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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Reborn, Pregnant from the Start? Relax, I Have a Spirit Spring 重生开局先怀孕?淡定,咱有灵泉
[Spirit spring + everyday country life (with a small ensemble cast)] A heads-up: [The heroine returns to the countryside to make a fortune! The male lead appears late, so don't fuss over prices. Don't compare it to real life, and if anything seems unrealistic, just assume it's an author's invention!] In her previous life, Dai Fanfan graduated from college and spent ten years twisting screws at a steel mill. After a nap, she wakes up back at her college graduation reunion! Before she can even thi
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Shenzhen, Beguiling After Dark 深圳,夜色迷人
A tale of business rivalries and political intrigue set against the backdrop of Shenzhen, following Chen Binnan’s remarkable journey south in pursuit of success. This story is dedicated to all the brothers who have headed south, north, or east to make their way in the world!
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Love Is Simple 爱很简单
Before I became a billionaire, I was always searching for love. What is love? I hope you can find the answer in this book. This book is about love, desire, life, philosophy, gender equality, and society's discrimination against women...
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Those Years Working in Lingnan 岭南打工那些年
This work is a realistic urban novel based on my own experience of heading south to Guangdong for work in the late 1980s. It might be more accurate to call it a memoir of migrant work than a novel. The characters are all based on my colleagues, fellow villagers, and friends I knew well! I chose to write in the first person so that everyone in these pages would feel vivid and real, with a soul of their own. I hope readers will find the voice warm and familiar as they read or listen in their spare
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The Season of Staying Behind 留守季节
A portrait of the emotional lives of people left behind in today’s society. The protagonists are ordinary people living at the bottom of society, all of them among those left behind. Yet through their lives, we glimpse the many facets of modern society and feel their tenacity and determination as they struggle against their inner turmoil and fate!
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Other Undercover Agents Get Nervous, but You Go Undercover with Kidney Deficiency? 别人卧底心虚,你去卧底肾虚?
[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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Reborn in 2001: The Campus Beauties Are So Understanding 重生零一:校花们太懂事
[Lighthearted daily life + Reborn + Urban + Rise to Power] Reborn in 2001, Tang Que is in the middle of confessing his feelings outside the women’s dormitory when he abruptly changes course. He gives up on the campus belle Zhou Shanshan and chooses instead to confess to her roommate, Xia Qingluan.
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Reborn, I Quit Chasing Her. Now the Campus Goddess Is Panicking 重生拒舔,女神校花她急了
[Not a single heroine, read at your own risk] Chen Qingzhou is reborn at the confession scene twenty years earlier, just after the college entrance exams. The moment he opens his eyes, the campus belle he spent nine years fawning over in his previous life rejects him again. “I like you, but not enough.” “Try a little harder, and maybe I’ll fall for you.” “If I ever date anyone, I’ll definitely choose you.” “My studies come first. I don’t want to date.” “Chen Qingzhou, this is my boyfriend. Come
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Reborn and Kicked Out of My Home, I Talked the Campus Belle into Street Vending 重生被赶出家门,忽悠校花摆地摊
[Reborn]+ [multiple heroines]+ [everyday flirting]+ [school beauties]+ [business and making money]+ [no System] Back to the summer after the college entrance exams, Chen Changliu is forced to leave home. With just over 900 yuan to his name, he sets out to earn his first fortune. As he pursues financial freedom and builds a vast business empire, he finds himself surrounded by: His high school classmate, the stunning school beauty who was his unattainable first love; The alluring, incomparable sch
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Reborn, I Raise All Kinds of Campus Beauties, and the Goddesses Are Panicking 重生后养成各类校花,女神急哭了
[Urban Slice of Life] [Comedy] [Campus Belle] [Slow-Burn, Grounded] “I'm pregnant. The baby isn't yours.” No one noticed him after three years of devotion, but once the campus belle got pregnant, the whole world found out. After three years of fawning over her, she ended up having someone else's child. Gu Chuan finally came to his senses and walked straight into Red Romance. “Tonight's on Young Master Gu!” Unexpectedly, an accident sent him back to the day he had confessed to her. This time, Gu
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Reborn in 2002: My College Years 重生2002我的大学时代
[Rebirth in a bygone era] + [Everyday urban life] + [No System] + [No cultivation] [Multiple heroines] + [No yanderes] + [Making money through business] + [Campus romance] Zhao Chuyun grew up with his grandfather after his parents divorced. He repeated a year to get into college, only to discover that his first love already had a boyfriend. With a love life and a family like that, he has no regrets he wants to make up for after being reborn. He just wants to live recklessly for once. If you're r
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I've Been Reborn, So It's Only Natural for the Goddess to Chase Me 都重生了,被女神倒追也挺正常吧
This is a groveling-romance story with a huge love rivalry. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. “You were the one who asked to break up. Why are you freaking out just because someone else is pursuing me?” After one drunken, reckless night, successful businessman Lin Zicheng was reborn on the day he broke up with his childhood sweetheart. That breakup was his one humiliating memory from his past life. This time, he swore he wouldn’t be anyone’s lovesick puppy. Instead, he’d make the goddess cha
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I Started Chasing Someone Else, and Made the Campus Beauty Cry 转身追别人的我,把校花气哭了
[No System] [Slice of Life] “Sorry, I don’t want to date anyone while I’m in school. If you…” “Fine. I’ll find someone who does. See you.” “Wait? Hey, hold on…” Zhang Fan, reborn, turned and walked away without looking back this time. Life is full of little regrets. You shouldn’t give everything up just to revolve around one person.
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Reborn, Who Still Wants to Be a Simp? 重生了谁还当舔狗啊
At 36, Zhang Hang had achieved modest success in his career when he unexpectedly joined the reborn craze and returned to age 18. After deciding he would no longer be a lovesick doormat, the gears of fate began to turn. He made off with 560,000 yuan in family assets, then stunned his parents by raking in two million from a demolition payout that same month. He launched the game Legend of Greedy Fun and stormed into the gaming industry, then began laying the groundwork for influencer marketing wit
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Reborn in the Political Arena, With Absolute Power in My Hands 重生官场,手握绝对权力
Reborn in 2005, he starts out as a grassroots police officer. With the advantage of knowing what lies ahead, he repeatedly cracks major cases and high-profile crimes, carving out a distinctive path to promotion through the turbulent world of politics. This is the story of an ordinary man rewriting his fate and climbing step by step to the very heights of power!
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I'm Just Building a Country, Why Are the Americans Panicking? 建个国而已,鹰酱你慌啥
[Rebirth is common, but have you ever seen someone who knew they were going to be reborn, prepared thoroughly, and only then returned to the past?] After learning he’d been given the chance to live his life over, Zhou Fan made thorough preparations. He gathered financial and business information, future high technology… everything he could get his hands on. Back for another life, all he wanted was to make money with ease and enjoy the good life. He watched Gu Nanxi wear the beautiful wedding dr
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Reborn as a Super Spoiled Brat 重生之超级纨绔
[Reborn + Helping his father rise to power in politics + Battling for supremacy in the business world] “Mr. Chen Yang, may I ask how much wealth you have now?” “Every place you can see, every place you know about, every place you can imagine... it all belongs to me.” In his previous life, Chen Yang was left with nothing after his family was destroyed. He lived only for revenge, and in the end met a gruesome death. In this life, aside from making his enemies suffer worse than death, Chen Yang onl
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Back to College: A Different Road to Rebirth 梦回大学,不一样的重生之路
(No System + Not a Feel-Good Story + Campus Life) In his previous life, when Ye Chenlong was at a low point in his love life, Chu Yiling chose him. The two had nothing and struggled together as a poor couple. Because of the influence of her family, Chu Yiling was torn between family ties and love. She chose to divorce him, and also chose to leave her family behind. Living his life over again, Ye Chenlong tries to change Chu Yiling from the perspective of an ordinary person. Later, he discovers (
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The Troubles of Marriage 婚姻之困
Fang Wei and Yang Jia are best friends. Both are deeply troubled by their families, so they rush headlong into marriage, only to find that their marriages are bombs wrapped in sugar: sweet on the surface, but ready to explode at the slightest touch. The married life they thought would make them happy can’t withstand the endless grind of daily necessities, mutual suspicion, or a meddlesome mother-in-law... With their marriages in tatters, watch how they find a way to save themselves.
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Getting Married Is Easy, Staying Together Is Hard 结婚容易相守难
Tang Qiner and Zhang Xiaoting are cousins who married one after the other. They thought they had found true love and would live happily together for the rest of their lives. But they never expected the daily grind of married life, the explosive clashes between daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law, and the unfathomable hearts of the people sharing their beds to bring so much instability to their marriages. As they struggle to cope with one unexpected marital problem after another, they also fret o
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Rise of the Dark Path 黑途崛起
My name is Lin Feng. I’ve encountered, witnessed, and experienced many industries and incidents that people would rather keep hidden. So many people have been lured overseas by high-paying jobs, only to die. So many have died because their desires could never be satisfied. This synopsis can’t do the story justice. Read the novel to find out more.
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Better Than Working: Winning Over the Crown Prince, the Client 打工不如打甲方太子的主意
[Based on true events + urban life + workplace + strong female lead + smart characters + sweet romance] A wonderful workplace romance set in the urban financial world, inspired by real-life experiences in the modern workplace. It lays bare the dark side behind the financial sector’s glamorous facade. The writing is delicate, the scenes vivid, the emotions genuine, and the plot is full of unexpected twists. The heroine is a rookie auditor, but a strong woman at heart. She stays sharp and emotiona
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Retirement at Twenty 二十岁的养老生活
[Farming + everyday life + devoted couples + sweet romance] Graduation means unemployment. Unemployed? Then it's time to settle into retirement~ Li An doesn't want to be a corporate cog working nine to five, so she heads to the countryside to live at her best friend's grandmother's place. She buys the old house, tears it down and builds a new one, then sets up a few vegetable patches to grow produce as a relaxing hobby... Villagers: You've set up your vegetable garden like you're playing hous
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Spring Mountain Falls Into My Arms 春山撞入怀
A cool, arrogant young master × a beautiful, resilient little accountant [Rekindled love + reunion after a long separation + only ever been with each other + stubborn words, soft heart + revenge and doting + happy ending] Ruan Qing, an accountant at the county's Culture and Tourism Bureau, is highly capable and prepares flawless reports. She also happens to have a face people never forget. Matchmakers eager to find her a partner are so enthusiastic that they could form a line from the accounting
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Love That Came Too Late! 迟来深情!
Six years ago, on their wedding day, Mo Wen pushed his bride away with his own hands. When Shen Qi asked why, he simply said, "The wedding is off," then vanished from her world for good. Back then, Shen Qi had no idea that Mo Wen's grandfather had been poisoned to death at the wedding banquet, and that the culprits were his own maternal uncle and aunt. To avenge his grandfather and keep her from being dragged into the deadly plot, he chose the cruelest way: making her hate him. - Six year
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A Marriage of Spies 婚战谍中谍
This book contains toxic material. Readers who are not emotionally mature should read it with a guardian. Married readers should read it alone while their spouses are away. This story is entirely fictional, and all events are dramatized for the plot. Please don’t compare them to your own experiences, and remember to cultivate sound values, a healthy outlook on life, and a proper worldview.
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Lost in Marriage: The Stranger in My Bed 婚姻迷途,枕边的陌生人
It had started out as an ordinary day. After finishing his work at the office, he came home early. His wedding anniversary with his wife was just a few days away, and he planned to buy her some gifts and surprise her. Hehe...
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The Year of the Wolf and Tiger 狼虎之年
A panoramic survey of the raw emotional lives of people from different age groups and social classes in China today, vividly depicting the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature amid the country’s rapid social transformation. It lays bare the conflicts and friction between people’s emotions and reality.
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The Tsundere Senior Who Acts So Differently Won't Confess Her Love First 反差傲娇学姐不会主动开口说爱我
[Campus]+ [Youth]+ [One Heroine]+ [Lighthearted and Healing]+ [Everyday Romance]+ [No System] Based on real campus life at Hefei University of Technology. “Xiao Yun, come help me translate my paper at the library tonight.” “Senior Sister, didn't I help you translate it last night? Why do I have to go again?” “Tonight's the last time, hurry up!” “You said that the day before yesterday, and you said it again yesterday. I'm not going again today. Do it yourself, I'm busy.” “Xiao Yun, I just remembe
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I Met a Wonderful Husband on a Blind Date 相亲遇到优质老公
Because of her family background, Xiang Zhaozhao had always been determined never to marry. That same family background left her with no choice but to compromise and go on a blind date with Fu Shiyu. Xiang Zhaozhao thought their marriage would be nothing more than two people sharing a life. She never imagined it would turn out so blissful and sweet! A love story about a first-generation entrepreneur and a woman marrying later in life!
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1980: Changing My Fate by Learning Martial Arts 80年:改命从习武开始
Set in an alternate universe during the 1980s, this story follows a boy who grows up in harsh conditions. It all begins with his desire to eat his fill, but once his eyes are opened to the world, he wants to understand it better. This is not a story about being reborn or transmigrating, nor is it a wish-fulfillment novel. It focuses on martial arts, cultivation, and everyday life. A slow-burn, System-free story of daily life and personal growth, if every person’s life is a book, then Sunzei’s st
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The Sun I Look Up To 仰望的太阳
He loves her. She is the eternal sun in his heart. For a long time, he was too insecure to look directly at her dazzling light. When the sun finally shone on him, he hesitated and wavered, but in the end, he couldn’t resist the love in his heart. He drew her into his arms. At last, she became the sun that shone for him alone.
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My Five Sisters Are the Epitome of Grace 我的五个姐姐,风华绝代
My Five Sisters Are Peerless Beauties
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Do I Still Love Her? 我,还爱她?
Urban Romance | Reunion | Unrequited Love | The Aesthetics of a Bad Ending | A Regretful Ending | Realistic Heartbreak I’ve been writing this for ages, but hardly anyone reads it. I’m so sad, sob sob.
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Run! Your Blind Date Is from Chaoshan 快跑,相亲对象是潮汕人
Period novel / realistic fiction / ensemble cast The actual story is the opposite of what the title suggests. The heroine, Yang Biyao, eventually feels fortunate to have chosen the responsible male lead, Cai Zekun, who puts his family first. Synopsis: Through a friend’s introduction, Yang Biyao goes on a blind date with a man from Chaoshan. Her life then unfolds through negotiating the bride price, moving far from home after marriage, holding a wedding banquet, helping her husband inherit the fa
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Where the Hearth Smoke Rises, There Lies Home 炊烟暖处是归途
Where the Cooking Smoke Rises, There Lies the Way Home
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Our Little Journey to Find Love 我们的追爱小时光
[Childhood sweetheart and first love + sweet romance + flirtatious banter + intense push and pull + equally matched leads + helping each other succeed] [Devoted, scheming, and talented male lead + spirited, stubborn fashion designer female lead] She frantically lifted the covers and let out a startled cry. “Awake?” The handsome man slowly opened his eyes and smiled at her. “Who are you? Why am I here? You, you, you didn’t...” She clutched the covers tight and peppered him with questions. “Didn’t
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Find a Wife While I’m Young, So I Can Skip the Absurd Bride Price Later 从小抓个老婆,省得以后天价彩礼
Find a Wife While I’m Young, So I Can Avoid an Astronomical Bride Price Later
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A Young Boy's Life of Cultivation 小小少年修道生活
(The jianghu is never far away! See you again!) When he was just a little boy of three, an accident gave him the memories and legacy of an adult cultivator. Life in the 1990s is a happy one: his elders dote on him, and he has his own cultivation heritage to follow. A laid-back slice-of-life story... Easygoing, a little funny, and no over-the-top characters... This is only a blurb. Please read the story itself!
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The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农
An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element
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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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Reborn Sign-In: The Busy Farmer Dad 重生签到:乡村奶爸种田忙
[The short drama adaptation of the same name is now streaming. Please show Yawan some support, and see whether the drama's portrayal matches your idea of Yawan.] [Search for Reborn Sign-In: The Country Dad's Busy Farming Life on the Tomato or Red Fruit short-drama apps to watch.] [Heartwarming everyday life, one heroine, adorable kids, male lead turns over a new leaf] After dying of illness, he opened his eyes again to find a little toddler weeping and saying, “Daddy, don't hit me. My butt still
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The In-Laws' Web of Schemes 婆家局中局
Tang Guo, the heroine, and Lu Ziming, the hero, marry just three months after meeting. Not long after the wedding, it comes to light that Lu Ziming owes 500,000 yuan in online loans. When his mother learns what happened, her first response is to demand that Tang Guo divorce Lu Ziming and to take their property deed. Everyone else reacts differently, each with their own agenda. It turns out that behind the facade of a loving family lie nothing but schemes and calculations. Tang Guo stands by Lu Z
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Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记
[No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u
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Survival Journal: Back to the World of Ordinary Life 求生日记:重返烟火人间
Not a wish-fulfillment story, no cheat powers, no rebirth: a realistic struggle to survive against the odds. An innocent only daughter meets the ultimate scumbag. He tricks her into love, saddles her with debt, then runs off, delivering a triple blow. She tries to take her daughter into the lake with her, but survives. Having died once, she finally comes to her senses. There’s no one to catch her when she falls and no one to save her. Every meal and every bit of warmth must be earned with her ow
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I'm 55, Can't I Get a Marriage License? 55岁,我就不能领结婚证么
You wouldn’t even see this on television: a rural woman whose nearly thirty-year marriage has become a mere formality, living with another man elsewhere while the two of them peacefully coexist. Where should she be buried when she dies? Amid the endless mess at home and one distressing problem after another, her son accuses her: “Mom, all the bad luck in this family comes from you not keeping to your wifely duties!” Life, survival, children, family ties, love: which matters most?
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Author, Your Secret Identity Is Showing! 作者大大,你的马甲掉了!
A brilliant female writer, burdened by a false accusation, disguises herself as a timid editor and infiltrates the company that caused her father’s death to exact revenge. By chance, she ends up living with a sharp-tongued literary star investigating the same case. As they test each other and their true identities come to light, they join forces to expose the dark truth.
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I Went Home for National Day and Gained an Older Sister 国庆回家多了个姐姐
[Single Heroine, Older Woman-Younger Man Romance, No System, Campus Life] [Everyday Life, Witty Humor, Romance] Xu’s father: “Qingyun will be your older sister from now on. Call her ‘Sis’!” Xu Qing: “What the heck! A sister?” Xu’s father: “Your sister has her eye on a first-year college student. Do you know who he is?” Xu Qing: “Did she tell you? I have no idea!” Xu Qing: “I’ll come clean. I’m the ‘college kid’ you’re looking for.” Xu’s father: “…” “Gah! Ow! Argh!…” Heart-wrenching s
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Now That I Have a Girlfriend, They’re Panicking 有女朋友后,她们急了
Zhou Xinghe has just started college and has had a bad ending with the person he secretly loved in high school. After drowning his sorrows at a karaoke bar, he accidentally wanders into the women's restroom... Shen Wanwan: “I've told you so many times! I don't like Zhou Xinghe, that pervert who barged into the women's restroom.” “...” “Zhou Xinghe, do you like me?” “No? Are you sure?” “Hey, Zhou Xinghe, someone's pursuing me. Aren't you worried?” “...” “It was just Truth or Dare. Who said I like
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The Mischievous Little One Knows How to Charm, but His CEO Dad Has No Answer 调皮小崽会撒娇,霸总老爹真没招
Sharp-tongued, rebellious young heir VS seemingly pure and innocent sweetheart who’s actually a verbal powerhouse Wealthy families + equally matched leads who are both pure + super sweet with no angst + happy ending + raising a child + everyone’s favorite + slight ensemble cast + multiple couples + light suspense + lighthearted comedy Everyone knows Fang Yichen, the eldest son of the richest family, is an unparalleled business genius and a larger-than-life character. At seventeen, he multiplied
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