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My Love in Dongguan 我的东莞爱情
In 1998, I was still young when I packed my bags and headed off to Guangdong to find work, dreaming of earning enough to go home, get married, have children, and live a quiet, stable life. But the bustling little city in the south ultimately threw all my plans for a settled life into disarray. Here, I met all kinds of people and encountered all kinds of things.
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City Life of a Working Couple 打工夫妻的都市生活
[Not a Power Fantasy] [Growth-Oriented Protagonist] [Working Couple + Realistic Life] [Ensemble Cast + No System + No Pocket Dimension + No Transmigration + No Golden Finger] At the dawn of the new millennium, a sweeping tide of change between the old and the new washed across the country. Countless villagers left their hometowns behind and headed to prosperous yet cold cities to make a living. Twenty-year-old Liu Fengxia was one of the most ordinary among these countless migrant workers. A litt
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- 3 Dust in the Wind: The Days of Sharing a Job 生如尘埃：打工搭伙的日子 In a bustling city, how many people shine brightly, and how many struggle just to survive? The two protagonists in this book represent two very different kinds of lives. Only after going from innocence to worldly wisdom and enduring life's hardships can they slowly come to their senses amid the mundane world. 11.5kReads9.1Score961Shelves
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Now That I'm Reborn, Why Get Married? Obviously, I'll Make Money 都重生了谁还嫁人，当然赚钱啊
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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Back to the 1990s: The Road to Fortune 重回九零致富路
Back in the early 1990s, Su Jinhua turns down a blind date and joins the wave of workers heading south. Getting another chance in the midst of a great era, Su Jinhua's greatest wish is to seize the moment. She plans to buy another home while houses are still dirt cheap, but ends up becoming a landlady before she knows it! Su Jinhua never meant to make a big fuss about things. After all, nothing beats coasting to success. But who can keep a low profile when their abilities won't allow it? She onl
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- 6 Reborn in 1998: The Factory Girl's Journey from Street Stalls to Buying a Home 重生九八：厂妹摆摊买楼记 At thirty-five, Wang Yue was clutching a discount baby-formula receipt when a car sent her flying. When she opened her eyes again, she was an eighteen-year-old country girl who had failed the college entrance exam. She tore up the notice about retaking the exam without hesitation. “Mom, this money’s enough to buy a pig. I’m going to Shenzhen!” While the girls at the electronics factory followed pop stars, she buried herself in studying loopholes in the assembly line. When her supervisor called h 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1995: My Years in Dongguan 重生九五：我在东莞那几年 Lin Xueqiong was reborn in 1995. Just after turning 18, she became a young migrant worker heading south to Dongguan. In her previous life, she worked as a factory hand, putting in 13 hours a day and getting only half a day off each month, which she used to save her wages. With a second chance at life, she had a different starting point: she would earn 6,000 yuan a month and buy a home in Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou within a year. 633Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 8 I Set Up a Simple Stall and Made 300,000 [The 1990s] 简单摆个摊，挣了三十万【九零】 Back in 1992, Chen Baiyun resolutely quits her job. She'll make her fortune by quitting and setting up a street stall! She only meant to save up some start-up money, but somehow she ends up making 300,000 yuan. Chen Baiyun: “Well, we should hurry up and buy it!” Cars, houses, gold, shops: she wants them all. As for that awful swindler who married her for money and his family, they can get lost. No one is going to disturb the hard-won happiness she's found. [Little everyday spending sprees] Chen 15.7kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 9 Back to 1989 重回1989年 Ye Xiaomei worked like a beast of burden for the Guo family for over a decade before discovering that they had sold her older sister into the mountains, where she was abused to death, and that her husband had sent people to break her father's leg. After learning the truth, she took revenge on the entire Guo family, then poisoned herself and died. She thought she would go to hell, but instead she returned to the turning point that had changed her life. Given another chance, Ye Xiaomei uses her me 113Reads—Score—Shelves
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Sailing Together 共舟行
[Small-Town Fiction | Slow Burn | 1v1, Both Leads Chaste | Ensemble Growth | Working-Class Struggles | Realistic | Period Setting] “Across a thousand miles, the boat speeds on; a letter of love rides home on the wind.” A small town in southern China in the 1990s A young man holds an unremarkable bouquet of roses And lays his feelings bare beneath the night sky From scraping by with a street stall to finding a way forward together Through wind and rain, they share life's many ups and downs This i
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I Have More Children, More Blessings, and the Nation Paves the Way for Me 我！多子多福，国家为我铺路
Chen Feng wakes up with the campus belle, Lin Wan'er, in his arms. His drunkenness vanishes instantly. This is social death! [Ding! Host detected making intimate contact with a goddess-tier character (beauty rating 95+)!] [The Nation-Strengthening Black Technology System has been activated!] [Core mission: Forge the nation's sword and restore the world to greatness!] [Mission rules: Every time you have a child with a goddess (overall rating above 90), you will receive a black technology powerful
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Reborn in 1980: My Daily Life as a City Worker 重生八零进城打工日常
Liang Shuifeng somehow finds herself back at the age of thirty-three. This time, she decides to live her life differently. In her previous life, she spent her days as a country girl. This time, she bravely sets off for the city with her family to find work. Note: This story has no golden finger and focuses on the ordinary lives of little people.
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- 13 Becoming the Perfect Male God in a World with More Women Than Men 在女多男少世界里做完美男神 In 1814, a meteor shower rained down from the sky. It not only caused massive casualties, but also released a colorless, odorless gas. The gas itself was harmless, but it gradually emitted another gas that lowered the male birth rate across the entire world. The unlucky Li Can was mistakenly judged to have more years left to live than he actually did. As compensation, he was sent to this world, where women outnumbered men, and resolved to become the perfect male idol. 24.2kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 14 After Losing My Job, I Lead My Family to Prosperity 下岗后我带全家奔小康 After losing their jobs, a couple born in the 1970s head south to work in factories. In 1999, the steel mill collapses, and Shen Aijun and his wife are both laid off. Faced with this sudden upheaval, Shen Aijun heads south to Guangdong and joins the noisy assembly line at an electronics factory, enduring day after day and night after night amid the machinery's clatter. By chance, Shen Aijun notices that the street vendors outside the factory are doing brisk business. Back home, trendy goods are 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Matriarchy: The Campus Beauty Gangster Will Bear Your Child. Scared? 女尊：黑道校花给你生崽，怕不怕 1.4kReads6.4Score101Shelves
- 16 Women Outnumber Men, and Divine Enhancements Let Me Conquer the Matriarchal World 女多男少，神级强化横推女尊世界 Su Chen transmigrates to a matriarchal world where women vastly outnumber men, with a male-to-female ratio of 1 to 1,000. As soon as he arrives, he faces a desperate task: complete 1,000 of something within two years. Just as he is on the verge of a breakdown... [Ding! God-Tier Enhancement System activated!] [This System will help you unlock your genetic potential and reshape the order of the world.] From that moment on, Su Chen’s fate is completely rewritten. 2.2kReads6.2Score115Shelves
- 17 In a World with More Women Than Men, How Did I Become a Succubus Loved by All? 女多男少，我咋成魅魔万人迷了？ [Multiple female leads] [Twenty women to one man] [Comfort-food vibes] [System] [Just enjoy the ride] [Quotes from the Grandmaster] Important: this is not a soul transmigration story! It is not! This is explained in the book. Qin Lang transmigrates to a world where women vastly outnumber men. With men making up such a tiny proportion of the population, they’re undeniably top-tier, the cream of the crop! From then on, the roles are reversed. Three hundred million against six billion: the advantag 20Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 18 A World with Few Men: From the Start, the State Forced Me into a Marriage 女多男少：开局被国家强制配婚 In this world turned upside down, where women outnumber men 99 to 1, Lin Yu is a man of national-treasure status. As soon as he turns twenty, the state assigns him a top-tier rich and beautiful wife. When an official asks what he's looking for in a partner, he makes a half-joking wish: "I like long legs, an icy temperament, and a domineering CEO type..." The next moment, the More Children, More Blessings System activates! [Ding! Host's wish confirmed. Reality distortion in progress...] The doorb 1.2kReads5.7Score103Shelves
- 19 In a World with More Women Than Men, Everyone Wants to Marry Me? Let's Date First! 女多男少：都求我结婚？先处处！ [Reverse harem, wish fulfillment, wild imagination, System, everyday life, tycoon] Qin Feng opens his eyes and finds himself in a bizarre world where women outnumber men by eighty-eight to one. Here, men are a rare resource and receive the highest level of treatment! Ding! System bound! [Beginner mission: Win over Li Wan'er, the icy, mature professor at Jiangcheng University!] Marry a wife and get superpowers and a fortune. What kind of deal is that? 206Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 20 More Women Than Men: From the Start, I Had Ten Billion to Win Over Countless Goddesses 女多男少：开局十亿拿捏无数女神 Bad news: After transmigrating to a matriarchal world where women outnumber men, I'm publicly dumped at the opening ceremony! Good news: The Goddess Compendium System activates, and I get ten billion from the start! As the goddesses everyone else considers unattainable blush and swoon over me, each vying for my attention… My ex-wife Xiao Lengyue sobs and begs, “Luo Chuan, I was wrong. Will you marry me again?” With a stunning beauty in his arms, Luo Chuan smiles calmly. “Sorry. If you want to be 42Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 21 It's a Real Headache: The World's Socialites Are Fighting to Marry Me 很无奈：全球名媛争着嫁给我 [Multiple Women Pursue One Man] [Urban Feel-Good Read] [System] [Tycoon] This is a must-read urban feel-good novel! A must-read! A new book from a veteran author, with reliable quality and updates! … Ignore the blurb and go straight to the story! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A World with More Women Than Men: The Powerful Women Offered Me 900 Million to Marry Them 女多男少：女大佬们为娶我给9亿 [A world ruled by men] [Scheming] [System] Su Chen transmigrates to a world where the ratio of men to women is 1:99. Just as everyone treats her like a national treasure... 213Reads—Score—Shelves
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Husband and Wife at the Factory 工厂里的夫妻
Chen Yishan’s husband, Sun Hai, was good for nothing, leaving her to shoulder the entire financial burden of the family. To improve their circumstances, she decided to leave her six-year-old son, Sun Dabao, in the care of her parents-in-law, then go to Guangdong with her cousin to work in a factory.
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- 24 Reborn in the 1980s: From the Start, I Took a Factory Job 重生八零，开局进厂打工 Ji Yunxi transmigrates into the role of a universally loathed supporting character, the female foil to the heroine. The heroine endures endless hardships without giving in, while Ji Yunxi lives in comfort, spoiled and cruel. During the 1987 wave of migrant labor, the heroine gets into college and finally holds her head high, while Ji Yunxi uses connections to land a job on an assembly line. The heroine lives out a romantic drama straight from real life every day, while Ji Yunxi seethes with jeal 45.5kReads8.4Score5.2kShelves
- 25 Reborn in the 1990s: Song Chunying’s Happy Life 重生九零：宋春英的美满人生 [Reborn + comeback + mutual pampering + adorable kids] In her previous life, Chunying's husband was framed and made a scapegoat. After losing both her husband and daughter, she died of grief. Reborn unexpectedly in 1990, she resolves to protect her husband and their two sweet, well-behaved daughters. To escape the path fate has laid out for her, she bravely takes her whole family away from their hometown to seek work, even though she'd never left home in her previous life. The road ahead is full 1.1kReads8.8Score101Shelves
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2008: My Hustle in Shenzhen 08年，我在深圳打拼的日子
[Multiple female leads] [Comeback in the 2000s] [Boss lady] In the summer of 2008, Lin Tao comes to Shenzhen to find work, seeking help from his neighbor and older sister Zhao Ya, who runs a hair salon in an urban village.
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- 27 Factory Girl from Shajing 沙井厂妹 [Period Setting] [Headed South] [Working] [Building Wealth] [Realistic] [No System] Shajing, Shenzhen, in 2008 was young and distinctive, especially in factories staffed entirely by women. 83.2kReads7.9Score7.8kShelves
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Love in a Rental Apartment 出租房里的爱情
Chen Mo comes from a poor village deep in the mountains. After someone else takes his place at university by intercepting his college entrance exam admission letter, he has no choice but to head to the prosperous Pearl River Delta, where he struggles to survive and pursue his dreams. This book paints a sweeping portrait of the stories of young men and women born in the 1970s and 1980s who went south to work in Guangdong in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The era captured in these pages is both a
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Picking Up a Wife on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway: My Story with a Budget Traveler 川藏线捡媳妇：我和穷游女的故事
I’m well into my thirties, out of work, and my wife has left me. I watched outdoor vloggers on short-video apps making money while cuddling up to women, and slapped my thigh: Why shouldn’t I be able to do that? I gritted my teeth and bought a secondhand camper van. I called it chasing poetry and distant horizons, then hit National Highway 318. Really, I just wanted to see if I could find myself a wife along the Sichuan-Tibet route. Who would have thought I’d find all kinds of stories instead
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In the '90s, Only a Henpecked Man Can Become the Village’s Richest 九零：耙耳朵才能当村首富
[Both leads reborn + period setting + everyday family life + raising children + making money] Question: If you could go back thirty years, what would you do? Miao Yuting: ...Do you even have to ask? Of course I’d... Raise the kids! Buy a house! Become the richest person in the village! Don’t underestimate the village’s richest person, and don’t underestimate bean buns as a source of food! Li Jianye is reborn and returns to his youth. What does he regret most? That is... Listening to his wife! Li
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- 31 Working Down South: Those Wild Years 南下打工，风流的那些年 This is a story about Dongguan. After graduating from college, I couldn’t find a job. My cousin was working in the south, so I went to stay with him. My cousin was a carefree sort who dressed like a gangster every day. He took me to internet cafes, played pool with me, and treated me to late-night snacks. Life in the south was slow and easygoing. My cousin was my mentor. He found me a job and showed me how to eat, drink, and enjoy life. My cousin and I had a great time fooling around, but then h 332Reads7.5Score100Shelves
- 32 My Days in Public Relations 我当公关的那些日子 You probably won’t believe me when I tell you what I do for a living. You’re a liar! That’s right! I make a living telling tall tales and keeping people company as they chat. Anyone can spin a yarn, but I might be the first to turn it into a respectable profession and earn tens of millions a year! I spend all day spinning stories to women, talking nonsense nonstop, and somehow they still like me and are willing to pay me. The secret to business: It doesn’t matter what you’re selling, even if it’ 8.9kReads7.5Score650Shelves
- 33 Stranded on a Deserted Island: I Have to Survive! 流落荒岛 必须活下去！ A plane crashes, leaving its passengers stranded on a deserted island's shore. Among the survivors is Fan Jian, a special forces soldier from the Marine Corps, who searches everywhere for other survivors. They scrape together a group of nineteen women and one lone man. Fan Jian leads everyone in their fight to survive. They start with a small makeshift shelter and eventually settle down for good. They need a leader, someone to make the decisions. As they compete for limited resources, more than 1kReads7.7Score230Shelves
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The Dongguan Years 东莞岁月
Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this novel tells the story of migrant workers represented by a group of young men and women from the countryside in southwestern Henan. It paints a sweeping picture of their arduous struggle to make a living in the unfamiliar city of Dongguan, vividly recreating the bitterness and sweetness, hardships and joys, love and heartbreak experienced by young factory workers during that fiery era.
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After Dumping the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College 抛弃供她上四年大学的男朋友之后
After She Dumped the Boyfriend Who Put Her Through Four Years of College
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My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年
Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop
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Reborn: Living Off My Wife 重生后靠吃软饭
After being reborn, she has no desire to work hard. In her previous life, she always wanted to enjoy the benefits of a rich partner but never had the chance. Now she has all the right assets, so she plans to live off a rich man and keep him busy having children while she focuses on making money...
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The Only Daughter of the 1980s 八十年代独生女
Lin Zhizhi was born in 1980. The good news was that both her parents worked at state-owned factories. The bad news was that they gave up their secure jobs and headed south to find work. Her mother got a factory job, and her father started working on construction sites. Later, they started a small business and brought Lin Zhizhi to live with them. Little by little, she realized she’d become a rich kid. Told from the heroine’s perspective, this is the story of her parents starting a business in th
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Everyone Avoids the Troublemaking Girls, but I Take Them All In 世人皆避精神小妹我尽数收留
Spiritual little sisters, yoga pants: which one can make you stop in your tracks? ...Stop looking, this is the one! To give everyone a good show, I spent 6,000 yuan to live with a spiritual little sister for a month, together around the clock. What? You say that's still not enough? Then how about adding a System, too!? Gu Xingchen transmigrates back ten years and uses his System to turn his life around. Every spiritual little sister in the county follows him... Their world is on guard against th
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- 40 Women, Don't Go to Northern Myanmar. There's No One There. 女人不要去缅北那里没有人 The world is beautiful. I won't be coming back in my next life. Bailu (a pseudonym) said something after returning from northern Myanmar that I still can't forget. She said: "When Heaven was taking me apart, it got the balance just right. Any harder, and I'd have died. Any gentler, and I might have had a decent life." My so-called best friend tricked me into going to northern Myanmar. That's when I learned that women here aren't even treated as human beings. Beatings, imprisonment, being drained 21kReads7.4Score1.2kShelves
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A Romance at a Shenzhen Factory 深圳工厂情缘
My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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War of Resistance: A God-Tier Sharpshooting Manual from the Start! 抗日：开局赠送神级枪法！
As Marshal Ye lay gravely wounded on the battlefield, at death's door, he unexpectedly bound himself to the “Strongest War of Resistance System.” The System grants him divine-level marksmanship from the start, but assigns bizarre missions. [Ding! The Host's powerful indomitable will and potential to resist the Japanese have been detected. Binding requirements met. The “Strongest War of Resistance System” is beginning the binding process... 1%... 50%... 100%! Binding successful!]
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- 43 Talk Trash and Win Prizes 对骂就有奖 Hao Tie was treated like a pack mule and was about to hit rock bottom because he refused to keep living like one. Then he suddenly got a System that rewarded him for trading insults! From then on, he used verbal sparring to reach the pinnacle of success! 23.6kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves
- 44 The Beauties in the Safehouse 安全屋美女 Style: Global furnace apocalypse, safe-house survival. Easy to understand, humorous and witty, lighthearted and fun, with constant flirtation. System: Global Furnace Apocalypse Safe-House Survival System. Male lead: Hao Jumeng Language: Clear and concise. 10kReads—Score413Shelves
- 45 The Workplace Tough Guy 职场猛男 The male lead, He Jumeng, has a superpower: a very special energy inside his body lets him sense what other people are thinking to a certain extent. It also gives him immense strength, fast strikes, and lightning-quick reflexes. Style: Workplace drama, clear and accessible writing, witty and humorous, lighthearted and fun, with plenty of romantic tension. Emotional push and pull with antagonists, compelling conflicts, a twisting plot, setbacks followed by comebacks, and lively, engaging storytel 12.6kReads—Score410Shelves
- 46 The Palace’s Number One Tough Guy 皇宫第一猛男 Ying Zheng, a modern overworked young man, dies suddenly from working overtime and has his soul transported into the body of Xiao Caizi, a young eunuch who was just killed after offending the powerful. He also obtains the Fake Eunuch System and begins cultivating the Divine Art of the Fake Eunuch. In a palace rife with schemes and human malice, he steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life! 11.7kReads6.5Score530Shelves
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I Woke Up to Find That the Father of My Child and I Were Both Reborn 一觉醒来，我和孩儿她爹都重生了
Zhang Xuemei had never wronged anyone in her life. The only person she had ever wronged was her youngest daughter, whom she gave away shortly after birth. She had secretly gone to see the girl before. Seeing that she was doing well had put her mind at ease, and Zhang Xuemei hadn’t wanted to disrupt her life. But on the night she returned, she fell asleep and woke up thirty years in the past, back when she was pregnant with her youngest daughter and hiding at her parents’ home. She touched her be
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- 48 Flirting Makes Me Stronger 暧昧就变强 The male lead, He Jumeng, has an incredible superpower: he grows stronger whenever he flirts with beautiful women. Then he suddenly gains the “Business Prodigy” superpower and starts with just 1,000 yuan in savings, gradually building his fortune! Style: A business prodigy superpower, the business world, commercial rivalry, emotional sparring with villains, gripping conflicts, face-slapping, a rise after an initial setback, and one satisfying moment after another. 3.7kReads—Score231Shelves
- 49 Reborn in 1989: Three Daughters, and Life Is So Sweet 重生89，生三个女儿，嘎嘎香 Gao Mei is reborn at the moment her youngest daughter is born. It's 1989! She looks back on her life. In her determination to have a son, she gave birth to seven children, but only three daughters survived. Her husband's family despised her, her husband gave up on life and spent every day playing cards with his no-good friends, and her own weakness led to tragedy for her three daughters. Later, her husband's older brother's family took everything from them, and in the end neither she nor her hus 188Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 50 The Ultimate Tough Guy 第一猛男 Full of twists and turns, gripping and vivid, with distinctive, lifelike characters and lively, concise prose. The nouveau riche Ye Shuang travels everywhere and lives a carefree life. What a dream! 7.8kReads—Score453Shelves
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