Looking for Realistic Marriage Stories, Nothing Too Far-Fetched or Overly Sweet 求现实婚姻题材，不要太虚。也不用太甜
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Lucky to Have Found Love on a Blind Date 有幸得之，相亲遇到爱
[Age gap, mutual devotion and support, doting romance with no angst] Twenty-six-year-old Jiang Xuerong met Xie Mingyu through a coworker. They were like parallel lines that should never have crossed, but after one chance encounter after another, they were drawn to each other and came together. Everyone said Jiang Xuerong was a flower planted in a pile of cow dung when she married Xie Mingyu. Only she knew that choosing him was the best decision she had ever made. His tolerant nature and steady t
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The Age of Separate Lives 分居时代
Through the lives of three women left behind in different circumstances, this novel portrays the joys and sorrows of people living apart. Su Qingqing: wife of a small-business owner who heads south to start a business in Shenzhen Chen Shuying: wife of a migrant worker who has spent over twenty years working in the south Mo Xiaomi: a soldier’s girlfriend Su Qingqing, the protagonist, never imagined that one day she would be just like Chen Shuying, separated from her husband and embarking on an un
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Among the Old Stories 旧事里
Bullied by life a hundred times over, she still became a bright moon in the night sky. Eighteen years ago, he brought her home. Eighteen years later, she was doing everything she could to escape him... Amid old memories, every kind of person comes into view. Time rushes by, youth cries out, and stubborn boys grow up. Love blooms and fades, and those youngsters who laughed and cried together eventually grew into adults. But who was the one you lost during your youth?
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Mrs. Song's Dilemma 左右为难的宋太太
[Elite Families + Adorable Kids + Workplace + A Long Road Out of a Wealthy Family + Daily Life Seamlessly Switching Between Rich Wife and Corporate Drone] [An engineering PhD who married into a wealthy family by luck but can't live the wealthy life * The youngest son of a wealthy family, who became the heir through his own merits but can't keep his marriage together] [Being Mrs. Song is a fine title. The only person it lets down is herself.] In their eighth year of marriage, Cheng Zhi mailed the
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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 Mark of the Rose 玫瑰之痕
So this is what love means: even if you change your face and overturn my memories, my eyes will still light up because of you, and my heart will still race wildly for you. He suddenly died in a car accident they were both involved in. When she saw his shadow in another man, the powerful aura of her memories drew her irresistibly closer, yet held her back from going any further.
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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A Marriage in Real Time 婚姻实况录
Elegant and romantic Ruan Manman marries the plain, honest Lin Wenyan after a heartbreak. Lin Wenyan marries Ruan Manman because she has a stable career. There is no love, no vows, only the messy fragments of everyday life. Strangely, one after another, the people around them get divorced and find new partners. Yet Ruan Manman and Lin Wenyan somehow spend thirty years side by side. They raise children, bicker and argue, and somehow turn a marriage that once felt precarious into a life of lasting
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A Warm Summer in the Countryside 阡陌暖夏
[Firefighter × nurse] [Cozy, love at first sight, sweet romance, a simple and peaceful life] A firefighter came to the medical college today to teach the students about fire safety. Gu Ruoyun took one look at the firefighter on stage and realized he was exactly her type. As he was leaving, she chased after him to ask for his WeChat, but he turned her down. They met again at a restaurant, where she also met his parents. And after that… [I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so please head straight to
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For Five Million, I'll Marry the CEO and Be His Darling Wife 为了五百万，我愿嫁给总裁当娇妻
When the first person to fall in love in a marriage of convenience has to choose, will they surrender to their feelings or leave with their heart at peace…? [Wealthy-family CEO + Marriage first, love later + Both virgins + Love grows over time + Sweet, satisfying romance + Strong values] Plus three secondary romances One low-level office worker whose career is full of twists and turns: Jiang Jixia One CEO trying to reform and transform the group: Zhou Wenxiao From the start, she agreed to stay
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Mr. Han, Stop Chasing Me. I’ll Be Back After My Revenge! 韩总别追了，等我复仇归来！
After her husband's betrayal cost her everything, Mi Duo survived a suicide attempt and met a plastic surgeon who transformed her into an unrivaled beauty. Just when she thought it was all behind her, she uncovered a far bigger secret shared by her ex-husband and the surgeon. Love and revenge, conspiracy and liberation are all closing in on her.
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Scallion Pancake with an Egg 煎饼果子加鸡蛋
Young love at school is the shyness of youth. Love between adults isn't all petty squabbles; it's the meeting and clashing of maturity and wisdom. Going from school days to the wedding altar is precisely the transformation from shy to mature, and it is romance itself.
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My Overbearing Husband Loves Recklessly 霸道老公放肆爱
What’s it like to marry business tycoon Li Yeting? One woman answers, “Terrifying at night.” After a baffling whirlwind wedding, the famous Li Yeting marries an unknown girl and turns into a devoted husband. Overnight, the little sparrow rises to become the envy of every socialite in the city, and Su Xiaoxi feels like she’s been on a roller coaster. Didn’t they say Young Master Li was cold, arrogant, and uninterested in women? Can someone tell her who this guy is, the one who tries every day to
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Etched on My Heart 纹心尖
[Print publication signed! See 🧣 for updates] [Tattoo artist × teacher] [Both virgins / happy ending] Mu Yanxin and Qi Xiao met for the first time at a tattoo parlor. The second time was on a rainy day, when he offered her an umbrella. The third time, they became neighbors. They fell for each other. Just as Qi Xiao began planning how to pursue her, Mu Yanxin suddenly asked him, “Should we get married?” Qi Xiao: “?” What kind of incredible windfall is this??? #Roguishly handsome tattoo artis
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I Flash-Married a Tycoon's Son, and Now He Begs for Affection Every Day Back in My Village 闪婚豪门公子，回村后他日日求宠
[One devoted couple, 1v1 + marriage first, love later + witty, affectionate relationship + warm and healing + everyday family life + adorable cutie] A rich woman who keeps forgetting she's rich ✖️ a sweet, naive young master Lin Chule finally gets married in a whirlwind romance after her eighty-eighth blind date, just to have someone keep her company and claim her inheritance. Now that she's rich, who'd keep working that lousy job? Lin Chule decides to take her new husband back to her rural h
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I Dumped My Ex and Ran Off with a Gorgeous, Irresistible Younger Guy 踹掉前夫后我拐跑了超欲帅弟弟
[Sweet romance + a woman’s personal growth + healing realism] A plump, soft, innocent, wealthy housewife vs. a cool, handsome, principled young university student studying traditional opera For more than twenty years, Lin Li always thought she was one of the lucky ones. She had a glamorous marriage, and her husband was generous, faithful, and considerate. She didn’t have to toil for a living. She became a wealthy wife to a self-made tycoon, envied by everyone, and life went smoothly. Then o
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When Breast Cancer Swept Through Our Marriage 当乳癌席卷了我们的婚姻
(A long-form writing exercise) She says she has lived twice: the first time when she was born, and the second after her mastectomy. On the day of her second wedding anniversary, Peishan discovers she is pregnant and is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. Her doctor urges her to terminate the pregnancy and undergo a mastectomy as soon as possible. Six months after surgery, her marriage finally collapses after struggling to survive. Her husband’s disdain, her in-laws’ meddling, betrayal in lo
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Simple-Minded Ni 憨妮
Hanni is a woman who seems a little dim-witted to outsiders. She marries three men: the first is an ordinary man, the second a tycoon, and the third a young hoodlum. This is the story of her and the people around her, and how Hanni changes her fate...
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Little Seedling Beneath the Shade 树荫下的小禾苗
Miao Yihe loses part of her memory in a car accident, including memories of her high school deskmate, who always looked out for her. But the connection between two people never really goes away. After all the twists and turns, they meet again. Lin Mingyue says he's the shade beneath a vast forest; Miao Yihe says she's a little seedling striving to grow. It was all meant to be. Lin Mingyue cherishes his little seedling, and she loves and supports herself too. They don't ask for much: a cozy littl
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101 Blind Dates 101次相亲
Urban light comedy + healing realism + delicious food and beautiful scenery + a woman’s growth Chen Xiaomo is a 26-year-old unmarried woman living in a second-tier city. After earning a graduate degree from a non-elite university, she finds a job as a non-tenure-track English instructor at a university. Then begins her romantic, fantastical, and heart-pounding journey through blind dates...
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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao accidentally transmigrates into a strange valley. He transforms the valley and ventures out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he establishes his own Heavenly Dao Group in the cultivation world. He opens the Li Medicine Hall to heal the sick and help the people. He makes his fortune through spirit-root wine, branches out into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes the free Heavenly Dao Academy and trains a wealth o
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A Beautiful Sick Girl in the Garbage Heap 垃圾堆里的美丽病娇
I write for people with trauma and psychological disorders. All my books are trauma narratives aimed at a niche audience. If you complain that the candle at the bottom of the pit doesn’t shine as brightly as the sun, or that the plot isn’t satisfying enough and the characters aren’t impressive enough, it’s not me pushing these books on you. You picked the wrong genre. I’d like to take them down and be done with it too, but the rules are different for completed novels. Niche books aren’t affected
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A Side Job in Search of Love 兼职谋爱
At twenty-two and a half, Lin Enjie is just starting her career and doing everything she can to survive when she gets tangled up with her boss’s son, Cheng Tianchu, whose status is worlds above hers. She loves him, but he does not love her back. She and her future mother-in-law can’t stand each other, and every meeting ends in mutual distaste...
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A Cold Marriage 凉婚
After five years of marriage, Xiang Hui always thought her husband was an honest, devoted family man, until she accidentally caught him doing something utterly revolting... Furious, she refused to sit back and do nothing. But she never imagined that the more she dug into her husband’s past, the more horrifying revelations would come to light... [Hell is empty, and the devils are here on earth] [Don’t go looking for a man in hell]...
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Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情
Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Way of the Elixir 中医丹道
Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Alchemical Way
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My Heart Fluttered, So I Made a Move! 心动了，行动了！
Title: My Heart’s Racing, So I’m Making a Move! Also known as Adult Love: Flirting with Passion and Desire. [Urban life + Workplace + Contemporary romance + Sweet romance + Mutual devotion + Happy ending + Strong female lead + Two powerful leads] Starting from nothing, she grew from a saleswoman into a domineering CEO. Rising from humble beginnings, a bar singer became a legendary singer and award-winning actor. They met when they had nothing. After one passionate night, she ran away. Ten years
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Reborn During Confinement, I’m Done Pretending! 月子里重生，我不装了！
Quit my job? Dream on! I’m Su Wanwan, and I’ve clawed my way back from a future three years from now, where I was divorced and thrown out onto the street. In my previous life, I believed Zhang Lei when he said, “I’ll take care of you.” I quit my job as a regional model manager at a five-star hotel and stayed home to raise our child, only to be controlled until I could barely breathe. I couldn’t get a penny for living expenses. When I wanted to return to work after giving birth, he mocked me: “Yo
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Rising from the Ashes 劫后凡升
Rising from the Ordinary After the Calamity
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A Good Girl Is No Lamb 乖乖女从不是羔羊
In the summer of 2007, after graduating from college, Li Kele went to the coast and got a job at a factory. But life began making her pay the price of growing up: leaving home, heartbreak, unemployment… What was she supposed to do? Amid betrayal and schemes, she stumbled her way toward maturity. The workplace taught her many things, and so did the boys and girls who came into her life. Kele, keep moving forward. Don’t look back.
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Drenched in Glamour 染指浮华
Let me tell you some true stories. After Yu Xiaobei and Chen Chen divorced, he found it hard to let go of his feelings for her, and it made him miserable. He didn’t want to keep hurting, so he decided to try accepting a new relationship. He met Xu Jing at work and Cheng Chen in his day-to-day life. Yu Xiaobei went through a number of romantic entanglements with each of them. Meanwhile, spring came at last for his friend Lao Wai, who also found himself caught up in a complicated situation. Lao Wa
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His Insatiable Desire, Her Ordeal 他的欲壑，她的劫难
Shen Yu risked her life to give birth to a son. Seven years later, Qiao Feng still cheated on her. Shen Yu’s best friend, Du Xiaoyun, had gradually found peace of mind in her sexless marriage. She asked Shen Yu, who had decisively divorced: If that woman hadn’t seduced him, would he have betrayed your marriage? He would. Why? Because he has no principles… A person with no principles when it comes to marriage will never be faithful to it. Does marriage require fidelity? It does. Getting married
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One, Two, Three, Take Your Seats 一二三儿，请对号入座
In this world where values had gone mad, Xu Yiyi was like so many women in marriages today, trapped in a miserable, abnormal relationship that was like being widowed while still married: she left home but didn't divorce. Her turning point came after she greedily enjoyed the pleasures of being with Luan Han, a college student in his early twenties. Then she unexpectedly ran into her first love, Song Ning, who had “come back from the dead,” and paid a price for it. The appearance of her first love
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A Few Stories from Life on the Factory Floor 工厂打工男女之间的三两事
[Rural life in the 1980s and 1990s, migrant workers, city life, flirtation, love, growing up, everyday life, the little things, not a power fantasy, realistic] Do you remember working in Shenzhen twenty years ago? Everyone wore the most innocent smiles. Nobody on the streets was glued to a phone. Even though people earned only a few hundred yuan a month, they were remarkably happy and content. Now, even with several thousand yuan a month, or even a business of your own, you can never go back to
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Quick Transmigration: The Ultimate Nemesis of Scumbags and Green Tea Bitches 快穿：渣男绿茶的顶级克星
The campus heartthrob she'd pursued for four years suddenly accepted her confession, and they quickly got married. She thought her wonderful life was finally beginning, but who could have guessed that her dream guy would turn into a scumbag in an instant, and that she would lose her life because of him...
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A Marriage of Money 钱婚
To become the dutiful daughter, good wife, and loving mother everyone expected, Liu Xiaoqing buried her youthful dreams and deepest desires before the age of thirty-three, living a life of constant compromise. After graduating, she painfully gave up her dream of becoming a writer and took the civil service exam, becoming a government employee. At home, she endured her in-laws' repeated provocations, again and again, just to preserve her marriage. At work, she likewise chose to put up with her
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He’s Seventy Percent Wild 他有七分野
[His ten-year secret crush finally comes true + Sweet, sweet, sweet] [A rough-and-wild tycoon male lead × a dazzlingly beautiful lawyer heroine] Su Wanji returned to her hometown looking utterly defeated, thinking this was all life had in store for her. Then she became interested in a man. He was cold, dangerous, and untamed. Su Wanji tried everything she could, but she still couldn’t tame him. The day she decided to give up, the fiercest wolf of all lowered his head before her. His voice was lo
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The Moon Leans Halfway 明月半倚
[Happy ending / Reunited after a long separation] The day Liang Songsong broke up with Chen Zhouyang, she was trembling with relief. She shoved him away. “I never liked you in the first place.” When they meet again later, neither of them brings it up. They act like old friends reuniting. Once, Liang Songsong is pursued by a younger guy and doesn’t know how to turn him down gently without hurting his feelings. She asks Chen Zhouyang for advice. He raises an eyebrow. “Since when do you know how to
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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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Gentle Deflection: The Tai Chi Battle Between Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law 不接茬的温柔：婆媳太极战
A Gentle Woman Who Won’t Take the Bait: The Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law’s Battle of Wits
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My Mr. Lin Doesn’t Talk 我的林先生不说话
[One couple + first love + love at first sight + mutual devotion and affection] [Warm, attentive special education teacher ✖ insecure, sensitive full-time writer] * After moving into her new home, Lin Zhaozhao always assumed her neighbor was a beautiful, kind-hearted young woman who loved life, until one evening she saw the handsome Lin Xingye step out of the elevator. One day, Lin Zhaozhao announced to her parents, “You two are going to have a son-in-law!” Another day, faced with her editor’s r
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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,
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Alluring 娇娆
[Venture Capital Tycoon x Mixed-Race Simultaneous Interpreter] [Secret Crush Turns to Love + Sweet Romance + Devoted to Each Other + Mutual Healing + Reunion After Years Apart + Winning Her Back] [Five-year age gap. She has a secret crush on him, but he’s the one who pursues her. A sweet romance.] Zhou Changwan secretly loved someone for six years, though she knew nothing about him and had never spoken to him. The boldest thing she ever did was muster the courage to defy her aunt and get into a
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Two Years of Marriage 两年婚姻
During their two years of marriage, he stopped at nothing to keep her imprisoned at his side. She once fought desperately to escape him, yet fate still brought her back. Three years after their divorce, she returns, heedless of the danger. Her longing began the moment she left her child. It never went away, only grew stronger with each passing day, until it became impossible to ignore. She has too much love and worry in her heart for her child. She comes back hoping to see the child, but he cold
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The Eight Dead Wives in My Late Wife’s Memoirs 亡妻回忆录里的八位亡妻
(The main female characters are loosely based on real people. Don’t talk to me about values: the author has loved purely and has been born, too.) (This book is purely a labor of love, written like a rambling diary as a form of repentance.) [Love triangle showdown + mildly yandere + replacement romance + coercive pursuit] “If you’re lucky enough to meet the love of your life, you must marry her, whatever the reason. Follow your heart, or you’ll spend your whole life trying to resolve that obsessi
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A Push from Behind the Scenes 背后，推一把
Lin Zhirou felt a tremendous force strike her from behind, sending her plunging into the abyss. When she opened her eyes again, she found that she no longer recognized herself. Her husband became her best friend’s, her savior developed an urge to possess her, and the person she saved forcibly bound himself to her.
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A Love Beyond My Control 情不得已
“I just wanted to have some fun with a man. Why do you have to take it seriously?” After suffering one romantic disappointment after another, Huìyan stops believing in love. By chance, she meets a man and thinks it will be nothing more than a fleeting affair. But they only sink deeper into a world of desire, until finally…
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Marrying Mr. Yu 嫁给喻先生
[The print edition of the same name is now available / The short drama of the same name is now streaming] [Cheerful artist vs. aloof, calculating professor] [Age gap + marriage before love + sweet romance + long-planned courtship + slow-burn love] Shi Sheng and Yu Wenzhou met on a blind date. But even on their wedding day, she still couldn't figure out what Yu Wenzhou saw in her. Since they didn't have much of a romantic foundation, Shi Sheng thought it would be good enough if they could at leas
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Claiming the Springtime All to Myself 独占春光
[Rugged, Testosterone-Fueled Hero, Size Difference, Sweet Romance, Mutual Firsts, Northern Man x Southern Girl] Seductive sweetheart x rugged veteran Wen Li and He Dong had nothing to do with each other, but by the rules of seniority, she had to call him Uncle Dong. The man was tall and imposing, with a stern face that made him look unapproachable. But he treated her wonderfully, and they got along well enough. Until she lost her head and kissed him by force. After that, everything began to spi
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The Awakening of a Middle-Aged Woman 一个中年女人的觉醒
[Family of Origin vs. the Fortress of Marriage] Chen Qingchen, an only child, is madly in love. She steals her household register and marries Lin Jiaxin, a man from a poor family who has made it on his own, unaware of what awaits her: a sharp-tongued mother-in-law who makes her life difficult, her father’s sudden death, her mother being forced out of the home, and underhanded attacks at work. When she hits rock bottom, two women become her lifelines. Her tough mother stands firmly behind her, wh
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