Looking for Realistic Fiction with a Bad Ending 求现实小说,be
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Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠
She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back.
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How to Deal with Annoying Neighbors... 遇到扰人的邻居,就这样办……
This is how to deal with a troublesome neighbor...
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All These Years Working Away from Home 外出打工这些年
Ever since Yu Xiaobai married Wu Jiajia, who loved wealth and despised poverty, he hasn’t had a single peaceful day... She turned their home upside down, then teamed up with her first boyfriend to make off with all the money he had worked so hard to earn. He indulged and cherished her in every way, but still couldn’t change Wu Jiajia’s determination to divorce him... After Wu Jiajia asked for a divorce for the umpteenth time, Yu Xiaobai finally chose to leave this absurd marriage and let them bo
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Trapped in My Boss’s Office... 被困上司办公室后……
After Getting Trapped in My Boss's Office...
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After I Got Pregnant, I Discovered My Husband’s Secret… 怀孕后,发现了老公的秘密……
After I Got Pregnant, I Discovered My Husband's Secret...
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A Collection of Short Stories 短篇小故事合集
A Collection of Short Stories
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After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend's Scam 领证后,我戳破了女友骗局
After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend’s Scam
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The Ascetic Heartthrob Doesn’t Play Innocent, and I Laughed 禁欲系男神他不吃素,我笑了
The Chaste Male God Doesn't Do Vegetables. I Laughed.
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After Secretly Marrying a CEO and Superstar 与总裁大明星隐婚后
After Secretly Marrying a CEO Superstar
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After Our Divorce, My Ex-Wife Wants to See the Kids. I Absolutely Won't Let Her 离婚后前妻想看孩子,我绝对允许
After the Divorce, My Ex-Wife Wants to See the Kids, and I Absolutely Won’t Allow It
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After Our Divorce, My Wife Wants to See the Kids. I Won't Let Her 离婚后老婆想看孩子,我不允许
After the Divorce, My Wife Wants to See the Kids, and I Won’t Allow It
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My Ex-Wife Humiliated Me in Front of My Wife, in Public 我被前妻当着老婆的面在大庭广众
My Ex-Wife Humiliated Me in Public in Front of My Wife
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No One Has Ascended from This Little World in Ten Thousand Years, So I Came to Investigate 小世界万年无人飞升,我前来查看
No one in this small world has ascended in ten thousand years, so I’ve come to investigate
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I Learned to Write After Reading This Book 看完这本书,我学会了写作
[Chapters in each volume may be updated or revised over time. Readers are welcome to study the material and leave comments or suggestions.] 1. Describing Appearance Use a character’s physical features to convey their personality, status, age, and other traits. Example: He was tall and gaunt, with sunken eyes and tightly pressed lips, giving him a stern, unapproachable air. Her long hair flowed like a waterfall in the breeze, and her eyes shone with confidence. 2. Describing Expressions Reflect
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Canglan Immortal Sect 沧澜仙宗
Young cultivator Xiao Cang had grown tired of the restrictions imposed by his sect. He resolutely left his master and swore to establish a cultivation ground that welcomed people regardless of their background or talent, and could coexist with the mortal world. [Feedback is welcome] [Not a traditional cultivation story] [Well-rounded characters] [A wild imagination] [Please stick with it] Alongside his close friends Zhou Heng, Liu Qingzhu, and others, he set off on a journey to find spiritual l
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A Little Story About Helping My Sleepless Girlfriend Learn Math Formulas Through Hypnosis 女朋友失眠催眠学数学公式小故事
A little story about a girlfriend with insomnia, hypnotism, and math formulas
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Do Female Rogue Cultivators Really Have a Future? 女散修真的有出路吗
Do female rogue cultivators really have a future?
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My Spineless Self and My Strong-Willed Husband 窝囊的我,强势的老公
Me, the spineless one, and my domineering husband
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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It's Only Fifty 不过是五十而已
An inspirational, unyielding story of midlife crisis, workplace struggles, bank managers and tellers, married life, and everyday urban life. This book tells the story of Huang Wenxue, a bank manager facing a midlife crisis. She is at that awkward age when she is considered too old to find a new job, yet still too young to retire. How will she answer the unavoidable questions surrounding her career, marriage, family, children, and caring for her aging parents? Even in middle age, even when confro
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15 Hell-Level Bad Endings: You Stop at Flirting, While I’m In Too Deep 15个地狱级be:你点到为止,我泥足深陷
[Modern romance + domineering CEO + substitute + marriage + tragic love] Giving your whole heart in love will only leave you in pieces. Why do you think I’ll still be here just because you turn around? That if you crook your finger, I’ll make the same mistake all over again? I’m not the kind of person who forgets the pain once the wound heals. In love, the one who holds the power is never the one being loved. It’s the one brave enough to confess their feelings and brave enough to let go. I loved
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The Profiteer 奸商
[Read the first 10 chapters patiently, and you'll see: in studying, daily life, work, and love, there are tricks everywhere!] There are no honest businessmen. Nine out of ten merchants will cheat you. But nine out of ten salespeople will become bosses. I'm a salesperson, and I became a boss too. I'll use my own experience to show you the tricks these unscrupulous merchants use… This book aims to teach you how to avoid scams. Imitate anything in it at your own risk.
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I Told You I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
At fifteen, Junxi accidentally got blood from an AIDS patient into one of his wounds and contracted the disease. From then on, his normal life was completely upended, and he lived in constant fear that he could die at any moment. But Li Poxiao never left his side, giving him the courage to carry on. Through his pain, he smiled through his tears. “Brother Junxi, my greatest wish is to become your bride. You have to fight to stay alive, because… this is a dream only you can help me fulfill.” A lov
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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The Night Is Hungry, and There’s No Escaping His Possessiveness 夜色贪婪,逃不开他的占有
After her fiancé and best friend joined forces to take everything from her, Su Xiaoran fell from the clouds into the mud. In her moment of despair, she stumbled into Gu Haifeng's arms. The man gripped her chin and said in a low voice, “From today on, you're mine.” The scumbag and the bitch? She'll make sure they lose everything and end up disgraced! As for this powerful tycoon? Su Xiaoran only wants to run, but he pins her in a corner, possessiveness overflowing. “Running? Where do you think you
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My Man Cheated with My Best Friend, and Now He’s Desperate to Win Me Back 男人出轨闺蜜,我转身他追疯了
My Man Cheated with My Best Friend. I Walked Away, and Now He’s Desperate to Get Me Back
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Middle Age, and My Marriage Is an Empty Shell 人到中年,婚姻只剩空壳
From innocent young love to an unexpected pregnancy before marriage, she blundered into a marriage she’d never truly wanted. Before the wedding, her mother-in-law schemed constantly and was stingy, refusing to give even a penny in bride price. From the moment she entered the family home, she felt wronged and began to harbor resentment. After the wedding, her husband proved to be a complete mama’s boy: mediocre, unambitious, and incapable of taking responsibility. He did whatever his mother told
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A Deadly Romance 致命情缘
In the 1990s, a stream of villagers headed south to find work on construction sites. The pain of leaving home, the hardship of being alone in a strange place, and the tangled ways of the human heart were all crammed into tiny workers’ sheds. Li Guixiang escaped after her husband used her to pay off a debt, while Chen Jianjun left his family and everything he owned behind to earn a living. Two people, each burdened by their own troubles, met and kept each other company, thinking they were only of
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I Found My Nemesis as a Roommate, and Our Quarrels Turned into Love 合租遇冤家,吵着吵着动心了
I became roommates with my nemesis, and all our bickering made us fall for each other
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I Hastily Married a Poor Guy, but He Turned Out to Be a Tycoon Who Dotes on Me 闪婚穷小子,他竟是豪门大佬宠我入骨
I married a poor guy on a whim, but he's actually a wealthy tycoon who dotes on me
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After Faking a Pregnancy to Force a Divorce, My In-Laws Beg Me to Forgive Them 假孕逼离后,婆家跪求我原谅
After faking a pregnancy to force a divorce, my in-laws beg me to forgive them
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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I Only Sneaked a Glance at Him 我只偷看他一眼
During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli
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I Once Promised You a Golden Age of Joy 我曾许你盛世欢颜
Ye Chen waits for his Mrs. Ye, from the days when youth was like a dream until her hair turns white as snow. But he will never know that his Mrs. Ye was buried long ago in that rotten, muddy grave...
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There Was Once Someone Who Loved Me Like Life Itself 曾有一个人,爱我如生命
For more than twenty years, Shen Siyan had stubbornly loved a man named Xiao Zonghan. Even when he resented and hated her, she had never thought of giving up. But now, she was reaching the end of her strength...
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Sleeping Peacefully Beneath the Sophora Tree 顾枕槐安
Younger man + substitute + love grows over time + regretful pursuit of the ex + putting scumbags in their place + angst, angst, and more angst!!! Before he turned eighteen, Du Huai’an had no father in his life. The year he turned eighteen, his mother, who had raised him alone, was diagnosed with stomach cancer. So she took him to meet the man who was supposedly his father. That was when he learned his father was the head of the prestigious Zhu family in Jingyuan. He entered the Zhu family as the
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A Century of Love in the Sichuan-Tibet Army 世纪川藏军旅情
The half-life journey of the protagonist, A Peng, is written in ink, with the wind and snow of Tibet as its paper. Century of Sichuan-Tibet Military Life unfolds a sweeping tale spanning 1985 to 2011. Its pages hold both the vast, desolate beauty of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the burning sincerity of military life. They also preserve the deep bonds between Han and Tibetan people, forged over decades, steeped in time and carrying a heartfelt longing. In 1985, the warmth of life in Xingou, bene
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A One-on-One Relationship 一对一关系
You fall in love with her, and she falls in love with you. One stubborn thought, a lifetime of heartache. A destined match made in heaven, yet not a couple despite accepting fate; a passionate romance, a life together driven by primal instinct; a fated union born of harmony, an love story that passed each other by.
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The Ultimate Sacrifice 终极献祭
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
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A Depressed Person's Soliloquy 抑郁者的独白
An inner monologue from someone living with depression. Just as her life was about to wither away, the will to live drove her to break free with all her strength from the invisible chains holding her back. Suddenly, she understood that there are many ways to live. This book can also be seen as the author's own journey of redemption and healing through a life on the road. It also introduces the scenery and local culture of the places she visited.
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The Year of the Wolf and Tiger 狼虎之年
A panoramic survey of the raw emotional lives of people from different age groups and social classes in China today, vividly depicting the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature amid the country’s rapid social transformation. It lays bare the conflicts and friction between people’s emotions and reality.
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The Art of Fortune-Telling by Chinese Characters 测字有术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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The Old Chinese Doctor of the City 都市老中医
This is the story of a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, a hard-core novel about traditional Chinese medicine. (Note: All the medical cases are real.)
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Hesitation on Returning Home 近乡彷徨
One evening in 1993, an oil lamp glowed inside a dimly lit, tiled-roof house. The laboring mother, Wan Ziyuan, cried out in anguish. After a full day of grueling farm work, she was already too exhausted to go on. But making a living came first, and she couldn’t afford to care about the pain right now! All she could think was that she needed to give birth to a son.
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A Simple Goodbye 简单告别
[A boy seeking redemption in a barren land] x [A girl who would risk everything for love] You’ll ache for him, and you’ll watch him struggle at the edge of ruin. You’ll lead him into the sunlight, then give him a poke in the back. Also known as: A Stroke of Youth /// Missing person notice: [Shao Xuan, male, postgraduate student in law at Yubei Law School, admitted through the self-study entrance exam. Missing since July 13. If you see him, please contact us. Generous reward offered...] At Shunan
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A Heart Unwilling to Give In 不甘的心
Some say that when God created humanity, He split each person in two: one half stayed in the mortal world, while the other was kept for Himself. Each was left to search among the crowds for the missing half of their own self. When faced with choices in an uncertain world, we always do everything we can to save the heart that refuses to give in. At the summit, we long to become wholly ourselves, perfectly united and standing tall amid the mundane realities of life. That defiant heart cries out: G
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This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧
A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome
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