Any Books That Can Heal the Heart, Suitable for People Struggling with Low Self-Esteem or Depression? 有没有治愈心灵，适合自卑抑郁的人看的书？
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A Lost Path Through the Ranks 基层仕途迷茫路
“Jiaming,” Third Grandpa said, “I just saw green smoke rising from your family grave. That's a good omen. I reckon Xinghe will grow up to become an official.” A fortune-teller told him, “You can become an official in the southeast.” Chen Xinghe was a grassroots official who spent more than twenty years struggling his way through the political world, constantly making waves on the grand stage of his own life. For a time, his efforts brought him fame and success, and he enjoyed a happy life. He wa
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Writing Lyrics 词写
Life is more than memories and reflections. It also lives on in written records: essays and poetry are all part of life. Joy and sorrow, sweetness and bitterness, love and hate, desire and virtue, good and evil: the many faces of life are written in words that trace the heart's journey.
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Step by Step, Winning Her Heart: The Laid-Back Miss and Her Sugar Daddy 步步诱心：咸鱼小姐和金主大人
CP: Little Slacker Fish VS Big Bad Wolf, secret love comes true, daring to chase your dreams Lan Xianyu is just like her name: a lazy, unmotivated fish. No one seems to believe in her dream of becoming a screenwriter. Until one day, a handsome, wealthy stranger practically begs to become her sugar daddy. She’s baffled. Even Mary Sue dramas don’t go that way anymore. - He closes in step by step, carefully drawing out the memories buried deep inside her. He asks who she was with after getting blac
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Desperate Straits 绝境
Desperate Situation carries on the signature traits of Zhu Weijian’s work: a thrilling, twist-filled plot, tense and fierce conflicts, concern for major social issues, profound analysis and reflection, and deeply moving love stories that tug at the heartstrings and bring readers to tears, all woven into the novel.
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The Generation of '90 90的一代
The coming-of-age story of a small-town young man born in the 1990s, a vivid cautionary tale for his younger siblings. Apart from a confidence that defies explanation, he has no family wealth, no education, no life experience, and not even any self-discipline. But one day, he will finally make his way through the fog. The road ahead is like leveling up and fighting monsters, a struggle for survival of the fittest.
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After I Transmigrated Into a Beautiful Teacher, I Went Rebellious 穿越成美女老师后我叛逆了
Top student + transmigrate + sweet romance + literature + personal growth A genius science-and-engineering student who ruled the school and laughed her way through life failed her entrance exam for the University of Science and Technology of China’s gifted youth program during her first year of high school. Heartbroken, she stepped into the “Madam Yi No. 1” time-traveling machine built by her quirky best friend, Shen Han, and emerged as a demure Chinese teacher. But she ran into one obstacle aft
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The Bright Moon Shines Through All Ages 明月皎皎照古今
After completing her mission, Su Tan, a top agent of the Great Xia Kingdom, is murdered by her superior. Her soul transmigrates into Su Shu, the murdered princess consort of the Great Zhou Kingdom. From then on, she and Jing Yichen, the Great Zhou Kingdom's legendary God of War, embark on a struggle that takes them from mutual loathing to love, standing shoulder to shoulder as they restore order. In the end, they win both victory and love.
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An Adult Overnight 一夜成年
This story is purely coincidental. Any similarities are definitely fictional. A story about youth, written for myself and for them. For those born in the 1980s and 1990s. Set in Dongguan and Shenzhen. Thank you.
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The Rosy Sprite 丹霞精灵
More than 100 million years ago, in an ancient region to the southeast, a vast inland basin was shaped by the Himalayan orogeny, forming the mysterious Danxia Mountains. The Danxia Mountains, "red as cinnabar and brilliant as rosy clouds," were richly blessed by nature. They absorbed the essence of the sun and moon, and were filled with grandeur, wonder, danger, beauty, and serenity. They also gave rise to countless mysteries and wonders. Alongside the lush variety of plants and animals, the mo
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Chronicles of Two Souls Reborn 双魂往生记
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Life Club 生命俱乐部
Hello, dear readers! This is Xia Qing. Wishing all the dear readers who leave comments and messages beauty, good looks, and wealth, wealth, wealth! If you enjoy this book, please leave a comment before you go _(:з"∠)_
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Loving You Is a Silence 喜欢你是寂静的
The first half of Chuxi's life was like that of a piece of trash no one wanted. She had no one to rely on from childhood. After her grandmother died, her grandfather grew cold, her father was abusive, and her mother remarried. She became the odd one out. At sixteen, she was sexually assaulted. When she reported it, her father threw her out of the house, and her own mother rejected her too. Abandoned by her entire family and bullied at every turn, she was driven to the brink on New Year's Eve. In
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Fina’s Secret 斐娜的秘密
“I want not only your body, but your soul, too.” What kind of love will the elite heirs of the old money set find? Passionate and dramatic? Conventional and proper?... Shiguan Feina is the only daughter in the Shiguan family line, and she has a crush on her aunt’s lover. Then, on her nineteenth birthday, she receives a gift: a marriage alliance proposal drawn up by her grandfather. Her private school on New York’s Upper East Side never taught her how to compromise. One night, Feina sneaks into t
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The Martial World at Sunset 落日江湖
(The work should be tagged “Historical” and “Wuxia.”) One reason I chose the late Ming and early Qing as the setting for this book was that I quit my job in 2020 and went to the Northeast to focus on writing. I wanted the setting to reflect my surroundings, so I settled on that period. As it happened, a wave of interest in the Ming and Qing dynasties swept across the internet recently. I had planned to ride that wave, but found that many videos distorted historical facts and misled viewers. That
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The Meaning of an Ordinary Life 平凡人生的意义
We're just ordinary people, with no power to make gods. We can only get what we want through our own efforts. (I'm revising as I write. This is an attempt at a new book, so please let me know if you spot any mistakes. Thank you!)
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I Wish Us Joy Forever 我愿常欢喜
[Women’s Growth + Romance and Marriage + Workplace + Relationships] Girls from different family backgrounds will all find their own happiness! A rose raised in a greenhouse will weather life’s storms, while a girl who grows like a weed will find her own spring. She is a rich girl from a big city, yet she falls prey to a gold-digging boyfriend, sexual harassment at work, and exclusion by her colleagues... She is a small-town academic who gets extorted by a fellow villager and drained by parents w
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The Bizarre Apocalypse: I'll Protect This Corrupted World 诡异末世：这个污染世界我罩了
[Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland + Mutants + Sentinels and Guides + Ensemble Cast + Contaminated Zones] The dark apocalypse ends, and the age of the wasteland begins. Countless mutants and bizarre contaminated zones devour humanity’s homes. When a remote town is swallowed by a contaminated zone, Yun Zhao, who has only recently awakened her powers, is forced to lead the entire town on a migration. Her origins are a mystery, and her strength is terrifying. Yet she can barely lift a thing, cannot carry
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Dust in the Wind: The Days of Sharing a Job 生如尘埃：打工搭伙的日子
In a bustling city, how many people shine brightly, and how many struggle just to survive? The two protagonists in this book represent two very different kinds of lives. Only after going from innocence to worldly wisdom and enduring life's hardships can they slowly come to their senses amid the mundane world.
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The End of Ordinary 平凡的尽头
The story began in 2019. It was a turbulent time, and I stopped writing after a hasty 50,000 words. Then, in May 2020, I finished it. At 250,000 words, it is too short to cover all the joys and sorrows of this bustling world through the changing years. It tells only of several years spent wandering through life. The story is based entirely on real events. Freedom, marriage, career, money, family, friendship. As someone born in the 1990s, I have always questioned the world. I hoped to find answer
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Life Is Worth Living 人间值得
Life Is Worth Living
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A Scholar Comes to Galo Village 旮旯村来了个文秀才
After his ex-girlfriend bets him to go support rural revitalization in the remote village of Gela in southwest China, Lin Zhe declares that he'll be out of there in less than a month. Though he has never experienced rural life, through a twist of fate he turns Gela into a famous eco-tourism village known far and wide...
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Literary Peak 文极
High school essays you can read like stories. This book mainly teaches you how to break free of constraints while still meeting the requirements, so you can write what you like and create original work. The road to the teaching building was shaded by plane trees. Birds called from among the leaves. I looked up, but couldn't see her, as if she were nothing more than a soul gifted with song.
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What We Do When We Talk About Love 当我们谈论爱情时，我们在做什么
Also known as The True Story of A-Dai. When we talk about love, we talk about romance and sweetness. When two people come together, there’s more than moonlit romance: there are also storms and thunder. Faced with the promises they once made, what should they do to weather life’s ups and downs? In a long relationship, if you do more than you say, you’re considered unromantic; if you say more than you do, you’re considered unreliable. Very Brothers is a contemporary urban novel in the Realistic Ci
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What a Day 今天真精彩
What an Exciting Day
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May You Hold Happiness in Your Hands 愿你手握幸福
Legend has it that immortals possess power to reach the heavens, reverse time and space, and bring the dead back to life. Can even an immortal like that fall? Perhaps you can change the past and reverse the future by exhausting every means. Even if you have to bear the karmic flames of a hundred million souls, will you still do it? The Empress: "Are you really going to do it?" The protagonist: "Yes."
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No More Love-Brain Syndrome!!! 拒绝恋爱脑！！！
Say No to Love-Brain Syndrome!!!
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A Journey Through the Martial Arts World 武侠世界行
Wu Cheng and Gao Yang travel through multidimensional dreams across time and space. They witness the transition from the premodern to the postmodern era. In their dreams, they join their friends in tracing the origins of dreams in the original consciousness.
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It’s Up to You 份在人为
I write whatever comes to mind, so feel free to read it however you like. This book is full of memories and anecdotes from the 1980s. If anything here strikes a chord, why not join me for a bit of fun? And if it brings something back for you, then let's revisit those days together: the love we once knew. “The world is one big makeshift operation.” We're all caught up in it. Fate decides three parts; the other seven are up to you. Remember, the outcome you want depends on what you do. Whatever li
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The Female Bank President's Last Resort 女行长的穷途末路
A teller's act of withholding checks toppled the first domino in the bank run at Yunhai City Commercial Bank. Though bank president Ma Yuquan fought desperately to contain the crisis, she ultimately could not counter the enormous fallout from the sudden disappearance of the bank's major shareholder and the head of its controlling rural bank. Ma Yuquan sensed the situation was full of hidden twists and turns, yet never revealed the secret of who she had been with during her brief disappearance, w
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My Fantastic Conversations with AI 我与AI的奇幻对话
Hello! May I ask if you’re a proper AI? AI: Hello! Proper people generally don’t ask questions like that...!!! (An AI suddenly flew in from nowhere and hit me so hard I was left dizzy, seeing stars, and cursing up a storm...)
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A Mildly Depressed Patient’s Personal Account 一个轻度抑郁患者的自述
I have mild depression, which may have developed into bipolar disorder. I once spent over ten months in a psychiatric hospital, against my will, but I have never been willing to admit that it’s an illness. Or maybe I simply don’t want to admit it. Recently, I joined a group for people with bipolar disorder. There were more women than men, and for a while I was quite active in the chat, presumptuously answering questions from some of the new “patients” and their family members. But I realized som
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Reborn: The Everyday Healing of a Self-Doubting Boy and Me 重生后，和自卑少年的互赎日常
[Reborn + mutual healing + sweet college romance + warm, healing angel × insecure, cold loner] P.S. The hero is disabled! The story includes a transmigrate-into-a-book plot! Only after Gu Shiyi died did she learn that the boy she had a crush on had secretly liked her too. Unfortunately, one of them was insecure and the other wasn't brave enough. They missed their chance, plain and simple. Given another life, she carefully stepped in front of him and smiled. “Hi, I'm Gu Shiyi. It's nice to meet y
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My Healing Life 我的治愈人生
[Romance and Relationships + Warm Healing + A Cast of Doctors] That’s life: sometimes we get hurt, and sometimes we’re healed! As they turn thirty-five, four doctor friends from different departments are struck by sudden upheavals in their lives! Fang Tang, a neurosurgeon, is tricked by her ex-husband, who uses their daughter to extort money and treats the girl like a cash cow... Liu Zhi, a cardiac surgeon, is schemed against by her stepmother and half-brother, all for the family inheritance...
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Shave, Then Get Depressed 剃须，然后抑郁
[One Female Lead] [Pseudo-Infinite] [Pseudo-Invincible] "So the heroine from the anime becomes your wife, and she travels through life with you?!" "My piss is yellow, let me take a leak on him!" "My slaps are loud, let me smack him!" "Does the ending of a story even matter?" The man rinsing his razor looked at his dazed reflection in the mirror, repeating the same misery night after night...
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Breaking Off a Jade Branch 折琼枝
[University campus + Love at first sight + Sweet and flirty, both inexperienced in love + A touch of ensemble cast + HE] [Tsundere, secretly passionate campus heartthrob vs. Quiet, reserved good girl] Lu Shiyu, the bar owner and singer as well as Peking University’s campus heartthrob, fell in love at first sight with Lin Ruochu, a cool, melancholic sweetheart studying fashion design at Tsinghua University, and pursued her relentlessly. This is a story of the two growing together. The book is de
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A Mental Patient’s Journey to Self-Redemption 一个精神病人的自我救赎
I am someone diagnosed with N different mental illnesses... For now, I’ll reluctantly call myself a “person.” I’ve lived in this place known as a “psychiatric hospital” for as long as I can remember. But while everyone else is allowed to leave for a while, I’ve been ordered never to set foot outside these walls for the rest of my life. My lost memories, the strange rules, and the unknown world beyond all urge me to seek the truth.
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Inner Monologue of a Person with Depression 一名抑郁症患者的内心独白
After living with severe depression and OCD for over a year, the author wrote this novel in the hope of helping more people facing similar struggles and changing the public’s views on depression. The story is based on the author’s own experiences, with some details changed. It is also a way for the author to vent their emotions.
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A Few Moments of Leisure 闲情几许
No one knows where love begins, how deep it runs, what the future holds, or what complications lie ahead. Will the ship of friendship capsize, or ride the winds and waves? Will the vessel of love find a harbor, or drift without a place to call home?
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Dreamwalker 2025 梦行者2025
[Dreamcore psychological sci-fi] [Dreamcore] [Cyber fantasy] [Artificial reincarnation] [Unconventional infinite-loop story] [Aloof genius heroine] [No romance] [Psychological] [Niche] This book is an unconventional record of a cast of minds, a dream called “life” from which no one needs to wake. A slow burn with a touch of horror. No power-fantasy tropes, only people who pass each other by, and no true romantic pairings. In April 2025, dreamwalker Qian Ye arrives in Moshou City and stays wit
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Just Like Your Sorrow 恰似你的忧伤
Much Like Your Sorrow
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The Nine-Turn Exquisite Bracelet 九转玲珑镯
Feng Jinshu was a young woman who studied hard, hoping to pass the civil service exams one day and secure a coveted iron rice bowl. But fate had other plans: after years of striving, success remained just out of reach. Then a sudden upheaval made everything uncertain. With a long road ahead, where would she go from here?
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A Charming Girl at Home 家有倩儿
To guide a child, you must first understand them. To truly understand a child, we can begin with six levels. Only then can we understand both their outward appearance and inner self, helping them develop effective mental models more quickly and build the abilities they need to grow.
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Nest of Thoughts 思窝
As fake data on the internet spiraled out of control, a phenomenon in which bad money drove out good spread like cancer across major online platforms, spilling from the virtual world into the real one. When things reach an extreme, they must turn around. As the pendulum of history changed direction, the GeoNet, blending the virtual and the real, came into being and opened a new chapter in the age… This book portrays the vision of the creators of Siwo for the future.
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A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人
This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute
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My Past, Like Water Through the Years 我的过往，似水流年
The five-year-old heroine’s mother was often ill and hospitalized, leaving no one to look after her. So she and her three-year-old brother repeatedly crossed mountains to beg relatives for food. After their mother recovered, her relationship with her mother-in-law turned sour. Unable to cope, she drank pesticide in an attempted suicide. She was saved, but her personality became domineering and her temper erratic. She beat the heroine and her brother for no reason on multiple occasions. Trying to
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My Father 我的爸爸
My Dad
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The Displaced Eye: The Abyss Gazes Back 错位之瞳：深渊回望
The heroine's revenge relies more on intelligence, planning, and exploiting divisions among the villains, using their own schemes against them, faking a pregnancy, sowing discord, and gathering evidence, rather than simply framing her best friend. In the end, she makes the villains pay through the law or by turning them against one another.
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The Lost Pearl of Cangming: The Fire of Being Reborn 沧溟遗珠之重生之火
Lin Wei, a modern-day "loser," unexpectedly has her soul transported to another world. When she opens her eyes, she is an abandoned baby, struggling to survive beside a freezing, tide-swept shore: Ling Wei, nicknamed Xiao Yu. The verdict "bringer of calamity" marks the beginning of her abandonment by her own father, Emperor Ling Zhao, and the stigma she bears as she struggles to survive in this ancient world of rigid hierarchy and cruel laws.
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Dr. Jiang, Your Stethoscope Is Giving Me Shocks! 江医生，听诊器漏电！
Experience all the quirks of modern life through Lin Xiaoman’s unique perspective. Her sharp commentary and nonstop humor include witnessing cringe-worthy public mishaps, seeing through disguises, and running a constant stream of inner monologue.
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After Marrying Zeus 嫁给宙斯以后
This book’s winding, suspenseful plot follows the powerful heroine Hera as she grows from a “queen” defined by her marriage into a “ruler of the divine realm” who defines herself, transforming from a “goddess of vengeance” into a “maker of rules.” It reveals a strength that depends on no one else and stems from inner wholeness. Hera’s story shows that true healing begins with accepting every part of one’s experience and choosing to grow from it. In the end, Hera’s perspective expands beyond an i
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