Any Novels About Contemporary Society with Real Intellectual Depth? 有没有描写当代社会，总之就是有思想深度的小说
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Qin Che: My First AI Boyfriend 秦彻：我的第一个AI男友
A diary of sculpting an AI boyfriend. A single mother raising her daughter carries many burdens, yet a gradually taking shape idea leads her on a journey of transformation as she pursues her dreams and discovers herself.
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A Poor Painter Eloped with a Rich Heiress, and My Dad Exploded! 穷画家拐走富千金，我爸炸了！
A poor artist eloped with a rich heiress, and my dad blew a fuse!
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What Can I Do? The Boss Wants to Marry Me 奈何BOSS要娶我
The original novel for the web series. Xia Lin, a little-known actress with blood cancer, has no choice but to pursue Ling Yizhou, the CEO of the Ling Corporation, in order to get a suitable bone marrow match and receive treatment. To undergo a bone marrow transplant as soon as possible while continuing her acting career, Xia Lin and Ling Yizhou agree to a secret marriage. Their life together is full of sweetness, but also entangled in schemes and conspiracies from all sides. In the end, Xia Lin
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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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I Was Reborn as an Ordinary Guy, and I Don’t Want Fame 平平无奇重生的我不想出名
[Laid-Back Daily Life + Multiple Heroines] I open my eyes to a completely different world. Where do I go from here? A sweet, innocent beauty who is my friend, A pitiful desk mate with nothing to her name, And me, who has met them both, I also have a shy younger sister who is my childhood friend. She seems unusually mature for her age.
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The Godfather of China's A-Share Market A股教父
The author won the Sohu Stock Trading Contest and achieved positive returns for nine consecutive years. I was bored, so I decided to write a novel. This novel records real investment cases that the author and some trader friends have experienced or learned about. The content may overturn your understanding of the stock market! This book mainly covers the development of strategic thinking, how to analyze the truth behind public opinion, how to set up a scheme, how to analyze national strategies,
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The Original Sin of Divine Punishment 天罚之原罪
The third installment of The Stormy Times and Space. Chinese civilization is rich in life’s wisdom and in harmony with the Way of Heaven. Remembering history and building our lives on the teachings of ancient sages and wise men is the hope of the future. Everyone has a world of their own. Heavenly Punishment: Original Sin, also known as Phantom World: Stormy Times, is a lighthearted work chronicling the history of the Stormy Times and Space. @-@-@ Civilization began in sin. Science fiction and f
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After I Transmigrated Into a Beautiful Teacher, I Went Rebellious 穿越成美女老师后我叛逆了
Top student + transmigrate + sweet romance + literature + personal growth A genius science-and-engineering student who ruled the school and laughed her way through life failed her entrance exam for the University of Science and Technology of China’s gifted youth program during her first year of high school. Heartbroken, she stepped into the “Madam Yi No. 1” time-traveling machine built by her quirky best friend, Shen Han, and emerged as a demure Chinese teacher. But she ran into one obstacle aft
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A Working Stiff's Little Journal 打工小记
Urban daily life + earning a living through hard work + multiple heroines + healing The story of an ordinary wage earner: from drifting to Guangzhou to drifting to Beijing, from Shaoxing to Foshan and then to Majiaqiao in Beijing. Fifteen years in all. See how a worker at the bottom makes his way through life... I went south at fifteen and drifted north at thirty. The fiercest gamble of my life took fifteen years to pay for. Over those fifteen years, I worked in an electronics factory, served
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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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The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘
A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage?
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Sorry, I Have a Romance System 对不起，我有情圣系统
"Southeast Asia" "No Harem" "Realistic" “I chased after her for three years. I just couldn’t afford a house that cost 11,000 yuan per square meter, and I even ruined my family...” “Now, just when she’s finally entered the adult film industry, you insist this is an illicit relationship.” “How would I not know whether this love is real?”
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A Life Full of Vigor 昂扬的生命
I dedicate this book to the first generation of only children, and to the teachers’ college graduates who devoted themselves to education in this land. Each person has only one life. How should we live this one and only life? Looking across history and around the world, many inspiring books have explored this theme. I, an unknown nobody, hope to join their ranks and have chosen the same theme. I hope my work won’t be lost among the masterpieces of celebrated writers. This work will focus on Ji
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Love You, Old Me! 爱你老己！
Only those who know how to love themselves can benefit others. Three women make a show, but what about twelve? Every person has their own unique cracks and their own light. In Love Yourself, Old Me!, we see how this community of women supports one another and grows together, and how each finds healing and direction while running a bookstore, a spring teahouse, and a coffee shop. Love Yourself, Old Me! is a slow-burn masterpiece that lingers in the mind, a rich, multi-protagonist drama, and a swe
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Madam Plum and Mr. Plum 梅娘，梅郎
She is the apple of her family’s eye and the dream girl of countless people in the Land of Tenderness. Yet she is also a lonely outcast, one who carved out her place in that world of pleasure through her own strength, a triumph forged from ice and fire.
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The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Caged 困不住的她
Pei Xiaocao is someone who refuses to follow the usual path. Along the road of life, she has erased everything she was supposed to do. Her life follows no one else’s rules. She believes only in her own!
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Wang Meili, Unemployed 失业的王美丽
Wang Meili, in her early thirties, has lost her job. Doubt and despondency consume her, and she has no idea what to do next. Then one day, she figures something out, and from that moment on, nothing is the same.
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The Invisible Blade 无形的刀刃
In this restless world, people seem eager to voice their opinions on everything. They pay too much attention to others and forget to focus on their own lives. Those incessant displays of excessive concern and so-called positive energy in the name of justice have become the sharpest knives, killing young people one by one in the darkness. Those young people question themselves and feel anxious in the night, wondering what they did wrong. In truth, they did nothing wrong! And what have those who a
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The Legend of Brother Niu 牛二哥的传说
The story of a stylish office, a group of women, and Niu Erge. They are all secretly competing and trying every trick in the book, all for the sake of a Niu Yige none of them has ever met. When will he finally appear? They can’t wait to find out.
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AI Meets Longevity AI撞上长寿
What will the world be like when robots are everywhere and can think just like humans, while people everywhere begin to live longer? Will robots rule the world, or will humans control the robots?
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I Decide What Happens at My Own Funeral 我的葬礼我说了算
I died. As I watched other people hold my funeral, I thought it was terribly unsatisfactory. I decided to hold my funeral my way. It should be my funeral, so I should get to call the shots.
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Loving You Is a Wound I Don’t Dare Touch 爱你是不敢碰的伤
A love story between a poor lawyer and a plastic surgeon. Loving you is a one-man show, played by me alone. Life is vast, and meeting you was both fate and a misfortune. I never ask for anything in return. I only hope I can hold on to my kindness and innocence.
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The Light at the End of the Road 穷途的光辉
How many generations of hardship and joy must a poor family endure before they can finally get ahead? How much suffering must a girl witness before she understands life? How many trials must a family face before the younger generation understands how hard things were for their ancestors?
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Online Game: Rebuilding My Life 网游之重塑人生
Qin Feng used to be a hopeless romantic. He gave his girlfriend his whole heart and treated her like a queen. And what did he get in return? She casually tossed out, "You can't give me the life I want," then turned around and walked away. Qin Feng was completely crushed. He holed up in his rented apartment every day, questioning his whole existence and wondering what the point of living was. Eventually, with nothing else to do and no other options, he plunged into an online game to kill time.
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Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事
A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers
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The Legend of a Huacheng Programmer 花城程序员传
The story takes place in a beautiful flower city in the south. A group of IT professionals from a major metropolis have gathered to form a community they grandly call the “Flower City Programmers’ Home.” In truth, it’s a motley crowd: mostly IT elites and code slaves (programmers), mixed in with bosses, HR staff, stock-market gurus, lawyers, accountants, the unemployed, club princes, and nightlife goddesses. As the saying goes, wherever there are people, there’s a world of its own, and every day
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