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- 101 Three Years of Dating, and We Haven't Even Held Hands 恋爱三年没拉手 In old movies, the wooden-headed male lead always wins the girl’s heart by being “honest.” Our generation believed it. We mistook silence for deep affection, backing off for respect, and treated “knowing our place” like holy writ. Only after the person we liked had gone did we understand: awkwardness is romantic in movies, but in real life it means missing your chance, and all you’re left with is regret. An old friend passed through my heart, and when I looked back, autumn had already fallen acr 13Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Black-and-White Workplace 黑白职场
The book has three main female leads: Meng Hong, a wealthy, beautiful daughter of a powerful family; Han Yiran, warm and down-to-earth; and Xi Wenni, a tragic figure. I was swept up in Han Yiran's happiness, grieved over the fate that left Meng Hong with no control over her own life, and blamed myself for giving kind and beautiful Xi Wenni such a tragic fate. I felt as though I had committed a sin by brutalizing and destroying a pure rose… This is a love story about one man and three women
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The Kung Fu County Magistrate 功夫县长
After the former county magistrate dies by suicide, the higher-ups parachute a new magistrate into Shuanghe. Secretary Qin stares in utter disbelief at the new magistrate before him, who carries a shabby old-fashioned bundle on his back and has gauze stuck to his forehead! But Wang Xiaoneng doesn't care what anyone thinks. With his master's ancestral peachwood sword in hand and his master's ancestral whip wrapped around his waist, no demon or ghost can stand in the way of his great ambition and
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- 104 Spring Dawn in a Small Village 小村春晓 Li Village is backward in its thinking, with deeply entrenched male chauvinism and a strong preference for sons over daughters. Women have low status, and village rules forbid them from taking husbands into their families. As a result, families without sons are effectively left without descendants and must also endure many forms of unfair treatment. Li Guoqing used to work at an arts and crafts factory in the city. Later, he returned to the village and became its head. With the help of his wife, 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 My Great-Grandfather Is a Miracle Doctor 我的太公是神医 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 138Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 A Pink Summer 粉红色的夏天 Xia Xiaomei and her classmates Chen Yusheng and Lin Ling went to Sencheng to take over a tiny advertising agency. Looking for somewhere quiet to live, Xia Xiaomei rented a room in a house built by the Li family, where she met the male lead, Li Hangyu. Xia Xiaomei's best friend, Xia Lingmei, had gone to Sencheng to work after graduating from middle school. Now that Xia Xiaomei had moved there too, the two friends could be together again. Li Hangyu was rich, handsome, and tall, the prince charming 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Now That We’ve Graduated, Let’s Love Well 毕业了好好爱 In middle school, a teacher once said something that made a deep impression on me, and I resolved not to date while I was still in school. As luck would have it, my classmate Liu Chengheng made the same vow. But Liu Chengheng was tall, handsome, and captain of the school basketball team, so girls were always chasing after him. He asked me for help, and out of loyalty to a friend, I decided to fend off his admirers for him. I kept it up until graduation. On graduation day, Liu Chengheng came to f 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 A Gentle Breeze Under Clear Skies: 云淡风轻： Yang Xiaoyun, formerly known as Su Xiaoyun, had just graduated from high school when her adoptive parents tried to force her into marriage. After making a successful escape, she arrived in Huangdu, a major international metropolis, where she began a new life. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 A Conscience-Driven Liquor 良心酒 Honest Liquor 20Reads—Score114d adds
- 110 The House and the Car 房子车子 House and Car 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Century-Old House 百年老宅
An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l
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Flowers Born of the Earth 土生花
The land is silent, yet it can hold all the hardships endured by three generations. On the barren yellow earth, three generations of women are pressed into the mud by fate, bound hand and foot by patriarchy, and slowly tortured by life. They have no choices and nowhere to turn. They don’t even dare to cry aloud. All they can do is endure the darkness, bear the despair, and keep going through days that have been ground to dust, sustained by sheer will. Yang Jinlian is deaf and stutters. All her
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Tears of Buckwheat Blossoms 荞花泣
This is a tragic story. The stranglehold of arranged marriages on women cuts like a blunt knife, while the desperate struggle to survive in a remote mountain village feels like a net with no escape. Under the shackles of the times, individual resistance ends in tragedy, like a moth flying into a flame. The gender oppression embedded in the tribe’s feudal culture makes life even more suffocating. Every time A Wei reaches for hope, reality crushes it in her grasp. The indifference around her, from
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Gathering Ears of Grain 拾穗儿
In an era without electricity, phones, or the internet, youth was made of books, sweat, and burning ideals. Her name is Shisui'er. Born in the desert and orphaned young, she was given nothing but desolation by fate, yet she was determined to make flowers bloom across the mountains. She studied hard, then turned the college entrance exams around, leaving the depths of the Gobi for a university campus. With an unyielding spirit, she grew toward the sun and blossomed against the wind. After gradu
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