Books About the Little Everyday Things in Ordinary Life 正常生活中，琐碎事情的书
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Richest Man’s Father 退婚后，我嫁给了首富他爹
After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Married the Richest Man’s Father
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Embracing You at the End of the Equation 在方程式尽头拥抱你
Reason and emotion intertwine, as mathematics collides with literature. When a brilliant, aloof math student meets a warm and healing girl from the literature department, two utterly different souls find their everyday lives intersecting on an urban campus, composing a heartwarming love song about growing up. “...She did something mathematicians couldn't: she made love tangible, something you could taste and cry over. In this book, mathematics isn't a collection of cold symbols, but a warm meta
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The Sky Is Still Blue 天，依然蔚蓝
The sky is still blue
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Have I Been Possessed? 被夺舍了？
Have I been possessed?
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That Day's Accident Swapped Our Lives 那一天的意外，我们互换了人生
The accident that day changed our lives, and we switched places.
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Reborn, I Still Choose to Marry You 重生后，我依然娶你。
Reborn, I will still marry you.
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The Bride's Secret Identity Can No Longer Stay Hidden 替嫁新娘的马甲偷偷藏不住
[Underdog comeback + adored by everyone + domineering CEO + married first, fall in love later + livestreaming + secret identities] [Pure-hearted beauty with both brains and looks VS a cold yet devoted domineering CEO] As an adopted daughter, she was forced by her mother and elder sister to marry into the Huo family as a stand-in bride. A lonely orphan with no one to rely on and a comatose man who’d suffered a terrible accident: they really were a perfect match! But she never expected that... Aft
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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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Dad, Have You Changed? 爸爸，变了吗？
Dad, have you changed?
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Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事
Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside
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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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Great-Aunt Xile's Happy Life 姑奶奶喜乐的幸福生活
Home is a sheltered harbor, and family is always there to support you. This is a story about three generations of the Song family living happily in an old building on Tianjin's Five Avenues. It features Tianjin's delicious food, as well as the family's joys and sorrows over the past thirty years.
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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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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
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Leave Some Space, My Humble Abode 留白，寒舍
A diary about love, written from a wife’s perspective and addressed to his wife. Some people love flowers simply for their blossoms, and love watching them bloom. Others love a flower from the moment it is still a seed, anticipating what it will become. They watch it sprout, break through the soil, and keep growing upward. Its trunk grows ever sturdier, while leaves seem to appear from nowhere, one after another. They watch the leaves turn from pale green to deep green, then from deep green to a
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Xu Xue’er 徐雪儿
The everyday work life of Xu Xue'er, an ordinary office drone and medical student, and the sweet romance that blossoms between her and engineer Zhou Dongyang... A warm, down-to-earth story filled with delicious food and all kinds of sweet, thoughtful interactions!!!
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They've Got It All Under Control Ta手拿把掐
Shen Qing has no grand ambitions. She’s young, but all she wants is to take it easy. She doesn’t really care whether her guesthouse makes money, as long as she has enough to eat, warm clothes, and a good night’s sleep. That is, until she meets Xu Wang in a town called Zaosheng, where there isn’t a single jujube tree. He can do just about anything under the sun... The first time they meet, he’s a tricycle driver giving people rides, and his bizarre driving nearly throws her out of the vehicle. Th
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The No-Drama Casebook 不抓马风云事件簿
A healing little ray of sunshine and a devoted, faithful boyfriend: twenty years of ups and downs, the secretly affectionate couple! The woman isn’t called Keyun or Xiyun. Her name is Tan Yun. The man isn’t called Lifeng or Mufeng. His name is Lu Feng. There’s no earth-shattering first meeting, no all-powerful golden finger, and no melodramatic, messy entanglements, just twenty years of enduring devotion and favor.
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Psychological Counselor: I Have a System of the People’s Wishes 心理咨询师：我有众生愿系统
A newly qualified therapist comes into the world with a rosy view of humanity. A powerful official’s son blocks him from getting a job, and he is smeared for standing up for justice. With no clients coming to his counseling room, he has no choice but to remake songs from Blue Star to make ends meet. In this bustling world, people are swept along by their desires. He takes on human traffickers, battles scam gangs, and rescues girls who have been drugged... Watch as he becomes a master of micro-ex
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The Woman Next Door 邻家女人
The lives of women in an old Shanghai mansion [A self-conscious, bullied high school beauty who draws everyone in + a devoted childhood sweetheart who is her pure first love] [A chaotic, troubled painter + a refined, domineering gallery owner, drawn to each other] [A despairing housewife with depression + her cold doctor husband, who has to fight to win her back] [Urban romance + sweet campus love + an ensemble of women] In an old French-style mansion in Shanghai, Zhang Yajing has just signed a
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A Lonely Secret Joy 《一个人的窃囍》
Theft of Joy, Alone
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Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor 《十七楼的月光》
Moonlight on the Seventeenth Floor
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The Summer Rain Is Hard to Explain 夏天的雨说不清
They were apart for nine years, ever since they were sixteen or seventeen. They waited for more than twenty years... Beneath umbrellas, they passed each other by several times, until they recognized one another in a rain shower steeped in the fragrance of gardenias. That day, he stood in the rain looking at her, and she gazed back at him. Both of them thought they were dreaming. Much later, when they brought it up again, she suddenly said to him with great seriousness: “Hello, Mr. Baiba
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His Insatiable Desire, Her Ordeal 他的欲壑，她的劫难
Shen Yu risked her life to give birth to a son. Seven years later, Qiao Feng still cheated on her. Shen Yu’s best friend, Du Xiaoyun, had gradually found peace of mind in her sexless marriage. She asked Shen Yu, who had decisively divorced: If that woman hadn’t seduced him, would he have betrayed your marriage? He would. Why? Because he has no principles… A person with no principles when it comes to marriage will never be faithful to it. Does marriage require fidelity? It does. Getting married
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A Career in Public Service 为民官路
[A gritty, realistic tale of ambition and struggle in the government ranks] In 1990, top student Zhen Weimin offends the wrong people and gets kicked down to a poor rural township. Everyone thinks his life is over. But he is determined to make flowers bloom among the thorns. He breaks through obstacles with his knowledge and grounds himself in his conscience, with every step in sync with the pulse of the times. Starting in the township, he moves forward one step at a time. This is a true chronic
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Love at Forty 不惑爱情
Xu Anqin, a middle-aged woman, has a life that's a complete mess: a mother with dementia, a selfish older sister, in-laws full of schemes, and a husband who can't see the bigger picture. Everything fuels her anxiety. At the lowest point in her life, her rich and handsome first love reappears. Maybe there's another path she could take, but clearheaded as ever, Xu says, “I'm almost forty. How could I still be some domineering CEO's unattainable first love?” Before her divorce, life had backed her
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Shocking! The First Love of a Lifelong Single Is a Movie Emperor 惊！母胎solo的初恋是影帝
[An awkward, socially anxious wallflower who's never dated anyone vs. a devoted, top-tier star and legendary actor] [The romance variety show storyline begins in Chapter 372] [One-on-one romance between intellectual equals] [Both leads are strong and devoted] [Acting career takes center stage] [Stories within stories] [Sweet and angsty] [Rekindled romance] [No rebirth, System, or pocket dimension] Lin Feng, an acting coach determined to stay on the path of renouncing love, lost her first kiss on
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The Road Outside the Window and the Sea in My Heart 窗外的路与心中的海
If you have ever: · Struggled to balance your dreams and reality · Tried to understand your parents' silence while also making sense of the next generation's boldness · Worked to protect a little undying light amid an ordinary, or even difficult, life Then open this book. Here, you'll find a sea of your own.
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Cast Aside, I Become Emperor: My Fate Is Mine to Command 弃子成皇：我命由我不由天
Yesterday, I was a discarded pawn. Today, I am the emperor. From pawn to player, and finally to the throne. This is the road of a ruthless hero, paved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Everyone who stands in my way will become a stepping stone on my path from “discarded pawn to emperor.”
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My Girl, You Made Me Hear the World Again After an Accident Left Me Deaf 我的女孩，让意外失聪的我又听到了这个世界
My Girl: You Made Me Hear the World Again After I Suddenly Lost My Hearing
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I Don’t Need You: My Stubborn Self and His Persistence 我不要你管—别扭的我和执着的他
I Don't Need You to Worry About Me: The Stubborn Me and the Persistent Him
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Better Late Than Never. There's Still a Long Road Ahead 迟到但无妨，来日且方长
Chu Mingxi thinks of herself as a piece of charcoal and Li Cheng as a spark. Only when she meets Li Cheng does she grow warm and begin to shine. She was late to their promise, but in the days ahead, she’ll make a living from the simple pleasures of life and find love through poetry. She once thought beauty lay in partings and reunions, but in the end, even life’s everyday necessities are poetry.
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Little Seedling Beneath the Shade 树荫下的小禾苗
Miao Yihe loses part of her memory in a car accident, including memories of her high school deskmate, who always looked out for her. But the connection between two people never really goes away. After all the twists and turns, they meet again. Lin Mingyue says he's the shade beneath a vast forest; Miao Yihe says she's a little seedling striving to grow. It was all meant to be. Lin Mingyue cherishes his little seedling, and she loves and supports herself too. They don't ask for much: a cozy littl
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I Just Got Dumped, So What's Wrong with Forcing a Kiss on the Sharp-Tongued CEO? 我都失恋了，强吻毒舌总裁咋了？
[Talkative, slightly timid, blunt wedding planner x sharp-tongued, slightly stingy workaholic CEO] [Modern romance+CEO+sweet and funny+sharp-tongued banter+easygoing daily life+intense push and pull+secret love turned mutual] Wedding planner Gu Shi'an burst into tears! She'd received a wedding invitation from her former boss and happily gone to the banquet! But the moment she arrived, it was like being struck by lightning: the groom was the boyfriend she'd loved for ten years, and the mother-in-
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A Seventies Kid’s Diary 70后的青春日记
The author’s real diary: the youth, school life, and everyday moments of the 1990s, along with her growing pains and struggles of the heart. The story follows an ordinary girl as she grows up. It is quiet and true to life. This is not a rural story. I didn’t know how to categorize it when I started writing; it’s about youth and school life. The heroine grows up in a family that favors boys over girls. In middle school, her mother would beat and scold her for no reason, even abuse her, and she de
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The Boy I Thought Was My Little Brother 那个我以为是弟弟的男孩子
I met him through his older sister, who was my deskmate. He was a year below me. Since he and three of his classmates rented rooms in my house, we were always hanging out together. I thought we were just friends, or maybe even like siblings. After all, I thought of him as my deskmate’s little brother, and as my own little brother too. The truth was, we had fallen for each other while spending all that time together. Sadly, I only dared to flirt and never dared to say it out loud. He was a year a
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The Delightful Oddities Happening Around Me 身边的那些开心异事
The Happy, Curious Happenings Around Me
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True to Myself 本心
No one can live solely for others, but neither can we completely cast aside our responsibilities. In real life, we often waver between “living for others” and “living for ourselves,” all the while judged by moral standards. Family relationships are not static; they change over time. Families that endure hardship may fall apart, rebuild themselves, or eventually go their separate ways, living along parallel paths of their own. As we struggle to survive, how do we come to understand ourselves and
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Hello, System 您好，系统
The Human Devolution Report: Don't be fooled by this civilized getup. We're all lining up to take part in a grand pantomime of devolution. We meekly surrender our right to get lost, hand over our memory cards, and even turn our joys and sorrows into ready-made meals you can eat straight from the packet. Five poor souls twisted into knots by the times: an old sailor bets his life in a storm as the satellites fail; a gourmet can no longer taste the warmth of his father's last bowl of hand-pulled n
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Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某
There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they?
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A Crooked Road Through Life 歪歪人生路
University admissions send Lu Xiaojun and Liu Yajuan down different paths. He follows her to her city for love, fighting his way up from the bottom, while she leaves without a word because of her own troubles. Years later, they meet again and rekindle their relationship, but their marriage soon faces another crisis. After their divorce, fate brings them close once more… Can this tangled half-life finally lead them to stay together?
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You, from the Ming Dynasty 来自大明的你
The Early Cross-Dressing Reversal Has Its Reasons + Urban Slice of Life Xu Youlin is a young man who loves Chengdu. He moved to the city a few years ago to pursue his dreams and eventually bought a home of his own. What he never expected was to have a chance encounter with a swordswoman from the Ming dynasty. Under a series of unusual circumstances, Yan Xiaoyan, the Ming-era swordswoman, temporarily moves into Xu Youlin's home. A series of events follows, leaving him both furious and exasperated
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The Way of Heaven Turns: Who Are You? 天道轮回，你是谁？
A woman's privileged life is shattered, and what follows is a life in pieces. That word “shattered” holds so many bitter stories. After experiencing everything she should and should not have had to endure, she comes to understand the true meaning of life. She breaks out of her cocoon, transforms into a butterfly, and reaps what she has sown. Those who have never been through it won't understand, and neither will those who lack insight. Life isn't about right or wrong; it's all part of the journe
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Youth's Mistake: To Our Gloomy Yet Radiant Selves 青春错：致阴郁又明媚的我们
Have you ever met a woman who can make all her own decisions and handle everything by herself? You might think she was born a tomboy, the kind of person nothing could stump. But in truth, most of them have no one at their side, so they have no choice but to force themselves to put on a hard shell of “strength.” If you really think of them as superheroes and just watch for fun, you've got it wrong. Who doesn't feel pain? Realistic coming-of-age + left-behind children + small-town underachiever
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Everyday Life as a Woman Living Alone 独居女性日常
A first-person daily-life story about a group of women who live alone. My name is Li Yu. I was different from other children from the start. I was terribly unlucky: I was abandoned as a baby, and I only have one eye! But I was incredibly lucky to have adoptive parents who love me more than anything. They love me, and they still urge me to get married. They love me, and once they're done urging me, they accept that I live alone. Living alone doesn't mean being lonely. It's a romantic date wit
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A Post-90s Mountain Girl's Starry Sky 90后，山里姑娘的星空
[Diary] [First person] [No contrived twists] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No overpowered protagonist] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Countryside] [Hardship] [Marriage] [Family bonds] The 1990s were full of life and energy, but they were also a Period when weeds grew unchecked. Many people born in the 1970s and 1980s went to the cities in pursuit of their dreams. Some worked hard for everything they had, while others lost themselves in the glittering world around them. This is a story a
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We Who Don't Know How to Love 不会爱的我们
[A brave heroine who grows on her own] [A realistic story, not a wish-fulfillment fantasy] [First-person perspective] [A broken family of origin] [The heroine has sound values (she is 16 when the story begins, and still immature enough to have the occasional bad thought)] [Clear-eyed about life] If your very birth was a mistake, how would you make the most of the life ahead of you? Shui Qingqing: Live for yourself and on your own terms. Wield a gentle blade and carve out a kingdom of happiness
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First Love? Who Cares! The Chinese Teacher Has Big Plans 初恋算个屁，语文老师要干大事
(No System, no golden finger, no being reborn, just slow growth) After getting back together with her first love, being smacked by a parent, and getting stabbed by her own boyfriend, she lost the ability to have children. Then, after finishing her graduate school entrance exams, her mother died unexpectedly. Xia Shinan decided, “First love can go to hell. Building a career and making big money are what matter most!” Xia Shinan (a pun on “born female”), a 26-year-old woman, comes from a family t
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The Sassy Sister and Her Rascally Husband 飒姐，痞夫
A female surgeon and a male psychologist find their way to each other. At their first meeting, he lets himself into her home and says, “You take care of the outside, and I'll take care of the inside.” She is bold and spirited, but carries hidden wounds. He is a roguish ray of sunshine who openly warms and heals her. You head west to conquer, while I rely on Nan; we seem completely mismatched, going in opposite directions. He had loved her for a long time, through all the days no one knew about.
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My Father's Era of the Fortress Villages 父亲的崮时代
Yimeng Mountain is a work of documentary fiction about the second generation of military-industry workers, telling the true story of the mysterious “Third Front” military factories. It retraces how the children of Third Front workers and their parents pressed on through successive waves of change. “Good people and good horses head to the Third Front.” The companies were reorganized and moved out of the mountains... They rose from the ashes as a red-culture base, as the home of China’s peaches, a
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