Any Novels About Everyday Urban Life That Feel Close to Reality? 有没有那种,贴近现实生活题材的小说,都市日常。
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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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24 Days and 24 Hours 24天和24小时
24 Days and 24 Hours
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You Want Me to Kneel? Then I'll Send You All to Northern Myanmar 让我下跪?那我只好送你们去缅北
[Underdog's Comeback]+ [Trade Space]+ [Devil Fruit]+ [Multiverse]+ [the Myriad Worlds]+ [China's Rise] Also known as: Transmigrated into a Book, Trading Across Worlds, I Trade Rice for Advanced Technology Parallel-universe Blue Star. Jiang Lan transmigrates into the body of a minor cannon-fodder character and binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Trade Space. His first friend: Jiang Lan trades rice for advanced technology! His second friend: Jiang Lan gets a Devil Fruit and three kinds of Haki! His
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For Revenge, I Told My Wife to Seduce Someone Else 为了复仇,我叫妻子勾引别人
For Revenge, I Had My Wife Seduce Someone Else
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The Strongest Man to Emerge from Vocational School 从职校走出的强者
When Li Feng stepped into vocational school, his life began to change... Youth is meant to be lived boldly and without restraint! A legend is about to unfold! May you roam far and wide, then return still young at heart...
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The Mangroves and Lychee Fragrance Bay 红树林与荔香湾
[Troubled families + drifting careers + tangled romances + unpredictable personalities + tragedy] [A realist tragedy! Readers looking for feel-good wish fulfillment, stay away.] A group of young people who chose the wrong majors and ended up in the wrong fields! In reality, ideals beckon; in pursuit of ideals, reality pulls you back. How do you reconcile the two? Is a person’s misfortune caused by their circumstances, their personality, or fate? Two young women stood before Wu Yifan. Anxious and
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You Asked Me to Take Your Sister to School, and You Got Together with the Teacher? 让你送妹妹上学,你和老师好上了
[Easygoing daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [No System]+ [Not reborn] Jiang Ning is an obscure online novelist who loves writing romance. When his parents had to go back to their hometown to visit relatives, he was tasked with taking his younger sister to school to register. He thought it would be an ordinary first-day registration, never suspecting that the wheels of fate had begun to turn. Jiang Wan: “Bro, do you like Teacher Zhang? I think she’s great. I want her to be my sister-in-law!” He t
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My Mother-in-Law’s Secrets and Schemes 婆婆的秘密与阴谋
My Mother-in-Law's Secrets and Schemes
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My Girl in the White Dress 我的白裙姑娘
[Not reborn + no System + multiple female leads + first person + workplace + no harem + one at a time] What? My first love, an ex-girlfriend I haven't seen in four years, is forcing me to choose between her and my current girlfriend? Then I'll choose to make money first. Using the business resources my late father left behind, I'll climb to the top of the business world one step at a time. And if that doesn't work out, my lovely ladies in white dresses, I'll take you one by one. My heart is big
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Ten Days, Eighteen-Year-Old Great-Grandma, I'm Not a Scumbag 十日十八岁太奶我不是渣男
[Urban Imagination] [Surreal] [Multiple Female Leads] [Beijing-Circle Heiresses] [Beautiful Women Around the World] [Entertainment Industry Stars] [Web-Novel Heroines] [Most Beautiful Heroines on Screen]
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The Wind Sweeps Through Xizhou City 风过西周城
The long-running anti-corruption novel The Wind Sweeps Through Xizhou City has thirty-one chapters and a total of 260,000 words. It tells the story of the offices in Xizhou County, a county town on the western plains. Career and romance, social relationships and the ways of the world, survival and workplace advancement: a series of collisions between people and events, feelings and rules, conscience and human nature paints a vivid, tangled portrait of ordinary people at the grassroots level. It
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I Discovered My Mother's Secret 我发现了母亲的秘密
I Discovered My Mother’s Secret
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Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事
Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside
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The Live-Action Anime World 真人日漫界
In the future, global attitudes toward marriage and relationships have become warped, and nobody gets married or has children. As a result, the population has plummeted, leaving only 120 million people worldwide. Eastland has 38 million survivors, its cities lie in decline, and human civilization stands on the brink of extinction.
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The Boy I Thought Was My Little Brother 那个我以为是弟弟的男孩子
I met him through his older sister, who was my deskmate. He was a year below me. Since he and three of his classmates rented rooms in my house, we were always hanging out together. I thought we were just friends, or maybe even like siblings. After all, I thought of him as my deskmate’s little brother, and as my own little brother too. The truth was, we had fallen for each other while spending all that time together. Sadly, I only dared to flirt and never dared to say it out loud. He was a year a
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Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风
[Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn.
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Shanghai Auntie’s AI Male Model 沪上阿姨AI男模
The protagonist, Wang Chen, struggles to survive in an apocalyptic world during the Great Depression, then unexpectedly transmigrates to an alternate-world Shanghai in the 1990s. And so Wang Chen’s happy life begins!
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When the Music Ends, We Part: Part One 曲终人散第一部
The protagonist, Chongzi, is a terrible person! Because of relevant laws and regulations, I can't fully write about just how terrible he is. So the ending he gets is only to be expected. This is an ordinary, unremarkable story, not a power fantasy and unrelated to transmigration. It's so ordinary you could see something like it happening in everyday life. It might not be very appealing, but the author did their best. This is the best I can do. If you think it's decent, look for the second book,
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After Breaking Off My Engagement, I Embroidered Spring Into the Old Alley 退婚后,我把旧巷绣成了春天
Before the engagement banquet began, Lin Jianzhi received a text demanding payment. Her fiancé had forged her signature and mortgaged Qinghe Embroidery House, which her grandmother had safeguarded for forty years. She broke off the engagement on the spot and returned to the old streets of Linxi with a debt in hand. Creditors hounded her, a tourism company pressured her to move, and the embroidery house faced the loss of its legacy, but she refused to wait for anyone to save her. Drawing on her b
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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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Reborn: The Number One Consortium, Rewards for Every Employee Hired 重生:第一财团,招员工就有奖励
In his previous life, he chased after the campus belle for years, but she still treated him with indifference. After being reborn, he gets an employee System. To his utter surprise, the first person he hires is a mature, stunning female secretary who turns out to be the campus belle herself...
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Reborn, I Only Want to Build My Career, but I Keep Finding True Love 重生后我只想搞事业,偏偏遇真爱
Rising from the ashes, she leaves old dreams behind. She devotes herself to business and breaks free of her confines. She never meant to fall in love, but love found her anyway, and both her career and romance flourish. That year, Su Wan was reborn with the regrets of her past life and vowed to escape her tragic fate and focus on building her career… “In my past life, I let love ruin everything. In this life, I’m chasing money and never looking back.” Drawing on her knowledge of the future, she
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年
After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘
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Should I Forgive My Older Sister? Will My Beloved Younger Sister Agree? 原谅姐姐?宠我的妹妹同意吗?
[Urban Life + No Forgiveness + Male-Oriented] Orphan Su Chen longs for the warmth of a family, willingly becoming a stand-in for the Chu family's real young master and serving his seven older sisters. But on the very day their younger brother was found, they abandoned Su Chen and drove him out of the house. They had no idea that without Su Chen, this family couldn't hold itself together. The eldest sister, Chu Yiyi, took over the Chu Group, surrounded by ravenous rivals. It was only with Su Chen
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A Spring Rainy Night Like the Sound of Mountains 一夜春雨似山鸣
[A devoted, restrained media mogul vs. a cool, distant career queen] [Fated connection | Emotional growth | Love that grows over time | A slow and steady romance | Sweet yet heartbreaking | A realistic slow burn] A year ago, two people who had each lost the one they loved met by chance in the drizzle after a funeral. He saw the desolate fragments in her eyes. She saw the icy lake in his. A borrowed flame warmed them for a brief moment. She thought it was nothing more than a fleeting encounter
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I Broke Up with a Marriage-Matching Teacher, and the Country Rewarded Me with Ten Million 分手配婚女老师,国家奖励一千万
Also known as: [Big Data Marriage Matching] + [Sweet Romance with No Angst] + [The Ex’s Regret] “Ye Chen, we… should break up…” On the eve of graduation, faced with the choice between love and a future in the entertainment industry, Lin Xiaoxue ultimately chose the latter. The next day, Ye Chen took part in a big data marriage-matching program. To the envy of countless people, he was matched with Cheng Bingyuan, the number one goddess teacher at Mo University. And their compatibility score was a
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My Years in the Wedding Business 我干婚庆这些年
[Life's Big Events + Wedding Industry + Northeastern Comedy + Everyday Family Life + Rich Older Women + Older Sisters] Jin Ge is a male makeup artist and photographer. After personally reporting his biological father and sending him to prison, he returned to his hometown to protect his mother from his father's enemies. He took over the family wedding business, and because of his professional makeup skills, many couples hired him to handle their weddings. The work also gave him a chance to see wh
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Ten Years After Our No-Frills Wedding 裸婚10年后
For ten years of marriage, Qin Xiaoxiao has been working toward buying a home and putting down roots. She and her husband scrimped and saved until they had 100,000 yuan, hoping to buy a secondhand house. Then her father-in-law fell seriously ill, and the medical bills wiped out every last penny. Their home-buying plans fell through, their hopes were crushed, and conflicts between the couple and between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law grew more frequent. She was desperate and full of regret. Bu
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Feasting on the Sea! The Idyllic Life of a Treasure-Hunting Fisherman! 吃海!寻宝渔夫的写意人生!
To get back the money he earned through sweat and toil, Zhou Yu chases his runaway boss to the seaside. But the scumbag has already abandoned his family, leaving behind his beautiful daughter as collateral for his debt. To his surprise, the girl not only gives him a golden finger, but also teaches him how to fish…
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Cuihua's World 翠花的人世间
In the early 1980s, Old Zhang of Zhangjia Village had eight children: six sons and two daughters. Dayong, Eryong, and Cuilan all got married on the same day. The Zhang family married off two children and welcomed one bride into the family. Eryong became a live-in son-in-law. Being a live-in son-in-law is great. He earned that for himself. With five more children still waiting to marry, Old Zhang was gored to death by an ox. His wife was beside herself with worry. Sanyong went off to work, Siyong
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My Daughter Took Her Life on the Tracks After Falling into Depression. I Was Reborn to Make Amends 女儿抑郁卧轨,我重生赎罪
Guo Fan lived in abject poverty, leading a life of drunken debauchery like one of the Sanhe day laborers. His life revolved around alcohol and cigarettes. This unfit father nevertheless had a daughter, Guo Xiaohan, who excelled both academically and in character. But growing up without a father's love, Guo Xiaohan developed severe depression. Then, one midsummer day, she skipped school and jumped from the train platform. “Dad, thank you for taking care of me for these fifteen years. Your unfilia
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The Unhinged Woman of the 90s: I Started Getting Rich Working in Dongguan 九零女疯批:致富从东莞打工开始
A realistic story set in the 1990s, with no rebirth, transmigration, or golden finger. Everyone in Anziping knows An Xiaowu is a total psycho. She's not only crazy but vicious, picking fights that turn into life-or-death struggles at the drop of a hat. But no one expected her to be so ruthless that she wouldn't spare even her own family. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she fights her father for her life. "What's so special about New Year? If you mess with me, I'll dig you out of your cof
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Four College Students and Their Life as Roommates After Graduation 四个大学生,毕业后的合租生活
Everyday life, Urban setting, flirtation, awkwardness, blushing and heart-pounding moments, warmth, comedy, love, and friendship all run through this story. It follows four college students: the fair-skinned and clean-cut Su Ran, the scholarly Chen Yu, the tall and muscular Li Yang, and the gentle, thoughtful, sexy, and bold Wang Yue. After graduation, the four share a rental, or perhaps a group rental, and experience all the little moments of living together. It's not addictive, but it's light
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Tycoon: Fresh Out of Prison, Nine Campus Beauties Block My Door and Call Me Dad 神豪:刚出狱,九校花堵门喊我爸
[Ultra-rich dad + nine beautiful daughters + released-from-prison story + no System + one heroine + sweet romance + cozy everyday life] Sin Prison, in the land of Huaxia, is a facility for the most heinous criminals. Anyone who enters is never released! Ye An is thirty-nine when he gets out of prison. He’s middle-aged, and the world has changed beyond recognition. Fortunately, he unexpectedly activates the Quantum Superpower Wife-and-Daughter Ring. “The Quantum Superpower Wife-and-Daughter Ring,
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That Village, Those People, That Fool 那村那人那傻瓜
One field, one home, and two people: a simple life shared for a long time is what really matters! A hardworking, kindhearted country girl vs. a devoted, doting husband who treats her like a loyal puppy. A warm and simple story of everyday family life! This story takes place in a small village. Hehua, the eldest daughter of the Li family in the west of the village, married Changsheng, who lived in the east... Changsheng never spoke to anyone and couldn't recognize his neighbors. He didn't even kn
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Heartbeat Countdown: Waiting for You to Step Down 心动倒计时:等你卸任
I’d barely graduated from college when I put the campus goddess teacher on maternity leave! After Lin Feng was dumped by his girlfriend, he never expected to spend a night with the school’s goddess teacher! What caught Lin Feng even more off guard was that the goddess was pregnant with his child! And so, under the watchful eyes of their students and colleagues, the two temporarily began living together… [Everyday life] + [Dad life] + [Adorable kids] + [One heroine]
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The Everyday Life of a Farm Couple 农家夫妻的日常
[Family life + slow-burn romance + marriage first, love later + no System + no transmigration] Meixiang was orphaned as a child. Her uncle and aunt shamelessly took over her family’s brick house, claiming they needed it to “look after their late brother’s orphan.” To keep using her as free labor for a few more years, they made sure she remained unmarried until she was nineteen. In the end, they even tried to sell her to a landowner in his sixties as a concubine, for ten taels of silver. To avo
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Back in 2010: I Predicted James Would Join the Heat 重回2010,预言詹姆斯去热火
No System + a little wish fulfillment + getting revenge on his unrequited love + business management + basketball + League of Legends. Song Qing was so enraged by the Lakers’ management in the summer of 2024 that he passed out, only to find himself in the 2010 college entrance exam hall. The NBA Finals and World Cup are just around the corner, and Bitcoin, League of Legends, livestream sales, short videos, and countless other opportunities await him. With the ability to predict the future, Song
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Everyday Life Beginning in 1955 从1955年开始的日常生活
1. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. 2. There are no golden fingers, no golden fingers, no golden fingers. 3. This is not a courtyard-house novel. 4. The plot is bland, the writing is long-winded, and there are other flaws. 5. Two female leads, two female leads, two female leads. In that era, such relationships were “common,” meaning the only two kinds of romance bearing the strongest “mark of the era” were “ill-fated entanglements” and the romance in this novel. So there must be two female
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Reborn in 1985: The Young Trailblazer 重生1985之少年领航
From the start, he is sent back to first grade. No System, no cheat. How will Wang Yu, a Go master in his previous life, turn things around? Watch me craft a world with one brilliant move after another, and shape the universe with a keen mind. From amateur to professional, from teahouses to the world stage: adults don't have to choose. I want it all.
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The Woman on the Yellow River Beach 黄河滩上的女人
This is a winding and unexpected story. Mei, the heroine who lives on an isolated island, is born in an era that favors boys over girls. Through her own hard work and determination, she brings prosperity to her hometown and fulfills her dreams. Girls can hold up half the sky, too.
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The Number One Brother 一哥
The short drama A Brother is now streaming on Hongguo, with a surprise in store! I used to be a gang boss. Now I’m just a food delivery rider. Ever since I could remember, my father, a former soldier, had been a drunk with a nasty temper. Whenever he got drunk, he liked to beat my mother, often leaving her black and blue. Later, my parents divorced, and while trying to earn money for tuition, I went astray! I had no choice back then. Now, I just want to be a good person!
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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A Motherless Child, Cared for by His Sister-in-Law 没妈的孩子,嫂子疼
[Period drama + No System or storage space] After my adoptive parents died in a car accident, my older brother Zhang Dakui and I depended on each other. Ever since Dakui brought my sister-in-law Liu Chunmei home, our lives changed. And so did my life...
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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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The Weekly Menu Changes at Random, and Customers Beg Me to Set Up My Stall 每周美食随机换,顾客跪求我出摊
[Food] [Cozy Everyday Life] [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Feel-Good] Jiang Feng was sick of his nine-to-six office job. Wanting to be free, he quit and set up a food stall, only to unexpectedly awaken a Food System that unlocked a random dish every week! “Holy crap, I was worried I wouldn’t make money selling food from a stall, but with a System, making money should be a piece of cake!” Jiang Feng thought he’d enjoy a wonderful life where he could open his stall whenever he wanted and sleep in as l
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Hello, Mr. Doraemon 你好,哆啦A梦先生
I had only wanted to live an easy, carefree life as an ordinary person. But when my childhood sweetheart and first CEO girlfriend married someone else for the sake of profit, and my beautiful second girlfriend, a painter, sacrificed herself for power, I realized I couldn't keep being a pushover. I had to fight back! When I finally stood at the top of the pyramid, I gave life a resounding shout...
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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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Officialdom: Soaring Ninety Thousand Miles 官场:扶摇直上九万里
People say you can’t become an official without connections at court, but Qin Yi, reborn into a new life, doesn’t agree. Opportunity comes from careful planning. Only by paving the way at court every step of the way can you rise to the highest ranks! In his previous life, he was wrongfully imprisoned, his prospects ruined, and he died alone. This time, starting by saving a female official from the provincial capital, he seizes every opportunity to climb the ranks, make up for his regrets, and so
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The Evening Breeze Never Asks When You'll Return 晚风不问归期
In a bustling, noisy city, Lu Ze is a struggling programmer, weighed down by heartbreak and the pressures of daily life. Lost and lonely, he no longer knows where he is headed. This is a story about loss and growth, a journey through love and self-redemption. Perhaps we have all lost our way in the evening breeze, but there will always be a light waiting to guide you home.
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