So Many Novels Aren’t Worth Continuing. Any Worth Staying Up All Night to Read? 好多小说都没有看下去的欲望，有没有值得熬夜追的
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Double Happiness 上上禧
[Marriage First, Love Later + Older Man + Secret Crush + Both Leads Are Inexperienced] Song Xi had a good friend. Her friend said her second brother was rich and handsome, tall with long legs, and urged Song Xi to go on a blind date and win him over. Then she could become her beloved second sister-in-law. Song Xi got carried away and agreed. The good news: They slept together. The bad news: She slept with the wrong person. The crazy news: She got a marriage certificate with the wrong person. Whe
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A Secret Love Poem in the Dust 尘埃里的暗恋诗
(Print edition signed) + (Animated series coming soon. Search “The Small-Town Girl's White Moonlight” to reserve your spot) [Based on a true story + both leads are each other's first and only + happy ending] [In the beginning: innocent schoolyard crush; later: mutual devotion and a mix of sweet and steamy love] Xia Changjun's crush was so hard to bear. It began too early. She had liked him since elementary school. The gap between them was too wide. He was the prince of their small town. Every te
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The Rain of Jingzhe in the Twenty-Sixth Year 第二十六年惊蛰雨
[Roguish heartthrob x cool beauty | Reunion after years apart | Slow-burn romance | Secret crush] As a student, Qi Shangzhi was arrogant, unruly, and impossible to tame. Blessed with a face so stunning it could make a living, he got away with anything on the strength of his looks. He was a regular on the school confession wall and forums, and the sight of his shirt lifting as he dunked a basketball became part of their youth. Though Zhou Chengye was beautiful, she was quiet and kept a low profil
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Ascending to the Dragon's Heights 攀龍
A flirtatious widow with a child ✖️ a reserved warlord who becomes the founding emperor [Complete] Lou Mizhi was born a woman who never learned to accept her lot in life. If she wanted something, she took it by her own merit, even if she had to snatch it away. Her first husband was short-lived and ill-fated, and his family wanted to burn her and her child to ashes? Bah! As if I’d let you! She hid her savings and took her child away from her late husband’s family. With no one to protect them in t
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Transmigrate to Yunnan Worm Valley: A Survival Guide for the Consort of King Xian 穿越云南虫谷：献王妃求生指南
[Ghost Blows Out the Light] + [yandere] + [King Xian is a straight-up tyrant, no redemption arc] The rating has just been posted, so it’ll go up. Updates are steady, so you can’t go wrong giving this a try! I transmigrated, but instead of getting a comeback story, I landed straight in the palace of King Xian of the ancient Dian Kingdom! All around me, women wailed in agony. Before me stood a mad tyrant with a bronze sword in hand and a sinister look in his eyes. No System! No supernatural abilit
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While Others Cultivate Immortality, I Cultivate the Pleasures of Life 别人修仙我修烟火气
Cultivation meets post-apocalyptic survival: could it work? The story of Li Ping, a master whose qi sea has been destroyed, leading three disciples with wildly different personalities as they struggle to survive the Blood Fiend Calamity and keep their sect running. … “Master, you’re so good at fortune-telling. Are you the best fortune-teller in the world?” “Silly child. Forget those scholars who spend their lives buried in books. Even the mortal world has plenty of fate-readers better than me.”
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A New Chapter for My Fair Princess 戏续还珠
[Historical fantasy + martial arts + My Fair Princess fan fiction + quirky heroine + strategy and scheming + transmigration] A qipao reveals the mystery of Little Swallow’s origins, and the Fifth Prince insists on becoming a monk. At a grand residence in Qianlong’s palace, they discover that Consort Fragrant nearly died in a mass grave years ago. Qianlong travels to Qiantang to find his beloved daughter, while a descendant of the Yizhu Tower seeks revenge. A red flower emblem is left at the sce
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Strange Tales from the Folk: Reforming Reincarnation 民间奇闻之轮回改革
Folklore Oddities: A Cycle of Reincarnation Reformed
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After Abusing His Wife, the Scumbag Went Mad and Ran to a Farmer's House to Fight Pigs for Their Feed 虐妻之渣男疯了，跑到农户家抢猪食吃
After abusing his wife, the scumbag went mad and ran to a farmer's house to steal pig feed and eat it
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Siheyuan: I Farm Emotion Points by Showing Movies! 四合院：我靠放电影刷取情绪值！
Su Yang transmigrates into the world of "The Full Courtyard", where he unexpectedly saves Lou Bancheng. To repay Su Yang for saving his life, Lou Bancheng gets him an urban household registration, gives him an entire west courtyard, and finds him a job, making Su Yang a projectionist at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill! Su Yang thinks he will have to get by showing movies and live a peaceful life from then on. Who could have guessed that during a trip to the countryside to show a movie, the Syste
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The Tiny Boss Is Everyone's Favorite, and She Coddles Her Scumbag Dad Like He's Her Placenta 小小老子当团宠，把渣爹当胎盘哄
The print edition of A Boat in a Single Thought is now available on all platforms. [Comedy + raising kids + everyone’s favorite + 1v1 romance + devoted couple + the adult heroine’s love interest is Lu Jinghuai] [A funny, sunny heroine who actually has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve x a saintly beauty who is really a sinister, venomous schemer] Ji Nian transmigrates into a novel where the heroine is adored by everyone, becoming the universally disliked biological daughter of the heroine’s pow
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Take Ten Husbands and Torment the Scum Who Ruined My Past Life 纳十夫虐前世渣夫
Tian Mei and her betraying husband, Ma Mingyang, fall together into a bottomless mountain gorge. Their souls travel into the bodies of a young couple in another world where men greatly outnumber women. The female lead is still called Tian Mei, while Ma Mingyang ends up in the body of Li Dashan, a man with a broken leg. From then on, Li Dashan’s life of misery begins. Tian Mei keeps bringing home more husbands, and Li Dashan has to cook for the whole family, wash Tian Mei’s clothes and those of
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He Ended Up at a Widow's House 他穿到了寡妇家
Because of the wicked eldest uncle’s scheme, the original Wen Liang inexplicably died in a widow’s bed. Wen Liang from the apocalypse happened to transmigrate into his body, beat up the widow, then went back and gave the Wen family a thorough beating. But the people at the Wen family’s old home were like vampires, setting their sights on Wen Liang’s family. Later, the original’s younger sister, Wen Yu, was also framed by the eldest uncle and the widow, forced to become someone’s concubine, and d
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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The Spirit Medium's Hall: Let's See What This Client's Deal Is 出马鬼堂：我看看这缘主怎么个事
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
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The Doomsday Hourglass 末日沙漏
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Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东：林二妮的颠簸幸福路
[No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol
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Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年
My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt
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They Slashed the Bride Price to 666 on the Night We Got Our Marriage License, So I Called Off the Wedding and Left the Whole Family in a Panic 领证当晚彩礼砍到666，我直接退婚全家慌了
On the night we registered our marriage, they cut the bride price down to 666. I called off the wedding on the spot, and now her whole family is panicking.
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The Day Before My Background Check, I Found Out My Fiancé Wanted to Kill Me 政审前一天，我发现未婚夫要杀我
The day before my background check, I discovered my fiancé was going to kill me.
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My Brother and the Fake Heiress Told Me My Future Husband Was the School Bully. I Believed Them, and It Turned Out to Be True 亲哥和假千金骗我说未来老公是校霸，我信了居然是真的
My biological brother and the fake heiress told me my future husband was the school bully. I believed them, and it turned out to be true.
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Mom Said I Was a Jinx and Didn't Deserve College, Then Deleted All My Applications 妈妈说我是丧门星，不配读大学，删了我所有志愿
Mom says I’m a jinx and don’t deserve to go to college, so she deleted all my university choices.
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After Understanding My Cat's Spoilers, I Quit Being the Doomed CEO 听懂我家猫剧透后，我不当炮灰霸总了
After I understood my cat’s spoilers, I stopped being a cannon-fodder domineering CEO.
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The Viperous Wicked Sister-in-Law: From White Lotus to Prisoner 蛇蝎恶嫂，从白莲花到阶下囚
A Viperous Sister-in-Law, from White Lotus to Prisoner
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A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生
My new novel is here! Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake
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A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案
This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle,
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Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙
In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s
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My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居
My Eerie Neighbor
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Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人
Fate: A Woman's Atonement
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A Cross Mark in the Palm of My Hand 掌心有十字纹
Other people turn their imaginings into stories. I only write about things that really happened to me. My name is Song San. I served in the military, worked as a section chief, and spent three years in a vegetative state. After waking up, I opened a traditional Chinese medicine clinic. A sign outside read: Fortune-telling, feng shui, and difficult medical cases also welcome. Some call me a miracle doctor; others call me a charlatan. Only I know that I learned everything I can do during those thr
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If There's No Way Forward in This World, Then I'll Take the Heavenly Path 既然人间无路可走，那就走天路
Li Xue was an architect. After losing his job, failing in business, and being abandoned by his wife, he was left with nowhere to turn. With the aid of the Immortal Light Sword, and after a chance meeting with his confidante Zhang Yingxin, he resolutely set off for an alien world. There, he navigated the star systems, battling demons, evildoers, and forces of darkness. After enduring arduous cultivation, he ultimately forged a legend...
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The Cherished Darling of the 1970s: The Government Official Husband Turns on the Charm 七零娇宠：政界老公撩上瘾
(Leave your brain here and pick it up after you've finished!) After completing her final mission in the quick transmigration world, Guan Fuyao was determined to spend her retirement in a comfortable, well-off family. The System granted her wish, but didn't tell her which era it would be. It sent her into a period novel, where she entered the body of an eighteen-year-old girl with the same name. She'd just graduated from high school and was facing assignment to the countryside. Just as she was pl
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Reborn in the 1960s: A Baby Bottle in One Hand, a Pocket Dimension in the Other 重生六十年代她左手奶瓶右手空间
Tang Hua, an all-around female warrior from the apocalypse, arrived in the underworld after dying alongside the Mutant King. The King of Hell wanted to send her to the 1960s and have her put a chaotic era, thrown into disarray by the male and female leads, back on the right track. She refused. She absolutely refused. The King of Hell had no choice but to send her soul directly back to that era, reborn as a baby. A baby who couldn’t feed, wash, or relieve herself? She was so angry she wanted to c
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She Made a Killing After Transmigrating to the 1970s 穿越七十年代后她赚麻了
(Complete. Brain storage: come back here to reclaim your brain after you finish reading. Love you all!) Zhou An'an, a little princess from the 23rd century who had just lost her grandfather, got a recommendation for a novel from her best friend after acquiring a pocket dimension. Her friend then dragged her into frantically stockpiling supplies. Just as she finished explaining everything, Zhou An'an transmigrated to the early 1970s in a parallel world and became the mother of triplets without ev
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There's No Need to Be Normal: She's Busy Being a Professional Manservant 做人不必太正常，专业男仆她很忙
This is a female-oriented novel!!! [An outwardly aloof, gentlemanly male lead who’s a complainer on the inside x a beautiful, poker-faced female lead who’s actually a goofball] When people transmigrate into a book, they usually become either a wicked supporting character or a pretty extra. Shi Liaoliao transmigrates into a book as the male lead’s personal servant. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen the young master smile so happily.” “This is the first time the young master has brought a woman h
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The Star River's Abandoned Young Master 星河弃少
Su Mo was once a core disciple of the Star Evolution Dao Sect in the Star River Star Domain. When the sect was besieged and destroyed by extraterrestrial demons, he carried its supreme Star Core treasure, tore through the planes, and fell onto Blue Star. He was reborn as the despised, disowned young master of the Su family in Jiangcheng, Huaxia. A marriage contract was torn up in public by Cheng Chuchu, the heiress of a top-tier family. She publicly humiliated him, saying he came from a lowly ba
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My Soul Travels Back to 1972, Where I Raise Beauties and Ride the Tide of the Times 魂穿七二，培养美人横扫时代浪潮
[Period] [Sign-In] [Divine Doctor] [Space] [Farming] [Sweet Romance] A real estate tycoon transmigrates into 1972 and binds to the Red Dust Karma System from the start! Ling Feng uses supplies and skills to establish absolute authority, winning hearts through “feeding” and “protection.” Ling Feng has a portable space, peerless medical skills, and deadly combat abilities. He knows that in these unusual times, supplies give you face, personal connections are the substance, and your fists are your
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I’m Really Not a Judge of the Dead 我真的不是判官
Unemployed and staying at home, Ren Ping'an heads downstairs to buy breakfast when he suddenly notices colors and numbers appearing above the heads of passersby and the shop owner. “Holy crap!” Ren Ping'an is terrified. He rushes home, looks down from the window, then picks up his phone and dials a number: “Bai Chun, I think I'm seeing some really strange things...” That day, Ren Ping'an discovers that the world is nothing like he thought. Immortals and gods really did exist, and so did the und
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A Woman in a Man's Body: The Concubine-Born Heir's Rise to Power 女穿男，庶房嫡子的逆袭
Now available as an audiobook with a full cast. [Alternate history] + [Woman transmigrates as a man] + [Born into this world] + [Imperial exams and business in the early story] + [Court politics later on] + [One female lead, with a relatively small role] + [A touch of ensemble cast] + [No golden finger] Xie Chengxi was born into another world as the sixth son of the Xie family, a minor family in Bianjing's Grain Transport Guild. His father was the clan's rejected son, kept under pressure for yea
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A Garden of Students, Growing Old Together in Love 桃李满天下恩爱共白头
Wu Xiaomin was a country girl, born and raised in the countryside, but she had always been a good student and was naturally beautiful. Unfortunately, after she started high school, her surroundings changed dramatically, leaving her confused and lost. In her sophomore year, she met a new homeroom teacher who helped her find her way again. After graduating from college, Wu Xiaomin gave up a job placement back in her hometown and introduced a female college classmate to her former high school teach
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The Happiness We Waited For 等来的幸福
In this blended family, the male and female leads grow up calling each other brother and sister. After her mother dies, the heroine goes abroad with her biological father. While overseas, she and the male lead begin a relationship.
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Lu Xueqi, Vocational School Student 中专生陆雪琪
Lu Xueqi, the Vocational School Student
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A Knotty Red Thread: A Love Bet with a Vengeful Spirit 红线难牵：与怨灵的爱情赌约
The little matchmaker spirit Ling Que descends to the mortal realm to meet her KPI, only to be ambushed by a wager from her sworn enemy, the vengeful spirit Jinying. He takes on the role of her direct supervisor, using romantic-drama clichés to win the heroine's heart while creating real-life dilemmas to drive a wedge between childhood sweethearts. As workplace sexual assault and difficult choices over personal gain erupt one after another, Ling Que's red thread of fate is on the verge of snappi
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She Keeps Teasing Me 她总调戏我
The print edition of Wishing Upon a Star is now available [One-on-one sweet romance + reborn school days + mutual salvation + healing doting romance] Only when Xu Yuan was dying did she realize that the quiet, sickly boy everyone overlooked had made his first act after getting his sight back dragging the demons who had bullied and humiliated her straight to hell. After being reborn, aside from getting revenge, Xu Yuan’s greatest pleasure was… repaying his kindness, pfft… Teasing an innocent youn
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My Husband Ran Off with His Mistress, So I Kept the Capital’s Crown Prince 老公和小三私奔，我包养京圈太子
Tomato Short Drama: My Toyboy Is the Powerful Young Master of the Capital On her wedding night, her husband eloped abroad with his mistress. Did Jiang Ciyou cry? No! She turned around and kept an impossibly handsome toyboy. Why not? They could all have a good time together! The toyboy had broad shoulders, a slim waist, and was clingy. He could be both wolfish and sweet, and loved to act cute. After three carefree years, Jiang Ciyou handed him an enormous check. “Darling, my husband is back. Let’
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After Marrying the Villain by Contract, He Couldn’t Escape 和反派协议结婚后，他逃不掉了
[Two Male Leads + Entertainment Industry + Sweet Romance + Equally Powerful Leads] Only after Lin Xingmian died did he learn that he was living inside a novel. Reborn by accident, Lin Xingmian returned to the gala where his reputation had been ruined. He fled the venue and rushed into a dressing room. Inside was a tall, slender male Alpha, casually straightening his cuffs. Lin Xingmian reached out to him, panting. "Give me an... Alpha suppressant." The man glanced up at him. "I don't use that st
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My Childhood Friend from Heaven Is Such a Flirt 天降竹马他最撩啦
[Sweet and obedient heroine X sharp-tongued, domineering hero] There are two things Su Tian fears most in the world. One is any bug bigger than her pinky fingernail. The other is Jiang Chiyu, who lives next door. Luckily, as the girl grows up, she slowly overcomes her fear of the former, while the latter, who’s always bullied her, suddenly moves away. Until the year she starts high school... A tall, long-legged, handsome transfer student arrives in her class, prompting hundreds of girls to form
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Fine, Fine! Every Male Guest on the Dating Show Is My Ex 好好好！恋综的男嘉宾都是我前任
[Everyone's Favorite + Shura-Style Rivalry + Entertainment Industry + Group Transmigration + Feel-Good Wish Fulfillment + A Little Goofy + Multiple Versions of the Male Lead] With his [Everyone's Favorite Filter], Ji Yan saves the world by dating its villains. Whenever a mission is deemed successful, he leaves immediately and cuts off all ties with them. The villains are all heartbroken when Ji Yan leaves. But Ji Yan knows exactly what he wants and isn't moved in the slightest. How can datin
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After Seeing the On-Screen Comments, I Lured My Archrival into Pouting 看见弹幕后，死对头被我钓成翘嘴
[Live comments + sweet romance + childhood friends + face-slapping] [High-maintenance heiress and dance student VS sharp-tongued, refined childhood friend and CEO] On her twentieth birthday, Wen Xu happily went to a hotel to celebrate with the man she had pursued for three years. Just as she was about to give herself to her boyfriend, a line of live comments appeared before her eyes. [The supporting female character doesn’t actually think the male lead is coming to celebrate with her, does she?
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Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂
[Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and
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