Any Thought-Provoking, Deep Books That Treat Readers Like They’re Smart? 有没有很有深意有深度能沉淀不把人当傻子的书啊？
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
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The Usurper 犯上者
[The new book, The Night of Absolution, is out now! If you enjoy Old Li's style, come show your support~] [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two.
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I Asked You to Manage the Special Talents Class, So How Did They All Become Top Students? 让你代管特长班，怎么全成学霸了？
Three homeroom teachers have been driven away in just two months. When it comes to Class Seven, the special-track class for underachievers known as a teacher’s battlefield and a playground for poor students, even with the director of studies offering sky-high pay, the veteran teachers sit as still as mountains. Not one is willing to take the job. Just then, Chen Chu, a trainee teacher, activates the Strongest Teaching System. He volunteers to become Class Seven’s new homeroom teacher, starting f
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Back to 1985: Tales of the Northeast 重回1985：东北往事
These are fiery years spent feeling one’s way across a river by touching the stones, a time of thriving vitality where the bold could eat their fill, and of wild growth where big shots were everywhere. The rules of this society have never changed: the meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, the ruthless fear the reckless, and the reckless fear those who don’t care if they live or die. But even those who don’t care if they live or die fear madmen. And so, Zhou Dongbei went mad. (TV adap
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Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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The Domain of Time and Space 时空之辖
No dumbing down, high-IQ mind games, ensemble cast, infinite-flow. If being reborn is a conspiracy, would you dare to start over? Death is not the end. It is a cruel invitation from the Dominion of Time and Space. Here, time and space are meaningless. Only Time-Space Chips can be exchanged for anything. Tang Jian'an only wanted to make money and stay alive, but he unexpectedly gets drawn into one bizarre instance after another. A ghost woman with a wandering gaze, a corrupt bureau hiding deadly
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Global Divide: Follow Me for Good Food, Warm Clothes, and Plenty to Drink 全球分割：跟着我吃饱穿暖又喝好
[Global Survival + Territory Expansion + 1v1 True Love + Good Luck Buff] Blue Star was suddenly divided into a grid, and all of humanity was thrown into a two-person survival game. From the start, each person was paired with a stranger and given a floating territory measuring 9 by 9 meters and a bed that needed repairs. Above them, waves of beasts surged; below them stretched an endless drop. Lian Chengzhou awakened the only good luck buff and card-draw ability on the entire server. His loot box
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The Ultimate Sacrifice 终极献祭
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
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The Book of Enlightenment: A Guide to Beating the Game of Life 开悟神书，人生游戏通关指南
A divine book, a divine book! A book that can boost your wisdom, unleash your imagination, fill you with energy, awaken you to life, and make you unstoppable with cheat-like powers! Now launching with a bang! Seeing Things as They Are Cling to appearances, and you fall prey to delusion; let go of appearances, and all becomes divine. Donning a robe, one plays gods and demons, with countless faces for each. Each face takes countless forms, yet none can be grasped. Like reflections in a mirror, se
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Peerless Secret Words: The Spirit Heavens Chronicle 绝世密言：灵天记
Through fantastical stories, this book explores the mysteries of the universe and explains the principles of life, helping readers understand why people live. In doing so, it can help them put their worries aside and embrace life's experiences with greater optimism and energy!
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I Was a True Immortal, Yet I Never Knew 我本真仙不自知
The Five Aggregates and Four Kinds of Form Revealed in the Pure Nature The form of self, the form of others, the form of sentient beings and those who live through their allotted years, My own experience, others' experience, the experience of sentient beings across time and space, My thoughts, others' thoughts, the countless thoughts of sentient beings, My attachments, others' attachments, the myriad attachments of sentient beings, My transformations, others' transformations, the transformations
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The Art of Fortune-Telling by Chinese Characters 测字有术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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Climbing the Official Ranks from Humble Beginnings 官场之寒门逆袭
Synopsis: Lu Haoming's son-in-law said, “At government offices in the city, reaching director-general level is already the ceiling for people from farming families like us.” Lu Haoming refuses to believe it. The road to office is beset by countless obstacles. He's too handsome, attracting one beauty after another, and his outspoken nature brings him repeated setbacks. Watch how he breaks through and rises straight to the top.
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Officialdom Is Like a Chess Game 官场如棋
There is no straight road through life, especially when it comes to being an official. Hao Xiaodong spent many years navigating the political arena before gradually understanding its many hidden rules. Now, following his novel The Way to Promotion, a new story is here for readers. Join us as we witness another kind of life in the world of officialdom.
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My Professor Stepmom and Her Darling Zhaozhao 教授后妈和她的昭昭小宝贝
[Second marriage for the male lead + the child is his biological daughter + they never fully fall in love + neither is chaste] [Highly educated families + prominent political families, both strong-willed, neither a typical good person] After earning her doctorate, Xie Qingwei smoothly stayed on as a university lecturer. Through a twist of fate, she, a committed non-marriage type, married Lin Jinghe, a retired high-ranking official who had already been married once and had a daughter. [Before the
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Invincible from the Start, But I Can't Go Back 开局无敌，但我回不去了
My name is Dong Youzhi. I wasn't hit by a car, struck by lightning, or reborn. I simply transmigrated to a cultivation world, with no sect or faction to call my own, and settled alone on an uninhabited mountain. From the start, I gained invincible cultivation and wanted to return to my hometown to show off, but it turned out I couldn't go back. From the start, I gained invincible cultivation. I write diary entries every day while waiting to return home and show off in front of my roommates. Why
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Rule Horror: It Takes Two 规则怪谈：双人成行
[Two Consciousnesses Sharing One Body + Rule-Based Horror + Original Scenarios + Mind-Bending Twists + Lighthearted Banter] P.S. Things take off after Chapter 2! If you don't like the first scenario, feel free to complain! The previous second, Wei Minghua was conquering an S-rank rule-based horror scenario. The next, he woke up to find his body gone. His consciousness was trapped in the mind of a nineteen-year-old girl named Mingxi. Mingxi held a knife to her throat. “Get out of my body, or we b
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Chronicles of a World of Swords and Sorcery 剑与魔法异世录
[Western fantasy + ensemble cast + no cheats + sword and magic + fictional world + some angst] My soul transmigrated to another world. No System, no dazzling start, and this isn’t a power fantasy. Give me a little patience, and I’ll give you a fantasy world unlike any other. This is the story of an ordinary modern office worker who must first survive in a world torn by chaos, then step over heaps of corpses on his way to becoming the Doomsday Demon feared by all. Reader advisory: The first two
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A Hundred Thousand Years of Cyber Cultivation 赛博修真十万年
[Cyber cultivation] [Hardcore cultivation techniques] [the Myriad Worlds] A grand epic with a very long buildup. Readers who prefer fast-paced, feel-good stories may want to steer clear. The story reaches the stars in Volume Three. The cyberpunk element in this book chronicles how Shenzhou gradually evolves from a modern civilization into a cyber-cultivation civilization. It doesn't start out in a cyberpunk world. The setting unfolds gradually, and the cyber-cultivation theory doesn't begin unti
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A Chapter of the Heart 心之章
#HardScienceFiction #ParallelUniverses #MultipleDimensions #Plot #Mystery #CivilizationalAscension #UnsolvedMysteries #Exploration #Containment #Cthulhu #Apocalypse #Metaphysics #Occultism #Telepathy #QuantumPhysics #QuantumEntanglement #Mind #Consciousness Reading Heart Chapter is a continuous journey of expanding your understanding. You’ll find yourself asking: · How should the value of a civilization be measured? By its technological level, the length of its survival, or the depth of its emo
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Random Street Stalls: I Use Food to Lure Snakes Out of Their Holes 随机摆摊：我用美食引蛇出洞
[Food + undercover work + comedy + catching criminals + System + no heroine + no romance] Also known as Food: The Undercover Cop Sets Up a Street Stall, and Fugitives Beg Him to Get Back to Work Xiao Lan transmigrated into the body of a police officer in a parallel world and was assigned to pose as a street-food vendor while keeping an eye on a suspect. As it happened, he’d been a cooking genius in his previous life. This was right up his alley. The next day, a tricycle loaded with top-tier food
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The Crown Prince Is a Treasure Trove, but She Flirts and Runs 太子浑身是宝，但她撩完就跑
[Clever revenge + ensemble court drama + male lead fakes his death and reveals his identity, then goes mad + heroine is his one true love] [Power couple comedy | Strategic mind games | All the right ingredients | Fictional setting] Axiang, a huntress, bought herself a live-in husband. He was handsome, with a fine figure and a noble, radiant air, like an immortal crane descended from the heavens, or a jade-faced gentleman from a storybook. But he had no idea how to show affection. When she offer
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Push: The First Time I Got Pushed, I Hit Back! 推——第一次被推就打回去！
Push Back! The First Time Someone Pushes You, Hit Them Right Back!
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The Snow Canon, the Mist Canon: Chronicle of the Twins 雪典，雾典，双生纪
“The first snow between heaven and earth fell atop Kunlun Mountain. Back then, snow did not yet know what melting was, and mist did not know what it meant to disperse. They thought everything in the world would last forever.” “Later, the snow melted and became water. The mist dispersed and became nothing. Only then did they understand: what was eternal was not themselves, but the person who paused in the snow, and the eyes that glanced back through the mist.”
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The Ancestor's Parody of Versailles: A Lecture Hall of Laughter 百家笑谭老祖宗的凡尔赛讲堂
Emergency report! Emergency report! The Chinese cultural heritage system has triggered a Level Three Red Alert! The meeting room at the Heavenly Dao Administration was in chaos. Three curves plunged on the holographic display: The first line, labeled [System Comprehension], had fallen from 85% in the Tang Dynasty to 32% in the 21st century. The second line, labeled [Integrity Index], had gone from the dazzling galaxy of the "Hundred Schools of Thought" era to today's scattered "quotes from fa
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The Rain Canon 雨典
When rain falls upon the world, it is no longer just water. It becomes a bridge between two people meeting, tears of parting, the sorrow of waiting, and a promise to stay together. How many bonds of affection between heaven and earth last only as long as a passing shower? And I am merely the passerby holding an umbrella.
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The Rivers and Mountains Trilogy 山河故人三部曲
A small town in Jiangnan, Mudanjiang in the northeast, and the ancient city of Xi'an. Different places, the same vision. Beautiful China! Jiangnan's bridges and flowing streams, the northeast's ice and snow, Xi'an's lamb paomo. Beautiful mountains, beautiful rivers, and even more beautiful people. The scenery is written through its people, and the people are reflected in the scenery!
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Collection of Two Forgettings: Records of an Unknown Daoist Couple Among Clouds and Waters 两忘集——无名道侣云水录
The Collection of Two Forgotten: The Unnamed Daoist Couple's Record of Clouds and Waters
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Alive! As Long as She’s in This Town, She’s Alive 活性！只要她还在这座小镇就活着
You are alive. Your body is alive. But are you still human at heart? Did you see someone today? Did you make a choice today, not because it was easy, but because it was right? Did you do something today where no one could see, something only you would ever know about? It was small, so small you’d feel embarrassed even to mention it. But you did it. That is your humanity. That is your vitality. To be alive, you need humanity. Even if you mutate, you can still be human. Without humanity, you’re no
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Forgotten River Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Ghost Festival Teahouse 忘川茶寮——中元茶寮鬼话连篇
Wangchuan Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Zhongyuan Teahouse
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A Double-Faced Jianghu, Dedicated to the Eighteen of Every Story 双面江湖献给所有故事里的十八号
The world sings the praises of heroes, But who remembers the nameless extras? The jianghu is more than flashing blades, It lives in serving tea and sweeping floors, too. Two voices separated by countless mountains and rivers, yet keeping exactly the same rhythm. Unhurried, neither too loud nor too soft. Like a heartbeat, like breathing. Like the jianghu itself, quietly and ceaselessly carrying on.
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The Ancient Powerhouses Have Arrived 上古大佬团驾到
The ancient supreme gods Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, long since retired and all but legendary, were bored one day. They decided to take their wives, Xihe and Changxi, on a “business trip” that was really a “government-funded vacation,” visiting the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, both under the administration of the current management, the Jade Emperor. When word got out, the officials governing the Three Realms fell into unprecedented panic and chaos. They mistook a simple family outing for
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The Meal on the Plate: The Execution Ground, They Watch You, They Remember 盘中餐：刑场——它们看着你，它们记得
The Meal on the Plate: The Execution Ground: They Watch You, They Remember
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Chronicles of the Jianghu: Chaos in Botang 江湖册波棠乱
Historical setting: Early Republic of China, around the 1910s to 1920s · What the era represents: The imperial throne has fallen, warlords carve up the country, and Western culture pours in. This is an age when the codes and honor of the “old jianghu” are gradually lost, transformed, and ultimately destroyed by the guns and schemes of the “new world.” The story of Bo and Tang is the most moving verse in this elegy.
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Candied Hawthorn Inn 糖葫芦客栈
Pure dialogue, a novel told entirely through lines of speech. The martial world can be a little bitter, so why not try a candied hawthorn? The first bite is tart, but the sweetness lingers. Another one, dear guest! Welcome to the Candied Hawthorn Inn!
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Spring and Autumn in the Textbooks 课本春秋
Seasons in the Textbook A Republican-era classroom, with one teacher and several students [Volume One] First School Year (Autumn 1932–Summer 1933): The Beginning of Learning Opening Note: In the autumn of 1932, the ancestral hall in Qingxi Town opened its doors as a school. Five children walked inside. Over the next six years, they would see the whole world from here. A Poem for the Opening The ancestral hall’s threshold stands three inches high. The children lift their feet to cross, unawar
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The Blood-Red Wedding Dress: My Five-Hundred-Year-Old Ghost Girlfriend 血色嫁衣我的五百岁女鬼女友
A female ghost in a blood-red wedding dress! A sinister plot that extinguished all humanity! A meeting five hundred years in the making: she came back in this life for you! Young Gu Linchuan secluded himself in Jiangnan to prepare for his exams, only to encounter Rong Qianlu, a five-hundred-year-old female ghost dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Her family was slaughtered when she was alive, turning her into a vengeful spirit, but Gu Linchuan’s gentleness brought out her vulnerable side. The
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Sacrifice the Protagonist to Heaven! Boundless Magic? 主角祭天！法力无边？
Sacrifice the Protagonist to Heaven! Boundless Magic Power?
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Record of the Illusory Sea of Love: The Great Void Livestream 情天幻海录太虚直播间
The Illusory Realm of the Great Void, by the shores of the Sea of Love. Fairy Jing Huan had been staring blankly into a water mirror for three days. What it reflected was not her peerless beauty, but the countless scenes of the mortal world: office workers scrolling through their phones on the subway, middle-aged men and women haggling at matchmaking corners, livestreamers crying, “Brother, love me!”, and exhausted wage slaves staying up late making PowerPoints until they went bald... “Such mudd
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Gluttony’s Execution Ground: Crime and Punishment at the Bottom of the Food Chain 饕餮刑场——食物链底层的罪与罚
The Gluttonous Execution Ground: Crime and Punishment at the Bottom of the Food Chain
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The Savage Era: The Legend of Tang Yan 蛮荒纪元：棠焱传奇
The Wilds Era: The Legend of Tang Yan
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Slaughter Kindergarten: Killergarten 杀戮幼儿园——Killergarten
Killergarten
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Canceled Star Goes Live, Draining Academicians' Pensions 塌房艺人开直播，掏空院士养老金
“Thanks to [If You're This Capable, Why Not Join the Chinese Academy of Sciences?] for sending a hundred Carnival gifts. Boss, you're invulnerable to bullets and blades.” After turning down yet another visit from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gu Ran turned around and explained the three ways to achieve controlled nuclear fusion to his fans. Other streamers' fans have an average education level of middle school. Gu Ran's fans average a PhD.
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Learning Physics with Tomatoes 跟着番茄学物理
Want to embark on a mind-bending and thrilling adventure in pursuit of knowledge? The story begins with Xiao Rui, a flippant student who hates studying. By chance, he is struck by an idea presented in the program Starry Night Exploration. The show goes beyond the surface of traditional myths to delve into their deeper meaning, suggesting that myths may have been the ancients’ unique way of exploring the unknown. This instantly inspires everyone to reconsider the myths they thought they knew. As
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I Get One Day a Month to Do Whatever I Want 我每月拥有一次，为所欲为日
A real-world sandbox. On the last day of every month, the world freezes, and only the protagonist can move. He can do whatever he wants, treating the whole world as his private sandbox. He thought he could keep this bug to himself forever, but it turned out others could move too: the Month-End Man, the Faceless Man, the Parasites, the Gravekeeper, and more, appearing one after another as the story unfolds.
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Young Riders Beneath the White Horse and Western Wind 白马西风少年行
On a moonlit night by the river, she saves an exceptionally beautiful “girl,” unaware that she has uncovered the most sordid secret of the powerful. At fifteen, he is a peerless beauty kept as a forbidden possession, and a vengeful soul burdened with a blood feud. At twenty, she is pure and noble, with the heart of a chivalrous heroine and a tender soul, yet she is forced into this twisted storm of power and desire. As the marquis’s cavalry closes in, she protects the broken boy, fleeing for
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Even as a Rich Tycoon, I Still Want to Be a Simp for Women 做了神豪我也要当女舔狗
[Readers, please read the content warnings first. This novel has a lot of potentially upsetting content.] Wishing everyone who has found this book good health and smooth sailing in the new year, with wealth rolling in during the Year of the Snake. Here is a list of possible deal-breakers. Pick and choose what you’re comfortable with: 1. The female lead is strong and the male leads are weaker. There are multiple male leads. The female lead is not sexually inexperienced, and some male leads aren’t
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