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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Li Yunxian’s Microfiction Collection 李昀鲜微小说集
The famous writer Wang Meng believes that flash fiction is a kind of sensitivity: it captures a novel in a single point, an image, a contrast, an exclamation, or a fleeting moment, revealing a flash of wisdom, a touch of beauty, a thought-provoking scene, or a fresh idea.
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- 152 Reborn Half an Hour Before My Daughter’s Death 重生在女儿死前半小时 Reborn Half an Hour Before My Daughter's Death 142Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Marriage of Spies 婚战谍中谍
This book contains toxic material. Readers who are not emotionally mature should read it with a guardian. Married readers should read it alone while their spouses are away. This story is entirely fictional, and all events are dramatized for the plot. Please don’t compare them to your own experiences, and remember to cultivate sound values, a healthy outlook on life, and a proper worldview.
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- 154 My Whole Family Are Masters of the Mystical Arts, but I'm a Materialist 全家玄门大佬,而我唯物主义 My Whole Family Are Masters of the Mystical Arts, but I'm a Materialist 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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Half a Month 月半
(Also known as The Waxing and Waning) Life offers no lucky breaks, and it is never gentle with anyone. Only when we learn to see our flaws can we hold on to wholeness. May we all stand in the sunlight and live surrounded by warmth. This is a slow-paced story grounded in reality. Bring your heart along, and let’s sit down and talk at our own pace.
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- 156 After a Blind Date with a Stunning Beauty, I Became a Dad Without Any Pain 和大美女相亲后,我无痛当爹 After a Blind Date with a Gorgeous Woman, I Became a Dad Without the Pain 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 I Made My Noisy Mother-in-Law Work the Night Shift 我让噪音婆婆去上夜班 I Made My Noisy Mother-in-Law Work the Night Shift 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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Tales of the Northeast: Women Who Climbed Over the High Walls of Grand Estates 东北往事之翻过深宅高墙的女人们
In 1946, on the black soil of Northeast China, Chunxiang, daughter of tenant farmer Wang Mazi, marries Liu Laogen, the landlord's son. Her father receives several acres of good farmland and dozens of silver dollars as a handsome betrothal gift. She thinks she has married into wealth and will live a secure life as a young madam, but Liu Laogen has a hidden ailment, and their marriage proves to be one in name only. Chunxiang is determined to escape the prison that has trapped her, but her greedy f
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My Husband Wants Me to Donate Bone Marrow to My Stepson 老公让我给继子捐骨髓
My Husband Asked Me to Donate Bone Marrow to My Stepson
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- 160 My 58-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Is Pregnant with a Posthumous Child 58岁高龄的婆婆怀上了遗腹子 My 58-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Is Pregnant with a Posthumous Child —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 On My Wedding Night, I Caught My Husband and His Best Friend in a Secret 新婚夜,我撞见老公和他好兄弟的秘密 On Our Wedding Night, I Caught My Husband and His Best Friend in a Secret 162Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ups and Downs of Marriage 婚姻那些事儿
"Those Things About Marriage" tells the story of Jiang Xiaozhi and Cheng Yi, college sweethearts who plan to marry after graduation. But when their parents meet, disagreements over the bride price and dowry sour the occasion. The couple decides to have a bare-bones wedding with neither, and secretly registers their marriage. Meanwhile, Jiang Xiaozhi’s friend Su Yang, who has been married for only six months, is about to divorce her husband, Xia Yin. Jiang Xiaozhi discovers she is pregnant, and h
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Where the Wind Leaves Its Trace, Beyond the White Line 风过留痕,白线之外
[Not a power fantasy, no System, realistic, action psychology, everyday mysteries] Bailing first met Chen Feng at a dinner her younger sister had arranged at the last minute. He was neat-looking and impeccably mannered, even keeping a carefully measured distance whenever he came close. But she soon realized this "temporary boyfriend" was no ordinary man. When she was hurt, he would pull his hand back. When she was wary, he would take half a step away. He always left every choice up to her, yet w
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- 164 After My Mother-in-Law Secretly Posted My Prenatal Test Results 婆婆偷晒孕检单后 After My Mother-in-Law Secretly Posted My Prenatal Checkup Results 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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Middle-Aged and Alone, With No One to Lean On 人到中年,无人可依
A middle-aged couple have no sex life and barely communicate. With elderly parents to care for and children to raise, they hit a dead end at work and struggle through a life full of endless chores. Then suddenly, an unforeseen and terrifying crisis sweeps them into a storm. What should they do next? Can they keep going? How can they turn things around?
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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- 167 My Husband Traded My Luck to Shield His First Love from Disaster 老公换我气运给他初恋挡灾 My Husband Traded My Good Fortune to Shield His First Love from Disaster 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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Perfectly Complementary 极致互补
[Short drama now streaming] [Emotion-led brand strategist Zhang Xinbei × rational investor Gao Jiawei] Modern romance / cerebral love / workplace maneuvering / mature push and pull A power couple who complement each other · One-on-one · Mutual salvation · (Those who mind a non-virgin heroine should proceed with caution. No rivalry between women, just a normal romance with sound values.) * She is a top-tier brand strategist who breaks through by understanding human nature; he is a capital markets
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During the Cooling-Off Period After Our Divorce, My Straight-Laced Husband Suddenly Gets It 离婚冷静期,直男老公突然开窍了
[Deputy director in government × dermatologist] [Marriage first, love later, winning her back, age gap, sweetness toggles between all sugar, half sugar, three-tenths sugar, and sugar-free] After marrying Director Zhou, who believes rules are more important than anything, Chen Jiayi found herself living a very unusual married life: She had to file a report for everything, including sleeping, eating, and watching short dramas. She was done with this life. She dragged Zhou Jingcheng to get a divorc
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A Flawed Upbringing 养成偏差
Cheng Huaizhou, the youngest partner at Maxwell Consulting, an industry benchmark and a business decision-maker who puts reason above all else. Ruan Chaoyang, a rookie who stumbled into consulting after being laid off, with unconventional instincts and energy to spare. His perfect algorithms and her knack for breaking the rules clash again and again. In this contest between reason and emotion, falling in love is the most beautiful deviation in the data. A proud mentor and a sunny girl who always
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- 171 How Long Will You Love Me? 你会爱我多久 How Long Will You Love Me tells the story of Xu Nanqiao and her first love, Qin Shiyue, who unexpectedly meet again many years later. Once high school sweethearts, they parted ways because of youthful insecurity and misunderstandings. Years later, Xu Nanqiao has become a simultaneous interpreter, while Qin Shiyue is a successful patent lawyer. When they reunite at work, old regrets and unresolved feelings resurface. Faced with past misunderstandings and the complications of the present, can they 813Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 172 Thirty-Six Months of Marriage 婚后三十六个月 36 Months of Marriage tells the story of three post-80s women, Jin Cancan, Jiang Yiduo, and Du Juan, as they grow from naive, inexperienced girls into wives, daughters-in-law, and mothers. By the thirty-sixth month of marriage, they have faced plenty of hardship. Throughout it all, they keep changing and adapting. Their experiences help them grow, while the conflicts and pain of everyday life give them the courage to turn a terrible hand in marriage into the best one possible. As the “seven-year 929Reads9.4Score110Shelves
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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- 174 Chinese-Style Remarriage 中国式再婚 [Rekindled love + divorce and remarriage + married life + fated romance] It’s not that we like getting divorced. Reality simply leaves us with too many helpless choices. It’s not that we want to remarry. Everyone has the right to seek happiness again. This is the story of three men who divorce and marry again. These darkly comic romantic comedies reveal the truth about remarriage in China: Life isn’t somewhere else, it’s with someone else; the faraway place is out of reach, but home is within re 215Reads9.1Score—Shelves
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After I Learned Her Secret, She Took Me to the Civil Affairs Bureau 我知道她的秘密后,她却带我去了民政局
After I Learned Her Secret, She Took Me to the Civil Affairs Bureau
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- 176 Adoption into the Family 过继 This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable... 29.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 177 Journey West 此去西行 Also known as Journey to the West in the Military. This novella explores marriage, love, faith, character, filial piety, perseverance, and development. Through the story of a young man from the countryside who joins the army and endures a half lifetime of hardships as he grows up in western China, along with his tangled relationships with three women, the novel reveals the profound impact of national policies on people's faith, livelihoods, love and marriage, childbearing, elder care, and the ru 206Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Wife's Lies 我妻子的谎言
The warmth of their newlywed days had barely faded when the lie hidden beneath their marriage certificate came crashing down on Shu Wang. The lovely wife he doted on was none other than the woman his childhood friend Qin Yiming had kept hidden away three years ago. His wife kept the past secret, stumbling over her words and showing no sense of boundaries. Qin Yiming pressed him at every turn, refusing to let go. All the tenderness vanished from Shu Wang's eyes. "After everything you two hid f
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- 179 Childhood Sweethearts: A Love Story 青梅竹马的爱情(小小说原创) A Childhood Sweethearts Romance (Original Novella) 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 The Night Before Yu Manli Died 余曼丽死前的那晚 The Night Before Yu Manli Died 765Reads—Score—Shelves
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What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛
Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi
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Fragrance Filling the Hall (Two-Volume Set) 芬芳满堂(全二册)
When two fierce opponents meet, the braver one wins. She saves her tenderness for the one she loves! On a camping trip, all she wanted was to roast some wild lily bulbs for dessert. She never dreamed Mr. Tang was allergic to lilies. One emergency hospitalization later, he was clinging to her and refusing to let go? When she opened a dessert shop, he sent people to buy up everything. When she went hiking, he followed her there to poach her for his company. He followed her everywhere, and not only
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- 183 How to Deal with Annoying Neighbors... 遇到扰人的邻居,就这样办…… This is how to deal with a troublesome neighbor... 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶,我回农村混得风生水起
Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was
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- 185 Love Rekindled 复情 On the second day of my husband’s business trip, I drove to a nearby city and followed him. There, I witnessed the most shocking scene of my life. Beneath an apartment building dozens of stories tall, my husband stepped out of his white Mercedes and smiled as he opened his arms. Just then, a little girl in a red dress and tiny red leather shoes, looking like a doll, ran toward him and shouted, “Daddy!” Watching the happy family of three in the distance, I gripped the steering wheel. Only thre 8.2kReads8.9Score840Shelves
- 186 My Two-Faced Princess Consort 我的双面王妃 My Two-Faced Princess 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Flirtatious Player 暧昧玩家 Flirtatious Player —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 After I Turned Away, I Became a Sensation in the Legal World 转身之后,我在律圈爆火 [Top-tier legal world × rising financial star × equally matched leads who choose each other × growth through betrayal × urban power fantasy] For ten years, capital has reshaped Huating, while undercurrents swirl through the legal world. Beneath the glittering nightlife, unseen battles for power are being fought. Qin Suisui is a beautiful, unhinged lawyer who clawed her way up from an ordinary family. With no connections, no backing, and no faith in fate, she believes only in her own hard-earne 12.5kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
- 189 The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 对门的离异邻居 The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 1kReads—Score—Shelves
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My Dear Mrs. Yi, Let Me Spoil You 我的伊太太,我来宠
[Complete] Wen Luoyi was abandoned by her biological parents as a child and later adopted, but she was never truly loved. After struggling all the way to college graduation and working hard to earn money, she still found herself being hurt by them from time to time… Then Zhou Yuheng came into her life. To her, he was like a beam of light in the darkness, illuminating her whole world~ Wen Luoyi cried and said, “You’re wonderful, but I’m not good enough for you!” Zhou Yuheng wiped the tears f
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- 191 Mrs. Shen, Please Guide Me for the Rest of My Life 沈太太,余生请多指教 [The score just came in and will rise later, so don't miss out!] Two strangers came together after being introduced on a blind date. They thought they would simply go on living together with mutual respect. But one day, one of them asked, “Who says we're only being polite to each other?” It turned out I wasn't the only one who had fallen in love. Both leads are each other's first and only love, with no old flame in the picture. A marriage-first, love-later story about two people who didn't care 2.8kReads8.7Score235Shelves
- 192 Trapped in My Boss’s Office... 被困上司办公室后…… After Getting Trapped in My Boss's Office... 480Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Shanghai Girl Raised on Rice Soup 上海吃泡饭长大的小囡
After Shanghai Porridge, the author, who writes in the Shanghai dialect, has written another full-length novel in Shanghai dialect about life in Shanghai’s alleyways. It tells of the discovery and destruction of the Li family’s “heirloom treasure.” As people vie for the “rare treasure,” the novel reveals the many faces of life: some seize what they want by cunning and force; some are consumed by jealousy and covetousness; some are calculating, while others are calm as still water; some even sink
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- 194 After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend's Scam 领证后,我戳破了女友骗局 After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend’s Scam 102Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Collection of Super-Short, Sweet Romances 超短篇小甜文合集
All are sweet little stories! Each one is a standalone, super-short tale. Straightforward romance, no misunderstandings, quick progress, and quick endings. Story One: A tree finds his companion vine [Zhu Yan x Yue Zhiteng] Story Two: The man fought over by a rich woman and a rich young man [Tao Zhuo x Chen Shu] Story Three: A mountain spirit obsessed with human phones and a human who fall for each other [Lin Fenfen x Lu Yuan] Story Four: A severely lopsided student reborn in her third year of mi
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- 196 Love in Badminton Season 在羽毛球时节,恋爱 (Just received a rating, so there aren’t many votes yet) [One-on-one sweet romance + ordinary working-stiff life and love + reunion after a long separation + mutual devotion + slow and steady love] [Half everyday romance, half working-stiff life] The theme of this story: Love is just as important as work. Even if you’re a working stiff, you should find a sense of purpose in yourself through all the trials and tribulations. Working stiffs deserve love too!! People say the secret to a good re 112Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 197 After Prison, I Picked Up a CEO 出狱后,捡漏一个总裁 After Getting Out of Prison, I Stumbled Upon a CEO 5.1kReads—Score101Shelves
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The Beauty Behind the Mask 伪面佳人
The Fair Lady Behind the Mask
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- 199 A Sweet Little Blind Date Romance 相亲小甜文 A Sweet Little Blind Date Romance 448Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Single Mother’s Desperate Counterattack 单亲妈妈的绝地反杀
We dated for eight years and were married for ten. We had a happy life and a bright future ahead of us. Then he suddenly asked for a divorce. I clung to his arm and begged him to stay, but he shook me off and walked away without a second thought. I was devastated. Two years later, I turned the tables and won him back. It seemed our happy life had begun again, but my revenge was only just getting started.
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