Any Short, Depressing Stories or Bad-Endings? 有没有很压抑或be文，短一点的
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I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月
[The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian
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She Stopped Comforting Him 她不哄他了
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times 任务重来一百次
“You came to save me, so why can’t you look only at me? Why do you have to give your attention to those one, two, three insignificant people?” “You seem so shy. You never take my hand first. Even just now, you only did it because of someone else.” “Now that you have me, you don’t treat me as well as you used to. There wasn’t any strawberry milk today either, was there?”
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Late in the Day 行止晚
[Devoted love + emperor and empress + tragic palace romance] 145,000 readers gave it top ratings, and countless readers cried their way through it! The year’s breakout historical romance, a heartache readers can’t forget. A clear-eyed, sweet empress VS a proud emperor whose love never wavers. Born into the imperial family, how can everything ever go as you wish? May we remain together forever, and may I keep you safe and at peace. A gentleman’s word is his bond. In a daze, I saw the moon rise.
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President Lu, Stop Tormenting Her! Your Wife Is the One You’ve Always Loved 陆总别虐了，夫人才是你的白月光
[The Regretful Ex Tries to Win Her Back + Obsessive] After being framed, Mu Qiuyan became a criminal in the eyes of the law for causing the death of her husband's true love. When she got out of prison, her husband treated her even more cruelly than before. The day she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she humbly begged him for one last bit of comfort. Lu Zhiyan said, “I'll use the bastard in your belly to pay tribute to Qingqing!” At that moment, Mu Qiuyan's heart died. She leapt into the sea,
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The Diary of the Man Who Belongs to Him 属于他的先生日记
(This is a story about the secondary couple. The main couple’s story, Pretending to Be a Couple, Becoming True Love, has a bonus ending where everyone gets a happy ending.) Mo Lie x Bai Ren [Two male leads + unrequited love + tragic ending + angst] Mo Jia x Mu Qingzhou To Mo Jia, falling for someone was a wonderful thing. But... The person he loved was a man. A man he was not allowed to love. If unrequited love was bitter, then for Mo Jia, it was something very, very sweet. What was the meaning
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See You Tomorrow, Monday 周一，明天见
[A short bad-ending story. Readers who can't handle angst, beware.] Xu Qingze was Zhou Yi’s boyfriend. He was in a car accident abroad. Everyone told Zhou Yi he was dead, but she stubbornly refused to believe it. She cried herself blind, ruined her health, and clung to life by a thread. Just as Zhou Yi was about to die, Xu Qingze came back. With a warm smile, he held out his hand to Zhou Yi. “Hello, my name is Xu Qingze.” Zhou Yi: Xu Qingze, how dare you forget me. But I’m glad you forgot me. (
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I Want to See Her 【我想见见她】
BE / angst / modern romance / campus / pure love “Xu Guannan x Xia Ying” Before I leave, I want to see her... She likes blue. She likes Fulilian. I want to... take her to Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan. I hear it's covered in nemophila, a sea of blue flowers.
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
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Your Majesty, Grant Me Three Feet of White Silk 请君赐我三尺白绫
[A Despairing Fallen Princess × An Iron-Faced New Emperor; A Lovely Foreign Princess × A Gentle Prince; A Freedom-Seeking Princess × An Enemy Spy] [Not Rebirth, Transmigration, or Fantasy. Pure historical setting, BE, angst] In the spring of the twentieth year of Emperor Yin Ai’s reign, the northern army stormed the imperial city. Emperor Yin Ai died beneath the sword of Han Chenji, the new emperor of the north. Yin Yue held her father’s corpse in her arms and glared at the ice-cold man before h
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All the Stars in the Sky Can't Compare to You 漫天繁星不及你
She was kidnapped and left freezing in the snow for three hours, only to hear her husband ask, “What does it matter to me whether you live or die?” So she died. After her death, her husband was consumed by regret.
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Jealousy, Jealousy 争妒争妒
He kept making the wrong choice; she gave her heart to the wrong man!!! Everyone in the capital knew the decade-long joke! Su Shu, the legitimate daughter of the Xiang family, pursued Mu Chengxuan, the Great General Who Protects the Nation, for ten years! Then one day, he actually married her!!! Their wedding stunned the entire capital! A decade of love should have been the envy of all, yet less than a year later, the Chancellor’s residence was raided and Su Shu died of an illness. This shocked
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President Li, Your Wife Doesn’t Deserve to Die 厉总，夫人她罪不至死
Shen Zhichu had given him her whole heart for sixteen years, only to be told to leave with nothing, just so he could make room for the woman he had always loved. Li Jingshen thought he would be happy once that woman was gone, until he received her diagnosis... He rushed over in a panic, only to find her holding someone else’s hand. “Why didn’t you tell me you had stomach cancer?” “Weren’t you hoping I’d die sooner?” Shen Zhichu laughed scornfully. “Li Jingshen, I don’t want to spend the last of
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Flowers of the Rear Courtyard 后庭花
[Scheming Prince]+ [Princess of a Fallen Kingdom]+ [Tragic Romance]+ [Bad Ending]+ [Li Er and Xiao Yang] A gender-swapped Li-Yang story, modeled on the tale of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and Consort Yang. She was the empire's little princess, bright and lively, adored by everyone. He was an illegitimate son of the prince's household whose origins were unknown, scheming and brooding, bent only on reaching the pinnacle of power and washing away his humiliation. He approached her, used
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Startling Heron 折惊鹭
Zuo Yi thinks that if Ming Li were a white egret, then he would be the eagle that broke her wings. Ming Li saves a sick, domineering man, only to see her life plunge into its darkest days. Zuo Yi: “I've seen all kinds of wild women. I refuse to believe I can't tame you.” Ming Li: “Ha! You're good at daydreaming. Let me make this clear: in this life, there will only ever be one outcome for me, Ming Li, and you, Zuo Yi. We won't stop until one of us is dead.” She defies him, he forces her. She run
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I Reincarnated as the Scumbag Hero’s Short-Lived White Moonlight 穿成渣男主的短命白月光
Shen Jia transmigrated into an old-school, angst-filled novel about a one-night stand and a runaway pregnancy. Three years passed before she was on the verge of death and finally realized she had spent all that time as a plot device with no sense of self. As a sacrificial side character, she used her clumsy yet unwavering love for the male lead to earn plenty of pity and plenty of hate. But even on her deathbed, she never won his love, because the author had written her as a “fake” woman from hi
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There Was Once Someone Who Loved Me Like Life Itself 曾有一个人，爱我如生命
For more than twenty years, Shen Siyan had stubbornly loved a man named Xiao Zonghan. Even when he resented and hated her, she had never thought of giving up. But now, she was reaching the end of her strength...
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Jiang Chuze, I Won’t Love You Anymore 江楚泽，我不会爱你了
Everyone knows that An Ruoxuan, the beautiful eldest daughter of the An family in Xingdu, chased after the cold-faced young master of the Jiang family in Beicheng from the time they were children. She tried every way she could to cling to him, earning a reputation as his little shadow and a stalker. But then the aloof young master got together with Su Munan, An Ruoxuan's best friend... Eight years later, Jiang Chuze turned around and married An Ruoxuan. She thought she was going to heaven, but i
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Sinful Love 罪爱
Chen Lin loves her. That is Ye Zhiqiu's only leverage for taking revenge on him. Making Chen Lin watch her die day by day is Ye Zhiqiu's way of getting even. Chen Lin: “Can you live for me?” Ye Zhiqiu: “No.”
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The Villainess Kills with Her Beauty 反派她以美貌杀人
(The heroine is a true villain. If you prefer morally upright characters, read with caution.) She was the villain of a book, but she never knew it. But what did that matter? Her beloved was dead. How could those responsible for his death be allowed to live? She toyed with the world in the palm of her hand, laying schemes within schemes and concealing deadly intent at every turn. Her gentle nature and ethereal beauty were both weapons, and no one could stand in the way of her revenge. The person
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The Older Sister I Brought Home 捡回来的姐姐
[Dual female leads] The moon has no light of its own, until it meets the sun. On New Year's Eve, the Wang family threw her out like garbage. It was pouring rain that day, and that's when she met her. The moon met the sun, and overnight she went from an unwanted child to the future heir of an education group. She didn't want to be the heir, but for her, she was willing to give up the dream she'd once had! When the sun plunged into a dark abyss, the moon became her salvation. Four years later, an
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Ink of Sorrow, Blossoms of Love 墨殇合欢颜
[Pure Historical Romance, No Rebirth] + [Marriage Before Love] + [Love of Country and Family] + [BE] A man who has renounced desire hides his feelings, while an innocent heart falls in love. He is a wise, steady general who protects the nation. She is the clever, charming sixth daughter of the Chancellor, a little troublemaker. Though they have never met, an imperial decree binds them together. After they marry, they do nothing but bicker, without ever touching each other. Neither of them ex
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I Only Sneaked a Glance at Him 我只偷看他一眼
During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli
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The Apple of My Eye 心尖爱宠
He bears humiliation and hardship as he plans his grand ambitions. And she is the unexpected twist that was never part of his plan. She thought all her hard work would lead to a better future, but fate pushed her into someone else's arms. On the city wall, the man clutches her hand and begs desperately, "Hold on to me. Don't let go. I was wrong, please..." The woman in red pries his fingers loose. "I let you go. This is over between us." Against the snow-covered landscape, her red clothes stand
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Split Personality: I Didn't Do This 双重人格：这不是我做的
Welcome, everyone, to read my work. A killer named Coco becomes An Yimo and, overnight, the sole spark of the declining Bai family, a clan of ancient martial artists. As he uncovers the secrets of his identity, he befriends a brother he trusts, only to discover that the man has ulterior motives. And that man is connected to An Yimo's identity, too. Was this all planned long ago, or is it a genuine meeting of hearts?
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Thoughts and Longing 念与望
Campus | Mutual pining | BE A gloomy boy plagued by misfortune | A sensitive girl always afraid of losing what she has The breeze swept past the window, lifting an orange-yellow journal that shimmered in the sunlight. On the first page, someone had written: “If you can't forget, your feelings will be answered.” Jiang Wang, the name that ran through Shen Nian's teenage years. Her first crush, at eight. Then, at fourteen, she saw him again. She stayed by Jiang Wang's side in silence. She didn't da
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A Sweet Little Angsty Story 1 一篇暖暖的小虐文1
A heartwarming little tragedy, Part 1
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Ashen Bones, Passionate Embrace 烬骨合欢
I still remember the years when we were children, laughing and talking without end, close as we played in the courtyard with its swings. We shared sour plums, and leaned together by the pine-framed window through many a spring. Now each of us has grown old in a different corner of the world, yet still searches for warmth on the page. Sometimes I turn to the verses on red leaves, and we look at each other, recalling old tearstains. The first ten years of Jiang Wanqing’s life were blissfully happy
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Loving You from Afar 站在远处爱
Liang Qingtong is new to the workplace and deeply admires Lu Chengyang, an industry role model. That exceptional man is her idol, her dream guy. By chance, she becomes his subordinate, and before she knows it, she seems to have fallen for him. He is decisive and efficient at work, but when it comes to love, he has no idea what he’s doing! We’re all just a bunch of unfortunate people: we can’t have the ones we love, we don’t cherish the ones we have, and when we’re together, we suspect each other
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This Hero Is Pretty Ordinary, So He Started Gearing Up 这个勇者有点普通所以开始搞装备
[Hero] [Another World] [Monsters] [Go-with-the-flow] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Funny] [Slightly Eerie] [Everyone Is an Idiot] [Idiot Doesn't Mean Stupid] Forget the solemnity of traditional literature. I use my everyday experiences as a blueprint, wrap them in the dazzling trappings of a hero, and present a cozy, comfortable, and elegant world to my lovely readers. Every now and then, I throw in something eerie to wake up those lovestruck fools. The story is told from a truly first-person perspe
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Ten Years of Qing Ci’s Scenery 青辞十年景
Ten Years of Qing Ci
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Happy Hundredth Birthday 百岁生日快乐
Happy 100th Birthday
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She’s My Brother’s Girlfriend, and the One I Love Most 她是我兄弟的女友，也是我的最爱
She’s my brother’s girlfriend, and the woman I love most
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The Magician from the Future 来自未来的魔术师
The Magician from the Future
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The Emperor's Lament 帝王之殇
The Emperor's Tragedy
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Parting from You in This Life 与君生别离
Parting from You in This Life
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When the Stars Fall in Full Bloom 如遇满星落
As the stars fall, everything is full.
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Changye Wuyue 长烨无月
[A princess sent away for a political marriage × an obsessive crown prince and emperor] [Tragic romance] (The comic adaptation is now available.) A general dies in battle, and a princess is sent far away to marry for peace. The young man who had been her childhood sweetheart remained forever on the battlefield in the desert. As a princess of her nation, she was sent far away to Great Jin for a political marriage. The desert battlefield claimed the young General Zhou, while the bright and spiri
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Fate Is Sealed, Your Majesty, How Could You Treat Me Like This? 宿命已定，皇上，你竟这样待我？
Chensha and Zixin Your willfulness has made me decide to renew our bond in every lifetime. Even if you no longer exist in my memories, your traces remain in my heart, and we keep drawing closer to each other... Leng Han and Wulei In this cruel confrontation, will there ever be a final verdict on who wins and who loses? If they win, will they truly find happiness? “I'll just consider it a dog bite. I can take or leave the past that connects us. You are already in my past!” “Whether it's in the
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The Guilty Wife 罪妻
[Physical and emotional angst + substitute male lead + regretful husband chasing his wife] Shen Nanzhou hated Tang Yin with every fiber of his being. To take revenge on her, he forced her to donate her liver, use herself as a test subject for drugs, and suffer from a terminal illness. He drove her daughter to her death, destroyed the man who had protected her, and ruined everything she cared about. He told her, "Tang Yin, I dream every night about the day you die." Later, when the truth came out
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Mu Sinan 暮思南
Blurb drafted on 2022.10.6. [At last, dawn arrives, and she lies buried in the earth as it breaks.] On her barren, cracked land, he planted sunflowers for her with his own hands. She had been in the dark for so long that she had forgotten what it felt like to be bathed in light. Then one day, she finally found the sun. It shone on her for so long that she foolishly began to think she could make it her own. But she forgot: the sun and she belonged to different worlds. When she was eighteen, s
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An’an Never Grows Up 安安长不大
He was Xu Shuyan, the top student in his year and the school’s untouchable heartthrob. He was naturally aloof, wanted nothing to do with people, and always kept to himself. One day, in a torrential downpour, with lights blazing all around, he sat quietly on a stool outside the door, drenched to the skin. She couldn’t understand why, so she held an umbrella over him and took him somewhere out of the rain. After that day, she began bringing him breakfast, walking to and from school with him, and d
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Short, Heartbreaking Stories 短虐故事
Each chapter is a complete story. The book is made up of several short stories, all with tragic endings. Read with caution. Some are set in modern times, others in ancient times. There are transmigration, a System, rural life, and more... The book is still ongoing. I’ll update it gradually, and add new themes as they come to mind.
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After Huo Yan Tormented Her, She Ran Away 被霍闫虐惨后，她逃跑了
[Angst + awful male lead + wife-chasing crematorium + fighting back + revenge + tragic romance] On their engagement day, Huo Yan abandoned Cheng Yuru and sent her to a mental hospital. Her parents died tragically, and the company changed hands. Every bit of it was part of Huo Yan's scheme. Her wonderful fiancé had not only killed her entire family, but seized their company and left her blind in one eye. Though she was pitiful and miserable, he showed no mercy. With a wave of his hand, he made he
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When the White Plum Blossoms Bloom 白梅花开
[Ensemble Cast + Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic + Tragic Endings for All + Reborn with a Happy Ending + Second Male Lead Takes the Crown] In one lifetime, a blood-red sky appeared at the moment of her birth. Everyone said, “This is an ill omen!” “The little princess is a monster!” At Qiyuan in Yujing, she fell in love at first sight with someone from the Demon Realm. Gods and demons could never be together, yet for him she cut her wrist and let her blood flow, seeking medicine for his people. O
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Shattering the Moonlight Over Half the River 吹碎半江月
[Bad Ending / Two Female Leads] Two young women from different backgrounds, yet they end up on the same path. A feudal society, arranged marriages, and no right to make their own choices. All of it is like a stack of death warrants, hastening their decline. They are both lucky and unlucky. Lucky, because they become each other's light; unlucky, because they cannot change their fate. But the ending is beautiful. At least they are together.
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