Officialdom Novels: These Are the Best on Tomato. Disagree? Come Debate! 官途文,这几本就是🍅天花板了。不服来辩
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Taking the Taobao System with Me to the 1970s 带着淘宝系统穿七零
Technically minded military officer VS powerful, down-to-earth woman; the heroine builds her career. The System plays a small role early on, then gets to take it easy. Period setting + comedy + both leads devoted only to each other “When a lie-flat System meets a crazy Host” Other people transmigrate to the 1970s: fight nasty relatives, make money, and marry a soldier. Xiang Nuan transmigrates to the 1970s: ✓ Fails to be reborn six times, then angrily kicks the coffin lid off ✓ Hacks her relativ
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- 102 Tales from the County and Countryside: The Struggle of Rural Officials 县乡那些事:官场乡村的奋斗之路 The story begins when university graduate Lin Yu starts working in a county government office. Eager to give back to his hometown, Lin Yu faces one challenge after another while taking part in a rural poverty-alleviation project. He must contend with power struggles within the bureaucracy, including obstruction from Section Chief Li Hua and sabotage by his colleague Zhang Qiang, as well as practical difficulties in the countryside, such as villagers' lack of understanding and funding shortages. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Your Whole Family Hopes You'll Pass the Scholar Exam, but You Top All Six? 举家盼你中秀才,你六元连中? [Imperial examinations in the early chapters + farming + everyday life + lighthearted + court politics later on] In his previous life, Shen Zhou was in poor health and cultivated himself through a quiet, disciplined lifestyle, becoming rather indifferent by nature. Then he transmigrated to an ancient peasant family. The entire Shen family pooled their resources to support the original owner’s studies, hoping only that he would pass the county-level examination and become a licentiate. Sadly, the 14.6kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 104 I Strive for the Imperial Exams, But My Slacker Dreams Never Change 努力考科举,咸鱼梦想从未改变 [Imperial exams + everyday life + lighthearted] Lu Yang, a rich second-generation heir, wakes up one day as the youngest and most cherished son of the Lu family. This youngest son is a scholar, yet selfish and self-centered, turning a blind eye to his family's sacrifices and caring only about his own future. Lu Yang may be a slacker with little conscience, but he knows who's good to him. He keeps his dream of being a slacker tucked away and works hard to pass the imperial exams, hoping to become 17.9kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
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Reborn in 2003: Starting by Stealing the Bride 重生2003:从截胡新娘开始
Reborn in 2003, Lu Feng opens his eyes to find himself at his sworn enemy's wedding. In his previous life, he was set up by a schemer and spent half his life struggling. He watched helplessly as one person after another who mattered to him met a tragic end, unable to do anything about it. This time, Heaven has given him back twenty years of knowledge about what lies ahead. Exposing the groom's true nature in front of everyone and getting the bride out safely is only the beginning. Starting a
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- 106 With the Notable Ministers System in Hand, I Disguise Myself as a Man in Ancient Times 手拿名臣系统,我在古代女扮男装 Xu Yue transmigrates into a book. She becomes the delicate, vulnerable cousin of the male lead in an examination-themed novel: her mother died young, she has no brothers and no one to rely on, and her family won't take her in, so she is awkwardly forced to live in the male lead's home. In her previous life, Xu Yue rose from being an orphan to earning a doctorate. She never believed in fate, and even though it was hard for women to get by in ancient times, she never stopped thinking about how to 115.9kReads9.6Score11.3kShelves
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Rising Through Officialdom: A Nobody's Road to the Top 官场纵横:小人物的登天之路
(The rating just came out, but it’ll go up.) Li Long spent more than thirty years as a beat cop before being reborn thirty years in the past. In his previous life, his achievements were stolen and he was banished to a remote region. Now that he’s back, he won’t let anyone take what should be his. Our protagonist has the advantage of memories from his previous life. He also has what it takes to go head-to-head with major criminal cases. This is the story of an ordinary man using memories from a p
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Ten Realms: I Was Ordinary 十界:我本平庸
(We are all ordinary people. Some say they don’t understand what I’m writing! The truth is, I simply want to tell the story of an ordinary person who keeps growing, improving, and learning. He feels lost and helpless, never knowing what to do. His life is full of stumbles, but through repeated setbacks and lessons, he slowly grows! Some people are born in Rome, while he is stuck in the mud. In Rome, it’s easy to cross the finish line. But there’s something all the more inspiring about perseverin
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- 109 She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺,非逼她造反 [Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and 108.1kReads9.5Score12.4kShelves
- 110 Reborn in the Millennium: My Career in Government Starts as a Beat Cop 重生千禧年:官场之路从片警开始 Liu Qingming's rebirth begins with a major case, one that cost him his job in his previous life. In this life, he'll take a different path. 6.3kReads8.9Score715Shelves
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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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One Move from Victory: Qi Tongwei's Glorious Political Career 胜天半子:祁同伟的荣耀仕途
"Defy fate by half a move? No. In this life, I'll fight Heaven for my destiny and win by a whole move!" At Guxing Ridge, Qi Tongwei pulls the trigger and returns to the turning point of his fate. That year, after rejecting Liang Lu, he is banished to a judicial office in a remote, impoverished village. He turns the Liang family's oppression into a ladder to success, relies on Pei Yihong's support, and rises rapidly on the strength of his impressive record. From the judicial office to the pinnacl
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- 113 Tongwei's Path to the Department 同伟进部之路 My new novel is out: The Laid-Back Criminal Police Officer. It's the same familiar political workplace genre, so I hope my longtime readers will give it a look. This isn't a conventional power fantasy. It's a slow-burn political drama told from Qi Tongwei's perspective. He leaves Handong, quietly builds up his strength, and eventually returns to take it back. It includes plenty of realistic details and thorough descriptions of all kinds of work. Stick with it, and you'll definitely find some sur 17.3kReads8.6Score977Shelves
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The Road to Power 官途
After graduating from university, Liu Fei, whose origins are shrouded in mystery, repeatedly finds himself facing one crisis after another because of his brash personality. He is attacked from every direction and suppressed by all sides. Watch as Liu Fei charges straight through, crushing every opponent in his path, uncovers the truth about his origins, sweeps aside the great factions, and rises to the pinnacle of life!
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- 115 Dongheng: The Road to Power 东恒青云 A meteoric rise to the top! Chu Dongheng, a master's graduate who knows nothing about his birth family and jokes that “my mom and I are our own family,” is the abandoned grandson of a military family. After passing the civil service exam in Jiangdong, he finds that someone else has taken the position he applied for. By chance, he becomes a leader's secretary, beginning his career in politics. With the people's interests as his mission, he advances one steady step at a time toward the pinnacle of 30.7kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 116 The Realm of Officials 官家天下 First, this is a genuine political novel, written by one of the genre's most experienced authors. The story is logically sound and highly readable. Quality guaranteed! Second, the story starts at the prefecture-level city from the very beginning. The protagonist will not be sent down to the towns and villages. This book will not spend hundreds of chapters at the township level. Third, there is political maneuvering, economic development, satisfying revenge, and, naturally, personal life as well. 203.1kReads9.3Score16.8kShelves
- 117 A Career in Politics, Starting at the Township Committee 官途纵横,从镇委大院开始 Qin Dongxu had only just begun his career in government when he found himself mired in trouble... Should he lie low for now and bide his time, or rise to the challenge immediately and fight for every advantage? Qin Dongxu chose the latter! 98.9kReads9.3Score4.9kShelves
- 118 Cut Down After Making It Ashore, I Crack Cold Cases and Become a Mainstream Star 上岸被斩,我转头破悬案成主流 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 101.5kReads8.9Score9.9kShelves
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Take the Jia Family's House 四合院:开局就抢贾家房
Zhao Hu transmigrates. Starting out as a junior officer in a unit reorganized in Beiping, he fights in campaigns across the country, from north to south and then back north again, earning the Death God Corps its fearsome reputation by taking on seventeen opponents at once. Afterward, he establishes a food company and develops foreign trade. He founds the Nine-Headed Bird and spreads its intelligence network to every corner of the world. Zhao Hu does his job well, but never forgets to enjoy himse
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An Unbounded Official Career 官途无疆
Jiang Han, a billionaire who resigned from public office to go into business, is framed and reborn as a third-year college student. He makes a fortune in the stock market, becoming a hidden billionaire. To repay his hometown for supporting him for more than a decade, he returns as a village official while still a college student and leads the villagers to prosperity, embarking on a career in government. In the treacherous world of politics, his exceptional wisdom and insight, along with his sinc
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My Wife Deng Xiaoyang, I'm Li Chaoyang 媳妇邓晓阳我叫李朝阳
[Realism, political ups and downs, contests of human nature, and the turbulent 1990s] Political connections are the greatest resource. In 1985, I was discharged from the army and returned to my hometown. Though I had fought on the front lines and earned a third-class merit, I was still prepared to spend the rest of my life tending crops. While handling my paperwork at the township armed forces office, I met Li Shangwu, the head of the office. He was a transferred officer from another division in
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A Sophisticated Rogue in Officialdom 官场雅痞
What kind of people does the present age need? People who hold to their principles even when faced with temptation. People who face the surging tide of the times, raise the red flag, and press on through adversity. Li Huaijie is one such idealist. “To go far by proceeding steadily” requires the steadiness of “treating challenges with caution and succeeding through careful planning,” and the vision of “aspiring to great heights.” He has risen from the very bottom, using his actions to embody the
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The Pinnacle of Power: Starting by Stealing My Rival's Bride 权势巅峰:从截胡死对头新娘开始
[Adapted into a Short Drama] In his previous life, Qin Dong was betrayed by his best friend, Chen Qisheng, and framed and sent to prison on the eve of their company's IPO. While he was inside, the company he'd worked so hard to build was casually sold off. A lifetime of struggle had all come to nothing. But Chen Qisheng felt no loyalty to their friendship. He even drove Qin Dong's wife into a corner... Reborn, Qin Dong returned to the day of Chen Qisheng's wedding. As he watched the “sister-in-l
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- 124 Becoming Gao Yuliang’s Son-in-Law and the Leader of the Han-Da Gang! 做高育良女婿,成汉大帮领袖! [In the Name of the People + Han University Faction + One Heroine!] Reborn as Gao Yuliang's favored student and secretary, Cao Feng has no way back from the very start. With the Han University faction label hanging over him and a group of useless teammates at his side, he sets out on a desperate counterattack! Qi Tongwei, who dares to defy fate: “Old Cao, you're my best buddy. What are those monkeys and Chen Hai to me? Nothing!” Li Dakang: “I never imagined that a junior who started out as a sec 5.9kReads8.2Score140Shelves
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Qi Tongwei: Could You Let Me Be Young Again? 祁同伟:可否许我再少年
[No System, plot-driven] If I could be young again, I’d trade an ounce of gold for an ounce of wind. Qi Tongwei was reborn in the best years of his life, in his prime, with nothing but courage in his heart. Leaving the old Director Qi behind, this time Qi Tongwei would no longer be obsessed with power. He would never abandon his original ideals or compromise with any force. He would water the dreams of his youth with his own blood and sweat. With a virtuous wife at his side, he would walk the ri
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- 126 The Road to Officialdom 官途 Wang Cheng, an ordinary young official at a provincial-level government agency, is unexpectedly chosen to become a senior leader's full-time secretary. From then on, he becomes the leader's right-hand man and embarks on a journey to rise through the ranks… 26.9kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
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Reborn: You Can't Imagine Life Surrounded by Beautiful Women 重生,美女如云的生活你想象不到
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- 128 Starting in Handong: Xiaohao's In the Name of the People! 从汉东开始,小豪的名义! Chang Junhao, the eldest grandson of Chang Hu! Chang Hu transmigrated from a future era into the War of Resistance Against Japan. With the help of the System, he won countless military honors and became an old comrade-in-arms of the three great powers in northwest Shanxi. He was valued by his superiors and had connections throughout the military! After graduating, Chang Junhao, the eldest grandson, joined the government in Handong Province! Zhao Ruilong: Brother Chang, I want to build a food cit 6.8kReads7.9Score218Shelves
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You're Reborn, So Why Are You Still Calling Me by My Name? Call Me Boss 都重生了还叫我干事?叫领导
I'm reborn, and you're still asking me to run errands? Call me Boss.
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- 130 Rising Through the Official Ranks, Starting as a Secretary 官场从秘书开始 When hardship reaches its limit, good fortune follows. With a pure and earnest heart, Zhang Jun gets his lucky break and begins his career on the bench at an institute of traditional Chinese medicine. Skillfully navigating political maneuvering, officialdom, and human relationships, he wins allies at every turn and steadily rises through the ranks. 342.5kReads9.2Score16.9kShelves
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Reborn: Notes from the New Officialdom 重生之新官场笔记
A friendly warning: readers who like mindless power fantasies can move along. You won't be able to get through this book! The officialdom has never been a place where you can charge in on sheer passion, and power is no game of settling scores on a whim. Authority and high office are never won through sheer courage alone. Only by knowing how to weigh your options can you hold fast to the limits of when to advance and when to retreat.
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A Humble Family’s Path to Officialdom, Part One 寒门仕途【一】
New Book: The Humble Official’s Path [Realistic Period Drama] [Rise from Poverty] [Political Intrigue] [Ambitious Struggle] [Rural Cadres] [Urban Life] In the 1970s, in Xiaochenzhuang, southern Henan, a family of three siblings lives in poverty. They are supported by the state, their father died young, and their mute mother is forced to remarry, leaving them to fend for themselves. The sisters choose Chen Shouzheng to continue his studies, and he devotes himself to his books, eventually becoming
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A Meteoric Rise in Officialdom 仕途青云直上
Young teacher Yu Qingyun is punished for some reason. Just as he thinks fate has dragged him to rock bottom, things quietly begin to change. Before long, Yu Qingyun's career in officialdom takes off, and he surges upward with one lucky break after another...
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My Name Is Jing Yunhui 《我叫景云辉》
In his previous life, Jing Yunhui stood up for a friend and smashed his own future with a beer bottle. After ten years in prison, he learned that his girlfriend had married the friend he trusted most. By the time he was free again, his life was already in ruins. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to 1998, the night that changed his fate. This time, he seizes the initiative and claws his way back from having nothing. Facing those who betrayed and deceived him, and are waiting to watch
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- 135 Unparalleled Excellence 出色无边 Modern urban life... Multiple heroines... Workplace... A rise through the ranks... A feel-good story. Shen Qinglin, a low-ranking clerk in the Health Bureau's office, climbs step by step to the pinnacle of life with beautiful women at his side... and builds a bright future... 2.6kReads8.5Score225Shelves
- 136 In the Name of the People: Sha Ruijin Went to Prison to Work a Sewing Machine 名义:沙瑞金进去踩缝纫机了 For reasons everyone knows, Fang Xiangming was suddenly parachuted into Handong, where he joined forces with Sha Ruijin. The two then embarked on a fierce and gripping struggle… 7.4kReads7.6Score313Shelves
- 137 Learning Foreign Languages in the Siheyuan 四合院从学外语开始 Fang Qingyun arrives in a Beijing courtyard in 1953. His enhanced physical strength from transmigrating and his gift for remembering everything he sees give him a head start in this era. Watch as Fang Qingyun improves his family’s living conditions and steadily rises through the ranks... 2.7kReads7.6Score179Shelves
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Back to the 1990s: I Hold the Fate of the Political World in My Hands 重回90年代:我掌官场命脉
Su Xinghui is reborn more than twenty years in the past. Watch as he uses his talent, the knowledge he’s gained over those extra decades, and his emotional intelligence to reach the pinnacle of life and win the beauty of his dreams.
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- 139 From the Start: A Voice for the People 开局:为民请命 With the power of the world in his hands while awake, he must tread as carefully as if walking on thin ice; drunk, he reclines in the lap of a beauty, yet feels as though standing at the edge of an abyss. After Han Licheng is reborn, he immediately finds himself in a difficult predicament. Once he cleverly overcomes it, he takes one steady step at a time until he reaches the pinnacle of life. He firmly believes: wield power without forgetting to delegate it, pave the way without forgetting to le 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Officialdom: I'm the Inspection Team Leader, Touring the Land on Heaven's Behalf! 官场:我!巡视组长!代天巡授! I’m Li Siyuan, an inspection commissioner! I’ve come to the Mongolian border with the emperor’s authority in hand, determined to root out corruption and misconduct and give clean governance a glimmer of hope! I’m on a mission from Heaven to inspect and bestow its mandate! 79Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 141 A 29-Year-Old in a White Shirt, and the Big Shot Says I Have a Bright Future 29岁白衬衫,大佬说我前途无量 At fifteen, he enrolled at Imperial College London, majoring in business economics and strategy. Four years later, he graduated with both bachelor's and master's degrees. At nineteen, he returned to China to pursue a doctorate at Peking University. Four years later, he earned his doctorate, holding dual degrees in economics and law at the age of twenty-three. He put down his pen and joined the military, earning three first-class merits in just a few short years. After an accident forced Zhang Mi 71.3kReads8.3Score6.2kShelves
- 142 Official Career: Starting with an Assignment Back to My Hometown! 官途:从空降家乡开始! Well, the synopsis is gone! (Dropped into the action, a local native, insanely well-resourced, one heroine!) With the insight of someone reborn, Jiang Feng seizes every opportunity, backs the right people, does the right things, and serves the people! I came back only to make my hometown a better place. What? The education system is lacking? Then I'll bring in a university campus! What? The economy is struggling? Then I'll improve the business environment and get us onto the top 100 list! What? 6.2kReads7.7Score384Shelves
- 143 The Road to Power: From a Grassroots Civil Servant to the Top 权力之路:从基层公务员到巅峰 Someone once said that the political world is a jianghu, and being an official isn't about holding office, but about navigating human relationships! Someone else said that politics is a game, a game of power and wealth! But Chen Li's conviction as an official is this: The greater the power, the greater the responsibility! 6.4kReads8.8Score442Shelves
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The Road Through Officialdom 宦路
The character for “official” has two mouths: if they say you're capable, then you're capable; if they say you're not, then you're not! The political arena is full of deceit and scheming, and one wrong step can leave you shattered. Zhou Yang knows this all too well. With no powerful backers, no connections, and no money, how can he survive? He has no choice but to keep going. He works hard and fights on, rising step by step to a position of power...
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Tides of Officialdom: Straight Up to the Azure Clouds 宦海浮沉之直上青云
Wang Jianfei’s story of rising through the ranks! A genuine work about the world of officialdom, written in a documentary style by a seasoned author of political fiction with tens of millions of words to his name. A quality read guaranteed!
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- 146 The Official Road Under the Sun 阳光下的官道 [No System + no rebirth + traditional political intrigue + slow burn. The author is a veteran writer of political novels, with over ten million words published. His works are realistic and highly readable, not mindless power fantasies. Read at your own discretion!] In the world of officialdom, everyone schemes against everyone else. How can Cao Rui, a commoner, stand out and make waves? This is a true political novel by Xiaohua. It boasts strong logic and an even stronger story. Quality guarante 4.1kReads9.3Score507Shelves
- 147 Rising to Great Heights 平步青云 Awake, he holds the power of the world; one careless move can ruin the whole game. Drunk, he reclines on a beauty's lap, keeping his mind steady as he makes his moves one by one. Ling Zhiyuan is oppressed by his superior and mocked by a woman he loves, leaving his life at rock bottom. When God closes one door, he is bound to leave another open. Faced with an opportunity that will vanish in a moment, he acts decisively... 22kReads9.1Score761Shelves
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Outsmarting Heaven by Half a Move: My Career in Politics Soars 胜天半子:我的仕途平步青云
At the crossroads of life, Li Dongmu faces a choice that will shape his fate once again. “In this life, I absolutely refuse to be a doormat.” “In this life, I’ll keep my fate firmly in my own hands!” “The road to officialdom is treacherous, with undercurrents surging. Every step must be carefully planned!” “No one will help me reach for the clouds, so I’ll climb through the snow to the summit myself!”
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- 149 A Grand Vision for Officialdom 官场宏图 A lesser physician treats people; a great physician treats the nation. Xia Feng, a talented traditional Chinese medicine student, resolutely enters politics to avenge his father's death. But when it rains, it pours. On the very day of his wedding, his father-in-law dies unexpectedly. From then on, Xia Feng is met with cold indifference at home. His mother-in-law resents him, and his wife lives apart from him for long stretches. With his father-in-law gone, Xia Feng loses his shelter. Then, after 12.2kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 150 Right After My Divorce, a Powerful Woman Called Me Her Husband 刚离婚,女大佬就叫我老公 I'm a massage therapist, and one of my clients is a bewitchingly beautiful woman. She asks for me every time she comes in, until one day I finally learn that she's the legendary woman… 10.3kReads9.0Score991Shelves
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