Looking for Urban Novels with Realistic Martial Arts and Taoist Magic 求都市正常练国术和道术的小说
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The Amazing Little Flower Farmer 神奇小花农
An ordinary high school student happens to buy a secondhand book on the Way, and from then on, his life takes a different path. A top-student protagonist, but this isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, an invincible-protagonist novel, or a rebirth novel. It portrays an authentic high school life, with intelligent characters and believable events. There are no advanced martial arts, powerful officials, or influential clans. These are things that could happen to you or me. Blending cultivation element
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The Name of Heaven's Wrath: Divine Thunder from the Nine Heavens Scours the Mortal World 天罚之名：九霄神雷劫红尘
Falling flowers and flowing water seem heartless; green mountains and evening snow each go their separate ways! The young Daoist from Shenxiao and his childhood friend, his junior uncle, journey through the mortal world together, enjoying life! The extraordinary may be closer than you think. The so-called gods, ghosts, and spirits may all be illusions! Those who cultivate the Dao cultivate the heart. Entering the world is a way to sever one's karmic ties!
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After Taking Down My Beautiful Master, I Took the Martial Arts World by Storm 撂倒美女师父后，我火爆了国术界
[Urban romance + life among all walks of society + traditional martial arts underworld] Also known as Wind Over the Martial Gate. During the summer vacation of 1984, a troupe came to our village. Its middle-aged troupe leader, a master of countless skills with his hair tied in a little braid, stayed at my house. He treated me terribly. Not only did he trick my beautiful mother into leaving with him, he also stole our family heirloom and drove my father mad before making him disappear... I was le
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Mastery of the Esoteric Arts 高术通神
When I was in eighth grade, the school bully picked on me. I found someone, a person connected to a mysterious incident from my childhood. He taught me something called traditional Chinese martial arts. I trained in boxing, but never let it interfere with my studies. Baji, Iron Wire Fist, Xingyi, Taiji, Baguazhang, Tongbi, Xinyi. I met masters who carried on the traditions of these powerful styles. I also discovered a vast, deeply secret world of traditional martial arts, unknown to ordinary peo
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- 5 The Way of Restraint 点道为止 Meng Ru Shen Ji brings back the spirit of Dragon and Snake! A high school student stumbles into the world of traditional martial arts, and from then on, rises like a dragon amid the storm, surpassing the limits of the human body, taking on artificial intelligence, and shaping the fate of the world! What exactly is kung fu? Flashy moves, or a way to kill? Are the techniques forged through three thousand years of cold-weapon warfare and countless private brawls really a scam? In this book, Meng Ru 23.5kReads9.1Score3.1kShelves
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Reborn in 2001: I Start Boxing and Live Life to the Fullest 重生2001从练拳开始快意人生
[Rebirth + Pocket Dimension + Top Student + Traditional Martial Arts + Pressure-Point Techniques for Five Hundred Coins] Everyday urban life, reborn in high school, keeping a low profile at school, an ancestral martial arts manual, cultivating inner energy, mastering pressure-point techniques, dual-cultivation methods, a harem of multiple women, wealth, companions, techniques, and territory, exploring mysteries and searching for treasures, doing business and managing enterprises, fighting foreig
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My Name Is Sun Zei, Not Thief 我叫孙贼，不是贼
Set in an alternate universe during the 1980s, this story follows a boy who grows up in harsh conditions. It all begins with his desire to eat his fill, but once his eyes are opened to the world, he wants to understand it better. This is not a story about being reborn or transmigrating, nor is it a wish-fulfillment novel. It focuses on martial arts, cultivation, and everyday life. A slow-burn, System-free story of daily life and personal growth, if every person’s life is a book, then Sunzei’s st
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Entering the Legends, Starting with a Fist Manual 走进传说从拳法秘籍开始
Liu An picked up a White Ape Boxing manual from a street stall, thinking it would be something new to try. He never expected it to open the door to an entirely different world... From martial arts to the Dao, transcend the ordinary world! Break free of your shackles and step into legend! [This book has no System. It focuses quite a bit on cultivation and immortality, but that won't get in the way of the plot.] This book is entirely fictional. Please don't take it seriously. Thank you!
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- 9 Modern Immortality: Starting with the Eight-Section Vajra Arts 现代长生：从八部金刚功法开始 [Traditional martial arts + longevity + no female lead + daily life + lighthearted + secluded living] After working himself to death in his previous life, Lin Qing is reborn and angrily quits his job, returning to his hometown to slack off. He awakens a status panel that lets him add points to and upgrade every attribute. In literature, Taiji brings peace to the world. Yin and yang complement each other, emerging from the formless, and four ounces can deflect a thousand pounds. [Taijiquan reache 22.1kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
- 10 EN Notes from a Taoist Medicine Clinic 道医馆笔记 [All plotlines in this book are fictional and included solely for the purposes of the story. They do not represent real-life views. Please keep that in mind and don't confuse fiction with reality.] After graduating with a master's degree from an ordinary university of traditional Chinese medicine, the protagonist didn't go to work at a hospital. Instead, they joined a Daoist medical clinic and began recording their encounters with strange and baffling illnesses. 242.1kReads9.5Score90.7kShelves
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An Honest Man Binds to a System That Sends the CEO a Pair of Stockings from the Start 老实人绑定系统开局送总裁丝袜
“I'm an honest man. The System says that the more honest I am, the stronger I become. So I bought the CEO a pair of fleece-lined stockings for middle-aged women and won a ten-billion-dollar lottery; I told Sister Ling at the massage parlor, ‘I can't touch you,’ and earned a villa; someone took a knife for me, and I ended up joining a secret government agency. “Perhaps it was fate. Now I have over thirty billion, four girlfriends, a bodyguard who can turn into a tiger, and a bald master who sing
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Martial Arts School Graduate 武校毕业生
Martial arts school / traditional martial arts / realistic / passionate / brotherhood / jianghu Adapted from real experiences. No fantasy, no System, and no cheats. A true-to-life portrayal of what life at a martial arts school is really like. A boy defies his family's objections to pursue his martial arts dream. Day after day, he trains relentlessly at school, enduring the long, monotonous years of practice alongside his fellow students and brothers. After graduation, he enters the wider world,
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- 13 The Feng Shui Clinic 风水医馆 Lin Feng, a brash young man with a formal education in traditional Chinese medicine, takes over his grandfather's “Feng Shui Clinic.” He's well-grounded in Chinese medicine and knows a little feng shui. He expects to spend his days guarding a run-down shop and barely scraping by, but to his surprise, his family's inherited “feng shui acupuncture” technique helps him make a name for himself. He reads feng shui and unblocks meridians, treating the body while changing people's fortunes. With Chines 800Reads—Score139Shelves
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I Created Shaw Brothers Kung Fu 我创造了邵氏功夫
Behind-the-scenes style, with a wuxia power system. Plot-focused, not mindless wish fulfillment. Characters will die. Moral crusaders, stay away. The protagonist, Gu Hanshun, uses a System to create a world of martial arts. But the System cannot create martial arts directly; it can only create characters based on the real world and use them to work things out.
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- 15 Invincible in This World: Rising from Prison 人间无敌：从监狱开始崛起 This story takes place in a technological age when humanity can travel to the moon and gaze out at Mars. What happens when a man who walks in darkness pushes his body and mind to their absolute limits, and clashes with the forces that already govern this world? Will he become a god? Or the enemy of the entire world? No one knows. But this story begins with the most notorious gangster in the district, sentenced to seven years in prison. 63.9kReads8.8Score4.6kShelves
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The Pivot of Martial Arts 武道之枢
(Traditional Martial Arts) (No System) (Slow Burn) What is precious in a person is life; what life depends on is the body; what sustains the body is qi. Feel your breath flow softly and continuously, as if it were there and yet not there. Focus your mind and look within, reflecting inward upon your dantian, as though a candle were shining into the darkness and revealing every tiny detail. If distracting thoughts come and go, that is only natural. Do not chase them or follow them; simply watch th
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- 17 The Ferocious Art of Chinese Martial Arts 国术凶猛 Tai Chi, Xingyi, Bagua, Wing Chun, Chuojiao, Bajiquan... Though traditional Chinese martial arts have fallen into decline, their passion still burns! I hold fast to the spirit of traditional martial arts as I walk through a city of steel and concrete. What kind of brilliance will these ancient techniques unleash? My name is Wang Mo. I come from a fallen martial arts family and have practiced Xingyi since childhood. I may be just an ordinary person passing by you, yet I carry on my shoulders the 10.4kReads8.7Score971Shelves
- 18 The Ultimate Path: My Traditional Martial Arts Can Fuse 极道：我的国术可以融合 [Chinese martial arts + life evolution + attribute points + martial arts fusion] After working overtime for a month straight, Lin Yuan is pushed too far when a company executive demands that he work overtime during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He angrily slaps the man twice and gets fired. At a crossroads in his life, Lin Yuan looks at the city's hollow prosperity and feels lost about the future. But just then, he unexpectedly unlocks the System, changing the course of his life and setting him on a 16.1kReads8.5Score1kShelves
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At 35, I Took the UFC by Storm 35岁，我把UFC打穿了
[Middle-aged]+ [Reborn]+ [System]+ [No Female Lead] A middle-aged man wakes from a dream! [Host]: Hua An [Age]: 35 [Strength]: 15 [Agility]: 8 [Skills]: Bajiquan Level 3, Kickboxing Level 2... The day the System attached itself to him, Hua An had just used his phone to photograph proof that his wife was cheating. "Every bit of effort counts. Every punch levels you up." He quit his ten-year job as an auxiliary police officer. Sold his house. Took 300,000 in compensation. Then boarded a train to C
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- 20 Chinese Martial Arts: I Began to See the Divine After Being Hunted Down and Shot by Armed Police 国术：从被武警搜山击毙开始见神 [Dragon and Snake style]+ [Chinese Martial Arts]+ [Republican Era]+ [No System]+ [Genius protagonist] Chen Hongwu was framed and imprisoned for three years. A strange master taught him Chinese Martial Arts, and by the time he was released, he had reached the peak of the Ming Jin stage. Then came the terrible news: His parents had worked themselves to death trying to appeal his case! Enraged, Chen Hongwu took to the outlaw's path. The madman honed his blades: whether you were a powerful official 98.1kReads7.9Score9.7kShelves
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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- 22 The Age of Declining Dharma: Seeking the Path to Immortality 末法时代：求证长生大道 [Modern-Day Grind King]+ [Superhuman High Martial]+ [Invincible]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [The Schemer]+ [Infinite Chaos] After unexpectedly acquiring a personal status panel, Su Ming practiced all kinds of techniques to continually strengthen his body and extend his lifespan. Embracing the best of everything, he entered the superhuman realm and advanced step by step toward immortality. [Personal Status Panel] Name: Su Ming Lifespan: 23/800 Constitution: 20 [Astral Body] Spirit: 20 [Astral Dhar 15kReads8.8Score877Shelves
- 23 The City's Ultimate Expert 都市巅峰高手 “I'm not sharing a room with him!” The campus beauty points at me... I came from the wilderness and was raised by five grandparents with extraordinary powers. To uncover the truth behind my parents' murder, I return to the city and move in with the campus beauty. With just a dog for company, I begin a shameless life of swindling and scheming. I cross the Yangtze on a reed and livestream a challenge at the Southern Heavenly Gate; To save the woman I love, I surround Mount Taihang all by myself; I 3.8kReads8.7Score846Shelves
- 24 Inheriting a Legacy and Reaching the Pinnacle of Life 获得传承，走向人生巅峰 Ye Yu, an ordinary college student, unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the Great Emperor Zhenwu. From then on, his life changes completely: he exorcises ghosts, vanquishes demons, cultivates immortality, and tells fortunes. When he has nothing else to do, he becomes a billionaire. Most importantly, he rises to the pinnacle of life! 656Reads8.3Score104Shelves
- 25 Buy a Rock and Cultivate Immortality 买个石头去修仙 [Urban + period setting + immortal cultivation] Thanks to a mysterious stone, high school student Zhao Ming unexpectedly begins his journey of immortal cultivation. While his peers are still studying late into the night, worrying about the cost of dating and fretting over their future careers, he has already become a top tycoon, a miracle doctor, and a big shot in a special government agency. 381Reads9.2Score102Shelves
- 26 The Greatest Tai Chi Master 太极第一人 By chance, ordinary young man Wu Ziyu acquires an amber containing the blood essence of a great cultivation master. From being utterly penniless to becoming richer than a nation, and from being completely unknown to becoming famous throughout the world, he conquers the city with medicine, talismans, alchemy, and cultivation. This prodigy rises to become a great master! 972Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 27 A City Dweller with Peerless Martial Arts 人在都市，身怀神功！ I only wanted to die a more glorious death. I never expected that the white-bearded old man I’d risked my life to save would turn out to be the True Man Lingxu. From then on, I had treasures, divine arts, and a life that had changed completely... 4.4kReads8.4Score512Shelves
- 28 Chinese Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I Fight My Way Through a Turbulent Era 国术：开局八极拳，打穿激荡年代 [Passionate Republican-Era Story + Bringing Glory to China + Taking on the Great Powers + Reviving Chinese Martial Arts] Li Zhendong’s soul transmigrates into the impoverished old era, where he becomes an ordinary disciple of Jingwu School. With the great powers closing in and Japanese warriors swaggering arrogantly, Huo Yuanjia has just passed away and Jingwu School is on the brink of collapse! At this critical moment, he awakens the Chinese martial arts inheritance System and gets max-level Ba 3kReads6.3Score155Shelves
- 29 A Master of Chinese Martial Arts, Practicing Immortality Through Science 身怀国术，科学修仙 Yang Lin, a mobile phone sales clerk who has studied traditional Chinese martial arts for three years, is transported by a ball of five-colored light to a world of cultivation after an unexpected stroke of fate. See how he uses the math and science knowledge from his previous life to cultivate through science, and rise to prominence in the cultivation world with his martial arts and Tai Chi. A rational, well-founded take on scientific cultivation, with clear logic. 5.9kReads8.7Score466Shelves
- 30 A Century in a Dream, and I Became a Daoist Celestial Master 一梦百年，我成为了道家天师 [Fortune-Telling + Medicine + Traditional Martial Arts + Invincible + One Heroine + Humor + No Cultivation + Not High-Martial] Chen Haoyu was hit by a car while saving a girl and ended up in the hospital. After lying unconscious for a hundred days, he received the legacy of the Carefree Taoist from a thousand years ago in a dream and became a Taoist Celestial Master of his generation. “How can your medical skills be so incredible?” “Sorry, I used the Zhu You healing arts!” “You can tell fortunes 168.2kReads9.1Score15.8kShelves
- 31 Urban: From the Start, I Practiced Traditional Chinese Martial Arts 都市：开局修炼国术武道 Lin Tian transmigrated to a parallel world and became a baby. Before high school, he thought this was simply a parallel world with martial arts. He planned to quietly cultivate using the traditional martial arts techniques provided by the System. After starting high school, he met classmates such as Xia Linxi and Gu Xiaoman. He also heard that the neighboring schools were called Chunfeng High School and Elite High School. He was a little surprised, but didn't give it much thought, assuming this 1.5kReads6.2Score105Shelves
- 32 Slice-of-Life National Martial Arts System 日常系国术系统 If you want to master peerless martial arts, you have to endure pain beyond what ordinary people can bear. Chen Mo, a college student who was just coasting through life, accidentally awakens the National Martial Arts System and turns into a hardcore training addict. Ding! A high-intensity, systematic physical and combat training environment has been detected! Long-term branch quest triggered: Training Camp Experience (1/7) Today’s objectives: 1. Complete all training events (0/6) 2. Land 300 eff 44Reads8.0Score125Shelves
- 33 Only I Can Cultivate: From Martial Arts to Immortality 唯我独法：从国术开始成仙 [Heaven-Defying Comprehension] + [No System] + [One Man, One Path] + [Livestream] + [Promoting Chinese Martial Arts] Li Xiu transmigrated to another world called Water Blue Star. In his twenties, his past-life memories awakened, and he discovered that his comprehension had received a massive, almost legendary boost. Martial arts that he used to find difficult now seemed as simple as one plus one equals two. They were so easy, anyone could do them. On a whim, he thought of the Chinese martial art 18.2kReads6.5Score1.2kShelves
- 34 My Traditional Martial Arts Were Debunked, Now I'm Famous Across the Internet 国术被打假的我，爆红全网 “I was just having breakfast, and I transmigrated into the body of a handsome twenty-six-year-old martial arts grandmaster with millions of fans?” “But I just got exposed as a fraud, so why is someone shoving a microphone in my face?” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully transmigrating. You have obtained the Martial Arts Critical Hit System. Perform martial arts techniques to trigger critical hits on various skills and attributes.” “Ding! Host performed ‘Tiger Climbs the Mountain’ an 4.8kReads8.4Score203Shelves
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The Supreme Dao Lord 太上大道君
A meteorite fell onto the snowy plains of the northern lands. No one knew it had brought not a child, but a fragment of the Heavenly Court's great calamity. At sixteen, the orphan Li Yuchen entered Shangqing Zhengyi Palace on Mount Longhu. Three trials, one talisman, nine orphans, and a single promise to stand as fellow disciples made them a family. Snake demons, plague gods, demon kings... One disaster after another struck. When the Jiangxia Nuclear Power Plant was on the verge of meltdown, he
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Urban Landscape Feng Shui Master 都市园林风水师
When my construction crew started using a compass to lay out the site and peachwood stakes to mark its boundaries, my peers laughed at me for engaging in feudal superstition. Then... The state media praised the municipal park I built as an “ecological miracle.” The homes in the residential complex I landscaped sold for twice the price of surrounding properties, and you still couldn’t get one. The clients who once mocked me as a “charlatan” now come with checks in hand, begging me to “take a look
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The Rogue Heavenly Master 痞子天师
[No System] + [Not brainless] + [No harem] + [Not invincible] Beneath the surface of this world lurks a mysterious force known as the [Xuanmen]. Zhang Daoyi, a young Taoist priest from Niubei Mountain, is sent down the mountain by the Old Celestial Master to gain experience. Along the way, he meets many dependable companions, and together they encounter all kinds of bizarre events. In the end, he gradually uncovers the dark side of this world... #This will be a long story, so read with confiden
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- 38 Cultivation Through Archaeology, Immortality Through Tomb Raiding 修行靠考古长生靠盗墓 I woke up to find that the book had finally received a rating. It’s still below passing, but I’m grateful for all the readers’ support! Zhang Qilin scored just over 500 on the college entrance exam, yet managed to get into the archaeology department of a top-tier university through a lucky opening. During his first-year break, he remembered the mysterious cave behind his family’s home, where he used to play as a child. Armed with only a half-baked knowledge of the subject, he 7.2kReads8.1Score630Shelves
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Guarding the Canglan Sea 沧澜护海
For a thousand years, Canglan has stood by its vow, steadfast and true; with bones of iron, it has never feared the dust of war. Blood soaks the shattered halberd, yet the spirit endures; beneath the bright moon, a lone shadow keeps the cold company. The Old Lord bears his sword to save all living beings; his healing medicine can cure the people of the world. The lamp shall not go out, the road shall not end. Together, the two will journey toward the future. (Uses the world of The Outcast. The s
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A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！
Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e
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- 41 I Transmigrated and Became the Beloved Bride of a Crippled Marquis 一朝穿越，替嫁残侯成团宠 [Historical transmigration + medical skills + marriage before love + two strong leads who dote on each other + suspense and court intrigue] Shen Qingci, a top surgeon, transmigrates into the body of a bride forced into a marriage swap. She becomes the new bride meant to bring good fortune to Xiao Yan, the blind and crippled Marquis of Dingbei. On their wedding night, she takes his pulse and immediately sees through it: “My lord, you’ve been poisoned. Someone wants to keep you in darkness forever 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Coexisting with a Big Shot, I Became Unstoppable 与大佬共生，我强到飞起 One day, I woke up with a man in my head. It wasn't a hallucination or a split personality. He was the real deal, a top-tier boss: Lu Yunzhou. The ruthless business tycoon who ruled the corporate world was now nothing more than a ghost trapped in my mind. And so, things started looking like this: When someone gives me a hard time, he scoffs in my head: [Third file from the bottom left. Throw it in his face.] When someone frames me, he directs me remotely: [The recorder's in the right-hand drawe 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Quick Transmigration: The Second Personality 快穿第二人格 Female lead + dual personality + no saintly martyrdom + takes down scumbags regardless of gender or age + lighthearted and funny Synopsis: Jiang Yan, a female cultivator, was bored when she happened upon a System. She transmigrates through three thousand worlds, disguising herself as the original host's second personality to help them change their personalities and escape their tragic fates. She takes down scumbags, delivers face-slapping comeuppances, completes missions, and explores the myster 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Divine Fist Special Guard 神拳特卫 Ten years ago, he was a Bagua Zhang master feared throughout the martial world. After an accident… he was forced to flee overseas, where he became a legend in the underworld. Ten years later, he returns home under an assumed name, only to become the personal bodyguard of a cool, aloof female CEO through a twist of fate. He thought it would be an easy job for a little extra cash. But on his first day, he walks in on the CEO being threatened with violence in a conference room by her business rival 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Married into Wealth: My Secret Identity Is Exposed, and the CEO Begs Me to Come Back 闪婚豪门：马甲掉光，总裁跪求复 Plot Summary: To escape her family's arrangements, the heroine impulsively marries a CEO she has never met. On their wedding night, the hero discovers that she is the "lifesaving benefactor" he has searched for over many years, as well as a top hacker wanted across the internet and an inheritor of the art of mind-intent boxing. The heroine's secret identities are revealed one after another: miraculous doctor, inheritor of an intangible cultural heritage, and president of a multinational corporat 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Chronicles of Arms and Warriors 兵武录
A martial arts novel based on the training methods in the Military Arts Compendium, depicting various systems of martial arts training and traditional Chinese medicine treatments in the form of a story. I will forge a new path and set martial arts right!
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Reborn: The Unrivaled Art of Chinese Martial Arts 重生之国术无双
At eighteen, Zhang Zhi was driven to the rooftop by relentless school bullying and leaped to his death. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in kindergarten. In his previous life, all his attempts to back down had earned him only worse beatings, humiliation, and torment, until he was driven to the brink. Given another chance, he refused to let others prey on him. After a chance encounter with a reclusive martial arts master, he trained hard in seven disciplines and learned authentic tradi
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