Stories That Feel Realistic and Aren't Over the Top. Heartbreak Is Fine, Too 贴近现实的小说，不夸张（虐的也行）
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The Three Beauties of the Su Family 苏家三美
[Contemporary Urban Fiction + Uplifting + Down-to-Earth] The love stories of three sisters: Marrying up, marrying on equal terms, or marrying down? What does it really take to marry happily? If you've run out of shows to watch lately, come read my book! Reading it is just like binge-watching a TV series. You'll definitely fall in love with the three beautiful Su sisters! Su Yimei marries into a wealthy family. She's a clever, strong female lead, and I'll do her justice! Su Ermei is physically di
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A Love Triangle in Marriage 婚姻里的三角恋
[Contemporary realistic fiction + the married life of ordinary people in Beijing + love triangles in marriage + real struggles] Bai Xue and Wang Yang are a young married couple living in Beijing. Wang Yang is a typical “phoenix man,” a country boy who made it big in the city. After ten years of marriage, he cheats on her. After they divorce, Bai Xue meets another man, and her new life begins… What makes this book special: A woman faces betrayal in her marriage, but after the hardship comes
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Since I Stopped Putting Up with My Marriage, I've Been Living My Best Life 自从婚姻不再忍着过老娘我爽爆了
Hua Roulan stayed in the big city of Hailing after graduating from university. Her husband, Cheng Chuanhe, had a doctorate and ran a company. “You don't earn as much as I do. What gives you the right to make me do the housework?” Whenever Cheng Chuanhe flew into a rage, he erupted like a landslide, completely hysterical. Arguments between married couples are inevitable, but he resorted to verbal attacks and emotional abuse... She really couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to keep enduri
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A Blood-Oath Journey 血誓征程
This book follows the protagonist Yang Yi as he grows through combat during the Red Army's campaigns, the War of Resistance against Japan, and the War of Liberation. It unfolds like a magnificent panorama, as stirring as a grand anthem. In those years of raging flames and bloody battles, countless outstanding sons and daughters of China gave their lives with honor for national liberation, and for the peace and security of their country. They fearlessly fought the despicable enemy, defending the
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A Nobody's Rise Begins with an Acceptance Letter 草根逆袭从录取通知书开始
As Heaven moves with vigor, a gentleman strives tirelessly to improve himself; as Earth is broad and steadfast, a gentleman bears all things with great virtue. At eighteen, a poor country boy from the mountains got into college with a stroke of luck. Through sheer grit and relentless hard work, he endured and overcame one hardship after another: poverty, hunger, a weak educational foundation, contempt from others, and misunderstandings from his superiors. Though he completed four years of colleg
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Love Blooms Again, but I Fall into a Tender Trap 梅开二度，却陷入温柔陷阱
A second chance at love, only to fall into a tender trap
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Lost Feelings 迷失的情感
Lost Feelings
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Confession Game: Eight Seats 坦白局:八个位置
Confession Game: Eight Seats
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She Went Crazy After Falling for a Young Hunk 恋上小鲜肉后，她疯了。
She went crazy after falling for a young heartthrob.
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Dad, Have You Changed? 爸爸，变了吗？
Dad, have you changed?
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Love in the Balance 情陷交易
This is more or less the second installment of Trial Marriage. The later chapters focus on bringing together and showing interactions between the characters from the first book and the younger generation. The earlier chapters tell the coming-of-age story of a brother and sister from a divorced family in a small town, as they grow up, study, live, and fall in love against the backdrop of a typical Chinese family. There are joys and sorrows, sweetness and bitterness. Who can truly understand all t
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Trial Marriage 试婚男女
Jiang Chunhua, a budget officer at a construction company, meets Xu Qiushi, an administrative secretary at a private enterprise, on a blind date arranged by their families. But Qiushi never quite falls in love with him. After experiencing her first love, Fang Yuan, as well as Qu Xianghuai and Cheng Ziwei, she starts to feel that falling for someone is difficult. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Qiuhe, unexpectedly meets police officer Zhou Tianmu. Neither of them expects much at first, thinking it
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Jian Xin’s Choice 简馨的选择
Jian Xin, an employee at an accounting firm, is delayed by a flight and lands on a rainy night in Ancheng. Mistaking Cheng Geng for a driver of an unlicensed car, she meets him again through work, and they become a couple. Later, work brings her unexpectedly back into contact with Xiang Haichao, whom she met once five years earlier. With his dogged, competitive nature, Xiang Haichao keeps fighting for her, leaving Jian Xin emotionally conflicted time and again. The contrasting personalities of t
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Unmarried at Thirty, Unwed at Forty 三十不婚，四十不嫁
There's nothing wrong with a woman not getting married by thirty, and there's nothing wrong with not remarrying by forty! Everyone simply makes different choices. After enduring pressure to marry, blind dates, deception, and divorce, she finally realized that being alone can actually be pretty great.
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She’s Someone Else’s Wife 她是别人的太太
The second male lead comes out on top. He refuses to chase his ex-wife, while the second male lead fights tooth and nail for her. What to expect: From school uniforms to wedding gowns, a model couple, a cheating husband, a heroine who divorces him without looking back, and an urbane tycoon who successfully wins her over. Heroine: A rich man's wife who gives up her life of luxury to cook for her husband, then divorces him without hesitation and eventually becomes CEO of her family's corporation.
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A Spoiled Beauty in a Rental? The Rough-and-Ready Man Treats Her Like a Treasure 娇气美人住出租屋？被糙汉宠成宝
[Beauty × loyal puppy, marriage first and love later, an impoverished young couple's inspiring daily life] Zheng Xunjia had spent twenty years shirking responsibility. She thought life in a wealthy family would be smooth sailing, and she could be her parents' pampered little canary for the rest of her life. She never expected to be the fake daughter who had been switched at birth. The real Zheng heiress was proud and domineering. After she returned, Zheng Xunjia lost to her in just two rounds, t
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I Had a Crush on Him for Eight Years, Then He Kept Me 暗恋他八年，被他包养了
What to Expect from My Boss Doesn't Love Me: The heroine gives herself to the male lead but always keeps a clear head, focusing on saving her family business. The moment he becomes useless to her, she ends things. The male lead is an older, taciturn tycoon, cold and ruthless on the outside but willing to bend for love. In the end, he becomes a tycoon who showers her with billions in subsidies. He is the guiding type of lover, teaching the heroine to grow. She puts up with a lot early on, but lat
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Waiting for Him to Understand My Heart 等他知我意
A story about high-ranking officials, featuring three couples: (1) The son of a powerful family and a once-wealthy young woman fall secretly in love with each other. Their romance lasts from college until they are nearly thirty, when they finally marry. President Lu is gentle and devoted, while the heroine is radiant and ambitious. Highlights: starting a business, and a romance that goes from school uniforms to a wedding dress. (2) A taciturn, thirty-year-old division chief is a man of faith, bu
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Rise and Ruin 荣枯
This is the story of the first generation, perhaps even the very first true migrant worker to leave the countryside and make a living in the city after China's reform and opening-up. It's a story filled with bitterness and tears, but also with a spirit of self-reliance and an unyielding refusal to admit defeat. [Period drama] Previously titled “The Burning Years.” One summer afternoon, two men led him away from the wheat fields. From then on, his hometown became a place that a man named Yan Dong
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In Tribute to Our Middle-Aged Years 致敬我们的中年岁月
This is a contemporary urban novel inspired by and shaped from real life. There are no golden fingers, supernatural powers, or wild flights of fancy. Readers who enjoy realistic urban life are welcome to read and follow along. Yao Chen and Piao Zong were classmates in middle school, good friends and close buddies, but they fell out over love. Ten years ago, Piao Zong took advantage of the situation and violated Yao Chen’s wife, Bai Jingjing, who died by suicide after being dishonored. The two me
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I'll Wait for You in Shanghai 我在上海等你邂逅
[Literary fiction. A period romance.] On New Year's Eve, beneath a moonless, windy sky, I was sleeping under a bridge while fleeing an arranged marriage when two petty thieves stabbed a hole in my backside, leaving me covered in blood. I ran for my life, only to be chased into a dead end. Just as I was on the brink of death, despairing, a light suddenly appeared, and a door opened behind me. Stumbling, I plunged through that door and encountered the plum blossom of my life, landing in her ninete
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Riddled with Illness, I Refuse Treatment. Why Are You Crying? 诸病缠身，我不治，你们哭什么
[Also known as: "Your Son Has Been Gone for a Long Time" and "My Depression Was Getting Better, but I Still Had Stomach Cancer"] Guo Lu was just passing through, a person suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and stomach cancer. After learning that he had only a few years left if he did not seek treatment, Guo Lu wanted nothing more than to end it all on his own terms. After the conflicts with his family accumulated and finally exploded time and again, the people close to him at last learned
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One “Don’t Catch a Cold” and the Haters Fall Silent 一句别感冒，黑粉集体沉默了
[Ruthless and decisive] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Entertainment industry + absurd memes + livestreaming + invincible] Lin Kun transmigrates into the body of an idol trainee who’s hated across the internet. From the start, he’s attacked by antis. Luckily, he binds to the [Comeback System]. With a System on my side, why should I fear a few haters? If I couldn’t rely on it, what would be the point of having it? The antis throw all kinds of memes and insults at him, but Lin Kun is no longer who h
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Game for Peace: Even as a Beauty Streamer, I Still Rack Up Kills 和平精英：变成颜值主播也要乱杀
How does a straight-laced girl come to be? He was the toughest S686 male streamer on the Chinese server, but after being reborn, he turns into a pretty, cute, and lovable girl…
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A Whirlwind Wedding with My Childhood Friend Is Pretty Great 与竹马相亲闪婚挺好的
Before the New Year holiday, Su Tiantian was lured home with the promise of 200,000 yuan. The village really was handing out money from the sale of land, and they really did want to trick her into coming home early. Waiting for her was a steady stream of blind dates. There are all kinds of people in the world, and her parade of prospective matches left her laughing and crying in equal measure. She saw all sorts of human behavior, then got married on a whim. The blind dates were a beginning, and
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Reborn: I’m Done Being a Good Daughter 重生，从不做好女儿开始
The story of a peasant woman who, after being reborn, slowly comes to terms with reality and grows into the best version of herself. Li Xiaorong spent her whole life trying to be a good person. First, she tried to be a good daughter, then, unwillingly and against her will, let her mother force her into a marriage exchange for her brother. After her husband died in an accident, she listened to her mother and remarried, becoming the wife of a man with three children. She supported her husband’s ca
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Rural Chronicle 乡村纪实
The little details of life, all those everyday moments, come together to paint a picture of a changing countryside. Generation after generation pursues its dreams, working hard in the mountain valleys. They make it through the winter, then the hills turn green in spring. Summer crops blanket the mountains, and autumn is always a season of joy.
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Xue Mei's Story 雪梅的故事
Bare, barren loess hills. Ravines and ridges wind their way into the distance. This is where the story’s heroine, Xuemei, spent her childhood, grew into a shy young woman, and endured until she became a mature wife. She works hard, cultivating this poor yellow earth, and sings the praises of the diligence and simplicity of rural women in the new era.
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An Unlawful Marriage 不法婚姻
This is a slice-of-life story that doesn’t follow conventional web-novel genre formulas. One unmarried woman is devoted to a married man, while another woman, his wife, swears to defend her rights and dignity. In the end, the devoted woman cannot let go of her obsession, while the woman who fought for her dignity lets go of hers and frees herself.
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No Matter How Much You Cherish It, Nothing Lasts Forever 讲究终将不能长久
This should be a story about a woman’s growth, set in a bygone era. A girl who has lived at the bottom of society since childhood works hard and thinks she has crossed into a higher class, only to realize she has climbed just one step. Exhausted, she resigns herself to fate and looks for someone on that same step to lean on. But the person she thinks she can rely on only wants to use her to climb higher. To achieve his own ends, he has to kick her down a step so he can leap a little farther. If
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An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家
I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv
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At Dusk 人到黄昏
Family love, romance, friendship, and neighborly affection. The ordinary, uneventful lives of everyday people; the changing times reflected in rural life; the differences between two generations in their views on elder care; and how the elderly and children of the new era should face the twilight years of life.
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The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲
Liu Peiyun was ready to enjoy a quiet retirement, but instead transmigrated into a book as Lu Xuebi, a village girl whose engagement had been broken off in the 1980s. Since she was already here, Lu Xuebi decided to make the best of it. She studied for college entrance exams while leading her whole family to seize the opportunities of the times. Only later did she learn she had transmigrated into a book: she was the heroine’s shrewish adoptive mother, an obstacle on the heroine’s road to wealth a
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A Supporting Actress’s Gossip-Filled Life in the 1970s 七十年代女配的吃瓜日常
After learning she has transmigrated into a historical-era novel as a pawn meant to whitewash the protagonist's group, Jiang Yanqiu first steals half of the original heroine's golden finger, then gives away half of the transmigrated heroine's golden finger. Then she keeps her head down, stays away from the protagonist's group, and enjoys the show. With nobody at the educated youth station willing to talk to her, bored Jiang Yanqiu has nothing to do but gossip to pass the time. She has to admit,
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The Cangshan Mountains Run Red 苍山如血
For the liberation of the Chinese nation, countless sons and daughters of China shed their very last drop of blood. They came from humble backgrounds, yet their heroic deeds were so moving that they would never be forgotten! The story is gripping and heartbreaking, leaving readers unable to put it down.
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Is the County Party Secretary Sick? 县委书记得病？
The County Party Secretary Is Sick?
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The Loss of My Mother 痛失母亲
Lost Her Mother
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My Former Mother-in-Law 前婆婆
Former Mother-in-Law
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Missing My Sister-in-Law 怀念嫂子
Missing My Sister-in-Law
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We Are Each Other's Time 我们互为时光
You are the road I have walked, and I am the poem you have read. Lin Zhixia and Cheng Yan, from the age of eighteen to thirty-eight. One went to Beijing, while the other stayed in the county town. One became a journalist, the other a photographer. One lost herself in marriage, while the other found herself again as she cared for her mother. Twenty years: Fourteen handwritten letters One hundred and thirty-two photographs Countless late-night phone calls That same photograph together every Spr
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You Are the North of Beijing 你是北京的北
Even now, Wen Wen still remembered the day she left Beijing. It was the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. She left alone and without hesitation, yet carried a weight of a thousand pounds. Before boarding her flight, she gazed down at the city's nightscape from inside a skyscraper. The roads were still filled with traffic, and countless people rushed about, only to end up with nothing. This city had buried her winter, her summer, and her spring. By the time she left, all she felt for
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The Urban Hunt 都市围猎
This story follows the tangled struggles over power, profit, and desire within modern corporations. Everyone is a hunter, and everyone is prey. In the end, justice catches up with them: each person is destroyed by the consequences of their own actions. Then a new hunt begins somewhere else. The novel features a large cast of characters, and the author has done their best to pack a miniature society into its pages.
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The Year the Wutong Rain Fell 那一年梧桐雨落
Young love, charging headlong into a relationship at an age when you don't yet understand love. I always regretted how one relationship ended, and it wasn't until years later that I learned there was another version of the story from back then.
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I've Decided to Truly Love Someone 我决定好好去爱一个人
After getting hurt in love, when I meet someone who treats me well, I think I should try to love them wholeheartedly. Even if it ends in failure, that would be better than living with regret. Learning to love again and loving someone I have no feelings for without holding back is not easy for a Scorpio woman. It took me half a lifetime to realize that the person I most needed to love properly was myself.
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Back in the Game: Cleaning Up Officialdom 重出江湖之整治官场
A mob boss shakes up and cleans house in the political arena! [No idiotic characters, no System, light mystery] Black is black, and white is white, but the two can also change places! Even the righteous may do shameful things, while the wicked may do good for the country and its people. What matters is how you see things and what you believe, and whether you can answer to your conscience!
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Love and Affection 情与爱
Love and Affection
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Burning Hot! 炙热沦陷！
(The print edition, titled Song of Sheng, is now available, and the online comic of the same name is complete.) [Flirty Romance]+ [Reborn School Life]+ [Mutual Healing]+ [Obsessive Sweet Romance] A striking, warm, and gentle girl with vivid features × a brooding, handsome, and rebellious young man Only when Shengge was dying did she learn that a boy had loved her with all his heart. The first time they met in her previous life, the carefree boy asked her, “Hey, new student, what's your name?” Sh
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Mrs. Huo, You Can't Get Away! 霍太太，你跑不掉了！
She runs into her ex again. He’s the richest man in City B. He pins her against a door and says, “Jiang Man, do you know how much I’ve missed you?” When she’s in trouble, he’s more than happy to help... When his childhood sweetheart comes back, the two women match wits and fight for the upper hand... Then she gets pregnant, and he spoils her rotten.
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She's Such a Flirt 她那么撩
[Signed for publication] [Sweet romance + short story] Shen Xiao, renowned as a captivating beauty, pursued Han Ce for five years. Only after they married did she learn that he had fallen in love with her at first sight and had been secretly enjoying her pursuit all along. After an accident sends her back to the beginning, when she first met Han Ce, she hears the heir of the Han family sneer in front of his childhood friends: “Shen Xiao? A childhood betrothal? I'd rather stay single than marry h
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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