Any Books That Are Particularly Cynical About Human Nature? 有没有那种特别讽刺人性的书籍？
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The Fairytale Train 童话列车
[No romance + eerie fairy tales + feel-good story + rule-based horror + infinite worlds] In the world of fairy tales, everything is like a dream, and you can have whatever you desire. In the fairy-tale town, no one is allowed to lie or harm the residents. Yet every day, everyone must board the fairy-tale train, where the stories are eerie and passengers meet their deaths. Shi Niao realizes that this train seems to lead to the world she wants to reach. She has forgotten everything, but never forg
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Tear Off the Fig Leaf 撕裂遮羞布
[Judgment]+ [Revenge]+ [Angst]+ [Satire] This is a story about real life, though too many people have failed to understand it. In truth, it's more than just a story: it's a heart-wrenching cry that lays bare the deeper meaning behind it! Perhaps I can only finish writing this story alone, a story that no one seems to care about, yet is deeply connected to your life! (Story summary: Leng Yan is the captain of a special police unit, with another identity she herself wishes she didn't have. Yet she
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- 3 A Song of Life's Sorrows 生命悲歌 [Human nature + family + first person + male and female audiences] (Adapted into an audio drama with real voice actors; a motion comic is in production and coming soon.) Fate is never set in advance, yet it always pushes people toward unknown wilderness when they least expect it. The Ballad of Life uses simple, heartfelt storytelling to unfold a journey through hardship, perseverance, and struggle, revealing the most moving strength found in an ordinary life. There are no earth-shattering legend 10.9kReads9.2Score90714d adds
- 4 Perhaps This Is Just How Life Goes 人生或许这样了吧 Maybe This Is Just How Life Goes Life was never fair. That is not merely a sigh of resignation, but a moment of clarity. This book is satirical, but never sentimental; it is angry, but never loses its warmth. It tells stories you may have heard but never had the chance to think through, and realities you may have lived through but had no power to change. It records the people struggling in the cracks of the system, the voices pushed to the margins despite following every “legal procedure,” and 26Reads—Score1014d adds
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Beat Her at Her Own Green Tea Game 走绿茶的路，让她无路可走
In her past life, the fake heiress, a real green tea, drove her into a corner! Her parents and siblings were all gone! Even her fiancé was stolen from her! The real heiress died a wretched death, while the fake heiress got everything and lived a dazzling life! It wasn’t fair. If that’s how it’s going to be, then I’ll take your path and leave you with nowhere to go! I don’t want the man; you can have my parents! What use are my siblings? You can have them too! I don’t want any of them, so why are
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The Little Things I Rambled About as a Child 儿时的那些碎碎念
(Don’t mind the abstract stuff 😡) Two female leads, two male leads, feel-good fiction, open endings, bad endings, happy endings, sweet romance, chilling on closer inspection, underrated masterpieces, mental illness, bringing babies home, healing stories, episodic tales, urban mysteries, ensemble casts, heartbreaking, clear-headed strong female leads, feminist awakening, unconventional relationships, author’s original characters, first-person narration, multiple selectable protagonists, multiple
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- 7 The Devil Reversed 恶魔逆位 “If I wanted to kill him, I wouldn’t use a method this laughably clumsy.” After the black-haired girl in black finished speaking in the interrogation room, she didn’t say another word. The way she calmly studied the photograph made it seem more like she was admiring the victim’s gruesome death. In the photo was a cold, white bathtub filled with shocking amounts of blood. A man lay slumped inside, his deathly pale body visible only from the shoulders up. The deceased was Zhou Haixiong. He had 39.2kReads9.5Score6k14d adds
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Sword Trial 试剑
Testing the Sword
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- 9 I'm a Hypocrite, but You Don't Need to Call Me Out 我很虚伪但不用你揭穿 I'm a Hypocrite, but You Don't Need to Call Me Out —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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- 11 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 520.5kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 12 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.2kReads9.6Score22.6k14d adds
- 13 Married Eight Times by 35, Now Paralyzed 35岁结婚8次，目前瘫痪 Lin Xiaohua, 35, is infamous throughout the surrounding villages as a “husband-killing curse.” She has married eight times, and all eight husbands died mysteriously on their wedding nights, each death more sinister than the last. For her ninth marriage, she is sold to an old bachelor as a good-luck bride. During the wedding ceremony, she drinks a cup of poison and is left paralyzed, with only one finger able to move. Everyone thinks she’s helpless and dumps her in a rundown house at the edge of 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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- 15 The Invisible Blade 无形的刀刃 In this restless world, people seem eager to voice their opinions on everything. They pay too much attention to others and forget to focus on their own lives. Those incessant displays of excessive concern and so-called positive energy in the name of justice have become the sharpest knives, killing young people one by one in the darkness. Those young people question themselves and feel anxious in the night, wondering what they did wrong. In truth, they did nothing wrong! And what have those who a 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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After She Learned to Speak Plant, She Became Infamously Stinky 听懂植物语言后，她【臭】名昭著
[The rating has just come in and will rise later] [Mystery]+ [Crime Solving]+ [understanding plant language] The protagonist is smart, and her golden finger gives her an edge without making her invincible. At home: Kuikui, the legitimate eldest plant, constantly competing for attention + a pothos with maxed-out clinginess + an old luan tree skilled in both offense and defense + a cactus that won't hesitate to stick you... Chance encounters: an aquatic-plant choir + an original reed marsh + a sob
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A Human Cage 人间囚笼
[Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel
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- 18 The Rotten-Flesh Buddha 烂肉佛 Things get interesting when all the good people receive the punishment they deserve. A mass of rotting flesh crawls with maggots. The maggots raise their heads and look at Chou Zhengchu. “Chou Zhengchu, what do we look like to you?” “You look like Buddha to me!” 2kReads8.2Score27214d adds
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She Finds It Tiresome 她对此感到厌烦
[Transmigration + No Romance + Western Fantasy + Female Awakening + Strong Female Lead] At a friend’s recommendation, player 6237486 bought a dating sim called The Goddess Chronicle. But she never expected to transmigrate into the game and become its heroine, Lilith. Even after successfully winning over the male lead, Lilith didn’t return to reality. To escape the game, she had no choice but to complete every route. Round after round, she replayed the game, winning over all the male leads and re
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The Great Game of Heaven and Earth 天地弈局
A master schemer, from a pampered young aristocrat in the capital to a breaker of plots, from a pawn to a player, and finally to someone who rises beyond the mortal realm. Across five volumes, the story traces the complete arc of a clever man seeking freedom and his true self amid layers of interlocking schemes.
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- 21 Midlife Crisis 中年劫 Thirty-eight is a watershed in life. Looking ahead, there are the "three great mountains" of mortgage payments, car loans, children's education, and caring for aging parents. Looking back, there's the "midlife crisis" of passion fading, a cold marriage, and career stagnation. Chen Beichuan is a middle-aged man whose rough edges have been worn away by life. By day, he's a timid middle manager in an office; by night, he's little more than a roommate in his wife's eyes. Then, on a rainy night, he m 135Reads—Score—14d adds
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I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Film and TV Crossover: The Villainess Goes on a Killing Spree! 综影视：女配，她杀疯了！
(No moral blackmail! No lovesick behavior! No beating yourself up!) A rebirth-themed story~ The villainess is being reborn and awakening to her true self~ [Plagiarism will be pursued!] Part One: "The Princess Weiyoung", Li Changru (Complete) Part Two: "Love Like the Galaxy", Yuchang (Complete) Part Three: "The Fairy Couple", Zhang Qiaozui/Qingning (Complete) Part Four: "The Legend of Nuwa: The Pearl", Moyin (Complete) Part Five: "A Hero Never Dies", Lei Chun + "Mysterious Lotus Casebook", Li Xia
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- 24 Film and TV Crossover: Fu Xue 综影视：拂雪 This book updates three times a day. Fu Xue, a Descendant of Nuwa, can sense heaven, earth, and all living things. She travels between worlds, helping her counterparts fulfill their wishes and reclaiming her own scattered soul. (Note: The female lead is not a good person! The female lead is not a good person! There won't be any white-lotus female lead storylines in this work. The author really hates those!) World 1: Love at First Sight, Gu Yueshuang (Complete), paired with Tan Xuanlin Mission: W 1.3kReads6.2Score10214d adds
- 25 Yu Rong Across Film and TV 综影视之余生有容 The phoenix takes flight, its feathers rustling as it soars, then gathers and settles here. The female lead is Xu Yourong, the heroine of the TV drama Fighter of the Destiny. She travels through various TV worlds. For the completed worlds, see the author’s notes. 1.9kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 26 A Promise of Love Across the Worlds of Film and TV 综影视之不负相思意 1. [The Truth Within] Mi Ruo × Xu Qingyan, complete 2. [Fighter of the Destiny] Chen Changsheng × Murong Zhi, complete 3. [Eternal Love] Bai Zhen × Nan Ling, complete 4. [The Untamed] Lan Zhan × Song Ran, complete 5. [Cicada of Autumn] Lin Xiaozhuang × Xu Lingran, complete 6. [Love and Redemption] Zhan Huang × Jin Yue, complete 7. [The Destiny of White Snake] Zhan Huang × Qiu Wu, complete 8. [Ancient Love Poetry] Tian Qi × Cang Ming, complete 9. [The Lost Tomb, The Lost Tomb: The King's Pre-Qin 507Reads—Score—14d adds
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Beneath the Dark Waters: Inferno 暗水之下：炼狱
Come with me, and endless riches lie ahead. Come with me, and crowds of beautiful women lie ahead. Come with me, and the pinnacle of your life lies ahead. Come with me, and the world of your dreams lies ahead. Come with me, and ahead... lies an endless abyss~ Not everything in this world is like a coin, with only two sides. Many things lie in a gray area, and you can't always separate them just because you want to. The deepest darkness often comes from the brightest places.
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Tales of the Singularity 奇点往事
A perfect tool, a lethal master. The only human on planet Aisi with the intelligence to create brought forth a civilization with the fire of creation, one that constantly innovated and evolved, aspiring to reach the stars and beyond. Then a super artificial intelligence, deemed by humanity to be the perfect tool, came into being. Humanity thought this would usher in another pivotal leap in civilization, but instead it had to face an unprecedented catastrophe and an ancient mystery buried beneath
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- 29 Superpower Awakening: I Keep My Strength Hidden 异能觉醒：我隐藏实力 [Japanese-style light novel + semi-experimental novel + multi-plot novel + no formulaic tropes + not a power fantasy + disjointed plot + no playing the pig to eat the tiger + no detailed plot + no everyday life] This has absolutely nothing to do with the plot you’ve imagined! There’s almost none of the thrill of playing the pig to eat the tiger, and the story doesn’t have a chain of interlocking events. It’s more like someone scattered a handful of beads across the floor: hooks planted early on 10Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Upheaval of the Ruins 废墟之变
Liu Xu, long live the Emperor! Where are you? I miss you, miss you, miss you. Those years, I missed you, missed you, missed you. You take the fierce-and-cute one first. Guess, guess, where are you from? Xiao Nana misses you, misses you, misses you, misses you. Xie Na, Xiao Nana misses you, misses you, misses you, misses you.
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The Flower Stall at Dusk 暮色花摊
The Twilight Flower Stall series delves into the desires and costs hidden in the bustling streets of the Ming Dynasty. Every dusk, a mysterious flower stall quietly appears beneath a centuries-old pagoda tree, selling Heart's Desire Blossoms that grant wishes in exchange for one's deepest obsession. The stallkeeper, Taoyao, feels neither sorrow nor joy. She watches each transaction with cool detachment, explaining the flowers' meanings and their price, but never interfering with anyone's choice.
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Feike’s Banquet 费可的晚宴
A Chinese version of And Then There Were None. The best mysteries come from reality and are hidden in the human heart. A mysterious invitation to dinner brings six strangers who have never met together in a lakeside villa. Yet the host never shows up. As the story unfolds, memories and reality intertwine, gradually revealing a connection they had never noticed: every one of them had been swindled by the host. Stories steeped in desire and betrayal, temptation and sorrow, sketch the life of a cri
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Lihua's Crime Handbook 梨花犯罪手册
(Crime Investigation + Mystery + Strong Female Lead + Alternate Setting + Modern Sci-Fi + Ensemble Cast) Shen Zhilan: Tough as nails, few words. Fu Linxi: Handsome, with plenty to say. Yu Min: Born of love, lives for power. Shi Li: Fists at the ready, justice rising high. Zhou Lifeng: I've got money, so nothing's hard. A body falls from a great height in the city of Jingshi under cover of night. The city police rule it a suicide, but Shen Zhilan, a criminal psychology consultant sent by the prov
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- 34 Record of Strange Cases 异闻诡案录 [Crime Investigation × Urban Legends × Supernatural × Suspense | Episodic Stories · Two Male Leads] Bizarre cases and strange rumors shatter people's dreams, while the search for truth cuts through the dark veil of crime. Twelve years ago, a bizarre massacre wiped out an entire household, leaving the souls of sixteen victims unable to rest. The hand of evil has never stopped its work, and bloodthirsty killings still spread through the streets and alleys of Mingcheng. “The Goat-Headed Old Woman” 243Reads8.2Score2014d adds
- 35 Psychic Detective: She Can Share a Killer's Point of View 通灵神探：她能共享凶犯视角 [Mystery + crime-solving + criminal investigation + no romance + Is the female streamer who tells ghost stories actually a brilliant detective?] “I saw a murder scene again!” Shen Yuan had been able to dream of murder scenes since she was a child. Because of her supposed supernatural abilities, she lost her job as a police officer. After seeing countless psychologists, all of whom said she was perfectly normal, she decided to go online and tell people about her dreams. The next time she describe 5.8kReads7.8Score86714d adds
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The Judge Says: The Divine Tribunal 审判者说：神判庭
When Song Jin jumped from the seventh floor, he was wearing a pair of white leather shoes. One was upright. The other had fallen over. That was the last time I saw him. Later, I came into possession of a courtroom that could judge the wicked. The legal code told me: Every person you judge will take away a piece of your humanity. I agreed. Now I can no longer remember Song Jin’s face. But Zhao Mingyuan’s trial has only just begun. He will personally bring to account the evil that has threatened t
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A Glimmer at the Edge of the Ashes 烬边微光
When survival becomes the only moral code, civilization bares its most vicious fangs. The shelter claims to act in the name of “preservation,” but in truth, it is “selection.” Those with high genetic scores live; those with low scores die. My loved ones are all on the execution list. Some say that only a raging fire can burn away this hypocritical order. But once it has burned away, what will we find in the ashes? This is a war fought amid the ruins of the apocalypse. Our enemy is not a mons
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Humanity's Forbidden Island: The Complete Three-Volume Edition 人性禁岛（全本-全三册）
Humanity's Forbidden Island: Zhui Ma is a seven-year-old boy from the mountainous region of Yunnan and Guizhou. After a series of bizarre experiences, he is trained to become a cold-blooded mercenary assassin. Having faced death again and again, he eventually ends up in a poor, muddy little town. Hoping to forget that bloody past and evade his pursuers, he hides the fact that he was trained to be a killing machine and loses himself in the taverns and women of the town. To earn enough to cover hi
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- 39 The Usurper 犯上者 [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two. 223.2kReads9.4Score37k14d adds
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Her Secret Thoughts: A Young Man’s Hidden Diary in a Small Village 致她的心事：小村青年的隐秘日记
No formulaic plot | Not a wish-fulfillment novel | Realistic fiction | Zhou Zhiqiang grows up amid poverty and chaos in her birth family, with her father instilling in her the survival rule that “you have to please people to survive.” She gets into college and lands a job at a bank. A well-off man, Ke Qingyan, pursues her, but as the truth about her family comes out, she gradually loses her self-respect and her relationship. Later, burdened with debt, she returns to her hometown and, under he
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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The Mountain God Wrote a Letter 山神写了一封信
The Mountain God Wrote a Letter
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This Book Is a Little Fake 这书有点假
[No System + Eastern Fantasy + Mystery + Freewheeling Style + Original Taoist Cultivation System + Twists + Light Humor + Philosophy + X (a story tag)] The mystery requires the first and second chapters to seem unrelated. If you’re here for the fantasy, start with Chapter Three. If anything doesn’t make sense later, you can go back and read the earlier chapters. Cultivators fight against Heaven and against themselves, all for the elusive promise of immortality. Shi Lang is a downright unlucky pr
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You Xianhong's 6,000+ Male Tenants Are Going Wild! 油仙红他的6000+男房客杀疯了！
Oil Immortal Hong's 6,000-plus male tenants have gone on a rampage!
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The Haunted House at Midnight: A Woman in White 午夜白裙之凶宅怪谈
Midnight White Dress: Tales of a Haunted House
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- 46 Three Tales: Childhood Ghost Stories 三节故事之童年怪谈 Three-Part Story: Childhood Ghost Tales —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Night Flute Corpse Chaser: Strange Tales of the Mountain 夜笛赶尸人之山古怪谈 The Night Flute Corpse-Wrangler: Strange Tales from the Ancient Mountains 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Memories of Dongguan 东莞的回忆 Story Introduction A young man works an entry-level job at a factory owned by his relatives. He often thinks, “I’m clearly a loyal and passionate guy. Why am I stuck working here?” So, hoping to escape the constraints of his family and relatives, he sets out with a heart full of passion and the brotherly loyalty he takes pride in, dreaming of making his own way in the world. In the end, society puts him through the wringer. He hopes to find a like-minded friend and rise from business partners to 6Reads—Score—14d adds
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Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
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Beneath the Boundless Skies 苍茫之下
Under the Vast Sky is a long-form realist novel depicting life in local government and how ordinary people survive in the game of power struggles. Beneath the vast sky, everyone is a low-ranking official. Caught in the middle, they face pressure from above, turmoil below, and entanglements of human relationships on every side. With no powerful patron to rely on and no shortcuts to take, they can only endure to make their way and act cautiously to protect themselves. They struggle to survive in t
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