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Any Novels That Feel Grounded and Close to Ordinary Life? 有没有那种现实点的小说,接近普通人的生活的小说

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  1. 551 My Eight Extraordinary Lives 我的八次奇妙人生 Modern Romance684k WordsCompleted From childhood through adulthood, Li Ruxi has always been the “perfect child” others compare theirs to: a top student, always excelling. By the age of thirty, her family life seems happy enough, too. But in a single night, her life falls apart: she is terminally ill, with less than a year to live, and her husband may not be the man he appears to be. What will happen to her aging parents? What about her young son? 9.2kReads9.5Score1.2kShelves
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  2. 552 Starting from Scratch: Three Years Flipping Little Boxes Made Me a Millionaire 白手起家,倒腾小盒子三年千万 Urban1.0M WordsOngoing Mocked for selling birth control products in the dorm from the start? Disciplined? No problem! Make money while teaching in the countryside. Build a fortune worth tens of millions over four years, bringing ideals, love, and wealth into reality. [The novel will be finished within a week, so read with confidence] [No transmigration + no System + no pocket dimension + no overpowered characters + no golden finger + an extraordinarily realistic story of hard work] 14kReads8.1Score979Shelves
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  3. 553 A Lowly County Office Clerk with Kids at Home and No Rice to Cook 穿成县衙小吏,家有儿女等米下锅 Historical1.3M WordsOngoing [A clerk is no official, and the desk is a mountain of blades] [No errors in the ledger, every stroke of the brush decides joy and sorrow] The male lead had only just transmigrated when someone cracked him over the back of the head. After missing work for three days, he nearly got struck off the rolls. His father thought he was saddled with two useless dependents. His older brother thought he was too inflexible to make money. His fourth younger brother feared his lowly clerk's status would tarni 165.9kReads9.2Score22.8kShelves
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  4. 554 Zhining’s Winter 芷宁的东天 Modern Romance325k WordsCompleted At thirty, Zhining had long since stopped believing in love and decided to live alone, freely and on her own terms. Then a chance game of murder mystery brought the forceful, passionate Shao Dong into her quiet life. His overwhelming possessiveness and affection threw off her familiar rhythm. She had thought she would never fall in love again, but when faced with someone willing to do anything for her, The resolve she had held for years to never marry began to waver. At the halfway point of life 288Reads—Score102Shelves
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  5. 555 Rising to Power in 1994, Starting with Painting Walls 1994从批墙开始崛起 Urban1.3M WordsCompleted The rating has just come out, so it’ll go up later. Other people’s rebirth: transmigrate to the key moment when everything can still be changed. Change the course of events. Fix the regrets in their lives. Rise to the top. Luo Ming’s rebirth: Last year, his father was already paralyzed in a car accident. This year, his third younger sister has already run off after eloping. And he’s already on the road, chasing after her and the blond punk she ran off with. Everything he wanted to change has alr 2.2kReads8.1Score104Shelves
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  6. 556 Uh-Oh, I’ve Fallen for Someone Else’s Girlfriend 糟糕,对别人的女朋友怦然心动了 Modern Romance361k WordsCompleted At a gathering, someone asked Feng Ran what she was looking for in a partner. “As long as we truly love each other, that's enough.” She'd smiled gently and said it with conviction, believing that true love could overcome any obstacle. Everyone fell silent for a moment, then sighed that Xiao Ran was so innocent, still as guileless as ever. Later, she asked for a bride price of 200,000 yuan, not a penny less. That demand ended her relationship with Wang Chuxin, her boyfriend of five years, who 1.5kReads8.6Score162Shelves
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  7. 557 After the Divorce, My First Love and Ex-Boyfriend Won't Leave Me Alone 离婚后,初恋前男友上蹿又下跳 Modern Romance368k WordsCompleted Xu Yuanchun's first marriage lasted only a year and a half. Because she was infertile. It's no big deal. Infertility isn't life-threatening, and even after her divorce, she can still live freely. But as soon as the divorce was final, Feng Jianqiu, her ex-boyfriend and first love, came shamelessly crawling back, making a scene at every turn. She really had no idea what game he was trying to play. Whatever. She might as well slap him first. · Two ordinary people in their thirties stumble through a 237Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. 558 The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹,谁的错! Modern Romance1.6M WordsOngoing This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s 44kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
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  9. 559 Honghong, the Village Beauty 村花红红 Modern Romance669k WordsOngoing Honghong, the prettiest girl in her village at twenty-two, marries Leizi from the neighboring village after her very first blind date. Later, she heads to Dongguan to work hard at a factory. She starts out in sales at the factory and earns her first fortune, buying a car and a house and building a happy life. Later, she builds up her network and starts her own factory! 3.6kReads7.3Score206Shelves
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  10. 560 After Fleeing My Wedding, I Went to Dongguan 逃婚后我去了东莞 Modern Romance871k WordsCompleted [Rural] At 22, Bai Qing went on a blind date over the New Year holiday. On her very first date, she lost her virginity to a man she didn't like. With no other choice, she ran away from her wedding and went to Guangdong to work. While working in Dongguan, she met her true love, Li Changsheng, a rich second-generation heir. Not long after they began dating, Changsheng sent Bai Qing to adult college. After many intimate encounters, she became pregnant. Then Bai Qing dropped out, got married, and ga 932Reads7.3Score102Shelves
  11. 561 Drawn to Your Warmth 向温柔靠近 Modern Romance580k WordsCompleted Beautiful, fair-skinned photographer and refined, cultured math teacher In search of inspiration for the perfect shot, Jiang Yu travels to her grandmother’s hometown, an obscure little county town. On the day she first arrives in Xi County, she meets a man she will never forget. The first time, she watches him walk beneath the dim orange streetlights at dusk. The second time, he stands in the hospital corridor outside her room and says politely, “Hello, I’m Xie Yuzhi.” The third time is in a dre 64Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 562 The Left-Behind Wife 留守妇女 Modern Romance147k WordsCompleted Xiyun was just one ordinary woman among countless women in the countryside. She had always thought her life would be like that of other rural women: getting married, having children, looking after her husband, and making ends meet, just like her own parents. But when the winds of a new era blew into the countryside and the tide of reform made her one of the many women left behind in their villages, she began to deeply question her past life and her marriage. The hopes for life and love she had c 131Reads9.0Score101Shelves
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  13. 563 I Bet You're Falling for Me Too 我猜你也心动 Modern Romance359k WordsCompleted [Funny girl Cheng Jiashu] VS [Sunny, scheming campus heartthrob Jian Yi] [Sweet romance] [Healing] [Youth] [Dreams] [Both are each other's first] What's it like to embarrass yourself again and again in front of the person you're secretly in love with? Cheng Jiashu can speak with two hundred percent authority. Other people's crushes begin in the bloom of youth. Hers began with a pratfall. If she could choose, Cheng Jiashu might not have chosen to fall for Jian Yi. He shone so brightly, like the m 10Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 564 Doctors Wield Knives, So How Dare You Cheat on Me? 医生是拿刀的,你敢出轨欺我 Urban395k WordsCompleted (Please stop reporting this. It’s already finished.) Cheng Mo is an orphan who worked hard to get through college and became a doctor at the county hospital. His wife, Lin Tong, is a county government employee. They’ve been married for seven years and have a five-year-old daughter, Cheng Bao. Lately, he’s noticed his wife keeps working overtime. He has no proof, but in the adult world, some things go without saying. He had already gathered the evidence and planned to divorce her amicably. But ju 73Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  15. 565 The Sweet Young Lady Returns to the Countryside, and Her Lovesick Admirer Is Shocking 娇娇小姐回乡村,痴汉手段太惊人 Modern Romance549k WordsCompleted [Both leads’ first love + a domineering CEO from the southwest goes rural + intense romantic push and pull + quiet devotion gets a response + realistic, sweet romance] A gentle, abstinent old flame × a stunning, pure and alluring little white rabbit City girl Chen Man returns to the countryside to care for her grandmother and discovers that her neighbor is an incredibly handsome, domineering CEO. In outsiders’ eyes, Chen Man is refined and elegant. But no one has ever seen her other side. In 149.2kReads9.5Score20kShelves
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  16. 566 The Loyalty and Betrayal of Marriage 婚姻的忠诚与背叛 Urban573k WordsCompleted Kang Chuanzong and his wife, Su Miao, were both natives of a city on the southeastern coast. In their county, their families could be called Brahmins. They had countless relatives, and all their aunts, uncles, and cousins were either in business or department heads and directors in various government agencies. So their marriage was practically an alliance. Though they had met through a matchmaking arrangement, their life after marriage was quiet and uneventful. Thanks to the wealth accumulated b 2.4kReads8.2Score141Shelves
  17. 567 The Abandoned Wife Xiumi: Painting Smiles with Tears 弃妇秀米:蘸着眼泪画笑容 Modern Romance547k WordsCompleted Xiumi's story is based on the true story of my neighbor's mother and was adapted with her permission. At seventeen, Xiumi became an abandoned wife just six months after getting married. Her husband ran away with someone else, and Xiumi gave birth to his child. Decades later, Xiumi had seen her parents-in-law off and raised her daughter. Her daughter was studying for a master's degree in Shanghai, while Xiumi remained in the old house until her husband returned... But after coming back, her husba 12Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 568 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Modern Romance120k WordsCompleted 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 81.1kReads9.7Score14.1kShelves
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  19. 569 Love Is Always Part of Life 人生总有爱 Urban327k WordsCompleted Li Ming came from a rural family. At university, his teacher, Zhao Qiang, introduced him to his daughter, Zhao Na, and the two married. During their fifteen years of marriage, they had a son named Li Xuan, who is now a first-year high school student. Zhao Na had a knack for business, and her company thrived. She bought the family home and car. Li Ming worked diligently as a university lecturer. Every month, he gave two thousand yuan to his parents, kept fifteen hundred for himself, and used the 229Reads5.8Score—Shelves
  20. 570 Oh No, I Switched Souls with a Green-Tea Schemer 哎呀,和绿茶灵魂互换了 Modern Romance140k WordsCompleted What should a wife do when she encounters her husband’s mistress? The real twist is that the two accidentally switch bodies, souls and all. Li Manmei says plaintively, “Sis, Wang Youwei was the one who seduced me.” Liu Shilan raises an eyebrow. “Becoming Wang Youwei’s legitimate wife is what you’ve always dreamed of. With such a great opportunity right in front of you, why don’t you know how to appreciate it?” Wang Youwei: “Honey, please take me back!!!” Liu Shilan: “From now on, my life is for 87Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 571 Searching for Love in the Mortal World 尘世寻爱 Urban239k WordsCompleted At the end of the twentieth century, Momo always looked at the reasonable and unreasonable aspects of the world from the perspective of a bystander, living carelessly like a rogue. It wasn't until she met Li Fan, a married woman, and Duoduo that she truly entered the real world. But the cruelty of reality, and the enormous gulf between it and her inner world, made it impossible for her to adapt... 4.5kReads—Score202Shelves
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  22. 572 You Cheated, So I Took Revenge for Five Years. Now I’ll Let You Go 你出轨我报复了5年,现在放过你 Urban82k WordsCompleted Cheng Yuan and his wife, Shen Xia, grew up together as childhood sweethearts and married after graduating from college. With help from both sets of parents and their connections, Cheng Yuan opened a real estate company, and business went smoothly. After graduating, his wife went straight into teaching at the university. When Cheng Yuan was thirty, he went to Liudu to develop a new housing project and stayed there for six months. After he returned, he sensed something was off with his wife. An in 957Reads6.1Score—Shelves
  23. 573 Cao Yang's Journey South 曹阳南下记 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Passionate and exhilarating. Now complete. Read with confidence. Cao Yang heads south to seek refuge with his older sister, setting off wave after wave of upheaval… 40.6kReads8.9Score4kShelves
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  24. 574 She Works as a Maid for a Shenzhen Tycoon 她在深圳豪门做保姆 Modern Romance351k WordsCompleted After her husband divorces her, a nurse from a small county town heads south to Shenzhen to support her child and put her younger brother through school. After losing her job, she is hired as a nanny by Miss Chen, a wealthy heiress. She goes through being framed, misunderstood, dismissed, earning her first savings, suffering a miscarriage after being beaten, and heartbreak. In the end, she marries a local bachelor and becomes the leading lady of a wealthy family. As Miss Chen’s nanny, she witnes 6.3kReads9.2Score754Shelves
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  25. 575 Love with All Your Heart 尽情去爱吧 Modern Romance460k WordsOngoing Based on a true story, newly rated. A literary gem, finely written, not a web novel. When desire and morality collide, human weakness becomes a blade that wounds others. The Peking University campus is merely the story’s starting point. The Beijing financial world is where the real story unfolds. The author graduated with an undergraduate degree from Peking University’s Department of Physics. 33.1kReads8.7Score1.9kShelves
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  26. 576 The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事 Modern Romance122k WordsCompleted Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing 77.1kReads9.7Score13.5kShelves
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  27. 577 Back to the ’90s: A Mother’s Strength 重回九零之为母当自强 Modern Romance740k WordsCompleted A flowerpot falling from upstairs sent Lin Qiu back thirty-two years. Her worldview changed, her appearance changed, and her attitude changed. When life gives you a chance to start over, can a life in shambles finally soar? —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  28. 578 The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代,从村子里逃亡开始 Urban3.3M WordsOngoing 1976. Liu Haibo, a sent-down youth, falls in love with Yang Xiuqing, a village girl. Her family vehemently opposes his proposal, forcing him to flee Shibantian Village and return to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he is preparing to start a new life with Wu Jie in Haicheng, Yang Xiuqing suddenly shows up at his door, stirring up an emotional entanglement that spans the years. 2023. Seventy-year-old Liu Haibo is driving an Audi with Yang Xiuqing to Shibantian Village when they are involv 32.5kReads8.4Score2kShelves
  29. 579 Beneath the Lantern, I Met the Bright Moon 伏灯遇皎月 Modern Romance241k WordsCompleted (Marriage first, love later + winning her back + happy ending, a refined, aloof neurologist × a levelheaded, independent bank teller) Before meeting Shen Jinwei, Guan Qiaoyi spent every day wondering when she could quit her job. After meeting him, she was dazzled by his good looks and impulsively married him on the spot. “Hi. Let's get married.” After the wedding, her husband was gentle and considerate, emotionally steady, and there were no complicated in-law problems. Their married life was har 61Reads6.0Score—Shelves
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  30. 580 Married Off Far Away and Left to Die! The County-Town System Gives Me 100,000 a Day 远嫁惨死!县城系统每天给我十万 Modern Romance304k WordsCompleted [Reborn face-slapping + saving her mother + county-town System + loyal protector + everyday family life] In her previous life, Su Xiaomai married far from home and died miserably. After being reborn, she returned to the time just after graduating from college. Her scumbag ex was proposing to her. Get married? Not a chance. Even a dog wouldn’t marry him! She dumped the jerk in a fury and unexpectedly became bound to a county-town System that gave her 100,000 yuan a day. Now that she’d been reborn 847Reads7.0Score122Shelves
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  31. 581 The Plains' True Colors 平原底色 Urban116k WordsOngoing Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma 17Reads—Score114Shelves
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  32. 582 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Two AI comic adaptations of this book are already online, and a third is in production. In 1997, I was 17, carrying 300 yuan as I left my hometown in Hunan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. With no skills and no temporary residence permit, I was chased by security patrols, turned away by factories, left hungry, and forced to spend nights hiding in a cemetery. I went from a penniless kid to a sewing-machine operator at a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop 18.7kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
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  33. 583 My Years Working at a Securities Firm 我在证券打工那些年 Urban226k WordsOngoing 2004. Shenzhen. Securities account manager. Only later did Li Xingyun realize that the so-called A-share floor price was a lie told to rookies. Below the floor was hell, and below hell were eighteen more levels. He had seen every one of them. No connections, no influential friends, and no Cantonese. Find clients. Fail, and you're out. A veteran told him: In this line of work, no results means no respect. An account of a fresh graduate working in Shenzhen. No inspirational triumphs, no melodrama, 5kReads—Score430Shelves
  34. 584 Descending Into His Heart 降临他心上 Modern Romance404k WordsCompleted [Physical edition available for preorder on April 4] + [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet youth romance] + [Both leads are pure] Zhou Ran, owner of Xiacheng’s most famous tattoo shop, is synonymous with coldness and wildness. The first time Xia Mian sees him, she barges into his tattoo shop and asks for a butterfly tattoo. “What color do you want?” “Green.” “What shade of green?” Xia Mian hesitates, then points to his light green hair. “That exact shade.” Zhou Ran: “?” - People in Xiacheng say t 31.6kReads9.5Score4.7kShelves
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  35. 585 Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风 Modern Romance779k WordsOngoing [Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn. 3.1kReads8.0Score127Shelves
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  36. 586 Love at Forty 不惑爱情 Modern Romance106k WordsCompleted Xu Anqin, a middle-aged woman, has a life that's a complete mess: a mother with dementia, a selfish older sister, in-laws who are always scheming, and a husband who never gets a clue. Everything gives her anxiety. At the lowest point in her life, her rich, handsome first love reappears. Maybe she has another path to choose, but Xu is clear-headed: "I'm almost forty. How could I still be some domineering CEO's unattainable first love?" Before the divorce, life backed her into a corner with no way 183Reads—Score—Shelves
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  37. 587 Wang Next Door Is a Good Man 隔壁王哥是好人 Modern Romance121k WordsCompleted Childhood sweethearts marry, but more than a decade of affection cannot withstand two years of emotional exhaustion. When a marriage cannot be made to work, it becomes a source of wear and tear. This is a story about a young couple who find happiness separately after getting divorced. I’ve written a few books before, but none did well. This time, I started writing casually, just practicing whenever I felt like it. But as I went along, I thought it might be nice to try a different approach and wr 15Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. 588 My CEO Husband Helped Me Win the Jackpot 霸总老公帮我中头奖 Modern Romance125k WordsCompleted [An insecure, sensitive, obsessive corporate drone × a seemingly gentle, secretly obsessive and vulnerable CEO] Mutual devotion + healing from family trauma + both each other’s first and only love + personal growth. This isn’t a mindless wish-fulfillment story. It’s a slow, steady romance with career growth and an intense emotional push and pull. One winning lottery ticket finally gives Zhu Jiu, a corporate drone who fled an abusive family that favored sons, a chance to have a home of her own. A —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 589 Four Beauties of the Bureau 机关四美图 Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing In the cafeteria of a government office in a small county town, amid the idle gossip over tea and meals, they were labeled as failures: divorced, raising children alone, and stumbling through the mire of life. They rebuilt order amid the wreckage and became their own shelter through every storm. Beneath the lamplight late at night, they soothed their children to sleep while planning the next day's schedule. Before the morning alarm rang, breakfast was already prepared. They were no longer anyon 100Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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  40. 590 After Tricking My Husband into a Divorce, I Was Fleeced for a Million by a Puppy-Like Boy 骗夫离婚后,我被小奶狗掏空百万 Modern Romance259k WordsOngoing Urban suspense + sham marriage + a gentle trap + younger puppy-like man + a battle of wits Her marriage was cold, her life suffocating. Liang Qiuyue struggled through half her life, asking only for a peaceful existence. Then the gentle, warm-hearted Jiang Zhihao appeared, doting on her, protecting her, and helping her support the family. Believing she had found salvation, she bravely divorced and was reborn. Little did she know... He seemed mild-mannered and harmless, but behind the scenes he 96Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 591 Within and Beyond the Red Walls, Spring Breeze Enters the Game 红墙内外,春风入局 Modern Romance521k WordsCompleted [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. 51.2kReads8.5Score3.8kShelves
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  42. 592 The Bank President’s Daughter-in-Law from the Countryside 银行行长家的农村儿媳妇 Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Brother-and-sister dynamic + Urban romance + Marriage first, love later + Childhood sweethearts + Female growth The wealthy male lead and the rural female lead were born in neighboring hospital beds, just one day apart. The female lead is stunning and attracts admirers wherever she goes, yet she’s gentle and well-behaved. The male lead is a roguishly handsome man of the world, considerate and capable, a born CEO and the king of jealousy. Though their values and upbringings are worlds apart, fate 2.9kReads8.7Score296Shelves
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  43. 593 Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天 Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted [Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo 1.2kReads8.1Score104Shelves
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  44. 594 An Inhuman Father 为父不人 Modern Romance122k WordsCompleted From the rainy night when she was eight and her father took her away from the scene of her mother’s affair, to the two of them scraping by in a mountain village, where she watched her father choose to end his life; from being forced back into a twisted household with her mother and the man in the gold-rimmed glasses, to growing up amid violation and fear, the rain never truly stopped. As an adult, she uncovers the shocking truth about her birth in her mother’s long-hidden diary. And when she los 591Reads—Score154Shelves
  45. 595 Marriage Is a Scam 婚姻似骗局 Modern Romance356k WordsCompleted This novel tells several little stories about love and marriage, in the hope of helping married and unmarried women alike see marriage for what it really is. A certain well-known contemporary male writer once said that the essence of marriage is that it devours people. Actually, whether it devours people or not is beside the point. Human nature is inherently selfish. If you’re a woman with a hopelessly romantic heart and want a cure, you should definitely read this. You can get married, but make 7.5kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
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  46. 596 The Price of Marriage: A Wife's Secret 婚姻的代价妻子的隐秘 Urban815k WordsCompleted Li Zifan went to incredible lengths to win the heart of Lin Wan'er, the woman of his dreams. But just six months into their marriage, trouble keeps cropping up. Is his wife really cheating on him? And what will Li Zifan choose when he finally uncovers the truth? 4.4kReads7.9Score220Shelves
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  47. 597 A Few Stories from an Ordinary Worker’s Life 小人物的打工两三事 Modern Romance177k WordsOngoing From “Am I the one getting laid off?” to “I got a better offer,” Yang Sanyue's growth isn't a matter of suddenly getting lucky. She got there one step at a time. Her boyfriend, whom she sees once a year, is hard to reach by phone, but his love is always there. It's not domineering, over-the-top pampering, but tenderness in the little things. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  48. 598 Ten Thousand Miles of Silent Roads 万里默途 Urban202k WordsCompleted Born in 1949, he lived through more than 75 years of earthshaking change. He witnessed an entire era transform. He went to school, worked the fields, carried a rifle, and fought in war. There is no System, and this is no power fantasy. This is simply the story of an ordinary person, in a magnificent world battered to pieces by the torrent of its times. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  49. 599 The Secrets of Marriage 婚姻密码 Urban426k WordsCompleted His wife's behavior keeps raising suspicions, and she may be cheating. Cao Ling is deeply conflicted. Swearing to uncover the mysterious mastermind behind it all, he stops hiding his true abilities... 252Reads6.4Score—Shelves
  50. 600 One Person’s Glory, Two People’s Ending 一个人的精彩两个人的结局 Modern Romance2.2M WordsCompleted [Rated 9.5 + 1.68 million words + ongoing + based on real experiences + Vietnam + Cambodia + Thailand + slow-paced + everyday life] In 2000, I was a 17-year-old girl who went south to find work. Later, a job took me to Vietnam. I once dated a rich second-generation boyfriend there, but in the end, he was only passing through my life. Later, I went to Cambodia and Thailand, one after another. Life and the surroundings abroad more than twenty years ago were completely different from what they 2.8kReads9.4Score248Shelves
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