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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The Bride's Secret Identity Can No Longer Stay Hidden 替嫁新娘的马甲偷偷藏不住
[Underdog comeback + adored by everyone + domineering CEO + married first, fall in love later + livestreaming + secret identities] [Pure-hearted beauty with both brains and looks VS a cold yet devoted domineering CEO] As an adopted daughter, she was forced by her mother and elder sister to marry into the Huo family as a stand-in bride. A lonely orphan with no one to rely on and a comatose man who’d suffered a terrible accident: they really were a perfect match! But she never expected that... Aft
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My Wife Has Me on a Short Leash: Abstinent Uncle, Please Spoil Me 夫管严:禁欲大叔请宠我
Powerful Older Man in Control & Beautiful, Kind-Hearted Little Troublemaker Age gap, growing-up romance That snowy night, the sight of a tearful young girl standing beneath the steps at Xizi Bay became a pain Chen Zongsheng could never put into words. I lost her. I have to find her again. By then, Chen Zongsheng was forty, with power firmly in his hands. He was mature, refined, and irresistibly charming. Just as countless people were preparing to send women his way, someone else got there first
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Waiting for You to Fall Into My Arms 等你思思入怀
Sweet, outspoken Chen Sisi & her gentle, devoted Mr. Zhang Test Director & startup CEO of a chip company [Everyday urban life + sweet romance + devoted boyfriend + mutual commitment + slow and steady love] You work hard to build your business, and I’ll be right there by your side. You embrace life, and I’ll cherish and protect you. Chen Sisi and her Mr. Zhang fell in love at first sight in college. After graduation, they supported each other, lived life with optimism, and chased their dreams tog
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She Was Jilted on Their Wedding Registration Day, So She Remarried into a Powerful Family with Her Child 领证当天被悔婚,她带崽改嫁豪门
On the day they’re supposed to register their marriage, his mistress calls arrogantly: “I’m carrying a boy. Beichen isn’t coming to register with you!” She turns around at once, abandons the scumbag, and takes her daughter to marry a handsome man at the same Civil Affairs Bureau, where he’s also in desperate need of a marriage certificate. Lin Chuxia initially thinks Jiang Mohan is just an ordinary pediatric doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. To her surprise, he is the heir to the provincia
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Beneath the Form 形体之下
A story about a woman, for whom beauty is both an asset and a sin. Yu Jie is thirty-one, an aerobics instructor who believes hard work pays off. When a real estate tycoon offers her a 180,000-yuan bonus and a 300,000-yuan endorsement deal, she scoffs, resists, then convinces herself to “get just a little closer.” She doesn’t know the rules of that world: once you step inside, there are no boundaries. From prized mistress to businesswoman, from a broken marriage to having nothing at all, it tak
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A Wife's Secret: Love on a Rainy Night 妻瞒:爱在夜雨佳梦时
On his wife’s birthday, she shows up at the hospital with a strange old man. To investigate the secrets his wife is hiding, Cheng Fei embarks on an unconventional new life. The college senior he had a crush on, a clingy and scheming heiress, and his familiar yet mysterious wife: what lies ahead for Cheng Fei...?
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We Agreed to Date, Not Move In Together. Why Are You Taking This Seriously?! 说好只交往不同居,你咋玩真的!
[Single Female Lead] [Realistic] [Everyday Life] [Workplace] [Love-Hate Relationship] [No System] Gu Ming is an ordinary wage slave, but from the very start, his wealthy fiancée, Si Yi, brands him a gold digger. Keeping a secret he cannot explain, he makes a rash proposal in desperation, hoping to persuade her to agree to a deal. "We can date, but not live together. That's not asking too much, is it?" Instead, he gets nothing but mockery and disdain from her. "You? You think you're worthy?" But
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Two Years Into Our Marriage, My Husband’s Ex-Wife Came Back 婚后两年,老公的前妻回来了
When they got married, she tied the knot with Wen Yao despite the disapproving looks from almost everyone. Their married life was quiet and unremarkable, but they treated each other with respect. That was enough to silence those who had opposed the match at first. Ying Rong thought that a steady, unhurried kind of love was what romance meant, and that she and Wen Yao would grow old together in this gentle way. Then, two years into their marriage, Wen Yao's beautiful ex-wife came back. Only then
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The Year She Got Married, She Was Thirty-Three 结婚那年,她三十三岁
On the day Luo Chan went to register her marriage with her childhood friend, she was stabbed for no reason. Fresh out of the hospital, she showed up with hair that hadn't been washed in seven days, so greasy it could fry an egg and plastered tightly to her scalp. The staff eyed her suspiciously and repeatedly asked if she was mentally sound, until she showed them her CPA certificate. The legally issued marriage certificate was bright red. The photo of her on it was so ugly it was painful to look
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I Refused to Buy My Girlfriend a Handbag, So She Destroyed My 300,000-Yuan Fishing Rod 我不给女友买包,她毁我三十万鱼竿
I Wouldn't Buy My Girlfriend a Handbag, So She Destroyed My 300,000-Yuan Fishing Rod
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A Hotel Follow-Up Call Exposes My Wife’s Affair 酒店回访电话,揭露老婆出轨秘密
A hotel follow-up call exposes my wife's affair.
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The Irresistible Her 魅力迷人的她
I worked hard day in and day out for my family and my wife, never imagining she would cheat on me. Now that I've been made a cuckold, I'm going to rewrite my life and turn things around, so my wife can see that even without her, I can still have beautiful women by my side.
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My Daughter Says Her Mom Has Two Husbands 女儿说她妈妈有两个老公
My daughter says her mother has two husbands.
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I'm Good! Please Don't Hurt Me! 我很乖!请你不要来伤害!
[Contemporary fiction] [Ensemble of women] [Scheming] [Red and Black] [Playing dumb while taking down enemies] [Clear-eyed heroine] A must-read for anyone born in the seventies, eighties, or nineties! This is a northern take on The Red and the Black, set in a glittering world of fame and fortune where everyone wears a false mask. The heroine seems sweet and obedient on the surface, but she sees things more clearly than anyone! She can live without love, but not without money! She can put up with
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My Wife Put Arsenic in My Food and Called It a Diet Pill 老婆给我下砒霜,说是减肥药
My wife put arsenic in my food and said it was a diet pill.
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I Put My Childhood Bride Through College, and Now She Wants to Dump Me 供童养媳上大学,毕业就想甩夫君
[Completed] [Family-Loving, Patriotic Chaoshan, 1988] "I want to call off the engagement!" he said. "All right, then let's consummate the marriage." A rough-hewn country man from Chaozhou got himself a beautiful bride in one night, only for her to run away the next day! He chased her to a newspaper office in Guangzhou, the University of Munich in Germany, the Xi'an Mecha Research Institute, the Jiangmen Mecha Experimental Base, and the Dahao Subsea Tunnel Mecha Experimental Base! Human-machine n
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The Ex-Wife Strikes Back 进击的前妻
[Heart-wrenching romance · Independent and clear-headed heroine · Face-slapping and scumbag-revenge · Utterly satisfying] After a hysterical breakdown, Chen An finally comes to her senses. Her love and marriage are absurd, and all she has to show for them is her husband’s cold, indifferent gaze. This man, Zhou Wei, probably never loved her at all. Before deciding to divorce him, she tells herself: I’ll make a life of my own! When I love, I give my all without regret. When I stop loving, I walk a
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My Blind Date Called the Police, Claiming I Poisoned Her Coffee 相亲女报警,说我给她咖啡里下毒
My blind date called the police, claiming I poisoned her coffee
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I Confessed to My Female Coworker, but She Called Me a Repressed Creep 我表白女同事,却被她骂压抑男
I confessed my feelings to a female coworker, but she called me a repressed man
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Everyday Love 恋恋日常
The night before she was supposed to meet his parents, Xu Yuan’s boyfriend of six years broke up with her. In a fit of spite, she posted on her social feed: “Whoever can make it to my place by tomorrow morning, I’ll get engaged to him.” Chen Xingyu replied in an instant: “I’m in.” At eight the next morning, he showed up right on time with a huge bouquet of lilies: impeccably dressed in a suit, with a bright smile. Meanwhile, her ex, who had never once introduced her to his family in six years, d
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I Put on a White Man's Mask and Experienced a Day of Being Loved by Women 我换上了白男面具,体验被女人爱的一天
I put on a white man's mask and experienced a day of being loved by women.
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Listen to the South 听南
Ten years ago, Xia Tingnan was in her third year of middle school, while her next-door neighbor Xu Bingran was a sophomore in high school. Both the Xia and Xu parents were busy, so Xia Tingnan, who loved sleeping in, was put in Xu Bingran's care. Xu Bingran was disciplined, sensible, a good student with dreams, and known as “Xu Bingran of No. 1 High School.” Xia Tingnan was lazy, scatterbrained, a happy slacker with decent grades, and everyone's beloved “cutie.” And so began a four-year routine:
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My Daughter Won’t Eat Tofu, So I Got a Paternity Test 女儿不吃豆腐,我做了亲子鉴定
My daughter won’t eat tofu, so I got a paternity test
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Family, Marriage, Love 家庭.婚姻.爱
Family, Marriage, Love
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Starlight over North City 北城有星光
The first time they met, she was a doctor and he was a wounded fugitive. He held her scalpel against her fair throat, his voice cold and sharp. “It’s dangerous for a woman to carry a knife!” The next time they met, she cornered him and tugged at his clothes. He smiled seductively, his voice low. “In such a hurry, Miss Mo? Can’t even wait until we get to the room?” She glared at him. “I’m a doctor. I need to examine your wound!” Still as cocky as ever, he said, “And what will Dr. Mo use to examin
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White Moonlight Amid the Sound of the Tides 在潮声里的白月光
The White Moonlight in the Sound of the Tide
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Investigating My Master’s Wife in America 去美国调查师娘
Go to America to investigate my master’s wife
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On the Brink of Divorce 走在离婚的边缘
A friendly reminder: This is a work of realist fiction, and many readers may recognize people they know in it. Please enjoy the story, but don’t assume it’s about you! People say marriage is the grave of love, yet so many still rush toward it. The paths love can take are painfully few: either you part ways and become strangers, or you enter the marital home and stay together for life. When passion fades and love turns into familial affection, marriage becomes the daily routine of meals and chore
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Forbidden Love, Buried Before My Daughter's Wedding 禁忌之恋,葬在女儿婚礼前
Forbidden Love, Buried Before My Daughter's Wedding
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She Married the Village Stone Statue; It Turns Out I Was Just Too Ignorant 她嫁给了村里的石像,原来是我太无知
She married the stone statue in the village. It turned out I was just too ignorant.
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Why Are My Friends Like This? 朋友们为何这样
Why does turning thirty feel like a raging beast, frightening all her friends so much? The passage of time and the weight of responsibility, under the combined pressures of traditional culture and modern society, have loaded the age of thirty with far too many expectations. What changes in the lives of three close friends before they turn thirty? Li Xinke wants sincere love. Taotao wants a life of material abundance. Xiao An wants both love and material comfort, so she starts imitating the lives
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The Love Lives of Young Men and Women 年轻男女的那点事
The Things Young Men and Women Get Up To
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After Ten Years of Marriage, I Refuse to Be Invisible at Home Anymore 结婚十年,我不再做家里的透明人
After Ten Years of Marriage, I Refuse to Be Invisible at Home Anymore
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Village Blossoms 小村花事
A lot of things that shattered our worldview happened in our village. A lot of strange events that science couldn’t explain happened, too. Our village once had seventy-two temples, and every single one had an unbelievable story of its own. [This book is extremely shocking. Read with caution.]
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Those Loves of Our Youth 年轻时的那些情
Those Feelings from Our Youth
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Marriage Partners 结婚合伙人
Yang Wentao wants to get married, so he goes to a matchmaking session and receives a document titled “Marriage Project Cooperation Plan.” It’s full of wild ideas: building a marriage without relying on love, using a game-like points system to divide housework, and treating family members as business partners or colleagues... As project partners, each party has their own responsibilities and gets what they need. They work together on what they have in common, while continuing to grow as individua
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Lost in Marriage: The Stranger in My Bed 婚姻迷途,枕边的陌生人
It had started out as an ordinary day. After finishing his work at the office, he came home early. His wedding anniversary with his wife was just a few days away, and he planned to buy her some gifts and surprise her. Hehe...
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My Online Boyfriend Is Getting Married 我的网恋男友要结婚了
My Online Boyfriend Is Getting Married
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The Summer After the College Entrance Exam, I Learned My First Lesson in Growing Up 高考完的这个暑假,我上了人生成长的第一课
That summer after the college entrance exams, I learned my first lesson in growing up.
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This Is Where It Ends 到此为止
[Angst-heavy story. Read with caution. The male lead is not chaste.] “Ru Yi, when you act like this, it makes me think you still can’t let go of me.” All the pain and torment must have begun with those words. Or perhaps it was “You haven’t been able to forget me, Ru Yi.” Much later, when Ru Yi thought back on her tangled history with Pei Shiyu, that was what she believed. He would remember the scent from deep in his memories, carried on a gentle breeze, but he wouldn’t remember how much he h
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Breaking Free 逃离束缚
Su Yu and Tang Yilan met on a blind date arranged by their university professor. After spending some time together, they both decided they liked each other, so they went to meet each other’s parents. At first, everything seemed to go smoothly, but after they got married, they argued over whether to rent a place of their own. Su Yu also has an older brother, Su Lun, who has been married to Zhao Yanan for years, but still has no children of his own. After finally getting married, Tang Yilan reali
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After Three and a Half Months Without Marital Relations, I Smelled Gardenias in His Hair 三个半月无夫妻生活,我在他头发上闻到了栀子花香
We Haven't Been Intimate in Three and a Half Months, Yet I Smelled Gardenias in His Hair
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Confessions of a Romance Scam Master: My First Marriage 【杀猪盘大师】自述初婚经历
[Based on Real Life | A Cross-Section of Society | Mortgages and Bride Price | First Person] Zang Yu: “You’re selling your daughter by demanding a bride price!” Jiang Qian: “If there’s no bride price, we’re breaking up!” Should there be a bride price? Can it ensure a happy marriage? With these questions shared by people today in mind, I tell the true story of my first marriage in the first person. The first half is filled with the many faces of marriage under the weight of mortgages and bride p
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Reborn, I Personally Pushed My Childhood Friend Away 重生后,我亲手推开了我的青梅
After Being Reborn, I Personally Pushed My Childhood Friend Away
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After Divorce, I Unlocked a God-Tier Goddess Conquest System 离婚后开启神级女神攻略系统
Tomato Originals + Urban Fantasy + System + Urban Romance After Lin Feng gets divorced and kicked out of his home, he steps out of the villa and unexpectedly unlocks the Goddess System. What? Fail a System mission and I’ll be punished? No way I’m letting that happen. What? Complete a mission and I’ll get a god-tier skill? Then I’ll give it everything I’ve got. From then on, he masters god-tier skills, builds a successful business, wins the hearts of goddesses, and starts a spectacular new life.
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A Heart-Pounding Marriage 怦然婚动
[Everyday life + Marriage Before Love + mutual devotion] Childhood friends Shatang and Shen Jingmo were both still single as they neared thirty. With their families playing matchmaker, they got married. On the day they registered their marriage, while they were having their full-body checkups, Shatang cornered Shen Jingmo against the wall. “Dr. Shen, would you like me to examine you now, or tonight?” The man trapped against the wall raised his brows slightly and replied in a husky voice, “Now is
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After My Husband Died, I Became Their Prey 老公死后,我成了他们的猎物目标
After My Husband Died, I Became Their Prey
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A Glimmer of Warmth 微光生暖意
Workplace x romance and marriage x entrepreneurship x women's growth Heartbroken, Shi Weiwei arrived with her suitcase in the city her older sister had described as full of warmth and kindness. Seeing a glimmer of light was like seeing hope. At the Glimmer Apartments, Shi Weiwei met Su Di, who was just starting a business; Aunt Yang, who had been divorced by her husband at fifty; Liang Jiao, who ran a small snack shop; and Zhu Zhu, Zhao Qianyi, and others who had also come out to make their way
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Working in Dongguan: Sharing a Rental with Fellow Hometown Folks 东莞打工记之老乡合租篇
Working in Dongguan: Sharing an Apartment with Fellow Hometown Folks
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The Day I Dropped Dead, I Stole Judge Cui's Brush from Black Impermanence 猝死当天,我抢了黑无常的判官笔
The Day I Dropped Dead, I Stole the Black Impermanence's Judge's Brush
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