Every Twist Leads to Another, and It Gets Better the More You Read 一环扣一环越看越好看
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- 551 Ink and Tang Style: The Biography of Xue Tao 笺染唐风：薛涛传 Ink on Silk, Tang-Era Style: The Story of Xue Tao 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 552 Burning the Manuscript at Qingzhi Cove: The Southern Song Poetess Refuses to Cross Over 焚稿青芝坞：南宋才女不肯渡 Burning the Drafts at Qingzhi Dock: The Southern Song Talented Lady Refuses to Cross the River —Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案
Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst...
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- 554 Blood and Iron at the Border: Code Name Shadow Hunter 铁血边关：代号猎影 [Secret Agent] + [Special Forces] Lin Feng, the Northwest's top sniper, could take down an enemy with a single shot. But after his comrades framed him, he was saddled with the charge of treason and became a wanted fugitive along the border. His comrades were killed, the evidence was stolen, and layer upon layer of deadly threats drove him to flee into the Gobi Desert. A USB drive held a shocking secret: senior officers at the brigade headquarters had colluded with a smuggling syndicate. An ambus 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 555 Pines and Cypresses at Xiling Betray Our Promised Time 西陵松柏负佳期 Pines and cypresses of Xiling, missing the promised day 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 556 The Hidden Hero with the Demon Blade 魔刀侠隐 A demonic saber, a treasure map, a century of grudges, and a chaotic martial world… Between the underworld and the righteous path, good people and villains, who can say where the line lies? Abandoned by his birth mother, he enters the martial world alone. Through strange encounters and tribulations, he rises to greatness by his own strength. With saber and sword in hand, cold and merciless, he cuts off love and spirit, then throws his head back and laughs at the heavens! … 1.7kReads8.6Score135Shelves
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Elegance Across the Wilds: Becoming a Guard 满野风华之成为卫士
This is a contemporary realist novel, with no transmigration or rebirth. It has some suspense and focuses more on emotions. Synopsis: A car accident causes a toxic gas leak, killing and injuring many innocent people. But does this accident seem to be covering something up? There should have been three people in the car, so why were there only two bodies? Did someone survive the disaster? How did they escape? Eight years later, a great mountain helps a mute girl speak again. Why did she lose her
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Meng Lang in the World of Immortals and Demons 孟浪在仙魔世界
[Eastern Xianxia] + [Underdog's Rise] + [Fantasy Wuxia] + [Transmigration] + [Fateful Encounters] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Inspirational] Across a vast otherworld, the struggle between immortals and demons churns beneath the surface! Once peerless in its heyday, Kunlun Immortal Mountain has fallen into decline since the great war between immortals and demons five hundred years ago. Its top-tier lineages have been broken, and its disciples have stagnated in their cultivation. Meanwhile, the Shush
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- 559 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scrounging Meals 逍遥仙：下凡后，我靠蹭饭飞升了 Carefree Immortal: After Descending to the Mortal Realm, I Ascended by Scoring Free Meals 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 560 Wang Pu, a Young Man Past His Prime 大龄青年王普 [Multiple heroines, romance, countryside, entrepreneurship, lesbian romance, and an older bachelor] Wang Pu returns to his village, where the neighborhood gossips surround him and laugh mockingly. Wang Pu develops the pond south of the village into an eco-farm. As the village committee brings in young officials and the local economy grows, Wang Pu makes a comeback and is elected, leading his fellow villagers down the road to prosperity. His love life, career, and political prospects all flourish 4Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 561 I Became Fahai and Discovered Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 穿成法海，发现白素贞是我前女友 I Transmigrated as Fahai and Discovered That Bai Suzhen Was My Ex-Girlfriend 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Female Lead Is Too Beautiful and Alluring, and the Villainous Big Shot Grabs Her by the Waist 女配太美太撩人，反派大佬掐腰宠
My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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- 563 The Boy from Mang Village 蟒村少年 [Eastern Fantasy + Alternate Setting + Inspirational + Princess + Romance + Revenge] Luo Yun, a young hunter from a mountain village, lives beside Mangling Ridge. When he accidentally wanders into a forbidden area, he rescues Xiao Jian and the young Crown Prince Huang Tianhua from a giant python, only to tumble into a cliffside cave. Inside, a dying python entrusts him with a silver-patterned egg. It hatches into a silver-scaled little snake with humanlike intelligence. Luo Yun survives on snak 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 564 The Unluckiest Young Master in the Great Song Dynasty 大宋第一倒霉少爷 The Song Dynasty's Unluckiest Young Master 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 565 Proud Above the Azure Sky, the Peerless Imperial Princess Goes on a Killing Spree! 傲世苍穹，绝色帝姬她杀疯了！ [One true pairing + pocket dimension + two powerful leads + satisfying revenge + divine beasts + rebirth] Cool, proud imperial princess vs. scheming, peerlessly beautiful Phoenix Lord She had been the most noble imperial princess in the Dragon Realm. But while weakened from undergoing tribulation, her own dear cousin forcibly extracted her bloodline. Her body died, but her soul endured, merging with the legitimate daughter of a family who was known as a fool. Reborn, she acted decisively, took d 15.5kReads9.3Score2kShelves
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A Gun from the Start: Settling Scores During the Five Barbarians' Upheaval 开局一把枪：我在五胡乱华平事
He transmigrates straight into a deadly trap and is hunted by the Hu cavalry as human livestock. Modern-day SWAT officer Shen Mingjing calmly raises his gun and takes out a man with a single shot, shocking everyone. Just as he congratulates himself on having a powerful golden finger, the System suddenly warns: “Warning: historical correction initiated, ” “The grunt you killed has been automatically replaced with Liu Yao, Emperor of Han-Zhao...” Shen Mingjing’s eyes widen in horror. How is he sup
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Schemes at the Brocade Banquet 锦筵谋
From the pinnacle of Michelin cuisine to the hell of household intrigue, all it took was one explosion. Lin Wanyi, an internationally renowned top chef, opens her eyes to find she's become the most wicked third young madam of the Su family in the Qing Dynasty. From the start, she's in a hopeless situation: Her husband despises her, her mother-in-law wants to divorce her, and the servants look down on her. On top of that, her sister-in-law is a “born heroine,” doted on by the entire household, s
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- 568 Warlord of a Chaotic Era: I, Yang Zhong, Lay the Foundation for Sui's Eternal Empire 乱世战神：我，杨忠，奠基大隋万古江山 War-Torn Era’s War God: I, Yang Zhong, Laid the Foundation for the Sui Dynasty’s Eternal Reign 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 569 Princess Consort, Stop Acting. The Prince Can Hear Your Thoughts 王妃别演了，王爷能听见你的心声 [The male lead can hear the female lead's thoughts + the female lead can understand animal speech] [Goofy and lighthearted + absurd comedy + feel-good romance, sickeningly sweet] After transmigrating into a book as a disposable side character, she manages to annoy the villainous Big Boss into fainting from the start. She plans to take advantage of his weakness and finish him off, but the villain hears every one of her thoughts. Later, the villain finally loses patience and demands, “I hear you c 9kReads9.2Score949Shelves
- 570 Lord Bao, Is That Crescent Moon Painted On? 包大人，你的月牙是贴的吗？ I'm a modern high school student who fancies himself Bao Qingtian, and I've transmigrated into the Northern Song as the celebrated official Bao Zheng. From the start, I'm faced with three questions: I can't write, I can't judge cases, and my face isn't even dark! To keep my identity from being exposed, I smear ink on my face and draw a crescent moon with lime. I planned to lie low and muddle through, but I end up becoming a master detective. As my reputation keeps growing, Gongsun Ce can't stop 38Reads—Score—Shelves
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Xia Suofangyan 夏锁芳妍
His father, the Marquis of Pingnan, has been sentenced to death, his mother, Commandery Princess Haiyan, is under house arrest, and he has been banished to a remote land. Does their marriage contract still stand? She breaks off their engagement when he falls on hard times. Is she kicking him while he's down, or does she have her reasons? To escape the royal marriage bestowed upon her by fate, she accompanies a princess to a distant land as a bride. Amid boundless snowy plains, Eagle Sorrow Ravin
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- 572 No More Meetings at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Are Selling Riverside Apartments in Heaven 鹊桥别相会了，牛郎织女去天庭卖银河江景房 No more meeting at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl head to Heaven to sell Milky Way-view apartments 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 573 The Dark River’s Rising Star: Where the Other Shore Blooms 暗河新星之彼岸花开 Fan fiction with an original female lead, paired with Su Changhe. OOC warning! ⚠️ Su Huayue was just an ordinary college student, but she was so unlucky that she got struck by lightning while crossing the street! Then she was unexpectedly bound to System 007. To make matters worse, she was dumped into a dangerous, high-martial-arts world! She cried out in terror, “It’s starting without so much as a word? I’m just an ordinary person! Do you even care if I live or die?” “Don’t panic. There’s a sur 4.4kReads—Score289Shelves
- 574 I'm Dead! Bajie Works with His Old Flame at Huaguoshan Tourism 笑死！八戒在花果山文旅和旧情人上班 I’m dead! Bajie is working at Huaguoshan Tourist Resort with his old flame. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 575 White Moon, Brahma Star: An Obsession That Won't Fade 白月梵星：情瘾难消 OOC warning ⚠️ This work has been changed to a collection of stories based on film and television dramas. More stories will follow. One-on-one romance is the best, and with every stroke of the pen, I write toward a happy ending. If you like the sound of it, feel free to jump in. ① Bai Yue Fan Xing, pairing: Chong Zhao (completed) ② A Journey to Love, pairing: Li Tongguang (ongoing) 2.7kReads—Score245Shelves
- 576 The Pig Who Couldn’t Escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie Works Like a Beast at Gao Laozhuang 逃不出高老庄的猪，八戒在高老庄当牛马 The pig who can't escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie works like a beast of burden at Gao Laozhuang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 577 Don't Lie Flat on the Path to Buddhahood! Zhu Bajie Helps the Great Sage Open a Huaguoshan Tourism Company 成佛别躺平！猪八戒帮大圣开个花果山旅游公司 Don't Lie Flat on the Road to Buddhahood! Zhu Bajie Helps the Great Sage Start a Huaguo Mountain Tourism Company 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ward Boss Only Wants to Serve the People 坊主大人只想为民服务
Other people cultivate immortality by meditating, refining qi, and slaying demons for their treasures. Ye Guanqing cultivates by fixing public toilets, handing out coupons, and teaching the Eight Brocades. After failing the civil service exam five years in a row in his previous life, he transmigrated and was promptly parachuted in as the head of the shabbiest market town on the Canglan Continent. Faced with a Grade D market town on the verge of closure, dozens of freeloading rogue cultivators, a
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The Firstborn Daughter: Bringing My Boss Back to Ancient Times 嫡女风华：带着老板回古代
[Legitimate Daughter] [Transmigration] [Career] [Power Couple] [Smart Leads] [Sharp-Tongued Leads] [Sweet Romance] [Ensemble Cast] Cui Siyu, the Marquis's legitimate daughter, is pushed into the water by her vicious stepsister right from the start. When she wakes again, her soul has been replaced: Si Yu, a modern wage worker, has transmigrated to another world and will live out Cui Siyu's brilliance as a noble daughter. The Crown Prince of the Great Yan Dynasty, Lan Jingxiao, is cruelly poisone
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After My Family Was Ruined, I Rose From Convict Slave to Palace Maid 被抄家后，我从辛者库罪奴往上爬
Ye Jianqing is the daughter of Ye Mingde, an official in the Imperial Household Department. She was betrothed to Bai Xingjian as a child, and the two fell in love. She had always thought she would marry the man she loved once she came of age, then support him and raise their children. But after her family was raided overnight, she went from a noble young lady to a palace maid. Dongfang Yu is the current emperor’s fourth son. Since his mother is lowborn and he is not favored, he is sent to the Im
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The Story in Pan Dudu’s Belly 盼杜肚里的故事
The blood-soaked earth of Forget-Husband Slope bears six sets of footprints, each pressed to a different depth. Strange energy clings to the red soil, leaving a sinister shadow that winds around the bones of anyone who steps on it. Sang Pandu clutches the wooden slip Kun Yu left behind. The divination marks have grown hot against her palm, and the light on the slip flickers, as if unseen hands are repeatedly rubbing it in the dark and throwing its divinatory energy into disarray. Thunder rolls o
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Spicy Rhymes: The Revival of Chinese Rap 麻辣韵脚：中文说唱复兴录
Spicy Rhymes tells the story of Si Qin, a girl from Chongqing, as she rises to fame. Starting out as a cashier at a hotpot restaurant, she taps out rhymes in her local dialect on a calculator and sets the internet ablaze with her song “Underground Fire.” Faced with a threefold crisis of a corporate crackdown, academic skepticism, and vocal-cord damage, she turns the tide with Sichuan opera backing vocals and breaks into the mainstream through intangible cultural heritage, taking Chinese rap to t
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- 583 Tales of Strange and Sinister Mysteries 清诡怪谭录 My left eye devours the uncanny, and I walk the mortal world bearing the abyss. Behind me is a disciple on the brink of death; before me, a lonely spirit who has slept for three thousand years. The night my uncanny eye opened, I learned that I was a vessel for an ancient sword spirit, and that the seven greatest forbidden lands in the world were all the mad, old friends I had forgotten. To purify the abyss, I must erase my humanity; to preserve my obsessions, I must let all living beings fall 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Fragrant Dust on Purple Paths 紫陌香尘
Drawing on more than a decade of experience as a police officer and my broader understanding of society, I wrote this original social realist mystery novel. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. It spans 20 years from beginning to end, with dozens of clues and echoes woven throughout. I hope to share it with readers who are patient and enjoy thinking things through. There are two cases, but what truth will you see in them? The Fragrance of Purple Dust is divided into four volumes, each named wit
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- 585 The Final Seven Days: Time-Space Hunter 七日终焉：时空猎人 [Don't Doubt It: The Past, Present, and Future Exist Simultaneously] I accidentally revealed the truth about the spacetime network as it exists today. Three years of painstaking work, day and night, and at last it's here! A hardcore story for a female audience! No brainless characters! No stale tropes! The pinnacle of eerie rule-based mysteries, delivering a double blow of mind-bending puzzles and heartbreak! Three trials built around layered concepts shatter your perception, while the suffocati 29Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Lotus Spy 芙蓉谍
The moment the silver scissors pried open the dragon’s vulnerable scales, the fuse began to sputter and spark. Jiang Ruobing stared at the red words on the “Torch Dragon Project” map: “Level Rongcheng on the sixth day of the winter month.” Suddenly, her fingertip brushed half an embroidered hibiscus on the back! As the Military Statistics Bureau’s most ruthless ace, she could kill with a steel needle. But no one knew that inside her Shu embroidery frame, she was using three shades of blue threa
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- 587 Treasures of the Three Realms: A Treasure as Betrothal, the Three Realms as a Gift 至宝三界：至宝为聘，三界为礼 Ling Chen, the good-for-nothing of the Qingyun Sect, has his spiritual root stolen and is cursed with a blood curse. His fiancée publicly calls off their engagement and humiliates him as if he were dirt! But who could have guessed he would awaken a primordial supreme treasure and gain the Spirit-Devouring Divine Art? In a single stroke, he turns his life around and his battle power skyrockets! He deals with wicked servants, slays treacherous villains, conquers sects, pacifies dynasties, devours —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Take Ten Husbands and Torment the Scum Who Ruined My Past Life 纳十夫虐前世渣夫
Tian Mei and her betraying husband, Ma Mingyang, fall together into a bottomless mountain gorge. Their souls travel into the bodies of a young couple in another world where men greatly outnumber women. The female lead is still called Tian Mei, while Ma Mingyang ends up in the body of Li Dashan, a man with a broken leg. From then on, Li Dashan’s life of misery begins. Tian Mei keeps bringing home more husbands, and Li Dashan has to cook for the whole family, wash Tian Mei’s clothes and those of
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The Commoner's Path to the Heavens 摆烂庶女的通天路
New book, just rated... [Anti-cliché transmigration + growing protagonist + serious tone] How deep within the ladies’ quarters! Watch how a laid-back concubine’s daughter carves out a path to the top! After six years being left to her own devices on a country estate, she thought she was destined for a peaceful life in the countryside. Then an order arrives, and she is brought back to the family’s sprawling mansion, becoming an unexpected pawn on the family chessboard. Beauty is her only weapon,
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- 590 A Strange Tale of Treasure Hunting in Kunlun 昆仑寻宝怪谭 The Kunlun dragon vein splits open, and five bronze fragments engraved with “Dong Feng Po” come to light, throwing yin and yang into chaos and unleashing a series of uncanny incidents. Chen Jiu'er, heir to the tomb-raiding trade, ventures into an ancient tomb in Luoyang to find her missing father. She accidentally touches a fragment, awakening her dragon-marked bloodline, only to fall into a thousand-year-old killing trap. She joins forces with three others: a cold, beautiful coroner who can hea —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Sorrow Written in Ink 落墨殇
[In Republican-era stories, nine out of ten end in heartbreak] Su Moran and Chu Luochen fell in love at first sight and were devoted to each other. They had hoped to spend the rest of their lives together in peace, but Qiu Yuze’s mad obsession with Moran and Mohan’s possessive, resentful love for Luochen ultimately tore the two apart, leaving them separated by life and death and lovesick to the point of illness. Moran lived her whole life holding on to the memory of Luochen. She treasured the
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- 592 A Woman in a Man's Body, and I'm Drop-Dead Gorgeous! 女穿男，我美翻了！ Wu Songmei, a modern military doctor, fell asleep from exhaustion after performing an operation for someone in her unit. When she woke up, she discovered that she had transmigrated to the Dayu Dynasty and into the body of Wu Songbai, a young general who had been unconscious on the front lines for three days. She was delighted to have changed from a woman into a man, but she was poisoned with a deadly toxin and badly wounded. Then the little orb in her spatial dimension gave her an antidote and a 552Reads—Score—Shelves
- 593 Transmigrating Through Movie Trains 穿越电影火车 Lin Xizhao, a cultural relic restorer, accidentally touches a century-old film projector and falls into a time-traveling train that journeys through light and shadow. Its 136 carriages correspond to classics from a century of cinema. She opens the door to Farewell My Concubine, where Cheng Dieyi’s sword stops a mere inch from her throat. She ventures into Interstellar, where she must modify the code before a black hole consumes everything. But every rewrite distorts reality as well. When charact 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 594 The Mirror of Origin 本源之镜 A blend of science fiction, religion, history, culture, philosophy, and mystery adventure. It champions the integration of religions, a return to the origin of the Great Way, and a world united as one. In 2095, religious archaeologist Ping Yi witnesses a horrifying vision in Jerusalem: experts from three religions die suddenly, their bodies arranged in a honeycomb pattern, their blood forming passages from the Tao Te Ching. Their neural pathways are etched with mysterious symbols from an ancient —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Windbreaker 破风者
In 1931, Jiang Hanwen, head of the Shanghai Central underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party, was arrested and promptly betrayed the revolution. Under the command of special commissioner Wu Shude, the Shanghai district of the Kuomintang Central Investigation Department, predecessor of the Zhongtong, used information provided by the turncoat Jiang Hanwen to launch a sweeping manhunt and purge of our underground intelligence network in Shanghai and its key operatives. Chen Tongzhou,
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- 596 The Moon Falls and Becomes a Flower, While Divine Power Hides in the Demon Bones 月陨成花，妖骨藏神 [Xuanhuan Romance] [Devoted Love and Angsty Romance] [Past and Present Lives] [Humans, Gods, and Demons] In her previous life, she was an aloof ancient Moon Goddess who sacrificed her soul to protect him. In this life, she falls into the path of demons and becomes a flower spirit with divine power hidden in her demonic bones. In his previous life, he was an ancient God of War whose blood stained the Heavenly Realm. He died fighting to protect the Three Realms, his bones carved away. In this life 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Icy Prince's Hair Turned White in a Single Night at Her Grave 冷冰冰王爷在她坟前一夜白头
[Reborn for face-slapping revenge + The Prince Chases His Wife] The one thing Jiang Wan regretted most in her previous life was being saved by Shen Xiuyu. Because Shen Xiuyu had risked his life to save her, she fell for him, spent her entire fortune, and used her family’s influence to help him rise to power. But Shen Xiuyu was never satisfied. For the sake of power, he sent her to another man’s bed, then climbed to the top over the wreckage of her family. The Jiang family was condemned to execut
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- 598 Starlit Love: You're All I Have for the Rest of My Life 星辰沫恋：余生唯你 [Wealthy families + vendettas + political intrigue + tragic romance] No transmigration The young heir of the Song family flees an arranged marriage and ends up in Shancheng, where he accidentally falls in love with Su Moying, the daughter of Su Yishou. Su Moying’s family restaurant sits on prime waterfront property at Shancheng’s docks, drawing covetous eyes from all sides. The most prominent threat is Cansheng. Cansheng’s mastermind frames Su Yishou and has him sent to prison, where he event 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Accidentally Trained the Dragon-Proud Hero of the Broken Engagement Trope into My Husband 一失手把退婚流龙傲天训成夫君了
[Male-Male Romance] [Transmigrate into an Online Game] [Light Character Growth] [Bickering Couple] [Both Pure] [Happy Ending] [Warm on the outside, cold on the inside, sharp-tongued and calculating top] × [Evil, beautiful bottom who pretends to be a delicate flower] One day, Lian Qingyu wakes up inside a game, in the body of an idiot. The good news: he inherited the top-tier account he'd spent a fortune building back in the day! The bad news: the System came with a buy-one-get-one-free deal, and
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- 600 The Fierce Physician Consort and Her Delicate, Disabled God of War 医妃凶猛，战神残王身娇体软 (Sweet romance, one-on-one, two strong leads, physician consort, crippled prince, God of War) After transmigrating into the useless legitimate daughter of a duke’s household, Yun Qingli realized her fiancé, the Crown Prince, planned to ruin her reputation. So she married his elder brother, the God of War. Who knew the God of War was paralyzed from the waist down, poisoned, and had less than three days to live! Everyone was already counting on her to become a widow. But while all her enemies died 13.4kReads8.3Score840Shelves
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