Give New Books a Chance: Hidden Gems Yet to Break Ground 给新书一个机会,那些还没破土的金子
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First Frost in Beijing and Hong Kong 京港逢霜降
A rotten man with a real heart × a prickly little white rabbit Class gap + substitute romance + reunion after years apart + the pursuit of a runaway wife The first time Wen Shuangjiang met Liang Jingxu, she knew they were from different worlds. They crossed paths on a film set. His car splashed mud all over her, and he drove off without a word of apology. She lost her chance at the job. When they met again, she was flinging her room key at a producer’s face. He had a curvy woman in his arms,
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I Get One Day a Month to Do Whatever I Want 我每月拥有一次,为所欲为日
A real-world sandbox. On the last day of every month, the world freezes, and only the protagonist can move. He can do whatever he wants, treating the whole world as his private sandbox. He thought he could keep this bug to himself forever, but it turned out others could move too: the Month-End Man, the Faceless Man, the Parasites, the Gravekeeper, and more, appearing one after another as the story unfolds.
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Closed-Loop Tattoo 闭环刺青
The Main God’s Space, built by the mysterious cube known as the Eye of the Abyss, opens a new instance every 72 hours. Blood-red code flows across the cube’s surface, and inhuman breathing sounds come from within. On his birthday, ordinary deliveryman Lin Ke receives a mysterious black box and is forced into the Main God’s game. In his first instance, an abandoned hospital, he awakens the ability to turn back time, but each use costs him some of his memories.
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The Time-Slot Pocket Watch 时隙怀表
In a modern metropolis where the visible and hidden worlds overlap, Lin Xiaoxia, a young woman working at an antique shop, accidentally touches a nineteenth-century silver pocket watch. From then on, she is forced to confront omens of death. The world in her eyes begins to collapse into the twisted faces of The Scream, the quantum vortices of The Starry Night, and the bronze sacred tree hidden in A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains. Here, art is power, famous paintings are battlefields, and th
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No Regrets Today: Revenge on the Unfaithful 不辞今朝,复仇踩下不忠人
[Transmigration] [Historical Romance] [Political Intrigue] A clever, spirited young lady x a cold-faced but warm-hearted young general (A heroine who grows stronger over time. She's smart from beginning to end, and only gets more powerful!) Xie Jinzhao, who was pulling an all-nighter to work on a translation, unexpectedly transmigrates! She thought that transmigrating into an ancient-era young lady's body meant she'd be beautiful and rich, able to lie flat for the rest of her life. But Xie Jinzh
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After I Cured My Senior Sister's Poison, She Wanted to Become My Dao Companion 帮师姐解毒后她竟想做我的道侣
[One Heroine] [Two Strong Leads, Both Devoted] [Lots of Heroine Scenes] [Sweet Everyday Interactions] [Gradual Romance] Chen Hao transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation with an incomplete spiritual root. Assigned to the menial workers' quarters of the Wandao Sect, he is bullied by everyone. Fortunately, his System activates and repairs his spiritual root, finally setting him on the path to immortality. One day, Luo Fanshuang, the sect's aloof and otherworldly senior sister and a Golden
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No Lamps, No Moon, So What? 无灯无月又何妨
If two hearts understand each other, what need have they for lamps or moonlight? If one day we’re caught in the same snow, then we’ll have shared a lifetime of gray hair. Even if we lived together in perfect harmony, there would still be regrets! May you weather every storm and still keep the light in your eyes, never straying from your original purpose.
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My Brother Draws His Sword to Kill Me, So My Enemy and I Rewrite Fate Through Time 兄长拔剑杀我,仇人同我逆时改结局
My Brother Drew His Sword to Kill Me, While My Enemy and I Turn Back Time to Change Our Fate
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I Got Shot in the Head from the Start, and I Never Planned to Transmigrate! 开局被爆头,我也没想穿越啊!
Do you want power? Do you want wealth? Do you want authority? Do you want a house full of wives and concubines? Just say the word, and I’ll give it all to you right away. Zhou Guoyong stared at the kitchen knife pressed against his neck, then at the mental patient in a hospital gown. He was terrified that if he said no thanks, the man would take his head off with one swing. What should he do? Asking online, urgent! When Zhou Guoyong opened his eyes, he discovered that he had transmigrate
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The Weird? The Game! 诡?弈!
[Subverting tropes + suspense + comedy + dual forms + death switching + the supernatural arrives + cowardly protagonist + OC fiction + the author is an artist, and the characters have pictures] (The author’s writing could use some work early on. Could you read a few more chapters?) What on earth is that red figure in the mirror…? … Xiao Huajia’s life was a complete mess, until one night he discovered that he wasn’t even “human” anymore. His skin split open, revealing slippery red tissue undernea
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The Boy I Secretly Loved for Seven Years 那个男孩我暗恋了七年
A tsundere who says one thing but means another x a sweet, gentle, scatterbrained girl [One-on-one, devoted urban romance × a masterclass in intense push and pull] Come enjoy the legendary story of a newbie navigating workplace challenges and winning herself a husband along the way. After three years of working hard and diligently in Shanghai, rookie editor Lin Shuo gets into a taxi and runs into Liu Mo, the boy she’d had a crush on for years. One accidental glance, and from then on he became th
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Wind, Ink, Clouds, and Qiao 风墨云乔
[Cold, sharp-tongued hero vs. cheerful, level-headed heroine] In a world at war among five kingdoms, the Xia family has four sons. People say they are all of mediocre talent? She is an invisible ghost. Trapped in the Xia manor with no way out, she spends her days watching them, living like a running commentary on their lives. Oh, come on! Take a good look. How are these four ordinary? One is as gentle as jade, another as proud as frost. One stands straight as a peak, another is as free and spi
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Yu Mochen 雨默尘
What does someone who manages the world do every day? “Obviously, bring someone over and take a good look at their story. And while we're at it, fix any errors in the laws.” What does it feel like to look back on your own experiences? “...It's awkward... But our story is wonderful.” After seven years apart, Xiao Yu finally found his sister, Chen Mo. But the truth wasn't quite so simple... A mysterious organization, criminal forces, decades of feuds, and laws riddled with errors. “Mo Mo, even if
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Divine Punishment Descends 神罚莅临
The virtuous suffer poverty and die young, while the wicked enjoy wealth and long lives. When you are oppressed by evil, have you ever wished, even for a moment, that the underworld existed? If it did, would you dare to peer into it for even one-millionth of a second? The year quantum computing underwent a revolution, Company R offered an answer: the Cyber Underworld. Professor Qi Yuan used computer simulations to resurrect sinners in a virtual world after death, where they would endure eternal
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The Ninth Book by Xishan Youyue 溪山有月的第9本书
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Zilin's Dream 梓林悠梦
A thousand years ago, she was a spirit cat on the verge of taking human form, and he was the crown prince, a powerful figure at court. To her, he was her savior, her mentor, and the man she gave her heart to. “They say the Dragon-Eye Stone can keep the body from dying and the soul from fading. Whoever obtains it can achieve the Great Way.” The white jade compass that could lead to this treasure was hidden in her sleeve. She gave it to him as a token of her love, holding nothing back, never suspe
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A Wanton Kiss Beneath the Camellias 肆吻山茶
[Married first, fall in love later + secret love + second male lead takes the lead + the heroine’s regretful ex gets no second chance] Shen Xingzhi is a noble young master from a prestigious family. Everyone in their social circle knows Jiang Wan has loved him for ten years, but it never crossed his mind to marry her. When they broke up, Shen Xingzhi laughed. “I’m just making her suffer a little. She can’t live without me anyway.” Later, Shen Xingzhi begged her to come back, eyes red with tears,
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Military Life: After Transmigrating, I Became a Commander 军旅生涯:穿越后我成为一名统帅
☞A golden finger☜ plus top-tier military talent Modern officer Chen Yueyang wakes up on the front lines of a chaotic age in the body of a wastrel. Armed with military thinking and technological knowledge far ahead of his time, he starts by saving a small city, then gradually builds an iron army imbued with ideological conviction and capable of crushing its enemies through sheer technological superiority. He will not only dominate ancient and contemporary rivals on the battlefield, but also unlea
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After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Won Over Four Heavenly Prodigies 穿书后我攻略了四位天之骄子
After staying up all night reading a melodramatic novel full of misery, the film queen Jiang Wan was so furious she had a heart attack. When she opened her eyes again, she had become Jiang Wan, the book's legitimate daughter of a loyal official, destined to see her entire family executed! Facing certain death in two years, Su Wan smiled. Acting? That was her old profession! With foreknowledge of the plot in one hand and a film queen's acting skills in the other, she could switch personas in an i
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I Love You, So I’ll Stay Away 喜欢你,远离你
[Two male leads + reunion after a long separation + one-on-one romance + bittersweet + happy ending] [Top: Qin Yu / Bottom: Yu Hui] [Content note: Qin Yu’s moral code means respecting sexual orientation: no forcing anyone to change. The same goes for the less-than-ethical part of his code: if we’re a match, then you should be mine.] Yu Hui fell for Qin Yu a long time ago, and had seen with his own eyes how ruthlessly Qin Yu treated anyone who confessed to him: he cut them off. Afraid of losing h
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I Got Promoted After I Transmigrated 穿越后我升职了
[Transmigration + fictional setting + lighthearted + comedy + two strong leads + love that grows over time] Overnight, she transmigrates and becomes Su Runiang, the eldest daughter of the General's household. Under this secret identity, she transforms step by step. When she leaves, she's just that one daughter from the General's household people talk about. When she returns, she's an honored Vice Minister of Works. She rises through the ranks and makes a fortune by creating and inventing things,
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Youth Without a Speck of Dust 青春之莫染尘埃
I am Mo Chen. Nothing earth-shattering ever happened in my life. No one ever liked me, and I never liked anyone else. Because of my family, I was always insecure. Sometimes I was even afraid to speak up. I dropped out during the first semester of ninth grade. There was no strange reason behind it. No one beat me up or bullied me. I was just lonely. Whenever I saw other people walking around in groups of two or three, I would feel inexplicably empty. Then I went to a vocational school. Life there
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Has the Grand Tutor Forced Anyone to Love Him Today? 太傅大人今天强制爱了吗
[Yandere obsession + coercive possession + extreme possessiveness + brooding male lead + mutual firsts + tragic ending] [Clear-headed beauty vs. aloof madman] Chu Yanchen was born cold and indifferent, yet a dazzling, proud princess was the one person who could cloud his mind. He plotted every step carefully, becoming her tutor and putting on an air of cool propriety, gentle and courteous. He had meant to win her over slowly, but this hopelessly obtuse girl followed those hidebound rules of etiq
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The Universe in My Backyard 我的后院是宇宙
(Entirely handmade, so read with confidence) [Fourth Calamity + ensemble cast + sandbox creation + the Myriad Worlds] Chen Jing creates a sandbox in his courtyard, evolving life from single-celled organisms to humanoids, and bringing forth civilizations of magic and martial arts. From cultivation civilizations to primordial civilizations, they all evolve one by one in his sandbox. The intelligent beings are savage? No problem, send a great flood. The players want to cause trouble? No problem, th
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The Delivery Bike That Carries Souls Across the Mortal World 外卖神车渡红尘
Delivery rider Lin Fengkuang accidentally transmigrates and becomes an electric scooter, then is forced to form a bond with Su Qingyu, the fifteen-year-old prodigy and last surviving disciple of the Hehuan Sect. The Mechanical Heart comes with a double curse: he can only regain human form at the highest level, and the mount System activates automatically. Watch the prodigy girl and her goofy electric scooter hilariously grow as they deliver food and weather tribulations in the cultivation world.
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Driving Through the Waves 浪里行车
Nanhe Xuan, also known as Ziche, is a man of exceptional skill investigating a matter that could shake the entire martial world. While making a detour to attend his nephew's wedding, he happens to rescue Donghe Piaoxue, who has nearly offended the entire martial world. As a result, he is drawn into another storm in the martial world. The two struggle onward like a cart tossed about by waves, gradually uncovering the conspiracy behind this great upheaval.
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I'm Just an AI. What's the Big Deal About Saving the Galaxy? 我一个AI,拯救下银河怎么了
Sci-fi + interstellar + artificial intelligence + Warhammer + EVE + Stellaris + a mash-up of all kinds of movies (the first 30 chapters aren't great, so feel free to skip them) No System. Interstellar farming and climbing the tech tree. Bai Yi was an ordinary person until he suddenly found himself in a world millions of years in the future, where he merged with a military AI. By then, humanity had erased the distinctions between nations and become a single whole, unifying the entire galaxy throu
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Tales from the Demon-Subduing Bureau: It All Began When I Found a Fox Demon 伏妖司二三事,从捡到狐妖开始
[Reborn + Two Souls in One Body + Fox Demon + Mind Games + Against the Usual Power-Fantasy Tropes] What kind of protagonist is this weak? He has to rally the masses every time just to win a team battle! Bai Yu, reborn and bonded with a fox demon from the start, also has the soul of a transmigrator bound to him. On the day his ex-girlfriend dumps him, Zhu Nuo, a female leader in the Demon Subjugation Bureau, comes looking for him. “Come home with me.” And so begins the story of the Demon Subjugat
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Starry Eyes Beyond the Far Shore of Time 跳出时间彼岸的星瞳
After changing her name and hiding away on a remote island for ten years, she had barely stepped out when one stroke of good luck after another came her way... Someone took care of every detail of her work and daily life! Even the family member who had gone missing in a fire came back from the dead. She only had to join in and enjoy the thrill of revenge. Had she somehow landed the role of the heroine in a feel-good novel? It had to be love. His secret identities were starting to fall away one
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Mythology Simulator 神话模拟器
Journey to the West! Investiture of the Gods! Primordial Chaos! In a strange world, Li Chengcai can grow stronger simply by entering a mythical world simulation. As he runs more and more simulations, he gradually discovers that the mythical figures from the legends of his previous life are also returning to this world one after another. Traces of these mythical figures can be found everywhere, even across this unfamiliar world. Then, one day, Pangu comes back to life. Holding an axe to the n
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The Origin of the Dao 道之起原
A black-robed youth preached the Dao, bringing two beings into existence: Pangu and Haotian. Pangu split heaven and earth, leaving all living things with incomplete minds. The story follows the Primordial Heavenly Venerable as he descends to the mortal realm to teach the Dao and save all living things, creating the laws of heaven and earth and safeguarding one corner of the world.
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization 修真文明指南
With two feet, I kick open the road through the mortal world; upon one shoulder, I bear all the sorrows of past and present. Do not say that having no mind is the Way; even without a mind, one barrier remains. The path of cultivation is hard, the path of cultivation is hard, harder than climbing to the heavens. This is the world's established view of cultivation. But is overcoming hardship really all that fuels people's imagination of the world of cultivation? Perhaps, at the very beginning, it
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 1, The Prelude to the Mystic Thunder 修真文明指南——序章1,玄雷前传
A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 1, The Prelude to Xuan Lei
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, A Lonely Road to Immortality 修真文明指南——序章2,仙途陌路
A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, The Immortal Path Diverges
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Ming Dynasty Reformer: A Million Soldiers Descend on the Chongzhen Era 大明修正师:百万大军降临崇祯朝
[Transmigration + History + Goofy Comedy + Ming Dynasty] College student Su Zimo sneaks into his father’s time machine and accidentally lands in the Hongwu era, where he awakens a historical intervention System! He travels alongside Ming dynasty founder Zhu Yuanzhang to key turning points in the dynasty’s history, overturning the course of history and rescuing the empire from crisis after crisis. He gathers famous ministers, mighty generals, and a million troops. At last, the ultimate teleportat
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The Abyss of Souls 灵魂之渊
No System, no transmigration, a steady leveling-up story. The world is divided into the Heavenly Realm, the Earthly Realm, and the Netherworld. The Heavenly Realm is ruled by divine officials, the Earthly Realm is protected by gods, and the Netherworld is where the god of death reaps lives. There are different races and cultures, as well as unusual species and demonic beasts. There are cultivation systems, along with remnants of ancient technological civilizations. The protagonist is a white-hai
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Spiritual Qi Revival: Reborn, I Won Myself Over 灵气复苏:重生后我攻略我自己
[Dual female leads + selfcest + two powerful leads + devoted to each other + happy ending + sweet romance + feel-good power fantasy] Tough, cold Demon Lord X gentle, funny Divine Lord In her previous life, Jiang Li had to endure a taciturn father, a mother bound by feudal thinking, a younger brother who did nothing but eat, drink, and have fun, and bullies with powerful connections. Her life was worse than death, and in the end she and her tormentor died together. Later, Jiang Li was unexpectedl
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I Reversed the Natural Order with One Word and Became Invincible 一字倒反天罡后我无敌了
After Changing One Character to Defy Heaven, I Became Invincible [No Female Lead] [System] [Transmigration] [Rebirth] [Invincible Protagonist] [The Path to Invincibility] Fang Cheng is the senior disciple of the Illusory Immortal Sect, the perennial third-ranked sect in the cultivation world. After he died, his soul lingered, and he finally realized that he had transmigrated here and been brainwashed and assimilated by the plot. After being reborn, his System awakened. It turned out he was just
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The End 末下
[Stream of consciousness] [Writing whatever comes to mind in dreams] [Fantasy + Supernatural + Romance + Everyday life + School life + Adventure] A “myth” that no one can immerse themselves in, and that few believe in, alongside “miracles” that never existed. It can only be considered an imagined story, though it might become something people laugh about. Or it may be deemed heretical, persecuted and destroyed until it vanishes completely. Undoubtedly, to gain religious belief from the void and
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Ning Yan: When Women Rule the Roost 宁兖,牝鸡司晨
[Ensemble political intrigue + entrusted heir + factional strife + expansion of the realm + redressing an old injustice] [Wronged powerful minister male lead x emperor female lead disguised as a man] Also known as "After I Blundered into the Imperial Family, I Discovered I Was the Imperial Family" On a winter night in the seventh year of Chengxu, Emperor Zhao Ning Fu suddenly went mad. Wearing the robes of his favorite consort, Yan, he climbed the bell tower and rang the funeral bell before fall
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Reborn Again, I’m Only at the Qi Refining Stage, Yet I Raise an Emperor 重生一世,虽为炼气却教出大帝
[#System #LightheartedComedy #ApprenticeTraining #NoRomance #DailyLifeBetweenMasterAndApprentice] Si Kong Changfan transmigrates to the Tianxuan Continent. Born with a useless physique, he awakens a god-tier apprentice-raising System. Ding! Mission complete. Reward: Qianyuan Sword Control Art. Ding! Mission complete. Reward: Chaos Silent Blade Art. Si Kong Changfan: “System, I really can’t cultivate?” [You definitely can’t.] What! You’re only at the Qi Refining Realm, and you actually managed to
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Ocean Adventure: The Treasure-Seeking Braves 海洋探险之夺宝勇士
What kind of beginning should a person's life have? When the wheel of fate turns and you draw the worst possible lot, how can you turn things around? Whether the odds are against you because of your circumstances or fate itself, you must never give up and must dare to take on challenges if you want to carve out even a chance for yourself. See how the young Zhou Tian rises from the bottom and leads his crew on a treasure hunt, where he unexpectedly meets a mermaid and falls deeply in love. See ho
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A Broken Scroll Crosses the Nine Netherworlds 残卷渡九幽
[Heroine transmigrates + play the pig to eat the tiger + mutual salvation + fantasy adventure] Lin Shiqian, a young woman from the twenty-first century, discovered a damaged scroll at an art exhibition and transmigrated to the Jiuyou Dynasty, where she fell into a dungeon full of bones. A man in the dungeon was tightly bound in shackles. He was Ye Lan Jin, prince of the fox clan. Ye Lan Jin could never forget the great fire of ninety thousand years ago, when the fox clan was wiped out. But he
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A Ghost’s Self-Cultivation 一个鬼的自我修养
After an unexpected death, Yuanzhi becomes a wandering soul so slow it’s absurd. He thinks he’ll just rot away in the Nine Hells, but then he awakens the Nine Hells System and unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the Underworld! While others cultivate through hard work, he relies on the System to grind through missions and claim permissions from the Book of Life and Death. He recruits the Black and White Impermanence as his underlings, subdues the Ten Halls of Yama, and takes charge of the nether
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A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生
My new novel is here! Welcome to read my work 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! This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake
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A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案
This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle,
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Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙
In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s
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My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居
My Eerie Neighbor
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Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运,赎罪的女人
Fate: A Woman's Atonement
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Deadwood May Bloom Again, But We Never Will 枯木会逢春,我们不会
Dead trees bloom again. We never will.
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