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True Love Can’t Stand the Light, So She Married a Fool 真爱见光死，她嫁给傻子
At nineteen, He Yang met Chen Mo for the first time. Her card got swallowed, and she grabbed him by the sleeve. The restraint of a middle-aged man and the recklessness of a young woman threw everything into chaos from that day on. She married a fool as a cover, just so she could stay by his side. Years later, when she had everything, she finally realized that the person she loved had never been him. It was the respectable life that man represented, a life beyond her reach. Amusingly, the fool wh
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- 52 Sixty-Year-Old Lovers: The Past of Maitreya 60岁恋人：弥勒往事 At the age of sixty, he jumped into a shallow pool where the water barely reached his thighs. The water was shallow, but he didn't know that. Just as he didn't know that this jump would bring him together with a thirty-seven-year-old divorced woman, that they would have a child, and that he would pursue her from Hefei to Nanjing, then on to Shenzhen. Later, someone asked him, "Why jump when the water was so shallow?" He said, "Because that person was about to fall in." What matters isn't how d 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 53 I Held It In for Thirty Years, Until My Daughter Said, 'Dad, You Should Leave' 我忍了三十年，直到女儿说：爸，你走吧 I Endured for Thirty Years, Until My Daughter Said, "Dad, You Should Go" 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 After Three Years in Retirement Back in the Village, I Lost but Was Not Defeated 退休回村三年，我输了但没有败 After retiring, I was sent back to my hometown to serve as the village's First Secretary. I had barely reached the village entrance when someone smashed a jar at me: “Huai Shu Village doesn't welcome you!” An old flame brought me a bowl of fish soup, with a letter at the bottom that had never been sent, forty years ago. Someone sent an anonymous report to the disciplinary inspection committee, accusing me of misconduct. Three months on the clock. Nobody believes me. Three years later, the person 97Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 I’m Being Hunted Across the City for Pursuing an Old Guy 为追老登，我被全城搜捕 I Went on the Run from the Whole City to Pursue an Old Geezer 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 I 'Bought' an Old Man for Fifty Thousand 我用五万“买”个老头 I “Bought” an Old Man for 50,000 120Reads—Score—Shelves
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Finding True Love Inside and Outside Marriage in Midlife 人到中年婚姻内外寻找真爱
Yang Duo is a flower in full bloom. Though she’s forty, she’s still young and beautiful. A woman in pursuit of true love, she yearns for romance and has spent her life exploring and experiencing it. A passionate love affair that nearly cost her life in her youth, a joyless marriage in middle age, and an unexpected encounter outside her marriage: whenever she falls for someone, she loves with wild abandon and suffers heartbreak that tears her apart. Her three close friends have very different l
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The Pinnacle of the Noble Consort 贵妃之巅
“A twisted romance” + “palace intrigue” + “a tragedy of the age.” During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, palace maid Wan Zhen'er spent ten years bringing Crown Prince Zhu Jianshen, confined in the Cold Palace, back from hell to the world of the living. What began as a desperate act of protection warped, under the influence of power, into a twisted symbiosis. Seventeen years older than him, she was his nursemaid and elder sister, and eventually became his only Noble Consort, as well as hi
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Middle-Aged Love: No Lying Flat 中年爱情不躺平
Can people still find love in middle age? At a student journalism club event, forty-year-old reporter Lin Xingyu meets Fang Ziduo, a thirty-eight-year-old library specialist. One is a wealthy single mother who has turned her back on love and marriage. The other, weighed down by poverty and family responsibilities, has never been able to find a girlfriend and has decided to lie flat when it comes to love and marriage. They become companions, making their way through a difficult stretch of life to
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- 60 The Truth About Marriage 婚姻里的真相 [Angst]+ [Women's Growth] At thirty-four, the well-behaved Yu Lan was struck by one upheaval after another. Her parents' deaths, her husband's infidelity, and the pain of being unable to have children robbed her life of its foundation. She chose to end her life on a busy street, but by a twist of fate, a new life began instead. 14.7kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 61 Love for the Leftover Woman 大龄剩女的爱情 Xia Yunshu is 34 and still single. She once had a passionate romance with Li Minghui. Though he came from a farming family, he was handsome, charming, and talented. During college, she gave him nearly everything she had to help him. To spare his pride, she arranged a summer job for him, but she was the one who actually paid his wages. Yet Li Minghui already had someone in his heart: his beloved first love. After graduation, the two of them went abroad together... What happened devastated Xia Yun 4.4kReads8.5Score383Shelves
- 62 Unmarried at Thirty, Unwed at Forty 三十不婚，四十不嫁 There's nothing wrong with a woman not getting married by thirty, and there's nothing wrong with not remarrying by forty! Everyone simply makes different choices. After enduring pressure to marry, blind dates, deception, and divorce, she finally realized that being alone can actually be pretty great. 19kReads8.9Score373Shelves
- 63 Feifei, the Overaged Spinster 大龄剩女菲菲 After spending twenty-eight years in and out of the hospital, thirty-six-year-old Ouyang Feifei, an unmarried woman past her prime, finally kicked the bucket one stormy night. As she lay dying, she was furious that she’d never even held a man’s hand. She died with her eyes open, thinking that if she could do it all over again, she’d seduce eight or ten men. The heroine’s long-term hospitalization has left her with psychological and personality disorders. She suffers from an emotional disorder. 3kReads6.8Score110Shelves
- 64 Just a Second Book with You 只是有你的第2本书 She was a child in his memories, and he was a friend of her parents’ generation. Separated by thirty years, they had always stood on opposite banks of a river: he on the shore of maturity, she on the shore of growing up. But fate quietly changed course, bringing two tributaries that should have run parallel together at a tranquil bend. When the tide surges over the banks, some boundaries can never be restored. 2.2kReads8.4Score161Shelves
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Like You in Early Spring 初春如你
An office romance was a strict taboo Shu Xinran had set for herself, especially with Ji Ran, who was ten years younger. She had finally escaped her broken marriage and spent eight years enjoying her solitude. By now, she saw love as a luxury and wanted nothing to do with it. For the rest of her life, she only wanted a peaceful, steady existence. She didn’t want anyone disrupting her rhythm again. This early spring should have been just like any other. But she never expected that this spring woul
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Love in the Late Hours 恋恋晚时光
(Silver-haired heroine, no forgiveness and no getting back together, completed) Bai Yuwan is sixty this year when she accidentally discovers that her husband has been cheating on her for ten years! It all started with a package that should never have been opened. Every New Year’s Eve, her husband, Sun Zhenwei, claims he has to work overtime. In reality, he’s enjoying a candlelit dinner with his first love to celebrate the New Year! He even bought her a house! And Bai Yuwan? She spent her whole l
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My Online Love Is a Mature Older Woman 我的网恋对象御姐阿姨
Lin Zhou, a 26-year-old office worker, wants to meet people through online apps. To his surprise, he meets many older women, from confident older sisters to aunties. Each has her own circumstances: some struggle to find a partner in real life, some are divorced and single, and some have husbands busy with work or business elsewhere, leaving them lonely and unfulfilled. Lin Zhou chats with them online before meeting them in person. Some relationships turn romantic, while others develop into inapp
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- 68 Her Husband Went Abroad and Left His Forty-Year-Old Wife Behind 丈夫出国留下40岁妻子 Her husband went abroad to start a business, leaving his beautiful 40-year-old wife at home. In the midst of loneliness and isolation, can she resist the flirtatious advances of all kinds of men? This long-form romance about family and relationships portrays the loneliness and desires of middle-aged women left behind in the city, and the push and pull of flirtation amid everyday life. It doesn't judge right or wrong, focusing instead on the struggles of human nature and instinctive longing. 82Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 69 Pan Jinlian, the Village Girl 村姑潘金莲 Reimagining Pan Jinlian against the backdrop of a modern woman left behind by her husband, this story strips away traditional labels and focuses on her struggles and choices amid a barren marriage, a lonely life, and the shackles of morality. It explores the clash between human desire and the harsh realities of life. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Xiaomei Loves Middle-Aged Men 小美爱中年大叔 During her years at university and at work, Lin Xiaomei, a girl with a thing for older men, encounters all kinds of handsome, charming, witty, mature, steady, and successful middle-aged men. Unable to resist their allure, she becomes entangled in flirtations, intimate relationships, and emotional complications. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 My Story with Women Who Love to Dance 我与爱跳舞女人们的故事 Lin David is 28, handsome and tall, with a gentle, perceptive nature and keen powers of observation. He has an approachable air that puts people at ease. Stressed by work, he falls in love with dancing. He tries everything from ballroom dancing in public squares to social dancing and even ballroom and jazz at professional dance halls, spending at least three nights a week on a dance floor. The beautiful, elegant women who shine on those dance floors, young and old, enter his life with stories of 36Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Down-and-Out Ex-Girlfriend Becomes the CEO’s Most Cherished One 落魄前女友，成了总裁的心尖宠
[My name is Zhang Chengxi. I’m a... left-over... single woman, and I reunited with my ex-boyfriend at the ripe old age of thirty-five...] At thirty-five, am I supposed to accept my fate and marry a divorced man with a child? Absolutely not! Back home, everyone thinks my college degree was useless, I couldn’t hold on to my job, and I can’t find a husband. My only value, as they see it, is to bring in a bride price and help support my younger brother. But I refuse to accept that. I fled back
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My Ex Went Abroad and Dumped Her Genius Son on Me. Now the Research Mogul Is Back and on a Rampage 前女友出国把天才儿子塞给我，科研大佬回国后杀疯了
My ex-girlfriend went abroad and left me with our genius son. Now the research superstar is back in the country and wreaking havoc.
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His Little Sweet Pomelo 他的小甜柚
Original title: His Sweet Pomelo [Transmigration+27-year age gap+secret crush+long-planned romance+both virgins+brooding, obsessive hero who has been to prison+sweet, innocent heroine+Fujian customs+from school uniforms to wedding dresses] In a nutshell: She transmigrates back to her parents’ student days and falls in love with her dad’s sworn enemy. Left You inexplicably transmigrates back to the year 2000, and the moment she appears, Tang Li, who became a young mother without even having to go
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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- 76 Reborn in the 1980s: An Elderly Couple Teams Up to Teach Their Ungrateful Son a Lesson 重生八零老头老太携手整治不孝子 The rating just came out, so it's low. Feel free to ignore it. I'll do my best~ [Period] [The 1980s] [Light ensemble cast] [Reborn] [Feel-good power fantasy] [No golden finger] Wu Yulan is reborn, returning to the moment just after her old man got into trouble. Zhao Dashan is reborn too. Remembering how his wife struggled like a spinning top after he died, he decides he won't die this time around. Wu Yulan has five children. The eldest, Zhao Deyu, is just as selfish and cold-hearted in this life 349Reads7.9Score102Shelves
- 77 Three Sons and Two Daughters: The Reborn Father Starts Playing Favorites Fairly 三儿两女，重生老父亲开始端水 Content warnings (historical setting + rebirth + ensemble cast + family drama + flawed characters + building wealth) Zeng Dali had been to the battlefield and fought in a war. After leaving the army, he was assigned to work at a machine factory and became the pride of his parents’ generation. He had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son was fortunate enough to take the first college entrance exam after it was reinstated, becoming a medical university student. After graduating, he worked a 25kReads8.0Score1.9kShelves
- 78 Unemployed in Middle Age, I Somehow Became a Handsome Flight Attendant's Baby's Dad 中年失业，美艳空姐竟让我当奶爸 [Urban fantasy + wild imagination + daily life + System + wish fulfillment] At forty, Li Yu loses his job and considers ending it all. Then one phone call gives his life a fresh start! “Li Yu, I'm pregnant with your babies. Quadruplets!” On the other end of the line is a stunning flight attendant who spent one passionate night with Li Yu two months ago. Looking at the four heartbeats on the ultrasound, Li Yu grits his teeth and makes up his mind: “Have them! I'll raise them!” [Ding! Congratulati 3.8kReads7.3Score302Shelves
- 79 My First Love 我的初恋情人 I met Yu on an early spring day. It was overcast and windy. He was passing by my house just as I came out of the yard. Our eyes met, and his lit up at once. He stopped in his tracks. My face flushed, and I lowered my head to look at my old cloth shoes, with my toes poking out. My family was so poor that my clothes were covered in patches. Yu didn’t seem to care about my shabby clothes. He kept walking, glancing back at my face. I didn’t know who he was or what he was doing in our village. But a 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Whose Youth Is Without Scars? 谁的青春不带伤 In the eighties and nineties, I was a child too. I went from being confused and bewildered to a rebellious teenager, from a student whose ideals shone bright to a laborer struggling through hardship. Friendships faded and were forgotten; my first love left a deep mark before ending in heartbreak. Being young means constantly growing up. 84Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Sweet Embrace 软糖入怀
Ruan Ruan + Lu Zeyan Modern romance + mature leads + city life + workplace romance To thank Lu Zeyan, Ruan Ruan invited him to dinner. After having a little to drink, she worked up the courage to ask what he liked about her. Lu Zeyan leaned close to her ear and whispered, “I like how pure you are, how soft you are. I've liked you since the first time I saw you.”
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- 82 Working in Dongguan: Sharing a Rental with Fellow Hometown Folks 东莞打工记之老乡合租篇 Working in Dongguan: Sharing an Apartment with Fellow Hometown Folks 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 My Ex Asked to Get Back Together, So I Turned Around and Married My First Love 前女友求复合，我转身娶了初恋 My Ex-Girlfriend Asked to Get Back Together, So I Turned Around and Married My First Love 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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A Forty-Year-Old Woman Falls for Me and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! 四十阿姨恋上我，让厂长喊叫爹！
Original Title: A Forty-Year-Old Aunt Falls for Me, and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! After graduating from college, Chen Yu went out to gain work experience and found a job as a management trainee at a small factory. He finally made it through the hard years and was preparing for a promotion into management, only to unexpectedly end up living off a woman. Though, on second thought, that made sense. After all, Chen Yu had seen a doctor who told him he could only live off a woman. At th
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- 86 I Have a Wuling RV for Transporting Supplies in the Apocalypse 我在末日有一辆五菱房车运送物资 After graduating from college, Chen Shu couldn't find a suitable job, so he started delivering food. He began making deliveries in a Wuling Hongguang, and one day, without realizing it, he found himself in a parallel apocalyptic world. Chen Shu was just about to go to the bathroom when a woman began frantically pounding on his window. When he rolled it down, the woman, dressed head to toe in designer labels, climbed straight into the car and urged him to drive. In his panic, Chen Shu floored i 2.5kReads—Score120Shelves
- 87 The Campus Belle Graduated Without a Single Rumor, Until I Went to Prison 校花零绯闻毕业，直到我锒铛入狱 In 2025, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, where I worked, became the largest exchange in the country. I made an indelible contribution to that achievement. I ended up in prison after making the same mistake as my senior schoolmate. Before that happened, I also met the woman who changed my life... Also known as: "Don't Be Afraid, Senior Sister. I'll Protect You." "Don't Fear the Campus Belle's Flirting, Just Beware the Forty-Year-Old Sister" "Campus Belle, Please Guide Me Through the Rest of My Life" 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Running a Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic: From the Start, Treating Young Ying Zheng 经营中医药馆，开局救治少年嬴政 Chen Che was a doctor with advanced degrees in both Chinese and Western medicine. After graduating, he joined a top-tier hospital in Chuting, Chuyun City, Nanyue Province, as an emergency medicine clinician. But an accident destroyed his reputation. He was fired and forced to leave the hospital, and all his earnings went to compensating the patient's family. With no other choice, he moved to a village in Yongzhou, Guixi Province, and began practicing traditional Chinese medicine. From then on, h 167Reads—Score—Shelves
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When I Say Your Name, the Wind Is Just Right 念你名字时，风正好
With a secret crush tucked away in her heart, Lan Xin writes the quietest love story of her youth. Carefully using an old-fashioned cell phone to get closer to him, she makes three clumsy confessions and takes on three dares to find the courage, only to stop short because of insecurity and missed chances. From daily greetings to becoming strangers, she thinks she was the only one in love, never knowing the boy had kept his feelings hidden in the passage of time, waiting for her for ten whole yea
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- 90 The Thousand Years She Spent Healing on Earth 她在地球养伤的一千年 The Thousand Years She Spent Healing on Earth —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Rescued After Jumping into the Sea, I Married into a Trillion-Dollar Family 跳海被救代嫁给千亿财阀
Wealthy CEO x Scheming Heir x Sweet Before Angst x Contract Marriage x Marriage Before Love x Witty and Funny Ru Meng's life was simple and happy, until her mother's best friend betrayed them. Overnight, she was saddled with enormous loan-shark debts, and her family was destroyed. Desperate to repay the debt, she was driven into a corner. While fleeing, she fell into the sea, only to be rescued by a wealthy young master. He discovered that she looked exactly like the sister who had run away from
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Pregnant Before Marriage at 39: Meeting a CEO 未婚先孕之39岁遇见霸总裁
[Note: The heroine will have a turbulent relationship with her ex-husband, who is not chaste! She’ll only be involved with two men, and the domineering CEO is chaste!] A 39-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man + modern setting + famine + kept woman + fictional world Nearly forty, divorced, raising a child, and caught in a famine. These labels weigh Xu Qing down until she can hardly breathe. Once a housewife who never lifted a finger around the home, she’s become a working-class woman scrambling
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Yongzheng's Secret Blade 雍正暗刃
Political intrigue + Assassination + Romance + Court drama. The Blood-Drop Earring, the most ruthless and secretive assassination unit in Yongzheng's Imperial Bodyguard Office, strikes fear into all who hear its name. Chen Ying, its sharpest hidden blade, is ordered to slaughter a loyal minister's entire household. But he discovers that his victims are not rebels: they are a lone official who knows the royal family's deepest secrets. The dying man's question, “Who will silence you when your turn
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- 94 Reborn in the Seventies: I Used My Pocket Dimension to Marry the Old Village Chief 七零重生，携空间改嫁老村长 Tomato Originals + period setting + reborn + pocket dimension + devoted to each other In her previous life, Xia Xuqing ignored her mother's advice and gave up her education to marry He Wenhao. Little did she know their marriage had been a scheme from the start. In the end, Xia Xuqing was killed along with her unborn child by the ungrateful wretch she'd raised with all her heart and soul. Reborn, Xia Xuqing swears she won't be the He family's unpaid workhorse anymore. She'll settle every score an 2.7kReads8.3Score366Shelves
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My Doctor Lin 我的林医生
[A blend of sweetness and heartbreak + slow burn + delicate prose + a working woman’s growth + episodic format] Radiologist Lin Xiaoya can see every bone in the human body, yet she can’t read the heart of the person in front of her. Other people’s love is a two-way journey, but theirs is a tale of mutual misunderstanding...
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- 96 Beauty That Slays the World 艳杀天下 She killed Han Xin and executed Peng Yue, clearing away every one of Liu Bang’s “brothers” for him. She poisoned the King of Zhao and turned a rival into a human pig, leaving no one in the harem daring to challenge her authority. Before her husband died, he made her swear that only members of the Liu clan could be kings, yet she personally placed members of the Lü clan on the throne. Her son hated her, the ministers feared her, and the people of the realm called her a “poisonous woman.” But so w 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Pension Is 5,800 a Month. I Refuse to Move into a Nursing Home and Rent My House to a Caregiver Instead 退休金5800，我选择不住养老院，而是把房子租给保姆
With a pension of 5,800, I chose not to live in a retirement home. Instead, I rented out my house to a caregiver.
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- 98 At 65, She Sang Old Songs and Reunited with Her First Love. Thirty Years Later, They Finally Found Their Happy Ending 65岁大妈唱老歌重逢初恋，隔30年终究圆满余生 At 65, she sings old songs and reunites with her first love. After 30 years apart, they finally find happiness in their remaining years. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Forced into Early Retirement at 62, He Started a Business with His Skills and Earned 150,000 a Year in Three Years 62岁遭遇提前内退，凭手艺创业三年年入十五万 Forced into early retirement at 62, he starts a business with his skills and earns 150,000 a year within three years. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 At 70, I Was Scammed Out of 600,000 in Retirement Savings. My Children Called Me a Fool, but I Thanked the Scammer 70岁我被骗走60万养老钱，儿女骂我糊涂，我却感谢骗子 At 70, I was conned out of 600,000 yuan in retirement savings. My children called me foolish, but I thanked the scammer. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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