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The Candied Hawthorn Skewer Pierces Through 冰糖葫芦竹签儿穿
My new book is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. The story is based on real experiences. I'm writing it carefully, and the process has been smooth, without writer's block or made-up details. These experiences are like candied hawthorn skewers: the bamboo sticks pierced my body, yet became the backbone of my life. I hope this honest, heartfelt story brings you joy. Reading brings insight, and I hope you find your own independent perspective along the way.
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First Love? Who Cares! The Chinese Teacher Has Big Plans 初恋算个屁,语文老师要干大事
(No System, no golden finger, no being reborn, just slow growth) After getting back together with her first love, being smacked by a parent, and getting stabbed by her own boyfriend, she lost the ability to have children. Then, after finishing her graduate school entrance exams, her mother died unexpectedly. Xia Shinan decided, “First love can go to hell. Building a career and making big money are what matter most!” Xia Shinan (a pun on “born female”), a 26-year-old woman, comes from a family t
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A Pregnant Blind Date? I Tearfully Order Australian Lobster and Make a Million 相亲怀孕女?我含泪点澳洲龙虾,狂赚百万
A Pregnant Blind Date? I Tearfully Order Australian Lobster and Make a Million
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The Way of Demand: A Sales Mogul’s Journey 需求之道:销售大佬的来时路
Sales are the foundation of this world’s development! You might think I’m talking nonsense. What is the essence of sales? Exchanging what we have for what others want. Exactly: a transaction! Isn’t sales about making money? Money is just currency, a medium, a tool. Think about it: in your work, daily life, and studies, whenever you deal with people, what isn’t a transaction? At work, you trade your time, physical strength, and intelligence for a salary, bonuses, recognition, appreciation, self-f
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Died by the River 逝于江河
Two years into their marriage, Meng Ran became pregnant with Yang Peng's child, but something about it all felt wrong. Those choices that seemed so firm were really just hesitant attempts to weigh the pros and cons. “How wonderful it is to be young” was nothing but an illusion. We all once held lofty dreams, but now we live ignobly. Can Meng Ran and Yang Peng clear away the fog, cross the wilderness, and make a steady passage into the real world? Or are they headed for ruin?
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The Strongest Man 最强人
The strongest person isn’t the one who defeats others, but the one who refuses to be defeated by anyone or anything. Zhuang Xiaoqiang grew up in a poor family. His father’s downward spiral left the family on the verge of falling apart when Xiaoqiang was just eight. From then on, he shouldered the burden of supporting his family. He learned early how important money was to a household, and knew there was no one he could rely on. Everything he wanted had to be earned with his own hands, whether a
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Reborn in 1993: Dark Sea 重生1993,暗海
The physical edition of Wrathful Sea, Calm the Abyss is now available. Presales officially begin at 19:00 on October 11. [Reborn] [Mystery] [Undercover Agent] [Revenge] [Anti-Drug Operations] [Counterespionage] The golden finger is extremely weak, and he relies on his own abilities. This is a battle of wits between highly intelligent opponents, so you need to keep your brain switched on. There is no showing off and face-slapping! Ideal for veteran readers. If you understand it, you'll find it ve
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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My Landlord Is a Pop Idol 我的房东是偶像歌手
Gu Zhinan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an online novelist. Could his beautiful landlady really be a washed-up idol singer? One day, she leaves her guitar in the living room... "I can't write songs. I'm just a novelist. I was only messing around." That is, until his landlady is left stunned by the song Gu Zhinan wrote. "Didn't you say you couldn't write songs?" "I know a little, I know a little."
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Keep Moving Forward, Young Man 少年且前行
Bearing the hopes of his disabled parents and supported by every uncle and elder in Kaoshan Village, Wang Yan arrived in Binhai carrying a fertilizer sack full of the future. He stepped onto campus and began his journey toward changing his life…
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The Poppy Woman 罂粟女
Some people seem to be poisonous. Once you accidentally come into contact with them, they cling to you like demons, or hook you like an addictive drug. From then on, you're trapped between heaven and hell, lost without restraint, sinking without restraint, unable to escape...
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Twin Bridges 双桥
Liu Shiyu, a young man from the countryside, starts out at the very bottom. He later joins the army and takes part in the assault on Hill 000 at Narashan Pass, a place of clear waters. He earns a first-class merit award and returns to his hometown of Shuangqiao carrying the remains of his comrade Jin Zhong. Meet one person and stay together for life; choose one city and grow old there. Three women fall for him at the same time: Lu Youyou, a university student who exchanged letters with him from
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Where Does the Cold Wind Go? 冷风归何处
Leng Luoluo should never have been born. She came into the world only because the eldest daughter of the Leng family, Leng Baozhu, needed a bone marrow match to save her life. With Old Master Leng's approval, the live-in son-in-law Bai Zuhui fathered a child with an ugly country woman, and that child, Leng Luoluo, was neglected by everyone. For eighteen years, she and the Leng family's mute maid, Auntie Wu, depended on each other for survival! A twist of fate led Old Master Leng to discover that
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Loving You from Afar 站在远处爱
Liang Qingtong is new to the workplace and deeply admires Lu Chengyang, an industry role model. That exceptional man is her idol, her dream guy. By chance, she becomes his subordinate, and before she knows it, she seems to have fallen for him. He is decisive and efficient at work, but when it comes to love, he has no idea what he’s doing! We’re all just a bunch of unfortunate people: we can’t have the ones we love, we don’t cherish the ones we have, and when we’re together, we suspect each other
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Those of Us Who Don’t Want to Go to Work 不想上班的我们
There are three protagonists in this story: a young man who only wants to open a bar, a young woman who drops out of school to become a livestreamer, and me, someone who always played by the rules but eventually became thoroughly disillusioned with office life. This is a story about a group of young people, just like you and me in our youth. We don't want to go to work, but society beats us down and grinds us into the floor. After enduring hardship, a band of little good-for-nothings rises up to
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Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情
Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself.
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A Woman's Journey Through Marriage 女人与婚姻的经历
[Female-Oriented + Modern Romance + Workplace and Marriage + Flash Marriage + Realistic Family Life] [Women, Love, and Marriage | A True Account of Marriage | Women’s Growth | Emotional Resonance] Before the grief of losing her mother had even faded, Xinyang was pressured by her whole family to get married and rushed into a flash marriage. She found her hastily chosen partner through a radio station and gave up the career she loved to throw herself into the daily grind of married life. She thou
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Love, Hate, and Old Feuds Between Two Generations 两代人的爱恨情仇恩怨
She is determined to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death, but her stepmother and stepsister frame her, plunging her into danger time and again! She escapes certain doom, and is fortunate to meet business tycoon Qin Haonan, who falls for her at first sight and pursues her… People reveal different sides of themselves when it comes to love and family, and a single thought can lead to heaven or hell! Good and evil both get what they deserve, and fate always comes full circle! Those who commi
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The Wind at the Alley’s End and the Evening Stars 巷口的风和晚星
[Tragic Romance + Mutual Salvation + Wild-Dog Hero] On a rainy night at seventeen, well-behaved Ji Xing stumbled upon the most brutal act of protection from the delinquent Xie Li. After ten years apart, they meet again amid the dust of a demolition site, and their love quietly rekindles. But just as their passion flares back to life, he pushes her away in the cruelest way. When his brother tearfully tells her the truth about Huntington’s disease, she rushes into the hospital room clutching her p
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The City of Woven Sand 织沙之城
[The first online novel set in Nansha District, Guangzhou, the heart of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. A 2023 key project supported by the China Writers Association] A heroine’s coming-of-age story + the gentle flow of everyday life + women’s entrepreneurship What is home? What does one’s hometown mean? As the Pearl River rushes toward the sea, Mai Jiaying, a post-90s small-town exam ace, grows tired of her salt-scented, out-of-the-way hometown. All she wants is to fly to the ca
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As Long as Life Endures, So Does the Struggle 生命不息奋斗不止
As long as there’s life, there’s struggle
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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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The Failing Farmer 不及格农民
The Failing Farmer
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Heartache 心灵之痛
Heartache
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Non-Artificial Intelligence 非人工智能
Not Artificial Intelligence
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My Elders 我的长辈
In the 1980s, as people flock to the cities, all kinds of stories unfold! Mu Fang suffers from asthma, so many people keep their distance. After several unsuccessful matchmaking attempts, she meets someone on a day when sleet begins to fall. It feels like fate has brought them together, and they fall in love at first sight. Defying her family’s objections, Mu Fang marries her second uncle, who is more than ten years her senior. She never looks down on him for being poor and from the countryside,
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The Pretty Widow of Peach Blossom Creek, Loved by a Young Man 桃花溪的俏寡妇,小年轻爱上她
The night twenty-two-year-old Li Yuchuan returned to his village, he stumbled upon a woman bathing by Peach Blossom Creek. In the moonlight, her skin glowed white. Water slid from her collarbone to the small of her back. She tipped her head back to toss her hair, then flicked out her tongue to lick a drop of water from the corner of her mouth. That one little movement nearly made his soul fly away. Later, he learned she was the “jinx” everyone in the village talked about. Jiang Yuwei. Thirty-fiv
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My Five Sisters Raised Me, So I Bought Each of Them a House 五个姐姐养大我,我送每人一套房
When I was seven, Mom and Dad were gone. My five older sisters took turns raising me. The eldest dropped out of school to work a sewing machine. The second scavenged rotten vegetables at the market. The third earned money competing in tournaments. The fourth never had an entry labeled “for herself” in her ledger. The fifth cut off her long braids and sold them for eight yuan to pay my tuition. Chen Zi'en lived next door. He was the school bully, feared by everyone. He'd never lost a fight, but
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He Hid in the Years, Loving Me for So Long 他藏在时光里,爱了我很多年
My name is Guo Yaoze. When I was six, a little girl moved in next door. She wore two tiny pigtails and had dimples when she smiled. She gave me her only lollipop. “Brother Xiaoze, I don’t like sweets.” It was twenty years before I learned she’d been lying to me. When I was nine, my family moved away. She cried downstairs, and I cried in the car. At fifteen, I transferred back and she became my desk mate, but she didn’t remember me. At seventeen, after the college entrance exams, my mother sent
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Adrift in a Sea of Debt 债海沉浮
The pressure of credit card payments, calls from bank debt collectors, relentless harassment over online loans, and reproaches and complaints from his wife and friends weigh on him like a boulder on his chest. Every breath brings pain. He works day and night, yet still cannot fill the bottomless pit of debt. For him, life has become an endless struggle of helplessness. Every time hope flickers to life, reality cruelly snuffs it out. Even his once-beautiful, virtuous wife gets into someone else's
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Middle Age 人到中年
My wife cheated on me, my brother turned against me, and at thirty, I hit the lowest point of my life! When money is at stake, everyone shows their true, ugly faces. Betrayed by family and confronted with the greed of friends, I was pushed into an abyss of despair by countless grasping hands. I had no choice but to struggle back to my feet and reach for the sunshine that belonged to me!
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So What If He's the Campus Heartthrob? I Woke Up and Stopped Chasing Him 校草又怎样,恋爱脑清醒后不追了
[Devoted to each other + one-on-one romance + school life + coming of age + groveling after losing her] Gu Yitang had a dream that wasn't quite a nightmare. In it, she married the boy she had always loved, her childhood friend. Then the nightmare began. The life that followed wasn't what she had imagined, and she was plunged into endless panic. So she did everything she could to save herself, determined not to repeat the dream's mistakes. She stopped orbiting Xia Zhihe and began to step outside
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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
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Everyday Love 恋恋日常
The night before she was supposed to meet his parents, Xu Yuan’s boyfriend of six years broke up with her. In a fit of spite, she posted on her social feed: “Whoever can make it to my place by tomorrow morning, I’ll get engaged to him.” Chen Xingyu replied in an instant: “I’m in.” At eight the next morning, he showed up right on time with a huge bouquet of lilies: impeccably dressed in a suit, with a bright smile. Meanwhile, her ex, who had never once introduced her to his family in six years, d
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Reborn in Officialdom: Governing the County, Ruling the World 重生官场之县治天下
This book connects seamlessly with Rebirth on the Official and Business Paths. The county is the foundation of a peaceful nation. Being a county magistrate is hard, and being one in a poor county is even harder. Li Yuanfang is reborn in 1990 and steps onto the official and business paths, achieving both wealth and power. In governing the county, he dares to face challenges head-on and strikes decisively. With exceptional courage and strategy, he defeats his opponents time and again, winning one
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The Open Era 开放时代
Li Yuanfang was reborn in 1990. Riding the tide of the reform era, he started out as a township civil servant, used his knowledge of the future to develop an export-oriented economy, and built a business empire. With his ingenuity and iron will, he rose from adversity, took charge of a region, and battled all kinds of powerful forces. He built water conservancy projects, roads, and schools, bringing benefits to the people and helping ordinary families achieve their dream of a stable, comfortable
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Trapped in My Boss’s Office... 被困上司办公室后……
After Getting Trapped in My Boss's Office...
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A Collection of Short Stories 短篇小故事合集
A Collection of Short Stories
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The Ascetic Heartthrob Doesn’t Play Innocent, and I Laughed 禁欲系男神他不吃素,我笑了
The Chaste Male God Doesn't Do Vegetables. I Laughed.
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What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛
Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi
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Workhorses Don't Die on Mondays 牛马不会死在周一
The Working Stiffs Don't Die on Mondays
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There Is No Winter in Shenzhen 深圳没有冬天
There Is No Winter in Shenzhen
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Shrinking 缩水
Shrinking
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The Chinese Bodyguard 国产保镖
[Urban] [Special Forces] [Bodyguard] [Based on real life] [Workplace] [Realistic] My name is Xiao He. I grew up in the countryside of Heilongjiang. I enlisted at seventeen and left the army at nineteen. I've worked as a bodyguard for over ten years. I've worked for plenty of bosses: real estate developers, film company owners, oil traders, people in shady businesses, gamblers in Macau... Some were worth tens of billions, while others ended up behind bars soon enough. A lot of people think a body
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The Three Madwomen in the Village 村里的三个疯女人
[Completed] Three women in Fang Family Village have been branded “crazy.” Three women, three different kinds of “madness,” and three very different lives and fates. The futures of their children quietly take shape amid their mothers’ lives, whether muddled, broken, or clear-eyed, and turn out entirely different.
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Building Dreams in Hong Kong 香江筑梦
Working title: Hong Kong: I Make Watches, You Become a Shark at Sea [Underdog's rise + industrial empire + wealthy-family feuds + brotherhood in the underworld + beauty pageants and film + based on real events] In 1978, a young man from Chaodong crawled from a shark's jaws onto the shores of Hong Kong. In time, one would crawl into a wealthy family, while the other would crawl into prison. Lin Haisheng doesn't chase quick money or rely on a System or supernatural powers. Instead, he insists on t
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The End of Ordinary 平凡的尽头
The story began in 2019. It was a turbulent time, and I stopped writing after a hasty 50,000 words. Then, in May 2020, I finished it. At 250,000 words, it is too short to cover all the joys and sorrows of this bustling world through the changing years. It tells only of several years spent wandering through life. The story is based entirely on real events. Freedom, marriage, career, money, family, friendship. As someone born in the 1990s, I have always questioned the world. I hoped to find answer
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Have I Been Possessed? 被夺舍了?
Have I been possessed?
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My Desk Mate, Just Like the Old Days 念你如初的同桌
My Deskmate, Just Like the Old Days
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The Sky Is Still Blue 天,依然蔚蓝
The sky is still blue
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