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A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人
This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute
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Worldly Breezes and the Phoenix's Song 人间风露与凤鸣
A sorrowful song of women’s destinies spanning nearly a century, and an epic family saga filled with tears, blood, and tenderness. In the early years of the Republic of China, Wang Jingyi, eldest daughter of the Wang family, was born in Xijian Village, among the loess plateaus of northwestern Shanxi. She was blessed with “lucky ears” that everyone praised, but she had no idea that this so-called good fortune would pull her along like a thread, leaving her adrift in the era’s raging torrents, po
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Back to the 1970s: A Village Girl's Path Beyond the World 重回七零年代，村女的破界之路
[Elderly woman + reborn + 1970s + dumping a scumbag + no romance + family life + spatial storage] After being angered to death at the age of seventy, Zhou Qiuying is reborn in 1975. In 1975 in her previous life, Zhou Qiuying was an eighteen-year-old country girl. She gave up her secure job as an elementary school teacher to marry an educated youth sent down to the countryside. In return, her husband cruelly abandoned her after passing the college entrance exam, and her loved ones died tragical
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- 54 The Blood-Tear Tung Blossoms 泣血油桐花 In the 1970s, Zhao Zhicheng was an older bachelor. Because he had one disabled leg and came from a dirt-poor family, the women from the surrounding villages all refused to marry him. In the end, he married Yan Wenyin, a woman of similar age who also had one disabled leg. From then on, the fates of these two determined people, each with a physical disability, were bound tightly together! That year, he said, “My left leg is lame, and Xiaoyin’s right leg is lame. Put us together, and don’t we make 2.6kReads6.6Score30414d adds
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Old Liu and His Daughter 老刘和他的女儿
Lao Liu is an ordinary, down-and-out farmer with nothing to be proud of. But his ideas about raising his children are completely at odds with the mainstream. After 18 years of perseverance, his daughter has given him his proudest reason of all. Is he happy or unfortunate? Everyone probably has their own answer.
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Happiness, or the Lack of It 幸福不幸福
If memories were a game, Happiness would have died many times over. If reality were a game, Happiness would often be left battered and bruised. She wanders the streets of memory, where every shop is shuttered. It seems this world has no room for Happiness. Even as she scrapes by, enduring harsh words and cold looks, she still isn’t ready to give up...
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Nonlinear Breakout 非线性突围
This is a long realist novel about the workplace and life. Through Wang Yao's three major career changes, it portrays work and daily life in different periods. It captures every bitter and sweet moment, every joy and sorrow. Come read it on Tomato Novel; I hope you enjoy it. I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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At the Crossroads of Fate 站在命运的十字路口
This book explores Standing at the Crossroads of Fate through five major sections. 1. Fleeing for Their Lives: This section recounts how the protagonist Sun Shigui’s grandparents left their landlord’s household to make a life of their own amid the hardships of the old society, and how, after enduring countless trials during the War of Resistance Against Japan, they fled all the way from Nanjing to Shiqi Village and finally settled there. 2. A Life of Hardship: This section follows the many hards
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- 59 Awakening from a Mirror Dream 镜梦觉 What is a dream? Is it an illusion, an extension of reality from the tangible to the intangible, another “distorted” reflection of life, or perhaps all of these? And what is a mirror dream? I think it is a process of introspection: by observing, examining, and reflecting on dreams, one comes to an understanding and is then able to see what kind of person “I” ought to be. This book explores the theme “See as it is, think as it is, act as it is” through three main sections: Mirror Dream, Looking 24Reads—Score—14d adds
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Racing Wild on the Guizhou Roads 黔路狂飚
Reborn in 1980, he uses his experience from his previous life to avenge his father. He also rides the wave of reform and opening-up, setting up a cooperative, a construction crew, and a real estate company, then taking the company public. Step by step, he builds a business empire.
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A Glimpse of the Turmoil as 1970s Educated Youths Returned to the Cities 七十年代知青下乡回城风波一瞥
A glimpse of the turmoil surrounding educated youths returning to the city in the 1970s
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A Life Full of Vigor 昂扬的生命
I dedicate this book to the first generation of only children, and to the teachers’ college graduates who devoted themselves to education in this land. Each person has only one life. How should we live this one and only life? Looking across history and around the world, many inspiring books have explored this theme. I, an unknown nobody, hope to join their ranks and have chosen the same theme. I hope my work won’t be lost among the masterpieces of celebrated writers. This work will focus on Ji
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Beware the Mediocre 庸人小心
Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he
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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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Life Is Like a Dream: I Take the Blame and Transmigrate to the 1950s 浮生若梦，我顶缸穿五零
(Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don't compare this to reality!) History's number one scapegoat, Xu Duoduo, has grievances she can't voice. When disaster comes from heaven, it can still be avoided. When you bring disaster upon yourself, there's no escaping it. So what if life is hard? If you can stomach eating bitter greens, you can do anything. I'll give it my all! Come watch a post-2000s girl living the '50s version of a wild-vegetable-foraging life. Let's go!
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- 66 Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某 There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they? 2.1kReads9.2Score12214d adds
- 67 The South Wind Knows My Heart, and I’ll Never Walk Alone Again 南风知我意，从此不孤行 Some people say dandelion seeds look like pretty little parachutes, drifting lightly in the breeze, utterly romantic. But Xu Nanfeng thinks they look more like homeless children, wandering everywhere with nowhere to settle. Just like her: no real kin, no true friends, arriving without a ripple and leaving without a sound. There's an old saying: you reap what you sow. But I, Xu Nanfeng, refuse to believe it. I'll grow into the very person you all thought I could never become! Nanfeng knows my hea 1.1kReads9.3Score10314d adds
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A Seventies Kid’s Diary 70后的青春日记
The author’s real diary: the youth, school life, and everyday moments of the 1990s, along with her growing pains and struggles of the heart. The story follows an ordinary girl as she grows up. It is quiet and true to life. This is not a rural story. I didn’t know how to categorize it when I started writing; it’s about youth and school life. The heroine grows up in a family that favors boys over girls. In middle school, her mother would beat and scold her for no reason, even abuse her, and she de
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- 69 The Boy Who First Made My Heart Flutter 第一次心动的男孩 The Boy I First Fell For 16Reads—Score—14d adds
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Liu Zhihao's Years of Youth 刘志豪的芳华岁月
[Period novel + workplace + family + society] The story takes its time to unfold, growing richer the further you read. It is grounded in reality, depicting social life, education, love, careers, officialdom, and rural life in the 1990s, offering a sweeping portrait of everyday life in that era. After graduating from university, the protagonist, Liu Zhihao, is assigned to teach at a middle school in his hometown. From then on, his life enters a new phase as he witnesses the development of educati
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Two-Toned Jasmine on the Rock 岩石上的双色茉莉
Every flower and tree, every joy and sorrow, every beginning and end. Full blooms and bright moons, flowers blooming and falling, all are written in fate. The bicolor jasmine growing on the rocks sways in wind and rain, passing through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and blooming amid the tides of the times. Born beautiful, she cannot hide her radiance. One purple, one white; one gentle, one bold. She is bewitchingly beautiful, peerless in her grace.
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The Yama Mountains 雅玛山脉
The Yama Mountains lie on the plateau, far from the bustle of the cities, amid cold and desolate surroundings. Herdsmen have lived here for generations, and their peaceful, quiet lives are suddenly shattered one day when a group of strangers enters the area…
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When the Sophora Blossoms Bloom Again 槐花又开时
A woman crawls out of the abyss and turns hardship into sweetness. Abandoned by her husband, crushed by rumors, and left penniless, Xi Zhou was trampled into the mud. A red hair tie bound her to a humble past, while a pig farm helped her stand tall again. A tough, one-legged man protects her with his life. Together, they weather a feed crisis, fight off thugs at night, and skillfully dispel rumors. From an abandoned wife everyone could bully to a businesswoman running her own enterprise, she hon
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Strange Tales from Western Hunan 西湘散异
Historical fantasy: When things are hard to speak of, let strange tales record them; when people are not of our kind, seek out the spirits anew. To outsiders, the most mysterious thing about Xixiang is surely corpse-driving. But beyond that, there are also uncanny tales and legends about praying for rain, Zhuyou rituals, dragons and snakes, mirrors, and more. Even carpenters who make coffins can determine life and death with a single swing of their axes. Through these stories, Chen Jun discovere
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- 75 The First Half of Yingzi's Life 小英子的前半生 The First Half of Xiao Yingzi’s Life follows the turbulent first half of Xiao Yingzi’s life. Her family falls into hardship after her father is branded a rightist, but she grows up with many warm memories of her cousin and close friend. After falling in love, marrying, and having a daughter, she finally finds hope in life. But fate has other plans: her father and mother pass away one after another, and her brother’s selfish behavior while their father is gravely ill brings shame upon their famil 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Spring Stirs in the Countryside 农村的春潮涌动
Since the reform and opening-up began, the Zhao family in Ganquan Village has undergone tremendous changes. Jianping and Jian'an started a brick factory and a home-renovation company. What stories will they encounter, and what of their love lives? Which of them will strike it lucky in the business world?
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- 77 The Road Through Life’s Storms 西北人的新书风雨人生路 Welcome, everyone, to my story. It tells the separate stories of a family living in the countryside. The mother and older brother, in particular, have suffered many hardships, and their long illnesses have had a profound impact on the younger generation's physical and mental well-being. The story examines the kind, selfish, and ugly sides of human nature. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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- 79 I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德 I’m a Scout: Zhan De —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Stars Over the Loess Land 黄土地上的星
During Grain Rain in 1973, the boy Shi Wa wakes from hunger on the Loess Plateau in the Northwest. His ribs press against the kang mat, and his stomach feels as empty as a slope scoured by the yellow earth's winds. His father, Old Shi, has him shoulder a peddler's pack. Officially, they travel from village to village trading needles and thread; in truth, they scrape by on a precarious living of begging and smuggling goods. He teaches Shi Wa to use the ruse “the earth moved to the east of the mai
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- 81 Things That Happened When I Was a Kid 我小时候的事 I really don't have much talent for writing novels. I simply pieced together people and events from my childhood, along with scattered fragments of memory and everyday trivialities, as best I could. It's like sewing a patchwork garment out of scraps of floral fabric: from a distance it looks colorful and busy, but up close the seams are obvious, and it never quite comes together. Even so, I weighed every word and poured my passion and love into it, because I wrote it for my daughter. 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Passing My Days in the Imperial Palace 穿到皇宫混日子 A beautiful university lecturer accidentally falls into the water and transmigrates to the imperial palace, where she becomes a lowly palace maid. To enjoy a comfortable life in the palace, she draws on the memories and talents of her past life and makes a name for herself. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
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Moonlight Fort 明月堡
Set after the Central Plains War, this work follows the rise and fall of the Hu family, a prominent business clan in Mianshang County in central Shanxi, and the joys and sorrows shared by two generations. It portrays the region’s distinctive local customs and bears the clear imprint of its era.
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Now That We’ve Graduated, Let’s Love Well 毕业了好好爱
In middle school, a teacher once said something that made a deep impression on me, and I resolved not to date while I was still in school. As luck would have it, my classmate Liu Chengheng made the same vow. But Liu Chengheng was tall, handsome, and captain of the school basketball team, so girls were always chasing after him. He asked me for help, and out of loyalty to a friend, I decided to fend off his admirers for him. I kept it up until graduation. On graduation day, Liu Chengheng came to f
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- 85 Spring Dawn in a Small Village 小村春晓 Li Village is backward in its thinking, with deeply entrenched male chauvinism and a strong preference for sons over daughters. Women have low status, and village rules forbid them from taking husbands into their families. As a result, families without sons are effectively left without descendants and must also endure many forms of unfair treatment. Li Guoqing used to work at an arts and crafts factory in the city. Later, he returned to the village and became its head. With the help of his wife, 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Kung Fu County Magistrate 功夫县长 After the former county magistrate dies by suicide, the higher-ups parachute a new magistrate into Shuanghe. Secretary Qin stares in utter disbelief at the new magistrate before him, who carries a shabby old-fashioned bundle on his back and has gauze stuck to his forehead! But Wang Xiaoneng doesn't care what anyone thinks. With his master's ancestral peachwood sword in hand and his master's ancestral whip wrapped around his waist, no demon or ghost can stand in the way of his great ambition and 463Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 87 My Great-Grandfather Is a Miracle Doctor 我的太公是神医 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 138Reads—Score—14d adds
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Turbulent Times in the ’90s: My Powerful Husband Is Just Pretending 九零风云：我的大佬丈夫是装的
Wang Qun’s life was ruined the moment her first love from school, Hu Yufei, got into a technical college. Her vicious best friend Bai Yu framed her, ruining her reputation and forcing her to marry Huo Zhengguang, a taciturn, rough-hewn man. She went south to seek her fortune, while he stayed in their hometown, collecting scrap and building a house. They became strangers to each other. Then news came of Hu Yufei’s death, along with a confession letter full of suspicious details. Only then did Wan
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- 89 Searching for the Woman in Red Amid Jiangnan's Misty Rain 江南烟雨寻红衣 Setting: Set in the misty waterways of Jiangnan, the story combines the craft of umbrella-making, the corruption of officialdom, and the bonds between people in troubled times to paint an ink-wash portrait of the East. Central plot: An orphan from the north, Dai Fu, follows his late father's dying wish and seeks out his uncle, Sun Jiachun, an umbrella-maker. In a rainy alley, he meets Li Zhilan, a girl in red and the daughter of Censor Li. The Sun family is framed by local officials and goes ba —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Dark Moon, Clear Void 玄月清虚 Through the experiences of Lin Du, Princess Yun Yao, Gu Xianglian, and others, the story explores the clash and harmony between the chivalrous spirit of the martial world and responsibility for the nation. Amid pursuit, political intrigue, and romance, the characters gradually break free of the constraints of their identities and come to understand the principle of governing with the people as the foundation. The cause and effect spanning Lin Du's past and present lives hints at the cycle of fat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Glazed Glass Shatters into Fireflies of the Past 琉璃碎作故人萤 Glazed shards become fireflies of those long gone 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 A Guide to Immortality: Records of the Jiangnan Governor’s Tour 长生要略江南巡抚录 Read The Essentials of Longevity: Records of the Jiangnan Inspectorate, a wuxia tale about Crown Prince Li Ji, who travels incognito through Jiangnan with his guard Huang Rufeng and unexpectedly gets caught up in a mystery surrounding the secret arts of immortality. After the new emperor ascends the throne, Inspector Huang Rufeng is ordered to track down the second volume of The Essentials of Longevity. He navigates the forces of Murong Castle, the Wang merchant guild, and the imperial court, an —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Wanderer of Snowy Green Cliffs 风雪青崖客 At seventeen, dressed in a carefree blue robe, he wielded a sword named Azure Frost. On the walls of Linjiang City, young Shen Qingya challenged the Seven Killers, a band of ruthless outlaws, with his sword, saving the city's people from utter ruin. He blazed with the brilliance of the rising sun. > > Ten years later, in a freezing night inside a ruined kiln, mold was his food and lice his companions. The hero of old huddled like a dog, with nothing left but a body knotted with frostbite and a b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Through Wind and Snow to Gusu in Search of an Old Friend 风雪姑苏寻故人 After ten years away, he returns to the land of snow and wind and finally sees his old friend Chang Yuling again. But all that awaits him is a long-overdue farewell and an everlasting regret amid the snow and wind. Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 The Moonlit Secret of Immortality in Jiangnan 《明月长生江南诀》 The Moon Shines Long Over Jiangnan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Misty Rain over Towering Halls Beneath the Sunset Glow 烟雨重楼映晚霞 Rain and mist veil the towers beneath the evening glow —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Tears of Buckwheat Blossoms 荞花泣 This is a tragic story. The stranglehold of arranged marriages on women cuts like a blunt knife, while the desperate struggle to survive in a remote mountain village feels like a net with no escape. Under the shackles of the times, individual resistance ends in tragedy, like a moth flying into a flame. The gender oppression embedded in the tribe’s feudal culture makes life even more suffocating. Every time A Wei reaches for hope, reality crushes it in her grasp. The indifference around her, from —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Century-Old House 百年老宅
An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l
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The Hunting King of Bashan 巴山猎王
A transmigration tale set in a bygone era, brimming with rugged mountain spirit and the warmth of everyday life. Armed with memories from his past life and everything taught by his master, the King of Hunters, he wields a hunting rifle, trains mastiffs, and fights wolves. In the 1980s, he sets up a cooperative, builds roads, and buys vehicles, determined to find a way forward for a poor village deep in the mountains. From venturing alone into deadly wilderness to find a life-saving old ginseng r
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- 100 The 1970s: I Married the Man Who Prayed to the Gods 七零：我嫁给了求神拜佛的那个他 [Transmigration + Period Setting + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives + Rebirth + Romance + No Saintly Protagonist + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension] Blurb: Bai Xiaxia transmigrates to the 1970s, only to have her engagement broken off. The neighbors are all waiting to see her make a fool of herself. To their surprise, before long she's married to someone with even more power and status! She thinks going north to study is a reluctant choice, made after weighing her options 1Reads—Score—14d adds
