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 Twin Cities in Disguise 双城假面
(Long-distance relationship + married couple + betrayal) Married for seven years, living apart for five. By day, they are a loving couple who video-call each other, but in the stillness of the night, they become prisoners of their own desires. When betrayal crosses the line from emotional to physical, their carefully worn masks are torn to shreds...
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- 902 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 4.1kReads8.5Score200Shelves
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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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- 904 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 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 905 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 70Reads—Score—Shelves
- 906 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. 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 907 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 157Reads—Score—Shelves
- 908 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 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 909 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 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 910 The Goddess Is Pregnant, So I Went to Help Her Through It 女神怀孕了，我去帮忙养胎 The Goddess Is Pregnant, So I Went to Help Her Through It 232Reads—Score—Shelves
- 911 My Landlady Is Ten Years Older Than Me 我的房东姐姐比我大十岁 My Landlady Is Ten Years Older Than Me 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 912 Reborn, I Watched My Family Fall Apart 重生后，我看着自己家家破人亡 After being reborn, I watched my family fall apart and die. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 913 Reborn to Study Medicine, My Wife from My Previous Life Becomes a Simp 重生学医，前世妻子成舔狗 Reborn to Study Medicine, My Wife from My Past Life Becomes a Devoted Follower 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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Marriage: A Promise to Protect 婚姻，守护
Fang Ying and Liu Fan were the golden couple in everyone’s eyes back when they were students. Their marriage was even more enviable, but once they settled into the daily grind of meals and household chores, how could everything possibly go smoothly...?
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- 915 You Broke Up With Me for Being Poor, So Why Are You Crying and Begging Me Now? 嫌我穷提分手，转头你哭着求我？ You dumped me for being poor, and now you come crying and begging me? 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 916 Transmigrating to Ancient Times, I Lead My Tribe to Greatness 穿越远古，我带领部落崛起 I Transmigrated to Prehistoric Times and Led My Tribe to Rise 34Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Do 我愿意
Ding Lan felt that her life had been terribly unlucky, and she'd rather spend the rest of it alone. Marriage and love weren't requirements for her life. She lived alone on a dark, desolate island, guarding the shattered remains of her life. Until Chi Yunsheng broke through her defenses and gave her a sense of security. At last, the migratory bird had found a tree where it could stay.
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- 918 The Female CEO Fell for Me at My Interview, Then Became My Stepmother 面试那天被女总裁看上，结果她成了我后妈 The Female CEO Took a Liking to Me at My Interview, and Then She Became My Stepmother 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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Trial Marriage 试用期夫妻
Two urbanites, shaped by their circumstances, age, and parents’ pressure to marry, embark on the road to blind dates and marriage. Their marry-first, fall-in-love-later, fast-food-style married life brings unexpected changes. They try out a couples’ course together. There’s no way he won’t fall for him.
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Do Women Really Have to Quit Their Jobs to Stay Home and Have Children? 女性就一定要辞职在家生孩子吗？
Do women really have to quit their jobs, stay home, and have children?
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At Thirty-Six, I’m Sorry, I Ruined Everything 三十六岁，抱歉，我全搞砸了
At thirty-six, I had become a complete joke. I’d been with my girlfriend, Lin Xue, for sixteen years. She stayed by my side as we struggled up from nothing until I became head of sales at my company, yet I came to resent her for growing old and being a nag. The night I got drunk at a business dinner, she clutched the pregnancy test she’d just taken and tried to talk to me about getting married. I found her annoying and shoved her to the ground. The back of her head struck the edge of the coffee
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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The Second Marriage 第二婚
Kang Shuting was raised by others from childhood. There are three sisters with three different surnames, and she is the least favored, the middle child. People starved of love are either fantasizing about finding someone to love, or fantasizing about being loved. At 35, after being passed over by one match after another, she dreams of spending a passionate night with a man she's meeting for only the second time. Could this new flutter in her heart be another false alarm? What should she do? He's
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Living Together in Marriage 婚姻里的共居
For women, marriage is like a high-stakes gamble with no certain outcome. They stake their youth and surrender their fate, hoping luck will be on their side. No one can say what they’ll end up with: a “war without gunfire” full of hidden hurts, a metamorphosis like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, or the gentle, unremarkable flow of days worn smooth by time. From two people to a family of four, through the endless cycle of meals and changing seasons, life beneath one roof is wrapped in swee
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A Sour Story for Fujoshi 腐女酸文
Hello, everyone. I’m the author of this book, and also its protagonist: Yatou. This book tells the true story of my life. Every word comes from my own experience; nothing is fabricated or plagiarized. Over the years, I’ve weathered countless ups and downs and struggled through one storm after another. To make it this far feels like a hard-won miracle. Many people wonder about the meaning of the title, The Bitter Ramblings of a Fudanshi. It’s really a reflection of the first half of my life: “
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I Accidentally Ended Up Getting a Marriage License with a Powerful CEO 误打误撞和豪门总裁领了证
Xia Xizhen took a photo of her blind date to the meeting, only to be dragged off to register their marriage instead. She thought they would live a simple life, like any ordinary family. But one problem after another soon came along. On the very first day after they registered, Shang Yiming demanded, “Who sent you?” Her mother-in-law gave her an ultimatum: have a child within three months or get out. Later, Xia Xizhen realized everything had been wrong from the start. She asked for a divorce, hop
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- 927 On Our Blind Date, the Heir to a Wealthy Family Took Me to Register Our Marriage 相亲当天，豪门继承人拉着我领证 [Sweet romance + Marriage Before Love + male lead pretends to be a pig to eat the tiger] On the day of her blind date, Hai Tong impulsively married a stranger. She thought married life would be ordinary and built on mutual respect. Instead, her new husband turned out to be a clingy human piece of glue. What surprised her most was that whenever she ran into trouble, he would step in and resolve everything with ease. Whenever she asked about it, he always said he was just lucky, until one day she 173.9kReads9.5Score6.7kShelves
- 928 Possessing Jiang Xi 佔有姜西 [One-on-One Sweet Romance + Two Strong Leads + PDA-Filled Romance + Mutual Devotion] A job interview at a bar leads two people with nothing in common to meet for the first time. One is a private tutor, the other a cold-faced King of Hell. One does the flirting, the other does the pampering. Later, no one could have guessed that the elegant, aloof Qin Zhan would turn into a clingy burr. Their everyday life after getting together is even too much to watch... “Wifey...” “Hmm?” “Could you comfort me 48.6kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
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The In-Laws' Web of Schemes 婆家局中局
Tang Guo, the heroine, and Lu Ziming, the hero, marry just three months after meeting. Not long after the wedding, it comes to light that Lu Ziming owes 500,000 yuan in online loans. When his mother learns what happened, her first response is to demand that Tang Guo divorce Lu Ziming and to take their property deed. Everyone else reacts differently, each with their own agenda. It turns out that behind the facade of a loving family lie nothing but schemes and calculations. Tang Guo stands by Lu Z
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- 930 Keep It Up and I’ll Spoil You 再作就宠你 [Marriage first, love later + devoted husband] (A mad, theatrical, scheming male lead vs. a cold, restrained, obsessive female lead) She works for Second Young Master Xiao. Position: Wife. Compensation: Salary + year-end bonus, paid vacation, and full benefits. Job duties: Handle all tasks that fall within the scope of a wife’s work, excluding sleeping together. She’s worked diligently for four years. She plans to stay until the contract expires, then find a new boss. But Second Young Master Xia 1.1kReads9.2Score100Shelves
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My Scumbag Husband 渣男老公
New clothes are better than old, but old friends are better than new. Peng Chaoyang, you and I were in love, and I was even carrying your baby. But when your first love, who had been out of touch for years, returned from abroad to mourn, you were afraid of losing her again. Without a moment’s hesitation, you registered your marriage with her and transferred all your love to your lover. Luckily, I had a wealthy grandmother by my side, Mr. Peng’s own grandmother, who supported me with love and mon
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The Biggest Hothead in Officialdom 官场第一愣头青
In the system, having powerful connections can provide welcome shelter. But sometimes, leaning on a powerful patron means being treated like a puppet, manipulated and controlled by others... Jiang Zhen initially refused to be controlled, but gradually changed his mind. He came to understand that Elder Xu's influence over him wasn't about control, but about guiding him as a person, beyond the rules of institutions and the conventions of the underworld. In the end, he deeply understood the career-
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The 1990s: A Business Empire Built from Five Thousand 90年代：五千起步的商业帝国
[Stock Trading + Ancient Wisdom + Comeback + Entrepreneurship + Opportunities of the Era + Romance] In 1997, on the eve of the handover, Lin Tiebo entered the stock market at its peak with 5,000 yuan in his pocket. It was all the money he had, and his only hope of finding Xiaomei. The first time he made a move, people laughed at him in public for “not even understanding the rules.” Yet this outsider used ancient wisdom from works like the Biographies of Merchants to buy precisely at the bottom a
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After the Divorce, My First Love and Ex-Boyfriend Won't Leave Me Alone 离婚后，初恋前男友上蹿又下跳
Xu Yuanchun's first marriage lasted only a year and a half. Because she was infertile. It's no big deal. Infertility isn't life-threatening, and even after her divorce, she can still live freely. But as soon as the divorce was final, Feng Jianqiu, her ex-boyfriend and first love, came shamelessly crawling back, making a scene at every turn. She really had no idea what game he was trying to play. Whatever. She might as well slap him first. · Two ordinary people in their thirties stumble through a
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Chronicle of a Buried Cat 葬猫记
[Realistic fiction + adultery + a cast of villains] Su Yu’s pet cat of six years dies under mysterious circumstances. At the farewell ceremony, her husband, Li Jiawen, joins forces with a “pet funeral director” to cover up the cause of the cat’s death. Su Yu secretly investigates, only to discover the shameful secrets her husband has been hiding. A first love whose identity is too shameful to reveal, a carefully arranged stand-in, malicious people close at hand, and a revenge-seeker lurking in t
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Walking Toward the Light 逐光而行
Li Tongguang is a full-time housewife, rejected by her husband and raising a daughter with a congenital illness. She spends her days rushing from one task to another, and has somehow ended up living a life as bitter as a weed. Her husband has a mistress? It doesn’t matter. A few more wrinkles have appeared on her face? That doesn’t matter either. She only cares about her child. If her daughter’s illness can be cured, she would gladly give up thirty years of her own life. Fortunately, fate takes
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- 937 A Marriage Measured in Years 以年为单位的婚姻 A middle-aged couple with elders to care for and children to raise: Li Donghuai’s ambiguous relationship with another woman tears apart an already fragile marriage. Tan Limin gives up on her hopes and fantasies about marriage and starts a new business. Their daughter is a top student, while their son is a grade-schooler who struggles academically. An old car they traded in lands them in a mandatory cooling-off period before their divorce. In the end, after she stops expecting marriage to last fo 191Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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We Agreed to Be DINKs, But My Husband Showed Up with His Pregnant Mistress and Her Child. I Smiled and Gathered Evidence 说好的丁克，老公却带怀孕的2+1上门，我微笑取证
We Agreed to Be Child-Free, but My Husband Showed Up with His Pregnant Side Piece. I Smiled and Gathered Evidence
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A Cherished Silver Bracelet 珍藏一条银手链
As children, Zhang Min and Guo Tingting accidentally fell into the river while playing by the bank. Li Zewen rescued them. Years later, after graduating from college, Li Zewen became their teacher. Due to family circumstances, Zhang Min dropped out of high school in her second year and went to work. Years later, she became a sales representative at a valve factory, while Guo Tingting became a nurse at the county hospital. To their surprise, Li Zewen became the man her best friend was set up with
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A 200,000-Yuan Bride Price to Marry a Construction Worker 二十万彩礼，嫁给工地男
[The rating has only just opened and will rise] [Dowry Controversy] + [A Marriage Full of Misery] + [Multiple Male Leads] + [A Tense Push and Pull] + [Desperate, Obsessive Love] (Not reborn, not transmigrated, no golden finger) After more than six years of working, He Sui still hadn't paid off her online loans. Instead, her debt kept growing. Every New Year, her father nagged her about getting married until she was numb to it. Finally, He Sui steeled herself and got married. She had her own litt
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Quick Transmigration: This Time, I Refuse to Be a Jerk! 快穿：这一世，拒绝当渣男！
(Quick transmigration / no fixed couple / fictional setting / pocket dimension / scumbag redemption) 1. An honest man in ancient times 2. An Eighties simp 3. A victim of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war 4. A dutiful son 5. A gambling addict 6. A golden phoenix who flies out of the mountains 7. An educated youth sent to the countryside 8. A younger sister living with her parents …
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There’s Someone I Like 有喜欢的人
Zhou Jinchuan: I’d stopped believing in pure love, until you came along. Lin Weici: I’ve always firmly believed that you are love itself. I’ve never wavered.
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The Husband Swap 换夫记
Xue Mingming married simply because she'd reached the right age, only to discover that her husband wasn't the right person for her. She settled into a life that felt like going through the motions. Then she crossed paths with Nie Qiyuan, a former high school classmate whose career was on the brink of bankruptcy and whose marriage was hanging by a thread, though neither recognized the other. How should these two married, middle-aged people handle their work, their lives, and their feelings??? A b
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My Husband Held a Knife to My Throat on Our Wedding Anniversary 结婚纪念日丈夫用刀抵住我脖子
“On our third wedding anniversary, he held a knife to my throat in the Kizil Caves. ‘Hand over the phone Chen Zhongyun gave you.’ I smashed the phone and turned around to report all the evidence of his embezzlement, affairs, and murders. To get the evidence, he rammed me with his car, while his men dragged my mother into a secret detention ward...” An independent woman, a career professional, neither saintly nor submissive. She gets her scumbag husband sent to prison, then finds a younger collea
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