Looking for a Story With a Male and Female Lead, but Without Too Much Lovey-Dovey Stuff, and With the Plot Front and Center 想看有男女主，但不是那种太腻腻歪歪，主剧情
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Everyone Likes Me. Do Monsters Like Me Too? 全都喜欢我，妖怪也喜欢吗？
In middle school, Fang Hai encounters all kinds of strange things alongside the everyday events of life. Fang Hai is a very cute little boy. Wei Cheng has been his childhood friend. When Fang Hai was in fifth grade, his mother died unexpectedly. After that, whenever Wei Cheng's mother had time, she would take care of Fang Hai too, becoming something like a second mother to him. The story takes place around the year 2000.
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You Are Beautiful When You Smile: Entwined at 52 Hertz 你微笑时很美：五十二赫兹的缠绕
Story Status: [Signed] A steady couple pairing, with plenty of sweet romance. Xia Shiwei suddenly returns home after retiring in North America and joins the YQCB team as manager, substitute mid-laner, and ADC. She accompanies YQCB to the national finals, and even gets herself a marriage certificate along the way. Xia Shiwei: “This marriage? Once he’s in, there’s no escape.” Jiang Yichen: “Please spare me, Your Majesty!” This time, may they truly find happiness.
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A Wildly Growing Clarity 疯长的清醒
A genuinely unhinged gang heiress VS a proud, fallen young master Love and hate + two obsessive madmen + both are virgins + angst + tragic romance + mutual torment * On a rainy evening, dirty water streamed through the old alley. He approached her recklessly, his voice gentle. “Are you… all right? Do you need help?” Yan Zhuo’s lips curled into a cold smile. Hah, he thinks he can save just anyone. The next second, she recognized his face: the man from the dark-web livestream, who beguiled viewers
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The Heartbeat of Isotopes 同位素的心跳
They meet again ten years later. He is the project's lead, and she is a data analyst. He says, "Isotopes are the heartbeat of the Earth." It takes her ten years to understand her own heart. Ten years have passed. Some feelings are like isotopes, with half-lives long enough to last a lifetime. This time, he won't let her run away again. And she has finally learned to face her own heart. "Su Wan, you turned me down ten years ago, and I've waited for ten years. This time, how much longer do you wan
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My Love Has No Happy Ending 我的喜欢没结局
[Male-Oriented] [Female-Oriented] [Reborn] [Multiple Heroines] [Tragedy] [First Person] Back in high school to pursue his dream girl, Shen Xingyue sees only the tenderness of his idealized first love and fails to notice another girl's quiet devotion. It isn't until confession night, when his dream girl plunges a knife into his chest, that he understands: this rebirth is a death he walked into for the wrong person, and a betrayal of someone who truly loved him. Liu Xinghan gazes at me with deep a
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I Pretended to Be a Social Butterfly, but the CEO Can Read My Mind? 伪装社牛的我，被总裁读心了？
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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I Came to Earth to Be a God 我到地球来当神
Female-Led + Interstellar + No System + Eastern Fantasy + Light-Novel Style + Ensemble Cast Growth + One True Pair The title may give the wrong impression that this is a story about a charlatan or a comedy, but the actual story is a slow burn with a vast world. The protagonist, Youtan, is stranded on Earth after a spaceship accident. In search of energy, she travels across the planet alone, eventually journeying with an Earth mage, a young hunter, and others. The story revolves around the power
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It Began With a Heartbeat, and Ended With One Too 开始是心动，结束也是心动
Have you ever met a girl who made your heart flutter the first time you saw her because she seemed to glow, and her light shone only on you? Then, the last time you saw her, your heart fluttered again. Nothing had changed, and yet somehow everything had.
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My Useless Spiritual Root: Reforming the Cultivation World With Toxic Advice 废灵根的我，靠毒鸡汤整顿修仙界
I transmigrated into the world of cultivation, but my spiritual root was so useless that the spirit-testing stone shattered on the spot. With no other choice, I became a rogue cultivator, and everyone mocked me as “the lowest of the low in the cultivation world, walking around on two legs.” That was until I offered the Sword Venerable some advice: “Fellow Daoist, your heart of the Dao is unsteady.” The Sword Venerable achieved enlightenment right there and then, dropped to his knees, and begged
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I Became an Internet Celebrity in the Underworld 我在阴司当网红
Introduction I'm a Taoist priestess who livestreamed metaphysics theories in the living world and never encountered a real ghost. Then I got so excited over a 200,000-yuan tip that I keeled over on the spot. When I woke up, I was standing in the gloomy Hall of the King of Hell. The judge told me my allotted lifespan wasn't over, but that the way I died was too embarrassing. Since I was here anyway, I might as well get back to my old line of work in the underworld. Who could have guessed that the
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Call Me the Corpse Ancestor: It All Began with Refining My Fated Female Corpse 请叫我尸祖，从炼化本命女尸开始
Prologue · The Family Rules My family has three ancestral rules: First, never do business with anyone wearing a black suit and a silver-gray tie. Second, after midnight, if you hear someone knocking in a pattern of three short knocks followed by two long ones, hold your breath until the knocking stops. Third, and most important: every man in the Chen family must find a way to "marry" a thousand-year-old corpse once he turns twenty-two. For a hundred years, my family observed the first two rules,
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The Decline of the Mystic Arts in 1999 1999年玄门末路
July 15, 1999. Ancestral home in a walled village in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The shadow of a century-old locust tree swayed wildly in the torrential rain. Lin Qingya held a peachwood sword before the incense altar. The Big Dipper carved into its blade shone with dazzling blue light. He looked down at the month-old baby girl in his arms. Seven cinnabar moles on her left shoulder formed the shape of a ladle, mirroring the constellation carved on the sword. “Master, the Array of a Hundred G
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Your Majesty, Hear Me Out! 娘娘，请听我狡辩！
After transmigrating into the body of a fake eunuch, Shen Yan is exhausted. Palace intrigue? No, he just wants to keep his head down, survive in the harem, and admire the beauties along the way. But every consort is a natural-born schemer: the empress is obsessive beneath her dignified facade, the noble consort hides murderous intent behind her charms, and even the sweet, innocent consort has a thousand tricks up her sleeve. Shen Yan sighs and pulls out his little notebook to write: “The noble c
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The Star-Eyed Era: Ruling the Nine Heavens with My Eyes 星瞳纪元之瞳御九天
During a family crisis, Yun Che accidentally awakens the Star Eyes while protecting his loved ones, catching his first glimpse of the wonders of ocular arts: “See Through All Things” and “Predict Trajectories.” This section focuses on the profound physical and mental changes he undergoes upon awakening, as well as his shock and confusion. The Path of Cultivation, First Display of Brilliance: Yun Che joins the Tianshu Sect and meets Feng Buyu, who guides him on his path. Under the sect’s tutelag
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Above the Undercurrent: Ding Yi's Political Career 潜流之上：丁一官场记
Through Ding Yi's ups and downs in the political arena and the intertwined fates of several women, this novel explores how individuals can hold on to their ideals, conscience, and principles amid the tide of power's unspoken rules, and ultimately achieve redemption and reshape their sense of purpose.
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The Ghost-Dreaded Girl’s KPI Crisis 鬼见愁少女的KPI危机
Midnight, at the mass graveyard south of the city. Su Xiaocan held up her phone stand and flashed the camera a professionally fake smile. “Come on, guys, send those gifts! The streamer’s about to give you a performance: dancing on a grave!” She hit play on the speaker. The blaring strains of “The Most Dazzling Folk Style” instantly shattered the cemetery’s silence. As she danced, she stole glances at her phone screen. [User 7438: The streamer’s badass! I think the third grave on the left just mo
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Apocalypse Descends: From the Start, I Have an Orphanage 末世降临：开局一座孤儿院
Apocalypse Descends: From the Start, I Have an Orphanage, and Brother Jin Goes on a Rampage Cold raindrops pelted the rusted iron gate of Sunshine Welfare Home like bullets, rattling against it. Dirty floodwater had already risen past the ankles in the courtyard. The branches of several old trees swayed helplessly in the gale, as if foreshadowing some impending disaster. Brother Jin stood at the far end of the second-floor corridor, a cheap cigarette between his lips. Through the swirling smoke,
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A Required Course in Growing Up with a Middle Schooler 与初中生共同成长的必修课
Introduction: “What’s wrong with my child?” This book explores the challenges of transitioning from primary to middle school and the early parent-child conflicts of adolescence. What this book promises: This is more than a book about solving “problems.” It’s a roadmap to help you anticipate “growth” and enjoy the journey of being there for your child. To readers: How to use this book: record your questions and growth, and move forward in step with your child.
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What Do You Mean, My Girlfriend Is Your Boyfriend? 什么叫我的女朋友是你的男朋友？
I'm Yun Yi, male, a junior in college. Special ability: I can turn into a woman. Special way of getting myself into trouble: I got a girlfriend using my male identity, then got a boyfriend using my female identity. I kept it under wraps for two years. I thought I was a master of time management. Until the names of both my partners appeared in the same group on the registration form for the school anniversary celebration. And then things got even more ridiculous: My boyfriend found the bracelet b
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The Moonlight of My Life Turns Out to Be a Cat 白月光竟是一只喵
She doesn't know who she is. She woke from a deep sleep to find the entire Luo family dead and her memories gone. The only one by her side was a handsome guard with a cold expression, who called her "Master" and took tender care of her. The first time they met, she was captivated by his looks. Yet everyone said Luo Qianhan loved Luo Qingwan deeply. She thought their feelings were mutual, until one night she reached up and felt the furry cat ears on her head. In the mirror, a pair of deep green c
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To Complete the Mission, I Break Up the Lovers, Only to Find It’s Me 为完成任务，棒打的鸳鸯竟是自己
Just as Shen Zhaoye finished a transmigration-into-a-book mission and was waiting for the results, the space around her suddenly twisted. She was thrown out of the settlement space, and when she got a clear look at the "person" before her, she realized it was an "old friend": the System. She was still celebrating the vacation compensation the System had given her when a mission appeared on her task panel. Her arrival had accidentally triggered the world's story. So, to keep the world from collap
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