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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Through the Trials 走过劫难
Disaster strikes a once-happy family of five. After suffering a heartbreak so piercing it feels like ten thousand arrows, how will a mother who has only just reached middle age, and is already frail and sickly, lead her three underage children through hardship and toward the future...?
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- 302 My Cat and I Both Miss You 我和我的猫都想你了 A genius astrophysicist + a girl with Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. What's the scariest thing about loving someone? Becoming a burden to them. Professor Qiao has not only a brilliant mind, but a face so beautiful it's almost devastating. She will always be the Qiao family's little princess, but she's also his nemesis. Seven parts heartwarming love + three parts tearjerker = the most fairy-tale-like little happiness in the world. Professor Qiao has not only a brilliant mind, but a face so beautiful i 271Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 303 A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人 This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute 6.8kReads8.8Score611Shelves
- 304 The Year of the Wolf and Tiger 狼虎之年 A panoramic survey of the raw emotional lives of people from different age groups and social classes in China today, vividly depicting the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature amid the country’s rapid social transformation. It lays bare the conflicts and friction between people’s emotions and reality. 10.9kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
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The Imaginary Love of My Life Has Mr. Jiang Green with Jealousy 我虚构的白月光，让江先生醋翻啦
They married in a flash after knowing each other for six months, and she settled into what was essentially a long-distance marriage. Jiang Junche rarely came home, and married life was dull and uneventful. Ye Ying thought a marriage without love could still be a successful one. She tried to suppress the fluttering in her heart, but couldn't help slowly growing closer to him. Mistaking him for someone with another woman in his heart, Ye Ying said through her pain, “...If you want a child, we can
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A Geisha’s Dream 瑰夏之梦
One midsummer day in my second year of high school, I glimpsed Xiao Ruohua at the library, bent over her books by the window. She became the Guixia rose I kept hidden in my heart. For twelve long years, I watched her from afar. I saw her shine as she sang onstage and dazzle everyone in debate competitions. I also saw her hide beneath the protection of the Chu family, suppress all her talents, and become an obedient, almost invisible stepdaughter. I watched in silence and quietly made my way towa
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Reborn: A Sweet Campus Romance, A Different First Love 重生校园小甜文：换一个初恋
Reborn: A Sweet School Romance, A Different First Love
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Half Making Do, Half Living Well 一半将就，一半美好
[The print edition is now available] Fear of marriage is the last thing on Ou Xiaolin’s mind. She and Xie Tao have been happily dating for five years, and their families get along well too. She assumes everything will fall into place and they’ll live happily ever after. Who could have guessed that the moment the families start discussing the bride price, one conflict after another would erupt? Lowbrow provocations come at her from every direction. Do they really think she’s that easy to push ar
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- 309 The Girl of My Dreams Is Just Old, Not Dead 白月光只是老了，不是死了 The woman you can never forget has simply grown old. She hasn’t died. 6.2kReads—Score102Shelves
- 310 Push: The First Time I Got Pushed, I Hit Back! 推——第一次被推就打回去！ Push Back! The First Time Someone Pushes You, Hit Them Right Back! 16Reads—Score—Shelves
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You, My Sunshine 沐阳的你
[Mutual Redemption | Slow-Burn, Deep and Lasting | Healing, Fated Romance | Sweet Details | The Hero's Unrequited Love Comes True | He's Four Years Older] [Highly Sensitive, Resilient, Plant-Loving Top Student × Gentle, Self-Imprisoned, Protective Shopkeeper] When rumors and isolation closed in and agony surged through her, Ren Yuyue could only steady her mind by digging her nails into her arm. She collapsed at the school gate. The person who caught her was Lin Mufeng, the owner of the barbers
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The South Wind Knows My Heart, and I’ll Never Walk Alone Again 南风知我意，从此不孤行
Some people say dandelion seeds look like pretty little parachutes, drifting lightly in the breeze, utterly romantic. But Xu Nanfeng thinks they look more like homeless children, wandering everywhere with nowhere to settle. Just like her: no real kin, no true friends, arriving without a ripple and leaving without a sound. There's an old saying: you reap what you sow. But I, Xu Nanfeng, refuse to believe it. I'll grow into the very person you all thought I could never become! Nanfeng knows my hea
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- 313 The Snow Canon, the Mist Canon: Chronicle of the Twins 雪典，雾典，双生纪 “The first snow between heaven and earth fell atop Kunlun Mountain. Back then, snow did not yet know what melting was, and mist did not know what it meant to disperse. They thought everything in the world would last forever.” “Later, the snow melted and became water. The mist dispersed and became nothing. Only then did they understand: what was eternal was not themselves, but the person who paused in the snow, and the eyes that glanced back through the mist.” 54Reads—Score—Shelves
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Forbidden Affairs 婚外禁忌
[Slice of life + angst and sweetness + family + based on real events + slow burn + age gap + height difference + a woman's growth] * Glamorous divorced young mother vs. a smooth-talking construction magnate Original title: Forbidden Love Outside Marriage Zhang Li, raised in a single-parent family, thought she had found true love when she married up into a wealthy family with a husband who worked in the public sector. She had no idea she was only there to be a free nanny who could bear children.
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- 315 The Glass Cage 玻璃之笼 [No moral boundaries] [The wholesome sections are available as a full-cast audiobook] My older sister has a boyfriend who seems perfect. He treats her well, is good to our parents, and is good to me, too. I thought they were made for each other. Until that Christmas night, when I finally realized he was nothing but a complete bastard. 39.7kReads8.7Score3.3kShelves
- 316 The Ancestor's Parody of Versailles: A Lecture Hall of Laughter 百家笑谭老祖宗的凡尔赛讲堂 Emergency report! Emergency report! The Chinese cultural heritage system has triggered a Level Three Red Alert! The meeting room at the Heavenly Dao Administration was in chaos. Three curves plunged on the holographic display: The first line, labeled [System Comprehension], had fallen from 85% in the Tang Dynasty to 32% in the 21st century. The second line, labeled [Integrity Index], had gone from the dazzling galaxy of the "Hundred Schools of Thought" era to today's scattered "quotes from fa 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 317 Life Is Like a Dream: I Take the Blame and Transmigrate to the 1950s 浮生若梦，我顶缸穿五零 (Fictional setting! Fictional setting! Please don't compare this to reality!) History's number one scapegoat, Xu Duoduo, has grievances she can't voice. When disaster comes from heaven, it can still be avoided. When you bring disaster upon yourself, there's no escaping it. So what if life is hard? If you can stomach eating bitter greens, you can do anything. I'll give it my all! Come watch a post-2000s girl living the '50s version of a wild-vegetable-foraging life. Let's go! 1.7kReads9.2Score127Shelves
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The Rules of Urban Women 都市女人法则
Mi Lier never imagined that the manuscript she'd spent two years pouring her heart into would be deleted with a single click by her scumbag ex, with not even a backup left. With nowhere to turn for justice, she hid in an old Western-style house on Qiqi Street in Dalian and broke down sobbing. Her three roommates immediately gathered around her. Lin Zimu, a cool-headed producer with a warm heart, kept everyone at arm's length with her survival manual, yet found her own heart in disarray over Chen
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- 319 Soft Waist 软腰 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1.3kReads8.6Score179Shelves
- 320 The Rain Canon 雨典 When rain falls upon the world, it is no longer just water. It becomes a bridge between two people meeting, tears of parting, the sorrow of waiting, and a promise to stay together. How many bonds of affection between heaven and earth last only as long as a passing shower? And I am merely the passerby holding an umbrella. 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 321 She Only Made One Mistake 她只是犯了一个错 My new story is here! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3.4kReads8.5Score226Shelves
- 322 The Rivers and Mountains Trilogy 山河故人三部曲 A small town in Jiangnan, Mudanjiang in the northeast, and the ancient city of Xi'an. Different places, the same vision. Beautiful China! Jiangnan's bridges and flowing streams, the northeast's ice and snow, Xi'an's lamb paomo. Beautiful mountains, beautiful rivers, and even more beautiful people. The scenery is written through its people, and the people are reflected in the scenery! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Older Husband's Perfect Facade Crumbles: Proper in Public, Clingy in Private 闪婚老登翻车，人前规矩人后贴贴
[By-the-Book Deputy Director & Kindergarten Teacher] [Flash Marriage, Married First and Falling in Love Later, Age Gap, Sweet Everyday Romance, Old Flame Rekindled] "Want to get married?" "How about... trying living together first?" "..." On her first-ever blind date, Wang Zihan met a by-the-book official drinking Biluochun at Starbucks. By their third meeting, they went straight to the marriage registry. She thought the marriage had happened in a daze, but Director Zheng quickly shifted into wo
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- 324 Collection of Two Forgettings: Records of an Unknown Daoist Couple Among Clouds and Waters 两忘集——无名道侣云水录 The Collection of Two Forgotten: The Unnamed Daoist Couple's Record of Clouds and Waters 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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Dad Gave the Family Fortune to His Illegitimate Son, So I Took It Back 爹把家产给私生子，我直接抢回来
Shen Sui always thought she was the only child in the Shen family, and that she would inherit the family fortune one day. On her twenty-fourth birthday, her father brought home a young man and said he was her little brother, the Shen family’s heir. He even wanted her to marry a fifty-year-old businessman in exchange for business connections for her brother. Shen Sui lost her temper on the spot. She wouldn’t marry him, and they weren’t getting a penny of the family fortune. When her father’s mist
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Sturgeon Returns to Ning'an 鲟洄宁安
A Republican-era tragic romance, a woman's coming-of-age story, and two male leads. A sharp-witted, falsely disguised shaman PKs a rebellious dragon who slays gods. A sudden heavenly fire destroys a city, and the revered Hu Xuan shaman is wrongly blamed and made a scapegoat. With a colossal lie, Ge Wangshu rides alone for a thousand miles to escort the orphan Eyun home. It seems like a sturgeon swimming upstream to return to its birthplace, but in truth, it's the start of a journey with no retu
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- 327 Alive! As Long as She’s in This Town, She’s Alive 活性！只要她还在这座小镇就活着 You are alive. Your body is alive. But are you still human at heart? Did you see someone today? Did you make a choice today, not because it was easy, but because it was right? Did you do something today where no one could see, something only you would ever know about? It was small, so small you’d feel embarrassed even to mention it. But you did it. That is your humanity. That is your vitality. To be alive, you need humanity. Even if you mutate, you can still be human. Without humanity, you’re no 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Long Summer 悠长夏季
The quiet, secluded town of Guanhai welcomed two strange young men one after the other. From then on, the monotonous life of an eighteen-year-old high school girl was filled with laughter… But all good things must come to an end, and eventually they had to leave… Many years later, they unexpectedly met again, but everything had changed…
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Thirty Days on the Run 逃亡三十天
Five years of deep affection could not withstand greed and scheming. Jiang Ling was set up by his lover of five years and her lover on the side, who conspired to seize complete control of his company. In a single day, his love was shattered, his career collapsed, and his life plunged into an abyss. With all hope gone, he chose to retreat to his remote, quiet hometown in the countryside. By chance, in an abandoned mine in a desolate area, he stumbled upon a ton of gold buried deep underground. Af
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Love Amid the Corridors of Power 宦海情途
After offending his superiors, Zhou Zhiyuan was transferred from the county Party committee office to a remote township. Amid the undercurrents of grassroots politics, he remains humble yet steadfast, puts down roots in the countryside, and plans for development. Through one power struggle after another, he holds true to himself and uses his courage and wisdom to break through and grow. Starting from a small township, he rides the waves and steadily opens a path to success in his political caree
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- 331 At Dusk, the Child Returns 暮时子归 [Print edition now available] “Did you know Lin Daiyu is supposed to be paired with Sun Wukong? Nuwa arranged this ‘wood-and-stone bond’ as the destined match of the Goddess of the Xiao River and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.” Xiao Xiang has had enough of drifting around and wants to go back to her hometown and live off her family. But the place is a complete mess, and there's nowhere for her to stay. Then there's that crafty Great Sage with eight hundred tricks up his sleeve, constantly makin 145Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生
This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake
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- 333 Forgotten River Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Ghost Festival Teahouse 忘川茶寮——中元茶寮鬼话连篇 Wangchuan Teahouse: Ghost Stories Galore at the Zhongyuan Teahouse 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 334 Zero-Degree Intimacy 零度暧昧 [The print edition goes on sale across all platforms on August 1] [Short drama now streaming] Previously titled: Zero-Degree Intimacy [One-on-one romance + both leads’ first love + happy ending + secret marriage + sweet romance ♥ Double-layer milk foam, 70% sugar!] (Rich, sharp-tongued, scheming investor Jian Yuchen VS money-loving, mischievous young designer Wen Ni) In a nutshell: She married her nemesis. In physics, zero degrees is the point where ice and water coexist. Zero-degree intimacy is 79.3kReads9.5Score9.4kShelves
- 335 A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案 This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle, 31.9kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 336 A Double-Faced Jianghu, Dedicated to the Eighteen of Every Story 双面江湖献给所有故事里的十八号 The world sings the praises of heroes, But who remembers the nameless extras? The jianghu is more than flashing blades, It lives in serving tea and sweeping floors, too. Two voices separated by countless mountains and rivers, yet keeping exactly the same rhythm. Unhurried, neither too loud nor too soft. Like a heartbeat, like breathing. Like the jianghu itself, quietly and ceaselessly carrying on. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 337 Among the Old Stories 旧事里 Bullied by life a hundred times over, she still became a bright moon in the night sky. Eighteen years ago, he brought her home. Eighteen years later, she was doing everything she could to escape him... Amid old memories, every kind of person comes into view. Time rushes by, youth cries out, and stubborn boys grow up. Love blooms and fades, and those youngsters who laughed and cried together eventually grew into adults. But who was the one you lost during your youth? 2.7kReads9.4Score380Shelves
- 338 Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙 In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s 789Reads—Score—Shelves
- 339 The Ancient Powerhouses Have Arrived 上古大佬团驾到 The ancient supreme gods Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, long since retired and all but legendary, were bored one day. They decided to take their wives, Xihe and Changxi, on a “business trip” that was really a “government-funded vacation,” visiting the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, both under the administration of the current management, the Jade Emperor. When word got out, the officials governing the Three Realms fell into unprecedented panic and chaos. They mistook a simple family outing for 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Handsome Young Man 帅小伙
The Wang and Hai families had been neighbors and friends, but a dispute over building a house turned them into sworn enemies. Wang Xiaoshuai, a third-generation member of the Wang family, became a thorn in Haitang’s side. Every day after school, Haitang would block his way and beat him to a pulp, never tiring of it. Desperate to escape Haitang’s shadow, Wang Xiaoshuai racked his brains, and Haitang became the goal he was determined to surpass.
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- 341 My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居 My Eerie Neighbor 254Reads—Score—Shelves
- 342 The Meal on the Plate: The Execution Ground, They Watch You, They Remember 盘中餐：刑场——它们看着你，它们记得 The Meal on the Plate: The Execution Ground: They Watch You, They Remember 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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All the Years She Worked as a Nanny 她做保姆这些年
The physical edition has already been published under the title Stories of Life Beneath the Apron. The original title was Her Years as a Housekeeper. This is not a reborn story, nor is it a wish-fulfillment novel. Based on real events in Shenzhen, it tells of the feuds and tangled relationships of a wealthy family, of love and hatred, of a loyal bond between employer and housekeeper, and of spouses standing by each other through thick and thin. It faces both the light and darkness of human natur
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- 344 Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人 Fate: A Woman's Atonement 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 345 Chronicles of the Jianghu: Chaos in Botang 江湖册波棠乱 Historical setting: Early Republic of China, around the 1910s to 1920s · What the era represents: The imperial throne has fallen, warlords carve up the country, and Western culture pours in. This is an age when the codes and honor of the “old jianghu” are gradually lost, transformed, and ultimately destroyed by the guns and schemes of the “new world.” The story of Bo and Tang is the most moving verse in this elegy. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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What a Masterful Trick, Auntie Is on Her Knees for You 千术真高，阿姨给你跪了
After my parents divorced, I went to live with my father. But when I was twenty-five, the mother who had abandoned me sixteen years earlier suddenly showed up, wanting to claim me as her child. My mother is the head of a top-tier company, with powerful forces backing her. Faced with my mother’s attempt to make amends, what should I do?
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- 347 Candied Hawthorn Inn 糖葫芦客栈 Pure dialogue, a novel told entirely through lines of speech. The martial world can be a little bitter, so why not try a candied hawthorn? The first bite is tart, but the sweetness lingers. Another one, dear guest! Welcome to the Candied Hawthorn Inn! 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 348 Spring and Autumn in the Textbooks 课本春秋 Seasons in the Textbook A Republican-era classroom, with one teacher and several students [Volume One] First School Year (Autumn 1932–Summer 1933): The Beginning of Learning Opening Note: In the autumn of 1932, the ancestral hall in Qingxi Town opened its doors as a school. Five children walked inside. Over the next six years, they would see the whole world from here. A Poem for the Opening The ancestral hall’s threshold stands three inches high. The children lift their feet to cross, unawar 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 349 My Days at the Real Estate Sales Office 我在售楼部的日子 As a member of the post-80s generation, I’ve witnessed this industry’s rise and fall. I’ve ridden the wave, reaped the rewards, felt the bubble, and watched it go from flourishing to decline, its fortunes ebbing away... There was fate’s hand, society’s shaping, and the trials of life... All these true stories will be recorded in full as a mark of our times. 193Reads—Score—Shelves
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I'll Wait for You in Gusu City 我在姑苏城里等你
After failing the college entrance exams, I left home alone and came to Suzhou, where I met two girls who would shape my whole life... One was as passionate as fire, the other as gentle as jade... At eighteen, I didn't understand what love was... A cigarette, a glass of wine, and so much sorrow in the city of Gusu... Note: This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, and it takes its time getting going. If you enjoy plot-driven stories, you can start at Chapter 39. Thank you!
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