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。

251 云 Starlight Over Yunling 云岭星光 Source of Flowing Water流水之源Modern Romance182k WordsCompleted After popular actress Ning Xin is betrayed by her boyfriend Lin Rui and her public image falls apart, her manager sends her off to the remote mountain village of Qijia Courtyard B&B to lie low. There, she falls in love with the owner over time, while becoming involved in rural revitalization, raising children, and a series of other stories… 18Reads—Score—Shelves

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252 地 Journey Through Hell: Northern Myanmar 地狱行之缅北 Xiao Ke萧客丶Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Synopsis: You think places like Muse, Kokang, and Wa State in northern Myanmar are hell? Heh. The real hell is hundreds, even thousands of times more terrifying! Myanmar is vast, and northern Myanmar isn't the only hell there! You've watched those online videos about northern Myanmar and think the methods shown are cruel enough? You have no idea. Their worst methods are far beyond that! They are more terrifying than demons who devour people without a trace. From the day I was tricked and lured i 55.6kReads9.1Score5.3kShelves

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No thanks, take them all

253 人 Nothing Major in Life 人生无大事 Zhai Zhiwan翟知晚Urban130k WordsCompleted I was born in the abyss and raised in the netherworld. Lost, struggling, helpless, despairing. The hardships along the way shaped my body and mind. When everything had finally calmed down, when spring had come and flowers were blooming, when everything was just right, I finally reached the most important moment of my life. 3.4kReads8.1Score110Shelves

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This is a work with a surreal theme, and you can read through the protagonist's troubled life at a fast pace.

256 霓 Neon Taipei: My Seven-Year Descent 霓虹台北：我的七年堕落实录 Only Knows How to Dream只会作梦Urban1.2M WordsCompleted My new book is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5.4kReads7.4Score407Shelves

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In 2000, a 20-year-old mainland boy went to Taipei alone and went from being an ignorant boy to holding the proprietress's well-maintained hand. . . . . .

257 女 Forty and Still No Worries About Getting Married 女人四十不愁嫁 Sneak a Quick Glance偷偷秒一眼Modern Romance273k WordsCompleted [Urban slice of life + multiple heroines + love and marriage] Yu Hua loves her freedom and has spent nearly twenty years wandering far from home, yet she remains single. She feels her life is happy, but her family can't accept it. With her fortieth birthday fast approaching, her mother can no longer sit still and comes to stay by Yu Hua's side, treating every possible threat to her marriage like a crisis. Yu Hua's once-comfortable single life becomes fraught with anxiety. Lawyer Ning Jia plans t 22Reads—Score—Shelves

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That's it [cover face][cover face][cover face][cover face]

258 站 At the Crossroads of Love and Marriage 站在爱与婚姻的十字路口 A Heart Born of Clear Skies and Gentle Breezes光风霁月自生怀Modern Romance153k WordsCompleted “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 —Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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Just like things around us.

259 妻 A Wife's Revenge 妻子的报复 Jia Qi嘉粸Modern Romance650k WordsCompleted [Adapted into two short dramas] A torn-open condom wrapper shattered her faith in love and all her romantic illusions. In an instant, the beliefs she had clung to collapsed completely. Li Man discovered that her husband had not only cheated on her, but had also hidden their assets and even planned to frame her so she would leave the marriage with nothing. Faced with her husband's betrayal, Li Man began her relentless revenge! 60.3kReads9.2Score4.1kShelves

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These four books are worth reading

263 白 Snow White and Peter Pan 白雪公主与小飞侠 Huang Zhiyi黄执一Modern Romance242k WordsCompleted [The idealized love, a power couple] Career queen × gentle young master, a high-stakes game of love! Bai Ruixue is a cool, formidable career queen who relies on her own abilities to sweep aside every obstacle and would never stoop to playing the victim. Pan Zhongze could coast on his family's status, but instead chooses to keep a low profile and start his career as an assistant. Until one day, his identity as the chairman's son is unexpectedly exposed! The two, once sweetly devoted to each other —Reads—Score—Shelves

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Workplace Marriage and Love Articles, Written by I Really Work

264 萌 The Four-and-a-Half-Year-Old Blessed Child 萌宝福星四岁半 Cute Guy萌汉子Modern Romance3.5M WordsCompleted When her stepmother miscarried after falling down the stairs, little Su Bao was punished by being forced to kneel in the snow for a day and a night, then branded a jinx and driven from home. Just as she was about to die, her eight domineering CEO uncles rushed to her side and gathered little Su Bao in their arms! The eldest uncle's face turned icy. “It's getting cold. I think it's time the Lin family went bankrupt.” The second uncle glared furiously. “Anyone who hurts my little Bao will be hunte 27.1kReads9.6Score4.3kShelves

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These three books are all good. I highly recommend them on the art of measuring Chinese characters. They are biographies of real people. Many of them have real-life basis. In the inspirational novel "In the Village and Outside the Village", there are no absolute bad guys, good and evil are all in the same mind. "Fubao Three and a Half Years Old" uses a child's perspective to view the world. Although it is not close to life, many of the cases in it are real cases, such as child abuse, campus bullying, female college students spitting on corpses at construction sites... Many of them are real-life cases. The novel uses another way to resolve the regrets readers have about such cases in real life.

265 腊 Wintersweet Heard the Thousand Paper Cranes’ Wish 腊梅听见了千纸鹤的愿望 Sugar Tangerine Swiss Roll砂糖橘瑞士卷Modern Romance163k WordsCompleted Three years ago, Tao Lejin was determined to marry Li Jiayi. But three years later, Li Jiayi’s personality had changed completely, and their marriage shattered like thin ice. When Le Siyang heard what had happened, he rushed to Tao Lejin’s side and guarded her broken heart. After Tao Lejin divorced and gave birth, he returned to their hometown and fought fiercely for her, determined to give her a happy ending. He confessed his feelings, ostensibly to find someone to support her newborn child, b 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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It is a good book that is very close to life. This textbook on real marriage truly reflects the marital status of modern people!

266 我 My Years as a Migrant Worker in Shenzhen 我在深圳打工那些年 Azure Clouds, Everlasting Red青云长红Urban1.0M WordsCompleted In 1997, at seventeen, I left my hometown in Hunan with 300 yuan and headed south to Shenzhen alone. I had no skills or temporary residence permit. The security patrol chased me, factories turned me away, I went hungry, and I spent the night hiding in a cemetery on a hill. Starting as a penniless young man, I worked as a sewing-machine operator in a handbag factory, then seized the opportunities of the times, opened a shop, bought a home, and established myself. I endured the bitterest hardships 32.8kReads8.8Score2.7kShelves

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This is adapted from real life

267 白 Starting from Scratch: Three Years Flipping Little Boxes Made Me a Millionaire 白手起家，倒腾小盒子三年千万 Seeing a Dragon on Mount Nan南山见龙Urban884k WordsOngoing Mocked for selling contraceptives in his dorm from the start? Disciplined for it? No problem! He earns money while teaching in the countryside. After four years of hard work, he builds a fortune worth tens of millions, turning his dreams, love, and wealth into reality. [No transmigration + no System + no pocket dimension + no overpowered villains + no golden finger + a realistic story of striving] 9.5kReads8.1Score676Shelves

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University entrepreneurship, teaching support, no time travel, no system, you can check it out

268 赵 Zhao Jiji’s Love Story After Divorce 赵吉吉离婚后的爱情故事 Growing Lotuses种荷花Modern Romance185k WordsCompleted To be loved is an extension of self-love! I thought I'd shut myself off from love for good, but I never expected to meet him in my forties... After her son takes the college entrance exam, Zhao Jiji divorces her ex-husband. She delivers food, works as a real estate agent and caregiver, and writes novels, doing her best to make a life for herself. While working as a caregiver, she meets a man she once went on a blind date with, and the two begin a beautiful relationship. 66Reads—Score—Shelves

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They live in a small urban area.

269 来 The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 513.4kReads9.6Score34.1kShelves

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This is super real. Some people were caught robbing tombs some time ago because of reading this novel.

270 我 I'll Wait for You Amid Wine, Women, and Moonlit Nights 我在风花雪月中等你 Jingshan静山Urban1.3M WordsOngoing After a night of partying, he accidentally answered the campus belle's call, and she latched onto him as her boyfriend... Just then, his ex-girlfriend, who had been abroad for years, came looking for him again in a Maybach... And that's not all. The professional female gamer who dominates onstage turns out to be a socially anxious introvert in private, and she's even willing to give up her career for me... The editor who knows me best actually suggested that we elope together... What should I do 566Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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Look at this, look at this, urban real life, well written and rich in content.

271 官 The Long Road to Office 官路漫漫，其修远兮 A Little Horse Crossing the River有一只小马过河Urban264k WordsOngoing [Transmigration + feel-good fiction + officialdom + political intrigue + beautiful women] Xie Chen, once the top third-place graduate in the Ming dynasty imperial examinations, takes a decidedly easygoing approach to being an official. Following the rules is practically the last thing you would associate with him. Yet through one coincidence after another, he keeps rising higher and higher. Fortunately, he does have at least a little sense of justice... 1Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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Xie Chen, the courtier of the Ming Dynasty, did not take the ordinary path of becoming an official. Various opportunities allowed him to rise in officialdom. On the stage of ancient official circles, he showed his unique charm and was surrounded by beauties. Follow his footsteps and experience a different story!

272 迟 Better Late Than Never. There's Still a Long Road Ahead 迟到但无妨，来日且方长 La Jiu Yun腊玖雲Modern Romance377k WordsCompleted Chu Mingxi thinks of herself as a piece of charcoal and Li Cheng as a spark. Only when she meets Li Cheng does she grow warm and begin to shine. She was late to their promise, but in the days ahead, she’ll make a living from the simple pleasures of life and find love through poetry. She once thought beauty lay in partings and reunions, but in the end, even life’s everyday necessities are poetry. 311Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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Reality also has twists and turns, but serious people deserve to be loved! Insipidity is the norm, but lovers always give us passion

274 都 The Rules of Love for Urban Men and Women 都市男女的恋爱法则 Two ThirtyTwo三十Modern Romance339k WordsOngoing Gu Ziyi: An ENFP woman, sweet and innocent-looking on the outside, but sharp-tongued and fiery by nature. When she falls in love, she never thinks about the consequences and always ends up being taken advantage of. Though every relationship has ended in failure, she remains a romantic who believes in love. Will the man she meets this time turn out to be a good one…? Gao Yingzhen: A typical ISFJ man who finds it hard to open up, but once he lets someone into his heart, he holds nothing back. Bor 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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Goo Ziyi's life is a roller coaster: during the day, she was dumped by her PUA boss and had a mountain of work. At night, she bumped into her boyfriend and another woman at the hotel on her anniversary. When she was tearing her boss apart at the bar, he accidentally pulled off her boyfriend's wig. After she resigned naked the next day, she actually had the confidence to open a small shop thanks to the coffee certificate she took when she was young.

275 一 A Spring Rainy Night Like the Sound of Mountains 一夜春雨似山鸣 Sixteen Kaka十六卡卡Modern Romance238k WordsOngoing [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 120Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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The new book I have been reading recently is very close to life. The writing is very good and the emotions are delicate. You can always see your own shadow in the characters, including the protagonist and supporting characters, which can touch the depths of your heart. The pace is not fast, so you need to calm down and read.

276 东 Dongguan, Dongguan: The Blossoming '90s 东莞，东莞，90繁花年代 Old Jiu's Records of History老九史记Urban501k WordsCompleted This story is based on real life. One day, Er Gou said mysteriously to Li Minghui, “Ah Hui, did you know? I heard a new Taizi Bathhouse opened nearby. They say it offers a service imported from Thailand.” The story follows a protagonist who turns his fortunes around in the electronics business of the Pearl River Delta. In 1990s Dongguan, KTVs, nightclubs, and bathhouses offered a different kind of splendor. There were also pure-hearted romances between migrant workers over beef brisket rice nood 1.5kReads8.2Score123Shelves

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The subject matter is novel, not the typical love story. It is very close to the reality of working and starting a business in Dongguan in the 1990s. Anyone who knows how happy it is to be a man in Dongguan in the 1990s!! At this time, Li Yanjiao in the dream said: "Ah Hui, you little bad guy, why are you so dishonest?" Li Minghui just wanted to explain.

277 5 At Fifty, She's No Weed, She's a Treasure 50的她不是草其实她是块宝 A Red One Every Day每天一片红Modern Romance401k WordsCompleted [Silver-haired wish fulfillment + No rebirth + No System + No pocket dimension + A story focused on positive values] #A 50-year-old farmwife seeks a new beginning# After Lin Meiru discovers her husband has been cheating, she insists on getting a divorce. “You can’t even earn money. How will you survive without me?” Lin Meiru defies the odds and learns to sell things from a street stall after her divorce. The wheels of fate begin to turn... 53Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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It's finished, so beautiful! The writing is good and the story is great! A down-to-earth book!

278 被 The Campus Belle Pulled Me Off the Rooftop, So I Made Her Bear Three Children to Pay Me Back 被校花拉下天台，让她生三个还债 Three Lives Ling Yue三生凌月Urban2.7M WordsOngoing What's the first thing you do when you get a second chance at life? The jerk gritted his teeth and said bitterly, “Get a room!” “Get a room? With who?” “That gorgeous idiot who dragged me off the rooftop in my last life. She owes me!” And then? “Eat her food, drink her drinks, use her money to get a room, and use her money to win over a gorgeous, brilliant senior student.” “She's so smart. Can you actually win her over?” “She taught me how.” “Holy crap! You people are wild. What next?” “Make mon 52.6kReads9.2Score4.2kShelves

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When he was born again, he brought the natural deadbeat school beauty into the hotel, ate her food, drank her food, asked her to pay for the room, used her wallet to support the female college student, and then used the female college student's money to start a business.

279 都 The Hidden Merchant of the City 都市隐商 Wandering Fish Bro流浪鱼哥Urban401k WordsOngoing Chen Jiadong, are you stupid? You can't even tell a million from ten thousand? If you want to die, don't drag everyone else down with you. Even if you sold everything you own, you couldn't pay it back. You're fired. Hello, is this Mr. Chen Jiadong? I'm calling from Zixing Technology to inform you that you need to attend the shareholders' meeting tomorrow. What? The company committed fraud? It's blown up! Good thing I sold the company. Then I bought it back. So the company's fraud case was a mist 29Reads—Score—Shelves

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It is a book that is absolutely close to life. I learned a lot of financial knowledge and I know why the stock market loses money.

280 爱 What Even Is Love? 爱情算个什么东西？ The King Doesn't Want to Patrol the Mountain大王不想巡山Modern Romance673k WordsCompleted Three women living in a first-tier city each face all kinds of troubles in love. Li Nanzhao and her boyfriend are deeply in love, but his future mother-in-law is critical of her and looks down on her. Huang Qiuju comes from a thoroughly dysfunctional family. Determined to climb the social ladder and change her fate through her own hard work, she must decide whether to embrace or reject love when it suddenly comes her way. Zhou Mingrou suffers her husband's cold violence in their marriage, yet st 624Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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Very close to reality

281 闺 My Best Friend's Younger Brother Is Supposed to Be Abstinent? Help! We Can't Stop Kissing in Person 闺蜜弟禁欲？线上求助线下吻得疯 Ding Ding Dang钉钉铛Modern Romance210k WordsOngoing [Cool, abstinent Earth-constructing engineer Sheng Yu VS divorced, infertile therapist Ding Zhuo] [Younger man with a secret crush + wealthy family + doting romance + best friend's younger brother + mutual healing + six-year age gap + ex-husband's desperate attempt to win her back + realistic romance] Everyone was blaming Ding Zhuo. A thirty-year-old therapist who had struggled with infertility for four years, yet divorced her top-tier husband, the man who had never looked down on her. At her be 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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The scumbag in the KTV harassed the heroine in public, and her best friend's brother rushed to the rescue. The familiar smell of pinewood hit her face, and the heroine wildly doubted in her heart whether the man she had sex with that night was the person in front of her.

282 向 Us in Xiangyang Lane 向阳里的我们 The Rabbit No Longer Keeps Silent兔子不再沉默Urban606k WordsCompleted [#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 22Reads—Score—Shelves

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I sincerely recommend these two urban emotional novels that are down-to-earth and close to life. Go read them! [Smile][smile][smile]

284 替 Ten Years as Her Stand-In! Now That I'm Leaving, She Regrets It Too Late 替身十年！今离去，她却追悔莫及 A Thousand Autumns Moon千秋月Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [No Angst, No Harem, One-On-One Everyday Romance] “I think everyone meets someone in life, falls for her, and gives her everything they have.” “But not everyone gets the ending they hoped for.” “The story didn't begin well, and its ending was embarrassing enough, too.” Jiang An and Liu Youran grew up together. He guarded her carefully for ten years, but in the end, he never got to be with her. All he got was the return of the man she had always loved. “Don't do this anymore.” See? Those words dr 664Reads8.8Score141Shelves

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Although they are all about chasing a husband, they are pretty good after that part.

286 生 Those Who Came and Went Through My Life 生命里来回过的人 Thirty-Three That Year那年三十三Urban298k WordsCompleted There’s always a book whose every word strikes a chord. The moment you open it, people from the past and long-buried events slowly surface through its pages, like a long-overdue reunion. The joys and regrets, heartaches and lingering goodbyes hidden away in the years gently unfold between the lines. Before long, your eyes are brimming with tears. It turns out some memories have never really gone away. For: Everyone who has passed through my life 25Reads—Score—Shelves

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You will meet many people in your life, and some people are destined to meet you by fate. There is always a story in the book that will have some of your experiences. The fifth volume of "Wu Xin's Voyage" is guaranteed to make you deeply moved. It only has a few thousand words, so you might as well click on it and give it a try.

288 现 The Modern Shrimp's Cultivation Tale 1 现代虾仁修仙传1 BeardMan须根Man22k WordsCompleted The Modern Shrimp’s Immortal Cultivation Saga 1 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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[Send heart][Send heart][Send heart][Send heart][Send heart][Blow a kiss][Send heart][Send heart][Send heart][Send heart]

289 重 Reborn: From the Start, I Save My Mute, Delicate Wife 重生回来：开局拯救哑巴小娇妻 Green Crispy Skin青色脆皮Urban232k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Repentant Scumbag + Doting Dad + Devoted Husband with One Female Lead + Funny Everyday Life + Family Life + Revenge + Sweet Romance] In his previous life, the pretty widow in his village drugged him and set him up. He had no choice but to marry her, then leave his hometown with her and her adopted son. In the end, when he was old, his adopted son pulled the plug on him. He was reborn and woke up in the middle of the night in 1983. The widow came to his door, just like she had in his p 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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This book is very close to daily life

291 海 Fading Lights Upon the Sea 海上灯火阑珊 The Sound of Night Rain夜雨声凡Urban184k WordsOngoing This is a story about music, dreams, and love. Yang Cheng, a musician who left his hometown of Shanghai for Beijing, staking everything on his dream, was crushed by powerful industry interests, betrayed by his lover, and had his work stolen. His heart completely broken, he slunk back home. After withdrawing from the noise and ruins of the music scene, he couldn't bring himself to return to his family and lived alone in a rented place, sinking into despair. In the apartment he shared with others, 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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The writing is as delicate as poetry, the emotions are as deep as the sea, and it is a masterpiece of urban emotional abuse, dedicated to all souls who long to feel the warmth and power in words.

293 单 Single Piggy 单身猪猪 Luo Kuizi洛葵子Modern Romance269k WordsCompleted A deeply nuanced style, and an unconventional portrait of marriage and love. If corrupt officials are not punished, it is an injustice to ordinary people. A work of realism, peeling back the layers to examine the truth and reflect with cool, unflinching insight. 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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A good book delayed by its title

296 机 Mecha Battle Maniac 机甲战狂 Such a Strange Oddity好奇怪的奇奇怪怪Sci-Fi & Apocalypse459k WordsCompleted (No harem, one female lead, not invincible, no System, not brainless) After a rift in space opened, the world's order was completely overturned. Heaven and earth turned upside down, chaos reigned, and countless paths of mecha cultivation emerged. Yet the age that should have been dazzling never arrived as expected. The era of interstellar travel could no longer begin. Human technology had changed beyond recognition, yet humanity seemed forever trapped on this small but beautiful planet. Neither —Reads—Score—Shelves

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It's very consistent and very bold. I didn't say anything after watching it. The previous plot is quite honest and basically has no setting, so it is boring. It is recommended to skip it.

297 比 Longer Than Love: My Nurse Boyfriend 比爱更漫长：我的护士男友 A Fish Swimming Shallowly for a Day一日鱼浅游Modern Romance257k WordsCompleted [The main story is complete, so read with confidence] The life of novelist Zhuang Yifei suddenly spins out of control, and she returns to Baoping, the place where she was born. Here she faces not only the orphan her mother left behind, but also the mundane life that has become completely severed from her glamorous past. Yan Dong is known around town as a devoted son, and seen by others as someone dealt a hard hand. His work as an on-call nurse and his disabled adoptive father keep him firmly mir 1.1kReads8.3Score148Shelves

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