The Top 10 Must-Read Novels from Tomato's Annual Rankings 历年番茄排行榜前10神书
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- 501 The Tortoise Mirror of Legal Cases 折狱龟鉴 [Ancient Court Cases | Classical Accounts of the Strange | Casebook of Criminal Trials] The Casebook of Judicial Inspection is a classic of Song dynasty jurisprudence, as famous as The Washing Away of Wrongs. It compiles more than 280 true cases, from the Han and Wei dynasties through the Northern Song. Organized by category, it records cases involving clearing the wrongly accused, exposing false charges, investigating adultery, tracking thieves, and more, documenting the entire process by which 33Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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- 503 Let's Divorce! You Really Think I'm Some Kind of Toad? 离婚吧！真当我是癞蛤蟆？ Not a power fantasy. Please read with caution if that bothers you. Chu Yuxuan has been married to Xia Zhu for two years. He thought there was no heart in the world that couldn’t be warmed, until her old flame returns and Xia Zhu rushes to him without a second thought… After the divorce, Chu Yuxuan returns to the Chu family and transforms into a wealthy, spoiled playboy. At his family’s arrangement, he marries the icy beauty Zhao Yanan. On the surface, he’s a good-for-nothing wastrel, but behind 49kReads9.4Score4.7kShelves
- 504 If I Don’t Take the Imperial Exams, Should I Just Farm? 不科举，难道种地？ The new novel Sequence: Creator is currently being serialized. Give it a read! It's a story about surviving the apocalypse. Thank you 🙏. [Alternate History] [Imperial Examinations] [Plagiarist] [Political Scheming] [Farming] [No System] The barbarians on all four frontiers: anyone who dares invade will see their nation destroyed, their people wiped out, and their descendants cut off. I want this golden age to be exactly as I envision it. History is long, but I need only make the slightest effort 5.5kReads8.6Score398Shelves
- 505 Sorry, My Interstellar Fleet Only Recruits Women 对不起，我的星际舰队只招女兵 He transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out noble young lord in an interstellar age. His territory was barren, resources scarce, and starships in ruins. The whole mess was dumped in front of Zhao Chen. No star gates in the territory? Then we'll build our own! No starships in the territory? Interstellar destroyers, frigates, cruisers: whatever you want, we'll build it. An aircraft-carrier starship leading swarms of drones, descending like a hive, announced its dominance over the battlefield. 42.2kReads9.1Score3.6kShelves
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Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明
In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc
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- 507 Yikes! I Was Nearly Done For, but Breaking Through Sent Me Soaring 绷！都快凉了，结果破境直接起飞 Chen Lin wakes up to find that not only has he ended up in another world, but he has also skipped straight past his youth and become an old royal geezer. Worse still, his life is nearly over. He was hoping to enjoy a quiet retirement, only to discover that the dynasty is on the verge of collapse, shattering all his plans. Just as despair takes hold, lines of text suddenly drift across his vision like a barrage of comments. Countless years later, Chen Lin gazes at the flags flying above coun 2.5kReads5.9Score103Shelves
- 508 Doomsday Game: I Get Stronger Just by Staying Home! 末日游戏：我宅在家里就变强！ [Shelter] [Management and Construction] [Rotating Apocalypses] [Cautious Male Lead] An apocalyptic game descends, and people across the globe are randomly assigned shelters. The disasters rotate every month! Extreme heat! Absolute cold! Falling meteorites! Plant mutations! Monsters on the rampage! Extreme disasters sweep the globe. People have to keep venturing out to explore and gather resources, frantically upgrading their shelters just to cling to life amid countless catastrophes. Su Yi is ju 28.8kReads7.9Score1.9kShelves
- 509 Turning the Tables in the Civil Service Exam: Climbing the Ladder from the Interview Onward 公考逆袭：从面试开始一路攀登 People's affections are as thin as paper, and the world changes like a new chess game with every turn. Li Xiuyuan starts at the grassroots level, driven by a desire to get ahead. He takes one steady step after another, climbing higher with every move! 742.1kReads9.2Score59.8kShelves
- 510 Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil Starts with Card Draws 斩妖除魔从抽卡开始 When Zhou Tian wakes up, he discovers he’s trapped in a remote village and has become a monster’s emergency food supply… Thankfully, the card-drawing game panel he played in his previous life has transmigrated through time and space with him. It’s an incomplete version, but it still gives him a glimmer of hope for survival… Conditions met: the Burning Heavens pool is now open! Draw a card! “Ding-dong! Congratulations, you got a three-star green card: Crimson Sky Swordsman. His sword strikes like 400Reads7.7Score104Shelves
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Spring Banquet 春日宴
She kept male favorites and toyed with powerful ministers! For eight years, the arrogant and tyrannical Princess Danyang, Li Huaiyu, wreaked havoc across the court and country. She died on the day the new emperor ascended the throne, bleeding from every orifice in a truly gruesome death. The officials celebrated and the people rejoiced: Evil gets what it deserves! Good riddance! Yet on the seventh day after her death, Princess Danyang returned to life in the body of the Bai family’s Fourth Mis
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- 512 One More Escort Guard Every Day, and the Emperor Panics 每天增加一个镖师，皇帝慌了 Emperor: Zhou Qing, don't you run an escort agency? Why do you have so many men? Zhou Qing: It's perfectly normal for an escort agency to have “a tiny little” number of escorts, right? Emperor: Zhou Qing, don't you run an escort agency? Why do you have so many warhorses? Even the horses kept by the imperial court don't match the number at your agency! Zhou Qing: An escort agency needs “a tiny little” number of horses to transport its goods, doesn't it? This is the story of a modern man who t 23.7kReads7.5Score2.2kShelves
- 513 I Get Stronger with Every Promotion, and I'm Already Invincible! 升官就变强，我直接无敌了！ [Invincible + scheming + swordsmanship + exhilarating power-ups] Li Chengfeng wakes up to find he has become a low-ranking Banner Officer in the Eagle Guard of the Great Chu Dynasty, with his patron already dead. Fortunately, he has the System: every promotion rewards him with a max-level martial art. What? Making it to a Hundred-man Commander earns me the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms? A Thousand-man Commander gets me Flying Immortal Beyond the Heavens? … What do I care if they’re century-old 758Reads8.6Score104Shelves
- 514 The Secret Histories of the Four Great Beauties 四大美人秘史 [The Four Beauties, classical historical romances, complete uncensored public-domain editions, stories of celebrated women in history, ancient tales] This complete collection contains the original, unabridged texts of The Romance of Xishi, The Romance of Wang Zhaojun, The Romance of Yang Guifei, and The Romance of Diaochan. It recounts the turbulent lives of the Four Beauties, whose beauty was said to make fish forget to swim, geese forget to fly, the moon hide, and flowers blush. Together, thes 476Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 515 Bound by Spring 缚春情 [The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef 93kReads9.6Score12.4kShelves
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A Blood-Soaked Reckoning: Twin Sisters Return for Vengeance 【血色满门】双生姐妹踏血归来
An entire family of loyal officials is framed, and a century-old marquis’s estate is turned into a living hell. Twin sisters plunge from a cliff into the water, surviving against all odds. Once cherished young ladies who lived behind closed doors, they now tread a thorny path through the world. One struggles to survive on a sheer cliff, honing her edge; the other wanders in a foreign land, maneuvering at every turn. The court is rife with deceit and schemes, while the martial world flashes with
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- 517 I Got Memories of My Past Life, So I'm Done Walking the Righteous Path 获得前世记忆，这正道我不当了 [Rebirth-like] + [Villain] + [Decisive and Ruthless] Ye Chen is the most gifted disciple of the Piaomiao Immortal Sect. An opportunity that comes with his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage grants him a vision of the future. A sheet of mysterious yellow paper, carrying the remnants of a soul from his previous life, crosses the river of time and comes to him. Though a Nascent Soul cultivator is hailed as the sect's future leader, a newly initiated Foundation Establishment disciple accuses 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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After I Discovered the Female CEO's Secret, She Had to Silence Me Like This 撞破女总裁的秘密后，她要这样封我口
After she catches the female CEO's secret, this is how she plans to silence me
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- 519 Reborn as a Mantis: I Begin Endless Evolution by Devouring Flesh and Blood 重生螳螂，吞噬血肉开始无限进化 Lu Qing was ambushed and reborn in another world as a mantis. Here, there were primordial beasts, insect overlords, colossal creatures of the deep, and more. They were everywhere, and danger lurked at every turn. Fortunately, Lu Qing could evolve by devouring flesh and blood. So no matter what the species, anything that crossed his path became a meal for him. Just as Lu Qing grew stronger and stronger on the path of evolution, the divine formation activated! When he stepped out of the formation, 161.7kReads8.7Score16.6kShelves
- 520 The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱 [Available in print. Search "Zhaohua Rebellion" on any platform to purchase.] [Strong female lead, satisfying revenge, high-IQ palace intrigue, the heroine schemes against the entire harem, a dangerously unhinged antagonist] Song Zhao has always been a woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and she has always seen the world more clearly than anyone else. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was crystal clear: "I en 88.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
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After the Divorce, Dr. Su Caught the Eye of a Powerful Man 离婚后，苏医生被大佬盯上了
[Season One of the motion comic is now available] [The early chapters focus on family disputes, with more emphasis on her career] [The male lead appears later] [It only gets better as the story goes] She's a cold, sharp cardiothoracic surgeon who wields a scalpel and is divorced with a child. He's a roguishly handsome power player with connections in both the underworld and the legitimate world. It was love at first sight for him, and he won't stop pursuing her. Then there's a gentle, refined yo
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- 522 My In-Laws Transferred the Ancestral Clinic to My Brother-in-Law? My Husband Pulled Out His Peking Union Medical College Appointment Letter 公婆把祖传医馆过户给小叔子？老公反手掏出协和聘书 My In-Laws Transferred Their Ancestral Clinic to My Brother-in-Law? My Husband Whipped Out a Job Offer from Peking Union Medical College Hospital 2.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 523 EN Logged In Early! How Can I Lose After Rebirth? 提前登录！重生的我怎么输？ [Character build] [Health bar] [Horrors] [Martial artists] [Sequence] In 2035, a fully immersive game called Dark Realm hit the market and instantly took the world by storm. But a year later, the game descended into reality. Flesh-eating horrors, murderous foreign races, and paranormal Ascendants brought about the apocalypse and drove humanity to extinction. Zhang Qing is reborn two years earlier and is shocked to discover that his headset has returned with him. So he logs in ahead of time! Rebo 97.8kReads9.2Score9.4kShelves
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Insectoid: The Commander Says He Wants to Live Off His Wife 【虫族】指挥官说他想吃软饭
Randall woke up hungover and disoriented, only to be told that he had gotten drunk and harassed a male bug! Just as he thought the Male Bug Protection Association was going to drag him away and punish him severely, the male bug appeared before him and demanded that he take responsibility. Randall: "?" Shao Haoting said with a straight face, "You sullied my innocence. You have to take responsibility and become my female lord." Shao Haoting's friend, who had witnessed everything: You might not bel
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- 525 I Told You to Practice Demon Arts, Not Raise the Whole World Like Livestock! 让你练魔功，没让你圈养全世界啊 [Madman protagonist + ruthless + dark tone + no female lead] After transmigrating to a world of high martial arts, Xu Mo discovers that to survive in this insane world, he has to be crazier than everyone else. “Senior, you just hit me with a palm strike, and I’m really pissed off. But I can’t beat you... So I’ll just take it out on your juniors!” Behind Xu Mo, men and women, young and old, bound by crimson, flame-like true energy, burst apart with a thunderous crash! “Were you just laughing at m 58Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 526 After I Returned to My Mother's Side, Grandpa's Whole Family Went Crazy with Regret 回到妈妈身边后，爷爷全家悔疯了 After Returning to His Mother's Side, His Grandfather's Entire Family Was Driven Mad with Regret 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 527 You Call Zombies Summoned Beasts? 你管僵尸叫召唤兽？ (Completed) The new book, Dao Dao Dao, is ready to read. [Daoist magic + magic + zombies + farming + fantasy] Wang Nuo, a young Taoist priest, accidentally wanders into an ancient tomb. While fighting zombies, he activates an ancient formation. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a world of magic. To fit in, Wang Nuo disguises himself as a summoner. Your dragon can breathe fire and spit ice? Sorry, my zombies aren't bound by the Five Elements. A grand mage can summon heavenly thunder? Then I'm 24.9kReads8.4Score2.8kShelves
- 528 Leveling Up From Wild Monsters 从野怪开始进化升级 The first layer of the nine-layer virtual reality game, Nine Heavens, opened to a spectacular reception, taking the world by storm within a single day. Lu Chen unexpectedly lost his character and began evolving and leveling up from a level-one gnoll? Kill more species to gain new talents! Obtain talent fragments to raise your talent level! As the quality of his prefixes improved, from ordinary to strong to very strong and beyond, his base stats skyrocketed! Player A: That monster's prefix is ove 5.5kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
- 529 Huh? The Commander Traded Five Packs of Biscuits to Win Over the Shark King? 啊？指挥官五包饼干把鲛王拐了？ [Complete] [Tsundere Merman vs. Laid-Back Commander + Two Strong Leads, Both Chaste + Redemption + Bittersweet, Sweet Romance + HE + Seme POV] Commander Su Chengwen receives a special mission: rescue a silver-haired merman who has been trapped in a basement as an experimental subject for twenty years. During the rescue, after coaxing the merman into behaving, he shoots a tranquilizer dart into his tail. The merman curses him out: “You bad guy!” Su Chengwen: …? He only knows two words, and he use 4.2kReads9.3Score734Shelves
- 530 I Only Fed My Son a Spoonful of Porridge, Yet the Entire Building Branded Me a Murderer 我只是喂我儿子一口粥，却被整栋楼当成了凶手 I Only Fed My Son a Spoonful of Porridge, Yet the Entire Apartment Building Took Me for a Murderer 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 531 I Really Run an Orphanage, Not an Assassin's Den 我开的真是孤儿院，不是杀手堂 [Physical book edition now available] [Short drama of the same name is now streaming! Watch it on Hongguo!] [The only martial arts ensemble novel on the entire site with such a wild premise!] [At its peak, 1.5 million readers were following it, ranking seventh across all of Tomato Novel. Readers, come on in and take a look!] [Ensemble cast + System + traits + martial arts] Chen Ye transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and binds himself to an Orphan Training System. As long as he raises orphans, 116.1kReads8.9Score12.2kShelves
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Fake Eunuch: I Am the Ming Dynasty's Ninth-Thousand-Year Lord 假太监：我乃大明九千岁
[Mythic Great Ming] [Alternate History] [High Martial] [Great Ming] [No System] Yang Fan transmigrates to the Great Ming Dynasty and becomes a lowly eunuch, witnessing with his own eyes the grand, turbulent age of humanity! A dynasty that has endured for millennia, immortal aristocratic families, heroes of the martial world, mighty commoners, and dragons and serpents rising together! If that's how it is, then I, Yang Fan, will become the greatest man under heaven! I'll shatter the clouds and bec
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- 533 My Sister Crossed the River and Burned the Bridge? Reborn, My Jinxing Words No Longer Bring Good News, and My Bad Omens Come True 姐姐过河拆桥？重生后我的乌鸦嘴，报喜失灵，报忧成真 My sister burned the bridge after crossing it? Reborn, my jinxing tongue no longer makes good fortune come true, but my bad predictions do. 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 534 From the Start, I Chose the Fist Cultivator Class and Shattered Fate with My Bare Hands 我开局转职拳修，以双拳击碎命运 In this age of countless marvelous talents, no one expects anything from a pair of frail fists! The human realm has swords that outshine all creation, spears that sweep through armies, fire that burns everything, and lightning that shatters the sky! Young people have so many options, and everyone gravitates toward the coolest, most stylish, and most powerful abilities! Only one stubborn boy chooses to train the frail fists in front of him. Everyone thinks he’s gone mad! Until the day disaster st 65.2kReads9.2Score7.6kShelves
- 535 The Outwardly Draining Heir to a Wealthy Family, I Specialize in Putting Defiant People in Their Place 外耗型人格豪门继承人，我专治各种不服 I'm an heir to a wealthy family with an externally focused personality. I specialize in dealing with all kinds of people who refuse to back down. 67Reads—Score—Shelves
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So Sweet, So Alluring! The Tipsy Young Master Held Her Close and Coaxed Her All Night 又乖又欲！太子爷醉酒夜抱她轻哄
[Print edition available] The deeply devoted, dangerously unhinged scion of a powerful family × the cool, fallen heiress [Originally titled "A Night of Desire in the Capital"] A pure-hearted socialite from Beijing's elite circle + a rekindled romance + an ex who will do anything to win her back + an older lover who takes the lead + falling for him all over again Jiang Wanzhi comes from a prestigious family and is known throughout the capital as a pure, well-behaved young woman. Few people know
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- 537 My Half-Sister Stole My Cola Recipe to Impress the Empress Dowager, So I Face-Slapped Her on the Spot and Made Her Burp Herself Into Humiliation 嫡姐偷我可乐配方献宝太后，我当场打脸让她嗝到社死 My Older Sister Stole My Cola Recipe to Impress the Empress Dowager. I Made Her Eat Her Words on the Spot, Belching Until She Died of Embarrassment 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 538 I Went to the Military District to Get Divorced, but the Disciplined Officer Kissed Me Until I Cried 前往军区离婚，被禁欲军官亲哭了 [Period setting + bright, beautiful medical student VS. cold, abstinent frontier officer] Lin Shurong transmigrates. Born into the 1960s, she becomes the only girl born into the family in three generations, the apple of everyone’s eye. Her life goes smoothly, until her marriage takes an unexpected turn! Her 98-year-old grandfather likes the man’s circumstances, family background, and status, so he forces her to marry him, insisting she be matched with an officer. For two years of marriage, t 57kReads8.3Score6.3kShelves
- 539 Mom Tried to Make Me Take the Fall to Protect Her Adopted Son. I Joined the Discipline Inspection Commission and Enforced the Law Impartially, and Now They're Regretting It Like Crazy 妈妈为保养弟推我顶缸，我考进纪检秉公执法他们悔疯了 Mom Pushed Me Under the Bus to Protect My Adopted Brother. I Joined the Discipline Inspection Commission and Enforced the Law Impartially, Leaving Them All Regretting It 52Reads—Score—Shelves
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What She Said at Night 她在夜里说的话
What She Said at Night
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- 541 Sinking into Temptation After Dark 入夜沉沦 Marriage first, love later + whirlwind marriage + super sweet + mature adults A traditional Chinese-style domineering CEO VS a resilient, sickly beauty At thirty, Xin Tong nearly died from overwork. She decided to quit and take her 750,000 yuan in savings, earned over five years on the job, to lie low in a small county town. At thirty-five, Ji Jinnian read her resignation letter and asked, “Will you marry me?” He needed an honest woman to sit in the position of his wife: someone who wouldn't cau 27.5kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 542 Mom Said I Was Going Nowhere and Handed the Company to Her Adopted Son. I Turned Around and Kicked the Whole Family Out 妈妈嫌我没出息把公司交给养弟，我反手让他们全家出局 Mom Thought I Was a Good-for-Nothing and Handed the Company to My Adopted Brother. I Turned Around and Kicked the Whole Family Out 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 543 Sugar Drowning in the Abyss 溺于深渊的糖 Sugar Drowning in the Abyss 21Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Vermilion Bird Calls 朱雀鸣
This is an irreverent fantasy cultivation novel. Readers used to traditional cultivation stories may find it a little jarring. But if you're just as irreverent, then you're in the right place. This book is all about having fun.
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- 545 The Cast-Off Daughter of the Side Courtyard Drops the Act: I Prove My Genius for Architecture and Shock the World 偏院弃女不装了，我证神机掌营造惊天下 The Cast-Off Daughter from the Side Courtyard Drops the Act: I Prove the Divine Mechanism and Construction Arts, Shocking the World 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 546 Lingering Warmth 残余余温 Lingering Warmth 24Reads—Score—Shelves
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You Fools, When I Return, I’ll Destroy You All 尔等老六本神归来必诛之
In ancient times, the source of Xuancang was whole, and countless races flourished. Countless special physiques were born, capable of summoning celestial phenomena and embodying the Great Dao. The otherworldly evil beings, Youji, coveted the source and built a cross-domain sacrificial array, using special physiques as catalysts to seize its power. They were gravely wounded in the ancient war, their high priest scattered, and the array severed and sealed.
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- 548 My Sister Gave Me a Deadly Jade Charm in Public, but She Didn't Know I Had a Soul-Calming Silver Bracelet 姐姐当众送我夺命福玉，可她不知我有镇魂银镯 My Sister Presented Me with a Deadly Jade Charm in Front of Everyone, But She Didn't Know I Had a Soul-Guarding Silver Bracelet 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 549 The One Who Takes Apart Memories 拆回忆的人 The One Who Dismantles Memories 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Rise of a Big Shot: Romance and Passion 大佬崛起之风月
Not a brainless story, and not a power fantasy. Read at your own risk. This is all about romance. Li Fei never imagined he would be taken hostage by a gorgeous woman wielding a watermelon knife...
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