Any Books Suitable for Middle-Aged Readers? Smart Characters and a Light, Fresh Style 有没有适合中年人看的书？不降智，小清新
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- 201 The Rich Young Master Angered a God in His Dream, So Everyone Gets Wiped Out 富家公子惹恼梦中神，那就团灭吧 A Rich Young Master Angers a Dream God, So the Whole Family Gets Wiped Out 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 202 I Like You So Much, I Can't Control Myself 我太喜欢你了，我控制不了自己 I Like You So Much, I Can't Control Myself. 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 203 The Toothpaste Woman Appeared at Midnight. What Should I Choose? 牙膏女午夜出世，我该如何选择啊 A Toothpaste Woman Appears at Midnight. What Should I Choose? 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 204 The Innocent Loves of Our Youth 那些青葱岁月里，懵懵懂懂的爱情 The Innocent Loves of Our Youth 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 205 After I Gave My Life for My Country, My Brothers Broke Down 我献身国家后，哥哥们崩溃了 On the day of my coming-of-age ceremony, my two older brothers brought home a seven-year-old orphan girl. For her sake, my eldest brother slapped me across the face. My second brother flew into a rage and told me to get out: "Don't ever come back!" I didn't say another word. I packed my things and left. They thought I was just throwing a tantrum and would be gone for a few days. At last, the two brothers had some peace and quiet, so they took the orphan girl abroad on a trip to Norway, where the 15.4kReads—Score339Shelves
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Middle-Aged in Shanghai: I’ve Hidden My Medicinal Wine Ability for 20 Years 上海中年：我藏药酒异能苟20年
In 2006, Shanghai was swept up in a wave of reform. Large numbers of veteran workers at state-owned enterprises were laid off, and a lifetime of stability vanished overnight. At forty, Zhang Jianguo saw his eighteen years of service wiped out. His buyout compensation was slashed, and in middle age he had no one to rely on while raising a young daughter. To feed his family, he took grueling construction jobs, did backbreaking labor, suffered wage deductions, and endured bullying, struggling eve
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That Red Land 那片红色的土地
[Period setting] [Slice of life] [Entrepreneurship] [Family] [Rural life] [No clichés] [Not a power fantasy] [No transmigration] [Slow-paced] [Realistic] [Urban] [Hardships] Trust me, it gets better and better as the story goes on, and it absolutely won't end badly! Writing an original work is no easy task. Every word comes from the heart. Please don't leave a low rating or bad review. A casual three or four stars from you could deal a fatal blow to this niche novel. This novel is neither a cr
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I Turned My Vegetative Wife's Workplace Upside Down 我替植物人老婆整顿职场
The protagonist is a top student and highly educated, but his day job is backbreaking construction work. He married a perfect wife, and their life together was pretty good. But one day, disaster struck: his wife attempted suicide and became a vegetable... After learning that workplace bullying had driven his wife to take her own life, “I” quit my day job and successfully applied for a position at her former workplace. With my own hard work and the help of a mysterious System, I track down the pe
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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I Dumped My Handsome Wife-Beater and Married an Ugly, Scarred Man 甩了家暴美男，嫁给刀疤丑汉
Period drama + rural life + family squabbles + workplace + nightlife + second marriage + entrepreneurship In the early 1980s, rural woman Wang Xiuhong was abused by her handsome husband, Zhao Dayong. After enduring humiliation, she left with nothing. She went to the city to make a living, suffered bullying at a food factory, and was fired. With nowhere else to turn, she ended up at a nightclub. There she met Yang Jun, a discharged soldier with a face full of knife scars, and the only person in t
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- 211 A Comeback After Twenty Years of Widowhood 守寡二十年逆袭 The Red Fruit animated series adaptation of "After Twenty Years of Devotion, She Finally Found a New Life" is now streaming. [Historical setting + strong female lead + farming + family drama + widow's comeback + single mother] On her wedding night, Liu Chunhong's husband is crushed to death by a roof beam, and she becomes known as the “husband-killing jinx.” Her mother-in-law forces her to give birth to her posthumous child, then turns on her and throws mother and daughter out while Liu is still 7.3kReads6.8Score366Shelves
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A Garden of Students, Growing Old Together in Love 桃李满天下恩爱共白头
Wu Xiaomin was a country girl, born and raised in the countryside, but she had always been a good student and was naturally beautiful. Unfortunately, after she started high school, her surroundings changed dramatically, leaving her confused and lost. In her sophomore year, she met a new homeroom teacher who helped her find her way again. After graduating from college, Wu Xiaomin gave up a job placement back in her hometown and introduced a female college classmate to her former high school teach
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- 213 The Happiness We Waited For 等来的幸福 In this blended family, the male and female leads grow up calling each other brother and sister. After her mother dies, the heroine goes abroad with her biological father. While overseas, she and the male lead begin a relationship. 761Reads—Score—Shelves
- 214 Lu Xueqi, Vocational School Student 中专生陆雪琪 Lu Xueqi, the Vocational School Student 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
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Shanghai People Eat Rice Porridge 上海人吃泡饭
In the middle of the night, Wang’s Granny was being beaten so badly she could barely move, and could only call for help. Uncle Huang was still fuming over how she had humiliated him during the day, so angry he couldn’t sleep. He heard what sounded faintly like a cat meowing, but when he listened more closely, he realized it was a cry for help coming from Wang’s Granny’s house. He was about to go save her when his wife grabbed hold of him...
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Second Marriage: Marrying a Doting CEO 二婚：嫁给甜宠总裁
Anxin got divorced, and Chen Shaonian believed those words: if you can't forget someone, fate will bring you together again! He was determined to seize the favor fate had shown him. But Anxin announced, "You're my best friend!" What was that supposed to mean?! "I treat you like oxygen, but you treat me like air?!" "No, no, no! I've got more tricks up my sleeve than a dragon fruit has seeds, and I'm patient and resourceful. I have to win you over! I'll cherish you, love you, and be yours forever!
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Beneath the Shackles, Born Toward the Light 枷锁之下，向光而生
Orphaned Jiang Yufei bears the truth behind her mother’s brutal death. Struggling to survive her stepmother’s abuse and her father’s betrayal, she grows up and enters a love-hate relationship with Lin Yimo, the boy her mother once saved. Together, they uncover the conspiracy and find redemption in a revenge romance full of pain. Exceptionally tender, thrilling, and sweetly indulgent: the heroine is cherished like a queen.
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Unemployed but Pretending to Work, My CEO Wife Really Pays Me 失业假装上班，总裁老婆真发钱啊
“After Getting Laid Off, I Showed Up at Headquarters in a Pink Shirt and Acted Like I Owned the Place” “Fired? I Joined Headquarters Instead, and Now the Female CEO Is Begging Me to Stay” “On My First Day Pretending to Work, I Mistook the Female CEO for My Driver” “Unemployed, I Went to Headquarters to Steal Their Wi-Fi. Who Else Should Be CTO?” “On My First Day After Quitting, the Ice-Cold Female CEO Made Me Live Off Her” They fired me because my hair was too thick? I went straight to headquart
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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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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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Nanfang, I Want You All to Myself 南方，我要你只属于我
"Contemporary romance for adults" Reader advisory: domineering CEO, love rivalry, emotional push and pull, sexual tension, schemes, and redemption A fateful encounter, an intensely turbulent romance, an unexpected killing, a conspiracy spanning years, a painful sacrifice, and a desperate ending... The world is one giant battlefield of passions. Nan Fang is an art student. Her beauty is impossible to ignore, and her cool aloofness makes her seem untouched by the clamor of the world. Her broken f
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Yongzheng's Secret Blade 雍正暗刃
Political intrigue + Assassination + Romance + Court drama. The Blood-Drop Earring, the most ruthless and secretive assassination unit in Yongzheng's Imperial Bodyguard Office, strikes fear into all who hear its name. Chen Ying, its sharpest hidden blade, is ordered to slaughter a loyal minister's entire household. But he discovers that his victims are not rebels: they are a lone official who knows the royal family's deepest secrets. The dying man's question, “Who will silence you when your turn
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Back to 1982: Casting Nets to Save the Village Belle and Make the Whole Village Rich 重回82：撒网救村花带全村致富
Back at the age of twenty, he's known throughout the village as a no-good loafer. But no one knows he's returned carrying the regrets and memories of his previous life. He catches and sells fish, hunts in the mountains, and earns his first fortune through hard work. Before the flood hits, he even issues an early warning and organizes an evacuation, saving countless lives. From the village to the county, from small-time trading to grand strategies... In this life, he won't just clear his name. He
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Fireflies in Daylight 荧火虫的白昼
A great period drama. Ignore the awful title: this realistic work comes from a seasoned writer, about a woman from out of town living in Shanghai, in the vein of Blossoms Shanghai. Neighborhood gossip and jokes that hit you right in the heart. No mystery, no wish-fulfillment, no fantasy, nothing added. Just the daily grind: food, rent, petty squabbles, and family affairs.
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- 226 At the Crossroads of Fate 站在命运的十字路口 This book explores Standing at the Crossroads of Fate through five major sections. 1. Fleeing for Their Lives: This section recounts how the protagonist Sun Shigui’s grandparents left their landlord’s household to make a life of their own amid the hardships of the old society, and how, after enduring countless trials during the War of Resistance Against Japan, they fled all the way from Nanjing to Shiqi Village and finally settled there. 2. A Life of Hardship: This section follows the many hards 66Reads—Score—Shelves
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Sci-Fi Novel: Carving Out a Frontier at the Edge of the Universe 科幻小说：我在宇宙边缘开疆拓土
My new book is out! Head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Here’s the blurb for my new book, “Pushing the Frontier at the Edge of the Universe.” When Earth’s supply of controlled fusion fuel runs out and the Arctic quantum-collapse zone begins to spread, a technology oligarch alliance monopolizing global helium-3 mining, comprising seven interstellar energy corporations and controlling t
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- 228 Three Realms in Turmoil: Secrets of the Ancient Shu Lord’s Grotto-Heaven 三界风云：古蜀老君洞天机录 At the foot of Mount Qionglai, a cold stove glows beneath the stars. The young Yan Qing studies a damaged scroll by night, only to find that the sigils on its final page echo those in the stone chamber of his dreams. They are a summons from Laojun’s Grotto-Heaven, where the Three Realms converge. In the ancient lands of Shu, spiritual energy flows like a river, concealing traces of the gods and a chance to change one’s fate. After the great calamity of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Heaven’s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Post-00s Kid Helps Mom Take Down Her Scumbag Husband 00后帮妈妈整渣斗三
[Modern urban life + inspirational + slice of life + feel-good] Wu Jie is a poor student who loves gaming. After his parents' marriage falls apart, he defies fate and changes his life. First, he helps his mother take down her cheating husband and his mistress. Later, he helps his motherland root out scoundrels and traitors. Step by step, he rises to the brightest peak of his life...
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Feeling Anxious? I Found Healing in a Country Courtyard 你焦虑了吗？我在农村小院治愈了
At 44, I take the blame and get disciplined. My promotion is gone. My wife's job is unstable, and she's always on edge. My son is hooked on online games, and his grades leave a lot to be desired. I rent a place with a courtyard in the suburbs. I work in the CBD by day, then come back to the village at night to raise chickens, walk the dog, and grow vegetables. The neighbors say I look like an idiot turning over the soil. But idiots don't have to take the blame for anyone anymore. I raise chicken
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A Single Mother’s Road to Redemption 一个单亲妈妈的救赎之路
I was a woman left single, and by the time I reached middle age, becoming a single mother was bound to turn my life upside down. At the halfway point of life, I’ve been through everything you can imagine, and even things you can’t. So what? The middle of life is a battlefield, and I am a shield, guarding a corner of tenderness amid the chaos. Halfway through life, I’ll be my own rock, pressing forward through disorder, gentle yet strong. Through half a lifetime of storms, I give it everything. A
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- 232 The Bride on the Timeline 时间线上的新娘 At his seventh wedding, Chen Mo is stood up once again by the bride, Lin Wan. A mysterious old man texts him the truth: he has actually proposed to her thirty-seven times, but every time time resets, his memories are erased. Lin Wan suffers from a congenital "Timeline Displacement Syndrome": at the same moment, she is forced to exist across multiple timelines. Each time Chen Mo proposes, he forcibly pulls her out of every timeline and brings her to his side. To fill the vacancy, the System immed —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Out of Control: Emotions Run Wild 失控：情绪蔓延
The biggest problem in a secularized society is its lack of spiritual belief. When faith is lost, so is reverence. Without reverence, there can be no restraint. True happiness is like a gentle, unbroken stream, and can only be achieved through restraint. There is little sincerity and even less purity in a city of desire, only a host of problems that defy easy answers. This is just a fictional tale. If it’s not for you, don’t read it, and don’t take it too seriously!
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A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！
Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e
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- 235 I Transmigrated and Became the Beloved Bride of a Crippled Marquis 一朝穿越，替嫁残侯成团宠 [Historical transmigration + medical skills + marriage before love + two strong leads who dote on each other + suspense and court intrigue] Shen Qingci, a top surgeon, transmigrates into the body of a bride forced into a marriage swap. She becomes the new bride meant to bring good fortune to Xiao Yan, the blind and crippled Marquis of Dingbei. On their wedding night, she takes his pulse and immediately sees through it: “My lord, you’ve been poisoned. Someone wants to keep you in darkness forever 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 236 Coexisting with a Big Shot, I Became Unstoppable 与大佬共生，我强到飞起 One day, I woke up with a man in my head. It wasn't a hallucination or a split personality. He was the real deal, a top-tier boss: Lu Yunzhou. The ruthless business tycoon who ruled the corporate world was now nothing more than a ghost trapped in my mind. And so, things started looking like this: When someone gives me a hard time, he scoffs in my head: [Third file from the bottom left. Throw it in his face.] When someone frames me, he directs me remotely: [The recorder's in the right-hand drawe 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 237 Quick Transmigration: The Second Personality 快穿第二人格 Female lead + dual personality + no saintly martyrdom + takes down scumbags regardless of gender or age + lighthearted and funny Synopsis: Jiang Yan, a female cultivator, was bored when she happened upon a System. She transmigrates through three thousand worlds, disguising herself as the original host's second personality to help them change their personalities and escape their tragic fates. She takes down scumbags, delivers face-slapping comeuppances, completes missions, and explores the myster 41Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Valkyrie of Light 光明女武神
After awakening a strange ability, Tang Ying unexpectedly becomes a corrector of the Space-Time Tower. To her shock, the tower is observing an infinite universe. Talents? Inheritances? Attributes? ... Countless wondrous things open her eyes to a whole new world. The countless beings of the infinite worlds, the perilous reaches of the boundless starry sky. She ventures through countless worlds and endures trials and dangers, relying on her extraordinary talent and far sharper mind than most to gr
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The Rules of the Children's Home 儿女家的规矩
To help their children raise the grandchildren, a couple in their sixties were forced to live apart. From the day Zhao Youlin moved to the city to help care for his son's child, he became a “guest” in his son's home. A man from a small town, he couldn't fit into life in the big city. He had to speak softly, keep the TV muted, and even watch his son's expression before giving his grandson a piece of meat... Though Zhao Youlin was careful about everything, he still couldn't avoid falling into conf
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New Bao Qingtian Fan Fiction: The Fragrant Consort of Luoshen 新包青天同人：洛神香妃
Bai Yutang x Original Female Lead She is the reincarnation of the celestial realm's narcissus flower goddess, with a pure and holy soul. She has no noble status, only a mysterious and extraordinary background. She cares for all under heaven, is high-minded, excels in both letters and arms, and brings blessings to all living beings. … An adaptation of The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, beginning when Zhan Zhao receives the title “Imperial Cat” from
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Rust and Blossoms 铁锈与繁花
1990s + inspirational realism + female awakening + a determined comeback + making a life far from home + workplace transformation + family ties + sincere romance + friendly neighbors At seventeen, she never imagined that the peachwood talisman her mother pressed into her palm would accompany her through so many storms: from the crowded sleeper cars of a green train to the fluorescent-lit workshop of an electronics factory; from an old night-school building overgrown with ivy to the desk in her o
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Alone at 68 with Death Near, My Love of 50 Years Arrived with a Ticket to Share My Remaining Years 68岁临终无人陪，50年旧爱携车票赴我余生
At 68, I lay dying with no one by my side, until an old love from 50 years ago arrived with a ticket to share the rest of my life
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- 243 A 68-Year-Old Clung to an Old Basin. When Its Glaze Chipped, the Gold Characters Revealed a Face-Slapping Truth About His Ungrateful Children 68岁老人死守旧盆，掉瓷后露出的金字打脸不孝儿女 An 68-year-old stubbornly clings to an old basin. When its enamel chips away, the gold characters underneath deliver a face-slapping blow to his unfilial children 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 244 Hospitalized with a Serious Illness at 68, I Watched My Children Plot Over My Estate. My Caregiver Became the Light of My Remaining Years 68岁重病住院，儿女算计家产，陪护成我余生微光 Seriously ill and hospitalized at 68, I watched my children scheme over my estate. Their care became the faint light left in my remaining years. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 245 A 70-Year-Old Clock Stopped, and Seven Notes Revealed My Ungrateful Children 70年老钟停摆，7张纸条看清不孝儿女 A 70-year-old clock stopped ticking. Seven notes revealed the truth about my unfilial children. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 246 An Old Kettle Hid a 40-Year Secret, Boiling My Heart and Chilling the Rest of My Life 旧水壶藏40年秘密，煮透人心寒透余生 An old kettle concealed a 40-year-old secret. It boiled the truth to the surface, chilling my heart for the rest of my life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 247 After 40 Years of Hard Work, I Retired with Honor. My Children Schemed over My Property and Pressured Me to Hand Over My Retirement Savings 辛苦40年光荣退休，儿女算计房产逼我交出养老钱 After 40 years of hard work, I retired with honors, only for my children to scheme over my home and pressure me to hand over my retirement savings. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 248 Five Years of Tea for Two at 68: One Pot of Overnight Tea Revealed Whether My Children Were Truly Filial 68岁五年双人茶，一壶隔夜茶看清儿女孝心真假 Five years of tea for two at 68: one pot of tea left overnight revealed whether my children’s filial devotion was real or false. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 249 The 40-Year Promise Came True, and at Last My Twilight Years Stayed True to My First Dreams 40年之约如期而至，我的晚年终于不负初心 The 40-year promise came due, and at last my twilight years stayed true to my original resolve 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 250 My Mother Married Me Off with Nothing but a 100-Yuan Bankbook. When the Truth Came Out, I Wept Uncontrollably 母亲空手嫁我只给百元存折，真相曝光我泣不成声 My mother married me off with nothing but a hundred-yuan passbook. When the truth came out, I wept uncontrollably. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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