Any Realistic Romance Novels With a Calm, Everyday Feel? 有没有那种现实点的言情，平平淡淡那种
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- 501 A Good Match Has Yet to Be Found 良辰未许人 On her thirty-second birthday, Liang Chen met Chen Qian in person after chatting online for three days. She expected another case of someone looking better in photos, but her ideal type was sitting right across from her: a year younger, tall and handsome, romantic and funny. Even the curve of his smile was exactly to her taste. They fell passionately in love in no time. But amid all the sweetness, they both found themselves wondering: One of us is beautiful and clever, the other is gentle and ha 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 502 When the Wind Rises Again 风再起时 He is the coldest blade among surgeons, his edge impossible to hide. Once infamous, he was sealed away in a blood-soaked past and thought his life was beyond saving. Now the turmoil has begun anew, and he teeters on the edge of fate. But this time, he is not alone. Someone would stand by his side even against the whole world. I am mired in the mud, yet I still struggle to spread my branches, longing to bloom in the sunlight, because there is warmth there, and you. 302Reads9.5Score10314d adds
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The Female Side Character Is Too Radiant, and the Villain Can't Stop Kissing Her 女配太明媚，会被黑化大佬亲上瘾
I got a low score because someone sabotaged me. Kids, don’t read this. “Bright, charming, and bold villainess × a gloomy, unhinged big shot who pretends to be deaf” The moment Song Chuntian opened her eyes, she found herself in the role of the vicious female supporting character who tormented the future big shot. The original owner of her body had committed countless evil deeds. Now reborn, Fu Shen had fallen completely into darkness. He locked her away in a private sanatorium and tortured her
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Author, Your Secret Identity Is Showing! 作者大大，你的马甲掉了！
A brilliant female writer, burdened by a false accusation, disguises herself as a timid editor and infiltrates the company that caused her father’s death to exact revenge. By chance, she ends up living with a sharp-tongued literary star investigating the same case. As they test each other and their true identities come to light, they join forces to expose the dark truth.
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A Marriage of Money 钱婚
To become the dutiful daughter, good wife, and loving mother everyone expected, Liu Xiaoqing buried her youthful dreams and deepest desires before the age of thirty-three, living a life of constant compromise. After graduating, she painfully gave up her dream of becoming a writer and took the civil service exam, becoming a government employee. At home, she endured her in-laws' repeated provocations, again and again, just to preserve her marriage. At work, she likewise chose to put up with her
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Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风
[Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn.
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Eight Years After My Divorce, I Turned My Life Around 离婚八年后，我的人生实现逆袭
Modern urban romance + domineering CEO + face-slapping + doting on one woman alone… For the sake of pursuing love, I gave up the whole world. All I got in return was betrayal by my lover and provocation from his mistress… After learning my lesson the hard way, from now on, I'll only care about my future, not people. If I don't make something of myself, I'll even change my surname… But this handsome, cocky, cold-faced pretty boy keeps picking fights, taking advantage of his youth and wealth, and
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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?
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What That Girl Wants to Tell You 那女孩想对你说
If Jin Ruofeng was Mo Xiaoju's tribulation in love, then Liu Yuyan's tribulation in love was Mo Xiaoju; If Jin Ruofeng became the inner demon Mo Xiaoju could never fully purge, then Liu Yuyan was the antidote that saved her. On a midsummer night when she was sixteen, Jin Ruofeng could never have known that when Mo Xiaoju softly answered his question with, “Okay,” agreeing to give dating a try, it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. She meant to keep that promise for the rest of their lives. Du
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- 510 No Lamps, No Moon, So What? 无灯无月又何妨 If two hearts understand each other, what need have they for lamps or moonlight? If one day we’re caught in the same snow, then we’ll have shared a lifetime of gray hair. Even if we lived together in perfect harmony, there would still be regrets! May you weather every storm and still keep the light in your eyes, never straying from your original purpose. 35Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 511 Yi Ning Hidden in My Heart 忆柠藏于心 [Modern sweet romance + reunion after years apart + secret crush + domineering hero who speaks his mind and knows how to flirt] Ten years ago, Han Yining was the beautiful top student in their class, while Xiao Zenan was a quiet underachiever. All his courage was just enough to make him silently clean the blackboard when it was her turn on classroom duty, or pretend that a bandage on her cut hand had come from the class supply monitor. Graduation meant a final goodbye. He became an auto mechanic 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Cold-Faced Officer's White Moonlight 冷面军官的白月光
That night, they sat on the steps outside the photography studio, eating wontons. The July heat in Shanghai was stifling as a steamer, and cicadas poured their cries from the plane trees’ canopies, spreading them across the ground. Shen Zhi prodded a wonton with her chopsticks, then suddenly asked, “How did you get by during those two years in Yemen?”
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The Broken Imperial Seal 残玺
“Anger is commonplace, but a smiling man is inscrutable...” Inspired by a hidden chapter of real history, this tells the story of a wild strategic-level scientist’s rise and growth. The premise is fresh, fantastical yet grounded in reality, and encompasses history, the workplace, the military, scientific research, national security, criminal investigation, elaborate schemes, murder, and modern high-stealth espionage, high-tech hacking, and high-intensity aerospace electronic warfare. The ending
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A Love to Remember 倾程之恋
[Gentle Girl x Cool, Reserved Doctor] (They choose each other + sweet everyday romance + age gap + no angst) Because of one person, you fall in love with an entire city. A love that unfolds little by little is beautiful. No grand gestures, no endless arguments, just two people choosing each other and understanding one another. “Professor, do you have a girlfriend?” a pretty student asks boldly. “The professor doesn’t have a girlfriend. He has a fiancée,” Ye Huaizhi replies impassively, casting
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The Three Beauties of the Su Family 苏家三美
[Contemporary Urban Fiction + Uplifting + Down-to-Earth] The love stories of three sisters: Marrying up, marrying on equal terms, or marrying down? What does it really take to marry happily? If you've run out of shows to watch lately, come read my book! Reading it is just like binge-watching a TV series. You'll definitely fall in love with the three beautiful Su sisters! Su Yimei marries into a wealthy family. She's a clever, strong female lead, and I'll do her justice! Su Ermei is physically di
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Etched on My Heart 纹心尖
[Print publication signed! See 🧣 for updates] [Tattoo artist × teacher] [Both virgins / happy ending] Mu Yanxin and Qi Xiao met for the first time at a tattoo parlor. The second time was on a rainy day, when he offered her an umbrella. The third time, they became neighbors. They fell for each other. Just as Qi Xiao began planning how to pursue her, Mu Yanxin suddenly asked him, “Should we get married?” Qi Xiao: “?” What kind of incredible windfall is this??? #Roguishly handsome tattoo artis
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A Dream of Sweet Wine in the Next Life 来生梦清酌
Reborn + alternate history + steadily satisfying progression + one heroine + mystery + martial arts: Just as I was looking forward to a promotion and ready to reach the pinnacle of my career, I was repeatedly tormented by an endlessly looping nightmare that dragged me into the abyss of death. After dying countless times in my dreams, I devised a careful plan, but in the end, I still couldn't escape death. With my memories intact, I was reborn in the Great Liang Empire. Though I was now starting
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- 518 Going All In on Brutal Honesty 将直球进行到底 [Print edition releases September 19] [1v1/SC/HE] [Cool and aloof × devoted puppy] Original title: She Lured Me Ming Zhi was the dance department's campus beauty, while Yuan Xingyu was the music department's campus heartthrob. Although students often shipped this “beautiful couple” in the school's gossip forum, the two had never interacted. That is, until their sophomore year… * Ming Zhi was a cool, indifferent girl with no interest in romance. For the first time in her life, she faced a crisis 6.4kReads9.4Score80014d adds
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Those of Us Born in the ’80s 八零后的我们
We, the post-80s generation, have weathered life's joys and sorrows and suffered enough from the hardships of life and marriage. Amid the daily grind, our days have been steadily dwindling, and before we knew it, our generation had reached middle age...
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- 520 A Cigarette 一支烟 I stood up and staggered toward the exit. I struggled to push away each person who came to help me. I didn't take the elevator. Step by step, I climbed the stairs to the rooftop. When I pushed open the rooftop door, a hint of late autumn's cool breeze brushed my face. The light was so bright that I had to squint. I could clearly see her. Across the rooftop stood a long-haired girl. She said, “Could I have a cigarette?” If you're willing, I'll love you forever. If you're not, I'll choose to pine 89Reads—Score—14d adds
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Wait: The Years Flow Like Water 等等：似水流年
Lin Deng, who had secretly loved Liang Feng for years, finally received the wedding invitation. She mustered the courage to say goodbye and wish him well, unaware that fate had already begun another destined journey of healing.
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The Woman Next Door 邻家女人
The lives of women in an old Shanghai mansion [A self-conscious, bullied high school beauty who draws everyone in + a devoted childhood sweetheart who is her pure first love] [A chaotic, troubled painter + a refined, domineering gallery owner, drawn to each other] [A despairing housewife with depression + her cold doctor husband, who has to fight to win her back] [Urban romance + sweet campus love + an ensemble of women] In an old French-style mansion in Shanghai, Zhang Yajing has just signed a
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The Days We Spent Together 我们相聚的日子
This novel portrays the marriages of a generation with heartfelt honesty. Chen Qian, born in the 1980s, chooses to marry without a wedding or even a proper ceremony. Pregnant before marriage, she leaves her child in their hometown after the wedding and sets out with Yin Li to make a living. Yin Li struggles at work and is tricked into joining a pyramid scheme, and they endure all kinds of bitter and sweet experiences and dramatic ups and downs. Yin Hui falls victim to domestic abuse at the hands
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A Rainbow of Silks Before the Palace Gate 霓裳惊阙
Political intrigue + romance + strong female lead This is a slow-burn story, an extremely slow burn!!! If you like fresh, lighthearted jianghu adventures, start with Volume One. If you like the twists and turns of court politics, start with Volume Two. If you like domineering emperor + haughty consort + substitute romance, start with Volume Three. If you like an unconventional succession struggle, start with Volume Four. Everything else is in Volume Five. The story takes place in a fictional Eas
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An Eleven-Year Bond of Youth 青春的十一年羁绊
In her second year of school, Ning Cai met Tan Haoyang, the boy who dazzled her youth. She stayed by his side as he grew, witnessing all the ways he changed. One breathtaking glimpse, eleven years together, and fifteen years to finally let go. We shared a past, but each of us has our own future. If she could start over, Ning Cai would choose to be brave. To everyone reading this: don't let regret become the main theme of your life. If you're brave, take action. Otherwise, whether it's something
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- 526 Republican Era: My Sister Falls for My Brother-in-Arms, and Her Brother Cries in Desperation 民国：妹妹爱上兄弟，哥哥急哭了 [The rating is low because so few people have rated it, not because it's not good!] Gu Tinglan has two "older brothers." One is her older brother in name, Gu Liansheng. They grew up together and relied on each other to survive in troubled times. The other is Lu Chengzhou, a powerful Young Marshal. Refined and mature, he's her guardian angel, rescuing her from danger time and again. She thought she could keep everything in balance, until she opened Gu Liansheng's diary and found it filled with th 510Reads8.3Score—14d adds
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I Want You 我渴望你
Sweet romance, both pure A sister who knows how to act cute The first time Leng Muchen met his friend's younger sister, he thought enviously, Having a sister who knows how to act cute must be pretty nice. Later, he thought, Having a girlfriend who knows how to act cute would be nice too. The first time Wen Jianing met Leng Muchen, she thought, No wonder his surname is Leng. He has the built-in freezing function of a refrigerator. She was genuinely curious whether a guy who was so cold and looked
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- 528 The Days of First Love 初恋岁月 During the three years they knew each other, she experienced love for the first time in her life, and he gave her a beautiful romance. No matter how things ultimately turned out, whether they came together or drifted apart, she was still grateful that he had come into her life. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 529 The Begonias Bloom for You Again 海棠今又为君开 [Historical Romance + Sweet Romance + National and Family Feuds] In her previous life, Xiuyi trusted a scumbag and agreed to marry him, only to be pushed into a pond by a scheming white lotus and drown! Reborn, she opened a clinic, saved her father and brothers, kicked the scumbag to the curb, and schemed to have the white lotus die a gruesome death in prison. The cold-faced marquis, whose power held sway over the realm, drew her into his arms: “Don't worry! With me here, everything will be your 41.7kReads9.3Score4.5k14d adds
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A Ray of Light Falls Upon My Heart 一束光洒落我心
After cruelty comes redemption, and redemption finds love! A romance between people of very different status, with a wealthy second male lead pursuing a sweet, innocent girl! A rich heiress falls for her poor teacher! Solving cases in court and avenging old wrongs! What goes around comes around!
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- 531 You Are My Gentle Moonlight 你是我的温柔月光 After graduating, Lin Yiran started working at a company. There, she met someone incredibly gentle. For the first time, she experienced what it meant to have a secret crush. From wanting to win that person's love to finally letting go, it was an experience, and a journey of growth. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Playboy and the Five Golden Flowers 风流之子与五朵金花
[Completed] If you happened to click on this, please read a few more pages, or even a few dozen, and help boost my stats. Thanks for your support! This is the story of a group of people who came from elsewhere to work and put down roots in Zhuhai. They fall in love, get married, buy homes, and have children. The first half covers their lives up to marriage. The second half explores marriage, human nature, changes in society, and growing up in middle age. This novel has a calm and gentle tone, pe
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Tang Tiantian Meets the Third Young Master of the Mo Family 糖甜甜遇莫家三郎
When she was five, her mother died by suicide after battling cancer and depression. When he was ten, his parents divorced because of their troubled relationship. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, he was dumped by his girlfriend when he proposed. He then shut himself away in S City and spent six years writing online novels. At twenty-two, after graduating from college, she became a high school teacher in S City, only to be driven out of her home by her stepmother. Two people from trou
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- 534 After the Divorce 离婚之后 [An animated series based on this book is coming soon. If you enjoy Qiuqiu's work, please keep an eye out for it!] This story tackles a subject close to real life, one I've always wanted to write about but never dared to. After writing a few feel-good power fantasies, I found myself returning to this subject, with an even stronger urge to express what I wanted to say. And so this book was born… Yang Zhixuan was a full-time homemaker who was divorced after fifteen years of marriage. On a snowy ni 10.6kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
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I Kissed the Blossoms in Paris 我在巴黎吻过繁花
[Older Woman-Younger Man Romance + Cross-Cultural Love + Reunion After Years Apart] Gentle, adorable heroine vs. scheming, sharp-tongued hero. A new contemporary romance from popular Jinjiang author Xixi Dongdong! After a long run of bad luck, Cheng Xiwei finally catches a break and finds a job that lets her trade work for a place to stay. But it turns out there’s another freeloader in the house: a debt-collecting nightmare! And so begins their noisy life under one roof. Cheng Xiwei follows her
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The Man Next Door 男邻居
Qiao Mai, a country girl, endures a rough journey from her wedding and childbirth to miscarriage and divorce. Over the course of twelve years of marriage, the special sweetness of being each other’s “darling” fades amid her husband’s disrespect and inaction. Her affection is gradually extinguished by the havoc wreaked by her mother-in-law and three sisters-in-law, until the marriage finally ends in divorce. The story begins with a man living downstairs listening to his neighbors having sex in th
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A Love Story in Chaoshan 潮汕情事
In the old homes of Chaoshan lie the wildest lives and the warmest hearts. In the 1970s and 80s, a group of Chaoshan people who refused to give up fought their way through poverty, loved through storms, and lived by the bonds between people. Some dared to fight and forge ahead, dragging their lives up out of the mud. Others were loyal and true, unwilling to betray anyone even when it cost them. Love brought tangled relationships, family brought its share of strain, and neighbors argued, but when
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Newly Married, Waiting for Love 新婚，候爱
(Love after marriage) + (slow-burn romance) + (seven-year age gap + both leads are pure) + (sweet everyday romance) + (a guiding, attentive lover) (Reserved, independent female lead vs. steady, nurturing male lead) The Su and Qin families of Nancheng have been bound by marriage alliances for a century. The tradition has endured for generations, but when the eldest daughter of the fifth-generation Qin family runs away from her wedding, the alliance nearly falls apart. Su Jingxu is a cool, restrai
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- 539 Transmigration: I’m Crushing My Scumbag Ex in a Parallel World 穿越：我在平行世界爆虐渣男前夫 (Soul transmigration and a creative premise + healing from childhood family trauma) One morning, Tang Wanwan wakes up and discovers she has transmigrated... The wounds inflicted by your birth family must be healed within that family. Love is a kind of redemption, a light that gathers lost time. Somehow, it was all destined to be. She is financially independent, beautiful, and sophisticated. He is handsome and wickedly charming, but hopelessly addicted to gambling. It was love at first sight. She 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Harbin Lover 哈尔滨情人
Looking at this man, my heart was a jumble of emotions. Suddenly, tears streamed down my face, and I couldn't help kissing the man who had brought me so much happiness. It felt as though it wasn't my lips kissing him, but my heart. As I left, I said, “Thank you.” I didn't dare look back, but my face was covered in tears. I knew there would be no more uncertainty between us. This was the end of our relationship.
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- 541 Fourteen Sentences 十四句 [The print edition of Fourteen Lines, bearing the same title, is now available on multiple platforms.] Life is like duckweed on the water, so why doubt that people will meet and part? Morality and ethics clash with matters of the heart. A realistic story. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. The greatest regret isn’t that people enter your life at different times, but that you’re meant to meet without being meant to be together. A remorseful husband tries to win back his wife. Written as realis 2.3kReads8.9Score22914d adds
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Love’s Ordeal 情坎
A secret relationship with her enemy’s son leads to her younger brother’s death in an accident. Unable to bear the loss of his son, her father, disgraced by his daughter’s actions, throws Gu Yan out of the house. The heroine heads alone to the provincial capital, where she meets a kind, honest man who loves her deeply while they’re both working. They eventually marry, and he becomes her husband, Lu Hong. But once they’re together, the gap between their families’ social standing and her husband’s
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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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- 544 Don't Move 站住别动 A “romantic encounter” sparked by a wedding banquet teaches us not to skimp on the cash gift. Once you eat with the gusto of someone who can swallow mountains and rivers, good luck will follow. What is there to fear from a dream man? Even the most aloof person can't resist the warmth and tenderness of everyday life. See how the unassuming Yuan Chun wins over the superstar who's “immune to women.” 646Reads9.0Score—14d adds
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Never Mess with a Pisces Woman 千万不要招惹双鱼座女生
[Workplace] [Urban Life] [Marriage Before Love] Mumu is a Pisces woman who entered the workplace with two labels already attached to her: timid and easy to bully. But no one knows that beneath the soft exterior of a Pisces lies the heart of a great demon king. When everyone thinks she’ll be swallowed up by the workplace, Mumu proves to the world through her actions: Don’t make a Pisces cry, because once she’s done crying, it’ll be your turn. This novel could also be called Mumu’s Rise to the Top
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Getting Addicted to You 予你入瘾
[The First Time] Lu Shiyan said to Su Wan with a cold expression, “This is the first time, and it'll be the last.” [Later] The second time, the third time... Su Wan cursed him furiously in her heart: What a bastard. Men really can't be trusted. Many years later, Lu Shiyan looked at Su Wan, asleep beside him, and sighed to himself: As expected, getting involved with the same woman more than three times really does lead to trouble. Su Wan thought she was just an unexpected episode in his life
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All Things Are Illusions 凡所有相
Medicine can’t save the world. It can only save the people in it. But this is the way of the world: the people you save may still pick up a knife and kill. The female bandit chief pressed a blunt blade to his neck. “Why didn’t you kill me? If you had, the ten cities of Shu would still be standing.” The young man said, “You’re my first patient since I left the mountain. Letting you go without curing you would violate my master’s teachings.” The Buddhist disciple had spent ten years facing a wall
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Within and Beyond the Red Walls, Spring Breeze Enters the Game 红墙内外，春风入局
[Older, Powerful Man] [Age Gap] [Junior Clerk] [Career Growth] [Guiding Lover] [Sweet Romance] One chance encounter, one moment of curiosity, and one... At some point, everything began to change.
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Seeing Through 窥破
[The print edition of Farewell Ceremony is now available on all major platforms.] [Reclusive, cold, troubled girl × possessive, hot-tempered young rogue] Wan Li pressed her fingerprints ten times, and from then on, lost her heart. “Tsk, it's not like you're signing a contract. Don't be nervous.” The young man raised an eyebrow slightly, a smile tugging at his lips. Everyone said Ji Lanzhuo was a dissolute playboy no one could control. Wan Li wasn't afraid. She threw herself in headfirst and fell
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Blue and Orange Winds Carry the Message 蓝橙风寄
[Yuri GL] Lovers cultivate the path of emotional detachment. A little finger that beckons souls, a bond spanning three thousand years. In a sixteen-year love affair, I was controlled, drained, and psychologically manipulated until I spiraled into a bipolar breakdown. The one who hurt me most was my ex, but the person bound to my fate through a thousand years of reincarnation was always Niuniu. In dreams, we wandered through life after life, parting in death each time. In a battle during the Qi
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