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That Village, Those People, That Fool 那村那人那傻瓜
One field, one home, and two people: a simple life shared for a long time is what really matters! A hardworking, kindhearted country girl vs. a devoted, doting husband who treats her like a loyal puppy. A warm and simple story of everyday family life! This story takes place in a small village. Hehua, the eldest daughter of the Li family in the west of the village, married Changsheng, who lived in the east... Changsheng never spoke to anyone and couldn't recognize his neighbors. He didn't even kn
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- 2 Zeng Guofan's Methods of Scholarship 曾国藩治学方法 This book explores three dimensions: self-cultivation, managing affairs, and reading. Its discussion of self-cultivation advocates integrating “resolve, insight, and perseverance,” building a foundation for body and mind through meditation and a regular routine. Its approach to managing affairs reveals, through practical examples such as running a household and leading an army, the unity of hands-on action and institutional innovation. Its discussion of reading emphasizes “mastering one field” a 356Reads9.0Score156Shelves
- 3 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves
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Ingenious Inventions of Ancient China 中国古代奇技淫巧
The authors of this book searched through vast collections of historical records, painstakingly gathering hundreds of long-lost secret arts and techniques passed down through the centuries. These include forging antiques, identifying treasures, alchemy, health practices, beauty techniques, fortune-telling by characters, martial arts, and spiritual cultivation. Their scope ranges from contemplating the heavens and earth and making uncanny predictions to calming the mind, curing illness, and riddi
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The Purest Love 最纯洁的爱
Qin Feng returns to China after completing his studies in Russia, just as the country reforms its education system and universities abolish guaranteed job assignments for graduates. He then moves with his family to a coastal city, where he meets Xie Lan, a local girl from the countryside. Xie Lan is six years younger than Qin Feng and left school after junior high. They come from vastly different backgrounds in age, education, and family circumstances. Both sets of parents oppose their relations
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Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨
A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi
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- 7 Zheng He's Voyages to the Western Seas: A Plain-Language Fantasy Retelling 郑和下西洋神魔白话版 This is not a serious history book! It reimagines the historical voyages of Zheng He as a “Journey to the West at Sea.” The eunuch Sanbao, Zheng He, becomes the bane of the demon realm, setting out for the Western Ocean with the Buddhist big shot Jin Bifeng, reincarnation of the Ancient Buddha Dipankara, and the Taoist Celestial Master Zhang, leading thirty thousand troops and a thousand treasure ships! From the Soft Ocean and its treacherous waters to the Hall of Yama in the Ghost Kingdom, from 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Selected Letters from Zeng Guofan 曾国藩家书（精选版）
This book is a collection of letters by Zeng Guofan, compiled in the mid-nineteenth century during the Qing dynasty. The letters chronicle the thirty years or so of Zeng Guofan's scholarly and military career, from around the 30th year of the Daoguang reign through the 10th year of the Tongzhi reign. Covering an exceptionally wide range of topics, they vividly reflect the main activities of Zeng Guofan's life, as well as his approaches to governing, managing his family, and pursuing scholarship.
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The Saga of Wagang Stronghold 瓦岗寨演义
The Tale of Wagang Stronghold is set amid the chaos of the late Sui dynasty and vividly recounts how the heroes of Wagang rise up to resist tyranny. The story follows bold outlaws such as Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin, and Xu Maogong, chronicling their legendary exploits: gathering at Wagang, seizing the imperial tribute, rebelling in Shandong, and joining forces with eighteen rebel kings to fight the Sui court. The book features both bloody battles amid flashing blades and clashes of w
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Chinese History That Gets You Hooked from the First Page 一读就上瘾的中国史
A sweeping series on the historical patterns of five thousand years of Chinese history, helping you build a rational, objective, and pattern-seeking framework for a new way of thinking! This series is, in fact, a history book even more captivating than a novel. Starting with the Qin and Han dynasties, it covers the Jin dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Song, Liao, Jin, and Xia dynasties, the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and the Taiping Heavenly Ki
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- 11 History of the Song: Annals of Emperor Taizu 宋史·太祖本纪 He may have been the best “actor” among the founding emperors in Chinese history. In 960 CE, a carefully orchestrated “forced enthronement” at Chenqiao Station propelled Zhao Kuangyin from a general of the Later Zhou into the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Over drinks, he stripped the founding generals of their military power; amid the shadows of an axe and candlelight, the mystery surrounding his bizarre death remains unsolved to this day. Some call him a wise ruler who ended the chaos o 147Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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Crossroads: Three Versions 岔路口-三个版本
Crossroads: Three Versions
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The Southern Gourmet 食南之徒
Tang Meng, a gluttonous envoy of the Han Empire, arrives in Nanyue, a land renowned for its cuisine. With ingredients in abundance, it seems like a food lover’s dream. Yet behind the feasts simmer tensions between north and south, divisions between peoples, struggles for power, and battles over the rise and fall of national policies. The twists and turns are even more complex than the flavors of Lingnan’s ingredients. This laid-back Han envoy finds himself caught in the whirlpool of political st
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The Bamboo Annals 竹书纪年
The Bamboo Annals is an important chronological history of ancient China. It is traditionally attributed to an official historian of the State of Wei during the Warring States period. In the Western Jin dynasty, it was unearthed on bamboo slips from an ancient tomb in Jixian, in present-day Henan, which gave the work its name. The book is divided into two volumes and records history from the Yellow Emperor through the twentieth year of King Anxi of Wei during the Warring States period, though so
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Livestream: Teaching Kids to Write Essays and Be Good People 直播：教孩子写作文，学做人
Writing compositions is easy! This book shows parents how to guide their children in writing and in learning how to be good people. Drawing on traditional Chinese thought, it explores methods and techniques for parent-child education.
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County Magistrate: A Heartbreak on the Road to Power 女县长：官路情殇
The story of an ordinary female college student who starts at the grassroots level and steadily rises to become a county magistrate. After graduating, Zhang Xinyue, an ordinary college student, finds a job at the county committee. Having weathered crisis after crisis and seized one opportunity after another, she eventually takes office as county magistrate.
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The Days Scarlett Danced with the Wind: A Sequel to Gone with the Wind 斯嘉丽随风起舞的日子，飘续篇
A sequel to Gone with the Wind. Has the deep, unrequited love of the past truly faded with the passage of time? Once fearless and charging ahead without hesitation, Scarlett now no longer dares to throw herself into things headlong and demand love with a child's blunt honesty. Has Rhett Butler really settled into silence, content to explore his own inner sanctuary and no longer yearning for a relationship that sends his heart racing? In the years after 1873, they draw close, then drift apart. Wi
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After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪
By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life!
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The Seventh Door of Mother 妈妈的第七扇门
For a long time, I never understood my mother’s past. This was the first time I had looked so deeply back on her life: one generation of women interpreting another. In the 1990s, my eighteen-year-old mother left a small mountain village in Nanyang and headed alone for the glittering city. A scrap of gum wrapper brought her face to face with the calamity of her life: Liu Dawang. And so the door to her fate opened. She made a living in urban villages and hotpot restaurants, leaning on her best fr
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Nest of Thoughts 思窝
As fake data on the internet spiraled out of control, a phenomenon in which bad money drove out good spread like cancer across major online platforms, spilling from the virtual world into the real one. When things reach an extreme, they must turn around. As the pendulum of history changed direction, the GeoNet, blending the virtual and the real, came into being and opened a new chapter in the age… This book portrays the vision of the creators of Siwo for the future.
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Monster Codes: Journey to the West 妖怪密码：西游记
How many demons are there in Journey to the West? The White Bone Spirit, Tiger Vanguard, the Red-Rumped Macaque, Red Boy... Only after enduring the Eighty-One Tribulations can one look upon the world's fortunes with a smile. What are their true forms? What becomes of them? Is there a connection between demons and natural phenomena? Here, I'll reveal the answers to all these questions, one by one.
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- 22 The Three Kingdoms: History So Addictive, You Can’t Put It Down 一读就上瘾的三国史 The Three Kingdoms era was marked by endless warfare and rival warlords, and is now familiar to everyone thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But the novel isn't history, and some of the famous stories we all know never actually happened! Did Zhuge Liang really borrow arrows with straw boats? Why is Zhang He known as “the Three Kingdoms strength tester”? How did Fei Yi live a life worthy of the title “master of pacing”? Did Cao Zhi really love his sister-in-law? Why is Cao Cao's life said to 1.2kReads9.5Score100Shelves
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Luoyang's Tempering 洛阳砺
August, 694 AD. Wu Zetian has quelled wars with Tibet, the Turks, the Shiwei, and other peoples, bringing the surrounding nations to heel. To showcase the splendor of “all nations coming to pay tribute,” envoys from across the realm, led by Persian chieftain Arhan, pool a fortune of a hundred trillion and request that the Tianshu Monument be built outside Duanmen, the southern gate of Luoyang’s imperial city, along the central avenue. It is to “record achievements and virtues, cast down the Tang
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- 24 The Book of Seven Lifetimes of Karma 七世因果书 The Age of the End of the Dharma has arrived. The Demon King Bo Xun holds sway, stirring up trouble in the mortal world. Disasters run rampant, and people’s hearts have turned wicked. The Primordial Heavenly Venerable invites his junior brother, the Supreme Lord Lao, along with the Queen Mother of the West, Buddha Tathagata, Patriarch Bodhi, the Great Immortal Zhenyuan, Bodhisattva Guanyin, and a host of other immortals to discuss how to save the world. They decide that the immortals will each s 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Gods' Downgrade Game 神明降级游戏 In 2026, an unknown advanced civilization arrived on Earth. Rather than invade directly, they dragged the planet into a brutal trial called The Divine Demotion Game. Humanity was forcibly assigned various “divine offices” and “fates,” such as war, wisdom, life, and void. Everyone had to complete absurd “divine-level KPIs” to maintain their divinity, or face “dimensional erasure.” The entire world was plunged into the absurd anxiety of digital survival. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The True Lord Xu Xun's Tale: When One Attains the Dao, Even Their Chickens and Dogs Ascend 一人得道鸡犬升天许逊真君传 Xu Xun (239–374), courtesy name Jingzhi, was a renowned Daoist figure of the Eastern Jin dynasty. He is honored as “Perfect Lord Xu” or “Xu Jingyang.” He founded the Pure Brightness school of Daoism and is counted alongside Zhang Daoling, Ge Xuan, and Sa Shoujian as one of the “Four Great Celestial Masters of Daoism.” The saying “When one person attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven” refers to him. He lived to the age of 136. This book is adapted from the Perfect Lord’s 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Cage of Despair 牢笼困境 Trapped in a Cage 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Woman of Destiny in the Village 天命村妇 The Heaven-Chosen Village Woman 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Love at Jiahe Wanggang 嘉禾望岗之恋 Love at Jiahe Wanggang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Thief's Way 贼道
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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- 31 The Legend of Huangtan Cave 黄檀洞传说 The Legend of Huangtan Cave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Tea-Picking Chronicles Series (Complete in 4 Volumes) 采茶录系列（全4册）
The Ying and Nan families had both been tea dynasties for eight generations. The Ying family focused on making tea, while the Nan family excelled at business. In the tenth year of the Qianlong reign, Lu Xun, the fifty-fourth-generation male descendant of the Tea Sage, named the Nan family's tea estate the best in the land in his celebrated work, A Diary of Tea Brewing. Before long, the head of the Nan family leveraged Prince Heqin's influence to become the leader of the greatest tea merchants' g
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- 33 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 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 229.5kReads9.6Score66.4kShelves
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Adele 阿黛尔
If you like fast-paced wish-fulfillment stories, you can leave. This novel is literary in style, with exquisite settings, delicate emotions, and fantastical historical elements. The protagonist draws on personal experience and the words of countless people to resolve the regrets of many. Let me stress this again: this is not for readers who like fast food! It's incredibly boring! A hundred thousand words of preface! In matters of the heart, we often can't know which meeting will be our last. Tho
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A Comprehensive History of Commerce 商史通鉴
A sweeping historical novel that lays bare six centuries of power games in the Shang dynasty. No myths, no romanticized tales, only the truest human nature, the cruelest contests, and the deepest lessons of rise and fall. My writing on Shang history began with questions about the origins of Chinese civilization, and ended with a reunion with myself. The Shang dynasty was a pivotal era when the rites, royal authority, and divine power of Huaxia took shape together. Yet scarce historical records a
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A Rural Doctor's Romance 乡村医缘
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My Brother Draws His Sword to Kill Me, So My Enemy and I Rewrite Fate Through Time 兄长拔剑杀我，仇人同我逆时改结局
My Brother Drew His Sword to Kill Me, While My Enemy and I Turn Back Time to Change Our Fate
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- 38 A Summer Too Lovely to Hide 难藏夏日 [The print edition is now available] In her senior year of high school, Yun Xiang was brought home by Cheng Xiao, one of her father's old comrades. Cheng Xiao had a son, a cocky, arrogant guy who loved looking down his nose at people. But he was good at school and great at video games. The first time Yun Xiang met Cheng Che, he stood on the stairs to the second floor and coldly laid down the rules. “Don’t come near me, don’t look at me, don’t tell anyone at school you know me, and don’t touch an 34.6kReads9.5Score5.2kShelves
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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- 40 The Fragrance of Ruolan, Forever in My Heart 茹兰花香念念不忘 The fragrance of Ru Lan’s flowers lingers in my memory. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 My Eccentric Neighbor Has Been Around Forever 奇葩邻居活久见 The Weirdest Neighbors I've Ever Seen 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Who Says I'm Crazy? 谁说我疯了 Who Says I'm Crazy? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Our Youth 我们的青春 Our Youth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 We Awakened While Reading 看书我们觉醒 We Awaken Through Reading —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Ru Lan, Fragrant as a Flower 茹兰语花香 Ru Lan, Fragrant as Flowers 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 After Graduation, I Became a Homeroom Teacher 我毕业之后，又做了班主任 After I graduated, I became a homeroom teacher again. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 My Brother Is No Longer Brain-Damaged 脑瘫弟弟不脑瘫了 His younger brother is no longer brain-damaged —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Survival Code of Ancient China: Decoding the Nine Classes of Society 古代生存密码：解密三教九流
Confucianism: The state religion through the ages, assisting the Son of Heaven in educating the people... Confucianism takes Confucian thought as its supreme belief and honors Confucius as its founding teacher. To distinguish it from Taoism, which venerates the thought of Laozi, Zhuangzi, and other Daoists, later generations began calling it Confucianism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Thus, Confucius is also revered as the holy founder of Confucianism. The Dao: The way of heaven and
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- 49 A Brief History of Christmas 圣诞简史 In December, the thing people look forward to most, besides snow, is of course the holidays. At this time of year, you can see the whole city come alive with festive cheer. Christmas trees and lights are everywhere, white-bearded old men appear on the streets, Christmas songs play in shopping malls, and all kinds of gift boxes announce that Christmas is on its way! Christmas comes around every year, but how much do you know about the holiday? Christmas, also known as the Feast of the Nativity, i 11Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 50 An Introduction to Ancient Chinese Culture 中国古代文化常识 This book is a systematic and comprehensive encyclopedia of essential knowledge about Chinese literature, intended to provide readers with thorough, well-organized cultural knowledge. Covering literature, art, religious beliefs, politics, economics, culture, entertainment, philosophy, science, and many other fields, it uses detailed discussions and a rigorous scholarly approach to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the breadth and depth of Chinese culture. The section on literature prov 162Reads8.6Score—Shelves
