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- 1551 Siheyuan: Happiness Begins with a One-Cent Instant Kill 四合院：从一分钱秒杀开始幸福 [Courtyard Drama + System + Everyday Life + Changing the Plot] Zhou Jianjun transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard, only to discover that his arrival had changed some of the plot. This world was great: not only did he have a house, but also a beautiful wife and an adorable daughter. He even had a System that let him buy anything for a penny. Not enough food or supplies? Not a problem. Zhou Jianjun just wanted to live happily with his wife and daughter for the rest of his life, so nobody had be 44.7kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
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The Flower-Guarding Expert in the City 护花高手在都市
Why is this young man who came down from the mountains so astonishingly skilled in martial arts? Why is his medical expertise so incredible? And who is his goddess-like elder sister?
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- 1553 The Goddess’s Close-Protection Guard 女神的近身护卫 After an “accident,” Xiao Zheng is pursued and pressured into marriage by the icy female CEO who everyone knows. He also smoothly joins Xin’ao Corporation, nicknamed the “Kingdom of Women,” and begins an exciting life surrounded by all kinds of beautiful women. The icy goddess, the fierce tigress, the gentle female boss, the playful student… Hey! I’m a married man! Show some respect! A friendly tip: This book is hilarious and action-packed, with the occasional heartwarming moment. It’s suitable 19.2kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 1554 Genius Divine Doctor in the City 天才神医混都市 His medical skills are so astounding that he can bring the dead back to life and regenerate flesh from bone. His martial prowess is terrifying, and he can kill without anyone noticing. Crushing rich, handsome playboys and stomping on trust-fund kids is no big deal to him! 9.3kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 1555 Great Tang: Only Defying the Emperor's Order Makes You Stronger 大唐：抗旨才能变强 He transmigrates to the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty and gets a frustrating System: the only way to grow stronger is to defy imperial orders. It's like dancing on the edge of a blade, constantly courting death. Yet, against everyone's expectations, no matter how recklessly he acts, Li Shimin and Empress Zhangsun dote on him and indulge his every whim. Even the protagonist himself has no idea why. As it turns out, he is the first child Li Shimin and Zhangsun had together, a poor little boy wh 109.6kReads8.8Score13.3kShelves
- 1556 Reborn Son-in-Law: After Bringing Good Fortune to the Frail, Beautiful CEO 重生赘婿：给病弱美人总裁冲喜后 [Nontraditional live-in son-in-law + comedy + one heroine + bickering couple] In his previous life, Shen Zhao was a lovesick simp. When his tea-drinking goddess stole the bride at the wedding, he ran away without a second thought, leaving Chu Qingmian, the frail beauty of the Chu family, alone at the altar. He thought that after running away, he could live happily ever after with the goddess. But she had already thrown herself into the arms of a rich heir. When she saw him make a fool of himself 26.5kReads9.3Score5.5kShelves
- 1557 Dragon Raja: Oh No! Lu Mingfei Has Depression 龙族：坏了！路明非得了抑郁症 Cassell College has been worried lately, because their newly recruited S-rank student seems a little off. During Free Day, someone fired a shot at him and startled him. He turned around, grabbed a brick, and knocked everyone there into a concussion. During the Gate of Nibelungen plan, Nuonuo told him, “You still have a lot to go through.” He immediately dove into the water and fought a second-generation dragon head-on. In Tokyo, Japan, after the Sheqi Eight Clans stabbed him in the back, he went 12.8kReads8.2Score988Shelves
- 1558 The X-Ray-Eyed Little Miracle Healer 透视小邪医 By a twist of fate, Lin Feng inherits a legacy. His Demon Eyes can perceive yin and yang, and after mastering profound arts, he stands above all beings. He makes a fortune spotting overlooked treasures in stone gambling and earns fame throughout the land as a miraculous healer. See how Lin Feng defies fate and rises to the top, navigating love and hate among the many factions. 16.1kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 1559 Dongheng: The Road to Power 东恒青云 A meteoric rise to the top! Chu Dongheng, a master's graduate who knows nothing about his birth family and jokes that “my mom and I are our own family,” is the abandoned grandson of a military family. After passing the civil service exam in Jiangdong, he finds that someone else has taken the position he applied for. By chance, he becomes a leader's secretary, beginning his career in politics. With the people's interests as his mission, he advances one steady step at a time toward the pinnacle of 30.8kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
- 1560 Great Tang: A Time-Traveling Best Friend and the Little Princess Jinyang! 大唐：超时空，闺蜜晋阳小公主！ [The Daily Life of Princess Li Mingda of Jinyang + Two-Way Time Travel + No System + Beloved Little Darling + Princess Changle!] A time-crossing mirror connects the Tang Dynasty to the 21st century, bringing Princess Li Mingda of Jinyang and Xiao Ran together across time and space. The little princess now has hand warmers, hot-water bottles, thermal underwear, down jackets, sweaters, and more to get through the bitter Tang winter... As a little foodie, she naturally needs all kinds of candy, pas 30kReads9.3Score2.1kShelves
- 1561 Transmigrate to 1985: Rake in the Wealth of the World on Wall Street 穿越1985华尔街收割全世界 (Financial warfare) (The battle for human nature) (The mastermind behind the scenes) (Historical analysis) How does Wall Street plunder the stock market? How do capital markets launch leveraged buyouts? Why did Japan's economic bubble burst overnight? What gave Soros the nerve to short the pound? What really happened during the Asian financial crisis? How did the United States shift the burden of the 2008 financial crisis and save the system? Reborn on Wall Street in 1985, Chen Xiao uses his mem 46.4kReads8.6Score3.8kShelves
- 1562 Livestream: One Song, "Tears of a Dancer," Leaves Dai Xiaomei Stunned 直播：一首舞女泪，唱懵呆小妹 [Livestreaming + outrageous antics + sign-in rewards + comedy + absurdity + female streamer + female entertainer] Jiang Yun unexpectedly obtains a livestream sign-in System. All he has to do is livestream to receive sign-in rewards! To rack up livestream hours and claim the System’s rewards, he decides to connect with other streamers. His first guest is the popular streamer Dai Xiaomei. Dai Xiaomei: “What talents do you have?” Jiang Yun: “I can sing.” Dai Xiaomei: “Let’s hear it.” Jiang Yun: “On 47.2kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 1563 Let's Divorce! You Really Think I'm Some Kind of Toad? 离婚吧！真当我是癞蛤蟆？ Not a power fantasy. Please read with caution if that bothers you. Chu Yuxuan has been married to Xia Zhu for two years. He thought there was no heart in the world that couldn’t be warmed, until her old flame returns and Xia Zhu rushes to him without a second thought… After the divorce, Chu Yuxuan returns to the Chu family and transforms into a wealthy, spoiled playboy. At his family’s arrangement, he marries the icy beauty Zhao Yanan. On the surface, he’s a good-for-nothing wastrel, but behind 48.5kReads9.4Score4.6kShelves
- 1564 After Our Divorce, My Boss Turned Around and Promoted Me 离婚后，领导转身就提拔了我 His new book, The Number One Secret in Officialdom: From the Start, I Was Sent to an Asylum, is now available. Your support is welcome! Two paternity tests shattered Zhao Shu’s world: neither child was his! His wife had betrayed him, and he angrily divorced her! At the lowest point in his life, his ability and resolve happened to catch a superior’s eye, and he entered the world of officialdom. Fueled by the anger of betrayal, Zhao Shu cuts through every obstacle, rising from head of security to 11.8kReads8.9Score1.3kShelves
- 1565 Three Kingdoms: From Begging for Food to Restoring the Han Dynasty 三国：讨饭到复汉 [No System + Intelligent Protagonist + Political Scheming and Conquest + Assisting Liu Bei + Occasional Everyday Comedy + Cold-Weapon Warfare] Cao Cao: "March north! I vow to help Your Majesty reclaim the old capital!" Sun Quan: "Only an alliance with Shu against Liu can keep Eastern Wu safe." How would the story change if Liu Bei unified the north, while Cao Cao was driven into Shu? Remember the Han founder who slew the serpent, raising his arm to summon the people and defeating Western Chu in 40.9kReads8.6Score3.2kShelves
- 1566 The Campus Beauty’s Bodyguard Martial Artist 校花的近身武神 Abandoned by his family as a child, Lin Fan stumbles upon an extraordinary opportunity while in college. He gains a rare Yin-Yang constitution, possessing both a pure Yang meridian and a supreme Yin meridian, which allows him to cultivate the Heaven-grade Qian Kun Yin Yang Art. From then on, one opportunity after another comes his way, making his path of martial cultivation an exciting one. As Lin Fan’s origins are gradually revealed, it turns out that this abandoned child harbors an earth-shatt 4.9kReads8.1Score550Shelves
- 1567 A Fifty-Million Margin Call? I Short Wall Street Instead 爆仓五千万？我反手做空华尔街 [Financial Crisis] [Wits and Strategy] [Big Short] [Wall Street] Many years later, when sitting before the interview cameras for Time magazine’s Person of the Year feature, Lu Ze would always remember that rainy Manhattan night on February 28, 2008. “So, Mr. Lu.” The renowned journalist looked at the man before him, the one who had made the entire global financial system tremble, and posed the question that had come up time and again at congressional hearings, behind closed doors at the Federal 276.4kReads9.1Score34.5kShelves
- 1568 My Iceberg Beauty Wife 我的冰山美女老婆 A part-time job contract turns Ye Fan into the fake boyfriend of an icy female CEO. He only wants to make a little money and live a comfortable life, but from then on, trouble keeps finding him. “Um... if I get promoted from boyfriend to husband, do I get extra pay?” 8.2kReads9.2Score743Shelves
- 1569 Romance in the Ancient Village 古寨情缘 The new book, The Number One Secret in Officialdom: Sent Straight to the Asylum from the Start, is now available. Your support is welcome! When someone bullies his sister-in-law, Wang Ye steps in without hesitation, kills a man, and ends up in prison. There, he unexpectedly acquires peerless mystical arts and learns that in his previous life he was the True Dragon Emperor of another world, his sister-in-law was a tiger spirit, and his childhood friend and sidekick was a little white rabbit spiri 21.3kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 1570 I'm He Yuzhu from the Courtyard House 四合院我是何雨柱 The life of an ordinary person. Come see what happens after He Yuzhu becomes an ordinary man, with no potty humor, no invincibility, and none of those talismans. Thanks for your support. 31.4kReads8.9Score794Shelves
- 1571 The Female CEO’s Close-Protection King 女总裁的近身兵王 A retired soldier king returns to city life and, through a twist of fate, becomes a beautiful CEO’s bodyguard. He was once a revered master, but now he spends every day worrying about the CEO’s paycheck. Watch as this legendary soldier king rises from the ashes and returns to the top! 892Reads9.2Score613Shelves
- 1572 My Father Is Emperor Wu of Han! 家父汉武帝！ [Winner of the National Library writing contest] [Top-tier historical storytelling + no System + rebellion + political intrigue + a love-hate relationship between father and son] Reborn in the womb as Liu Ju, the eldest legitimate son of Emperor Wu of Han. His father is Liu Che, the most powerful carbon-based life form on Earth in the second century BCE! And his maternal family’s lineup is even more outrageous! His mother is Wei Zifu, his uncle is Wei Qing, his cousin is Huo Qubing, and his youn 86.4kReads9.2Score8.1kShelves
- 1573 Bright Sword: Li Yunlong's Breakout from Yujialing 亮剑：我李云龙先从俞家岭突围 A soul from the future fused with Li Yunlong as he commanded the battle at Cangyun Ridge! Li Yunlong would be a man of letters, like Confucius with a saber at his side: a man of both letters and arms, perhaps able to give this suffering nation a little more hope. 6kReads8.4Score236Shelves
- 1574 Son, Show Your Dad the Way Forward 儿子，请给爸爸指条明路 In 2001, laid-off worker Chen Weiguo loses his wife, who leaves him with a newborn son. The boy is clever from an early age, and always has... well, a remarkably long-term perspective. Whenever Chen Weiguo is on the verge of running out of options, his son always manages to pull him through at a crucial moment and point him toward a way forward. Then Chen Weiguo finds himself back at square one all over again. They say sons bring trouble to their fathers, but Chen Weiguo, as a father, is always 12.2kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
- 1575 A Man at Forty 男人四十 Betrayed by his sworn brother, saddled with a mountain of debt, and stripped of his high-paying job; betrayed by his wife, left with nothing, and discovering that their fake divorce has become real! See how a forty-year-old man takes revenge and gives those two scoundrels a resounding slap in the face! 1.2kReads8.3Score111Shelves
- 1576 The Reborn Young Master Returns 重生弃少归来 Three hundred years ago, Zhuo Bufan, a discarded young master, was ambushed and thrown into the sea. Luckily, his master, Immortal Venerable Junhe, happened to be passing by Earth and took him away to cultivate among the stars, where he swept across the universe! Three hundred years later, Zhuo Bufan failed to overcome his tribulation and was reborn in the city as a young man, returning with overwhelming power. He would right past wrongs with his fists and command mountains and rivers beneath hi 5.1kReads8.3Score562Shelves
- 1577 The Carefree Little Landlord 逍遥小地主 He was lucky enough to transmigrate, and even into the family of a wealthy landlord. He'd never have to worry about food or clothes, but he had no intention of wasting his life doing nothing. So Fu Xiaoguan casually set a few things in motion, never expecting the impact to be so enormous. The emperor wants to make him a first-rank official, the princess wants him as her husband, the daughter of the Minister's household refuses to marry anyone else, the barbarians want his head, the Yi Kingdom wa 37.2kReads8.9Score4.3kShelves
- 1578 Revolutionizing the Qing: A Changing Era of Self-Strengthening 革清：自强变局 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 128.3kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 1579 The Ruthless Bandit of the Great Ming: I Care About Money, Not People 大明悍匪：我认钱不认人 Standing before you now is the Ming Dynasty's godfather, the next big boss! In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming crown prince died. A thunderous crash rang through the heavens, and I, Zhu Ying, made my dazzling entrance! Zhu Yuanzhang: I find your things pretty novel. I'm very interested, and money is no problem. Zhu Ying: I care about money, not people. Pay me, and I'll do the job! Zhu Yuanzhang: I'm interested too, but I can't promise I'll buy anything. Zhu Ying: That's not my problem 11.3kReads8.6Score725Shelves
- 1580 The Abandoned Young Master Returns 弃少归来 Five years ago, the Chu Group of Jinzhou was betrayed and set up. Chu Yuan, a spoiled young master, fell from the clouds to rock bottom and vanished in disgrace. A golden-scaled carp is no ordinary fish. Once it meets wind and storm, it transforms into a dragon. Five years later, Chu Yuan returns, reborn from the ashes. All his enemies will tremble before him! 3kReads9.0Score312Shelves
- 1581 I Am the Great Tyrant 我是大暴君 He wakes up to find himself the new ruler of the Great Xiao Kingdom, but only a puppet. The young empress is still green, the empress dowager rules from behind the scenes, the court officials each have their own schemes, and the borderlands are beset by crises on all sides. I want to recline among beauties and hold the power of the world in my hands! 86Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 1582 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 262.2kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves
- 1583 I Picked Up a Killer to Be My Wife 捡个杀手做老婆 One moonless, windy night, he finds a beautiful, seductive, sexy, and enchanting woman. And so begins his tumultuous, thrilling, and extraordinary life... 15.4kReads7.9Score2.2kShelves
- 1584 Coming Home from Work, I Picked Up a Treasure of a Girl 下班回家，捡到一个宝藏女孩 What’s it like to come home from work and find a girl? Shen Lang had pursued the campus belle for five whole years. When she rejected his final confession, he was utterly heartbroken. On his way home, he happened to meet Qin Youyou, a girl who had run away from home. No one could have imagined that he would fall in love with her. No one could have imagined that she was the daughter of a wealthy family. When Shen Lang and Qin Youyou got together, the campus belle regretted her decision. “Shen Lan 2.1kReads8.7Score216Shelves
- 1585 Fake Eunuch, True Emperor 假太监真皇帝 A general practitioner from a family of traditional Chinese medicine doctors transmigrates, only to be dragged into the imperial harem as a eunuch on his very first day. He has no choice but to negotiate with the eunuch in charge of castration: could you let me off this once? I still have a blood feud to avenge! The eunuch says, “Sure!” 967Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain 天师下山
Back in my day, I had mastered my own school of celestial arts. One punch made the high-ranking martial artists at the nursing home north of the village tremble. One kick sent the young prodigies at the kindergarten south of the village bawling. And when I stood at the mass grave east of the village, not one of those hundreds of Ghost Kings or Ghost Emperors dared even breathe.
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- 1587 I Told You to Go Undercover, Not Hit on the Boss's Wife! 让你卧底，没让你勾搭大嫂！ [Decisive and ruthless + never a saintly heroine + multiple heroines + wildly satisfying] Lei Zhen transmigrates to a parallel world in 1995. Starting out as a low-level underling, he rises through the ranks with ruthless force, amassing wealth and beautiful women until he rules everything with an iron fist! 105.7kReads9.3Score11.6kShelves
- 1588 The Strongest Master in the City 最强高手在都市 Down-and-out rich second-generation heir Lin Yi is targeted and brought low, but unexpectedly inherits an immortal legacy. He makes a powerful return to the city, unleashing another storm of blood and violence! Who rules this vast land and determines its fate? Watch as the mightiest expert takes the city by storm and writes the next chapter of his legendary life. 5.1kReads8.6Score667Shelves
- 1589 After I Was Reborn, I Focused on Making Money 重生后我埋头搞钱 [Multiple Heroines] + [Farming] + [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Mu Xin wakes up one day, reborn at the age of eighteen! While studying abroad, he gets up to all sorts of steamy things with countless beautiful women from exotic lands. Making money is all he cares about. After getting a second chance at life, everything seems so much easier! He breaks into every industry and amasses endless wealth! Then one day, Mu Xin suddenly realizes a simple truth: when you have money, you really can do whatever y —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 1590 The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医 Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death, 4.7kReads9.2Score820Shelves
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Gou Ping'an and the Rogue Pearl 狗平安和流氓珠
After all that trouble, I finally became an expert at hiding my abilities, and you tell me this is a cultivation world? After all that trouble, I finally got my hands on a secret manual, and you tell me it's an incomplete, low-grade copy? After all that trouble, I finally got to be the transmigrated protagonist, only to find that even my maid has better talent than I do? After all that trouble, I finally got a maid, and now I have to rely on her to protect me? After all that trouble, I finally g
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- 1592 Peerless Beauty Protector 绝世护花高手 The most painful thing in the world isn’t life or death. It’s being tormented by the same woman for ten years. Chen Xiao, the only male disciple of the reclusive ancient martial arts sect Xiaoyao, couldn’t stand being bullied by his senior sister every year anymore. He left a note and secretly ran away. 798Reads8.5Score107Shelves
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Hogwarts: My Minecraft Alchemy Deception 霍格沃茨：我靠MC伪装炼金教授
“I'm here to renovate! What are you doing?!” Kaissenhis stared at the weirdo who had suddenly appeared at his worksite, holding a strange wooden stick and trying to attack him, while babbling about magic, secrecy, and other such nonsense. He scolded the man. At the same time, he conjured a black obsidian block and instantly raised a huge obsidian pillar to defend himself. “How dare you! You said you couldn't use magic!” After transmigrating into the world of Harry Potter, he also got the Minecr
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- 1594 The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君 Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering 10.9kReads9.1Score1kShelves
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I Became a Chief in Africa 我在非洲当酋长
After graduating from college, Xiao Peng got a job with a mining group and joined the company’s exploration team in Eritrea, a country in North Africa. By chance, he rescued the daughter of a local tribal chief. In gratitude, the chief made him the chief of the Hajisan tribe. It sounded like a wonderful place, but little did he know that his territory lay in the Danakil Desert. The locals still mainly traded through barter, and there was no water, electricity, or internet. More importantly, his
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Xiao Chuan's Extraordinary Life 小川的妖孽人生
[Miracle doctor + wealth-building + cultivation] The Divine Dragon, Shennong, the Medicine Ancestor, the Divination God, the God of Wealth, the Martial Venerable... A host of immortals lead Liu Xiaochuan down the path of cultivation, but all he wants is to help the villagers get rich and give everyone a better life!
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- 1597 Disciple, Go Down the Mountain and Make Trouble for Your Fiancée 徒弟，下山祸害你未婚妻去吧 [Five-million-word masterpiece + Decisive and ruthless + Multiple heroines] Everyone says women are made of water, but I suspect my master's wife is made of chili peppers. Her temper is fiery, and her figure is even hotter... “Get lost! Go down the mountain and bother your fiancée!” Lin Feng had no choice but to pack his bags and head down the mountain to find his fiancée. But with a fiancée that hot, how much blood does Lin Feng have left to spill? Young man, lust is a knife that scrapes the bo 3.1kReads9.2Score469Shelves
- 1598 The Ultimate Salvage King 极品打捞王 71% of Earth's surface is surrounded by oceans, and at least three million sunken ships lie quietly on the seafloor, waiting to be discovered! What does that mean? Wealth? Fame? No! No! No! In the eyes of Xiao Peng, the King of Salvage, that's all garbage! As a cleaner of the ocean, every one of these shipwrecks... IS! MINE! 18.9kReads8.4Score1.6kShelves
- 1599 Professional Doctor: A Medical Modifier from the Start 职业医生：开局一个医疗修改器 Chen He, a surgeon at the height of his career, was sent to prison after a surgical accident. After his release, he found himself back in court. His wife divorced him, and he lost custody of their child. With nothing left, Chen He activated the “Modifier” System! In no time, his surgical skills were upgraded, medical equipment underwent a revolution, rare drugs were developed, and one difficult condition after another was treated… This was how Time magazine described him: “When the King of Hell 41.8kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
- 1600 From the Start, I Flash-Married a Stunning CEO, and My Ex-Girlfriend Panicked 开局闪婚绝美总裁，前女友急了 [Soft-rice husband + System + sweet romance] My girlfriend found herself a guy best friend and provoked me right to my face. I got so mad, I went and found myself a stunning wife. Only after we got married did I discover that my wife was the president of a company! From then on, she earned money to support the family, while I focused on looking pretty… 20.4kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
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