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The Official’s Path: Why Is It So Hard to Be a Good Official? 官道：当个好官为什么这么难
A contemporary political novel rooted in real life, by a veteran author with years of experience writing political fiction. It’s wonderfully down-to-earth, and its schemes and power struggles will leave you on edge and emotionally reeling. Drawing on personal experiences, the author has created a modern-day exposé of officialdom, rich with life experience and thought-provoking political wisdom. It’s absolutely worth reading. Life is a journey of self-cultivation. You have to find your own path.
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The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, Explained with Laughs 黄帝内经爆笑讲解版
Still missing out on China’s millennia-old treasures of health and wellness because classical texts are so hard to understand? This book breaks free from the dry style of traditional texts and uses laugh-out-loud language to unpack the foundational classics of Chinese medicine! It is divided into three volumes. The first offers clear, accessible explanations of the chapters of the Suwen, breaking down the underlying medical principles of yin and yang, the five elements, the organs, and qi and bl
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Immortal Cultivation: This Is How the Unorthodox Do It 修仙：旁门左道就是这样的
[Classical-style cultivation] [No System] [Growth] [The clash between new and old cultivation methods] [The passage of time] [Some farming and management] [No level suppression] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fellow Daoist, rent a set of internal organs and a brain to help you cultivate!] [When you practice the Golden Core, you can dig up your ancestors and have them help you cultivate] [My family has a lineage stretching back ten thousand years, with the bones of a hundred thousand grandmaster martia
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Transmigrated to the Beast World, Where S-Rank Beastmen Compete to Be My Dogs 穿越兽世，ss级兽人争先当狗
[Beast World + interstellar + truly strong female lead + rivals compete for her, then suffer heartbreak + face-slapping + career focus + all leads are virgins + character growth] Ye Wei worked like a beast of burden for half her life. After being reborn in the apocalypse with a useless "nullification" ability, she picks up a cat from the start, only to wake up after a nap inside the cat's "big dumplings"! She doesn't know how to raise cats, let alone people, so she'll just raise them all like pu
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This Protagonist Won't Take Orders, So I'm Done 这届主角不服管，老子不干了
[Recruiting protagonists + ensemble cast + slow start] The black-hearted System gives me an impossible mission: make the urban war god, the miraculous doctor, the martial arts prodigy, the Dragon King God of War, the reincarnated emperor, the blind Sword Sovereign, the reincarnation, the reborn one... submit to me. What the hell? They’re all absurdly powerful protagonists. You expect them to take me as their boss? I quit!
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- 356 Reborn in 1982, and They Still Want Me to Marry My Older Sister? Are They Crazy? 重生82，还让我娶姐姐，疯了吧 Tian Wenyu is reborn in 1982. As soon as he returns, he leads the whole village in catching his former mother-in-law in the act of adultery. He will never again marry that wicked older sister who isn’t related to him by blood. He will never again work himself to the bone for that family. He will never again let his adoptive parents suffer the hardships of life. He will make that heartless family pay in blood. He will defy society’s prejudices and pursue his true love. He will do everything he wa 3.9kReads8.9Score363Shelves
- 357 My Scumbag Boyfriend Wants to Get Ahead, and My Girlfriend's Panicking 渣男求上进，女友慌了 “Young man, I can tell we’re destined to meet.” “Hold it. I don’t want to learn the Tathagata Palm, and I don’t want to protect world peace.” The old man: “…” He glanced around to make sure no one was coming, then sneakily pulled Li Lingfeng into a corner. “Listen, this is absolutely something you need to have.” With that, he pulled an ancient manual from inside his robe, so old it could hardly be any older. 13.4kReads8.9Score847Shelves
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Reborn in 1985: A Different Life 重生85：不一样的人生
Search for the new book, Grabbing Success and Beautiful Women with Both Hands in ’98, for an even better read! [Period Setting] [Multiple Love Interests] [Cozy Daily Life] [Coal Mine Elements] [Making Money] This is a story that starts in a coal mine. In his previous life, he suffered from a terminal illness and died alone. But then he was reborn in 1985. He returned to Yanxi Coal Mine, the place he had never stopped longing for. Facing the woman he once loved, he decided to make up for his regr
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- 359 Game Invasion: Simplifying the Sunflower Manual from the Start 游戏入侵：开局简化葵花宝典 [Ignore the rating. The studio is targeting this book.] A game you can never return from: Martial Arts. To uncover the secrets behind the game, the government sent in a suicide squad: a group of death-row inmates. Zhou Nan was one of them. After arriving in the game, he nearly got castrated. Fortunately, he awakened a cheat: a simplified interface he had written himself. So while nobody else could cultivate the Sunflower Manual, he mastered it from the start. From then on, he surged ahead at bre 3kReads5.0Score235Shelves
- 360 Bow Hunting in Changbai Mountain: The Greatest Hunter King 我，弓猎长白山，最强猎人王 A new work is in the making. Come check it out! Lin Erhu returns, reborn. His first order of business: refuse the marriage proposal! Some women are poison. No matter how beautiful they are, you can't afford to take them. Then he begins his hunting trips in the mountains. With his exceptional archery and fighting skills, Lin Erhu becomes the King of Hunters. From then on, he dominates the world and rises to the pinnacle of life. 68Reads6.1Score199Shelves
- 361 Criminal Woman, Come Quickly. I'm Waiting for You in Ningguta 犯妇快来，我在宁古塔等你 A new book is now updating! Come take a look! [Alternate History + Multiple Heroines + System Space + Hunting and Farming + Conquering the World] Others are exiled to Ningguta, but Zhou Qi was born there. One day, three stunning female convicts arrived in Ningguta. One was a peerless beauty, incomparable in grace. The other two were a pair of dazzling beauties, blooming side by side. Their origins were mysterious, and their relationship even more so... And Zhou Qi's life changed from then on. Wi 4.9kReads7.6Score340Shelves
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Global Blackout: Back to the Age of Cold Weapons 全球断电：重返冷兵器时代
[No System, no rebirth, no showing off and humiliating others, not a power fantasy. The story of an ordinary person surviving in a time of chaos.] When electricity vanished worldwide and gunpowder and fuel stopped working, Xia Zhi carved out a kingdom in the midst of chaos with nothing but a bow. With transportation and communications cut off, humanity's ambitions began to grow. Everyone wanted to be emperor; even a village chief dared to call himself king. Xia Zhi had wanted to stay home in the
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Infinite Rewinds: Everyone Thinks I'm a Big Shot 无限回档：所有人都以为我是大佬
[Adapted into a comic drama] [Audiobook narrated by a real person available] [Infinite Flow + Livestream Survival + Death Rewind + Half-Dihua] [No CP] [The story contains a lot of on-screen comment barrages] After Xu Xi died from overwork, he transmigrated to another world invaded by a survival game. He even discovered that he could rewind time after dying. By using this ability to escape danger time and again and successfully clear each instance, he unexpectedly became a top expert in the eyes
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- 364 I, for One, Specialize in Getting Myself Killed 鄙人独善作死 After transmigrating to another world, he obtains a Hatred Absorption System. He has to absorb hatred to increase his combat power. Well, then, my apologies, everyone. Hey, sis over there! Have you eaten? If not, take this punch! 24.7kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
- 365 EN Rick and Morty: My Grandpa is Rick?! 瑞克和莫蒂：我的姥爷竟是瑞克？ He transmigrated to America, where he had parents and an older sister. His dad was timid, but had his moments now and then. His mom admired the strong, yet felt sorry for his dad. His sister had a sharp tongue, but often stood up for him. These memories ran through Morty's mind as he lay in bed, ready to welcome the next day... Then an old man appeared: Grandpa... “Hey, Morty! I need you!” That was when Morty finally realized he had transmigrated into Rick and Morty!!!!!! 4.2kReads9.3Score392Shelves
- 366 EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 218.2kReads9.3Score25.4kShelves
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My Steady Farming Path to Immortality 我的种田流修仙太稳健了
[Slice-of-life farming + steady cultivation + no female lead, multiple dao companions + System + hoarding hamster] While fellow prodigies from my sect are blinded by greed and slaughter each other over opportunities in secret realms, I have been watering my radishes with spirit spring water in the spirit fields for three hundred years. While demonic cultivator overlords blood-sacrifice a million cultivators, I am using demon-binding ropes made from immortal vines to build a fence around my spiri
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- 368 Espionage: I Can Earn Rewards by Playing the Villain! 谍战：我当恶霸能爆奖励！ After transmigrating into a minor secret agent at Beiping Station, he unexpectedly awakened the Tyrant System!! As long as the System judges something to be bad behavior, he gets a reward! Kidnap a dog traitor and torture him for information. Ding! For using serious violence against another person, reward: the Japanese devils’ top-secret military intelligence! Lin Ze: ??? Beating up traitors counts too? “Mrs. Miyamoto, I have a new assignment for you!” Ding! For coercing an innocent young woman, 170.4kReads9.4Score15.4kShelves
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In the Great Ming, Starting with Tofu 人在大明，从做豆腐开始
Wu Zishan, a medical master's graduate, transmigrated to the early Ming dynasty. At first, he only wanted to earn a few taels of silver to improve his life and, while he was at it, marry a beautiful wife. But a beauty pursued him with tearful pleas, and through a twist of fate he entered government service. He was promoted every few days and somehow became a major figure who stirred up the political landscape and changed history...
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Sixty Years of Demon Slaying: This Taoist Gets Stronger with Every Kill! 甲子荡魔：这个道士杀怪就变强！
[Animated adaptation now airing] There are only fake tragic twists, no real ones, so enjoy without worry! [Decisive and ruthless] [Dark cultivation] [Slow burn] [Gender equality] [No female lead] [Sword immortal] War and calamity rage across the land, monsters run rampant. The human world is a furnace, and its people are mere weeds. Shen Hui transmigrates one day and becomes a Taoist priest at Qingfeng Temple on Qilu Mountain. He intends to spend each day meditating and cultivating qi, pursuing
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- 371 With My Blood, I’ll Save These Mountains and Rivers 我以我血挽山河 [Not a Power Fantasy + Slow Burn + Multiple Storylines + No Golden Finger + Passionate Conquest of the Song] At the end of the Northern Song dynasty, Bianjing was under siege, and the realm was falling into enemy hands. After his soul traveled nine hundred years through time, Gu Yuan found himself on the snowy plains outside Bianjing, where he and a band of fleeing soldiers happened to rescue the reborn Princess Zhao Yingluo. Through careful planning at every turn, he rose to become the era’s gr 32.8kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 372 The Imperial Tutor's Road to the Civil Service Exams 农门帝师的科举之路 Imperial Examination, One-on-One Romance After an accident, a young man from the modern era transmigrated into the Great Qian Dynasty. Looking at his family’s dilapidated brick house, Qi Wenyu wondered how he would make a living from then on... 21kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
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Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊
(Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho
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Doomsday: Surviving in an RV, Starting in the No-Man's-Land 末日：房车求生，从无人区开始
[Apocalyptic RV] + [Unlimited upgrades] + [Awakened supernatural abilities] + [One heroine] + [Slow burn] + [Cozy] + [The world gradually unfolds] After his father mysteriously disappeared in the no-man's-land, RV blogger Li Che ventured alone into the Chijin Gobi. But when he left the wasteland, he discovered that the entire world had changed. Communications were down, cities had fallen, and countless people had turned into bloodthirsty zombies. The mysterious black stone his father had left
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- 375 The Blue Road: Cardsharps and Beauties 蓝道江湖：老千和尤物 Don't gamble if you want to win. Stay away from gambling. In 2005, I got caught up in a conspiracy involving a gambling scheme and a rigged card game, and met three middle-aged female card sharks. These women were masters of deception, ruthless in their schemes, and had influence far and wide. Caught in their world, I felt like a boat adrift in a stormy sea. I couldn't believe there were so many temptations and traps in the world. I couldn't believe people could go so far as to turn the world up 1.3kReads8.5Score100Shelves
- 376 Wasteland: A Tier 100,000 Mechanic Thinks He Can Make It Work 废土：机修工十万级，俺寻思能行 (All-Rounder) (Invincible) (Doraemon) (Funny) (No System) (One Female Lead) (Original) (Relaxing) (Daily Life) (Whimsical) What do you mean I got hit by a big truck on the 21st floor? What do you mean I was reincarnated in a wasteland world, and my golden finger is being a mechanic? What do you mean a mechanic can be rated at level 100,000?! This was Fang Zhengyuan's most exasperating day ever. Still, a mechanic in a wasteland world? I reckon that could work! Dimensional invasions, alien wars, m 606Reads—Score131Shelves
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Reborn: My Beginner's Gift Pack Turned Out to Be... 重生我的新手礼包居然是
After a life full of ups and downs and hardships, Gao Yang, an old man, finally found some peace in his seventies. Then a line from a beautiful livestreamer in a video, “You have to ride Route 318 at least once in your life,” got stuck in his head. He promptly hopped on his motorcycle and set off for the Potala Palace. But before he could even leave the city, he rode against traffic and came face-to-face with a fully loaded, hundred-ton truck that couldn't stop in time! With a splat, Gao Yang wa
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- 378 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 130.9kReads9.3Score16.1kShelves
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A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨
Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed...
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- 380 EN Achieving Transcendence Through Corpse Burning 我靠焚尸超凡入圣 Since ancient times, people have believed the dead should be buried whole. Cremation is deeply disrespectful to the deceased, and only corpses that have undergone an uncanny transformation are burned. Those who cremate corpses are known as corpse burners. It is an extremely dangerous line of work. At midnight, one room, one corpse burner. Once the doors are shut and locked, if the corpse turns vicious, the corpse burner is as good as dead. Qin He makes his living this way at a canal wharf in the 123.2kReads9.2Score14.7kShelves
- 381 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1MReads9.9Score162.2kShelves
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Ringlord of the Source Realm 源界环主
With one sword, he splits the heavens; all things return to the void. Qin Yu traverses annihilation, cuts through nothingness, and finally sees the Zero Page: the primordial blank beyond all settings, authors, and readers. He neither contests nor merges with it. He simply takes the manuscript paper back into his arms. From then on, the supreme powers of all worlds are no more than dust on a page. The master of the Zero Page is Qin Yu alone. One final question: who has the right to define what is
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- 383 Tanks, Planes, and Aircraft Carriers? My Farm Equipment Factory Can Build Them All 坦克飞机航母，我农具厂都能造 Military industry expert Qin Yang arrives in 1980 and becomes the son of the head of the technical department at a Third Front factory. Once a good-for-nothing second-generation factory brat, Qin Yang sets out to turn his life around. The factory wants to switch from military production to civilian goods? Qin Yang casually invents an air rifle, and Uncle Camel can't stop praising it! Having trouble choosing a small-caliber bullet? Qin Yang makes the gun and bullets himself! The copied SVD sniper 16.4kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
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I Am Li Huaide's Bodyguard 我是李怀德的警卫员
Li Dahu, a soldier, served as Li Huaide's bodyguard. After leaving the military, he was assigned to the Hongxing Steelworks. This is the story of how he struggled through years of famine while supporting his three younger brothers and three younger sisters, and gradually built a better life for himself at the Hongxing Steelworks.
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A Glorious Dream, Mountains and Rivers Far Away 浮华梦山河远
Is marrying up into a noble family a ladder to the clouds, or a blade at your throat? Everyone envies a merchant’s daughter who marries into a marquis’s household. But after a torrential rain in Huazhou, everything changes. Her husband gets caught up in the succession struggle, and she’s abducted by human traffickers... Even her family thinks she’ll never come back. But she not only returns, she also becomes the owner of Baoxing Trading House. Every time you think she’s finally found her foo
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I Awakened a Dao Companion Synthesis System 我觉醒了道侣合成系统
(Not a mindless power fantasy. Don't read if that's not your thing.) Ten years after transmigrating, Zhou Ding finally worked up the courage to send a message to the campus belle of the "Chosen One University": Hey, want to become cultivation partners? I've got plenty of yang energy! That night, the campus belle died…
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- 387 Why Vampires Need to Read Their Blood Test Reports 论吸血鬼看血检报告的重要性 On Why Vampires Should Pay Attention to Blood Test Results 246Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Riding the Waves of Tokyo Bay: Starting in 1945 逐浪东京湾：从1945开始
The protagonist himself transmigrates to Hengbin, Japan, after its defeat in 1945. Posing as a local, he works as an interpreter for the US military, becomes a shameless collaborator, builds a yakuza organization, and wreaks havoc on the Japanese who haven't yet paid for their crimes. He also gets up to all sorts of mischief with plenty of cute girls, makes it through the occupation, and eventually becomes a financial magnate. A story about making money and living life to the fullest! As they sa
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I’m the Emperor, What Do I Have to Fear? 我是皇帝我怕谁？
He woke up to find that he had transmigrated into the body of the empire's last crown prince. When his useless father abandoned the country and fled, Lin Feng led his subordinates in a fierce counterattack. Many years later, as the empire rose once more from the ruins of defeat, his subordinates draped the imperial robes over his shoulders. Lin Feng could not help but exclaim, “You people have really made a mess of things for me!”
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- 391 Siheyuan: Dacan Eliminates the Three Evils 四合院：大灿除三害 [Everyday life in a bygone era] + [Transmigration] + [Pocket dimension, no System] + [Original single heroine] + [Doesn't cause trouble] Xu Dacan is a man who transmigrated, and a close cousin of Xu Damao, the original resident of the courtyard compound. By a twist of fate, he arrived in the era of the notorious courtyard compound, and Xu Dacan was less than thrilled. Worse, he ended up with an older cousin who was lecherous, timid, and extremely jealous. That made things even more infuriating. 8kReads7.8Score291Shelves
- 392 A Cheap Import Who Studied Abroad? Call Me the Father of Chips! 归国留洋水货？叫我芯片之父！ [The 1950s + technological powerhouse + academic prodigy] A young man from the new century transmigrates to 1955 as an overseas student returning to China, becoming one of the same group of ocean-liner returnees as Qian Xuesen. The original list of twenty-four people has inexplicably gained one additional name: his. However, this Stanford graduate in his former life actually graduated through his family's donations. He has no real knowledge in his head and is already someone about to be eliminat 390.6kReads8.7Score29.2kShelves
- 393 The Old Woman Killed by Her Eldest Daughter Is Reborn 那个被长女干掉的老妇重生了 In her previous life, Chunhua was muddleheaded and unlucky. She spoiled her younger brother, favored boys over girls, and grew estranged from her husband. After her eldest son went missing, she spent the rest of her life in a daze. It wasn’t until she lay alone in a hospital bed, ignored by everyone, and saw her badly injured eldest daughter scream at her in despair that she finally understood how terribly wrong she had been. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day her eldest 244Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 394 A Golden Marriage 金婚 One is a fool in everyone's eyes, the other a young hoodlum in the village's eyes. Yet fate ties them together. Zhou Xing always thought himself above others, but never imagined he'd marry a fool and fill a whole house with children, boys and girls alike. What's more, in this life and the next, and the life after that, he only wants to be with her. At first, Li Zhi'an was terrified of living under the same roof as Zhou Xing, that bad man. Gradually, she came to accept him. In the end, she decide 14.4kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
- 395 There Are Immortals in the Temple 道观有神仙 “Reverend, people say this temple is home to an immortal. Forgive my boldness, but is there really an immortal inside?” In response to the reporter’s question, the sprightly Song Feng looked like an ordinary old man of his age. “What immortal? That’s just a rumor outsiders have spread. These days, we believe in science. Young man, superstition is best avoided~” Before he had finished speaking, a streak of five-colored light suddenly flashed across the distant sky. It descended, and a middle-aged 38.5kReads8.0Score2.7kShelves
- 396 In the Name of the People: I Report Myself from the Start 名义：开局我举报我自己 Luocheng: “Classmate Hou Liangping, you can’t investigate me just because I outrank you, can you? Is it really that hard to admit someone else is better than you? Have you ever tried looking for the problem in yourself? Sure, I reported myself, but do you even have the rank to investigate me?” 296.6kReads8.6Score24.2kShelves
- 397 The Courtyard Compound: The Warmth of Everyday Life 大杂院：人间烟火气 [Period setting + family drama + everyday life] If you're young and inexperienced, take this as a warning and steer clear. This book probably isn't for you. It has none of the usual wish-fulfillment tropes and no imaginary cheat powers. It's simply an ordinary story about people in northern China. [No transmigration, no System, no pocket dimension, no being reborn, and none of the modern-novel elements you know.] It records the ordinary life of a northern town in the 1980s, capturing the memorie 8.6kReads9.1Score757Shelves
- 398 Siheyuan: The Fat Guy’s Comeback 四合院：胖子的逆袭 [This is an everyday-life story set in a bygone era: no bitterness, no slow start, and no brainless antics. If you’re the sort who likes fighting heaven, earth, and even the air, please move along.] He transmigrates into the parallel world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Fatty, Silly Zhu’s apprentice. He has elderly parents to support and three older sisters who are all worried about finding husbands. Fatty hones his cooking skills and protects his family, starting out as an inconspicuous no 2kReads8.2Score102Shelves
- 399 749 Bureau: From the Start, I Became a Zombie 749局：开局变成僵尸 "Ruthless and decisive" "All monsters deserve to die" "I’m a monster? Then I deserve to die too!" "No female lead" "A slightly slow start" "Takes off later" Li Buguo is an online absurdist streamer who makes a career out of wild antics. On the Ghost Festival, just as he was making his comeback, a strange beast being hunted by Bureau 749 happened to pass by and pierced his chest. It sent him straight through the open Gates of Hell, only for a ghost to kick him back out. He became an exceptionally 71.3kReads8.9Score7.9kShelves
- 400 Siheyuan: Wang Dapeng the Jester's Happy Life 四合院，乐子人王大鹏的快乐人生 A hilarious, low-conflict period piece set in a Beijing courtyard, with a scheming protagonist, a professional troublemaker, and a real scoundrel's way of doing things. Wang Dapeng transmigrates into a courtyard full of villains, where he goes head-to-head with the residents and discovers that his reputation is taking a hit. His motto is: if you can't adapt to your surroundings, make them adapt to you. If you get soaked, don't let your opponents have umbrellas. So Wang Dapeng decides to make sur 58.3kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
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