I’ve Recently Gotten into Underworld Stories. Give Me Your Number-One Pick 最近迷上了黑道小说，交出你们心中的NO1黑道文
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I Transferred to a Gangster School, and No One Dares Call Themselves King Anymore 我转校到黑道校园，没人再敢称王
My new work is here! You’re welcome to 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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The Days My Brothers and I Ran Together 我和兄弟一起混的日子
“My name is Tian Lin. Tian, as in ‘the best under heaven,’ and Lin, as in ‘a hail of bullets.’” The story follows five young men brought together by loyalty and brotherhood. Sick of an old-school gang’s tyrannical rule, they set out to overthrow it.
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Be the Fiercest One 做最凶的那个
Lin Yu had always been troubled by a question: Why must good people endure eighty-one trials to become Buddhas, while bad people only need to lay down their butcher's knives? Fairness has never been something the poor get to talk about. If you want fairness, there's only one way: make yourself strong enough to create it. This world has both light and darkness. It won't treat you well just because you're kind. His father was unable to repay his debts and eventually took his own life. The creditor
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Villain: The City’s Number One Troublemaker 反派：都市第一祸乱
(Overseas, lawless, bloody, poverty-stricken, ugly, violent) An absurd society, a chaotic order, a numb existence. You stay alive only because you're still useful. Some call me a mongrel, some say I'm a traitor, and others call me a slave to three masters... But I don't care about any of that. I only want money, power, and women. Humanity has been suppressed into animal nature, and survival of the fittest is the only law here. You can never stop moving, or you won't even have scraps of bone left
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The Abyss Beyond the Ashes 烬余深渊
He was once a spirited young man, but his closest family and sworn enemy joined forces to frame him, destroying his home and leaving him disgraced and on the run. In the depths of despair, he sheds his rough edges and tempers himself into someone ruthless, living under an assumed name and plotting every step. From struggling to survive at the very bottom to fighting his way through blood and violence, he uses cunning to shape the game and ruthlessness to make his name, settling every betrayal an
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Eight-Year-Old Bandit: I Made Forbes Through Extortion 八岁悍匪：靠敲诈勒索进入福布斯
[School gangsters + How a ruthless bandit is made, coming-of-age story] [Reborn + Passionate + Arrogant + Bandit of the century + Blackmail and extortion + Robbery + Building a criminal organization + Satisfying read + No System, just pure badassery!] [Five chapters a day, plenty to keep you fed!] [In the style of Gao Qiqiang, the story of a bandit's rise. Don't read if you don't like it.] Zhang Shiqiang, the bandit of the century, was taken to the police station at age twelve after getting into
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- 257 I Started Factory Work at Eighteen and Met the Boss's Mistress. After He Broke My Ribs, I Made a Comeback and Became His Father! 十八岁进厂邂逅老板情人，被打断肋骨后我逆袭当他爹！ I Started Working in a Factory at Eighteen and Met the Boss’s Mistress. After He Broke My Ribs, I Made a Comeback and Became His Dad! —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Fortunes in a Chaotic Era: The Winds of the Desert 乱世偏财：大漠风云
In 1992, a country boy set off for Beijing with two hundred yuan in his pocket. A fortune-teller said he was destined to make money through shady ventures, and would never stay on the straight and narrow. He believed him. From then on, Wang Lei was the name his family knew him by, while Damo was what the underworld called him. Street vending, steel trading, opening karaoke bars, fighting for territory... Three women, three ill-fated romances, one high-stakes gamble. Those who play by the rules a
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- 259 A Shadow in the Women's Bathhouse: A Terrifying Redemption 女澡堂倩影：惊魂救赎 A Glimpse in the Women’s Bathhouse: A Terrifying Redemption 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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My First Half of Life: A Bloody Underworld 我的前半生：血色江湖
[The rating just came in and it’ll keep rising, so don’t let it scare you off! This book is entirely handcrafted, and writing it isn’t easy. Hope you enjoy it!] Eight years in the army, decorated for valor, only to have his future stolen by a substitute! He moves to the city for work and tries to keep his head down, but is forced into a dead end! His brother goes to prison, and his sworn brother dies a tragic death. Good people have no way out, while the wicked run rampant! He abandons the strai
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- 261 The Stars I Held by Mistake 错揽星辰 [Secret identities + max-level expert + rushed marriage to the wrong person + marriage before love] A top expert with countless secret identities hides her background and marries a poor young man. But on the eve of their wedding, her fiancé turns out to be the long-lost son of a wealthy family. He calls off the wedding and proceeds to bully and humiliate her. “You low-class country girl aren't worthy of me anymore!” “Just looking at you disgusts me. Get lost!” Jian Wu becomes a laughingstock acr 5.7kReads8.9Score798Shelves
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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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The Underworld Heiress Makes a Fierce Bodyguard 黑道千金猛保镖
[Underworld] + [Urban] + [Multiple Female Leads] + [Power Fantasy] [Not for readers under 18] Wang Meng rose from bodyguard to godfather of the underworld, unifying both the criminal and legitimate worlds. His was a life of power and grandeur.
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- 264 Reborn in 1988, and I Have Doubao 重生之1988，而我拥有豆包 Reborn in 1988, with Doubao by my side. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Days We Spent Running Wild Together 那些年我们一起混的日子
Those were the days we spent together. I want to say that no matter what happened, we were brothers. Later, some of us went our separate ways, and some of us died. Only then did we understand that we were true brothers. The wind carries the words we never got to finish. “Either win on your feet or die lying down. That’s our rule.” “Hello, everyone. I’m one of those guys from back in the day.”
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The Underworld’s Top Scholar, Raised in an Orphanage 孤儿院走出的黑道状元
The Underworld's Top Student, Raised in an Orphanage
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Underworld Saga: My Big Sister in the Capital 黑道风云：我的京城姐姐
[Not for Young Readers] [Hot-Blooded Underworld] [Brutal Underworld Battles] [The Many Faces of Officialdom] [Face-Slapping Comeback] [Clever, Satisfying Read] He began cultivating at nine and went to prison at thirteen. In jail, Chu He mastered an arsenal of extraordinary skills. With nowhere to turn after his release, he headed for the capital and entered the underworld, winning the support of the capital's most captivating women. With ruthless methods, Chu He outmaneuvered every faction. Sta
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Bad Boy: King of the Streets 坏小子：街道之上，我为王
Li Yizhen was an ordinary student at Jiangchuan No. 1 High School. But the school bully, He Min, singled him out, teasing and tormenting him as she pleased. Too timid to fight back, he endured group beatings and was even forced to eat ice pops mixed with dirt. She also led him astray, getting him to smoke and drink. Day after day, year after year… Then, when Li Yizhen finally confessed his feelings to the school belle, she mocked him in front of the whole class. He Min joined in, too. Overcome w
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Lone Wolf of the Underworld: I Came from Hell 黑道孤枭：我从地狱来
Orphaned at eight, I spent eight years keeping my head down. I came from hell, and I came for revenge. When the lone wolf strikes, the underworld runs red with blood. Those who owe me will repay me tenfold. Those who wrong me will be ground to dust!
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- 270 The Underworld: The Jianghu Big Shots I Brought to Heel Over the Years 黑道：我那些年收服的江湖大佬 The underworld is a road of no return. It's a last chance for those with nowhere else to turn to make a comeback. Win, and you reach the height of power and become fabulously wealthy. Lose, and at best you die; at worst, you become a cripple. This road takes three parts vision, six parts luck, and one part relying on yourself. By some stroke of luck, I won. When I got out of prison, I didn't have a penny to my name. Now I'm surrounded by beautiful women and rule this whole territory. This road w 6.8kReads8.6Score563Shelves
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Irrational Choice 非理性选择
[Hong Kong Tycoon Romance] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Flash Marriage with a Child] [A Battle of Equals] [Cold, ruthless power broker x sweet, scheming genius heiress] Handcrafted newcomers + writing for love + a long-running hidden plot Five years ago, Chen Yanchuan took in a girl with nowhere to go. She stayed in his old house, ate his late-night snacks, and couldn't bring herself to buy a necklace that cost just over six hundred yuan. Three months later, she left without a word, leaving beh
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- 272 I’m a Gangster, and You Want Me to Fight Evil? 我是黑社会，你叫我除恶扬善？ The only supernatural element. A little martial arts is fine. This is a story about seeking justice for the people, with some political intrigue. It is not a mindless killing spree. The protagonist isn't a pushover: he punishes evil and rewards good, and the supporting characters aren't made unnaturally stupid. Fang Zheng transmigrates into the body of a small-time gang boss in a parallel world. He also awakens a "Killing Makes You Stronger" System. As long as he kills someone with a crime score 32.2kReads9.1Score3kShelves
- 273 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
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One Life, Two Souls 一命双生
Though they were twins, they were not destined to share the same fate. An unexpected catastrophe changed the brothers' peaceful lives forever. Their older brother and parents vanished under mysterious circumstances, never to be heard from again. After years apart, fate brought the twins together once more. But there was no escaping destiny. In the end, the young man took on his brother's name, carried on his obsession, and shouldered the blood feud against his entire family. From a meek nobody t
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- 275 Trash-Talking Online, a Mafia Heiress Wants to Kill Me in Person 线上口嗨，黑道千金要线下单杀我 [Not a wish-fulfillment story] [Multiple heroines] [A touch of the supernatural] [No System] [Not reborn] [Slow-paced] Not a wish-fulfillment story! Not a wish-fulfillment story! Multiple heroines! Read with caution if that's not your thing! A prequel about the tsundere childhood friend blocking the doorway. A sequel to The Long-Lived Jade Toad... (to be decided) Gu Yan has never seen his parents. He grew up in an orphanage. One day, the director who adopted him forced him to go on a blind date. 227Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 276 My Days of Being Bullied at School 校园被欺负的日子 The main characters are Wu Ming, Zhang Qiang, and Zhou Yao. This isn’t a brainless power fantasy, but a bumpy story of growing up. When my brothers fight, I run; I’d never touch a friend’s wife, but if my friend’s away, anything goes. A life of gaming on credit and gambling for tokens in the arcade. 11kReads8.2Score671Shelves
- 277 Day One of College: I Start Running with the Underworld! 大学第一天，从混黑道开始！ A powerful underworld boss is reborn as a college student. With the System’s help, he rises once more to the pinnacle of the underworld. [Feel-Good Revenge + Urban + Underworld + Boss + School] Starting out as a college student, the male lead Lin Ao works his way to the top of the underworld, dominating both the criminal and legitimate worlds. He has powerful backing and influence that reaches everywhere. Dear readers, please be patient as you read. The story starts off ordinary, but the excitin 898Reads6.9Score102Shelves
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Chronicles of a Southwestern Kingpin: Life and Death Are in Fate’s Hands 西南枭雄录之生死由命
In 2003, in a small county in southwest China, twenty-year-old Lin Chen opens a construction-site stir-fry stall with his buddies. Vegetables cost five yuan, meat dishes seven. All he wants is to earn an honest living from hard work. At their most desperate, the brothers stand together against local thugs. Step by step, they take over territory, gather followers, sweep aside every gang in the county, and rise to the top of the underworld. Once his power is immense, he gradually withdraws and goe
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The Fall of the Underworld 江湖的落幕
(Not an invincible power fantasy where one hero takes on a hundred. If that bothers you, read with caution.) What is the underworld? It’s blades! It’s blood! It’s brotherhood! It’s a road with no turning back! It took Zhou Feng years to understand: You don’t make your way in this world by talking your way in. You pay for every step with your life. He paid with his youth, his brothers, and one person after another whom he wanted to keep but couldn’t! When the underworld finally fell silent, he l
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The Gray-Eyed White Cat 白猫传灰瞳
The young heir of a crime family is forced to become a beggar. With nothing but a bowl from the start, he becomes the Zhu Yuanzhang of the underworld. Fresh twists and airtight logic. Italian mixed-race, ruthless, cruel, and realistic. He kills decisively, with every punch landing hard, every blade striking true, and every bullet finding its mark. A slow burn. Trust me, it only gets better as it goes. (No saintly heroine, no System, no harem, pure underworld fiction.)
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Cruelty to Flowers 辣手摧花
Fight the fiercest battles, seduce the most bewitching women. No goody-two-shoes, no tender mercy, no such thing as too cruel, only crueler... He seems heartless, yet loves deeply; he seems devoted, yet acts as if he has no feelings... The more he torments her, the more attached to him she becomes...
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- 282 I Went Undercover for a Stunning Policewoman 我为绝色女警做卧底 This story is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with real life. After Zhong Zheng’s girlfriend cheated on him and his friend betrayed him, he was forced to give up his government job. Heartbroken, he wanted to leave the place that held so many painful memories... But his parents had died when he was young, and he and his older brother had depended on each other ever since. His brother had dropped out of school early, not only raising him but putting him through college. Feeling he owed 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Years We Shared, Brothers 兄弟们的那些年
[Underworld + Ensemble Cast + Decisive Action + Dramatic Rescues + Passionate + Expansive Worldbuilding] A boy watches his parents die horrifically in a gang war, then is forced to leave school behind and descend into the bottomless abyss of the underworld. He forms a bond of life and death with four brothers, growing amid bloodshed and making his stand amid tangled grudges and passions. Through this gauntlet of flashing blades, he swears that every blood debt will be repaid in blood.
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Cast Aside in Desperation: Returning in Glory 绝境弃子：归来荣耀
For ten years he kept his head down, enduring every sneer. The world saw him as a discarded nobody from the bottom rung, lowly as mud and fair game for anyone to bully. But Jiang Mu is the last heir of Jiang City’s most powerful hidden clan, and a dragon-patterned jade pendant conceals an immense force. A hidden dragon in the deep will one day reclaim its place. When he gives the word, armies will gather. Those who oppress me will see their graves overturned; those who have shown me kindness wil
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- 286 Sons and Daughters of the Jianghu: That Midnight Sun 江湖儿女：那一轮午夜的太阳 The rules of midnight are a way of life much like the law of the jungle. At midnight, what you see may be the moon, but in their eyes, it is their sun. Set against the real-life underworld of the 1990s, this story follows Zhou Shenghua's life in the jianghu. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
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Days Spent Getting By 平凡混过的日子
My name is Lu Pingfan! I'm a gangster... I founded the "Student Council" back in middle school! Years later, my brothers live ordinary lives by day, but after dark, they take their place in the underworld! I used to think that justice and honor were the guiding principles of the world! It wasn't until I heard all the things left unsaid that I realized those supposedly "high-minded" principles were nothing but the emperor's new clothes! So I decided to uphold the principles of my world in my own
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Factory Work: The Beautiful Factory Darling Won't Marry Anyone but Me 工厂打螺丝：美女厂花非我不嫁
[Urban High Martial Arts] [Urban Supernatural Powers] [Invincible] [Satisfying Read] [Wild Imagination] Lin Tao was discussing with a few coworkers which of the new female employees was the prettiest. One coworker asked which of the women he would choose as his wife. Lin Tao was just about to answer when he awakened the Invincible Sign-in System, which contained all kinds of magical little gadgets. At once, Lin Tao decided that if he was going to pursue anyone, it would be the prettiest girl in
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The Hot-Blooded Hunter: God’s Assault 热血猎人神之袭击
[Survival] [Hunting] [Fighting the Japanese invaders and looting their gear] [Cultivation] Wang Fei has just entered the world of cultivation when he's forced into becoming a live-in son-in-law. One blow shatters his dantian, setting him on a long road from staying alive to rising to greatness. Though he has lost his cultivation, he takes countless disciples. This novel was not written by AI. Every word was painstakingly typed out by the author, who only hopes readers will enjoy the story in its
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Better Not to Meet Again 看见不如不见
“You’re not a curse. You’re the key!” “If you don’t want to die, stay away from me.” “Liu Yan, stop licking your lips! You might poison yourself!” “Mind your own business and you’ll live longer!” “Praying to gods? Worshipping Buddha? You’d be better off kowtowing to me.” “I decide whether you stay or go.” Better not to see me than to see me. I’m not talking about myself. I mean all of you.
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- 291 EN Death God of the Night 黑夜杀神 Hunted from the start, I barely escaped with my life. I fought to defy fate, launching attacks and taking down countless powerful opponents. Born with a beautiful face... I hope you enjoy the story. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2.7kReads8.8Score201Shelves
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My Sweet Miss Cheng 我的甜城小姐
Reborn (Storage Space), One Female Lead, Underworld and Business, No Angst, Read Without Worry In this city awash with desire, neon lights blur your vision and the clamor unsettles your heart. You alone are the light I see after parting the layers of mist, the last faith I still hold on to after weathering countless storms.
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A Fake Eunuch Goes Undercover in Dongguan's Underworld and Ends Up Seducing the Boss's Wife 假太监卧底莞城黑道，真撩了大嫂
[Undercover agent + urban + underworld + System + many love interests + power plays + hard-hitting thrills + ruthless killing] “A dead eunuch who's lost his manhood thinks he can protect our sister-in-law?” On a stormy night, dozens of gang enforcers corner Cao Kun. Right in front of him, they're about to tear Fourth Sister-in-Law Li Mi's dress off. “As long as I don't fall into the hands of those beasts, tonight... I'll be yours!” Fourth Sister-in-Law Li Mi clings tightly to Cao Kun's waist. “
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- 294 City of Heartbreak 情伤都市 My new work is out! Come 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! 1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Black, White, and Gray? How Can You Get Ahead Without Getting Your Hands Dirty? 黑白灰？不涉灰怎么出人头地
Brotherhood + slow-burn ensemble cast + one female lead + not overpowered + first-person perspective Some people say black is black and white is white, and anyone who falls into the underworld is a bad person. I wanted to be a good person. I never wanted to fall into the underworld. But does being a good person mean being looked down on? Does it mean being powerless when trouble strikes? Only later did I realize that society isn’t simply black or white. The world’s true colors are black, white,
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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Against the Grain at School: Young and Reckless 校园逆行：年少轻狂
Other people's school life is all youthful romance. Mine is a blood-soaked battlefield! My mother died a horrible death, my adoptive father is a pawn, and my father is being abused. I grew up carrying a heart full of rage. All you masterminds at Donghai Middle School who caused my parents' deaths, just you wait! I'm back in Guang Province, and this time, I'll make the whole city tremble!
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- 298 The Heiress Was Sold for Two Thousand Cash While Fleeing Her Wedding 千金大小姐逃婚途中被两千发卖了 To escape the miserable engagement her family had arranged, Fu Bingyue fled in the middle of the night. By a twist of fate, she was kidnapped and sold, then ended up entering into a marriage of convenience with Xiao Jibai, a man rumored to suffer from a serious illness and to have spent years relying on a wheelchair. Everyone said Xiao Jibai was near death and had a gloomy, difficult personality. But after they married, Fu Bingyue accidentally stumbled upon a shocking secret: his inability to wa 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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