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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At 21, I Worked Every Kind of Odd Job at the Bottom of Society 21岁，我打遍了底层的各种零工
For four years, I've been trying to cure an incurable illness by working odd jobs. [A slice-of-life story, light comedy, nothing too dark, personal growth, and a comeback. Give it a try...] Everyone cries at some point in their twenties. I'm no exception. What about you? Have you found a job? How is it going? At an age when our ambitions reach for the sky, I want to be the master of my own life. If I work fast enough, even the capitalists can't keep up with me! In the bustling city, everyone in
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- 152 After Our Flash Marriage, I Could No Longer Hide My Billionaire Identity 闪婚后，我的首富身份藏不住了 After a Flash Marriage, I Could No Longer Hide My Billionaire Identity 780Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 After the Divorce, I Fell for My Sister-in-Law 离婚后，爱上了小姨子 [Multiple heroines + urban life + workplace + comeback + twins + mystery of birth] Mu Yan is a live-in son-in-law, but after his business venture fails, the Lan family looks down on him. His wife, Lan Xin, chooses to divorce him, while her twin sister, Lan Rui, reveals her feelings and stands by Mu Yan through everything. They weather storms, endure heartache, clear up misunderstandings, and finally find happiness together. 804Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences Came to the Entertainment Industry to Poach Someone! The Haters Were Stunned 中科院来娱乐圈捞人！黑粉全蒙了
“Thanks to [If You're This Capable, Why Not Join the Chinese Academy of Sciences?] for sending a hundred Carnival gifts. Boss, you're invulnerable to bullets and blades.” After turning down yet another visit from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gu Ran turned around and explained the three ways to achieve controlled nuclear fusion to his fans. Other streamers' fans have an average education level of middle school. Gu Ran's fans average a PhD.
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The Wife I Met at the Civil Affairs Bureau Turned Out to Be a Millionaire 民政局捡到的老婆竟然是个富婆
Zhao Muyuan was delivering divorce papers to his boss when he found himself a wife outside the Civil Affairs Bureau. “Why do you carry your household registration booklet around with you?” Xiang Qiu was at a loss for words. Zhao Muyuan held the booklet, eagerly waiting for her to act on impulse. “Congratulations, you are now legally married.”
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- 156 Starting with The Voice, a Demon King of the Music Scene Is Born 开局好声音歌坛魔王降世 [Entertainment, daily life, one female lead, sweet romance, competition, charity] Five chapters updated punctually every day at midnight. Come by and follow along! Against the backdrop of a cultural war, Xiao Bang, who transmigrates and returns from studying abroad, draws on the entertainment culture of the entire Earth. Together with his friends, he competes on the international stage and rises to become the greatest superstar. His current titles include God of Song, Guqin Master, Piano Master, 32.7kReads9.0Score2.4kShelves
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The Official Road, Starting at Level Three 官道，从三段开始
My name is Bu Qingyun. (I hold a senior government post and have a fortune worth over a hundred million.) Let me tell you a secret. Ever since I was in elementary school, entering politics has been the light of my ideals and the flame of my ambition. It was buried in my heart like a seed, ready to take root and sprout as soon as the soil was right...
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- 158 Adoption into the Family 过继 This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable... 29.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 159 The Great Exposé of Showbiz Scandals 娱乐黑料大起底 [No rebirth] [No copying songs] [No cheating] [No wish fulfillment] [Entertainment PR + workplace intrigue] An entertainment-industry story unlike the rest. With my left hand, I expose scandals; with my right, I handle PR. I'm both sides of every argument, controlling everything and making a fortune. A dark, realistic style, with human nature driving the story. This is a vivid, heartfelt tale rooted in reality. (Summary of the supporting characters: I once chased Wen while following Youyou, An'a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Enlisting, Starting with Soldiers Assault 从士兵突击开始入伍 [A Fictional World, Don’t Take It Too Seriously!] [No System. The golden finger only improves physical fitness; it’s nothing miraculous! No going with San Duo!] The protagonist, Li Xiang, couldn’t enlist in his previous life because of his health. Reborn into a military family in a new world, he doesn’t realize until after graduating from college that he’s in a military drama. After being specially recruited by Old A, he begins his military career. 25kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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Clear-Eyed in the Mortal World: I Pretend to Be Mediocre in the Cubicle 人间清醒：我在格子间装平庸
Ouyang Bei was a graduate of a prestigious university, yet he was content to work as a sales representative at a company. He seemed to lack ambition, but few people understood his world. The trials of society can slowly strip the innocence from a green young man. Beneath an appearance of maturity, loneliness begins... Perhaps you will find a reflection of yourself here.
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- 162 Childhood Friends in the Mountain Village 山村里的青梅竹马 The story spans from the late 1970s to the twenty-first century, following two generations of the Ou family as their tangled relationships unfold from village to city, from desolation to prosperity. Childhood sweethearts become sworn enemies, repeatedly struggling between family and love, reality and ideals. As the times shift and human hearts prove unfathomable, will they succumb to money and power, or awaken in the dead of night, haunted by their dreams? Where will those struggling in the ways 41Reads—Score102Shelves
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A Hundred-Million-Yuan Jackpot: A Poor Civil Servant Turns the Tables 一亿巨奖：穷困公务员逆风翻盘
With elderly parents to support and children to raise, his life is crushingly stressful. A low-level civil servant whose career has hit a dead end finally bounces back from rock bottom and wins a massive lottery jackpot. See how Chen Mo turns the tables against all odds and shoots to success.
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A Song of Life's Sorrows 生命悲歌
[Human nature + family + first person + male and female audiences] (Adapted into an audio drama with real voice actors; a motion comic is in production and coming soon.) Fate is never set in advance, yet it always pushes people toward unknown wilderness when they least expect it. The Ballad of Life uses simple, heartfelt storytelling to unfold a journey through hardship, perseverance, and struggle, revealing the most moving strength found in an ordinary life. There are no earth-shattering legend
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After Taking a Pay Cut and Quietly Giving Up, My Boss Begged Me for Forgiveness All Night 降薪摆烂后，老板连夜跪求我原谅
After My Pay Was Cut, I Started Slacking Off. My Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Forgive Him That Very Night
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- 166 After Being Demoted and Quietly Giving Up, My Incompetent Boss Begged Me to Accept a Promotion 降职摆烂后，草包领导跪求我升职 After I Was Demoted and Started Slacking Off, My Incompetent Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Promote Me 2.5kReads—Score—Shelves
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Go Crazy Over Your Moonlight, Then Cry When Your Boss Falls for Me 你跟白月光疯，女上司爱我你哭啥
[Officialdom + business + workplace + power and desire + men and women: What could drive people this mad?] Enough already! At thirty, a man shouldn't have to face a conspiracy to strip him of his position, the betrayal of his pregnant fiancée after seven years together, the merciless bullying of his beautiful boss, a terminal illness, and constant rejection and abuse from everyone around him! No, I'm done holding back! Just as he learns that his fiancée is about to get together with her white mo
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- 168 During My Confinement, I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out 月子里，我赶跑了婆婆 I Kicked My Mother-in-Law Out During My Postpartum Month 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 169 My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Her Grave 不听劝的婆婆归西了 My Stubborn Mother-in-Law Went to Meet Her Maker 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Don't Want to Work Overtime? Then Get Out! I Did, So Why Is My Boss Begging Me to Come Back? 不加班就滚？真滚了，老板又跪下来求我干什么？ “If You Won't Work Overtime, Then Get Lost!” I Really Left, So Why Is the Boss Kneeling and Begging Me to Come Back? 129Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 After the Intern Was Thrust into the Role, the Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Take Over 实习生赶鸭子上架后，老板哭着跪求我上位 After the Intern Was Thrown in at the Deep End, the Boss Wept and Begged Me to Take Over 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 All These Years Working Away from Home 外出打工这些年 Ever since Yu Xiaobai married Wu Jiajia, who loved wealth and despised poverty, he hasn’t had a single peaceful day... She turned their home upside down, then teamed up with her first boyfriend to make off with all the money he had worked so hard to earn. He indulged and cherished her in every way, but still couldn’t change Wu Jiajia’s determination to divorce him... After Wu Jiajia asked for a divorce for the umpteenth time, Yu Xiaobai finally chose to leave this absurd marriage and let them bo 179Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 A False Marriage 假嫁 Lang Xi, a businesswoman bent on revenge, is willing to put herself in harm’s way and marry her enemy’s son, Liu Ze. But Liu Ze cheats on her repeatedly during their marriage. Hounded by her mother-in-law and locked in a bitter struggle with his mistress, Lang Xi joins forces with her biological father, Liu Huazi, to avenge her mother and reclaim her grandfather’s estate. Lang Xi’s monologue: After I married into this family, my mother-in-law hit me, my husband hit me, and even his mistress hit 134Reads—Score—Shelves
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Back to 1992: No Rush to Get a Cadre Position 重回九二：干部编制我不着急
The 1990s are a time of surging change, and veteran Wang Zhenshan is reborn. In his previous life, the K3 robbery claimed the lives of his family and friends, leaving him with lifelong regrets. This time, he refuses to be confined to a secure government post. He puts down roots in Qinghe Township, starts a pharmaceutical company, and helps the locals grow prosperous. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the capital brings him to the attention of a senior official. One phone call that l
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Tiptoe 足尖
Main Couple: Hua Qinghe x Yu Xiaozhou Modern city life. A cheerful, funny principal dancer whom everyone inexplicably thinks is aloof, and a somewhat oblivious, quick-tempered newcomer who bravely pursues his dreams for the idol in his heart. [Modern Setting, Older Top, Everyday Life] [Two Male Leads, HE, 1v1] -- Hua Qinghe is Yu Xiaozhou's idol. For his sake, Yu Xiaozhou got into his alma mater. For his sake, he splurged on a front-row ticket to one of his performances. For his sake, he went th
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101 Blind Dates 101次相亲
Urban light comedy + healing realism + delicious food and beautiful scenery + a woman’s growth Chen Xiaomo is a 26-year-old unmarried woman living in a second-tier city. After earning a graduate degree from a non-elite university, she finds a job as a non-tenure-track English instructor at a university. Then begins her romantic, fantastical, and heart-pounding journey through blind dates...
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Me and My Dongguan Sisters 我与东莞姐姐
[A Tale of Passion and Brotherhood] [Love and Longing] Gao Yang, a country boy with an uncanny talent, leaves his hometown for the first time! He heads to Dongguan to seek refuge with his older sister, only to discover that people are far more sinister than they seem. Through a series of coincidences, he ends up working in a factory, quickly rises through the ranks, and finds himself surrounded by romantic prospects. In the end, he gets dragged into a gang war and sets out on a path of no return
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She Works as a Maid for a Shenzhen Tycoon 她在深圳豪门做保姆
After her husband divorces her, a nurse from a small county town heads south to Shenzhen to support her child and put her younger brother through school. After losing her job, she is hired as a nanny by Miss Chen, a wealthy heiress. She goes through being framed, misunderstood, dismissed, earning her first savings, suffering a miscarriage after being beaten, and heartbreak. In the end, she marries a local bachelor and becomes the leading lady of a wealthy family. As Miss Chen’s nanny, she witnes
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- 179 The Awakening of a Middle-Aged Woman 一个中年女人的觉醒 [Family of Origin vs. the Fortress of Marriage] Chen Qingchen, an only child, is madly in love. She steals her household register and marries Lin Jiaxin, a man from a poor family who has made it on his own, unaware of what awaits her: a sharp-tongued mother-in-law who makes her life difficult, her father’s sudden death, her mother being forced out of the home, and underhanded attacks at work. When she hits rock bottom, two women become her lifelines. Her tough mother stands firmly behind her, wh 7.9kReads8.5Score764Shelves
- 180 Officialdom: I Became a Powerful Figure’s Most Trusted Aide 官场：我成了大佬的铁杆心腹 Su Jin was reborn at the moment he started his career in government in 2013. From the start, he was at the civil service provincial exam interview. Sorry, interviewers, but to take first place, I’m going to quietly set a little trap and get you all to back me… 910Reads6.7Score—Shelves
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I Think I Walked into the Wrong Blind Date Venue 我好像走错了相亲会场
(Ratings have only just opened, but they’re sure to keep climbing. The author has completed a million-word novel, so read with confidence.) When the family arranged a blind date for Shanghai, he somehow ended up at Auntie Wang’s matchmaking event next door, and everything changed. She thought he was broke. She thought he was a little brother. She thought he was a shut-in. She thought he was a warm-hearted guy. Four women, four entirely different lives. In the end, which one will he choose? In th
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I Told You to Go Undercover, Not Hit on the Boss's Wife! 让你卧底，没让你勾搭大嫂！
[Decisive and ruthless + never a saintly heroine + multiple heroines + wildly satisfying] Lei Zhen transmigrates to a parallel world in 1995. Starting out as a low-level underling, he rises through the ranks with ruthless force, amassing wealth and beautiful women until he rules everything with an iron fist!
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My Tattooed Girlfriend Became a Top-Tier Star in Music 我的花臂女友成了乐坛顶流
This is the story of a talented young man who escapes his suffocating family and meets a girl singing for money on the streets of Gulangyu. She sings and plays; he writes lyrics. Through music, they save each other, and she eventually becomes a top-tier star. She took a drag. Her lips pursed slightly, then parted, and a cloud of smoke drifted from her mouth. As the smoke dispersed, she spoke. “Broke, but you still want to request a song. If I’d known you couldn’t pay, I’d have spent those few mi
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My First Love, the CEO, or an AI Puppy Boy? 初恋总裁还是AI奶狗
[Not AI or web fiction. High-IQ mind games, steamy and intensely sweet, clear-headed heroine, four men competing for her, suspenseful and funny.] [The first volume will end in four more chapters. If there are enough comments, the author may write a second volume about married life.] A neuroscience PhD returns home and joins a pharmaceutical startup, where she gets both a free luxury home and an annual salary in the millions. The owner of the house asks her to test an AI robot, but she never expe
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A Sensual Life: It Begins with Winning 900 Million in the Lottery 香艳人生，从彩票中奖九亿开始
[A windfall from the start]+ [A sharp-minded protagonist]+ [Dual storylines of politics and business]+ [Secrets of the gray economy]+ [A glimpse of the Heavenly Palace]+ [Leaping through the Dragon Gate]+ [Celestial privilege]
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- 186 My Restarted Life in 1992 我的重启人生1992 (The first thirty-some chapters lay the groundwork, so please be patient. The rest won't disappoint.) Zhou Andong never thought of himself as a good person. He figured that after he died, Hell would have to open a nineteenth level just to throw him into it. So one day in 2021, he did the first good deed of his life: he saved a pregnant woman from being hit by a speeding car. Perhaps Heaven was moved by his change of heart and sent him back to 1992, an era still dominated by traditional thinking. 67.1kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
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I Hid in a Cabinet with the CEO to Catch the Other Woman 为了抓小三我和总裁躲进柜子里
I Hid in a Closet with the CEO to Catch My Husband Cheating
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- 188 Reborn: Starting with Financial Freedom 重生从财务自由开始 (A feel-good everyday story with no angst for the protagonist. Come give it a try.) The world was never fair. Some people are born into privilege, while others are born to toil. After returning to his youth, Chen Ze finally realized how colorful life among the privileged could be. The story... begins in 2018. 75.8kReads8.2Score3.1kShelves
- 189 My Sister-in-Law Borrowed Money to Help Her Lover Get an Abortion 姑姐回娘家借钱给小三打胎 My Sister-in-Law Returned to Her Parents’ Home to Borrow Money for Her Lover’s Abortion 315Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table 女儿要卖房创业，我掀了饭桌
My Daughter Wants to Sell the House to Start a Business, So I Flipped the Dinner Table
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A Room With the Lights Dimmed 一室暗灯
That day, I groveled before a billionaire, wagging my tail for his approval. I thought he was my salvation when I had nowhere else to turn. All I got was one humiliation after another. I became the biggest joke in his circle. Later, I accidentally stumbled upon his secret, peeling back layer after layer of his heart until grief brought me to tears. And he peeled mine open too, only to stab it viciously, once, twice... countless times. Ruan Qing, who brought me into the industry, was once an inn
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- 192 My Relative Took Me to Rent a Haunted House 亲戚带我租凶宅 A Relative Took Me to Rent a Haunted House 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 You Try to Guilt-Trip Me and Pull Strings? I'm the Kind Who Shows No Mercy, Not Even to Family 道德绑架还想走后门？我可是六亲不认的主 You try to guilt-trip me and pull strings? I'm the sort who disowns even my own family. 267Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 After I Bought a House, My Aunts Ruined My Family and Left Me with Nothing 买房后，我被姑姑们害得家破人亡 After I Bought a House, My Aunts Destroyed My Family and Left Me with Nothing 228Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Happy Life of Lin Yulan, a Sharp-Tongued Woman in the 1970s 七十年代之贫嘴林玉兰的幸福生活
My new novel, A Lively Life in the Sixties: Revenge First, Gossip Later, is now available! Every character is a piece of work, with revenge, scoundrels getting what they deserve, and plenty of beatings. It’s a different kind of story. If you’re interested, give it a try. Thanks for your support! [Reborn + no pocket dimension + no System + no golden finger + romance, with a cheerful and heartwarming tone] Liu Jie’s parents divorced in her previous life, and she lived alone with her grandmother.
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- 196 I Kissed the Top-Tier Star on Set from Morning Till Night, and My Ex, the Movie Emperor, Went Mad with Regret 我和顶流在剧组从早亲到晚，前任影帝悔疯了 I Kissed the Top-Tier Star from Morning till Night on Set, and My Ex, the Best Actor, Went Crazy with Regret 329Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 My Fiancé Made Me Take the Fall for My Best Friend, Never Knowing I Was the Real Heiress 未婚夫让我替闺蜜顶罪，没想到我才是真千金 My Fiancé Asked Me to Take the Fall for My Best Friend, Never Expecting That I Was the Real Heiress 293Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 My Sister Is Boy-Crazy, So Why Is Everything My Fault? 妹妹恋爱脑，怎么都是我这个姐姐的错？ My sister is hopelessly lovesick. How is everything somehow my fault as her older sister? 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Brother, My Blind Date Is Better Than You 哥哥，我的相亲对象比你好 Big brother, my blind date is better than you 287Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 Chasing Girls: A Crazy Romance 追女仔之反斗情缘 [Wooing Women + Pranks and Laughs + Wits and Nerve + Laugh-Out-Loud Fun + Light Novel + A Life of Comedy] Hong Kong in the 1980s. Advertising wunderkind Cheng Lang boasts in Lan Kwai Fong that he can win over the most beautiful woman in all of Hong Kong in three sentences. Instead, radio host Lin Wanqing humiliates him in public. And it gets even worse: the very next day, she moves into the apartment across from his. From glue smeared by the doorway to water balloons hung in the elevator and pub —Reads—Score—Shelves
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