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The Woman Who Came Up from the Yellow Earth 黄土地里走出来的女人
Longxi, where the yellow earth fills the sky. On the day He Guifang divorced, the whole village watched, waiting for a laugh. No one believed she could survive. But not only did she survive, she came back with a factory. From a basement to an industrial park, from being looked down on to being admired, she spent twenty years proving that women don't just know how to endure. They can win, too. But as she stood before a vast medicinal herb plantation, with the livelihoods of thousands of farming h
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The Purest Love 最纯洁的爱
Qin Feng returns to China after completing his studies in Russia, just as the country reforms its education system and universities abolish guaranteed job assignments for graduates. He then moves with his family to a coastal city, where he meets Xie Lan, a local girl from the countryside. Xie Lan is six years younger than Qin Feng and left school after junior high. They come from vastly different backgrounds in age, education, and family circumstances. Both sets of parents oppose their relations
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My Life: Saving Myself 我的人生，渡己
I moved from the countryside to the big city when I was twenty. On my first day at the factory, I was five minutes late. Those five minutes felt like a slap in the face, waking me up and changing my life. More than ten people crammed into one dorm room. For breakfast, I could only bring myself to buy a tea egg and soy milk. Watching others eat fried rice noodles, I secretly vowed to work hard and make a solid place for myself in the city. There was no sudden wealth and no romance, just a country
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Tears of Buckwheat Blossoms 荞花泣
This is a tragic story. The stranglehold of arranged marriages on women cuts like a blunt knife, while the desperate struggle to survive in a remote mountain village feels like a net with no escape. Under the shackles of the times, individual resistance ends in tragedy, like a moth flying into a flame. The gender oppression embedded in the tribe’s feudal culture makes life even more suffocating. Every time A Wei reaches for hope, reality crushes it in her grasp. The indifference around her, from
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Keeping Watch Over Our Marriage 守望婚姻
This is the tragic story of a rural woman left behind in the countryside. Juhua is a traditional village woman, and like other rural women, she has no source of income. Without financial standing in her household, she can only rely on her husband's earnings to support the family. She is the sort of person who endures whatever comes her way. Her two sweet, clever children seemed to offer a chance to change her fate, but misfortune plunged her back into an abyss of suffering...
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- 256 A Lifetime for Her and Me 我和她的这一生 In 1992, at the age of twenty, I left my hometown. My family was crippled by illness and poverty. We were on the verge of starving to death. If I stayed, we would all be trapped on that patch of barren soil. If I left, there might be a way for them to survive. The southern wind, laden with cement dust, swept into that big city filled with construction sites. This place had no name, only countless steel bars, scaffolding, and faces waiting to sell their labor. We came here to fight for our lives. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 257 The Journey 走过 Walking Through is a poignant romance novel. The carefree days of youth are beautiful, but they can also be painful. Everyone’s growth is its own story of youth, and every story is different. Some lives are smooth sailing, filled with happiness and joy; others are quiet and ordinary, with gentle days; still others are passionate and dramatic, full of fervor and determination... Chunyan’s youth was full of twists and hardships. Yet, in the face of one trial after another, she never gave in. She c 481Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 258 The Ugly Girl from the Northwest 西北丑妞 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 259 The Marriage We Missed 错过的婚姻 The wave of educated youths returning to the cities tore two people in love apart. Liu Yumei, a country girl, became pregnant before marriage and tried to hang herself, but survived. Her sister-in-law then sold her to human traffickers, who married her off to a man in the mountains. The educated youth Fang Shengqiang lost his memory in a car accident and missed his chance to be with Yumei. He married a rich woman and, with his wife’s support, became a corporate highflier. Liu Yumei became the w 219Reads—Score—Shelves
- 260 Keeping House Alone in the Depths of the Countryside 乡野深处守空房 In a bitterly cold mountain village in Northeast China, all the able-bodied young men have gone away to work, leaving behind women, the elderly, and children. The long winter and empty courtyards wear people down. Loneliness isn’t some romantic affair; it’s a real, grinding ordeal for the living. A group of unfortunate women lean on one another, while Da Fei, a simple, honest young man, is the only one in the mountains willing to lend a hand. There are no sordid entanglements, only the vulnerabi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Immortal Farming Sets the Plains Ablaze 仙农燎原
The Immortal Farmer’s Prairie Fire is an epic about safeguarding: protecting medicinal fields, traditional methods, and the convictions we hold dear. It is also an epic about passing on a legacy: putting down roots in the soil and carrying the flame far and wide. The story begins with three mu of medicinal fields in Xishan Village, deep in the mountains. His mother leaves him one last instruction before she dies: “Hold on to it.” Li Jianliang doesn’t understand the weight of those words. He only
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- 262 The Strongest Military Logistician: Following My Wife to the Army in the 1970s 70年代跟老婆去随军最强后勤 After earning numerous merits, Zhu Mantong becomes a regiment commander at a young age. She takes her husband Qin Mobai, who is six years younger than her, with her to join the army. She never expects that Qin Mobai, whom she assumed would be a burden, is a genius in mechanics and electromechanical engineering. Once at the military camp, Qin Mobai not only helps Zhu Mantong earn merit on multiple missions, but also, with the support of Zhu Mantong and the military district leaders, solves the ca 1.2kReads6.8Score152Shelves
- 263 Su Chen's Rise from the Ashes 苏辰的逆袭人生 A betrayal drove him and his mother to the brink of despair, making survival his sole obsession. He lay low in the dust, hiding every trace of his misery, and relied on sheer determination to push through every shadow in his path. The struggles no one knew about and the unexpected glimmers of light eventually helped him break free from the shackles of fate. His rise to power conceals too many untold stories. 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 264 A Dazzling Transformation 华丽蜕变 Kindness needs an edge, and tolerance needs limits! Liu Xia, who grew up in the countryside, was too kind and always gave in. She missed two chances at true love, then stumbled into the wrong marriage and was tormented in a miserable relationship. Fortunately, the college sweetheart who had always loved her reappears, helping her see the error of her ways, escape her unhappy marriage, and open up a whole new chapter in her life! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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Their Years Against the Wind 她们逆风的岁月
In 1980, in Sanqiao Village, everyone hoped for a house full of sons. Li Bingyi’s family had three girls in a row, making them the village’s laughingstock as a family destined to die out. Their grandmother was mean, their uncle schemed against them, and their father was paralyzed. Hardship came crashing down on them all at once. But the three Li girls proved themselves against all odds. Who says girls shouldn’t study? They studied anyway, determined to make something of themselves. Who says girl
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- 266 The Abandoned Child 弃儿 She was destined to be a mistake from the moment she was born. Being born the wrong sex brought her a life of misfortune. Hu Sanmei was the most pitiful woman I had ever met. Raised under the oppression of feudal thinking, she struggled against her fate, yet Heaven never once looked kindly upon her, abandoned by her parents at birth. Her mother's experiences and her older sisters' advice made her believe that getting married and having a son would bring her a happy life. But one failed marriage 8.7kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 267 The Blossoming Red Plum 怒放的红梅 After two years of marriage, Ye Hongmei endured endless humiliation from her in-laws because her birth family was poor and she was adopted. Even her premature baby girl was unwelcome. Her husband and mother-in-law refused to pay for treatment, claiming they had no money, and the child died. Her daughter’s death finally opened Ye Hongmei’s eyes, and she resolutely chose to divorce. After the divorce, Ye Hongmei shed her old timid nature and vowed to avenge her daughter, make her ex-husband’s fami 879Reads7.7Score119Shelves
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Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年
The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature.
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- 269 Remarriage 改嫁 Two years after Wen Lan married, her husband died in an accident. Young and beautiful, she became the most talked-about widow in the surrounding villages. Having lost her only son, her mother-in-law took all her grief and anger out on Wen Lan. To stop her daughter-in-law from remarrying, she made her swear never to marry again. Even so, the village men still coveted the young widow, and rumors soon ran wild. To make a living, Wen Lan left the mountains with her one-year-old child and escaped the 3.9kReads9.1Score516Shelves
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My Mother, Wang Juzhen 俺娘王菊珍
[Based on real life + hardship + historical era + the struggles and perseverance of ordinary people at the bottom of society] This is not a feel-good power fantasy. The protagonist of this book is my beloved and respected great-grandmother, a poor old woman who struggled through the surging tide of an era. Wang Juzhen never had an easy life. Her parents starved to death while fleeing famine, her own sister sold her for a mouthful of grain, and a landlord lusted after her. Only Wang Long gave her
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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- 272 The Whole Internet Laughed at Me for Farming, Until I Made the Whole Village Rich 全网都笑我种地，直到我把全村带富了 The Whole Internet Laughed at Me for Farming, Until I Made the Entire Village Prosper 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Shi Shun's Growth 石顺的成长
About Growth At the foot of the Dabie Mountains, a young man named Shi Shun journeys forward, one step at a time. Over the first half of his life, he experiences sincere family affection, treasures friendships forged through hardship, encounters tender love, and strives to build an ordinary career. He grows from a naive, awkward youth into a steady and responsible man, tempering his character amid the everyday bustle of life and coming to understand what life means through the companionship of
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I Am the Paper Doll Offered as a Sacrifice 我是被献祭的纸人
[A Slow-Burning, Carefully Savored Story | Fated by the Era | Entangled Feuds | A Devastating Aftermath] In the twentieth year of the Republic, Meixi Town in Jiangnan suffers a hundred days of drought, leaving thousands of miles of barren land. To consolidate its power and reassure the people, the powerful Chen family revives a century-old evil sacrificial rite. Seven-year-old orphan Shen Yangzi is treated as a stand-in for the drought demon. Bound like a paper effigy, she is sunk into the deep
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Liu Zhihao's Years of Youth 刘志豪的芳华岁月
[Period novel + workplace + family + society] The story takes its time to unfold, growing richer the further you read. It is grounded in reality, depicting social life, education, love, careers, officialdom, and rural life in the 1990s, offering a sweeping portrait of everyday life in that era. After graduating from university, the protagonist, Liu Zhihao, is assigned to teach at a middle school in his hometown. From then on, his life enters a new phase as he witnesses the development of educati
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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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Reborn in 1978: The Medical God and His Ex-Wife's Regrets Before the College Entrance Exam 重生1978医神高考前妻悔断肠
Jiang Weidong, an internationally renowned medical authority, suddenly falls gravely ill and dies during an interview with the BMJ. When he opens his eyes, he has transmigrated to Jiangzhuang in Huaxia in 1978, becoming the son of a country doctor who shares his name. Bringing with him a lifetime of medical expertise from his previous life, he picks up his pen and conquers the college entrance exams, earning top honors. With his superb medical skills, he overcomes every obstacle and heads to the
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After Fleeing My Wedding, I Went to Dongguan 逃婚后我去了东莞
[Rural] At 22, Bai Qing went on a blind date over the New Year holiday. On her very first date, she lost her virginity to a man she didn't like. With no other choice, she ran away from her wedding and went to Guangdong to work. While working in Dongguan, she met her true love, Li Changsheng, a rich second-generation heir. Not long after they began dating, Changsheng sent Bai Qing to adult college. After many intimate encounters, she became pregnant. Then Bai Qing dropped out, got married, and ga
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The Mute Everyone in the Village Fears Is My Grandpa 全村都怕的哑巴，是我爷爷
The mute everyone in the village fears is my grandfather
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Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情
Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself.
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The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事
[Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn.
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Feeling Anxious? I Found Healing in a Country Courtyard 你焦虑了吗？我在农村小院治愈了
At 44, I take the blame and get disciplined. My promotion is gone. My wife's job is unstable, and she's always on edge. My son is hooked on online games, and his grades leave a lot to be desired. I rent a place with a courtyard in the suburbs. I work in the CBD by day, then come back to the village at night to raise chickens, walk the dog, and grow vegetables. The neighbors say I look like an idiot turning over the soil. But idiots don't have to take the blame for anyone anymore. I raise chicken
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Leaving on the Journey South 南下归途离开
Every so often, a generation leaves home to make a living, leaving its youth behind on construction sites and streets far from home. Our fathers left the mountains with worn-out woven-plastic bags on their backs, heading south to find work. They knew nothing of polished talk. They only knew to keep their heads down and work hard, relying on brute strength to feed their families. They lived in cramped shacks, endured grueling day and night shifts, and swallowed their homesickness and grievances.
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The Beautiful Bride of Flower Village 花村美娇娘
The Zhao family should have been one of the largest clans in Zhaojiagou. The village had once been thriving, but an accident took all the Zhao family’s able-bodied men. Left behind were orphans and widows throughout the village, along with Zhao Ergou, an orphan raised on food given by the neighbors. As the last surviving bloodline of the Zhao family, Zhao Ergou was cherished by everyone in the village. Everyone hoped that Zhao Ergou could lead the villagers and restore Zhaojiagou to its former g
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My 1994: Starting with Wild Vegetables Across the Hills 我的九四，从漫山野菜开始
Xu Shouyi was an outstanding modern farmer of the 21st century. After serving as village chief for 20 years, he went to a neighboring village to advise them on a new planting method. Then, caught in a sudden downpour, his car plunged off a cliff… When he woke up again, he had returned to 1994. There was still time to set things right. In his previous life, he’d drifted through life and only come to his senses in middle age. This time, he would use his knowledge to lead his kind-hearted neighbors
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You're an Ox, and I'm Like an Ox 你是牛一头，我像牛一样
You’re an ox, and I’m like an ox.
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One of the Five Categories: My Career in Government Is on the Fast Track 五类人员:我的仕途开了挂
[Officialdom + Getting Things Done + Realism + No Special Recruitment] A village official’s ten-year journey from the bottom to the top! From a confused young man lured back to his hometown to a pillar of the nation’s central government, Zhao Zhang spends ten years starting out in the most humble of villages. Amid the sweeping changes of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, he follows his commitment to serving the people through practical work and his dedication to continuous learning,
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A Little Me in a Big City 小小的我，大大的城
My dad was actually crying. I think the only other time he’d broken down in tears was when Grandma passed away, as they laid her to rest. I must be sick, and it must be serious. No, no, I don’t want to die. I haven’t had a passionate romance yet, and I’m twenty-seven with my first kiss still intact. I can’t accept this. I have to live, and live with dignity. I’ll get married, and have a bunch of adorable kids. “Mom, I’m willing to be hospitalized.” Youxin “Doctor, let’s take her to the hospital
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The Swallow Who Crawled Out of the Dark Abyss 从黑暗深渊中爬出的燕子
Tell me, just how unlucky can one person be? Her own father married four women, and her stepmother treated her like a thorn in her side. In the prime of her youth, she was tricked by a villain and taken away. At long last, she found a little warmth and thought she’d found love, only for it to turn out to be another ill-fated relationship. She got married, thinking she’d found a home, but her life became a complete mess. And that wasn’t the end of it! One by one, all her loved ones disappeared...
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The Tujia Girl 土家妹子
My new work is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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She Outlived the Other Woman, Then Was Reborn 熬死小三，她又重生啦
[Not a palace-intrigue novel, not a farming novel: the heroine's growth and the redemption of a life.] Bai Chunyu had a miserable life in her previous life. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the 1970s, before any of those tragedies had happened! She decisively cut ties with her family, severing them once and for all. She would protect her genius little daughter with her life. Her family's ancestral silver bangle concealed a pocket dimension, stocked to the brim with supplies. S
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- 292 Back to the 1990s: I'm Done Being a Good Girl 重回九零，不做乖乖女 [Lighthearted Comedy + Inspirational Youth + Reborn and Doted on by Everyone + Healing] Completed. He Laifa still hasn’t woken up. No one knows if she ever will, but her passion, her hard work, her determination, and her kindness and intelligence have all affected the people around her. The people of Yangjiatun will never forget her. The people of Hejiabao will never forget her. He, and all the others, keep striving in their own posts, shining brightly. She is strength. She is hope. She is their 212Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 293 The Award-Winning Nanny Reborn with a Professor's Book Collection! 金牌保姆带教授藏书重生啦！ [Reborn + family bonds + everyone’s favorite + healing + mystery] The main story is complete, with some bonus chapters in the works. Feel free to dive in. Lin Chuyi was a top-tier caregiver who spent more than a decade looking after an elderly professor and his wife. They treated her like their own daughter. Before they died, they left her an inheritance and a jade pendant, which sent her back to the age of eighteen. The pendant is a key, and the library is a space connecting her past and future 483Reads9.2Score100Shelves
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Pretty Widow Bai Hehua Is Spoiled by Suitors from the Whole Village 俏寡妇白荷花全村花粉追着宠
[Period setting + 1990s + rural life + farming + family squabbles + strong-willed heroine + tough female lead + revenge on scumbags + building wealth + raising three daughters and turning her life around + humor] Bai Hehua has been married into the Li family for three years and has given birth to three daughters in a row. Her mother-in-law calls her a jinx, and her scumbag husband takes his anger out on her. Then an accident takes her husband's life. She becomes the prettiest widow in Li Fami
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- 295 Uncovering the Past of the ‘Third-Line’ Defense Industry Workers 揭秘:“小三线”军工人的往事 A Look Back at the Past of the “Third-Line” Defense Industry Workers 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 296 The Matchmaker’s Comic and Tragic Fate 红娘啼笑因缘 A matchmaker who transmigrated, still so young and already arranging marriages. What a farcical situation! The matchmaker Hongniang in the Peking opera The Story of the Western Wing is famous for helping lovers find happiness. Could a real-life matchmaker actually be the reincarnation of the Hongniang from The Story of the Western Wing? Can the Book of Changes really predict love and marriage? 8Reads7.0Score—Shelves
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After Five Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law, My Father-in-Law Left and I Finally Came Clean 入赘五年，老丈人一走我摊牌了
[1980s] [Married into the Family] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Fiercely Protective Wife] Before the seventh-day mourning period for Shen Yanqing's father-in-law was even over, the Lin sisters were already blocking the courtyard gate, eager to throw him out after five years as a live-in son-in-law. For five years, he had cleaned and cared for his paralyzed father-in-law, enduring sneers and earning the scornful label of a shameless freeloader. Now that the old man was gone and his family had
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The Black Mule's Funeral 黑骡的葬礼
The idle men from the village squatted on the slope, smoking and watching the commotion. Between the flickers of their cigarette embers, scraps of conversation drifted over: “It's just a mule, and they're burying it like a person!...” “...Dr. Qin says it could fetch eight hundred in meat money...” Old Luo's ears perked up like a mule's, and he dug harder and harder with his hoe…!
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Kicked Out After My Second Marriage, I Thrive Back in the Countryside 二婚被赶，我回农村混得风生水起
Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Modern Fiction, Period Setting, Building a Career, Comeback, Livestream Commerce, Getting Rich Zhou Xiaoya is forced by her in-laws to have an abortion during her second marriage. Her ex-husband marries someone new, and she leaves with nothing but her daughter, returning to her village. Everyone thinks she'll starve on the streets. Instead, she makes a fortune selling goods through her livestream, and even helps the whole village get rich. How did the woman who was
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A Letter to My Beloved 致爱人书
A Letter to My Beloved
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