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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.
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Those of Us Who Don’t Want to Go to Work 不想上班的我们
There are three protagonists in this story: a young man who only wants to open a bar, a young woman who drops out of school to become a livestreamer, and me, someone who always played by the rules but eventually became thoroughly disillusioned with office life. This is a story about a group of young people, just like you and me in our youth. We don't want to go to work, but society beats us down and grinds us into the floor. After enduring hardship, a band of little good-for-nothings rises up to
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What Are the Signs That You're About to Win the Lottery and Get Rich? 中奖暴富前有哪些征兆？
This is not web fiction in the traditional sense. Human labor is the only true wealth. This book tells the story of a generation's growth. Labor gives people confidence in their own rational strength. A gentleman's measure is boundless, his breast embracing a hundred rivers. May you and I both use our hardworking hands to grow a dazzling sea of flowers.
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After the Divorce 离婚之后
[An animated series based on this book is coming soon. If you enjoy Qiuqiu's work, please keep an eye out for it!] This story tackles a subject close to real life, one I've always wanted to write about but never dared to. After writing a few feel-good power fantasies, I found myself returning to this subject, with an even stronger urge to express what I wanted to say. And so this book was born… Yang Zhixuan was a full-time homemaker who was divorced after fifteen years of marriage. On a snowy ni
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Little Leopard 小豹子
After her grandparents, who had raised her, passed away, the abandoned Situ Lingzhi was left with no one to rely on. Taking the Medical Prescriptions of the Situ Family that her grandfather had left behind, she went to America to find his relatives. Six years later, the first major event that awaited Situ Lingzhi, now a medical doctor returning home, was her classmate Dongfang Xiangrui trying to force her into marriage. The Dongfang family had once been a leading force in Yunhai City's business
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Old Jiang, the Vegetable Grower 种菜的老姜
Old Jiang, the Vegetable Grower
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The Runaway Housewife 逃跑的家庭主妇
At forty, Su Meng was manipulated by her husband into having a second child. Her younger daughter’s birth was an impulsive decision, and the start of a nightmarish life. Standing on the balcony of her home on the eighteenth floor, she suddenly thought that jumping might be the only way to find true release… The loneliness, helplessness, pessimism, despair, and weariness with everything made her realize she was ill, seriously ill. And the only thing that might cure her was to run away… Escape, ge
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The Crime Scene Cleaner 凶案清理员
The first time Cen Mu went to a crime scene, he didn't see the body, but he did bring home the girlfriend he hadn't seen in three years. With his girlfriend's genius-level help, he solved cases like a god. Then he realized something was off: his girlfriend seemed to have a cheat of her own. The police team members said, “Our sister-in-law is beautiful, rich, and great at solving cases. She's perfect in every way, except for her questionable taste in men. She fell for Captain Cen.” This is the st
2.4kReads9.3Score433Shelves
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Tears of Frost 寒霜泪
Because the baby she was carrying was another girl, Hanshuang was given away while still in the womb. As she grew up, she endured one hardship after another. Hanshuang told herself that as long as she kept living, she would never lose in life! My new work is now available, and 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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A Lonely Journey in Middle Age 中年孤独之旅
A class reunion brought the family's crisis to a head. Unable to bear a dull life whose end she could already see, Du Xinyue finally left after her son finished the college entrance exam. Xu Hao, who had grown accustomed to that life, couldn't handle the devastating blow. He, too, left the city of heartbreak, hoping to start a new life. Will they meet again? I hope they can.
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Old Zhou, the Fan Repairman 修电扇的老周
Old Zhou, the Fan Repairman
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After Making a Comeback, My Ex-Wife Wants to Remarry Me 成功逆袭后，前妻找我复婚
Ding Peng and Fang Jia graduated from the same ordinary university and were among countless ordinary wage earners. They fell in love in college. Ding Peng was handsome, tall, and strong, while Fang Jia was gentle and beautiful, with a stunning figure. They built a happy family that everyone envied. Wherever they went, people admired them as a couple. Ding Peng had always been very clever. As a child, he watched martial arts movies and took up martial arts because he wanted to become a great hero
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Notes on Observing Water: A Story About the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching 观水记——一个关于《易经》与《道德经》的故事
Notes on Watching the Water: A Story About the I Ching and the Tao Te Ching
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Borrowed Dignity, Then She Lost It 借来的体面，然后她弄丢了
Borrowed respectability, then she lost it
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Notes from the Tomato Novel Team 番茄小说团队随笔
Hello, dear readers! This book is an original work by the Tomato Novel team. The first volume will introduce you to Tomato Novel in the form of essays. The second will take the form of a novel and reveal the people behind this app and their stories. We hope this helps you get to know us better!
20.6kReads8.4Score27.4kShelves
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The Sinkhole Buyer 天坑买手
Miao Tian, a purchasing specialist at a real estate group, is sent to Mountain City on an urgent assignment. Thus begins a tumultuous, high-stakes battle in the real estate business. How will he face the deception, the ambushes, and the relentless pursuit? How will he emerge from the fog and be reborn through the flames? This book gradually unfolds a sweeping portrait of the real estate underworld. Remember: If you can't live the way you want, in the end you'll have to convince yourself to want
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Rising Through the Ranks of Officialdom! 人在官场：步步攀升！
Lin Feng was too honest, so his career never advanced. His wife, Zhang Meina, left him for money. Faced with a woman's betrayal and the indifference of friends and family, Lin Feng finally saw the harsh realities of society for what they were. Then, unexpectedly, a major opportunity came his way: Secretary Huang transferred him to Xincheng County to serve as the county Party committee secretary.
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An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家
I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv
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Honey, Why Are You Leaving? 老婆，你为什么要离开
After his wife went to Sichuan for a class reunion, she began treating her husband coldly. Their relationship had nearly reached the breaking point, leaving the husband, who loved her deeply, in unbearable anguish. At last, one day, his wife left. She left the city where they had lived for years, left the home they had shared for years, and went far away to Sichuan. Unable to bear life without his wife, and determined to understand why she had left, the husband kept wondering what had happened
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At Dusk 人到黄昏
Family love, romance, friendship, and neighborly affection. The ordinary, uneventful lives of everyday people; the changing times reflected in rural life; the differences between two generations in their views on elder care; and how the elderly and children of the new era should face the twilight years of life.
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A Ridiculous Life: Winning Back, Loving, and Cherishing My Wife 荒唐人生之追妻，爱妻，宠妻
Fang Yong had loved watching wuxia and gangster movies and TV shows since he was a child, and they had deeply influenced him. He admired the martial arts of the heroes and their code of brotherhood. He roamed the streets, thinking he was a hero, but people had long since written him off as a street thug. Still, he had kept his kind and upright heart. One day, a beautiful girl named Su Xin suddenly appeared in his life and insisted on marrying him. They got married, and only afterward did Fang Yo
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The Fast Track to the Top 选调生之青云直上
“Zhi” represents steadfast resolve and lofty ambitions, while “Lin” evokes blessings spread far and wide, nourishing all things. After earning his doctorate, Zhang Zhilin becomes the ultimate civil servant! The grassroots are both a crucible and a melting pot. Watch as a commoner tempers himself in the fire of grassroots work, turning his trials into poetry and forging himself into gold as he climbs step by step to the pinnacle of power!
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Getting Something for Nothing 不捞而获
When 36-year-old divorced “ordinary gold digger” Sun Xiao decides to use a zero-cost “karate” playbook to extract resources from worthwhile men, she must remain coldly rational as she carefully screens each target. Otherwise, her six-million-yuan safety net will eventually run dry. Meanwhile, a deadly game far beyond the limits of her understanding is quietly closing in on the everyday life she thinks is safe: a counter-harvest orchestrated by a true high-level predator.
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A Book by Tiandi Xiongdi 天帝兄弟的一本书
Zhao Dagang is a top graduate of a prestigious university, but discovers that his wife is cheating on him and is framed by a coworker. Heartbroken and desperate, he chooses to give in to his female boss, setting himself on the path to a stunning comeback!
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The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲
Liu Peiyun was ready to enjoy a quiet retirement, but instead transmigrated into a book as Lu Xuebi, a village girl whose engagement had been broken off in the 1980s. Since she was already here, Lu Xuebi decided to make the best of it. She studied for college entrance exams while leading her whole family to seize the opportunities of the times. Only later did she learn she had transmigrated into a book: she was the heroine’s shrewish adoptive mother, an obstacle on the heroine’s road to wealth a
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A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常
After learning she has transmigrated into a historical-era novel as a pawn meant to whitewash the protagonist's group, Jiang Yanqiu first steals half of the original heroine's golden finger, then gives away half of the transmigrated heroine's golden finger. Then she keeps her head down, stays away from the protagonist's group, and enjoys the show. With nobody at the educated youth station willing to talk to her, bored Jiang Yanqiu has nothing to do but gossip to pass the time. She has to admit,
2kReads6.2Score129Shelves
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Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风
[Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn.
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Reborn: Rising Step by Step 重生之步步高升
A gunshot rang out, and Zhao Changtian, awaiting execution, was reborn ten years in the past! Back then, he was drowning in gambling debts, his third marriage had fallen apart, and his job was hanging by a thread! But all of that was merely the starting point of his extraordinary life! Watch him rise with force from the bottom of a state-owned enterprise, climb steadily through the ranks, and reach the summit! This is the iron-fisted journey of a reborn man! This isn’t a work of documentary fict
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When Fate Arrives, Love Is Just That Sweet 缘分到了，就是那么甜
When Shen Yuyan was twenty-two, she had just started her teaching internship. A long-distance online romance turned into a real-life meeting (though the male lead had actually met her before), and she ended up winning herself a college boy. They began with a long-distance relationship, then moved in together, and after a winding journey through family opposition to her marrying far from home, they reached the altar. A collection of little stories about their life together.
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The Boy I Let Down 那个被我辜负的男孩子
I met him because he was a classmate of my deskmate’s younger brother. We went to the same school, and he was a year below me. When they were students, four classmates rented a room in my home, and we spent several years living under the same roof. After I graduated, I went away to work. They still had another year before graduation. When his roommate began hinting that he wanted to date me, he made the first move. Before his roommate could act, he sent me a love letter. But I turned him down.
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No Mercy for the World 不赦人间
For the first twenty years of her life, Chen Qingxing lived by one rule: never count on a miracle. When someone else took the spot she had earned as a student in need, and her part-time wages were withheld, she signed a harsh sponsorship agreement. Her benefactor would pay for her to finish college, and after graduation, she would repay the debt with a marriage of convenience. There was no romance involved. It was a deal with a clearly marked price. She relied on careful calculations to plan eve
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Sour Bitter Orange 酸枳
[Bad-boy Handsome, Hot-Tempered Older Brother VS. Unruly, Sharp-Tongued Younger Sister · Both Each Other’s First · Healing · Sweet Romance] Shi Yao and Lu Miao are like two bitter orange trees growing in barren soil, their gnarled roots knotted together, impossible to separate. When they were kids, Shi Yao was always threatening Lu Miao. “Believe me, I’ll beat you up.” When they grew up, Lu Miao casually raised an eyebrow and glanced at him, then smiled. “Done dying of anger yet?” Meeting you ga
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The Taste of Being Alive 是活着的味道
The taste of being alive.
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Ten Socializing Techniques 十神社交术
This is an unconventional guide to the art of social interaction, inspired by the author’s insights into “Daoist Eight Characters fortune-telling” and “Western pickup artistry.” It is completely different from the books on relationships you see in everyday life: not only is it easy to understand, it is also highly practical. Let’s look at the true nature of human beings in social interactions from a different perspective…
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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.
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Boxing: The Road to Becoming the P4P King 拳击：P4P之王成长之路
The story of a young man who gets an unsatisfactory chance to be reborn and works his way up as a boxer. He rises above the competition at home to become Asia's champion, makes his mark on the international boxing scene, and eventually grows into the pound-for-pound king! [No golden finger, no System] I'm a beginner. The rebirth at the beginning is just a hook. Feel free to leave comments, but at least give the book a rating!
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The Principles of Ternary Consciousness and Memory Mapping 三元意识与记忆映射原理
This book deciphers the secrets of human longevity through philosophical reasoning. Tomato's number one original philosophical masterpiece, The Threefold Consciousness and Memory Mapping Principle, explores ideology, human nature, the secrets of human longevity, the truth behind ancient history, the origin of the moon, the mystery of the Great Flood, reasoning about past-life memories, an analysis of homosexuality, depression, multidimensional worlds, the differences in how men and women are att
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Three Moles 三颗痣
No System, no golden finger. Slow burn, angst later, and a dangerously unhinged cast. The first 15 chapters lay the groundwork and set the scene. The protagonist isn't the type to spend all day every day eating and drinking nothing but talking about romance. Dark in tone, with two side couples, one of them nonhuman. A large cast of vivid characters, a realistic feel, and the flavor of everyday life. Every ounce of love is carefully calculated, measured with a ruler and weighed on a scale. Cruel
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The Female Streamer: A Date Tonight 女主播：今夜有约
How did a small-town girl transform into a glamorous city livestream host? “I wrote down the story of my life, a life hardly worth remembering. I know all I'll earn is people's scorn and contempt... I only care whether those naive girls will end up repeating my mistakes.” I longed for the bright lights of the city, to change my fate and make my dreams come true. But the lifeline thrown to me carried me to a dazzling height, like fireworks, only for me to vanish in a devastating end. She was just
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Tales of the Dongguan Underworld 东莞黑道往事
[Re-creating the nightlife districts and social conditions of the era + gritty realism + strong period feel + organized crime + plot-driven] When Cui Cui is harassed by thugs, she asks the protagonist to come to Guancheng and help her. As soon as he arrives, the two of them are targeted by motorcycle snatchers. The next day, Cui Cui and her brother-in-law make a request that leaves them both too embarrassed to say it aloud... And somehow, the gang of motorcycle robbers also gets tangled up with
28.2kReads8.8Score3.2kShelves
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County Magistrate: A Heartbreak on the Road to Power 女县长：官路情殇
The story of an ordinary female college student who starts at the grassroots level and steadily rises to become a county magistrate. After graduating, Zhang Xinyue, an ordinary college student, finds a job at the county committee. Having weathered crisis after crisis and seized one opportunity after another, she eventually takes office as county magistrate.
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A Second New Beginning 二次新生
[No System] [Not Reborn] [Realistic Urban Life] [Restaurant Startup] [Slice of Life] It wasn’t until the day I got divorced that I understood: closing the noodle shop wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was watching my ex-wife get into someone else’s car, then having to smile as I served the last pot of bone broth to my summer customers. Later, I won a bet to take over a restaurant. I thought my life was finally turning around. Until I realized that every step I took was a square on someon
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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Aobiao Bula's Third Book 奥德彪不拉的第3本书
The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up over time. Feel free to listen and read! [First Person] [Based on Real Experience] [Everyday Urban Life] This book recounts the true story of an ordinary person who stumbled into online gambling. At first, he joined in thinking he could get lucky. But the lure of winning and losing drew him in deeper and deeper, until his savings were gone, he was buried in debt, and his life sank step by step into a dark abyss. He endured the pain of being
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The Wicked Daughter-in-Law 恶媳妇
The Wicked Daughter-in-Law
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I Do Makeup at a Funeral Home, and the Dead Started Talking 我在殡仪馆化妆，死人开口说话了
Others use makeup to prepare the dead with greasepaint; I listen to their final wishes. Blending, concealing, stitching. Every time a sponge touches skin, the last words the deceased uttered before dying appear in my mind. [The Eleventh Sentence: "Tell my mom... I haven't gone far."] The woman on autopsy table number three had been abducted into the mountains for twenty-nine years. She escaped three times, only to collapse at the entrance to the police station where she had gone to reunite with
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Tales of Xishan 西山往事
Tags: Contemporary romance + urban life + angst + everyday city life + love that grows over time + yandere + ensemble cast + family + period setting. A poor young woman from the countryside studies hard, earns top marks in the imperial examinations, and makes her way out of rural poverty. But afterward, she endures a string of blows: divorce and remarriage, her mother-in-law's dementia, quitting her job, her husband's car accident, her son going missing, crushing debt, and cancer. She plans to f
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My Years in the Wedding Business 我干婚庆这些年
[Life's Big Events + Wedding Industry + Northeastern Comedy + Everyday Family Life + Rich Older Women + Older Sisters] Jin Ge is a male makeup artist and photographer. After personally reporting his biological father and sending him to prison, he returned to his hometown to protect his mother from his father's enemies. He took over the family wedding business, and because of his professional makeup skills, many couples hired him to handle their weddings. The work also gave him a chance to see wh
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Black Gauze and Rouge 乌纱与胭脂
Human nature is like the sun: impossible to look at directly. Many people appear charming and refined on the surface, but strip away the facade and you’ll see human nature laid bare. By portraying the real chaos of society, this work exposes the evil and filth within human nature and calls on people to choose kindness and uphold social decency.
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Dreams of the Green-Brick Mansion 青砖楼梦
The Green Brick House Dream uses literary techniques to create vivid settings and characters, seeking to portray the lives of ordinary people over the forty years of China's reform and opening-up. Spanning forty years, the story follows eight households in the Liu family compound on Sandao Guai Street in Chengdu, faithfully recreating the loves and hates, joys and sorrows of ordinary people in Chinese society. People centuries from now, looking back on how lives changed during the forty years o
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