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I Rule the Archives of Life and Death on the Other Shore 我在彼岸执掌生死档案
"Chen Mo, would you be willing to work for the Underworld?" "That lousy place? Not even a dog would go!" "A monthly salary of fifty thousand." "If even dogs won't go, then I'll go!" "Triple overtime pay, and if anything goes wrong on a mission, we'll make sure you get a good next life." "Big Brothers Hei and Bai Wuchang, you can count me as clocked in today." "Lord Yama, you're paying me so much, it's got me worried."
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- 902 The CEO Has Had a Secret Crush on Me for Ten Years 总裁暗恋我十年 In the tenth year of secretly loving Song Zhiyi, He Yanzhou became her client. They met again at a product launch. He was calm and composed, just “a business associate who seemed a little familiar” to her. No one knew that his memories of high school were filled with her. She was the only girl he had ever pranked, and the focus of all his secret attention for ten years. Using work as an excuse, he drew closer step by step, playing the perfect gentleman with admirable restraint. That was, until 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 903 [Male-Oriented Short Story] The Ghost Bride Forced Me to Marry Her, So I Held Someone's Hand in Public and Fled, Becoming the Ghost King 【男频短篇】鬼新娘逼婚，我当众牵手跑路成鬼王 [Male-Oriented Short Story] The Ghost Bride Forced Me to Marry Her, So I Took Her Hand and Fled in Front of Everyone, Becoming the Ghost King 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Infinite Reincarnation: I Was Forced to Become a Vicious Woman from a Thousand Years Ago 无限轮回：我被迫成为千年前的毒妇
Infinite Reincarnation: I'm Forced to Become the Villainous Woman from a Thousand Years Ago
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The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌
(This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles
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Invincible from the Start: I Clean House for My Elder Brother 开局无敌：我替兄长清理门户
[Invincible from the Start + Identity Revealed + Decisive and Ruthless + The Heavenly Court Turns Evil + No Female Lead] In the modern age, spiritual qi revival has begun, and demons run rampant. I, Li Qingshan, gather the imperial dragon qi of the Qin, Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties to wipe out the vermin harming humanity. With Yang Jian, Nezha, and Sun Wukong, the three rebellious greats, at my side, I cleave the Demon Emperor of the Heavenly Court with my sword. I am invincible! This is a s
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- 907 I Transmigrated Through Time and Made a Fortune Selling Near-Expiry Food 穿越古今，我靠卖临期食品赚麻了 Transmigrate between the past and present, devoted to one another, equally matched, and building a business! Jiang Qiuhe was fired during her probation at a design company, with only two thousand yuan left in her bank account. Her best friend lost her job the same day. After talking it over, they decided to sell oden from a street stall. They picked up a beat-up tricycle at a secondhand market for fifty yuan and piled it high with near-expiry instant noodles, ham sausages, and meatballs. But as 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 908 [Male-Oriented Short Story] I Used a Cultivation Technique Modification System to Optimize a One-Armed Sword Cultivator into My Wife 【男频短篇】我用功法修改系统把独臂女剑修优化成老婆 [Male-Oriented Short Story] I Used a Cultivation Technique Modification System to Upgrade the One-Armed Sword Cultivator into My Wife —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 909 After a Blind Date, the Egg White Girl Falls for the Egg Yolk CEO 相亲后，蛋白女孩爱上蛋黄总裁 Blind Date + Mutual Devotion + She Pursues Him + She Pursues First, Then He Chases Her + Elite Families + Love at First Sight At a blind date her grandmother had forced her to attend, Qin Xi only planned to go through the motions. Then a hard-boiled egg in her salad made her lose her composure on the spot. She picked out the yolk and left it uneaten. The man across from her said calmly, “I like egg yolks. Give it to me. Don’t waste it.” Egg white and egg yolk: a perfect match. She fell for 178Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Higher-Dimensional Universe 哥的超维宇宙
[Hard sci-fi] [Time loops] [Multiple universes] [Mind-bending] An endless loop, death after death, traveling through twelve universes in search of the truth: Who am I?
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- 911 [Male-Oriented Short Story] I Picked Up a Crybaby Incubus and Made Him My Wife 【男频短篇】我捡了个哭包魅魔当老婆 [Male-Oriented Short Story] I Picked Up a Crybaby Succubus and Made Her My Wife —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 912 White Moonlight? No, I’m Just Your Mosquito Blood 白月光？错，我只是你的蚊子血 The System wants me to win back my ex? I refuse on the spot. He cheated on me with a rich heiress while studying abroad, and now he’s back hoping to rekindle things? Sorry, I’m worth tens of billions. I don’t need that weed in my garden. But then there’s that junior of mine, three years younger than me. He looks about eighty percent like my ex, yet he insists on following me for five years. I focus on my career, build an empire, and make my custom furniture company the best in the industry. H 17Reads—Score—Shelves
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I’ve Been Possessed for Ninety Thousand Years 我被夺舍九万年
I transmigrated, and then... I was possessed again. I was possessed for ninety thousand years. So, now that I've finally returned, let's see how I conquer the cultivation world and build a mighty empire.
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- 914 [Male-Oriented Short Story] My Medusa Wife Can Only Turn Other People to Stone 【男频短篇】我的美杜莎老婆只会石化别人 [Male-Oriented Short Story] My Medusa Wife Can Only Turn Other People to Stone —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Sniper Prodigy 狙击天才
Sima Yun, a killer known as the world’s greatest sniper, takes on the identity of Wang Hai, a cook in a grassroots military unit. From then on, the lowly army cook begins an incredible rise, overcoming one obstacle after another as he takes part in the special forces selection process, on the verge of becoming an honored special forces soldier. But the killer organization refuses to let him go, repeatedly sending assassins to hunt him down and swearing to kill him, leaving him no choice but to f
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- 916 The Story of Liu Bingyi: A Scholar's Unorthodox Strategy to Pacify the Western Regions 刘病已传：读书人守正出奇定西域 In the Disaster of the Witchcraft Conspiracy, the infant Liu Bingyi becomes a death-row prisoner. In prison, Deputy Commandant Bing Ji points to the wall and says, "A learned man who upholds principle and knows how to think outside the box can bring order to the Western Regions." He remembers those words for the rest of his life. He learns to read people on the streets and judge affairs by Confucian and Legalist principles. At eighteen, he rises from commoner to emperor. Huo Guang holds the impe 300Reads—Score152Shelves
- 917 Four-Year-Old Empress: Conquering the Business World with a Baby Bottle 四岁女帝，奶瓶收割资本圈 When I was four, I was brought back to a wealthy family. My aunt-by-marriage laughed and called me a bastard. My uncle thought I was an embarrassment. I casually revealed the secret they had hidden in their safe, and everyone thought I was a genius. Only I knew the truth: this wasn't talent. I had been reborn. But when I found my biological mother, she stared at me and said, “You're not my daughter. My daughter died four years ago. Who are you?” An old computer my adoptive mother left me co 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 918 [Male-Oriented Short Story] The Werewolf Campus Belle's Relentless Survival Pact 【男频短篇】狼人校花的死缠生存协议 [Male-Oriented Short Story] The Wolfgirl Campus Belle's Relentless Survival Pact —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 919 How Princes Throughout Chinese History Seized Power and Took the Throne (Part One) 中国历代皇子夺权上位手段 （上） This book explores the stories of more than thirty princes throughout Chinese history, including Shou, son of Di Yi, ruler of the Shang dynasty; Hu Hai, the youngest son of Qin Shi Huang; Liu De, son of Emperor Jing of the Western Han; Liu Ju, crown prince of Emperor Wu of Han; Liu Cang, son of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han; Yang Guang, son of Emperor Wen of Sui; Li Shimin, son of Emperor Gaozu of Tang; Abatai, a son of Nurhaci of the Yuan dynasty; Zhu Di, son of Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang; 3Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 920 A Three-Year-Old Prodigy Shows the Way: Mom’s Welding Machine Leads to Immortality 三岁萌宝指路：妈妈的电焊机通仙 Three-year-old Gu Tiaotiao squatted on the threshold of a hardware store, pointing at an empty alley. “Mommy, there’s a leak in the alley.” She looked up. A crack split the wall, and a man covered in golden fissures stepped out of it. He said she was the unfinished crack from a thousand years ago. The eighty-yuan secondhand welding torch in her hand lit up. The man was called Lu Beiyin. When he took his first bite of noodles, he froze: for the first time in a thousand years, he could taste som 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 921 You Were Supposed to Play the Villain and Ruin the Protagonist, Not Ruin Him Like This! 让你演反派废掉主角，不是这样“废掉”主角！ You Were Told to Play the Villain and Ruin the Protagonist, Not Ruin Him Like This! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 922 The Rebellion of the Nine Kingdoms 九国之乱 He's the Crown Prince, yet the most pathetic Crown Prince in history! At home: Powerful ministers run the court, while his brothers watch him like hawks! Abroad: Warlords stand everywhere beyond the capital, and the vassal kings are preparing for war! Other people transmigrate and start with all the winning cards. He starts in a dead-end situation. See how he breaks through and builds an empire that will last for generations! 7.6kReads8.7Score720Shelves
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Super Cashback for Tipping Streamers: Shocked the Gold Diggers 打赏女主播超级返现：震惊拜金女
Who gets it? Chen Yang can't afford rent or internet bills, and even has to think twice before buying instant noodles with an egg. He's become the bottom-tier loser in everyone's eyes. His relatives mock him, his classmates look down on him, and he can only admire the girl he likes from afar, too afraid to approach her. To make matters worse, so-called “friends” drag him into a group chat to joke about him, saying he'll never be able to afford even a basic car in his life. Then, one night, broke
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- 924 After Binding to the King of Hell's Sign-In System, I Gave Up Trying 绑定阎王签到系统后，我摆烂了 A laid-off office drone gets bound to the King of Hell System. In endless instance worlds, he becomes a god by signing in and slacking off, only to discover that everyone is waiting for him to return and serve as a judge of the dead. But all he wants is to give up and coast. Xuanhuan, system novel, infinite flow, underworld, lighthearted Slacking off, overworked employee, sign-in, subverting expectations, power fantasy, comedy, wild imagination, modern city, past and present lives, mystery One-l 48Reads—Score—Shelves
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Supreme Mad God 无上狂神
Volume Two, the world of Journey to the West, is now underway! The young Su Chen pretended to be a fool for ten years, then awakened his Heaven-Devouring and Immortal bloodlines! He also acquired the Hongmeng Heaven-Devouring Pagoda to rule the world, the peerless Ten Thousand Dragons Seal to command the dragons, and opened nine Dantians and condensed nine clones. Seeking the truth of his origins, he treads the firmament, battles across myriad domains, and breaks through the heavens. With the be
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- 926 The Heir Apparent Is Craving Something Again Today 世子今天又被馋哭了 The comic adaptation of the same name, The Young Lord Got Tempted by Food Again Today, is now available. On the very first day Duanmu Ying transmigrated into the body of a minor official's daughter, her half-sister shoved her into a corner and cracked her head against the wall. The good news: She brought the skills of an outstanding New Oriental culinary school graduate with her. The bad news: This backwater has no chili peppers, no wok, and even soy sauce is a rare luxury. But who is Duanmu Yi 148Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Lost Sea 遗落之海
The Lost Sea
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Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记
[No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u
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- 929 Bound to a Gossip System, I Was Made a County Princess by the Emperor 绑定吃瓜系统后，我被皇帝封郡主 On Gu Yunshu's sixteenth birthday, she was bound to the “Gossip System.” At a palace banquet, the System suddenly delivered a shocking piece of gossip: the children born to the Noble Consort were actually fathered by the head of the Imperial Medical Academy! The words slipped out of her thoughts: “The emperor's been cuckolded!” The entire court heard her, and the emperor immediately ordered a blood test to confirm their parentage. The Noble Consort fell from power, the chancellor turned out 18Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Brother's Getting Married, So This Fat Guy Is Stepping In 兄弟结婚，胖子我顶上了
Tian Bohao, a three-hundred-jin man, looked at his bride, Xiao Yingxue, who stood before him with tears in her eyes and not a word to say. Ring, ring! Wasn't that a phone call? It had to be the newlyweds having a spat and calling me for help. He answered and deliberately turned on the speaker. “Elephant?” Cao Xiang's voice came through the phone, frantic but deliberately hushed, begging for help: “Haizi! Haizi! I've landed in serious trouble this time. It's an emergency, and you've got to
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After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital Went Insane! 当我逃走后，京圈大小姐疯了！
After I Ran Away, the Heiress of the Capital’s Elite Circle Went Crazy!
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- 932 Reborn, I Dumped the Scumbag and Clung to My Officer Husband 重生后，我踹掉渣男抱紧军官老公 Reborn to punish scoundrels and serve up some face-slapping, with a devoted military marriage and love after marriage. In her previous life, Situ Lanzhi trusted the scumbag He Ziwen, only to be killed by him and his mistress working together. To her dying day, she never knew that Yan Zhenshan, the military officer husband she had neglected all her life, was actually deeply in love with her. Reborn on her wedding night in 1978, she looks at the restrained, distant man before her and summons all 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 933 I Became a Millionaire Overnight After My Divorce 离婚后我一夜暴富 My husband held up our property settlement agreement and said, “You’re not good enough for me anymore.” I calmly signed, then used all my savings to buy a lottery ticket. The next day, he clutched his new lover on TV and screamed, “Who stole my jackpot?!” I linked arms with his business rival and waved the lottery ticket at the camera: “Let me introduce you to my new husband.” 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 934 The Wild Soldier God of War Series (Complete in 11 Volumes) 野兵战神系列（全十一册） Li Liang had been taken by his father into the deep mountains as a child to learn all kinds of survival skills. As keen as a wild beast, he had superhuman marksmanship and could instantly take down a target hundreds of meters away without a scope. But when he took the military enlistment exam at eighteen, a twist of fate led him to be recruited by one of the world’s top mercenary organizations. A misunderstanding also branded him a murderer, and the military issued a kill order against him. Ever 1.6kReads9.5Score255Shelves
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My Rich Young Lady of the Capital 我的京圈大小姐
My Heiress from Beijing’s Elite Circle
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Took My Little Sister Straight to the Heavens 退婚之后，我带小妹直上云霄
Mu Qingchen, a young man with severed meridians, uses his sword cultivation and heart’s blood to help his fiancée, Jiang Ruoxue, advance to the fifth rank of swordsman, only to receive a letter breaking off their engagement in return. After coming to his senses, Mu Qingchen devotes himself to training his younger sister, Mu Qingyin. Armed with an ancient divine jade and secret medicinal pills, the siblings, forgotten by the world, rise from the ruins. They have three months to make Jiang Ruoxue,
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- 937 The Empress Dowager Flees West: The Empire's Tumultuous, Chaotic Twilight 太后西奔：帝国晚期的仓皇与激荡 In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Empress Dowager of the Qing court fled west. This singular historical event had a profound bearing on the course of Chinese society. Taking a broad view of history while focusing on a small but telling slice of it, the author draws on new research materials and rich detail to depict the upheaval that began with a private feud within one family and ended with the fate of an entire nation at stake. Woven throughout are the political entanglements, personal 82Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 938 On the Day We Were to Get Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love 领证当天，未婚妻跟白月光跑了 On the Day We Got Our Marriage License, My Fiancée Ran Off with Her First Love 1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Apocalyptic Evolution: I Awaken the Bloodline of the Merfolk 末日进化：我觉醒了鲛人血脉
In 2026, a world-ending flood swallowed every continent. I once thought the apocalypse marked the end of civilization. It wasn’t until he took my hand in the deep sea that I understood: This was a romantic reunion, written into our genes and delayed by billions of years. “Reader’s Guide” 1: A hard-core apocalypse. From surviving underwater to founding a nation in the deep sea, with rigorous worldbuilding. 2: Two powerful leads who dote on each other. The strongest merman warrior × a clever heroi
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- 940 On the Eve of a Golden Age: Political Intrigue in the Post-Wu Zetian Era 盛世前夜：后武则天时代的政治缠斗 In the eight years before the Kaiyuan Golden Age, court politics remained under the shadow of Empress Wu Zetian. This brief period can be called the post-Wu Zetian era. During those eight years, high-level politics were in constant turmoil. Four coups took place: the Shenlong, Jinglong, Tanglong, and Xiantian coups, and five emperors came and went: Wu Zetian, Zhongzong, the Shao Emperor, Ruizong, and Xuanzong. One colorful figure after another took the stage, as the ruling banner changed hands a 196Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情
Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself.
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- 942 The Crown Prince 太子 Crown prince 19Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Ming Dynasty: Those Stories, Complete Edition (2021 Expanded Edition) 明朝那些事儿·全集（2021年 增补版）
Those Things About the Ming Dynasty mainly tells the history of the Ming dynasty over the three centuries from 1344 to 1644. Drawing on more than twenty sources and miscellanies from the Ming era, including the Veritable Records of the Ming, Comprehensive Mirror of the Ming, History of the Ming, and Comprehensive Records of the Ming, it was reviewed and recommended by Ming history expert Mao Peiqi. Take in three hundred years of Ming history and see a different Great Ming dynasty. The Ming dynas
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You’re All Climbing the Tower to Survive, and You Maxed Out Cooking? 都进塔求生了，你点满厨艺？
(Powerful heroine + strong female lead + System + for female and male readers) After working late into the night, Chao Sanyan opens her eyes to find herself a cannon-fodder newcomer in a terrifying tower. While others draw combat skills capable of destroying the world, she looks at the only skill on her status panel: [Divine Culinary Heart]. The description is just one line: “You can make delicious food~” In this despairing tower, where all food tastes like sawdust, the skill is as useful as scr
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- 945 The Civet Cat Replaces the Crown Prince 狸猫换太子 The first year of the Jingde era was one that must never be forgotten in Chinese history. That year, the Liao army launched a massive invasion of the Song, and northern prefectures and counties sent out urgent pleas for help one after another. Even though the Song army had clearly gained the upper hand, Emperor Zhenzong of Song insisted on making peace with the Liao, resulting in the signing of the famous Treaty of Chanyuan. Most dramatic of all, Zhao Heng's name was not on the succession list i 294Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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Late Ming: She Goes on a Killing Spree to Stay Alive 明末：她靠苟命杀疯了
Three Rugged Fathers + An Orphaned Girl | Historical Romance | Fleeing Famine | Everyone Dotes on Her | Political Intrigue | Rising from Adversity Read carefully!!! This is not a transmigration novel, and there is no golden finger. The story follows the course of real history, with careful research into clothing, food, and social conditions. It explores how ordinary people survived during the darkest years of the late Ming dynasty, including the grim realities of exchanging children for food and
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Life as an Extra in a Cultivation World 在修仙世界做路人日子
Li Xiaoniu is an ordinary passerby, as ordinary as they come. So why do I have a spiritual root? Why was I assigned to live with the male lead? Why do I have to take the blame for him? And why do I have to deliver a letter from the female lead to him? Please stop treating me like a useful tool. Even passersby have their dignity… Years later, looking at the male and female leads living in blissful wedded harmony, and the pile of gorgeous supporting heroines tossed my way, I suddenly think this is
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My Fiancé’s Memories Rewind to When He Was Eighteen 未婚夫记忆倒回十八岁
Her fiancé's memories revert to when he was eighteen
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Elevator Usage Fee 电梯使用费
On the first day after moving into my new home, the property manager added me to the residents' group chat. As soon as I changed the floor number, my neighbor in 701 immediately tagged me in the chat. [@Resident of 702, remember to pay the elevator usage fee. The seventh floor has to pay 70,000 a year!] [Come to my place to pay within three days. After that, there's an extra 1,000 for every day you're late!] When I didn't respond for a while, the person in 702 even started a group call to remind
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- 950 The History of the Tang Dynasty Wasn't All Smoke: Part Seven, Twilight of the Empire 唐史并不如烟·第七部：帝国斜阳 This is the final volume in the The Tang Dynasty Was Not All That series, recounting nearly a century of history from the end of Emperor Xianzong's reign to the fall of the Tang dynasty. After Xianzong, the Tang dynasty's last emperor to revive the empire, was murdered, there was no sign of a resurgence in the late Tang. Muzong, Li Heng, had little ability and undid in short order the efforts Xianzong had spent more than a decade making to rein in the regional military governors. Jingzong, Li Z 42Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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