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Starting in High School, I Conquer the Underworld 从高校开始，制霸江湖风云
[Hot-Blooded Battles] + [Revenge] + [The Underworld] + [Brotherhood] There are no tears in a blood-soaked underworld. Status and money are the source of all savage violence. Born in the mud, you have to smash your way out with your own flesh and blood. A letter from his father reveals a blood feud that has been buried for eighteen years. Chu Yuan transfers to a delinquent school called Longyin, a place rife with savage violence, divided among warring factions, where the strong prey on the weak a
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Crouching Tiger 卧虎
A hidden dragon rises from the depths and devours all things; a crouching tiger commands the mountains and guards a thousand frontiers! When I was little, the strange older girl next door always asked me to help wash her. When I got a little older, she taught me how to be a real man! Twenty years of flashing blades, eighteen years of changing seasons. The black throne may change hands, but true kingship belongs only to madmen who dare to dance with the devil!
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Who Cares About Being Young and Reckless? Only the Victor Reigns Supreme 什么年少轻狂？我只知道胜者为王
[Campus Drama]+ [Street Toughs]+ [School Beauty]+ [Underworld]+ [No System]+ [One Heroine]+ [Not a wish-fulfillment story] Original title: Those Wild Years of Youth at School My name is Chen Qing. I never thought I’d end up going down this road after all… Disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional and is not intended to encourage anything improper. Please do not relate it to real life! Reproduction without permission is prohibited and will be prosecuted. New book: "After Getting Out of Prison,
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The Butcher Who Walked Out of Prison 从监狱中走出的人屠
Being part of the underworld isn’t about fighting and killing. It’s about dealing with people. Su Bai had no connections, no powerful backers, and had just spent ten years in prison. After his release, he was penniless, so his older brother found him a job as a computer lab attendant. Watch him turn his life around and make his way in both the underworld and the legitimate world. In the underworld, he’s a big shot with people ready to answer his call. In the legitimate world, he has powerful fri
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- 105 I’m a Gangster, and You Want Me to Fight Evil? 我是黑社会，你叫我除恶扬善？ The only supernatural element. A little martial arts is fine. This is a story about seeking justice for the people, with some political intrigue. It is not a mindless killing spree. The protagonist isn't a pushover: he punishes evil and rewards good, and the supporting characters aren't made unnaturally stupid. Fang Zheng transmigrates into the body of a small-time gang boss in a parallel world. He also awakens a "Killing Makes You Stronger" System. As long as he kills someone with a crime score 32.2kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 106 Tales from the Borderlands: All My Relatives Are Ruthless Bandits 边水往事，我家亲戚都是悍匪 Jiang Wang opened his eyes and found himself in the story of The Longest Day in Chang'an? No, a closer look told him this was the original setting! And not just any setting, but the borderlands, at the most lawless time in the Golden Triangle: the early 2000s. There was no order in this era, only bloody cruelty in the forests and stacks of cash. It was a wild gold-rush age, full of outlaws. River-crossing dragons, mountain-tunneling tigers, gunshots ringing without end. When I have a gun, you c 19.1kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
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I Started High School as a Good Girl and Became a Crime Boss 上了高中，我从乖乖女变成黑老大
When I started high school, I went from a good girl to a crime boss.
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The Urban Underworld: Power and Influence 都市江湖：权势滔天
The short drama of the same name premieres on January 4, 2026, at 10 a.m. on Hongguo Short Drama: Urban Underworld: Power Overwhelming Chen Yi had never met his biological father. Then one day, his parents were summoned to school, and he watched helplessly as his teacher was beaten badly enough to end up in the hospital...
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- 109 Reborn: It All Began When I Went to Visit My Brothers’ Graves 重生：从给兄弟们上坟开始 [Reborn + no System + fiery action + brotherhood + invincible] The first thing Yi Hui did after getting out of prison was visit the graves of his dead brothers. In that gang fight, all his brothers died except him. He survived, but was sentenced to life in prison. Later, his life sentence was commuted to a fixed term, and he was finally released. Guangzi, A Long, Debao, Feifei, I’m sorry. If only we could do it all over again… Yi Hui was reborn in 1998. In this life, he would make good money wit 475Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 110 Book One by Liangban Hudou 凉拌胡豆的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows are what motivate me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 554Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 111 This Time Around, I'll Rise to the Top and Become the Boss 这一世，我要翻身当大哥 In this world, there are only two kinds of people: those who wield the knife and those who lie beneath it. Su Yun spent his whole life quietly accepting whatever came his way, letting others walk all over him. Given another chance at life, he swears he'll be the one in control of his own fate. I don't care who you are. If you come after me, be ready for us both to go down together! The meek fear the tough, the tough fear the ruthless, and the ruthless fear those with nothing to lose! Now I'm the 720Reads8.6Score106Shelves
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Tales of the Northeast: The Turbulent Nineties 东北往事之九零风云
(Hot-blooded) (Brotherhood) (Youth) (Fast-paced, no dragging things out) The law-abiding worry all day, while the mighty sing all night. Those who harm others for their own gain ride in comfort, while the honest and fair go hungry. Those who build bridges and mend roads go blind, while those who kill and set fires have plenty of sons. I went to the Western Heaven to ask Buddha. Buddha said, “There's nothing I can do either.” This novel tells the blood-and-tears story of Shen Congwen, a great und
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The Path of an Ordinary Person 小人物的路
A person has to make many choices in life. Everyone has choices of their own. Everyone has their own path. As for whether a path is right or wrong, no one has a definitive answer. (The story spans quite a lot.)
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- 114 My Bad Teacher 我的不良教师 [Nonsensical Humor] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [No System] [No Superpowers] [Urban] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted Humor] [Teacher] Class 2, Year 2 has gone through five teachers in a single month, earning a citywide reputation as the “Class of Death.” No homeroom teacher assigned to the class has ever lasted more than a week... They drug teachers, plant maggots, and even use violence to force them into submission. Their pranks have no limits, and they keep coming up with new tricks... The 980Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 115 What Gang Boss? Call Me a Philanthropist 什么黑老大？叫慈善家 The ratings have just come in, so feel free to give it a try! Rebirth + business + lots of loyal followers + staying on the straight and narrow + law-abiding + women, but no female lead! A top underworld boss is reborn. He rises from humble beginnings, making use of every resource around him. He brings along the brothers who followed him in his previous life and were forced to take the fall and go to prison! He founds the Hanhai Group! Drinks the strongest liquor! Dates the wildest women! Yet no 119Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 116 Black or White? No, I'm a Business Mogul! 非黑即白？不，我是商业巨擘！ [Reborn + Business + Lots of Brothers + No Sycophancy + Punishing Evil and Promoting Good] Gangster Shen Fei is reborn in 2008. Should he stick to his old ways and remain a gangster, or abandon his brothers and go straight? No more gang life! He’ll lead his brothers down the straight path! Make a fortune! Drink the strongest liquor! Date the wildest women! Every one of Shen Fei’s brothers! Will stay away from gambling and drugs! “Isn’t he your chairman? Why does the whole company call him Big Br 155Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 117 I Said I'd Just Be a Nobody, but You Became the King of the Underworld 说好当混子，你却成江湖天花板 In bloody times, the underworld is a world of its own. Do you choose loyalty or profit? The passion we felt back then was all for standing shoulder to shoulder with our brothers, blades in hand, singing at the top of our lungs! We once swore we would build a glorious future together! But time flies by in the blink of an eye. How many people still dare to shout those bold slogans from back then? Do people change society, or does society change people? Perhaps some will forget what they set out to 865Reads6.6Score—Shelves
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He and His Thousand Brothers 他和他的一千个兄弟
A sweeping crackdown on organized crime by the municipal Party committee and government brought Kangcheng ten years of peace. But after a decade, criminal forces sprang up like mushrooms after rain and returned in force. A breakup, having his identity stolen in the college entrance exam, and a construction boss’s schemes led Chen Li’an to give up on making an honest living. In the end, he went down a path of no return, turning against society.
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- 119 The Underworld Boss Who Rose from a Small Town 从小地方走出来的黑道大哥 Li Xiao gripped a steel knife, facing the group of young street toughs before him without a hint of fear. He swore he would make Shi Longhu pay. Anyone who hurt his friends would pay the price... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Reborn as a Jianghu Boss, Starting with Obeying the Law 重生江湖大佬，从遵纪守法开始 [Tycoon Godfather] [Humorous and easygoing] [Satisfying and funny] In my previous life, I was a ruthless underworld big shot who killed countless people! But in the end, I was betrayed! I could have accepted my own death, but my parents were angered to death, too. In my final moments, I thought, if I could do it all over again, I'd become a good person. Heaven heard me, and I really was reborn. Looking at my young bros, I had an idea! I'd teach them the law and get them to start being go 31Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 121 Hong Kong Films: In Hung Hing, I Became a Loan Shark Tycoon 港片，人在洪兴，放贵利贷成财阀 Gao Ren transmigrates into a world where Hong Kong movies have merged, becoming a low-ranking member of the Hung Hing triad. After Chiang Tiansheng and Big B set him up and get him sent to Stanley Prison, he awakens a moneylending System. As long as he lends money to people and collects the interest, he can redeem any item in the System Shop! His first redemption is the Eye of Truth, which lets him see how much everyone likes him. Chiang Tiansheng: Affection level, 5! Gao Ren: Chiang Tiansheng, 19.8kReads8.2Score836Shelves
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A Song for the Underworld 混子的挽歌
[Raise our cups and toast the rugged road through the underworld.] [Through blood and fury, a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.] A naive, timid young man, to keep from losing the brothers at his side again, chooses to take up a three-foot steel blade and step into a world stained red with blood. Behind the brotherly bravado and drunken revelry of the underworld, the only things that never change are ruthless exploitation and cold reality. The people he meets make him sick. And little by little,
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- 123 King of the Underworld 江湖枭雄 An ordinary-looking confrontation pushes a callow young man to a crossroads in life. Faced with fate’s mockery and the crushing weight of life, he chooses to stand tall and fight back. 30.7kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
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From Model Student to Underworld Boss 从三好学生到社会大佬
I used to be the good student in my teachers' eyes and a role model to my classmates. I studied hard, followed the rules, and dreamed of a bright future. But fate played a cruel joke on me. One slap in the school bathroom cost me everything I had and left me with no sense of direction. Lost and helpless, I went astray and fell in with a group of so-called "brothers." They taught me to let my fists do the talking and use violence to solve problems. I started skipping class, fighting, smoking, a
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- 125 Dark Glory: Twenty Years in the Underworld of Northeast China 黑暗荣耀：东北江湖二十年 1.3kReads8.8Score109Shelves
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The Reckless Youth 不良之狂妄青春
“Smash anything you see! Hit anyone you see! Flatten No. 6 High School!” I’m Zhang Ling. I’d only just started high school when I crossed the school’s resident delinquents. At first, I fought back just to protect myself. But as one problem after another came along, it wasn’t so easy to walk away. Before I knew it, I’d become the top delinquent in the school...
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The Man Who Reached the Top of the Underworld 黑道触顶之徒
The underworld is shallow waters teeming with big shots. Thousands shout my name: Brother Tian. Xia Tian, a young man from the bottom of society in Northeast China, gets caught up by chance in the feud between two underworld bosses. From then on, he sets out to climb to the top of the criminal world. Benefactors, moles, bandits, desperados… all sorts of characters take the stage, and the action is heart-pounding. Watch as he leads his brothers from small-time nobodies to become the biggest kin
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- 128 Bullied by a Mafia Heiress, My Capital City Young Master Identity Is Exposed 被黑道千金霸凌，我京少身份曝光 Gu Tian transmigrates into the role of Kyoto's young master. With a casual smile, he can leave anyone's fate hanging in the balance. Who could have guessed that his arrogance would go too far, prompting his own father to kick him out to Jiangzhou and put him on ice? “If I didn't teach you some humility, you'd really think you were the lord of heaven!” But in Jiangzhou, he gets bullied by the daughter of the local crime boss. “Qiao Na, you can pick: buried in the river or sunk in the lake.” “W-Wh 29.4kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
- 129 I Told You to Make Money, Not Kidnap the Mafia Heiress! 让你搞钱，你绑架黑道大小姐？ [Top-Tier Freeloader] [Fantasy Romance] [Japanese] [Love Rival Showdown] [Yandere] What do you do when you’re short on money? Ye Han says there are countless ways to get to Rome. If the honest way won’t work, we’ll take the crooked one. Why not kidnap someone? What if you accidentally kidnap the eldest daughter of the most powerful financial family? Ye Han holds up a fruit-peeling knife and says, “Relax. Dragons have to coil up, and tigers have to lie low. You’re on my turf now, so my rules 11.9kReads7.8Score1.4kShelves
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The Years We Shared, Brothers 兄弟们的那些年
[Underworld + Ensemble Cast + Decisive Action + Dramatic Rescues + Passionate + Expansive Worldbuilding] A boy watches his parents die horrifically in a gang war, then is forced to leave school behind and descend into the bottomless abyss of the underworld. He forms a bond of life and death with four brothers, growing amid bloodshed and making his stand amid tangled grudges and passions. Through this gauntlet of flashing blades, he swears that every blood debt will be repaid in blood.
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- 131 After Getting Out of Prison, the Underworld Princess Pursued Me 出狱后的我被黑道公主倒追 [Passionate youth] [Ruthless and decisive] [Tattoos covering his back] [A crowd of loyal brothers] On the eve of the college entrance exams, Li Shu lands in prison for using excessive force in self-defense. Three years later, having “successfully completed his studies,” he returns like a king. After surviving one bloody battle after another, he finally stands at the top of the city. Only then does he suddenly realize that his seemingly sweet and clueless girlfriend is the biggest boss in the ent 2.8kReads7.0Score212Shelves
- 132 Reborn in 2000: My Childhood Sweetheart, the School Belle, Is 18 重生2000，青梅校花18岁 [Reborn + Childhood Friend and School Beauty + Everyday Romance + Sweet Couple Moments + One Heroine] Yi Feng, who is terminally ill, is reborn in the year 2000. That year, his childhood friend and school beauty, Gu Muxi, is eighteen. “Yi Feng, lend me a pen!” “...Didn’t you borrow one yesterday?” “Yesterday was yesterday, today is today. Things have changed, get it?” “...You win. Fine, here.” “Yi Feng, tear off a sheet of paper for me!” “...Why tear mine? Don’t you have your own?” “I do, but I 49.2kReads9.5Score6.2kShelves
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The Era After the Martial World 后江湖時代
[Underworld + Passionate + Satisfying + Ensemble Cast + Jianghu + Big Shots + School + Comedy] “After midnight, we call the shots on this land, whether you’re on the right side of the law or the wrong one!” Jiang Nan stood proudly at the summit like a solitary eagle, looking down at the young generation shining like stars across the jianghu below. “The Su District...” “The tragedy from ten years ago will never happen again in our generation!” “I’ll make sure everyone knows that this era belongs
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- 134 I Chopped Until My Blade Chipped, and You Say I Hit the Wrong Person? 刀都砍崩了，你说我砍错了人 [Underworld + passionate jianghu + ruthless and decisive + a true kingpin] To stand up for the girl I loved, I blinded the village bully in one eye and spent three years in prison. When I got out, the goddess never came to greet me. Instead, I received an invitation to her wedding to the village bully... The jianghu is colorful and exciting, but it’s also rife with bloodshed, schemes, and deception. Brothers may share life and death, but there’s no shortage of betrayal, infighting, and estrangem 16.5kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
- 135 Tattooed, Fighting for Turf, and Wielding a Machete: The Spirit Medium 纹身干架抢地盘，拎砍刀的出马仙 [Underworld Turmoil] [Northeastern Chinese Style] [Tales of Spirit Mediums] After being gravely wounded in a gang fight, small-time hoodlum Lin Tianhua accidentally awakened the immortals his ancestors had worshipped, becoming a spirit medium. After a sudden upheaval, his boss fled and his enemies came after him. To survive, Lin Tianhua decided to form his own crew and become the boss. From then on, Lin Tianhua beat people up by day and killed ghosts by night. He made his way through both the un 1.1kReads9.3Score194Shelves
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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Bad Boy: King of the Streets 坏小子：街道之上，我为王
Li Yizhen was an ordinary student at Jiangchuan No. 1 High School. But the school bully, He Min, singled him out, teasing and tormenting him as she pleased. Too timid to fight back, he endured group beatings and was even forced to eat ice pops mixed with dirt. She also led him astray, getting him to smoke and drink. Day after day, year after year… Then, when Li Yizhen finally confessed his feelings to the school belle, she mocked him in front of the whole class. He Min joined in, too. Overcome w
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Schoolyard Storms, Northeast Underworld 校园风云，东北江湖路
[Wherever there are people, there will be a world of the underworld] [A Northeast underworld story] [Decisive and ruthless] [A road of no return] [First person] [Recollections] [This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.] My name is Han Tian. I was kidnapped by human traffickers as a child and forced to beg on the streets. It wasn't until Uncle Han rescued me from them that I was given a name. He showed me that a person could live like a re
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Tokyo Love Triangle: From the Start, I Elbowed the Delinquent School Beauty 东京修罗场：开局肘击不良校花
[Fighting] [Beating up wicked women] [Light novel] [Wish fulfillment] [Always get revenge] The good news: I came back to life, with a house and a little sister. The bad news: I'm the class's human chair and trash can. [Hell difficulty from the start!] Ordinary high schooler Sakurai Renya and his chubby best friend Kenji have become the daily playthings of their class “queen” and her lackeys. Their textbooks get defaced, their lunches get dumped, and they get shoved down and forced to apolog
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- 140 From Hot-Blooded High School to Ruling Tokyo 从热血高校开始制霸东京 [Hot-blooded high school + god-tier choices + hot-blooded streets + landlady + yakuza heiress + heiress to a conglomerate + ...] In his previous life, Ryuzaki Makoto was a gang boss who ruled the streets, but the conglomerate treated him like a dog, threw him away when he was no longer useful, and left his body in the bay. Reborn in a new life, he finds himself the weakest punching bag at Suzuran High. From the start, he's at the scene of a suicide attempt? No problem. His God-Tier Choice System 778Reads7.3Score116Shelves
- 141 Bad Boy: The Sequel to No Rules, No Limits 不良之无法无天续写 Our youth was bold and unruly, and in our reckless years, brotherhood always came first! The martial world was full of excitement, but also rife with bloodshed, schemes, and deceit! Brothers stood by each other through life and death, but there was no shortage of backstabbing and betrayal! Loyalty endured with righteous strength, but even heroes could fall short and meet an untimely end! Power could make you stand above the crowd, but it also brought drunken excess and the ruin of everything you 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Tokyo Exorcist Diary 东京除灵日记 Japanese-style light novel + not overpowered + slice of life + healing + a touch of the supernatural + Taoist arts + alchemy Hoshino Gen transmigrates, with a younger sister and a house, while both parents are always busy. His busy parents are loaded, and his younger sister is even a hugely popular idol. Without a doubt, Hoshino Gen has won at life. But then... A swordsman stands watch, sword in hand, for hundreds of years in a dilapidated dojo beneath the evening sun... In a warm and healing ga 45.1kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
- 143 The Young King, Sequel! 少年王续集！ After finishing Young Master Wang, I was left with regrets, so I wrote this book by hand. It tells the story of how Wang Wei serves his country after leaving the island... 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 I Told You to Go Undercover, Not Hit on the Boss's Wife! 让你卧底，没让你勾搭大嫂！ [Decisive and ruthless + never a saintly heroine + multiple heroines + wildly satisfying] Lei Zhen transmigrates to a parallel world in 1995. Starting out as a low-level underling, he rises through the ranks with ruthless force, amassing wealth and beautiful women until he rules everything with an iron fist! 105.7kReads9.3Score11.6kShelves
- 145 The Unknown King: Sequel to The Boy King 不明称王少年王续集 The author played the previous installment last year and has written this novel as a continuation. The author states that it is all based on their own imagination and adaptations. This content is for entertainment only and has no harmful effects. Please read with discretion. 253Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Youth! The Road of No Return 青春！不归路 Xu Tiancheng comes from a good family and has impeccable roots, but his grades are terrible, so his parents send him to a county boarding high school. He never expected his classmates to be a pack of demons. In this violent environment, six rebellious teenagers gradually set foot on a road of no return. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Enemy to All 为人敌
Some people enjoy bullying others. They pick on the weak to show how powerful they are, but they'll never know how terrifying those people they look down on as weaklings and losers can be when they fight back. “My name is Wang Zheng. Remember, don't mess with me.”
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The Super All-Round Student 超级全能学生
I'll make everyone who looked down on me do nothing but gaze up at my back. That's right, this is a story about turning things around.
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- 149 Willow Lane: I'll Always Be Zhang Tianci 柳条胡同之我永远都叫张天赐 (This story’s world was created by the author’s brother-in-law. Please respect the original work. The story’s timeline differs somewhat from the original, so please don’t mind. Readers who need a clear and coherent plot, please don’t read. Only accepting the little cuties.) They all say my name is Gao Tianci, and think I should be proud of my surname, Gao, But I’ll always remember that my surname is Zhang. My name is Zhang Tianci. My dad is Zhang Laosan. My favorite place has always been Liutiao 7.2kReads9.0Score406Shelves
- 150 My Days of Being Bullied at School 校园被欺负的日子 The main characters are Wu Ming, Zhang Qiang, and Zhou Yao. This isn’t a brainless power fantasy, but a bumpy story of growing up. When my brothers fight, I run; I’d never touch a friend’s wife, but if my friend’s away, anything goes. A life of gaming on credit and gambling for tokens in the arcade. 11kReads8.2Score671Shelves
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