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- 51 Hong Kong Films: In Hung Hing, I Became a Loan Shark Tycoon 港片，人在洪兴，放贵利贷成财阀 Gao Ren transmigrates into a world where Hong Kong movies have merged, becoming a low-ranking member of the Hung Hing triad. After Chiang Tiansheng and Big B set him up and get him sent to Stanley Prison, he awakens a moneylending System. As long as he lends money to people and collects the interest, he can redeem any item in the System Shop! His first redemption is the Eye of Truth, which lets him see how much everyone likes him. Chiang Tiansheng: Affection level, 5! Gao Ren: Chiang Tiansheng, 20.3kReads8.2Score85414d adds
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The Underworld's Turbulent Road 黑道风云江湖路
What is the Dao? It does not arise because of one person's goodness, nor perish because of one person's evil. Good and evil are determined by people; rise and fall are determined by fate. The people of the world think they are fighting for money, power, or pride. Only in the end do they understand that they were fighting for nothing but illusion. The Dao knows no black or white. All living beings are within the game. (Note: This book is extremely realistic and even somewhat oppressive. Re
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- 53 Those Years, Those People, Those Things in the Underworld! 黑道那些年，那些人，那些事儿！ Someone once said, “The jianghu isn’t about fighting and killing. It’s about human relationships and worldly wisdom.” Countless people have quoted this line and hailed it as a classic. I picked it up from a TV drama, and it went to my head. But without fighting and killing, is the jianghu still the jianghu? Fighting and killing are the price of admission to the jianghu. Coercion and enticement are the means of making your way in it. Human relationships and worldly wisdom are the art of ruling 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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King of the Underworld 江湖枭雄
An ordinary-looking confrontation pushes a callow young man to a crossroads in life. Faced with fate’s mockery and the crushing weight of life, he chooses to stand tall and fight back.
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- 55 Tales of the Northeast: The Turbulent Nineties 东北往事之九零风云 (Hot-blooded) (Brotherhood) (Youth) (Fast-paced, no dragging things out) The law-abiding worry all day, while the mighty sing all night. Those who harm others for their own gain ride in comfort, while the honest and fair go hungry. Those who build bridges and mend roads go blind, while those who kill and set fires have plenty of sons. I went to the Western Heaven to ask Buddha. Buddha said, “There's nothing I can do either.” This novel tells the blood-and-tears story of Shen Congwen, a great und 6.8kReads8.9Score44114d adds
- 56 Vocational High School Jianghu 职高江湖 In a corner of a bustling city, this vocational high school is a miniature society. Its students come from every social stratum, with different family backgrounds and life experiences. Rapid social change and a clash of cultures have swept through the campus, creating an atmosphere where the drive to succeed exists alongside the spread of bad influences. The school administration works hard to maintain order, but complicated relationships and cliques make vocational school life full of challenge —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Gangster Tycoon Who Rose from the Hutongs 胡同里杀出来的流氓大亨 Previously published under the titles Dragon City Years and Thirty Years in a Bloodstained Underworld. This is a lawless age where every corner is ruled by a big shot. This is the story of a naive young man who turns into a bloodthirsty beast just to survive. This is an underworld tale full of thrills and passion! Welcome to the 1980s… 40.5kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 58 After Becoming Xiuer, I Was Spoiled by Chuanwu as the Heroine of a Sweet Romance 我成秀儿后被传武宠成甜文女主 [No golden finger + no angst + childbirth + sweet romance + business + farming + ensemble cast in the later story] Han Xiuxiu has been obsessed with the TV drama Breaking Through the Guandong since childhood. She vows to marry a man like Zhu Chuanwu, but after searching for one in vain, she gives up and decides to stay single. After accidentally falling off a cliff, she finds herself transported into the world of Breaking Through the Guandong, where she becomes Han Xiuxiu, the only daughter of 112Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Endless Underworld 黑道无尽
(Period setting, underworld, gritty realism, high-octane) A savage era. An unconventional underworld boss. A story of the jianghu written in blood and tears. So much happened in those years. You can only see it clearly through blood-tinted glasses...
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Reborn 20 Years Ago: From Street Tough to Upstanding Young Man 重生20年从顽主到四有青年
[Reborn] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [Everyday life] [Business rivalry] [Romance] [Martial world] Does being reborn count as rebirth if you have no memories of your past life? In 2024, business tycoon Chen Yuanping is framed and sent back to the autumn of his nineteenth year. A completely different life begins... At the foot of the imperial city, in Liulichang. A group of young people born in the sixties and seventies leave the crowded courtyard houses in the hutongs, carrying their dreams
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- 61 Strange Tales from Guandong: I'm a Chuma Immortal 关东诡事异闻录，我是出马仙儿 As a child, I was always running into evil spirits and seeing ghosts. A master said I was destined to become a spirit medium. My grandpa barked right back: “Why not become a donkey instead? A spirit medium, my foot!” But Huang Tianlong, the immortal from the Huang family, saw right through me and declared that I was born under a guiding star, a spirit medium chosen once in a thousand miles. My mother wanted to send the immortal connection away. The old immortal slammed down his wine bowl. “Send 250Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 62 Shen Jintang, the Madman of the Martial World 江湖狂人沈金堂 [A thrilling, action-packed tale of brotherhood and honor, where heroes command respect and ambitious leaders vie for supremacy. Handsome men and beautiful women.] The martial world isn’t just about fighting and killing. It’s also about human nature and navigating the ways of the world, all while living by the blade. Build an empire that commands half the land. Thrive in the business world and enjoy the fruits of success with a beautiful, wealthy woman... 185Reads—Score11314d adds
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Reborn in 1995: The County Town's Brahmin 重生九五，我在县城当婆罗门
I really wish I could be young again, with the mind, experience, and clarity I have now. Even knowing that no matter how I answer life’s multiple-choice question, I’ll get it wrong, I still want to try one more time. Lin Luo, who had failed all his life, glimpsed hope at his darkest moment: he was reborn. From then on, he set up a street stall with his good-for-nothing uncle, then opened a computer room, an arcade, a video rental shop, a billiard hall, and a karaoke lounge. As he muddled through
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- 64 That's Called Keeping Your Wealth Under Wraps 这叫财不露白 I'm tired of those stories where the protagonist was inexplicably stupid and suffered one injustice after another in their previous life, then somehow became a god in this one. This book is different: a fresh take on the rebirth of an overworked corporate drone. The protagonist has no powerful family or influential benefactors. He grows by cheating, builds his career by bluffing, and is the sort to paint grand schemes with all his heart, work the leeks nonstop, start out in dropshipping, and dab 745Reads6.6Score10214d adds
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My Legendary Fourth Master 我的传奇四爷
Si Ye, a Northeastern man, was once a bandit and served in the military. He wielded foreign guns and carried a Mauser pistol. He experienced both a love that cut to the bone and a marriage that wounded him to the marrow…
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- 66 Tales from the Great Outdoors 户外那些事 Twenty years of outdoor adventures have left me with unforgettable memories and stories I can't ignore: Aershan, the Naiman Desert, Yangcao Mountain, Snow Town, Daguokui, Laotudingshan... Those blizzards, those dark nights, those men and women, and those stories too hard to tell. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Turbid Waters 浊浪之水 The author drew on three decades of real hospital experience to write this work. The protagonist, Ye Chunguang, works diligently and strives to improve, leading the staff out of a slump. Yet in the wider climate, he finds it impossible to stay above the fray. Zhao Chengshi is a leading figure in the healthcare system, outspoken and decisive, but loses his way amid social upheaval. The two leaders of Songjiang Province’s healthcare system meet tragic ends: one dies of illness while in detention, —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Tales of the Swan 鸿鹄往事
The skies over Longjing are filled with flashes of blades and swords; its streets are roads of bloodshed and brutal violence. Li Honghu steps into this murky world with no way back. He can only fight to the bitter end! Only those with hard fists have the right to speak; only those with plenty of brothers can roam free! From an unknown nobody to a legendary underworld boss, he gets there by being ruthless, uncompromising, and loyal! His brothers stand by his side through blood and death, never
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A Ghost Farted and Died 有只鬼放个屁死了
This book is made up of ten short stories: “The Big Yellow Dog,” “The Nine-Headed Demon,” “Block,” “Xisha Pit,” “Cuckoo” “Ghostly Wailing,” “Madman,” “Swing,” “Blue Carp,” “The Hundred-Year-Old Tree” Title: A Ghost Died After Farting = Horror + Comedy + Tragedy The stories vary in length, and their plots range from salty to bland. The whole book is easy to understand, with plain and straightforward language. This story is entirely fictional. Please read responsibly. Do not be superstitious, and
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- 70 Wang Benye's Dreamspace 忘本爷的造梦空间 [Spatial fantasy + modern-day imaginative fiction + suspense + everyday family life + brotherhood + a nobody awakens + no brainless wish fulfillment + no invincibility + terrible father] Penniless and down on his luck, ignored by all; two souls dream of vengeance beneath the snow. Back from the dream realm, he becomes a hero. Who doesn’t know this ungrateful man? It all comes down to one dream, turning the tables when things seem most hopeless Friends, let me ask you something: “Do you believe 914Reads9.6Score10714d adds
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The Bizarre Murder at the Roadside Inn 大车店诡异命案
Bizarre murders, men and women in turbulent times, tangled love and hate, and the legend of the resistance. During the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, on the northern Manchurian frontier, stood a mountain called Big Butt Mountain. Two semicircular peaks joined together, and the locals were plainspoken: they named things exactly as they looked. For forty li in every direction, it was the only horse-cart inn around: the Big Butt Mountain Inn. Men and women shared the big northeastern kang beds
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Between Neighbors 邻里之间
Distant relatives are not as dependable as close neighbors, and close neighbors are no match for the folks across the street. But life is full of contradictions: without conflict, there is no struggle, and without struggle, there is no progress. Neighbors don’t always get along, either. As the saying goes, a neighbor is like a set of scales: they hope the other neighbor stays poor.
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Railway Archives 铁路档案
A tale of wartime espionage and undercover work. Ye Tian’s soul transmigrates to the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, 1937, where he unravels a series of mysterious railway cases from the Republican era. Every inch of rail holds a code for life, and the names of espionage agents are revealed from sealed files. At Yixian Station, he meets Ma Yunfei, who introduces him to the Communist Party. Ye Tian recruits Zhang Laoliu, Liang Jincheng, and Jin Guozhong as grassroots Party members, providing i
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- 74 The Train Conductor's Path to Promotion 列车长的升迁之路 After being reborn, Xie Nan, a train conductor at the lowest rung of the railway passenger transport system, rises from the ranks of ordinary railway staff through one thorny step after another. His steady, uncompromising work ethic and extraordinary people skills carry him all the way to the top. 5kReads8.5Score34314d adds
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The Day I Went to Prison: She Blazed a Trail Alone and Smashed My Shackles 入狱当天：她单枪铺路，为我砸镣
[Not Reborn]+ [No System]+ [One Female Lead] The last big sister of the underworld! The day I went to prison, she broke into the jail and smashed my shackles, clearing a path for me with a gun in hand! If the rest of my life is destined to be without light, at least in this moment, she is by my side! Some even call her the last big sister of Southeast Asia! Truth is, she was just forced to take charge in a crisis, with no other choice! Since we're already fugitives, then let's take our dark love
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Underworld Tales: One Hand Shrouds the Heavens 黑道往事之只手遮天
[Realistic, not overpowered, no harem, no System, not reborn] A novel about the southern underworld, telling the story of several young men who avenge their brother and gradually rise to become crime bosses. Whether it is the underworld or organized crime, it is all just a game of chess, a set of rules, fraught with danger and human cunning, and driven by power and desire. Behind the bustling city lies a shadowy underworld filled with darkness and desire, where power and money intertwine, and te
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- 77 Take It Easy, Village Miracle Doctor 乡村神医悠着点 Lin Xiaoqiang was beaten so badly in the city that he lost his wits. When he returned to the village, Sister-in-law Shuihua took care of him. Then the village bully, Liang Shan, beat him up. That beating snapped him back to his senses, and he even gained a special ability. From then on, his life took off. 3.5kReads7.3Score29214d adds
- 78 Crimson Lips, Blazing Passion 红唇烈焰 A handsome loser and a cold, aloof female boss. When these two rivals cross paths, they act out a romantic tale of love, revenge, and sweet satisfaction. Office intrigue, cutthroat business, and political scheming are all handled with ease. If you want a story full of twists and excitement, come read The Strongest Man in the City. 34.1kReads9.0Score2.7k14d adds
- 79 The Mature Landlady 成熟的老板娘 For the sake of keeping the family fortune all to himself, Liang Dashan hatched a vicious scheme to frame his wife, Du Xue. Faced with her husband’s ruthless plotting, Du Xue fought back from the brink. She turned people’s motives to her advantage and used his own tactics against him, unraveling every conspiracy by playing along, and ultimately leaving the traitor with nothing but the clothes on his back! 31kReads7.9Score1.6k14d adds
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The 1970s: I Got Rich After Marrying a Fool 七零，嫁傻子后暴富
[Transmigration into a book + 1980s + pocket dimension + raising kids + everyday family life] From the start, she wakes up on her wedding night, and her husband is devastatingly handsome! What? Once the male model opens his mouth, she realizes he’s an idiot. Her excitement is completely doused, but being alive is better than being dead! Her husband is an idiot, and she’s stuck in a blended family in a bygone era, with a biased father-in-law, a stepmother-in-law, and sisters-in-law who stir up tr
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Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多
Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next.
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The Bloody Underworld: Thirty Years of Organized Crime in North China 血色江湖：华北黑道三十年
[Underworld + First Person + Period Setting] What is the underworld? It’s a place where even if you win in the end, you still feel like you’ve lost. No matter how much you gain, it can never make up for what you’ve lost. My name is Jiang Qiyao. I witnessed thirty years of the underworld’s rise and fall across North China, watching one boss after another rise to power, then fall. After thirty years in that world, I can’t call myself a good person, but at least I haven’t become completely rotten.
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Split: Brotherhood and Feuds in the Advertising World 裂变：广告江湖里的兄弟恩仇录
[Workplace + Brotherhood + Corruption + Personal Growth] Yesterday’s brothers, today’s wolves! A bloody business saga that lays bare the fracturing of human nature! Yang Jun and Da Feng, Li Fei, and Liu Jinsong grew up together and were as close as brothers. When Yang Jun first joined Northern Advertising, his impressive results and sharp ambition made him a target of repeated harassment from Wu Dazhi, a manager parachuted in from outside. Forced to resign, he left behind Lin Xue, the designer h
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A Gentleman Is Like a Pine 君子如松
The first time Bai Rusong saw Liu Guanghui, he mistook him for a girl and fell in love at first sight. When he found out Liu was a boy, he decided he wanted to be friends with him instead. As their friendship grew, Bai’s possessiveness toward Liu grew stronger and stronger. At last, he came to understand his feelings and realized he had fallen in love with Liu Guanghui. Born in the 1970s, Bai Rusong was upright and conservative in his thinking. Unwilling to face a love the world would never acce
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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Nine-Headed Bird: The Sinister Nights of the Underworld 九头鸟之煞夜江湖路
There are nine-headed birds in the sky and Hubei men on the ground. The underworld isn't simply black or white. It's a deep shade of gray. The road through this world is long. How many are still walking it with me? Did I, Xu Yi, manage to make it out alive?
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Crouching Tiger 卧虎
A hidden dragon rises from the depths and devours all things; a crouching tiger commands the mountains and guards a thousand frontiers! When I was little, the strange older girl next door always asked me to help wash her. When I got a little older, she taught me how to be a real man! Twenty years of flashing blades, eighteen years of changing seasons. The black throne may change hands, but true kingship belongs only to madmen who dare to dance with the devil!
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- 88 Fingertip Fate Reversal Begins with Ren Xue 指尖逆命从壬雪开始 [Coming-of-Age Main Story · Multiple Realistic Heroines · Real Cases and Social Backdrop · No Formulaic Tropes · No Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Wu De narrowly escapes death and returns to the 1980s. He has just one mission: stop the unfortunate girls of that era from turning to crime. Ren Xue, Tao Jing, Bi Limei… Some are driven to desperate ends by hatred, while others take the blame for someone they love… With nothing but nimble fingers, Wu De can fool the eye and turn the tables. He can make b —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Tiger Roars Across the Central Plains 虎啸中州
Three cups of wine for the mortal world, one pot of tea for a legacy that lasts a thousand years. What does it mean to truly live? Let me tell you what it means to unleash a ferocious tiger. Some ride horses, some sit in sedan chairs, while others push carts and shoulder their loads. I’ve never admitted defeat. You can beat me a thousand times, but I still won’t cry!!!
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- 90 The Bee, The Toad, The Swallow, and The Sparrow 蜂麻燕雀 In the early years of the Republic, society was in turmoil and warlords fought among themselves, yet the world of the jianghu was flourishing like never before. Among its many scams, the Four Schools of Bees, Hemp, Swallows, and Sparrows stood at the forefront. An old feud stirred up a storm of bloodshed across the jianghu. By a twist of fate, Meng Xiaoliu, a poor-born young man, got caught up in it. A con left his family shattered: his mother hanged herself, and his father went to prison. To av 16.7kReads9.6Score2.4k14d adds
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Tales of Shanghai’s Underworld 沪上黑道往事
My new novel is here! You’re welcome to read my work 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! The male lead of this book loses his father at a young age and depends on his mother. To avenge his father, he goes up a mountain to study martial arts under a master. After completing his training, he comes down and succeeds in taking revenge. To escape the authorities’ pursuit, he brings his mother to Shanghai. By chance
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- 92 Within Canglan 苍兰之中 After the planet Qingmu Huanhai was unified by Huangfu Shou, the Canglan Kingdom was founded. The former kingdoms of Bailong, Hei, Lushu, and Xingji rose in rebellion, hoping to restore their old regimes. The protagonist, Liu Yicheng, was orphaned at a young age and taken in by the abbot of Shaolin Temple. He trained at the Bodhidharma Hall from childhood, mastered all of Shaolin’s martial arts, and breezed through the Eighteen Bronze Men formation. After completing his training, he descended th 27Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Didn’t Stab a Man, I Stabbed This Rotten World 老子捅的不是人，是世道
[Urban Underworld | Reborn Comeback | Brotherhood and High-Octane Gang Battles] 1991. Fu’an. Heavy snow. Fang Xiao knelt on the storeroom’s concrete floor, Zhao Changshui’s blood still on his hands. He was reborn, carrying memories of his brothers’ horrific deaths and his family’s ruin in his previous life. This time, he wouldn’t take the blame for anyone or be anyone’s lackey. He would wade through the filth and lead a band of brothers who had been dragged through the mud, determined to make
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- 94 1991: I Become the Richest Man in Coal City 年代1991：我在煤城当首富 In 1990, in a coal city in Northeast China, Bai Hongguang, a discharged reconnaissance soldier, returns home. His whole family is crammed into a tiny house. His father is an ordinary mine worker, his younger siblings are still hungry and needy, and they're so poor they can barely afford to eat! Then he unexpectedly activates his personal System. Protecting his family and following the rules unlocks enhanced combat skills and the ability to anticipate danger, while scarce coal coupons and connect 6Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno
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The Gentleman of the Republic 民国的先生
The plot is reasonable, with no System. An ordinary person transmigrates to the Republican era. I hope readers can find a touch of Republican-era charm here. The narration is grounded, with no exaggeration whatsoever…
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- 97 Xu Fei's Wild Life 徐飞的浪荡人生 Just after the Lunar New Year, Xu Fei returns with a simple pack to the small northern city where he was born and raised, after three years away. He'd planned to find any wife and settle down to an ordinary life, but fate has other plans. He is pushed onto a path unlike any other, and begins a life far from ordinary. 780Reads6.7Score11114d adds
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Sons and Daughters of the Jianghu: That Midnight Sun 江湖儿女：那一轮午夜的太阳
The rules of midnight are a way of life much like the law of the jungle. At midnight, what you see may be the moon, but in their eyes, it is their sun. Set against the real-life underworld of the 1990s, this story follows Zhou Shenghua's life in the jianghu.
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Reborn in 1958: Grandpa and Grandson Stockpile for the Famine Together 重生58爷孙空间联动囤爆灾荒年
Peng Yi built his fortune from nothing, amassing billions, only to have his own children pull the plug and abandon him in his final years. He died full of hatred. Kneeling before the grave of his beloved Su Wanqing as he drew his last breath, he learned that she had once carried his child. At just twenty-three, she had died in a famine, and mother and child had suffered every hardship life could bring! Heaven had shown mercy: Peng Yi was reborn in 1958, on the eve of their flight from famine! A
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Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年
My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt
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Other lists with Hong Kong Films: In Hung Hing, I Became a Loan Shark Tycoon