你
“Runaway Heiress x Possessive New Money Peacock” “Mind Reading + Both Reborn + Wife-Chasing System” * In her previous life, Song Yi was an untouchable heiress who treated Jiang Lin like a plaything. She took him by force, abandoned him, then left the country without a second thought. Later, when the Song family went bankrupt, he was the only person who could save her. He trapped her in a five-year marriage, holding her captive. Everyone said Jiang Lin was a distant, untouchable flower: cold, ele
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Those Who Came and Went Through My Life 生命里来回过的人
There’s always a book whose every word strikes a chord. The moment you open it, people from the past and long-buried events slowly surface through its pages, like a long-overdue reunion. The joys and regrets, heartaches and lingering goodbyes hidden away in the years gently unfold between the lines. Before long, your eyes are brimming with tears. It turns out some memories have never really gone away. For: Everyone who has passed through my life
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The Fifth Best Season 第五个佳季
A gentle reminder: this is not a sweet romance, not a melodramatic love story, and not a domineering CEO romance!! Inspired by real personal experiences! Strong writing, a compelling plot, thoughtful worldbuilding, and plenty of imagination!! [Pure Love + White Moonlight + Slow Burn + Transmigration + School Life + Urban] This was Ke Jiaji's fifth year in the city. He was already 26, and the future looked to him like an abyss with no visible end. One night, Ke Jiaji had a long dream. He seemed t
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A Lover's Perfume 情人的，香水味
The scent of her lover's perfume
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After Being Reborn, I Became the Obsession of a Man with a Drug Addiction 重生后，我成了偏执大佬的药瘾
[Both leads are virgins] [Sweet romance] [Mutual healing] In her previous life, Shi Wan died a tragic death. Fu Tingchen gave his life for her and perished in a sea of flames. Reborn, Shi Wan has the advantage at every turn. She plans each step carefully, vowing to protect the person she loves most. Fu Tingchen is possessive by nature, violent and ruthless. Yet he doesn’t know that after they marry, he’ll dote on one woman without restraint, treating her with tender affection. “A Chen, why didn’
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Wei Guang: The CEO's White Moonlight Is Hidden in the Garage 薇光，车库里竟藏着总裁的白月
Everyone envies Lin Wei, cherished in the palm of business tycoon Chen Mo's hand and the sole recipient of his boundless affection. He publicly declared his love for her, gave her a one-of-a-kind custom diamond ring, and shielded her from every storm, tender yet possessive. But no one knew that behind this sudden, intense devotion lay a secret buried for ten years. Late at night in an underground parking garage, a dusty green off-road vehicle tore through every illusion. A birth date scratched i
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The CEO’s Ex, the New Love 总裁前任，再新欢
[It’s a little angsty at first, but things gradually get sweeter later. Stick with it!] [Clear-headed beauty with strength and a tragic past vs. a restrained, devoted CEO / a mysterious, domineering young master / a realistic, status-obsessed playboy] Private equity queen Yu Tingxue goes bankrupt overnight and falls from the heights of success. Just as her mortgage threatens to crush her, she stumbles into a battlefield of exes: The cold-hearted CEO Min Ji’ang, for whom she was once an unspoken
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A Lifelong Project 终生项目
[Cozy everyday life + devoted affection + strong heroine and hero + happy ending] [A down-on-her-luck live-in tutor and her overbearing, devoted single-dad employer; older man, six-year age gap] Under the same roof, the live-in tutor and her domineering CEO employer share the cozy routine of a trial marriage. Xiang Wang is eager to shower her with tender care, but the goddess remains unwilling to entrust herself to him... So, alongside his many other projects, Lu Zerui takes on two more: first,
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I’m Really Not a Scumbag Pillar 我真不是渣柱
Zhang Baoshi, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly finds his soul transported into the body of Silly Zhu, a sixteen-year-old character from Love in the Courtyard. Having read plenty of fanfiction, he immediately swoops in on Qin Huairu and activates a pocket-dimension System, hoping to live a quiet life. But fate has other plans: Qin Huairu ends up marrying Jia Dongxu, leaving him utterly disheartened. Remembering how the Jia family drained him dry in the original story, until he froz
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My Miss Reindeer 我的麋鹿小姐
An engineering student who is utterly rational, deeply depressed, and endlessly gentle watches love and academics both slip through his fingers after failing his postgraduate entrance exams. If his life is written in struggle, why not let go and do whatever he wants? Seeing through it all, he drifts between his rich second-generation girlfriend, a beautiful top student, and a top-tier starlet influencer. “I’m done being a clown who can’t even make a sound when he hits the ground!”
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Reborn as He Yushui: Little Cop, Hurry Up and Wash My Feet 魂穿何雨水小警察快来给本宫洗脚
He Xiaoyu, a mechanical engineer, suddenly died after working late night after night to finish technical drawings. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eight-year-old girl named He Yushui, a pitiful little character with barely any presence, swept along by fate in the story of Love in the Courtyard, which she'd stayed up late reading. Looking at the small, thin figure in the mirror, He Xiaoyu took a deep breath. Since heaven had given her another chance at life, she would never let
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The Distance of Love Is Just Right 爱的距离刚刚好
Yu Kai saw the morning light streaming through the skylight fall across Qi Ji's face. Her eyes lowered slightly, and her long lashes veiled them like a mist. Her smooth forehead, straight, graceful nose, and faintly upturned lips formed a delicate, alluring profile in the sunlight. With her gaze lowered yet oblivious to everyone around her, she walked briskly past Yu Kai toward the South District office, her steps light but purposeful. A breeze followed in her wake, lifting her shoulder-length s
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A Writer's Soul Reincarnates as Silly Zhu, Living However He Pleases 写手魂穿傻柱之随心所欲
He Yuzhu woke up in the body of Silly Zhu from the Siheyuan, determined not to repeat his past mistakes. But when Qin Huairu came over looking pitiful to borrow some food, he lost his head for a moment and pulled her inside. As he was feeling refreshed and getting his memories straight, he suddenly realized it was 1958. Jia Dongxu was still alive, and Qin Huairu wasn’t a widow yet! Just then, Jia Dongxu’s anxious shouts came from outside the door: “Huairu! Huairu, where are you?”
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Xu Damao, the First-Blood Champion 一血达人许大茂
**Crossing Between Worlds: Xu Damao's Modern Comeback** Xu Damao, a top literature student, couldn't find a job after graduation and became obsessed with the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. He especially envied the womanizing, cunning “Xu Damao,” jokingly calling him a master of getting women into bed. Then one day, he transmigrated and became the very Xu Damao he “admired,” just as he was about to marry the wealthy Lou Xiao'e! Faced with a courtyard full of beastly neighbors, including the calc
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Reborn as Qin Huairu: A Woman Must Stand on Her Own 魂穿秦淮茹之女人当自强
After waking up, Qin Ru, a business queen worth billions, found herself turned into Qin Huairu, the timid, tragic heroine of Love in the Courtyard! Fresh from tearing into a cheating jerk and his mistress, she faced the whole courtyard full of shameless parasites and sneered, “Let's see how you like playing with me.” In the technical workshop, she modernized the production process and quickly rose to become a senior-grade worker. In management, she led sweeping reforms with an iron fist, stampin
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My Clichéd Novel 我的烂俗小说
Life is like a clichéd novel. As you put pen to paper and write the very first stroke, you imagine it will be something special. But in the end, you realize it’s just another dime-a-dozen story.
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Reincarnated as He Daqing, I Marry Huairu and Change My Foolish Son's Fate 魂穿何大清娶淮茹为傻儿子改命
“Seven-character Regulated Verse: Reflections on Transmigrating into He Daqing” Within the courtyard, schemes bring both warmth and woe; Reborn, one hand can turn grief to joy. With clever plans, grain and meat nourish a thousand heirs; Careful mending brings two phoenixes together beneath love’s sky. Hidden talents flourish amid the bustle of the streets; A home rich in virtue opens a new path. Looking back at the lights and kitchen smoke, The He family’s branches thrive, leaning on the railing
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My Girlfriend, Who Remembers Only the Past Month 我那只有一个月记忆的女友
(Everyday-life fluff, urban romance, not a power fantasy… hopefully no heartbreak) I got perfect marks in math, yet went to a vocational college. I won the lottery, but didn’t spend the money. Then, just as I entered the workforce, I met a beautiful neighbor who wasn’t quite right in the head. Who would’ve thought that just as we were about to get closer, she’d forget who she was… If I could remember you for just one more day, then you would surely be the person I loved most.
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My 23-Year-Old Landlady 我的23岁女房客
[Multiple heroines + not reborn + no System + urban slice of life + not a power fantasy + slow burn + a little angst + lots of sweetness] After breaking up with my first love, I stayed in one city for six years. Then I ran into the heiress Ye Xin at a bar. On New Year’s Eve, she told me she was pregnant. With my child? What kind of nonsense is that? I, Chen Mo, have always held my liquor well. I’ve never… I looked at everyone with an innocent expression and hurried to explain, “This has nothing
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Old Dreams of Xi'an: Me and That Actress 西安旧梦，我和那个女明星
[Urban daily life] [No angst] [Celebrity couple] [Healing story] A realistic slice-of-life story. Read with caution if that's not your thing. Synopsis: I took my sister's ashes to see the sea. On the speeding train bound for Qingdao, I met Tang Yu, a celebrity with depression. Two lonely hearts crossed paths again in Xi'an. Lin Xiaomi's unexpected arrival wove a love triangle and made their relationship even more complicated. With the help of my rich second-generation friend Qin Chao and his con
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Another Rotten Peach Blossom for My Man-Attracting Constitution 吸渣体质的烂桃花又来了
Chen Yang: “Talk it out? Did you ever ask me whether I thought you were a burden? How can you decide the fate of a relationship all by yourself?” Su Yan: “I’ve seen you at your lowest, and I don’t want you to sink into the mire again.” After her ex left her with a fear of falling in love, Su Yan finds herself drawn into a relationship with Chen Yang. But under mounting pressure, she breaks up with him. Chen Yang tries to stop her, but when he fails, he resents her. Little does Su Yan know that s
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The Watcher in the Wheat Fields 麦苗田里的守望者
I'll never forget that rainy summer night. The rain had turned the village's dirt roads to mud. One step could sink you in up to your calves. Clutching half a candle, I hurried home, stumbling through the muck, my heart pounding like I had a rabid rabbit inside me. Mom had promised she'd be home before dark, but it was already nine o'clock.
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King of the Reverse Scales 逆鳞之王
My name is Wang Kaixuan, and I'm sixteen years old. If fate were a card table, I'd have been dealt the rotten hand nobody else wanted. My father broke his spine falling at a construction site and has been bedridden for three years. His medical bills drained our family's last bit of savings. My mother works the sewing machines at the town garment factory by day and strings beads for people at night. What she earns in a month isn't even enough to cover my father's painkillers for a week. I get up
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The River at the Village Entrance 村口那条河
I once thought this river would flow forever, until that summer, when it carried away every secret and brought new stories in their place.
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The Phoenix Woman Marries a Phoenix Man 凤凰女嫁给凤凰男
This is an inspirational story about Yan Yan and Liang Liang, two top students who make their way from the countryside to Beijing. Through their own hard work, they put down roots there, buy a home and a car, and raise a family. Their journey is filled with hardships and laughter, as they keep facing new challenges and growing along the way.
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My Utopian Girl 我的乌托邦女孩
Original title: My Utopian Girl [Workplace business rivalry + tearjerker + close to everyday life + everyday comedy] A love story between a penniless male protagonist and a stunning female CEO. What is love? It's the answer we've always been searching for. From fearing that his poverty would keep him from reaching her heart to transforming himself and holding her tight, what exactly did Xinyi go through...
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Get a Divorce, Escape a Disaster 离个婚逃个难
On an ordinary night, an ordinary passenger plane carried an ordinary Chinese man on his way home... Everything seemed perfectly ordinary, but the flight he was on was a one-way ticket to death. The plane crashed in mere seconds, killing more than 150 people instantly. Yet this Chinese man and two other foreigners somehow survived. Their brief reprieve was only the beginning of a far greater nightmare and torment. The outside world believed them dead, so the three of them had only one another to
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A 200,000-Yuan Bride Price to Marry a Construction Worker 二十万彩礼，嫁给工地男
[The rating has only just opened and will rise] [Dowry Controversy] + [A Marriage Full of Misery] + [Multiple Male Leads] + [A Tense Push and Pull] + [Desperate, Obsessive Love] (Not reborn, not transmigrated, no golden finger) After more than six years of working, He Sui still hadn't paid off her online loans. Instead, her debt kept growing. Every New Year, her father nagged her about getting married until she was numb to it. Finally, He Sui steeled herself and got married. She had her own litt
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I Transmigrated into a Book as the Villain, Then Turned the Sickly Female Lead into My Own Creation 穿书反派，反手养成病娇女主
He was just 10% away from being able to go home. Ye Qi transmigrated into a tragic romance novel, and the System told him: win over the sickly, obsessive heroine. Fail, and you'll have to lick her high heels. Succeed, and you can go home. He stayed by her side for seven years, from the time she was nine until she turned seventeen. He taught her to eat, helped her grow vegetables, and carried her through snowy nights. The System said: Her corruption level is still at 20%. You can go home now. But
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Qingse Yanyu's Fifth Book 箐涩烟雨的第5本书
[Urban romance + healing and positivity + funny and entertaining + vivid, lively leads] A model’s winding journey through life. And the confidante and official girlfriend who love him deeply! Some encounters leave even Luo Qing unsure whether to be grateful or regretful. This world is no pure haven. You have to learn for yourself what warmth and coldness mean.
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Ghost Gate 从前有座鬼门关
At the Gates of Hell, there are two kinds of death: One is called sacrifice, your name carved into a cold stone monument. The other is called coming home, your name dyed into a flag warm with life. Feng Zixiang belongs to neither. He came from the “City of Sin,” deeper than the Gates of Hell. His only reason for living is to hold his younger sister’s hand and pull her back from the brink of death. Then one day, the teacher with a severed finger, who was always trying to drag him back into the wo
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Time Will Pass 时光会逝去
“Tell black from white in the gray, and right from wrong in the chaos.” She sits alone, smoking as she gazes at the lantern-lit sky. She stands on the balcony, looking at the brightly lit high-rises before her. She holds an umbrella and watches a cat with a rose in its mouth. She sits on the grass, phone in hand, gazing up at the beautiful night sky. She sits in a chair, drawing digital art beneath the starry sky. At dawn and at night, she watches the birds fly freely.
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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The Top-Student Younger Brother: Overwhelmingly Cherished, Overwhelmingly Tormented, Burning Like Fire 学霸弟弟，巨宠巨虐，炙热如火
Older woman-younger man romance + domineering CEO with an overwhelming need to possess + gentle older woman + angsty romance + sweet romance + forced love + celibate type A 24-year-old younger man, kissing her every day and loving her every night. The sweeter it is at first, the more heartbreaking it will be later. After several brushes with death, he falls into a coma after a car accident and loses his memory. Will he still remember the woman he once loved and their child? "Marry me in a month.
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Goodbye to the White Moonlight of Yesteryear 再见当年白月光
(A realistic story about ordinary people) Just after Yang Chen breaks up with his girlfriend, he unexpectedly runs into Su Ning, the girl he once loved, who vanished six years ago. What kind of upheaval will this bring to his life? (This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.)
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Shenzhen Stories: Sister Ji 深圳往事霁姐
You resent that I was born too soon; I resent that you were born too late. Though we could not live at the same time, we can still share a grave. Mo Chou happens to meet Wu Zhiji, a beautiful, kind-hearted young widow ten years her senior. Was it that love came too early, before she knew how to cherish it, or that by the time she learned to love, they had become strangers? Disclaimer: The locations, people, companies, and events in this book are unrelated to real life!
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Xiaoming's Guide to Business 小明的生意经
[Urban] [Workplace] [Romance] Life is a business, and love is, too. It all depends on how you manage it... Mutual benefit is the secret to a lasting business. Don't expect to strike gold in one go. You might get away with cheating someone once, but next time, you could be the one who gets cheated... Wang Dongming takes that same approach: building things up little by little and putting himself in other people's shoes. He wins over influential people, clients, family, lovers, and friends with his
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A Marriage of Money 钱婚
To become the dutiful daughter, good wife, and loving mother everyone expected, Liu Xiaoqing buried her youthful dreams and deepest desires before the age of thirty-three, living a life of constant compromise. After graduating, she painfully gave up her dream of becoming a writer and took the civil service exam, becoming a government employee. At home, she endured her in-laws' repeated provocations, again and again, just to preserve her marriage. At work, she likewise chose to put up with her
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[Cloud] 【云】
(Urban Romance + Everyday City Life + Original Story + Traditional Style + Tragic Romance) Also known as: The Lonely Train Seriously, they’ve already freaking broken up, so why are they still in love? What life is like sharing a rental with a beautiful woman he picked up at a roadside stall. Carrying off the person he proposed to in front of a crowd? A hotheaded girl confesses her love to him? Several love stories from the life of a calculating, “devious” male lead. This urban sweet romance has
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The More Joy, the Greater the Sorrow 乐极生悲
Pride Comes Before a Fall
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The Immortality Tree Beneath the Cliff 悬崖下的长生树
My parents divorced, my family fell apart, and I had no one but my grandmother to rely on. With an uncertain future and a confusing school life, could I turn things around? One encounter after another, countless heartwarming stories, and friendships and love intertwining over the years. My name is Liu Changsheng. This is my story.
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