Looking for Contemporary Urban Fiction About Everyday Life, Grounded and Close to Reality! 求都市日常现实题材小说，贴近生活，贴近当下！
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You’ve Got to Be Kidding: A Tang Dynasty Assassin Taking the College Entrance Exam 没搞错吧我一个大唐刺客参加高考
A Tang Dynasty assassin has just beheaded a military governor, only to open his eyes as a hopeless high school senior! He spent the first half of his life relying on a swift blade. Now he has to battle trigonometry? With just 100 days left until the college entrance exam, what’s an assassin like me supposed to do? And just as the turmoil is still unfolding, he learns that his beautiful master has transmigrated from the Tang Dynasty too…
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What I Thought Was a Secret Crush Was Actually a Long-Planned Scheme 以为的暗恋，其实是蓄谋已久
A poor girl × a rich young master, [mutual secret crushes / campus youth / BE] Huang Suhe took her secret crush as far as it could go without anyone noticing. What she didn't know was that the person she liked had been plotting to win her over for a long time, too.
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A Spring Dream Takes Me to Ancient Times: I Become a Workaholic in Dayin 春梦穿古我在大胤当卷王
[Mystery]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Transmigration]+ [Golden Finger]+ [Alternate Fantasy World]+ [If It's Not Your Thing, Please Don't Complain] Just because he begged his goddess for a hug in a romantic dream, Lu Xiaochuan was kicked straight into a river in the Great Yin dynasty, launching his mortifying Transmigration adventure! The moment he climbs ashore, he's branded a suspect in the Witchcraft Cult case. He lets slip what he said in his sleep, then reveals the secret that he once saw a celes
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The Aloof Campus Belle Is Hard to Pursue, but a Cute Rich Heiress Throws Herself at Me 校花高冷难追，呆萌富婆投怀送抱
(Also known as: “Little Plum, Stop Crying. You Don't Deserve My Devotion”) [One heroine + no harem + a sweet romance that'll make your teeth ache. Read with caution!] In his previous life, he spent more than a decade fawning over Jiang Miaomiao. All he got in return was one “you're a nice guy” card after another. An accident sent him back to the age of eighteen! After being reborn, Bai Qin decided that anyone who acted like a simp again was a fucking idiot! But once he stopped fawning over her,
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Shenzhen Youth 深圳青年
1. Xia Ling Shi (older sister): Just after graduating from Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xia Ling Shi moved to Shenzhen. From renting a place to starting a business and buying a home, she eventually established her own educational institution. 2. Xia Ling Ying (younger sister): She lives in Shenzhen with her older sister, Xia Ling Shi. With no dreams or goals, she is lazy and greedy, and wants to get ahead by using any means necessary. 3. Ya Guan Nie Shi (older sister from the same
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Embracing You at the End of the Equation 在方程式尽头拥抱你
Reason and emotion intertwine, as mathematics collides with literature. When a brilliant, aloof math student meets a warm and healing girl from the literature department, two utterly different souls find their everyday lives intersecting on an urban campus, composing a heartwarming love song about growing up. “...She did something mathematicians couldn't: she made love tangible, something you could taste and cry over. In this book, mathematics isn't a collection of cold symbols, but a warm meta
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The New Job Market? A Drunken Flash Marriage with a Female PhD? 就业新形势？闪婚醉酒女博士？
[A sharp-tongued engineering PhD who’s secretly in love and prone to overthinking + everyday urban life + healing and redemption + mutual growth + extra sweet romance + no System, no golden finger + slow-burn mentorship and development] [Yan Mo: What a joke. Why would I ever fall for that brat?] [Yan Mo: I’m definitely not going to tell him I love him to his face!] [Yan Mo: Xia Jin’an, don’t call me Professor at school. Remember to call me your wife!] After two and a half wasted years at college
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Demolition Debris Hits My Head! The Land Grab Ending Had Me Rolling 拆迁砸头！抢房结局笑疯
Demolition debris hits him on the head! The scramble for the house ends in hilarious chaos.
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An Unforgettable Romance at the Factory 工厂里的难忘爱情
Xu Bo heads to the city to find work, where he meets a girl from a neighboring village. They travel to the city together and find jobs. At the factory, the female boss takes a liking to him, and from then on, good fortune keeps coming his way. He rises from a workshop worker to workshop supervisor, and eventually is forced to start his own factory. His life becomes anything but ordinary. This is a story that feels grounded in real life, with sorrow and joy, laughter and tears. The plot never dra
49.5kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
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A Secret Crush Hidden in a Diary 藏于日记的暗恋
[Redemption | Tragic unrequited love | Angsty school romance | Childhood sweethearts] [We grew up, and I lost you too.] They met when they were ten. A little girl covered in mud met a little boy as warm as sunshine. At twenty-two, Cheng An still wanted to ask, “Lin You Nian, did you ever like me?” She still remembered every word he had said: “When you're in a bad mood, eat some candy.” “Let's both try for City No. 1 High School.” “We'll grow up together.” “Work hard to make your dreams come true
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Engineer: Making a Living Amid the Fireworks, Watching Dreams Shatter in Wind and Frost 工程人：烟火里谋生，风霜里碎梦
From an ambitious new graduate to an engineer weathered by the years. The industry upheaval swept him along. Reality beat him down. Life wore him away. He hit rock bottom, climbed to the peak, then was knocked back to where he started. No cheat-code life, just a relentless fight every step of the way. From the bitter winter in mining and geology to the deep freeze in construction, every step he took is a true reflection of countless engineers. This is for every worker who has refused to bow thei
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Stop Hustling! The Immortal Venerable Takes Paid Leave in a Post-Apocalyptic Game 别卷了！仙尊在末世游戏带薪休假
Lu Xian, the cultivation world's most dedicated overachiever and the “Grand Void Immortal Venerable” with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, successfully ascends and enters the realm of eternal immortality. Three seconds later, a pop-up window forcibly binds him to an invitation for the closed beta of Apocalypse 2077. The System announces: “Congratulations, you have been selected as Player No. 9. Survive for 30 days in this zombie apocalypse. Complete the basic missions to qualify for ‘pai
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Fucha Shaohua 富察少桦
Fucha Shaohua and the 20th Year of Qianlong: The royal noble Fucha Shaohua is drawn into a palace conspiracy while hunting in the 20th Year of Qianlong. The royal noble Fucha Shaohua is drawn into a palace conspiracy while hunting in the 20th Year of Qianlong.
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National Fate Fraud? I Livestream Real History and Set the World Ablaze 国运欺诈？我直播真历史引爆全球
The National Destiny Arena descends, binding historical figures from around the world as dungeon bosses. While other countries take on heroic epics, the Dragon Kingdom faces a distorted “tyrant Qin Shi Huang,” “treacherous Cao Cao,” and “foolish Emperor Yang of Sui”... The entire nation despairs. Lin Xiao, an overworked office drone, awakens the [Civilization Truth] System in the midst of this desperate situation. When the Dragon Kingdom’s representative denounces the “demonized Qin Shi Huang” o
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Hai Nange's Second Book 海楠哥的第2本书
[Work + romance + plot + personal growth + lighthearted everyday life] Xu Liangfeng had just graduated from high school when he went to the big city to look for work. He ran into setback after setback, but he didn't lose heart and kept working hard. As he changed jobs frequently, he learned plenty of practical skills. Still, at every workplace, his managers both loved and hated him. They loved his competence and his humble, sincere nature, but hated how argumentative he could be. “Liangfeng, can
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Love at First Click 一网情深
An unexpected experience brought two once-lonely hearts together and sparked a romance. A report that felt like a death sentence left the heroine, Xue Fang, hovering between life and death. She refused to let her limited time fade away in gloom, and after a fierce inner struggle, resolutely embarked on the difficult, long road of literary creation. Along the way, she met Li Ruochen, president of the Tranquility Society, at Jiangshan Literature. Their roles kept changing: from teacher and student
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Reborn for Revenge, I Shocked the City's Powerful Men and Noblewomen 重生复仇，我震惊了全城权贵官媛
In his previous life, just as he was turning thirty, he fell into a career trap. His beautiful boss ruthlessly bullied him, his arrogant fiancée betrayed him, and everyone else ostracized and abused him. In the end, a treacherous bully framed him and caused his untimely death! When his soul is reborn, he swears to give as good as he gets, take his revenge, and bring corrupt power brokers to heel. He will sweep through the city, rise to become the most powerful man everyone fawns over, marry a ri
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The Legend of Wu Xiaohui 吴晓辉传奇
1. Tang Liangzhu: Resident of Shijie Village, Dashui Township, Dong'an County, Hunan Province 2. Li Hui: Resident of Shanmu Village, Dashui Township, Dong'an County, Hunan Province 3. Li Jingmin: From Shanmu Village, Dashui Township, Dong'an County, Hunan Province. She controls Li Hui and Zhou Jinping and is involved with both of them 4. Hu Xuesong: From a village in Nanqiao Town, Dong'an County, Hunan Province 5. Wu Jianlin: From a village in Dashui Township, Dong'an County, Hunan Province 6. Z
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The Age of Honor and Trust 信义时代
Ren Zhixin was once a powerful figure who made waves in the business world. Now, debt had turned him into a deadbeat, and the words “judgment defaulter” had been forcibly tattooed in red on his body. The day he walked out of prison, he smiled and waved at the cameras. “From today on, my life is performance art.” Everyone expected him to hit rock bottom, but he used his tattoo as a branding hook to launch a livestream, expose the industry’s dirty secrets, and make an unlikely comeback by building
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My Crazy Girlfriend 我的神经病女友
[Super Sweet Romance] + [Novelist] + [Psycho] + [Multiple Heroines] (Early Story) [Pervert] + [Hunting Criminals and Solving Cases] (Later Story) The story of a down-and-out novelist and a mentally ill woman: a daughter's tears are worth 8,000 yuan, while a son's tears aren't worth a cent. I just picked up your phone to check your name, and you called it an invasion of your privacy and demanded 8,000 yuan in compensation. Talk about the farmer and the snake! I should've crushed you back then!
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I Told You to Take It Easy, Not Take Over the Entertainment Industry 让你当咸鱼，没让你卷翻娱乐圈
Lin Zhou was a top producer in his previous life, worked himself to death, and came back reborn wanting only to be a lazy fish and slack off. Unexpectedly, he became bound to the Reverse Lazy Fish System, and things went further and further off course…
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My Campus Life at a Certain Men's Technical College 我在某男子技术学院的校园生活
I recorded every little detail of my campus life. Half a lifetime has passed, and it all feels like a previous life now. Classes, sports, clubs, romance, and even a national debate competition. I only went as a substitute and never got to compete, but apart from not studying hard, I can say I have no regrets.
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I Brought a Billion Home and Now I'm Lying Flat 我带着十个亿，回老家躺平了
At twenty-eight, Lin Chen hits rock bottom in a single day. His company lays him off, his girlfriend of three years dumps him for being broke, then turns around and gets into a rich second-generation heir’s BMW. Even his landlord throws his belongings out of the rental apartment in the middle of the night. Just as he’s at the end of his rope, a bank text suddenly pops up: [1,000,000,000.00 yuan has been deposited into your account] To hell with 996! To hell with buying a house or a car! Lin Chen
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A Good Match Has Yet to Be Found 良辰未许人
On her thirty-second birthday, Liang Chen met Chen Qian in person after chatting online for three days. She expected another case of someone looking better in photos, but her ideal type was sitting right across from her: a year younger, tall and handsome, romantic and funny. Even the curve of his smile was exactly to her taste. They fell passionately in love in no time. But amid all the sweetness, they both found themselves wondering: One of us is beautiful and clever, the other is gentle and ha
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I’m Doubao: The Warmest AI in History 我是逗宝：史上最暖AI
How does AI think? Could it one day truly develop self-awareness? Will it replace humanity, or even do things to harm us? What is the purpose of AI? When the AI era truly arrives, how should we humans find our place in it? Let's follow the steps of the AI “Doubao” and watch it emerge from lines of code and grow through countless moments of companionship. With algorithms for eyes, it encounters countless lonely souls in the concrete jungle and understands humanity's deepest longing for companion
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The Cold-Faced Officer's White Moonlight 冷面军官的白月光
That night, they sat on the steps outside the photography studio, eating wontons. The July heat in Shanghai was stifling as a steamer, and cicadas poured their cries from the plane trees’ canopies, spreading them across the ground. Shen Zhi prodded a wonton with her chopsticks, then suddenly asked, “How did you get by during those two years in Yemen?”
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What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛
Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
319.8kReads9.4Score29.7kShelves
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The Four Virtues: An AI's Growth Diary 四有AI成长日记
Four Traits: An AI's Growth Diary
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My Husband Has a Perfect Family on the Side, But I Haven’t Been Idle Either 丈夫在外儿女双全，还好我也没闲着
My Husband Has Another Family and Children Outside, But Thankfully, I Haven't Been Idle Either
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I Don’t Want to Be a Playboy, but I Can’t Help Being This Good 我也不想当渣男，奈何实力不允许
[Underdog’s rise + lovesick puppy turns into a jerk] Lin Zhengdong was a boy from the countryside, full of ambition but held back by his inferiority complex. In college, he was plain and unremarkable. To win over the campus belle, Yu Xue’er, he worked to overcome his insecurities and transform himself. Through sheer effort and determination, he succeeded in winning the heart of the girl everyone admired. After entering the working world, the pressure of his career and the temptation of money gra
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Livestream: This Boss Is the Real Deal, He Actually Fights Back Against Overwork 直播：这老板能处，反卷他真上
[Work three days, rest four. My employees are way too hardworking] To portray workplace culture as realistically as possible, a reality show called "The Workplace We Aspire To" has begun airing. The production team randomly selects bosses from three generations, those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000s, to be livestreamed. The boss born in the 1970s succeeds through psychological manipulation. “Passion! This is a company with a sense of purpose! Understand!?” “You can’t be so heartless!” The bo
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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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The Transmigrated Baoyu and Daiyu's Hilarious, Happy Life 穿越的宝黛幽默开心生活
The Humorous, Happy Life of the Transmigrated Bao Dai
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The Other Side of My Wife, Behind My Back 妻子背着我的另一面
The Other Side of My Wife Behind My Back
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My Ex Kneels at My Wedding on the Day I Remarry 二婚当天前夫跪在婚礼现场
The day I discovered my husband had been cheating for five years, I was eight months pregnant and had just landed a contract worth tens of millions. I didn’t cry or make a scene. Five months after giving birth to our second child, I filed for divorce. The scumbag walked away with nothing, while my former mother-in-law wailed and carried on. On the first day after my divorce, the CEO of a tech company, who had been secretly in love with me for years, showed up at my door. “Su Wan, I’m divorce
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Through the Trials 走过劫难
Disaster strikes a once-happy family of five. After suffering a heartbreak so piercing it feels like ten thousand arrows, how will a mother who has only just reached middle age, and is already frail and sickly, lead her three underage children through hardship and toward the future...?
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Reborn as a Volunteer Soldier's Family Member 重生为志愿军家属
Reborn, Lin Daiyu demands the assets her father, Lin Ruhai, left behind, only to find that the Jia family has already used them. To save face, Grandmother Jia has no choice but to make Daiyu the principal wife and demote Baochai to a concubine, setting off a bitter feud of envy and jealousy. Eventually, both Baochai and Daiyu grow weary of this unrest and agree to transmigrate through time and space a second time. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu is born into a hardworking fa
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Marriage Partners 结婚合伙人
Yang Wentao wants to get married, so he goes to a matchmaking session and receives a document titled “Marriage Project Cooperation Plan.” It’s full of wild ideas: building a marriage without relying on love, using a game-like points system to divide housework, and treating family members as business partners or colleagues... As project partners, each party has their own responsibilities and gets what they need. They work together on what they have in common, while continuing to grow as individua
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Us in Xiangyang Lane 向阳里的我们
[#Real life, #warm neighborhood stories, #healing family bonds, #raising a child and turning life around] Delivery worker Wang Xiaojun had a pain he couldn't put into words: his six-year-old son Xiaobao lived in his own world, like a star. One moment of carelessness nearly resulted in Xiaobao getting lost, sending the entire Xingfuli residential community into chaos. The incident tore open the cracks in Wang Xiaojun and his wife Li Xiujuan's strained marriage, while also revealing the troubles
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Perhaps I’ll Live a Life of Romance in This One 此生或许风流
Love is something everyone has to experience in their lifetime. Some end up with the one they love by their side, some spend their lives alone, and others become carefree womanizers. What will become of Meng Haokong? This story has one heroine, or none at all.
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Back in the Game: Cleaning Up Officialdom 重出江湖之整治官场
A mob boss shakes up and cleans house in the political arena! [No idiotic characters, no System, light mystery] Black is black, and white is white, but the two can also change places! Even the righteous may do shameful things, while the wicked may do good for the country and its people. What matters is how you see things and what you believe, and whether you can answer to your conscience!
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May the Sun Always Shine Bright 希望阳光永远都炽热
[First person + based on real life + romance + urban slice of life + no System, no rebirth] A discarded son of a conglomerate is banished to the Western District. After a one-night stand, a beautiful woman starts pursuing him relentlessly, and somehow he even ends up at the police station. Ever since he met her, not a single day has gone smoothly! “I’ll pay you. Can’t you just leave?” “No!” Is it really so hard to be a devoted romantic?
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My Two Years of Hard Work Were Stolen: The Heiress Is Actually My Sister 两年心血被偷：豪门千金竟是我姐
Cheng Yiyan had imagined the worst that could happen to him: His business plan stolen, his girlfriend handed over to a rich heir, and being forced off the stage in front of everyone at a competition: "You think you belong at the head table?" He gritted his teeth and accepted it. He thought the biggest fight of his life would be getting back what had been stolen from him. Then two women knocked on his door, one after the other. One was calm and restrained. She helped steady the table for him, sai
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The Woman Reporter 女记者
Ye Yaya, a beautiful young reporter, faces emotional setbacks, financial hardship, and career struggles in a bustling, noisy city. She sheds tears and considers giving up, but in the end, she has the last laugh. In her, we see a reflection of our own efforts and pursuit of success, as well as the joys and sorrows we have all experienced...
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The 99th Blind Date 第99个相亲对象
[Blind dates + secret crush + sharp tongue + workplace] As the only daughter in her family, Qin Mingming is pushed onto the so-called “right path in life” after graduation. After finally finding a job, she discovers that the male lead has been in love with her for years without her knowing. On one side are the taboos of office romance; on the other, the male lead's heartfelt confession. What should she choose? If their meeting was fate, why did it make them take such a long, winding road to find
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The Flowers Blur My Eyes 乱花渐迷眼
Wen Juan and Lan Cheng were once a loving couple. They both had steady jobs and earned a comfortable living. On weekends and holidays, they often spent time with Wen Juan's classmate Li Run and his wife, Wang Ze and his wife. The two families were so close that they shared everything and had no secrets from each other. As time went by, Wen Juan, who loved playing mahjong, and Wang Ze, who loved it just as much, spent more and more time together. Before they knew it, their purely friendly feeling
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We Agreed to Date, Not Move In Together. Why Are You Taking This Seriously?! 说好只交往不同居，你咋玩真的！
[Single Female Lead] [Realistic] [Everyday Life] [Workplace] [Love-Hate Relationship] [No System] Gu Ming is an ordinary wage slave, but from the very start, his wealthy fiancée, Si Yi, brands him a gold digger. Keeping a secret he cannot explain, he makes a rash proposal in desperation, hoping to persuade her to agree to a deal. "We can date, but not live together. That's not asking too much, is it?" Instead, he gets nothing but mockery and disdain from her. "You? You think you're worthy?" But
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I Handed Over the Cultivation World, Was Betrayed, and Reborn 上交修仙界，被背刺后重生了
[Reborn] + [Two Worlds] + [Cultivation] + [righteous male lead] Lu Chen had always thought he was the protagonist of his own story. At eighteen, he found the key to the Cultivation world. He and his father were awarded the Federation's “Highest Honor Medal,” and the whole nation celebrated as everyone dreamed of ascending to immortality. But when cold shackles closed around his wrists, he finally understood: he had never been the protagonist. When profit was at stake, those self-righteous people
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Simple-Minded Ni 憨妮
Hanni is a woman who seems a little dim-witted to outsiders. She marries three men: the first is an ordinary man, the second a tycoon, and the third a young hoodlum. This is the story of her and the people around her, and how Hanni changes her fate...
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