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- 251 After the Cicadas Sing Comes the Plum Rain 蝉鸣过后是梅雨 [Ensemble Cast at School | Slow-Burn Bittersweet Romance | Fated Bond | Gentle Girl, Troubled Boy | Realistic | Happy Ending] On the first day of school, Xia Shanshan's red-lacquered bicycle was stolen. She crouched beneath a camphor tree and cried. On the third floor, someone folded her orange candy wrapper in half, then in half again. Later, she met Fu Siyun. The boy leaned against the wall, looking carefree as he teased her softly: “Are you afraid of me, senior?” She ran from him for three y 3.3kReads9.3Score353Shelves
- 252 I’m Not a Migrant Worker 我不是民工 Youth is a sacrifice, we burn through our lives with abandon, just to light the beacon of fate! I dedicate this book to everyone who burns with the fire of youth to light the way toward their destiny! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Thread of Wind Chimes 风过铃音缕
Two brothers who were inseparable since childhood both fall for the same girl when they first discover romance, setting off an emotional entanglement that will bind them for ten years. Their journey from school to the wider world takes them through family upheaval, social change, and transformations in human nature. It is also a journey of spiritual redemption for each of them.
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- 254 Lameyue 腊月儿 A man at the very bottom of society. An ordinary story about an ordinary person. He is right there beside you. He might even be you. Life is like a glass of liquor. The longer it sits, the richer it becomes. Light a cigarette, lift your glass, and let's savor it slowly. 4.8kReads8.9Score381Shelves
- 255 Who Is the Murderer? 谁是谋杀者 A body is discovered in an abandoned chemical plant in Jiangcheng. At the same time, Lin Beiqiao is searching day and night for her missing brother, Lin Beican. Is the body her brother's? Follow Officer Song Zhen's investigation as it uncovers the truth about a troubled family, layer by layer. 262Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Heron in the Mist 一鹭尘烟
[Urban + City Life + Workplace + One Female Lead + Romantic Tension + Domineering Female CEO + Poor Nobody's Rise to Success + No System + Xiamen Attractions and Food + Both Leads Are Each Other's First] Zhao Tianyi was born destined to be a poor nobody. He drifts aimlessly through the workplace and mingles with countless women, all in the hope of finding a beauty to fulfill his lifelong dream... Why has Lin Linglin, a stunning and icy-cold female CEO, fallen hopelessly in love?
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The Layoff Specialist 裁员专家
[Gorgeous Layoff Consultant VS Cunning Headhunter Partner] [Interconnected Stories + Workplace + Layoffs + Perfect Match + Face-Slapping the Scumbags + 1v1] Xi Rao is a layoff consultant, also known as a professional villain. Her job is to take away people’s livelihoods. Her latest assignment, however, is to fire the ex-boyfriend she broke up with five years ago. Well, anyway, she doesn’t mind kicking him while he’s down! Her ex-boyfriend: “You’re doing this to me because you still love me and h
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After My Husband Betrayed Me, I Tore My Best Friend Apart 老公背叛之后，我手撕闺蜜
[Workplace | Romance | Entrepreneurship | A Woman's Journey] After twenty years of marriage, she took a knife meant for her husband. In the ICU, she discovered that he had been cheating on her for ten years with the best friend she had known for thirty. Years of devotion turned into a blade that cut her to the bone. Facing three blows at once, her physical injuries, betrayal by both her husband and best friend, and a crisis threatening the group, she put her vulnerability aside and carefully pla
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Xi Shi Meets a Thousand-Year-Old White Fox 西施遇上千年白狐
The Fox Spirit of a Thousand Years Meets Xi Shi tells the story of Xi Shi, the beauty of ancient Yue. Fan, a subordinate of the King of Yue, brings her to the palace, where she undergoes rigorous training before being sent to Wu to seduce and subdue its king. With Fan's help, she is to bring down the state of Wu in one fell swoop. But on the way to Wu, Xi Shi's boat capsizes. After she falls into the water, a cargo ship rescues her. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a world she doesn
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After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后，她的人生开挂了
[Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr
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- 261 Thirty Is Just Right, Forty Is Wisdom, and Fifty Is Beautiful Too 三十正好，四十不惑，五十亦美 [A woman’s growth + marriage and romance + workplace + relationships] A cheating husband, a troublemaking mother-in-law, a biased mother, a greedy nephew... Is middle age really nothing but one mess after another? Once a married couple who knew each other better than anyone become the most familiar strangers, divorce is inevitable. Even after spending 19 years as a full-time housewife, there will come a day when she shines. She’ll build a successful career, make a good life for herself, and turn 228Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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The Casino Chip Runner 赌城洗码人
A business crime novel inspired by Macau’s “King of Gambling,” Alvin Chau. He starts out hauling crates of soda for a cha chaan teng and climbs, step by step, into the brightest lights of South Bay City. He runs errands, learns to read the room, fights for a place in the VIP rooms, wins over big clients, battles the underworld, leverages the power of wealthy families, and opens his own tables. He fears poverty, losing, and being looked down on, so he understands the people at the gambling table
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- 263 The Growth and Promotion of a Workplace Newcomer 一个职场新人的成长与晋升 [Female coming-of-age + workplace + class disparity + romance] Lin Xiaomi is a post-90s woman with a master’s degree who doesn’t know who her father is. Her grades were average throughout school, and even after finally earning a postgraduate degree and going abroad to polish her résumé, she still met with defeat after defeat when graduation came: The national civil service exam: She lost to a cold and didn’t even make it into the exam hall. The provincial civil service exam: She failed the writt 146Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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The Wall Is Four and a Half Meters High 高墙四米半
The author is a grassroots police officer who drew on personal experience to write this story. Using a detention center as its starting point and major cases once reported by CCTV as its basis, the novel recreates the reality of life inside a detention center and the process of investigating cases. Its greatest strength is its authenticity: this is a realistic novel that reads more like literary reportage.
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- 265 My Beautiful Girlfriend in Dongguan 东莞漂亮女友 #Multiple Heroines #Illustrated #Rags-to-Riches Comeback #Mature Women #Jianghu Thrills #Streetwise Romance #Urban Love, Body and Soul In a village in Guangdong Province in the 1990s, Liu Zhenhui, a naive young man who has failed his college entrance exams, hits rock bottom. By chance, he glimpses the hidden charms of the stunning Sister Fang, who shamelessly teases him and gets him all worked up. Just as a scandal erupts in the village, he and his childhood friend set off for Dongguan in the de 1.6kReads—Score111Shelves
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Her Secret Thoughts: A Young Man’s Hidden Diary in a Small Village 致她的心事：小村青年的隐秘日记
No formulaic plot | Not a wish-fulfillment novel | Realistic fiction | Zhou Zhiqiang grows up amid poverty and chaos in her birth family, with her father instilling in her the survival rule that “you have to please people to survive.” She gets into college and lands a job at a bank. A well-off man, Ke Qingyan, pursues her, but as the truth about her family comes out, she gradually loses her self-respect and her relationship. Later, burdened with debt, she returns to her hometown and, under he
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- 267 I Made Fast Money in Macau, but I Could Never Turn Back 在澳门赚快钱后，却再也回不了头 This is a realistic portrayal of a female gambler, closely grounded in reality, with none of the usual brainless scenes. The heroine starts out with a fairly comfortable family background, but after a chance encounter brings her to Macau, she goes down a road of no return. There are a few links to the previous work. Following Wang Xiao, this is another long-form novel. Happy reading! 8kReads7.5Score586Shelves
- 268 My Years of Online Gambling 那些年我网赌的日子 A first-person story about a gambler named Jiang Feng. Gambling online brings a chain of consequences for family, friendship, and love. It’s real, and it’s cruel. This is my story. Take my advice: if you’re going through this too, turn back as soon as you can. 1.5kReads8.2Score107Shelves
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The Plains' True Colors 平原底色
Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma
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Fireworks in Peach Blossom Haven 烟火桃源
The five beauties of yesteryear are all 25 now. Amid the daily chaos of chores and making ends meet, their lives are still full of color... Their husbands cheat, their daughters rebel, their sons squander the family fortune, and their parents grow old. Everything looks like a mess, but so what? Isn’t life about keeping on living and making the most of every bit of chaos? Let it all get messy. That’s what gives life its down-to-earth warmth! Let it all get messy. Their little paradise will always
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- 271 My Money-Making Years in Beijing 我在北京搞钱的那些年 I scraped together my first pot of gold using credit cards. I flipped houses, piled on leverage, held shares under other people’s names, and stockpiled Bitcoin… The more money I made, the narrower my path became. I’m going to tell you the truth about the shady ways I made money in Beijing as a drifter from out of town. #BeijingDrifter #MakingMoney #ThePrice #Bitcoin 1.5kReads—Score144Shelves
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When the Starlight Turns Back 星光回溯时
From a forgotten left-behind child to a military cadet at the National University of Defense Technology, his life is a comeback story written in blood and tears. He lost his mother at two and lived alone in an empty house at five. School bullying wore away his smile, and his desperate longing for friendship nearly drove him to the brink. But the harder life became, the more determined he was to climb his way out. When the words “National University of Defense Technology” took root in his heart,
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- 273 My Years as a Foot Massage Therapist 我当足疗技师的那几年 Behind the closed doors of a foot massage parlor lie countless secrets and sordid truths. It's a hidden corner where male customers drop their masks and give free rein to their desires. Shameless advances, explicit flirtation, and empty promises are an everyday reality for the masseuses. They bear the burden of making ends meet and struggle to get by: every masseuse has secrets no one knows. Lin Xiu is one of them. The debts left by her divorce forced her to take refuge there. But she never sank 1.4kReads8.0Score105Shelves
- 274 The Tearless Orphan 弃儿无泪 Abandoned by her family at birth, she was passed from place to place before being adopted by her current parents. Her adoptive mother, determined to support the household, always tries to control her life. Her future is in danger of being ruined, she has no say in whom she marries, and even after starting a family, she will still be under their control. Though she is only a little girl and has already reached the lowest point in her life, she possesses a powerful soul. See how she uses her unyie 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 275 The Tearless Orphan II 弃儿无泪二 From the day she was born, she was abandoned by her family. After many twists and turns, she was finally taken in with compassion by her current adoptive parents. But life still had no smiles for her. For the sake of the family’s livelihood, her adoptive mother often tried to set her life on a predetermined path. Trapped by layer upon layer of restrictions, her future seemed shrouded in gloom. She had no say in her marriage, and even after starting a family and building a career, she could not e 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 276 After Maxing Out My Online Loans, I Hid in a Village of Widows and Opened a General Store 撸完网贷后我躲进寡妇村开杂货铺 Online loans + urban supernatural powers + rural farming + a countryside love story! When work has ground you down, your friends have betrayed you, and you're at the end of your rope, thinking about ending it all, please take the time to read my book carefully. This book might offer you an unexpected reason to keep going. I dedicate it to all the ordinary people who work hard in the city but go unnoticed. After you finish this book, promise me that even in your darkest hour, you won't take t 11.7kReads8.0Score767Shelves
- 277 King of Funds: The Legend Who Started with a Thousand Yuan! 基金之王：从一千块入场的传奇！ At his roommate's urging, college student Chen Chen put up an initial investment of a thousand yuan. But no one could have imagined that this thousand yuan would ultimately change Chen Chen's fate! 1.4kReads7.1Score196Shelves
- 278 Period: Reborn in Singapore for a Life of Pleasure 年代：重生新加坡开始快活人生 Reborn in 2000, Lin Yue went to Singapore to work. He relied on wealthy Nanyang ladies to earn his first fortune, then used his shrewdness to stir up the winds of change across Southeast Asia... He pooled resources and built his foundation on industry. After ten years of honing his craft, he led a team of beautiful women from across the world to conquer key fields, including automobile manufacturing, high-precision lithography machines, power batteries, and global financial risk management. From 13kReads7.1Score858Shelves
- 279 Stories from the Construction Site 工地上的那些事儿 [No System, entirely hand-written. Men and women on a construction site, struggling to survive in the workplace.] They say construction sites are chaotic, women are scarce, and beautiful women are even rarer. After graduating from college, I started working at a construction site. On my very first day, I met Sister Xiaoya, who was already married, and accidentally offended the site boss. It turned out that the construction site held more than just men and women. There were also stories few peopl 10.9kReads7.5Score835Shelves
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Moonlit Evenings and Blossoming Mornings 此间月夕花晨
Let me tell some true stories. After finishing My Fleeting Days, I was eager to find out what happened afterward. So, with Lu Bin and Yu Zhou acting as intermediaries, I met Jiang Le. Talking with him not only filled me in on what happened later, but also helped me learn about the changes in Jiang Le’s life over those years, and hear a brief story about a girl who played a very important role in Youth Diary: The Years Gone By...
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The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事
[Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn.
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The Celestial Pivot Guards of the Great Ming 大明天枢卫
In the early twentieth century, the body of an extraterrestrial higher-dimensional life-form spontaneously disintegrated in the skies over Siberia. Countless meteorite fragments scattered across the globe, some landing in a village in the Qilian Mountains of the northwest. As children, Zhu Mingyu and Zhu Mingchao, brothers from the Zhu family, were playing when fragments cut them. Their fates were sealed. Ten years later, the brothers were forced into a chain of mysteries spanning a century and
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- 283 Feng Shui Without the Guesswork: It All Starts with a Mirror 风水不求人：从一面镜子开始 No need for anything mysterious. This is all about practical things: how to arrange your bed, where to put the stove, which way not to point the mirror, and what should be behind the sofa. Everything here is useful in your home every day. Just follow the instructions one by one. 780Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 284 My Fleeting Days of Dew and Clouds 我的浮云朝露 Let me tell you some true stories. Ever since I started writing novels, I’ve gradually heard friends, and friends of friends, tell me their stories. This time, my friend Lu Bin invited his college classmate Yu Zhou to join us for drinks and a chat. I based this story on Yu Zhou’s own experiences. Yu Zhou told me about his first love, his childhood sweetheart, and some of his college classmates and friends. There were happy comedies and heartbreaking tragedies... 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 285 Dark Web 暗网 How terrifying is the dark web? You may have brushed against its edges without even realizing it... Have you heard of the dark web? Hackers call it the other side of the internet. Every day, things that seem impossible to ordinary people happen there. A young woman goes missing for seven days. By the time we rescue her, she can hardly be called human. Then she tells me something so outrageous it makes my blood boil. She stumbled onto the dark web and was sold by human traffickers. She saw what s 8.3kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves
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The Man Next Door 男邻居
Qiao Mai, a country girl, endures a rough journey from her wedding and childbirth to miscarriage and divorce. Over the course of twelve years of marriage, the special sweetness of being each other’s “darling” fades amid her husband’s disrespect and inaction. Her affection is gradually extinguished by the havoc wreaked by her mother-in-law and three sisters-in-law, until the marriage finally ends in divorce. The story begins with a man living downstairs listening to his neighbors having sex in th
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- 287 Youth's Flowing Ledger: The Years Since We Parted 青春流水帐之此去经年 Let me tell some true stories. My pen pal, Yu Xingzhi, told me about his love life in college while we were drinking together. Some of his stories moved me and resonated with me. With his permission, I plan to write down those years of his life as a heartfelt farewell to his youth... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 288 A Beauty Helps Me Reach for the Clouds 佳人扶我青云志 I came to the East Sea to seek refuge with my cousin’s wife, only to discover she had another man. She asked me to keep it a secret. Later, I learned that the man behind her came from an extraordinary background. So I used his influence to make money and build a career, becoming a mighty dragon who could outshine all rivals… 29.9kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 289 The Diary of Youth: When the Flowers Bloomed 青春流水帐之那时花开 Let me tell you some true stories. One time, while drinking with my friend Lu Bin, we got talking about youth. He spent the whole night regaling me with stories, and at his suggestion, I wrote down some of the stories about him and his friends. As I was struggling to figure out how to begin, I met another protagonist from the stories Lu Bin had told me. After we got to know each other, I heard his side of what had happened back then. So I combined the two accounts and wrote them down in a simple 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Years as a Con Artist 我做老千的那些年
The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time!
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- 291 Stock Market Chronicles: Finding the Way Through Trading 股市风云录，炒股中悟道 A realist novel about stock trading, reflecting on life as work, unemployment, entrepreneurship, love, and marriage intertwine. Through trading stocks, the protagonist comes to understand the Dao. Stock trading is a form of cultivation... 756Reads7.1Score101Shelves
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Sunshine Everywhere 随处可见的阳光
Wang Baisheng was unlucky, yet somehow seemed lucky, too. His first love left him in unbearable pain… On the road after running away from home, he rescued Wang Yajing. Then, at her father’s company, he met Li Mengqi. From then on, his fate was entwined with women… Though perhaps that’s an exaggeration…
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- 293 The Years I Was Tricked into Going to Northern Myanmar 我被骗到缅北那几年 [The most realistic story online + no System + no saintly protagonist + the author just escaped from northern Myanmar] Have you ever seen videos about northern Myanmar online? Do you think kidney harvesting, water torture, murder, and abuse are already unimaginably cruel? Then let me tell you: compared with what happened to me, those things are nothing! The people in northern Myanmar are a bunch of devils who devour people without leaving a trace! From the day I was tricked into going there, I t 11.7kReads8.6Score708Shelves
- 294 Marriage Before Love: Mr. Fu’s Beloved 先婚后爱：付先生的掌心宠 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! 1.1kReads8.7Score119Shelves
- 295 Human Nature in the Stock Market 股市之人性 The stock market has never been a place to make money. It's a slaughterhouse for human nature. Retail investors don't lose because they can't read candlestick charts. They lose because they can't overcome themselves. A stock market comeback isn't about mastering the techniques. It's about mastering human nature. 2.1kReads—Score223Shelves
- 296 My Years as a Chip Runner in Macau 我在濠江当叠码仔的那几年 The year I failed the college entrance exam, I followed my cousin to Haojiang. With a student’s face, I became the most inconspicuous chip runner in the VIP room. Haojiang is never short of winners. What it lacks are people who can walk away clean. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
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Martial Arts School Graduate 武校毕业生
Martial arts school / traditional martial arts / realistic / passionate / brotherhood / jianghu Adapted from real experiences. No fantasy, no System, and no cheats. A true-to-life portrayal of what life at a martial arts school is really like. A boy defies his family's objections to pursue his martial arts dream. Day after day, he trains relentlessly at school, enduring the long, monotonous years of practice alongside his fellow students and brothers. After graduation, he enters the wider world,
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- 298 The Working World: A Close-Up Look at 10 True Workplace Stories 职人江湖：直击10段真实职场故事 A look at the hidden side of all kinds of modern professions: a restaurant chef’s secrets, a bar hostess’s romance, a down-and-out painter’s means of survival, online scammers’ traps and lies, a tour guide’s life in chains, counterfeit money production, beauty and ugliness beneath the surgeon’s scalpel... Beneath those glossy surfaces may lie a stubborn struggle, covered in mud! Told in the first person, this takes you face-to-face with lives that are both harshly real and fiercely alive. 97Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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An Unbounded Official Career 官途无疆
Jiang Han, a billionaire who resigned from public office to go into business, is framed and reborn as a third-year college student. He makes a fortune in the stock market, becoming a hidden billionaire. To repay his hometown for supporting him for more than a decade, he returns as a village official while still a college student and leads the villagers to prosperity, embarking on a career in government. In the treacherous world of politics, his exceptional wisdom and insight, along with his sinc
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My Sister-in-Law Borrowed Money to Help Her Lover Get an Abortion 姑姐回娘家借钱给小三打胎
My Sister-in-Law Returned to Her Parents’ Home to Borrow Money for Her Lover’s Abortion
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