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Waiting for Wind and Rain, But Never for You 等风等雨，等不到你
Xu Zhengxi believed that as long as she held on, love and marriage would eventually lead her to brighter days. She gave up studying abroad, threw away her future, and abandoned her dreams, all to be the person he could confide in. He called her cruel and coldhearted. She once smiled and replied, “Because I love you.” Later, when her life hung by a thread, he remained as indifferent as ever. She took off her ring and returned it to him, smiling faintly. “Let’s get divorced.” She had compassio
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I Love You Until I’m Mad and Crazed 爱你成疯成魔
Under pressure framed as love, Su Xin gave up the man she had loved for ten years. But that became his excuse to torment her...
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Mr. Bo, We’re Nothing but Strangers Now 薄先生，你我情同陌路
[Short Story Contest] After seven years of marriage, she has suffered endless torment at his hands. She has angina and only a year left to live, but he ignores it and plans to marry her younger sister. No one knows she is the real Mrs. Bo. Forced to kneel before her own sister and admit she is a shameless mistress seeking attention, she endures his bloodthirsty sneers and his endless humiliation and trampling of her dignity. After losing her child, she goes mad with despair and leaps from the up
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Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱
Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l
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The Book of Forgetting Our Laughter 我和你的笑忘书
I and Your Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a collection of short stories by popular author Xia Qixi. It gathers her most classic and acclaimed short fiction from years of writing, including thirteen bestselling stories such as The Sea Is the Sky Turned Upside Down, The Blue Balloon and Su Xia, The White Wedding of Next Winter, and Pain Lasts No More Than a Hundred Days. This is an essential book of youthful memories for everyone who has ever loved and hated. For the girls who never found happ
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Tales of Nanyang’s Old Town 南阳老城往事
Memories of a bizarre and absurd era, somewhere in the 1980s and 1990s. A girl vanishes into thin air; two murders over a pair of corneas, with a condemned woman repaying her debt at the execution ground; a thousand-year-old pottery shard traps a rich heir for life; a murder in a narrow alley shrouded in mystery; a disfigured old man fishes for ghosts by the river; a family’s secret history spanning half a century... These stories offer more than an eerie atmosphere. They focus on the suffering,
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I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Waiting for You 余生只待你
In high school, Bai Zhi and Lin Yu became classmates. Back then, Bai Zhi was rebellious and willful, a troublesome student who gave her teachers headaches. After an encounter in a downpour, Lin Yu saw through her pain, and the two became close friends. They were accepted into the same university and promised to start there together. Before they could enroll, Lin Yu learned that Bai Zhi was the daughter of the mastermind behind a kidnapping case that had once shocked the entire city. He had been
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Destiny in Tibet 藏地命格
From remote mountain ravines to the snowbound plateau, every step bears the mark of fate. Zhang Kun, a discharged soldier, carries with him the hopes he nurtured in a mountain village and a prophecy he cannot explain. Leaving his home behind, he sets out on the long road to Tibet. The harsh trials of Haizi Mountain teach him the ironclad sense of duty shared by mentor and soldiers. A day intertwined with life and death reveals the fragility and resilience of life on the plateau. Amid foul-smelli
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Where Does the Cold Wind Go? 冷风归何处
Leng Luoluo should never have been born. She came into the world only because the eldest daughter of the Leng family, Leng Baozhu, needed a bone marrow match to save her life. With Old Master Leng's approval, the live-in son-in-law Bai Zuhui fathered a child with an ugly country woman, and that child, Leng Luoluo, was neglected by everyone. For eighteen years, she and the Leng family's mute maid, Auntie Wu, depended on each other for survival! A twist of fate led Old Master Leng to discover that
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Died by the River 逝于江河
Two years into their marriage, Meng Ran became pregnant with Yang Peng's child, but something about it all felt wrong. Those choices that seemed so firm were really just hesitant attempts to weigh the pros and cons. “How wonderful it is to be young” was nothing but an illusion. We all once held lofty dreams, but now we live ignobly. Can Meng Ran and Yang Peng clear away the fog, cross the wilderness, and make a steady passage into the real world? Or are they headed for ruin?
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After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Money and Sex 他腰椎间盘突出后，骗财骗色
After His Herniated Disc, He Swindled People Out of Their Money and Their Virtue
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The Tsundere Senior Who Acts So Differently Won't Confess Her Love First 反差傲娇学姐不会主动开口说爱我
[Campus]+ [Youth]+ [One Heroine]+ [Lighthearted and Healing]+ [Everyday Romance]+ [No System] Based on real campus life at Hefei University of Technology. “Xiao Yun, come help me translate my paper at the library tonight.” “Senior Sister, didn't I help you translate it last night? Why do I have to go again?” “Tonight's the last time, hurry up!” “You said that the day before yesterday, and you said it again yesterday. I'm not going again today. Do it yourself, I'm busy.” “Xiao Yun, I just remembe
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Those Years I Was the Big Brother 我当的哥那些年
Yang Rui, a struggling online novelist, applied to become a Didi rideshare driver so he could make ends meet and stop sponging off his parents. He thought it would just be a way to earn some extra money, but he never imagined that over the years he spent behind the wheel, he'd enjoy one stroke of good luck after another and meet benefactors who would help him rise...
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I Met a Wonderful Husband on a Blind Date 相亲遇到优质老公
Because of her family background, Xiang Zhaozhao had always been determined never to marry. That same family background left her with no choice but to compromise and go on a blind date with Fu Shiyu. Xiang Zhaozhao thought their marriage would be nothing more than two people sharing a life. She never imagined it would turn out so blissful and sweet! A love story about a first-generation entrepreneur and a woman marrying later in life!
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The Farmgirl Money Goddess 农门女财神
As a single woman in the 21st century with no parents or siblings, she woke up one day to find herself surrounded by a big family. Her mother was chronically ill, her father was rough-tempered and had a few screws loose, and she had a pair of younger twin siblings. It brought tears to her eyes. She wasn’t an orphan after all. She didn’t mind being poor: as long as she had a home in this strange world, she could turn the tables and make a fortune without breaking a sweat.
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Riches and Splendor 富贵芳华
When it came to Ning Fang’s idol, there was only one: Xia Zhenzhen, the Xia family’s legendary great-aunt, whose glory peaked more than a century ago! Renowned for her “exceptional intelligence,” she was chosen at just fifteen by a family of scholars and married into a prestigious household as the legitimate wife, despite being a merchant’s daughter. After the wedding, she and her husband were “deeply devoted to each other,” and even her mother-in-law praised her: “She is as good as my own daugh
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Exclusive Love (2-Book Set) 独家宠爱（全2册）
A banker is someone who thrusts an umbrella into your hands on a sunny day, then snatches it right back when it rains. An enigmatic “affair” scandal brings together financial titan Deng Yachun, recently returned from Wall Street, and Feng Xu, a divorced cellist. At first sight, he reminds her of a French dinner: refined, flawless, and luxurious in every detail. He must be the perfect blend of truffles, foie gras, and caviar. She, on the other hand, is like apple brandy. At first, he finds her a
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Love's Travel Diary 爱的旅行日记
[Bad Ending] [Campus] [Devoted Love] [Aloof, Abstinent, and Obsessive Male Lead × Lively, Energetic, and Assertive Female Lead] Years later, aboard a train bound for the south. "Xiaoyu, will we ever come back?" "Of course we will." The man looked at the woman before him, holding a child, and couldn't help but smile. "Daddy, I want to be with Mommy..." "All right, stay with Mommy." They both smiled in unison.
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Three Years Missing: I Can’t Keep My Identity a Secret Anymore 消失三年：我身份瞒不住啦
[Peerless national hero + ultra-sweet romance + everyday campus life] Chu Yang is a peerless national hero who has been living under an assumed name. He disappeared for three years to lead the design and development of China’s 1nm lithography technology. Three years later, Chu Yang completed his mission and returned to the city. Hoping to make up for the regrets of his high school years, he enrolled at Kyoto University to experience student life, becoming a freshman there. But during orientation
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Days Spent Sharing a Rental with the Campus Belle 和校花合租的日子
An unexpected arrangement to share an apartment with a girl he'd never met turns Lin Beixiu's life upside down. A song brings back memories, and after spending time together again and again, Lin Beixiu realizes they were never strangers at all. I may have lost you once, but this time, I'll hold on tight. Every encounter in this world is a reunion after a long separation. I met you at just the right time. This is a story about finding each other again.
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My Childhood Friend 我的女发小
My Childhood Friend
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I'll Wait for You at the End of the World 在世间的尽头等你
(Urban legends + xianxia romance + traditional culture + past and present lives + reborn + tragic love between human and ghost) You lie beneath the spring, your bones turned to dust. I remain in the human world, my hair white with snow! Death is not the end. Being forgotten is! If, when I leave this world, a long-missed loved one or beloved comes to receive me, I would gladly and peacefully depart with a smile. If such a miracle truly happened, then death would not be a sorrow to me, but a reuni
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My Years in the Wedding Business 我干婚庆这些年
[Life's Big Events + Wedding Industry + Northeastern Comedy + Everyday Family Life + Rich Older Women + Older Sisters] Jin Ge is a male makeup artist and photographer. After personally reporting his biological father and sending him to prison, he returned to his hometown to protect his mother from his father's enemies. He took over the family wedding business, and because of his professional makeup skills, many couples hired him to handle their weddings. The work also gave him a chance to see wh
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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Spring Had Passed Before I Arrived 偏我来时不逢春
But When I Arrived, Spring Had Passed
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The Glass Candy He Gave Me 他给的玻璃糖
Qiu Cixiu was nothing like his name suggested. He wasn’t merciful at all! Eventually, he simply changed the character in his name to “Chi.” The chi of charging across the battlefield. That character suited his wild, rebellious nature much better. She once thought he would be her salvation, but as it turned out, he wasn’t...
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Beyond the Great Wall, Beyond the Great Wall 塞北塞北
This novel tells the story of the feuds between the Wei and Gu families across four generations and more than a century of history, vividly portraying the customs and culture of the lands north of the Great Wall. Through the tangled relationships between the Gu family’s men and the Wei family’s women, it explores people’s passionate pursuit of true love and their unyielding struggle against fate. It won the Dajia Bronze Award at the first Cross-Strait Online Original Literature Competition.
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A Northeastern Woman’s Story in Macau 东北女人的澳门故事
Once you've been to Macau, it's yours for life! What kind of city is A-Ma-Gau? Why are so many people obsessed with it? What kind of tumultuous life awaits a naive young woman who ventures into Macau alone? Here, stories unfold every day, and miracles happen every day. In these most authentic stories, you'll see human nature at its rawest, the most insatiable desires, and the cheapest emotions. Welcome to my life in Macau.
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Better Than Working: Winning Over the Crown Prince, the Client 打工不如打甲方太子的主意
[Based on true events + urban life + workplace + strong female lead + smart characters + sweet romance] A wonderful workplace romance set in the urban financial world, inspired by real-life experiences in the modern workplace. It lays bare the dark side behind the financial sector’s glamorous facade. The writing is delicate, the scenes vivid, the emotions genuine, and the plot is full of unexpected twists. The heroine is a rookie auditor, but a strong woman at heart. She stays sharp and emotiona
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A Breeze Blows By 有风吹过来
The wind began to blow. He said to her, “Yan Li, before I leave, I want to help you like this world just a little. At the very least, I don’t want you to feel so hopeless anymore.” When two equally lonely people, both empty inside, find each other, even the smallest change can be a form of salvation.
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Destroying the Evidence 毁尸灭迹
[Sickly beauty who’s afraid of dying × psychopathic murderer with a touch of a romantic streak] [Heartbreaking, tragic love, madmen, mutual destruction, dark, villains] Shang Wang came across a murderer. Beneath the heavy curtain of rain, she had just finished an IV drip at the hospital. Wandering idly, she came to a secluded corner and looked up. In the distance, in an abandoned garden, a pitch-black figure like a ghost was bent over, digging at something again and again. Suddenly, a flash o
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A Lost Path Through the Ranks 基层仕途迷茫路
“Jiaming,” Third Grandpa said, “I just saw green smoke rising from your family grave. That's a good omen. I reckon Xinghe will grow up to become an official.” A fortune-teller told him, “You can become an official in the southeast.” Chen Xinghe was a grassroots official who spent more than twenty years struggling his way through the political world, constantly making waves on the grand stage of his own life. For a time, his efforts brought him fame and success, and he enjoyed a happy life. He wa
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Reborn: Hello, My Name Is Zhuang Ting 重生之，你好我叫庄婷
Before she was reborn, Feng Mengyun looked at the person before her. "He Wenwen, I treated you as a friend. What did you think of me?" Looking at her, Feng Mengyun felt heartbroken. "As long as you're around, Lin Hao will never notice me. I had to find another way to get rid of you..." After being reborn: "Hello, my name is Zhuang Ting."
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Mu Yanzhou's Life in Ancient Times 慕宴州的古代的一生
“Madam, push harder! I can see the baby’s head!” Nanny Li knelt at the foot of the bed, her voice tinged with barely contained anxiety. Nearly fifty, with gray at her temples, she was the dowry nursemaid Liu Xun had brought from her maiden home. Now, her calloused hands firmly supported the new life about to enter the world. “Ah, ” Another wave of searing pain tore through Liu Xun, her nails digging deep into her palms. In a daze, she heard her mother-in-law, Madam Mu, outside: “It’s been a who
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The Lone Eagle (Two-Volume Set) 孤鹰（全二册）
Qin Chuan is an ordinary military academy student whose grades are unremarkable by every measure. He and his comrades Ning Zhi and Zheng Yong are selected for the mysterious Special Case Unit. They endure brutal training together, forging an extraordinary friendship and understanding. But their first mission, undertaken with high spirits, ends in disaster: Zheng Yong is killed, Ning Zhi is gravely wounded, and Qin Chuan nearly gets sent back. Then Qin Chuan receives orders from his superiors to
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I Have Despised My Soul Seven Times 我曾七次鄙视自己的灵魂
When Shen Zhi was thirty, she discovered a USB drive hidden beneath her mother’s urn at the funeral. It contained 147 video diaries her mother had recorded before her death, documenting the twenty-six years of abuse she suffered at her father’s hands and her eventual death from cancer. Meanwhile, the father who wept so bitterly at the funeral was backstage with a young woman, planning their honeymoon. Shen Zhi didn’t go to the police. Instead, she made a decision no one could have anticipated: s
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No Mercy for the World 不赦人间
For the first twenty years of her life, Chen Qingxing lived by one rule: never count on a miracle. When someone else took the spot she had earned as a student in need, and her part-time wages were withheld, she signed a harsh sponsorship agreement. Her benefactor would pay for her to finish college, and after graduation, she would repay the debt with a marriage of convenience. There was no romance involved. It was a deal with a clearly marked price. She relied on careful calculations to plan eve
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The Taste of Being Alive 是活着的味道
The taste of being alive.
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From a Symbol to a Person 从一个符号变成了一个人
From a symbol into a person
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Living Is About More Than Just Staying Alive 人活着不光要活下去
Being alive isn't just about staying alive
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She Hooked the World with Her Little Finger 她用小指勾过人间
She hooked the mortal world with her little finger.
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How Am I Supposed to Live? 我该怎么活
How should I live?
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You Can Be Poor, but You Mustn’t Be Dirty 人可以穷，但不能脏
You can be poor, but you can't be dirty.
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A Girl Spent Seven Years Breaking Herself into Pieces and Entrusting Them to Others 一个女孩用七年时间把自己摔碎了分给别人保管
A girl spent seven years breaking herself into pieces and entrusting them to others to keep.
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Thank You for the Roujiamo 谢谢你的肉夹馍
Thank you for the roujiamo.
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Tales of Zaozhuang 枣庄往事
Tales of Zaozhuang
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We're All Lying 我们都在撒谎
We're All Lying
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A Lie We Tell Ourselves 自欺欺人的谎言
A Self-Deceiving Lie
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Time That Cannot Be Kept, People Who Cannot Be Held 留不住的时间留不住的人
“Since you want a divorce, I have to get the share that belongs to me. The law says that whoever cheats first has to compensate the other for emotional distress. Besides, I’m now suffering from severe depression. Don’t even think you can get away with this.” Jiang Xiaomei had no idea where she’d found the nerve, but she was actually shouting at Qu Mingyan like this. “You must be out of your mind, thinking about money all the time.” Qu Mingyan was so furious that his face turned green. A vein bul
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Teacher's Wife, Please Answer 师母，请回答
Teacher’s Wife, Please Answer
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