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I Transmigrated to 1979 and Became a Human Machine Tool 穿越七九，我成了人形机床
[A note: This novel requires some knowledge to read and leans toward realism rather than wish fulfillment. Beginners, stay away! Beginners, stay away!] [Modern urban setting + period drama + technology + global perspective on competition between great powers + slow burn] [Contains science fiction elements + leans toward realism + has a golden finger] Zhou Xia Yan, the head of a high-tech company, was struck by a meteor and transmigrated to the end of 1979, becoming a young educated urbanite who
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Reborn, I’m Taking Shortcuts to Help the Nation Get Ahead 都重生了，让国家走点捷径怎么了
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
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After Winning a Hundred Million, I Became My Company's Savior 中奖一个亿后，我成了公司救世主
[The rating just came out, but it'll slowly improve! No risk in getting on board!] Shen Yanshen casually bought two lottery tickets and won a hundred million. His miserable working life was over for good, and from then on he lived in a mansion and drove a Mercedes. His ex-girlfriend, who had once looked down on him for being poor, came back in tears, begging him to take her back. Shen Yanshen kicked her a hundred meters away. “Get as far away as you can. Can't you see I'm washing my wife's feet?
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After I Left the Family Chat, My Daughter-in-Law Fell Apart 我退出家庭群后，儿媳崩溃了
After I left the family group chat, my daughter-in-law fell apart
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I Followed My Wife to a Hotel, and I Regretted It 跟踪老婆到酒店后，我后悔了
I followed my wife to a hotel, and regretted it
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After My Husband Returned from a Business Trip to Chengdu, a Casual Short Video Made Me Go Viral 老公从成都出差回来后，我随手发个短视频爆火了
After My Husband Returned from a Business Trip to Chengdu, a Short Video I Posted on a Whim Went Viral
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My Desk Mate's Sugar Daddy Is My Dad 同桌的干爹是我爸
My deskmate's godfather is my dad
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After a Whirlwind Wedding, I Became a Rich Woman and Didn't Have to Work Night Shifts 闪婚后我成了富婆，还不用上夜班
After a Whirlwind Marriage, I Became a Rich Woman and Didn't Have to Work the Night Shift
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After Being Struck by Lightning, I Could Understand My In-Laws’ Dialect 被雷劈后，我听懂了婆家方言
After Being Struck by Lightning, I Could Understand My In-Laws' Dialect
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After My Husband Cheated, I Ran the Company into Bankruptcy 老公出轨后，我把公司搞破产了
After My Husband Cheated, I Ran the Company into Bankruptcy
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After Being Demoted and Quietly Giving Up, My Incompetent Boss Begged Me to Accept a Promotion 降职摆烂后，草包领导跪求我升职
After I Was Demoted and Started Slacking Off, My Incompetent Boss Begged Me on His Knees to Promote Me
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The Perfect 50-50 Split 完美AA制
The Perfect 50-50 Split
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My Comatose Husband Woke Up After I Married Him to Bring Him Good Luck 植物人老公被我冲喜冲醒了
My Vegetative Husband Woke Up After I Married Him for Good Luck
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I'm the One Who'll Deal with the Wicked Neighbor 恶邻自有我来磨
Leave It to Me to Deal with the Wicked Neighbor
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The Trial-Room Maid 试房丫鬟
The House-Testing Maid
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Let's Divorce! You Really Think I'm Some Kind of Toad? 离婚吧！真当我是癞蛤蟆？
Not a power fantasy. Please read with caution if that bothers you. Chu Yuxuan has been married to Xia Zhu for two years. He thought there was no heart in the world that couldn’t be warmed, until her old flame returns and Xia Zhu rushes to him without a second thought… After the divorce, Chu Yuxuan returns to the Chu family and transforms into a wealthy, spoiled playboy. At his family’s arrangement, he marries the icy beauty Zhao Yanan. On the surface, he’s a good-for-nothing wastrel, but behind
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My Girl from Xi’an 我的西安姑娘
A breakup should be dignified, so don’t say goodbye. Childhood sweethearts can’t compete with someone who arrives later. Companionship is the longest-lasting declaration of love. The person who loves you has always been by your side, never far away. The people you loved, and the people who hurt you, are the most precious memories of youth. Wang Lian, a loser who had failed at everything, was cheated on by his childhood sweetheart Ni Cai and dumped by his blind date. Then, in the depths of his de
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The Peril of a Beautiful Wife 艳妻劫
Zhang Qi ran an ordinary medical clinic. His life was simple but happy, thanks to his captivating wife. That is, until he noticed that she seemed to have some unusual male friends on the side. When he confronted her, she flatly denied it and threw her weight around. Even his own parents questioned his unreasonable behavior. At forty, he found himself lost, wondering how to face his life and marriage. Should he fight back, or get to the bottom of the truth…
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I Fulfilled the System's Wish 我完成了系统的心愿
Tragedy! Even jumping off a building, I managed to crash into a System that was on the verge of collapse! Tears of joy! The adoptive father I got after transmigrating turned out to be a Titan Giant Ape who had taken human form to cultivate anew. What a surprise! The System I upgraded by robbing people everywhere turned out to belong to Yuan, the Grandmaster of Luo Feng...
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A Useless Martial Soul? I Defy Heaven's Will, Evolve, and Shock the World 废武魂？我，逆天进化，震惊世界
[Multiple heroines + shocking, passionate action + fairies and demons with unexpected sides + hilarious, outrageous “filial sons”] The thrills never stop after he leaves the mountains, and neither do the schemes. Luo Fanchen, a legendary heartbreaker and “playboy,” transmigrates and is dragged back to a village by his demoness wife from the very start. He awakens two heaven-defying, mysterious martial souls, encounters fairies and demonesses, and pulls one outrageous stunt after another… In this
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The Villain Calls Off the Engagement, and the Stunning CEO Begs Him to Get Back Together 反派退婚，绝美女总裁哭着求复合
Qin Lang transmigrated into a world where several web novels had merged. His grandfather was one of the few remaining decorated veterans! His father was a government official with immense power! His mother was a businesswoman worth a fortune! And he was the Qin family’s sole heir! How could someone with such an all-powerful, wealthy background be the original story’s great villain? Was he destined to be relentlessly face-slapped by the protagonist, with his family reduced to a stepping stone for
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Pay One Yuan, Get Ten Thousand: The School Beauty in Black Stockings Is Head over Heels for Me 冲一元送一万，黑丝校花爱意狂涌
[Tycoon]+ [Multiple Heroines]+ [Everyday Romance] Qin Feng obtained a Romance System. Not only did his funds multiply by ten thousand, but every time he won a goddess's heart, he also gained a superpower.
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Apocalypse: From the Start, I Took in the Four Campus Goddesses! 末世，开局收留四大校花！
[Invincible + zombie apocalypse + more children, more blessings + tons of female characters + ruthless and decisive + profits above all] When the apocalypse arrived and zombies broke out, Liu Yang and the aloof class beauty were trapped in a room together. The girl who used to barely give Liu Yang the time of day could now only kneel and beg to cling to him! That's when Liu Yang awakened the more children, more blessings System and gained powerful abilities. From then on, he rose to the top of t
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Back to 1993: The Perfect Life 重返93之完美人生
The 1990s were a time when fortunes were made. Countless people rose and fell, while countless others followed in their footsteps. Yet the people of southwestern Shandong remained trapped in poverty. Lu Zijian suddenly returned to 1993. His second life began with a blind date.
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Tycoon: A Cashback System from the Start, with Critical Hits 神豪：开局返现系统，还能暴击
[Urban]+ [Tycoon]+ [Power fantasy]+ [Campus beauty]+ [System] Fired from his company from the start, Ye Ning is also abandoned by his gold-digging girlfriend. Drowning his sorrows in a bar, Ye Ning gets swept up in a passionate night with a stunning woman. Neither asks the other's name or where they come from. Could their fate really end there? [Ding! The Tycoon Cashback System is now bound to you!] [A Vacheron Constantin watch costs 200,000. Tenfold cashback: 2 million!] [Spend 200,000 on a wom
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Go Crazy Over Your Moonlight, Then Cry When Your Boss Falls for Me 你跟白月光疯，女上司爱我你哭啥
[Officialdom + business + workplace + power and desire + men and women: What could drive people this mad?] Enough already! At thirty, a man shouldn't have to face a conspiracy to strip him of his position, the betrayal of his pregnant fiancée after seven years together, the merciless bullying of his beautiful boss, a terminal illness, and constant rejection and abuse from everyone around him! No, I'm done holding back! Just as he learns that his fiancée is about to get together with her white mo
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Armor Hero: I Have the Genes of the Sun and Moon 铠甲勇士：我有日月基因
A brand-new story combining Armor Hero 1, Armor Hero 2, Armor Hero 3, Urban, and feel-good action! My name is Bai Yi. After an accident, I ended up in the world of Armor Hero! What? There's no System or golden finger? I've been summoning the Tuitian Armor for two and a half years. And now you're telling me I have the Sun-Moon gene?! Do you have any idea what I've been through these past two and a half years?!
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Worlds Collide, and Everyone Around Me Is a Main Character 世界乱入，我身边竟然都是主角
Gu Beicheng transmigrates into this world with a Choice System, only to have the campus belle force him to be her boyfriend in front of everyone? Wait, this world is actually a magical one where countless universes have merged!!! The campus belle’s bodyguard beats up a King of Soldiers, a Dragon King, and a War God, then gets into a fight with superpowered beasts? The King of Soldiers hammers the Dragon King, then turns around and brawls with a Nether Demon? The War God returns with a hundred th
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Back at Nineteen: Goddess, Why Aren't You Proud Anymore? 重返十九岁，女神你怎么不骄傲了
[A down-to-earth rebirth story with solid logic and clear-eyed characters, a textbook for young people striving and falling in love.] Xu Jianghe, a major player in Shanghai’s venture capital scene with a ten-digit fortune, unexpectedly found himself reborn at the age of nineteen. In his previous life, he’d been an elite at the top of his game. Now he was starting over as a young man who had achieved nothing and was plagued by insecurity. From then on, every step brought a shock, and flowers bloo
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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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The Rise and Fall of the Way of Go 棋道浮沉
Before he died, a billionaire locked a document transferring his assets into a safe at a Swiss bank. The code was split into two parts, each held by a different person. They would have to meet at the bank and open the safe together to inherit his fortune. One was his adopted daughter; the other was someone his disciple was to select and train. He told them the first move from their respective chess manuals, which gave them the first two digits of their individual codes. Then the two would face o
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United on the Road of Blood 血路同归
(Not a wish-fulfillment story, and the hero isn't invincible. Enter at your own risk.) A youth stained with blood, vows made without regret, inexperienced love, sincere friendship, the cruelty of society, and the complexity of human nature. An unforgettable, turbulent era! A piece of underworld lore passed down to this day! A band of brothers who shared honor and disgrace, life and death! An unmatched era, with a flag-bearer standing at its peak! Laughing as we watch the tides of fortune, marchi
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I Choose Divorce. I Disband the Group, So Why Are You Crying? 选择离婚，我解散组合你哭什么？
Zhou Chen gets a second life and falls in love with the girl of his dreams, who shares his ambitions. Their romance starts on a youthful campus and leads all the way to the wedding altar. Together, they form Fengyue Chuanqi, a hit group just like the one from his previous life. But as their popularity grows... “Too few lyrics!” “Phoning it in on stage!” “Dead weight!” All kinds of labels are slapped on Zhou Chen, making him the target of fans' attacks. Zhou Chen doesn't care. But after years of
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A Female Ghost Shows Up Pregnant, and You Say You're a Proper Daoist? 女鬼怀孕上门你说你是正经道士？
[Mystery Solving] [Ghost Stories] [Chinese Folk Traditions] Su Yun is an heir to the Yin-Yang School, one of the pre-Qin traditions. Introduced by an acquaintance, he went on a blind date and met his girlfriend. After they broke up, Su Yun prepared to turn her into a zombie. Just as the process was nearly complete on the seventh day, a policewoman burst in and arrested him for murder. Su Yun: “I'm innocent! My ex-girlfriend was a flight attendant, fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. Why wo
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Can Curing Illness Make Me Stronger? I Become a Martial God Through Rewards! 治病就能变强？我靠返还成武神！
[Demon Protagonist + Medical and Martial Arts Mastery + Sequence Talents + Illness Reversal + Multiple Heroines + System + Bitter Before Sweet] (A satisfying, feel-good story about medicine and merit. He saves people and is a little saintly, but he never hesitates to kill!) Yun Chen transmigrates into a world of advanced martial arts, becoming a good-for-nothing doctor with zero combat power. When his life hangs by a thread, he binds himself to the [Ten-Thousandfold Illness Return System]! Cu
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I Told You to Spend Big on Cultivation, Not to Keep a Female Sword Immortal 让你氪金修仙，没让你包养女剑仙
[Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil
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Reborn to Start a Business? I Need to Date, Too 重生创业？恋爱也要谈谈啊
[No System + slow burn + entrepreneurship + industry + internet] Su Yi wakes up one morning back in 2007, at the dawn of China’s economic boom. Starting with a tiny shop, he acquires McDonald’s and KFC, invests in internet businesses, and gets ahead of the curve in a range of industries. He builds a business empire and a powerful network of connections, making his mark in restaurants, the internet, new energy, hotels, automobiles, and more. When he ventures overseas to go public, he faces a sieg
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Don't Fear a Girl of Eighteen, When You Love a Woman of Thirty-Eight 不怕小妹年十八，就爱女人三十八
At thirty-eight, Yang Mengmeng is a widow who stands on her own two feet. She shoulders the burden of raising her two children by herself. Perhaps because she cannot forget her late husband, she never remarries. Instead, she goes into the mountains to gather and trade wild goods. Only she knows how hard it is for a young woman to run a business. Then one day, she accidentally enters the wrong hotel room, and everything changes...
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The Conscience of an Official 良心官路
Jiang Huai’an was born to a rural family and knows the value of hard work, but life rarely goes the way he hopes. After years of taking the civil service exam, he is assigned to a remote village at the age of thirty. Everyone tells him that he’ll spend the rest of his life there...
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Love Grows with Time 日久生情
To get ahead in life, her boyfriend of four years personally handed her over to a stranger. His name is Fu Sinian, 31 years old, head of Huachen and eldest grandson of the Fu family. He is already engaged to the heiress of the Gu family. After the scandal, by a twist of fate, she became known to everyone as “Mr. Fu’s fiancée,” bearing the name of a homewrecker reviled by all. But those two bright red marriage certificates were founded not on love, but on mutual interest. He is cold and distant,
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Uncle, Please Stop Teasing Me! The Baby in My Belly Is Kicking Again 大叔求你别闹了，肚里崽崽又动了
A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Flowers Beyond the Wall 墙外花枝
I used to be the CEO of a design firm. After it went bankrupt, I became a Didi driver. One day, I suddenly noticed a lipstick mark below my wife Lin Yao's collarbone...
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Why Are All the Clansfolk I Summon Such Jokers? 我召唤的族人，怎么全是乐子人？
In the era of the Interstellar Alliance, countless races have united to fight off the invasion of the insectoid race. Among all the races, humanity is the weakest. As the only human to enter the Lord's Academy, he is assigned a remote, desolate planet. Danger lurks everywhere, and the insectoids could discover and devour him at any moment. Unless he can develop his own people and planet, Wei Yuan will not only fail to graduate, he may not survive. Luckily, transmigration comes with a System. Wei
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You’ve Got to Be Kidding! I Just Graduated, and Now I Have Three Little Ones 闹呢，刚毕业，给我生三个小崽子
[System + Stay-at-Home Dad + One Female Lead + Sweet Romance + Rich Protagonist + Everyday Life] Jiang Chen breaks up right after graduation and prepares to start a business and make a big splash. He has just sworn off dating for three years and vowed to make a few million first when he suddenly gets a call telling him that the girl of his dreams is pregnant with his child and about to give birth. Jiang Chen: ??? When he arrives at the hospital, he is completely stunned. The girl of his dreams t
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A Hundredfold Cashback from the Start, Call Me Daddy Warbucks 开局百倍返利，请叫我金主爸爸
After refusing to give in to unspoken rules, Zhang Zhe unexpectedly acquired the Perfect Tycoon System. From the start, he gained the [Sugar Daddy] privilege: spend money on women and get a hundredfold cashback! [Pick up beautiful women at a bar, spend 88,000, get 8.88 million back!] [Take a girl shopping, spend 130,000, get 13 million back!] There's no way to spend it all. There's simply no way! As his fortune continued to grow, Zhang Zhe gained more and more advantages. From being the sugar da
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Are You Crazy? I Just Opened a Restaurant, and the Campus Belle Shows Up With a Child 疯了吧！刚开餐厅校花带娃找上门
[Adorable Kids + Food + Campus Beauty + System + Everyday Life Running a Restaurant] Also known as: “Gourmet Cooking Starts with a Bowl of Egg Noodles,” “The Late-Night Diner: A Foodie’s Paradise,” “A Delicious Diner for Dad,” and “You Told Me to Be a Couch Potato, but I’m Determined to Be a Master Chef!” Su Feng chose to live as a couch potato, but somehow ended up bound to the “Universe’s Number One Cooking Master” System and became the owner of a little restaurant! From that moment on, his co
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I, Qi Tongwei, Refuse to Curry Favor With the Powerful. I'll Start as a Village Official 我祁同伟，不事权贵，从村官干起
My new work is out! You can 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!
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I'm a Socially Anxious Guy, and My Goddess Wife Refuses to Divorce Me 我！社恐，女神老婆不肯跟我离婚
[Urban Slice of Life + No System + Entertainment Industry + Both Leads Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Three completed novels of over a million characters each. Quality guaranteed!] Li Shuo, a man with severe social anxiety, has barely transmigrated to a parallel world when his stepmother drags him off to meet a potential bride at her home. On the very day of the meeting, a “female ghost” accidentally pulls him into the civil affairs bureau, and they get married in a flash… He thought all they h
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The Struggles of a Taoist Priest 一个道士的奋斗
[Rookie climbs the ranks + No System + Not a power fantasy + Slow burn] Fan Shengman graduated from Longhu Mountain Taoist Academy with a four-year bachelor's degree. Legend has it that once a Taoist priest receives a celestial register, his name is entered into Heaven's official records and he is appointed an immortal official. By upholding justice, slaying demons, and building merit in the mortal world, he can keep rising through the ranks, eventually earning a place among the immortals. As a
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A Cultivator in Modern Society 现代社会的修仙道士
“Taoist priest, can you do magic?” “Magic? People believe in science these days, young man. You should believe in science.” With that, the Taoist in his robe leaps off a cliff and flies away on his sword, leaving the hiker who had camped in the wilderness staring in stunned disbelief.
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