Looking for Hidden Gems Among Period Stories! 寻找珍贵年代文！
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A Whirlwind Wedding and Military Life: My Forceful Officer Leaves Me Swooning Every Time 闪婚随军：强势军官令我次次沦陷
[Complete novel + sweet romance + career-driven heroine + building wealth + female awakening and mutual support + no golden finger + funny, heartwarming, and moving] Ye Wenxi, a career-driven woman at a major 21st-century corporation, transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious supporting character in a novel set in a bygone era. Through a twist of fate, she and Lu Weidong end up having an “honest exchange.” Fortunately, he has a strong sense of responsibility and insists on seeing things th
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Half a Lifetime of Missing Qiu 念秋半辈子
[Everyone’s favorite + farming + building wealth + family squabbles + strong heroine] Shen Nianqiu’s husband died. He was stabbed to death by the husband of his lover. Because Shen Nianqiu is beautiful, shapely, intelligent, and capable, she is very popular. A rural doctor whose wife has died gradually falls for her; A butcher from the neighboring village has been secretly in love with her for a long time. A teacher assigned to the countryside admires her beauty and intelligence, and vows to mar
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Xia Guangnuan's First Book 霞光暖暖的第1本书
[Period Setting + Realistic Rural Life + Family Matters + Adultery + Beloved by Everyone + A Woman’s Growth] Hong Xing is a village doctor, twenty-three years old, and the mother of two daughters. Only after her husband dies unexpectedly does she discover that the man who always seemed so honest and quiet, a man who could hardly get a word out even if you beat him with three sticks, had betrayed her. Her whole world collapses. She had always followed the rules of a virtuous wife, respected her p
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The Beautiful First Half of Her Life 美艳的前半生
The story takes place in a rural village in Hebei in 1999. Meiyan has been sweet, beautiful, and clever since childhood, and everyone in the village agrees she's the local beauty. After failing her university entrance exams on her second attempt, she has no choice but to face the path fate has laid out for her. Swept up by Li Gangqiang's relentless pursuit, she gives him everything. But on the very day he steps through the gates of college, he gets together with another woman. Betrayed, Meiyan s
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Tiezhu's Fate 铁柱的命
In the 1990s, the twenty-year-old Tiezhu, whose given name was Gao Fei, was handsome, dashing, and well educated. He studied hard, hoping to change his fate through knowledge and escape the countryside. But fate kept playing tricks on him, making him fail time and again. Disheartened, he found the courage to face life again with encouragement from Yanhua, the village beauty. His excellence always won him admirers. After meeting different women, he gradually realized who loved him most. Sadly, by
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Xia Hua, the Village Girl 村女夏花
[Realistic rural life + slow burn + heroine’s growth + family and everyday life + face-slapping the scoundrels] Lin Xiahua’s husband is dead. With two children and a dimwitted older brother to support, she has become the most tempting target in Hama Gou Village. Burdened with her family, without a single plot of land, and with her mother-in-law threatening to sell her by the pound to an old widower and his son! To survive, Xiahua learns to navigate all kinds of men and women. She smiles and char
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The Darling of the Seventies and Her Wild, Rugged Husband 七零娇娇，野性糙汉强宠妻
[Period setting + rugged hero + sweet romance + no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger] [Height difference + off-the-charts tension] Just two days after Chen Xiang married into the Zhao family, her husband died, and the people of Zhao Village branded her a “jinx.” Her in-laws turned against her without a second thought and even tried to force her into marriage with an old widower from the neighboring village in exchange for money. In the depths of despair one night, a scorching, rough hand
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The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始
During the years Liu Haibo spent in the countryside as an educated youth, he fell in love with Yang Xiuqing, a girl from the village. When he eagerly asked Yang Xiuqing's parents for her hand in marriage, they refused. He fled Shibantian Village and returned to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he married a woman named Wu Jie and prepared to start a new life, Yang Xiuqing came to his door...
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Those Days on the Production Team 年代，生产队里那些事
Set in the 1970s, this book tells the story of the family life of Wu Changgui and Jiang Xueqin, an ordinary couple from a small village, and their children. In an era of material scarcity, life was simple and unpretentious, yet full of complicated love, hatred, and heartbreak...
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In 1975, I Went to the Countryside to Escape Disaster 1975年我下乡避祸
This is not a feel-good power fantasy. There is no pocket dimension, no System, no rebirth, and no transmigration. The times are turbulent, and the road ahead is uncertain. To protect Li Chengxiao, his family bears the pain of sending him to the countryside for an assigned rural posting, away from danger. Alone, he puts down roots in the village, enduring hardship and lying low with quiet resolve. With his unique insight and steady temperament, he establishes himself amid adversity, discreetly b
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The Country Girl Military Wife from the Army Compound Is So Delicate 军属大院来的乡下军嫂太娇气了
[Transmigration + period setting + strong female lead + military marriage + adorable child + sweet romance] Gu Yao was just standing by, watching the drama and enjoying the gossip while her scumbag dad argued with her evil stepmother. But when the two of them started fighting, she got caught in the crossfire. Gu Yao was pushed down the stairs, broke her neck, and transmigrated. She woke up inside a sweet romance novel set in a bygone era, one she had just read. In the book, the hero and heroine
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Reborn in 1976, My Father-in-Law Hopes I Die Every Day 重生1976，岳父天天盼我死
[Rebirth + period setting + logging + no System] In his previous life, Chen Beishan was the chairman of a timber conglomerate worth tens of billions. As he died at his rosewood desk, the last document he received wasn’t an obituary. It was a lawyer’s letter from his son, contesting the inheritance. He opens his eyes in 1976, in the Greater Khingan Range, at minus forty-two degrees. He’s now the “softie Beishan” everyone at the logging camp calls a coward: a good-for-nothing who abandoned his p
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I Picked Up a Handsome Soldier, and He Spoils Me Like a Princess 捡个帅兵哥把我宠成公主
After winning an antique ring at auction, Tao Ranran, a 21st-century surgical expert, had her soul transported to a special era. To her surprise, the ring turned out to contain an incredible space. She used it to build her fortune in that era and bring the nation's medical development forward by decades. She even found herself a handsome soldier king for a husband!
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Half a Lifetime on the Battlefield 戎马半生
A female assassin in her past life, a female soldier in this one. What kind of brilliant life will someone who has turned from darkness toward the light create? She never married in her past life. In this one, she meets the finest male officer in the entire military region. When two formidable people meet, what kind of love and hate will unfold?
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Tales of Xizhou in the 1980s 80年代西州往事
This is a story about youth, and a story about growing up. It is filled with passionate brotherhood, the innocent love of childhood sweethearts, clashes of steel in the streets and alleys, and the struggles and choices people face in the tides of a changing era. Most importantly, it captures the warmth unique to that time: the unreserved sincerity between people, a purity that seems almost like a luxury today.
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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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Reborn as a Young Educated Youth in the 1970s, I Make a Fortune with My Farm 重生70小知青带农场吸金
Space + rebirth + one-on-one romance + brainless power fantasy + food + entrepreneurship + foresight + making money. Inspired by real-life circumstances, but set in an alternate era. Xu Kaixin is reborn on the very day her home is confiscated. The resentment and bitterness from her previous life still weigh on her heart. Her anxious parents hurry to pack her things. Xu Kaixin glances at the clock: the authorities will be here to confiscate their home any minute. Her parents are about to be sent
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All I Want in Life Is Half a Heart’s Contentment 一生只求半称心
The comic adaptation is coming soon! [Traditional] [No gimmicks] [Not a power fantasy] [No cheat abilities] In the 1970s, Li Laoman had no sons, so he wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for his third daughter, Li Fan. Li Fan refused and stole her second sister Li Ting's fiance instead! Now Li Ting had not only lost her man, but also had to take on the responsibility of finding a live-in son-in-law for her younger sister. With Li Laoman pressuring her, she had no choice but to take Zhong Wensong
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The Long-Suffering Younger Sister 苦妹
This is a bloodcurdling, suffocating epic of female suffering. It tells the tragic story of a woman called Ku Mei, whose life was mercilessly crushed by fate over more than half a century, from the early 1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 1960, during a famine-stricken winter, she was born the second daughter in her family and named Pan Di, “Hoping for a younger brother.” From then on, her grandmother saw her as a “jinx” and branded her Ku Mei, “Bitter Girl.” In a family that
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A Shooting Star Streaks By, Leaving Traces on the Years 流星划过，岁月有痕
This is a powerful work that deeply portrays the intertwined paths of growth for the post-80s generation and the changes of the times. The story follows its protagonist, Zhao Fei, from his green and innocent days in middle school, through the passionate years of university, and into the struggles and discoveries of life after graduation. It delicately depicts how Zhao Fei and his generation search for themselves and realize their worth amid the currents of the times, while also reflecting the sw
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A Cruel Mother, a Broken Home, and Me, Unbroken 狠心的妈，破碎的家，不屈的我
[Male-Oriented, Rural, Family, Comeback, Power Fantasy, Inspirational] Abandoned by his own mother, abused by his stepmother, and struck by his father's sudden misfortune. Su Yang, a poor boy from the mountains, has been left battered by his family's cruelty. With no one to lean on and no support to count on, he can only fight his own way to survival. He studies hard, weathers turmoil on campus, and makes his way in the business world. His heartless relatives come crawling back to latch onto his
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I Cleared Out the Family Assets Before Divorcing, and the Cold-Faced Officer Lost His Cool 搬空家产去离婚，冷面军少红了眼
[Period Setting] [Rebirth] [Military Marriage] [Mystic Spring Space] [Marriage Before Love] [Revenge on Scum] [Mutual Firsts] [Face-Slapping] Xie Chaoyun had a miserable life in her previous life. After her foster parents went to the countryside, her so-called biological parents took her in. Not only did they seize all her property, they also sold her to human traffickers. In the end, she died a horrible death in Little Black Mountain Village. Consumed by boundless hatred, she was reborn. This
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Memories of 1931: Hunting, Fighting the Japanese, and Raising a Family 回忆一九三一养家打猎打鬼子日子
In 1931, the Japanese invaded China. Ling Feng hunted to feed his family and fought the Japanese to capture supplies. He and his good brothers enjoyed the good life, built houses, and got married.
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Wild Chrysanthemums in the Storm 风雨中的野菊花
“The eldest gets doted on, the youngest gets spoiled, but the one in the middle suffers most!” In the late 1970s, under the weight of son preference and the pressure of family planning, Xiaojü was born in the middle. Her tragic life began from the moment she was born: an unwanted child, abandoned by both Heaven and Earth! When Xiaojü was four, the grandmother who had raised her passed away. In her final moments, Grandma told her that she had been born in a season when wild chrysanthemums were i
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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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The Ups and Downs of Business: A Life Well Lived 商业浮沉：不负韶华
"No Cliches, No Idiocy, No Melodrama, No System, No Power Fantasy, No Golden Finger. Read at Your Own Risk" "Jiang Xiaobei’s Comeback" Only later did Jiang Xiaobei understand: Not every effort gets the chance to bloom, not every affection gets an answer, and not everyone who says “next time” really gets a next time. No one could have predicted what came later. That poor kid who couldn’t afford a single shirt, the failed exam candidate whose father pointed at him and said, “This is all you’ll
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Another Spring of the 1977 College Entrance Exam 1977年高考又一春
[A story-driven take on history. Note: There is no single fixed protagonist. Multiple leads reflect the changes of the era and offer a full picture of the 1977 restoration of the college entrance exam.] [The story focuses on several main characters: Hu Wei and Wang Ting, Pan Xia, and Lu Xiaoyun. Their stories weave in and out according to the timeline. If you prefer to follow one character at a time, you can read their chapters in sequence for a complete biography. The other characters may only
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The One-Shot System Takes Me to New Heights 穿越七零：秒杀系统带我飞
The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later! 1970: I Have a Golden Finger and a Maxed-Out Family Ding! Your limited-time flash-sale System has been bound! Wen Jingshu, an English major in graduate school in 2024, was halfway through studying for the civil service exam when she transmigrated. When she woke up, she’d become a graduate student in trade and economics in 1970. Her father was a police bureau chief, her mother a section chief at the agricultural bureau, her eldest brother a battalio
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There Was a Girl Named Xiaohua 有个女孩叫小花
My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! This book captures some of the culture and food of rural northern Fujian in the 1980s and 1990s. Follow Xiaohua and her family as they work hard and lead warm, ordinary lives. No exaggeration, melodrama, or foolish antics. It’s not a feel-good power fantasy, and there’s no rebirth or transmigration. There’s no golden finger, just
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The Tail Fire Tiger and Kui Wood Wolf 尾火虎奎木狼
As the old saying goes: Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles; traveling ten thousand miles is not as good as meeting countless people; meeting countless people is not as good as spending every day with masters; and having an expert show you the way is not as good as reaching enlightenment on your own. Over the years, I’ve read plenty of books, traveled many roads, met many people, and experienced many things. I’ve also spent time with masters, and gained a fe
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In the 1970s, I Took Down the Cold-Faced Commander of the Family Compound, and He Became Mine 七零，干翻家属院冷面首长归我了
[Soul transmigration + power fantasy + period setting + pocket dimension + laugh-out-loud comedy + scheming + 1v1 + little tricks + making money] A parallel-world period story. It's all fictional, so don't take it too seriously. The heroine is a goofy, hilarious girl. After joining the military, she's forced into a battle to “win the battalion commander.” She defeats thirteen rivals single-handedly and catches the special attention of the young, handsome, promising Battalion Commander Lu. What t
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金！
Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an
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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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Years of Quiet Reflection 沉淀的岁月
The story follows the lives of three high school girls from rural backgrounds. In the fall of 1964, the confident, ambitious “top student” Yu Hongying, the warmhearted and forthright “knight-errant” Li Chunfen, and the reserved, introspective lady Yue Shuqian unexpectedly meet in their first-year dormitory, along with the “campus belle” Yang Yuhuan and the “fake Marxist-Leninist” Wu Lihong. This sets off a series of stories, some serious, some amusing, some bizarre, and some full of joy and sorr
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Military Marriage in the 1970s: The Sickly Beauty Goes on a Rampage! 七零军婚：病娇美人杀疯了！
[Seventies setting + 1v1 sweet romance + spatial powers + obsessive love + military marriage + feel-good power fantasy] A research prodigy with a possessive streak, created by humans and codenamed Seventeen, is the most gifted young woman at the Blue Star Research Institute. One explosion, one transmigration, and when she opens her eyes again, she has become Song Xingmiao, a foolish country girl. Seventeen: ...Then what was the point of the suicide bombing I made myself?! And who is the man besi
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The Blood-Tear Tung Blossoms 泣血油桐花
In the 1970s, Zhao Zhicheng was an older bachelor. Because he had one disabled leg and came from a dirt-poor family, the women from the surrounding villages all refused to marry him. In the end, he married Yan Wenyin, a woman of similar age who also had one disabled leg. From then on, the fates of these two determined people, each with a physical disability, were bound tightly together! That year, he said, “My left leg is lame, and Xiaoyin’s right leg is lame. Put us together, and don’t we make
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When the Rice Flowers Bloom 稻香花开
The novel follows the hardships endured by farmers in two villages in Xiangnan County, Dongyuantun and Da’ai Village, from the Republican era through the founding of the People’s Republic of China and on through the people’s commune system, the Cultural Revolution, the household responsibility system, and the Reform and Opening-Up period. The villagers endure one hardship after another and witness the changing times. The protagonists, Zhang Yiping and Zhou Xueyun, are forced to leave school beca
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Those Destined to Meet Will Meet Again 若有缘终会相逢
The 1990s: youth, growing up, love, and parting in an age of innocence. Read closely, and it becomes a journey of spiritual redemption... I hope someone destined to find it will read this book!
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Reborn in the 1970s: Enlisting with a Spirit Spring 重生七零：带着灵泉去当兵
Reborn in a single moment, Su Yao returns to 1976 with a Spirit Spring space. She enlists in the army and sets out on the path to turn her life around! In the military, she uses her skills to put fake sweethearts in their place, crushes every scumbag, and rises through the ranks until she becomes a legendary female soldier admired by all! He is the military’s cold and proud prodigy, the Gu family’s heir. Unstoppable on the battlefield and a detached observer of political schemes, he has eyes onl
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The 1970s: I Married the Man Who Prayed to the Gods 七零：我嫁给了求神拜佛的那个他
[Transmigration + Period Setting + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives + Rebirth + Romance + No Saintly Protagonist + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension] Blurb: Bai Xiaxia transmigrates to the 1970s, only to have her engagement broken off. The neighbors are all waiting to see her make a fool of herself. To their surprise, before long she's married to someone with even more power and status! She thinks going north to study is a reluctant choice, made after weighing her options
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San Biaozi 三彪子
In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke.
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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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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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Half-Mad 半痴
Meeting you was the best fate of all, so why spend the rest of my years pining for you? I awoke halfway through my life as if born anew. Reborn, I returned, and my boat had already sailed past a thousand mountains. This is my first full-length novel, so it has plenty of shortcomings. I hope you’ll feel free to offer advice, and I thank you in advance. With your support and encouragement, I’ll work even harder. Let’s go!
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From Shepherd Boy to Writer 从放羊娃到作家
Wu Beiyan, a shepherd boy and the child of a military family, doesn't know whether his parents ever got married. Four shepherding companions are lured to a remote village by a “TV director.” As the four escape, some survey workers take them to an air force base. Later, a criminal police team escorts them. After Wu Beiyan rescues a girl in red, Du Xiaojuan, from a flood, he stays with a retired official's family in Linquan City and receives special care. When he returns to the Shazaoyuan Farm, th
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Actually, I’m Pretty Great 其实我很好
Linzi can't understand why Zhang Junhao would like her. Could it be that he did something so terrible to her in a past life that he's come back to make amends in this one? Whatever the reason, she's grateful to him!
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Reborn in 1978: Sharpening My Blade Against the Great Powers 重生七八，磨刀霍霍向列强
(Period drama + ruthless action + reborn + System) Chu Xing's military parents were murdered, and his younger sister was sold. Even when he died, he had been unable to avenge his parents or find his sister. Reborn in his fifteen-year-old body, he acquired a System by a twist of fate. In this life, he swore to find his sister and avenge his parents. But these two seemingly simple goals were fraught with danger. And from the very beginning, he had fallen into a carefully laid trap set by the Syste
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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
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Awakening from a Mirror Dream 镜梦觉
What is a dream? Is it an illusion, an extension of reality from the tangible to the intangible, another “distorted” reflection of life, or perhaps all of these? And what is a mirror dream? I think it is a process of introspection: by observing, examining, and reflecting on dreams, one comes to an understanding and is then able to see what kind of person “I” ought to be. This book explores the theme “See as it is, think as it is, act as it is” through three main sections: Mirror Dream, Looking
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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!
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