An Extraordinary Life for a Village Youth 《小村青年的非凡人生》

1. 1 小 The Extraordinary Life of a Young Man from a Small Village 小村青年的非凡人生 A Dao阿刀Urban2.1M WordsCompleted In that moment, I truly understood why the poor stay poor. It isn't because we don't work hard enough. It's because of the environment we live in, the resources we have, our narrow-mindedness, and the few, fragile opportunities available to us. All of it traps my impoverished family in a struggle just to survive! I gave everything I had for a chance to “change my fate,” yet a single storm was enough to destroy it! 25.5kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves

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   Ah Dao's works are really beautiful, come and take a look.

2. 2 0 A Post-00s Kid Helps Mom Take Down Her Scumbag Husband 00后帮妈妈整渣斗三 Qian Xiaqi钱夏七Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Modern urban life + inspirational + slice of life + feel-good] Wu Jie is a poor student who loves gaming. After his parents' marriage falls apart, he defies fate and changes his life. First, he helps his mother take down her cheating husband and his mistress. Later, he helps his motherland root out scoundrels and traitors. Step by step, he rises to the brightest peak of his life... 4.2kReads9.0Score596Shelves

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   The story of the son of a top academic is very interesting, inspiring and full of positive energy!

3. 3 东 Dongguan: Those Older Sisters 东莞：那些姐姐们 Zeng Yi曾呓Urban2.2M WordsOngoing 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.] 194.2kReads8.8Score6.6kShelves

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4. 4 我 My Date with a Vampire 4: The Mystery of Eternity 我和僵尸有个约会4：永恒之迷 Liangquan Chess Matchmaker梁泉棋媒Male-Channel Fanfiction324k WordsCompleted Eternal ages pass, all living beings remain indifferent, and the merciless Heavenly Dao locks away every joy and sorrow of the mortal world. Shadows stir in the mirror, fate ensnares them, and a thousand years of longing pierce the silence of eternity. To break the curse of fate, Kuang Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling enter the Eternal Kingdom created by Pangu, only to discover that this ultimate eternity is a frigid cage that erases every emotion. They defy the merciless Heavenly Dao with love and hate, 20Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A lot of emotions are really easy to put down on the pen. There is always more that cannot be expressed than what is written.

5. 5 穿 Reborn as a Seventy-Year-Old Farmer, I Rejuvenate by Giving Gifts 穿成七旬老农，我靠赠礼返老还童 The Brain of a Shoelace托鞋的脑仁Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted What does it feel like to awaken a System at the age of 79? Li Chengfeng will tell you: give a widow some eggs and get five years of life in return; give the village belle some hair oil and get a hundred taels of silver. People can gossip all they like. Once I've won over every beauty in the village, the town, and the entire country, then they can talk. 276Reads—Score219Shelves

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6. 6 托 Tuoxie De Naoren's 15th Book 托鞋的脑仁第15本书 The Brain of a Shoelace托鞋的脑仁Urban3.3M WordsOngoing My new book is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 147Reads6.8Score122Shelves
7. 7 边 A Border Guard's Blade Shatters the Firmament 边关小兵刀破苍穹 The Brain of a Shoelace托鞋的脑仁Historical886k WordsCompleted The frigid wind sweeps sand through Blackrock Pass. Lin Que wraps himself in a patched military uniform and runs his fingers over the rusty ancestral blade, “Windbreaker”... A border guard armed with a battered blade, Lin Que awakens the bloodline of a magical beast. He slays foreign tribes, foils political schemes, defeats the Buddhist and Daoist sects, and challenges the Heavenly Court. Together with the women who love him, he brings order to the world! 415Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 傻 The Foolish Master in the City 傻子高手在都市 The Brain of a Shoelace托鞋的脑仁Urban876k WordsCompleted The city is full of tricks. I’m going back to the countryside. Silly Long has been a bit slow since he was a child. But he knows the martial arts of the Meihua school, as well as divination, Shennong medicine, geomancy, cultivation and breath control, and physiognomy. With all that, he’s made quite a name for himself in the city… 612Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 牧 The Cowherd Boy’s Encounter with an Immortal 牧童遇仙记 Young Master in Green青衫西少Eastern Fantasy212k WordsCompleted Qingshan Village is A Mu’s hometown. Outside the village lies a forbidden place, Misty Mountain, which is actually an entrance to the Immortal Realm. Qing Li, a disciple of the Nine-Turn Profound Sect, fell into demonic ways after peering into the forbidden art of immortality and was hunted by his fellow disciples into the mortal world. The Nine-Turn Resurrection Herb grows in the lowest level of hell, the Infinite Purgatory. It must be picked with a pure heart, or the herb will wither and the p —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Worth recommending

10. 10 妈 The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门 Tale of the Literary Star文星传Urban304k WordsCompleted For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr 904Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is the extraordinary life of a small village girl. In order to take root in the city, she married an honest man, but ended up in a loveless marriage. An investment scam caused her to lose all her savings and dignity, and she had no choice but to move away.

11. 11 庸 Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心 Yin Mu殷木Urban370k WordsCompleted Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he 218Reads—Score107Shelves

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    A rural realistic novel without counter-attack cheats, telling the real ups and downs of young people in a small place. In his youth, he suffered from low self-esteem and cowardice, lost his ignorant heart, and missed the opportunity to change his destiny. After entering the society, I keep bowing to reality, not getting the love I want, and leaving regrets along the way in life, full of regrets that ordinary people cannot escape.

12. 12 根 Foundation 根基 Qian Baohao乾宝浩Urban626k WordsCompleted All the wandering, struggling, and searching in a person’s life ultimately point to the same answer: roots. They may be the homeland in one’s blood, family values etched into one’s very bones, an unwavering faith that holds firm in hardship, or the confidence that lets a person make a life for themselves in this world. Through the lives of ordinary people, this novel explores the confusion of growing up, the pain of difficult choices, and the clarity that comes with time. Some lose themselves 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ordinary self has achieved extraordinary career

13. 13 古 A Love Story from the Antique World 古玩江湖情 Qian Baohao乾宝浩Urban2.3M WordsCompleted Recognize your innate wisdom and complete your character. The martial world isn’t just about fighting. It’s about human relationships and the ways of the world. A buried history, a story, a reflection, a voice, a responsibility... Books cannot express everything, and words cannot convey every thought. This book will bring you a different kind of “fireworks,” along with the hopes and private musings of the heart. Life is a dream. I’ll pour a cup to the moon over the river... 359Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 14 谁 In Whose Name 谁的名义 Qian Baohao乾宝浩Urban1.1M WordsCompleted With no one to help me reach for the skies, I’ll trudge through snow and climb to the summit alone. For whom, and in whose name? Perhaps it is the voice of a dream, an eternal strength, by my side for a lifetime… Words cannot say it all. May the spring breeze brush your face, and may fallen blossoms nourish the flowers. Drive out evil; generation after generation, heroes of China emerge. The righteous path of this world is forged through hardship… 6Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 全 Master of All Skills 全技大师 Crocodile Wontons鳄鱼馄饨Sports2.2M WordsCompleted What? A Supreme Immortal Aperture Physique? I only get one chance, and they made me this useless body? Damn it! No! I'm different from them. I have a hidden quest built in! 565Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Angry][thinking][thinking]

16. 16 打 A Working Stiff's Little Journal 打工小记 The Village Is Not Late村不晚Urban270k WordsCompleted Urban daily life + earning a living through hard work + multiple heroines + healing The story of an ordinary wage earner: from drifting to Guangzhou to drifting to Beijing, from Shaoxing to Foshan and then to Majiaqiao in Beijing. Fifteen years in all. See how a worker at the bottom makes his way through life... I went south at fifteen and drifted north at thirty. The fiercest gamble of my life took fifteen years to pay for. Over those fifteen years, I worked in an electronics factory, served 33Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Working young man

17. 17 小 A Good Story from a Little Village 小村好故事 Mang Shanhe漭山河Urban57k WordsOngoing [A match made in heaven + macho man + virtuous woman + brings good fortune to her husband + rags-to-riches comeback] A stroke of romantic luck led a foolish young man to fall for a beautiful, sweet girl... Wang Ermao was delighted. Haha, with a good wife, I’ll never have to worry again! My wife is so beautiful, I feel energized every day! She brings me good fortune, so I can get rich without lifting a finger! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A small village macho shows off his ambitions

18. 18 落 The Little Steward of Fallen Mountain: Chen Nuanshu 落魄山的小管家：陈暖树 Chi Yusheng迟雨生Male-Channel Fanfiction107k WordsOngoing Mending clothes, brewing medicine, sweeping snow, welcoming guests, guarding the gate, keeping the accounts... The little chores others take for granted are all matters that must not go wrong to me. Because this is the master's run-down Luopo Mountain, and the home we've worked so hard to make our own. Beyond the mountain, sword energy crisscrosses the sky, and storms are brewing across the world. My cultivation is weak, and I know nothing of the Great Dao. All I know is that the gates must be s —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The little housekeeper of Luo Luo Shan!

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