Any Stories About Ordinary Urban Life? 有没有那种都市普通生活文
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Single Piggy 单身猪猪
A deeply nuanced style, and an unconventional portrait of marriage and love. If corrupt officials are not punished, it is an injustice to ordinary people. A work of realism, peeling back the layers to examine the truth and reflect with cool, unflinching insight.
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The Golden Phoenix Isn't a Chicken 金凤不是鸡
An age when lovers were everywhere, an era dominated by online loans, and the emotional high of a night at a karaoke club… Wealth became the sole measure of success, affection turned into a bargaining chip, and labels of status rose above personal character. Amid the drunken, glittering world, he and she were drawn into a chain of scams woven from money, power, and desire. Each tried to stake a lifetime of innocence on finding an answer to the question, “I’m not a prostitute.” They were willing
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An Atlas of the Past 往事图鉴
The stories in this book feel as though they happened to people around you. Each one reflects the patterns of fate, and together they form a complete journey through life. The protagonist might be one of your relatives or friends, or perhaps a neighbor. After going through all kinds of upheavals, the protagonist changes in many ways, just as society has changed from 1990 to the present day. Rather than a book of stories, this feels more like someone's thirty-year diary, written by a person close
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Mending Bones, Restoring Love 动骨恢情
[Face-slapping + scumbag takedown + a little angst with sweetness + humor + souls swapped between a man and a woman + down-to-earth and relatable + ordinary people with great wisdom + wealthy families + workplace business battles + youthful, sweet romance. Impossible to put down!] The years pass peacefully. Everyone has a first love in their heart, but not everyone can have a Jiang Miao Jie in theirs! In her previous life, Lin Muzi was robbed of her destined match, missed out on her dream guy, f
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The Rules of the Children's Home 儿女家的规矩
To help their children raise the grandchildren, a couple in their sixties were forced to live apart. From the day Zhao Youlin moved to the city to help care for his son's child, he became a “guest” in his son's home. A man from a small town, he couldn't fit into life in the big city. He had to speak softly, keep the TV muted, and even watch his son's expression before giving his grandson a piece of meat... Though Zhao Youlin was careful about everything, he still couldn't avoid falling into conf
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How My Road Trip with My Nemesis Took the Internet by Storm 我和冤家自驾游爆红全网这件事
The Story of My Road Trip with My Nemesis Going Viral Across the Internet
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A Million Followers on the Field Path 田埂上的百万粉丝
A Million Followers on the Ridge
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The Concubine-Born Daughter’s Mismatched Marriage 庶女的错位姻缘
The Concubine-Born Daughter’s Ill-Fated Match
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Cinderella’s Comeback Against the Odds 灰姑娘的逆风翻盘
The Cinderella Who Turned the Tables Against the Odds
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A Few Things About Xiayang 夏阳二三事
[Short Story Collection] Every protagonist in this book is named Xia Yang. Each Xia Yang is a different character with a different life. Come read a few stories about Xia Yang. This is a collection of short stories set in ancient times. If you like it, welcome aboard; if not, no worries. Kisses~ [All stories are purely fictional]
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A Seventies Kid’s Diary 70后的青春日记
The author’s real diary: the youth, school life, and everyday moments of the 1990s, along with her growing pains and struggles of the heart. The story follows an ordinary girl as she grows up. It is quiet and true to life. This is not a rural story. I didn’t know how to categorize it when I started writing; it’s about youth and school life. The heroine grows up in a family that favors boys over girls. In middle school, her mother would beat and scold her for no reason, even abuse her, and she de
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The Boy Who First Made My Heart Flutter 第一次心动的男孩
The Boy I First Fell For
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At the Crossroads of Fate 站在命运的十字路口
This book explores Standing at the Crossroads of Fate through five major sections. 1. Fleeing for Their Lives: This section recounts how the protagonist Sun Shigui’s grandparents left their landlord’s household to make a life of their own amid the hardships of the old society, and how, after enduring countless trials during the War of Resistance Against Japan, they fled all the way from Nanjing to Shiqi Village and finally settled there. 2. A Life of Hardship: This section follows the many hards
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Awakening from a Mirror Dream 镜梦觉
What is a dream? Is it an illusion, an extension of reality from the tangible to the intangible, another “distorted” reflection of life, or perhaps all of these? And what is a mirror dream? I think it is a process of introspection: by observing, examining, and reflecting on dreams, one comes to an understanding and is then able to see what kind of person “I” ought to be. This book explores the theme “See as it is, think as it is, act as it is” through three main sections: Mirror Dream, Looking
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A Family Man 男人顾家
Urban life, everyday life, witty humor, and stirring passion. This is a slow-burn novel, best suited to readers willing to take their time. The story unfolds in four stages: Gu Jia’s naïve childhood, his passionate youth, his fearless years in the military, and his entrepreneurial journey after leaving the service. Told in a realistic style, the novel follows Gu Jia’s growth, from his father being tricked into working in an illegal coal mine, to Gu Jia and his mother relying on each other for su
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Love Among the Mountains and Rivers 山水情
(Urban slice of life, inspirational growth, a nostalgic era, rich in detail) The beauty of mountains and rivers, the many faces of humanity, the fickleness of the world. The protagonist, Jiang Nan, knows right from wrong and values loyalty and affection. He grows from a poor boy who suffers humiliation into a fine young man admired by everyone. This story is grounded in real life, with family bonds, friendship, romance, and a deep love for his hometown. He leads the villagers to prosperity, ris
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A Life Stolen 被拐人生
Their daughter was stolen, leaving her parents devastated. They searched for her for eighteen years, traveling thousands of miles, but found no trace of her. This story reveals the strange ordeal of a girl who was abducted as a child, along with the tragic fate of her adoptive parents. Full of twists and turns, it makes for compelling reading. Will the girl ever return home, and what fate awaits her?
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A Woman from a Poor Family 寒门女人
(Family melodrama + romance + revenge) Bai Xue's birth brought her mother untold hardship. Crushed by feudal beliefs, she and her mother struggled just to breathe, hoping to escape that man's clutches as soon as they could. Overwhelmed with grief, she could no longer face the love her boyfriend gave her. Every day was agony, and the hatred in her heart drove her to swear she would find the man who had violated her and make him pay. Will she find him? What will become of her and her boyfriend? R
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City Shore 城岸
A glamorous older landlady, a beautiful boss, a sweet and innocent young girl... Ding Yi, a poor kid trying to make his way in a materialistic city, is at the age when his hormones are raging, yet has nothing to his name. His life brings him both steamy encounters and plenty of helplessness...
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After Teaming Up with a Cold and Aloof Taoist Priest 与高冷道长组队后
Teaming Up with a Cold, Aloof Daoist Priest
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A Guide to Restarting Life in a Small Town 小镇重启指南
A Guide to Restarting Life in a Small Town
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The Life of an Atypical Supporting Female Character 非典型女配人生
An Unconventional Supporting Woman's Life
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Professor, I Suggest Adding Some Sugar 教授，建议加点糖
Professor, You Should Add a Little Sugar
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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A Working Stiff's Little Journal 打工小记
Urban daily life + earning a living through hard work + multiple heroines + healing The story of an ordinary wage earner: from drifting to Guangzhou to drifting to Beijing, from Shaoxing to Foshan and then to Majiaqiao in Beijing. Fifteen years in all. See how a worker at the bottom makes his way through life... I went south at fifteen and drifted north at thirty. The fiercest gamble of my life took fifteen years to pay for. Over those fifteen years, I worked in an electronics factory, served
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The Woman Who Couldn’t Be Caged 困不住的她
Pei Xiaocao is someone who refuses to follow the usual path. Along the road of life, she has erased everything she was supposed to do. Her life follows no one else’s rules. She believes only in her own!
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Wang Meili, Unemployed 失业的王美丽
Wang Meili, in her early thirties, has lost her job. Doubt and despondency consume her, and she has no idea what to do next. Then one day, she figures something out, and from that moment on, nothing is the same.
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The Light at the End of the Road 穷途的光辉
How many generations of hardship and joy must a poor family endure before they can finally get ahead? How much suffering must a girl witness before she understands life? How many trials must a family face before the younger generation understands how hard things were for their ancestors?
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The Legend of Brother Niu 牛二哥的传说
The story of a stylish office, a group of women, and Niu Erge. They are all secretly competing and trying every trick in the book, all for the sake of a Niu Yige none of them has ever met. When will he finally appear? They can’t wait to find out.
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Loving You Is a Wound I Don’t Dare Touch 爱你是不敢碰的伤
A love story between a poor lawyer and a plastic surgeon. Loving you is a one-man show, played by me alone. Life is vast, and meeting you was both fate and a misfortune. I never ask for anything in return. I only hope I can hold on to my kindness and innocence.
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At the Crossroads of Love and Marriage 站在爱与婚姻的十字路口
“Yu Meiren: Written on a Visit to My Alma Mater” “After many years, I return to the place where I studied, and memories drift on the gentle breeze. I recite poems by the stone boat until moonlight shines, while rippling waters reflect green silhouettes. Though I have come here, my heart remains; I wave goodbye and take my leave. How many kindred spirits can one find in life? Even after roaming the ends of the earth, I still think of my classmates.” Xu Ming combined the refined pleasures of a man
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Two Couples Under One Roof After Remarriage 二婚家里的两对恋人
Kindhearted Qianqian is wooed by Yi Li, a rich second-generation heir. Her mother is then married by Yi Li's father, leaving the blended family with two couples in love. Qianqian gives birth to a son, their first child, and then triplets, one girl and two boys. She also accepts the daughter Yi Li ends up having after someone else schemes against him. How will all this affect her? Read the story and find out...
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Drifting Through Time: Our Post-Youth Years 漂时代：我们的后青春纪
Only years later did we understand: The gulf between campus and society must be bridged through our own experiences. The glow of our ideals faded, and our unwilling souls struck against the reefs of reality. Hard work wore down our ordinary bodies; the little things wore away our first sparks of passion. A farewell as sudden as a cliff once tore the world apart; The silhouette of you turning away froze into the last light of dawn in my heart. Leaving was a drifting journey I never wanted; Return
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You're the One I Love Most 你是我最爱的那个人
[Series: 1. You Are the Person I Love Most] [Series: 2. Moonlight at Our Desk, Scattered Across Two Cities] [Urban]+ [School life]+ [Romance]+ [First-person narration]+ [Semi-autobiographical] Chen He is me, and I am Chen He. During their noisy high school years, filled with the cries of cicadas, Chen He and Xiao Yao spend three years as deskmates, together every day. The strands of hair that fall across her face as she bends over her homework, the bright smile in her eyes when she shares snacks
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A Lifetime: The Lone-Wolf Agent's Gray Eden 一生：孤胆特工之灰色伊甸园
The story of Lin Tianming’s growth from boyhood. Please also read this book’s companion novels, Second Life: The Bracelet Across the Universe and Third Life: Love Bewitches the Mortal World. Each of the three novels stands alone, yet together they form a series, with interwoven plots that let you experience the life journey of “two worlds, three lives” and the rise of the century’s dragon, Long Teng!
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Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间
A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be
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The Black-and-White Workplace 黑白职场
The book has three main female leads: Meng Hong, a wealthy, beautiful daughter of a powerful family; Han Yiran, warm and down-to-earth; and Xi Wenni, a tragic figure. I was swept up in Han Yiran's happiness, grieved over the fate that left Meng Hong with no control over her own life, and blamed myself for giving kind and beautiful Xi Wenni such a tragic fate. I felt as though I had committed a sin by brutalizing and destroying a pure rose… This is a love story about one man and three women
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Back to the Workplace for a Fresh Start 回到职场重新来过
[Inside the property management industry] [Social issues] [Reality] [Workplace comeback] [Passionate] [Hard work] [Face-slapping] After his startup fails, Zhang Juntao returns to the workplace. Watch as he finds his way forward in the property management industry he once complained about! Cluttered hallways, parking problems, leaks, noise disputes, and a host of other headaches: how will he and his friends overcome them? How will he level up by defeating one challenge after another, growing from
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Destined Across Three Lifetimes: A Romantic Legacy of Young Love and Marriage 缘定三生，青春婚约的浪漫传承
A sweet promise spanning their youth, sealed by an engagement. Surrounded by the warmth of family and the passion of youth, they keep their vows and write a romantic story together, full of amusing moments from school and everyday life. From Lin Shimin's admiration for Luo Yimo, to their wondrous chance encounters at all kinds of events, and the hilarious, heartwarming episodes that follow, their story is sure to make you smile. The novel has playful banter between best friends, the warm support
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Her Secret Thoughts: A Young Man’s Hidden Diary in a Small Village 致她的心事：小村青年的隐秘日记
No formulaic plot | Not a wish-fulfillment novel | Realistic fiction | Zhou Zhiqiang grows up amid poverty and chaos in her birth family, with her father instilling in her the survival rule that “you have to please people to survive.” She gets into college and lands a job at a bank. A well-off man, Ke Qingyan, pursues her, but as the truth about her family comes out, she gradually loses her self-respect and her relationship. Later, burdened with debt, she returns to her hometown and, under he
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The Coroner's Wife's Tea-Picking Journal 仵作娘子采茶记
A Coroner's Wife's Tea-Picking Journal
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A Maid Has Arrived at the Ancient Tree Manor! 古树山庄来了个女仆大人！
A lady maid has arrived at Ancient Tree Manor!
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An Unconventional Family 非正常家庭，
Among the many discussions of love and marriage, one thought-provoking saying goes: “If you can still feel a spark for the person beside you in bed for your whole life, that’s true love.” These brief but powerful words capture the ideal of love and marriage. In people’s dreams, love burns like a blazing fire, and marriage is the vessel that keeps it alight forever. Husband and wife spend their lives together, nestled in the warmth of their love, with neither passion nor excitement ever fading. B
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The Kung Fu County Magistrate 功夫县长
After the former county magistrate dies by suicide, the higher-ups parachute a new magistrate into Shuanghe. Secretary Qin stares in utter disbelief at the new magistrate before him, who carries a shabby old-fashioned bundle on his back and has gauze stuck to his forehead! But Wang Xiaoneng doesn't care what anyone thinks. With his master's ancestral peachwood sword in hand and his master's ancestral whip wrapped around his waist, no demon or ghost can stand in the way of his great ambition and
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A Pink Summer 粉红色的夏天
Xia Xiaomei and her classmates Chen Yusheng and Lin Ling went to Sencheng to take over a tiny advertising agency. Looking for somewhere quiet to live, Xia Xiaomei rented a room in a house built by the Li family, where she met the male lead, Li Hangyu. Xia Xiaomei's best friend, Xia Lingmei, had gone to Sencheng to work after graduating from middle school. Now that Xia Xiaomei had moved there too, the two friends could be together again. Li Hangyu was rich, handsome, and tall, the prince charming
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Now That We’ve Graduated, Let’s Love Well 毕业了好好爱
In middle school, a teacher once said something that made a deep impression on me, and I resolved not to date while I was still in school. As luck would have it, my classmate Liu Chengheng made the same vow. But Liu Chengheng was tall, handsome, and captain of the school basketball team, so girls were always chasing after him. He asked me for help, and out of loyalty to a friend, I decided to fend off his admirers for him. I kept it up until graduation. On graduation day, Liu Chengheng came to f
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My Great-Grandfather Is a Miracle Doctor 我的太公是神医
My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The House and the Car 房子车子
House and Car
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An Old Stock Trader's Careless Purchases 老股民胡乱买同志
I first encountered stocks in 1993. Thirty-two years have passed since then, yet I still strive and fight on in the stock market, a “battlefield” full of opportunity and challenge. In this book, I'll look back on my long journey of stock trading from 1993 to 2025, recounting the moments of suspense and excitement, as well as those of reflection and sudden insight. I'll lay out the judgments and decisions made amid the market's ups and downs, along with the lessons learned and growth gained throu
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