Looking for a Novel with Solid Values, Where Neither Lead Is a Doormat or Love-Struck, and Neither Is Dumbed Down 想求一本三观很正，男女主不舔，不要恋爱脑、不降
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Bound by Contract: My Grudge Against the Cursed Campus Belle Is Irreconcilable 契约绑定：我与怨种校花不共戴天
Synopsis: [Comedy + Cunning Schemer + One Heroine + Love-Hate Relationship + Power Fantasy + Symbiosis + Myriad Worlds] This is a parallel world overrun by strange beasts. Fortunately, humanity has awakened the ability to form symbiotic contracts and fight back. Contractual symbiosis: Two people are bound together. One enters another world to cultivate and adventure, while the other makes choices on their partner’s behalf. In the end, both grow stronger. While the other contracted pairs stand un
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Me and the Roses Are Always at Your Princess's Service! 我与玫瑰，随时为公主待命！
[The print edition is now available. Search for Sweet Mist on your favorite platform to buy it.] [One-on-one sweet romance, heart-fluttering and indulgent, with no limits to his devotion.] Zhou Jin, captain of the criminal investigation squad, was unruly, untamed, and hated being pestered. He had no patience for coaxing anyone, either. But after one assignment, he made an exception and took a young woman into his home. The next day, everyone on the team was gossiping: Would the young woman get y
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I Transmigrated into a Book, but the Powerful Male Lead Won't Play by the Rules 穿书，权臣男主不按套路出牌
(Mutual devotion + tsundere + sweet romance) Fu Jing transmigrates into the novel The Most Powerful Chief Councillor of Wanxiang as Ruan Jing, the male lead's ill-fated stepsister. Without the protagonist's halo, a golden finger, or a pocket dimension, how can she turn her tragic fate around...
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Smiling as I Ask the Pagoda Tree About the Past 笑向槐花问前事
(Sweet romance in the 1970s, cherished by everyone, educated youth sent to the countryside, traditional family medicine, special missions, upright values, deep love for the country and its people, childhood sweethearts, brothers who watch each other's backs, a golden finger used only for survival and convenience, viewed from the sidelines, not a strong female lead) A pair of watches became her space train car. After waking from a dream with seven days' worth of hazy memory fragments, she headed
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After I Stopped Rushing to Get Married, I Became a Master Surgeon 不急着嫁人后我成了外科圣手
[Historical Female Doctor + Career-Driven Heroine + A Touch of Jianghu + Rejecting an Engagement and Fighting Back + Mutual Devotion] Shen Qiaozhi is the legitimate daughter of a wealthy merchant, bound for life by a marriage contract. After her parents are mysteriously murdered, her grandfather hopes she will keep her head down for a while and hold her life together. She tears up the marriage contract, abandons the duties expected of a sheltered young lady, and devotes herself to studying surge
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A Young Wanderer's Tale: The Divine Doctor Princess 少年游之神医王妃
During the reign of Emperor Jing of Liang, the nation was prosperous and powerful, the weather was favorable, and the people lived in peace. Prince Yong'an, Xiao Mingxin, had been frail and sickly since childhood, suffering from a chronic chill. As he approached his twentieth birthday, he was convinced he didn't have long to live and showed little interest in the matchmaking arrangements made by his adoptive mother, the empress. The empress used a flower-viewing banquet to meet and screen the un
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Winning Over Miss Ruan 攻略阮妹子
Luo Fangyuan is a handsome, highly skilled neurosurgeon who has been single his entire life. Then one day, he falls for Lin Ruanruan, a scientific genius with a high IQ and somewhat low EQ. How can he win over Ruan, who seems to be on a completely different wavelength from him?
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The Daily Life of a Government Official 当官日常
(I’m a novice writer, and writing is just a hobby for fun. Please read this for a laugh. My writing is average, and I write purely for enjoyment. If you don’t like it, feel free not to read it, but please be kind.) Xu Yanzhi: a woman who isn’t blinded by love and cares only about building her career. Xu Yanzhi has both brains and brawn. As the emperor’s trusted aide, she enters the imperial court disguised as a man by imperial decree. “Xu Yanzhi, would you become my consort?” Xu Yanzhi drops to
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You Are Not Mustard 子非芥
[Female-oriented] [Traditional fantasy] [Strong female lead power fantasy] [Ensemble cast] What a piece of work, that emperor of the Great Xi Dynasty! He’s single-mindedly searching for the legendary divine guardian, hoping to sit back and reap the benefits? As if! The heroine, Xiao Lin, was born into a general’s family and should have had a happy life. Instead, her mother died when she was young, and her father fell on the battlefield! She is determined to find her father’s killer, but an unexp
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Lord Shen, Please Mind Your Manners 沈大人请自重
The short-drama rights have been sold. Now just waiting for it to premiere~ "A taste of ancient China · devoted lovers · clear-headed heroine" "Romance and intrigue · household and palace rivalries · the fate of the nation" Su Tan is the top courtesan at the Fragrant Pavilion in the capital of Great Wei, blessed with otherworldly beauty, porcelain skin, and a flawless complexion. After transmigrating here eight years ago, she has endured humiliation and bided her time, hoping to auction off her
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My Little Junior Sister Has Delusions 我家小师妹有妄想症
[Straightforward, Devoted Puppy-Like Boy × Playful, Adorable Girl] [One-on-One Romance | Sweet, Healing, Lovey-Dovey, Imaginative, Devoted Couple] After transmigrating into a book she’d never read, Shi Yu finds the original owner’s diary. Its first line reads: “I am a cold-blooded assassin.” The cold-blooded assassin Shi Yu is full of questions. “?” The second line reads: “My mission is to assassinate Mu Xingye.” Shi Yu: “Wow, I have a whole identity and everything.” But when she meets Mu Xingy
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Seven Parts Sweet 清甜有七分
[Rebellious bad boy X spoiled little drama queen] The first time Lin Shixi met the school bully everyone talked about, she immediately got on his bad side. But with her survival instincts kicking in, Lin Shixi still obediently apologized Lin Shixi: “I’m sorry.” Jiang Ye: “I can’t hear you.” Lin Shixi: “…” From there, they kept finding new ways to mess with each other. The formidable Jiang Ye also secretly swore that if he ever paid attention to Lin Shixi again, he’d be a dog. Then, who knows
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Come Here and Give Me a Kiss 过来亲一下
[Print edition now available] [Published as Summer's Lucky Charm] ☆Cool, gentle boy × world-weary, listless girl☆ [One-on-one sweet romance | School life, comedy, doting romance, redemption, healing] Wen Jibai always sincerely believed her new deskmate was a handsome, aloof heartthrob who took advantage of his looks and treated everyone coldly. Until one day, she saw this search in his Baidu history: [This is so annoying. What should I do if I've fallen for my deskmate?]
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The Little Highness Has a Screw Loose 小殿下他脑子有坑
[Sweet, bold, and outspoken young princess X gentle, seemingly innocent but secretly calculating young prince] Shi Sui transmigrated into the heroine of a classic tragic romance. In the original, the male and female leads' melodramatic love story tortured them from the first chapter to the penultimate one, and still ended in a tragic finale. Shi Sui: Bye-bye, then. I'll pick the devoted second male lead. Basically, it's a story about a laid-back girl using her wonderfully quirky imagination to s
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A Long Road to Reunion 重逢路漫漫
[The right people will find their way back to each other, no matter how many twists and turns it takes.] [One true pairing, both leads are each other's only ones + reunion after a long separation + winning back his wife and claiming his child + adorable kids playing matchmaker] Zhou Yuan met Qin Yue by chance and fell in love at first sight. After one passionate night together, an urgent assignment sent him overseas. Before leaving, he thought he'd arranged everything properly, never imagining t
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Meeting Xin Again 亦见倾芯
[Love at First Sight + Mutual Devotion + One Couple Only + Sweet Romance] Their first two meetings were accidental. Every coincidence after that was part of his carefully laid plan. When Jiang Yi Shen met Tang Xin, he fell for her at first sight. He quietly set his plans in motion, and the two got to know each other, fell in love, and walked hand in hand into marriage, sharing the warm everyday moments of life from the first flush of romance to raising children. Side story one: Xu Man thought sh
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Never Forget What You’ve Seen 过目不妄
[Older Woman, Younger Man + Redemption + Realistic Romance] Three-year age gap. [Secret Love Becomes Mutual, from the Male Lead’s Perspective; Marriage First, Love Later, from the Female Lead’s Perspective] Everyone is level-headed and clear-minded. The woman Zhou Wang had kept in his heart for three years. He thought there could never be anything between them and was ready to give up, but then he unexpectedly learned what she had been through. His heart ached for her, and at the same time, he f
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Love Will Come to Rest 爱会停歇
[A playboy turns devoted + love grows over time + sweet with a touch of angst + status gap] Chen Chao, a wealthy playboy, falls sincerely in love with Yu Jiawen, who comes from an ordinary family. He knows he isn't the kind of man she'd ideally choose, but he can't let go of his feelings for her. “Yu Jiawen, do you know? Meeting you made me feel like I could have a proper relationship too.” “I've thought about giving you up, but I can't bring myself to. Just imagining watching you date, marry, a
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After All These Years, We Finally Meet Again 岁月流转终相见
[Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Love + Healing Through Family + Realistic Happy Ending] After drifting apart like clouds, ten years passed like flowing water. When we met again, my heart recognized you before I did. A summer romance came to an abrupt end because of an unfortunate misunderstanding. More than ten years later, thirty-five-year-old Gu Yan discovered by chance that he had a daughter in high school, and was reunited with the girl he had loved when he was young. Long-buried memo
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The Scheming Ninth Thousand-Year Lord Was Found by a Young Female Doctor and Spoiled Rotten 捡到腹黑九千岁小医女宠成掌心娇
[Sweet romance + One-on-one + Both leads are inexperienced + Fake eunuch + Fatherly boyfriend] He Tiantian is a medical PhD from a top university. She wakes up one morning to find that she has transmigrated. From the start, she has nothing to her name, except a father with a timid, apologetic personality. What a headache! Luckily, she happens to pick up a handsome man. Now she has a way to earn a living, and just as she's congratulating herself, she discovers he's the infamous Eunuch of Nine Tho
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Marrying in Her Sister's Place, the Lucky Farm Girl Makes a Comeback 替姐出嫁后，锦鲤农女逆袭了
[Sweet romance + everyone’s darling + the silly husband is a real catch] During a famine, the Ren family traded a cartload of grain for Song Jiu, making her the wife of their foolish son. Everyone said the fool was vicious and violent, and that one bite from him would leave you sick for days. But no one knew that her foolish husband had three great qualities: a handsome face, a great physique, and even greater stamina. With her lucky carp constitution, Song Jiu became the darling of the Ren fami
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She Became a Wealthy Landowner in Jiangnan 她在江南当财主
[Mid-length fiction contest entry] On New Year's Eve, a translator at a modern publishing house went out to watch the fireworks. She was tragically hit by a car, and when she awoke, she had transmigrated to an alternate era resembling the Tang Dynasty. An unexpected transmigration brought her back to her old home in Jiangnan, where her life in ancient times began. With her awful relatives at home and cunning merchants in the business world, she might as well take them on until the end of time an
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This Sultry Goddess Is Such a Tease, So I Took Her Home as My Wife 这纯欲女神真撩，拐回家做老婆了
[Transmigration + campus goddess + a little detective work and crime-solving + urban slice of life + one female lead + guaranteed sweetness (with a mix of spicy and mild scenes)] [This is a career-and-romance novel! Career and romance! Career and romance! The important things must be said three times!] [This is neither an invincible protagonist story nor a power fantasy! Just an ordinary urban slice-of-life novel!] [Romance is the focus, with crime-solving as a secondary element (though the case
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I'm a Gaming Godfather, So Dating an Award-Winning Actress Is Normal, Right? 我游戏教父，跟影后恋爱很正常吧
[Game Development] [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [Showbiz] Chi Wen: “Our game this time does have some horror elements, but…” Players: “Not buying it! We’re never touching one of your horror games again!” Chi Wen: “Oh? But you can farm and build things in it.” Players: “Okay, sold.” With a System, Chi Wen unexpectedly becomes the project manager of a hollowed-out game company. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he uses the System to rise to the throne of the King of Chinese Gaming. Along t
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My Online Friend of Ten Years Turned Out to Be the Nation’s Little Sister 十年网友竟然是国民妹妹
[Entertainment + Esports + One Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Everyday Life] Just after getting dumped, Su Qingyu reconnects online with his longtime best friend of ten years, who has gotten into his university. When they meet, Su Qingyu is stunned: his best friend is actually a girl. And not just any girl, but the nation’s little sister, with a whopping 30 million followers? Wait, I thought you were my bro. You’re not in love with me, are you?
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Deer Soul Jade: Seven Kills, Shaking Light, Bound for Eternal Tribulation 鹿魂玉：七杀摇光赴永劫
[Scheming Demon King] [Cold and Aloof Immortal Maiden] [Traditional Xianxia] [Plot-Focused] [Pure Romance] [Love and Kill] Jiang Yanling, king of all demons and monsters, has slaughtered countless lives. Du Yaoguang, a cold and aloof prodigy of the righteous path, lost her master at Jiang Yanling's hands. · A thousand years ago, after Chiyou's defeat, he nursed his hatred and made his descendants into sacrifices, preparing a heavenly calamity that would sweep across the world and purge all life.
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The Retired Soldier King and His Sweet Southern Girl 退役兵王糙汉与南方娇软妹子
(Mutually faithful, one-on-one romance: a rugged former special forces soldier and a sweet, gentle girl from the south) Cheng Ye was once the king of the special forces. He was wild-looking and lived a rough, carefree life. After leaving the military, he started a renovation crew. Ruan Ruan was just like her name: sweet-looking and gentle by nature. What kind of story will unfold when a soft-spoken southern girl meets a rough northern man? Former Special Forces Soldier × Heiress to a Pastry-Ma
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This Scholar Comes from the Underworld 这个书生来自幽冥
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
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Text Game: Come Here, There's Really a Succubus 文字游戏：快来，这里真有魅魔
To inherit his cheap aunt's "ten-million-dollar fortune," Luo Xia crossed the ocean alone to the United States, only to accidentally activate a text-based game called Wizard World. He keeps choosing downright suicidal options day after day to gain power. Here, I can do whatever I want! The only ones who can judge me are my countrymen!
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The Divine Cage Game 神笼游戏
In a dazzling technological future, a powerful being descends, calling itself a god and ruling over all. Everything becomes a game for the gods. The gods become humanity’s sole objects of faith. Above all faith, humans are the pieces and the gods move them. The world is a cage, and this is a game ruled by the gods. The gods rule everything! The gods create the games! The gods make the rules! Rule One: Every human must take part in the game. You need a ticket to compete, but the winner takes all,
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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After a Female Civil Servant Flash-Marries a Rich Family's Puppy-Dog Boyfriend 女公务员闪婚豪门小奶狗之后
Her stingy boyfriend of six years invited her to dinner at a fancy restaurant. He wasn’t proposing. He was breaking up with her. Afraid of wasting the expensive red wine, the heroine drank the whole bottle by herself. And then… She told the male lead, “You’re so handsome! Marry me!” He replied, “Okay! Once you’re sober tomorrow, we’ll go register our marriage.” When she sobered up, the heroine regretted it. Because he was five years younger than her and still in school. But the male lead
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After Leaving with Nothing, I Married a Rich CEO with a Child 净身出户后，带娃嫁豪门总裁
Ye Nuanmei was tricked into eloping and marrying He Zheng, a mama's boy. At her mother-in-law's urging, He Zheng gave the 200,000 yuan they had saved to buy a new home to his younger brother, He Zhi. When Ye Nuanmei found out, she argued with He Zheng, who slapped her at his mother's instigation. Ye Nuanmei insisted on a divorce. After his mother coaxed him, He Zheng said that if she wanted custody of their daughter, she would have to leave with nothing. Without hesitation, Ye Nuanmei chose to w
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The 365-Day Relentless Dating Plan 365天疯狂相亲计划
[Modern romance + lifelong single + falling in love + dating pitfalls] On her 29th birthday, Mu Chen makes a vow: she’ll get married before she turns 30. Having been single her whole life, she sets out on a long search for love, rushing from one blind date to the next. What will happen as she searches for Mr. Right? Stay tuned.
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Kiss You in the Breeze 随风热吻你
Signed for print publication! The short drama I'll Always, Always Like You is now streaming. [Two top students] x [mutual devotion] x [mutual crush] x [from school uniforms to wedding gowns] x [the sweetest romance] x [fast-paced, secretly satisfying story]. You won't regret giving it a try. Blurb One: Gu Sinian is the universally acknowledged unattainable beauty of No. 1 High School. Everyone says he has no heart. Then everyone points at Jiang Wan in his arms and says, “Who said he has no heart
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We Got Our Marriage License and Moved In Together, but the Movie Star Can't Hide His Feelings 领证同居，影帝小心思藏不住了
[Super-sweet mutual pampering + Devoted Husband Top-Tier Star + Long-Standing Scheme (Super sweet! If it isn’t, you can hit me)] Qiao Suisui got married on a whim! At the marriage registry, she discovered that the person she was about to marry was none other than top-tier star Ning Jinchen. She panicked and tried to run, but he caught her and dragged her back. Ning Jinchen: “You said whoever regrets it is a dog.” “Woof, woof!” She thought that once she’d barked, she’d be free to run. But Ning Ji
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Morning Heart, Evening Promise: The Movie Star’s Girlfriend Is a Judge 晨心辰意：影帝的法官女友
A male movie star vs. a female judge; love at first sight vs. affection that grows over time; a woman who brings good fortune to her husband vs. a man who keeps starting over. After a May-December romance and a reunion after heartbreak, their steady, sweet life is still dotted with unexpected twists and hardships. See how this loving couple spends the rest of their lives together...
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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A Gentle Breeze Meets the White Dew 清风遇白露
In their previous lives, three people laid the groundwork for an entanglement that would continue into the next... One defied the will of Heaven and feared no karmic retribution, forcibly changing her fate for her; One was destined to be bound to her, their names written side by side on the Three Lives Stone; And one, after her death, set up a memorial tablet for her and built a shrine in her honor, keeping her soul from dispersing and giving it a place to return to. In this life, all three are
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The Time I Spent in Love With Her 和她相恋的时光
[Love at first sight + devoted one-on-one romance + rekindled love + healing with a touch of angst] A grounded, everyday story with smart characters. Gao Yuchen, an isolated orphan, happens to meet her next-door neighbor, Mu Yang. Mu Yang pursues her passionately, and they soon fall in love. She thinks they’ll be happy together, only to discover that their happiness was built on a lie, albeit one told with good intentions by the male lead. She coldly tells him she never wants to see him again. I
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I Couldn’t Hide My Heart’s Flutter When We First Met 初见心动藏不住
[Love at first sight + heroine pursues hero + nine-year age gap + sweet, down-to-earth romance + happy ending] The lively and spirited Chen Luochen meets Chu Yun when she's twenty. She falls for him at first sight, unable to hide the light in her eyes. She has only one thought: make him hers. After confirming he's single, she boldly confesses, “Big brother, will you be my boyfriend?” Chu Yun gently turns her down with a single line: “We're not right for each other.” But Chen Luochen doesn't back
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