Underrated Romance: Engaging and Free of Tired Tropes 小众言情 耐看 不老套路
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After Two Years on the Job, I Married a Billionaire CEO 上班两年，豪门总裁和我领证
[Beautiful, Innocent Girl + Handsome, Devoted CEO of a Wealthy Family] [Sweet Romance + One-on-One] The heroine, Han Mengyu, is beautiful and innocent, and works at the male lead’s company. Like a little white rabbit, she gradually marries into a wealthy family. The male lead, Lin Ruichen, is the heir to a powerful family: a domineering, handsome CEO devoted to her alone. Their romance is incredibly sweet.
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Stars in the Daytime 白昼有星
Stars in Daylight
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On Our Wedding Night, My Comatose Husband Put His Arm Around My Waist 新婚夜，植物人老公搂住我的腰
[Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Age Gap + Husband Chasing His Wife + Both Chaste] Tong Yao is forced to take her twin sister’s place and marry Gu Jingchen, a former business tycoon who is now in a vegetative state. The whole city pities her, believing she will spend her life as a wife in name only. But on their wedding night, the sleeping man suddenly wraps an arm around her waist. The once decisive king of the business world wakes up and takes back his immense power. Everyone wait
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Desert and Spring Breeze 沙漠与春风
Desert and Spring Breeze
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On My Wedding Night, I Revived a Comatose Tycoon 新婚夜，我救活了植物人大佬
[Marriage First, Love Later] [Sweet Romance] [Age Gap] [Scheming Male Lead] Jiang Yan grew up in a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. From childhood, she studied medicine under her grandparents, both seasoned physicians, and mastered the art of acupuncture. However, fate had other plans. Her father's company was on the brink of collapse, and to save it, she was forced to marry Lu Jingming, a business genius who had been left in a vegetative state by a car accident. Known for h
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Planting the Sun on the Gobi 戈壁滩上种太阳
Growing the Sun on the Gobi
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My Flash-Marriage Husband Is Actually a Trillionaire CEO 闪婚老公，竟是千亿总裁
[Marriage First, Love Later + The Husband Chases His Wife to Win Her Back + Sweet Romance + Both Pure in Love + Age Gap + The Powerful One Bows His Head] Su Shiqi works at a hospital and often hears her colleagues gossip about Gu Tingye. They say that despite his young age, he already controls a business empire. He's the well-known head of one of Jiangcheng's wealthiest families, the dream man countless socialites pursue, and, at just thirty, he holds the reins of half the city's economy. He's
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The Pleasure Pact 愉悦协议
The Pleasure Protocol
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Mr. Cheng Fell for Teacher Yang at First Sight 程总对杨老师一见钟情
[Sweet romance, everyday life, CEO & university English teacher] Yang Yihan, twenty-seven, is an English teacher at Nancheng University. Gentle and sweet, she is fluent in English and French. She is single, not because no one is interested in her. Quite the opposite: so many people pursue her that it gives her a lot of trouble, so she tells people she has a boyfriend. Cheng Jinzhou, thirty-two, is the handsome and charming CEO of Hengshang Group and the dream man of countless women, but he would
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I Restored the Capital’s Tycoon’s Sight, and He Spoils Me Rotten 我让京圈大佬复明，他把我狠狠宠
[Substitute marriage, love after marriage, ex-husband’s redemption, sweet romance, both leads are virgins] Huo Jingchen had a fiery temper, devastating looks, and a decisive, domineering way of doing things. He was arrogant and unruly, with a strong streak of tsundere pride. He was recognized throughout the business world as a genius, famous for his ruthlessness and cunning. His decisive, ruthless methods earned him the nickname “Living Yama,” and made his business rivals tremble at the mere men
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An Island Every Year, Peace of Mind Every Night 岁岁有屿，晚晚心安
An Island for Every Year, Peace of Mind Every Night
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My Blind Date Is a Construction Contractor 我的相亲对象是个包工头
At their first matchmaking meeting, the fierce, ugly-looking He Feng scared the sweet-natured He Lin so badly that she refused to see him again. But He Feng had already taken a liking to her. What was he supposed to do? He Feng said that, aside from looking fierce and ugly, he was good at sweet-talking and tricking people. He Lin never imagined that, as someone who was a sucker for a good voice, she’d fall for it. How could someone have such a lovely voice and such a fierce, ugly face? And hadn’
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The Comatose Tycoon Falls in Love with Me 植物人大佬，爱上我
[Marriage first, love later + devoted to one another + sweet romance] An Ran is a highly skilled neurosurgeon who should have been making a name for herself saving lives. Instead, her greedy stepmother and father force her into the dark depths of fate. Tempted by money, they push her into what seems like an endless, loveless marriage, marrying her off to Mu Tingchen, a legendary business tycoon left in a vegetative state after a car accident. Once, Mu Tingchen ruled the business world with an ir
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She and the Century-Old Lonely Lantern 她与百年孤灯
She and the Century-Old Lonely Lamp
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Aloof Young Master in Public, Clingy Puppy in Private 人前矜冷贵公子，人后黏人小狗
[Complete story. A seemingly gentle but actually scheming, clingy puppy × a girl who seems delicate but is actually sensitive and insecure] Bai Jing, the only son of the powerful Bai family, was the unattainable moon in everyone’s eyes. Cool and proud, he never lowered his head for anyone. Until the university’s freshman mixer. Leaning casually against the second-floor railing, he spotted a girl in a white dress among the crowd below. She was quietly hiding behind her friend, looking shy and tim
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On Our Wedding Night, I Woke My Husband from His Coma 新婚夜，我让植物人老公苏醒了
[Marriage before love + winning her back after breaking her heart + age gap + sweet romance + scheming male lead] Her older sister was suffering from kidney failure and urgently needed money for a transplant. Jiang Yawei swallowed her pride and went home to beg her scumbag father to pay for the surgery, only to catch her boyfriend of three years kissing Jiang Feifei, her half-sister. Her father and stepmother seized the chance to hold her sister’s life-saving money over her head, forcing her to
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The Lady with the Noble Title Is a Formidable Fighter 诰命夫人她武力超群
The Lady of the Household Is a Martial Arts Powerhouse
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The Capital’s Power Player, His Wife’s One and Only 京圈大佬，独宠娇妻
[Marriage first, deep love later + sweet romance + scheming male lead + regretful groveling + age gap] Su Tong never imagined her own father could be so blinded by greed that he’d use her as a bargaining chip and heartlessly send her to the bed of Gu Tingshen, a powerful figure in the capital’s elite circles. Gu Tingshen was notorious among the capital’s elite for being abstinent and calculating, intensely controlling, cold, domineering, and sharp-tongued. Everyone treated him with awe and fear.
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After We Started Dating, I Found Out My Nomad Boyfriend Was the Richest Man on the Grasslands? 恋爱后，牧民男友竟是草原首富？
[Everyday sweetness] [1v1] [Both leads are pure] [Slow burn] He says, “For grassland folk, love is like a lasso. Once you've set your sights on someone, you never let go for the rest of your life.” [Chen Yin, a city nurse with a prickly exterior x Su He, a rugged grassland rancher] A silent father, a short-tempered mother, a brother treated like the family heir: she is left broken. Unable to get through all her night shifts or save enough money, Chen Yin ekes out a living in Yangcheng. Until “Ba
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Reborn, I Saved My Love-Obsessed Mom 重生后，我把恋爱脑妈妈救活了
Reborn, I Saved My Love-Struck Mother
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Back from Northern Myanmar, I Marry a Beijing Tycoon 缅北归来，我嫁给京圈大佬
[Forced Marriage + Powerful Tycoon’s Relentless Pursuit + Sweet Age-Gap Romance] After her boyfriend betrays her, Li Shiqi is sold to northern Myanmar. In her darkest hour, she happens upon Mu Tingye, the capital’s most powerful business tycoon, and only then manages to escape. Having fled a living hell, she is instead forced into marriage by the aloof, celibate business magnate. At first, Mu Tingye only wants to keep her under his thumb. But before long, he falls head over heels and spoils her
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Reading Feng Shui at the Ministry of Justice 我在刑部看风水
I Read Feng Shui at the Ministry of Justice
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North Branch, Southward 北枝向南
A group of people who grew up together thought they could always be like family to one another. But then one of them fell in love, and another wanted to get away... Sheng Beiyan ruined Nan Jinzhen's first love before it had even begun, laid his feelings bare before her, and personally tore apart the so-called sibling and friendship ties between them. Nan Jinzhen avoided him for years. Because she loved music, she entered the entertainment industry and became a singer. She knew someone had always
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Savage Love 爱意野蛮
[Both leads are each other's first and only, devoted to one another, sweet everyday romance] Jiang Li thought she was young and reckless, that she had fallen for the wrong person. She left everything behind and went abroad, never knowing that someone was quietly guarding her, his heart wholly devoted to her. An accident took Jiang Li's life. Qi Mochi followed close behind. Heaven had cut off his one reason to keep going, and all his efforts had lost their meaning. People in their circle all said
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Journal of Physics in the Cultivation World 修仙界物理学报
Journal of Physics in the Cultivation World
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The Moon's One and Only: He Came with the Stars 独宠月亮：他携星辰而来
[Mutual devotion, healing, sweet romance with no angst] To Gu Zhi, Su Yichen is tall and handsome, as gentle as jade. No matter how many times she gets another chance, she still finds herself falling into those eyes filled with stars. The real Su Yichen is stubborn and aloof. The tenderness everyone talks about is something only Gu Zhi gets to see. He can only feel at ease if he’s the one cherishing the girl he loves. * Gu Zhi happens to rescue a puppy, and meets Su Yichen for the first time at
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What Boundaries Between Uncle and Sister-in-Law? The Proud Young Lord Insists on Spoiling Her 叔嫂分寸？傲娇小公爷偏要宠
Keeping Things Proper Between In-Laws? The Proud Young Duke Insists on Spoiling Her
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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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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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Outlaw Simulator 法外狂徒模拟器
Outlaw Simulator
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Too Many Reborn Heroes? Time to Bring in the Government 重生者太密集？我带国家队下场
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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A Perfect Summer Crush 盛夏满分暗恋
[Signed for print publication | Secret crush becomes reality | Reunited after a breakup | Sweet romance | One-on-one, both leads faithful in body and heart] Shen Shengyi was known in Peking University's finance department for being carefree and flirtatious. He was picky, handsome, and hard to win over. With the cards stacked in favor of Heaven's Chosen, he was bold and rebellious, always surrounded by admirers and never short of friends. At a design competition, Chi Wu was pulled onstage at the
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Richest Man’s Father 退婚后，我嫁给了首富他爹
After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Richest Man’s Father
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A Cannon-Fodder Supporting Lady’s Survival Guide to Clinging to the Infinite-Flow Male Lead 抱紧无限流男主的炮灰女配生存法
Content warning: The female lead is not a strong-woman heroine. She grows gradually, and this is a funny, sweet romance. Romance is the main focus; the infinite-flow survival games are secondary. Please avoid if that’s not your thing. Note: The story includes infinite-flow plots and similar content. Readers with strong moral sensibilities may want to steer clear. Lin Shuang transmigrates into a modern fantasy novel aimed at male readers, becoming the rich young lady who goes on a blind date with
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Wasteland Era: The Last Watcher 废土纪元：最后的守望者
The Wasteland Era: The Last Watcher
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After Switching Lives with a Tycoon, She Turned the Ultra-Luxury Socialite World Upside Down 和大佬互换后她炸翻了顶奢豪门
[Also known as: The Overbearing CEO and the Celebrity Who Swapped Bodies and Reformed the Entertainment Industry] Third-rate actress Zhong Ruanxing has faced endless controversy over her sexy figure ever since her debut, with scandalous rumors constantly swirling around her. She is suppressed by industry bigwigs and dragged down by rivals, while smear campaigns come one after another. For years, she has been unable to shake her image as a sexy star, and her career has been severely hampered. Son
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Misread Heartbeats 误读心动
Misreading a Spark
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The Daily Madness of a Lowborn Daughter 庶女发癫日常
[Transmigrated into a book heroine vs. reborn heroine, one-on-one romance] Shi Yao transmigrated into a reborn, pampered heroine’s revenge novel and became an ignored, expendable illegitimate daughter. The one doted on by everyone was Shi Mingzhu, the original heroine. In her previous life, the moment Shi Mingzhu was born, the old master declared, “Dote on her! I want the whole family to spoil her rotten!” So all eight brothers became hopelessly devoted to their little sister. To help the heroi
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A Promise Over Time 食光约定
A Promise Over Meals
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I'm Good! Please Don't Hurt Me! 我很乖！请你不要来伤害！
[Contemporary fiction] [Ensemble of women] [Scheming] [Red and Black] [Playing dumb while taking down enemies] [Clear-eyed heroine] A must-read for anyone born in the seventies, eighties, or nineties! This is a northern take on The Red and the Black, set in a glittering world of fame and fortune where everyone wears a false mask. The heroine seems sweet and obedient on the surface, but she sees things more clearly than anyone! She can live without love, but not without money! She can put up with
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The Bride-to-Be 将嫁
Three years ago, to pacify the western frontier, he married the daughter of the Governor-General of Yongzhou as his empress. But during his lifetime, he met Huo Shiying, the one and only woman of her kind, and the sole female general in the Great Yan dynasty. She doesn't know, and no one else does either, that he has followed her life for twenty whole years. When he was six, he first heard his mother and eldest sister mention her name, and wondered how a two-year-old girl could have been taken t
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Mr. Jin’s Secret Wife Is Trending Again 靳总的隐婚甜妻又上热搜了
[Flirting with each other + Sweet romance + Variety show livestream + Marriage before love] Yu Yao has spent her career being both famous and infamous. Wherever she goes, people criticize her: stealing opportunities, wearing knockoffs, being kept by an older man, and having nothing going for her except her looks. That is, until she appears on the reality show "24h". Viewers discover that she owns every bag in a luxury brand's entire collection, has so many rare diamonds she could play gomoku wit
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A Widow Is Reborn, but Her Proper-Minded Brother-in-Law Insists on Spoiling Her 寡妇重生，守礼大伯偏要宠
The heroine is reborn. Both leads are devoted only to each other. The hero is aloof and proper, and pretends to be impotent despite being the heroine’s uncle by marriage. She falls for his seemingly proper act, and he pursues his wife. [The rating is slowly climbing] In her previous life, Jiang Wanshu was forced by her father to marry into the Marquis’s household holding a memorial tablet, where she was expected to live as a widow. To her surprise, her “deceased husband” returned with his belove
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First Meeting 初礼
In other people's eyes, Yu Chuli is a quiet, solitary woman who spends most of her time alone. Eight years after fleeing the city, she returned at the hospital's invitation to operate on an important figure. The hospital had originally invited her mentor, Vissior, a world-renowned authority in neurosurgery. But several months earlier, alcohol poisoning had kept him away from the operating room for a long time. The operation itself wasn't difficult for Yu Chuli, but she hadn't expected the patien
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I Put My Childhood Bride Through College, and Now She Wants to Dump Me 供童养媳上大学，毕业就想甩夫君
[Completed] [Family-Loving, Patriotic Chaoshan, 1988] "I want to call off the engagement!" he said. "All right, then let's consummate the marriage." A rough-hewn country man from Chaozhou got himself a beautiful bride in one night, only for her to run away the next day! He chased her to a newspaper office in Guangzhou, the University of Munich in Germany, the Xi'an Mecha Research Institute, the Jiangmen Mecha Experimental Base, and the Dahao Subsea Tunnel Mecha Experimental Base! Human-machine n
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My Bandit Wife 我的土匪娘子
[Rough-and-tumble bandit magistrate × shamelessly tenacious, eccentric, crooked lawyer] Hua Xiaodao, the boss of Blackwind Stronghold, is ruthless and never wastes words. Halfway through a robbery, the county magistrate drops dead. To keep her brothers from having to beg for food, she grabs the official seal and stuffs it into her arms. “I’ll take the job!” But the waters of officialdom run deeper than she imagined. The art of governance? What the hell would a female bandit know about that? She
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My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office 我在售楼部的日子
As a member of the post-80s generation, I’ve witnessed this industry’s rise and fall. I’ve ridden the wave, reaped the rewards, felt the bubble, and watched it go from flourishing to decline, its fortunes ebbing away... There was fate’s hand, society’s shaping, and the trials of life... All these true stories will be recorded in full as a mark of our times.
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Scraping Gold from the Buddha's Face 刮金佛面
[Wealthy Family + Obsessive Devotion + Obsession + Redemption + Sweet HE] [Bewitching, Clear-Eyed Canary × Ascetic, Obsessive CEO Who Pretends to Be a Buddha] Everyone says Qi Mengnian is a cold, detached Buddha among men, prayer beads around his wrist and no interest in women. But no one knows he has long kept the world’s most dazzling treasure locked away in his golden mansion, all to himself for seven years. She is the delusion he worships like incense, the craving his rules and precepts cann
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The Tide Between Beijing and Hong Kong 京港澜渡
[The rating just opened, slowly climbing] [Hong Kong old-money style vs. Beijing political circles] [Intrigue and covert battles among the wealthy] [High-IQ business and romance] [Slow burn, not a fast-paced power fantasy; feel free to skip chapters] Four pairs of hunters, four hunts. The rain pours over Hong Kong. Come enjoy a TVB-style romance, business-war, and suspense drama! Sweet nothings go beyond “Stay a little longer” and “I adore you” to include “I’m crazy about you.” Duplicity is the
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Northeast Big Pear: Book 11 东北大鸭梨第11本书
[Age gap + arrogant at first, then pursues his wife + big puppy who sometimes turns into a cuddly little pup + a clingy kissing-and-hugging fiend] He is the eldest son of the wealthy Li family, while she is just an ordinary girl. One forced, reckless encounter bound them together. At first, Li Yan thought Miaomiao was pretending to be pitiful and deliberately speaking ill of him to his grandfather. Li Yan kept giving Miaomiao a hard time. “Why didn't you take precautions?” Miaomiao retorted, “Wh
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