I Want to Read a Normal Urban Novel 我想看看很正常的都市文

1. 901 课 Spring and Autumn in the Textbooks 课本春秋 Bo L Tang波l棠Modern Romance212k WordsCompleted Seasons in the Textbook A Republican-era classroom, with one teacher and several students [Volume One] First School Year (Autumn 1932–Summer 1933): The Beginning of Learning Opening Note: In the autumn of 1932, the ancestral hall in Qingxi Town opened its doors as a school. Five children walked inside. Over the next six years, they would see the whole world from here. A Poem for the Opening The ancestral hall’s threshold stands three inches high. The children lift their feet to cross, unawar 25Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 902 大 She Conquered the Entertainment Industry Along the Way 大佬她顺便征服了娱乐圈 White Blossoms of the Jade Hairpin玉簪花开白色Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted [Strong female and male leads, secret identities, feel-good wish fulfillment, showbiz, adorable pets] Rumor has it that Lin Ye, the entertainment industry’s newest queen of headlines, is a high-school dropout and an uneducated nanny. Her rivals’ fans were thrilled, mocking her as the number one star who rose fast and would fade just as quickly. Fade? Would the top figure in biology, a walking encyclopedia, fade? Would a domineering CEO with assets worth over a hundred billion fade? Would a to 694Reads8.9Score101Shelves

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   ① A strong woman and a strong man. The female star Lin Ye is a little tsundere, with many vests. She can't stand up to any high technology. She is super good at both black and white. The same goes for the male protagonist. In the end, she went to outer space on a UFO. ②The male protagonist travels to a parallel world and incarnates as a famous writer, a king star, a popular singer, a writer in the entertainment industry, and lightning protection: his emotional handling is average.

3. 903 血 The Blood-Red Wedding Dress: My Five-Hundred-Year-Old Ghost Girlfriend 血色嫁衣我的五百岁女鬼女友 Bo L Tang波l棠Mystery214k WordsCompleted A female ghost in a blood-red wedding dress! A sinister plot that extinguished all humanity! A meeting five hundred years in the making: she came back in this life for you! Young Gu Linchuan secluded himself in Jiangnan to prepare for his exams, only to encounter Rong Qianlu, a five-hundred-year-old female ghost dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Her family was slaughtered when she was alive, turning her into a vengeful spirit, but Gu Linchuan’s gentleness brought out her vulnerable side. The 2Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 904 娱 Showbiz: Becoming a Superstar on The Longing Life 娱乐：从向往开始成为巨星 The Road Twists Again After the Peak峰回路又转Urban1.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world, Ye Chen arrives at the live filming set of season six of Back to Field. The life of a superstar, a versatile singer, and a renowned writer begins here. A slice-of-life entertainment novel. The System is just a tool and barely appears. The protagonist has sound values and isn’t a womanizer. The celebrities introduced later are original creations. Give it a try! P.S. The System is just a tool and appears very rarely. 1.4kReads6.9Score—Shelves
5. 905 主 Sacrifice the Protagonist to Heaven! Boundless Magic? 主角祭天！法力无边？ Bo L Tang波l棠95k WordsCompleted Sacrifice the Protagonist to Heaven! Boundless Magic Power? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 906 重 Reborn as an Entertainment Master 重生之娱乐宗师 A Carefree Leaf一叶风流Urban5.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel world with a highly developed entertainment industry, Xiao Yunhai made a name for himself with the knowledge he retained from his previous life. Music, screenwriting, literature, martial arts: there was nothing he couldn’t do. He became a true master of the entertainment world. 10.4kReads8.7Score898Shelves
7. 907 情 Record of the Illusory Sea of Love: The Great Void Livestream 情天幻海录太虚直播间 Bo L Tang波l棠Ancient Romance479k WordsCompleted The Illusory Realm of the Great Void, by the shores of the Sea of Love. Fairy Jing Huan had been staring blankly into a water mirror for three days. What it reflected was not her peerless beauty, but the countless scenes of the mortal world: office workers scrolling through their phones on the subway, middle-aged men and women haggling at matchmaking corners, livestreamers crying, “Brother, love me!”, and exhausted wage slaves staying up late making PowerPoints until they went bald... “Such mudd 4Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 908 娱 Showbiz: From Running Man to Becoming a Superstar 娱乐：从跑男开始成就巨星 Clear Dreams Sway the River of Stars清梦摇星河Urban1.8M WordsCompleted Running Man, Back to Field, Who’s the Murderer, Go Fighting! A grand gathering of variety shows, one female lead, and the heroine is Xiao Di. Luo Yi transmigrated to a parallel world and brought a variety-show craze with him. On Brothers, Let’s Run, he was the brains and brawn. On Celebrity Detective, he was the player who won the most gold bars. On Go Beyond Limits, he was an unmatched strategist who ran circles around the old foxes. But on The Life We Want, he was just a hardworking young man… 12.4kReads9.2Score794Shelves
9. 909 饕 Gluttony’s Execution Ground: Crime and Punishment at the Bottom of the Food Chain 饕餮刑场——食物链底层的罪与罚 Bo L Tang波l棠60k WordsCompleted The Gluttonous Execution Ground: Crime and Punishment at the Bottom of the Food Chain 1Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 910 娱 Godfather of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈教父 Heading North向北Urban3.0M WordsCompleted A down-and-out keyboardist breathes his last in a hospital bed. From playing accompaniment in dance halls at sixteen to scraping by in Sanlitun at thirty-two, he'd tasted every sweetness and hardship life had to offer. When he opens his eyes, he's back in Northeast China in 2002. His young body houses a heart weathered by life's vicissitudes, along with classic melodies that shouldn't exist until the future. No System or cheat ability, just a lifetime's worth of musical talent and experience. In 45.7kReads9.2Score4.7kShelves
11. 911 蛮 The Savage Era: The Legend of Tang Yan 蛮荒纪元：棠焱传奇 Bo L Tang波l棠Historical87k WordsCompleted The Wilds Era: The Legend of Tang Yan 2Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 912 娱 Showbiz: An Actor's Rise from Stunt Double to Film Emperor 娱乐，从武替开始的影帝之路 Ice Descends on the City冰临城下Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Entertainment + Superstar + No System + Traditional + Kung Fu] He was Yang Guo's double in The Return of the Condor Heroes, He was the cold-blooded killer John in Kill Zone, He was Murong Fu, a royal descendant of the Yan Kingdom, in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, He was the worn-out middle-aged man in The Big Man, He was the agent brother in The Hurricane Heist, He was the retired assassin John Tang in Speedy Pursuit, He was a new-generation Chinese kung fu star... 8.1kReads8.7Score568Shelves
13. 913 杀 Slaughter Kindergarten: Killergarten 杀戮幼儿园——Killergarten Bo L Tang波l棠78k WordsCompleted Killergarten 3Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 914 重 Reborn: Becoming a Hollywood Tycoon in Ten Years 重生之后，用十年成为好莱坞大亨 Winter's Hot Water Bottle冬天的热水瓶Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Hollywood + a Chinese person reborn in an American’s body + director story] (Since real celebrities’ names, including homophones, aren’t allowed, they’ve been changed. Readers will have to figure out who’s who for themselves. The author is helpless too, having been sent to the penalty box many times.) A third-rate director in his previous life, he is reborn in the 1990s in the body of a 23-year-old American prodigy director. From then on, titles pile up one after another: Hollywood box office 18.4kReads8.8Score987Shelves
15. 915 疫 A Boy Grows Up Overnight During the Pandemic 疫情下，一夜长大的少年 Calm as the Moon淡然如月Modern Romance232k WordsCompleted Eighteen-year-old Li Zihao had been blessed with everyone’s love and a wealthy family. He excelled at school and was tall, bright, and handsome. But when the COVID outbreak suddenly hit Hubei in 2020, his family’s world was turned upside down. Within days, his grandparents and parents all died, leaving him alone in a hospital corridor, keeping watch over the cold bodies of the four people dearest to him... It was then that Zihao met Zhang Xinyu, a gentle, beautiful classmate whose mother was a d 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is absolutely normal, a modern urban workplace romance novel with nothing more than a fantasy plot!

16. 916 重 Reborn: Checking In at the Four Great Classical Novels 重生之打卡四大名著 Geometric Taoist几何道人Urban474k WordsOngoing Niu Youliang is an ordinary-looking stunt performer who unexpectedly returns to 1984. He starts out as Liu Xianglian’s double in Dream of the Red Chamber, then plays the Bull Demon King in Journey to the West, Jiang Wei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and finally Shi Jin, the Nine-Tattooed Dragon, in Water Margin. Beginning as a stunt double who never shows his face, he gradually achieves the astonishing feat of working on adaptations of all four great classical novels, ultimately becoming the 106Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    I wrote my own article on rebirth in the entertainment industry, and I recommend it!

17. 917 咦 Huh? That’s a Great Talent You’ve Got. Give Me One! 咦？你这天赋不错，给我来一份！ Lanting Little Scholar兰亭小小小生Urban263k WordsOngoing [Interstellar Advanced Martial Arts] [Talent Copying] [Plot-Driven] This is an age of vast universes, where source energy drives the evolution of life and mechs coexist with starships. The stars have never been unclaimed territory. Ferocious beasts run rampant, interstellar pirates rule the lanes, and martial artists suffer horrifying casualty rates. Lin Chuan transmigrated into this world as an ordinary man with no connections, only to awaken the most unreasonable golden finger of all: the [ 10Reads—Score133Shelves

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    Highly recommend this masterpiece of martial arts! This book is very good. I just thought of it as an ordinary book to pass the time. I couldn't stop reading it. The plot is compact and the story is novel [licking the screen] [vomiting] [fear] [stunned] [shocked] [rolling eyes]

18. 918 东 Dongguan: The CEO's Little Sister Is Super Cute and Sweet 东莞：总裁妹妹超萌甜 Villa Plan别墅计划Urban3.4M WordsOngoing [Working in Dongguan + power fantasy + everyday urban life + jianghu feuds + down-to-earth] Simple and honest Zhao Zhendong has just gotten out of prison when his sneaky, underhanded neighbor tricks him into going to Dongguan for work. If it weren’t for his beautiful, generous sister-in-law, He Mengting, taking such good care of him, he probably would have given up long ago. His prospects had seemed bleak, but one small good deed turns his life around completely, and from then on everything goes 4.8kReads8.9Score376Shelves

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    Check this one out, you won't be disappointed.

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