Looking for Historical Fiction About Locals, No Golden Finger or Military Marriage 求土著年代文,不要金手指,不要军婚
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After Refusing an Arranged Marriage Swap, I Moved to the City and Became a Worker 拒绝换亲后进城当工人了
[Period setting + native protagonist + daily life + career + no golden finger] [An ordinary story about ordinary people] Her parents wanted Baolan to take her eldest brother's place in an arranged marriage. Baolan refused. Baolan passed the worker recruitment exam. Starting as an apprentice, Baolan attended night school, got promoted, bought a watch, bought a bicycle... Little by little, she built herself a good life.
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The 1970s: The Goldsmith and the Young Tailor in the Siheyuan 七零:大杂院的金银匠和小裁缝
[Ongoing. Current progress: The romance is settled, and the career arc is about to begin. 💪] An ordinary person’s life has no dramatic ups and downs, no grand adventures, no thrilling twists... A true local, with no transmigration, no rebirth, no pocket dimension, and no college entrance exam. The story of an ordinary person growing up, told through the gentle flow of everyday life. A truly ordinary person! Not a powerful female lead! No god’s-eye view! [Period-piece daily life + mutual devotion
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The Little Public Security Officer from the 1960s Loves Watching the Drama Unfold 六零小公安爱看热闹
[Period setting + everyday family life + watching the drama unfold] Jiang Nansheng had just left the military and was all alone. Longing for a lively atmosphere, she deliberately chose an especially lively job: a young policewoman at the local police station. As soon as she arrived, she knew instinctively that she'd come to the right place. It really was incredibly lively, with gossip cropping up every day. Getting paid to enjoy the drama was an absolute delight... When she got older, she went o
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Tea Inquiry Pavilion 问茶居
In Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s, gold was everywhere, and so were the gangs. Auntie Qing of the Ask for Tea Teahouse in Causeway Bay is the most unusual presence in the underworld. The front room serves milk tea and wonton noodles, with all sorts of people filling the round tables. In the back is a fortune-telling room, where she reads people’s fortunes and misfortunes from behind a Bagua curtain. Gang bosses come to demand protection money? Three copper coins predict they’ll suffer a bloody d
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The Eighties: Two Sisters Swap Lives 80姐妹的交换人生
[Period setting + switched marriages + sweet romance + face-slapping + satisfying wish fulfillment + no golden finger] Shen Tang and her stepsister Shen Mei are both reborn. In their previous lives, Shen Tang married an uneducated hoodlum, while her younger sister married into a wealthy family. Everyone said her sister had made the better match, then waited to see Shen Tang make a fool of herself. But who could have guessed that the hoodlum would use his sharp mind to go into business and become
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A Lone Star Meets the Warm Sun 孤星遇暖阳
[Native-born leads, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger, age gap, family and village life, slow-paced, cozy daily life, sweet romance] A word of caution: The leads have vastly different social status. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, and there is no strong female lead. Please don’t read if that bothers you! As Jiang Wenyi nears high school graduation, her unusual family background puts her at risk of being sent to the countryside. Her grandfather wants her to marry a handsome s
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Pigeon Alley 鹁鸽胡同
☆ [Main story complete] ☆ [No transmigration, no rebirth, not a feel-good power fantasy, no golden finger] ☆ [An ordinary person's ordinary story, with a focus on everyday life] In 1972, seventeen-year-old Zhong Wenshu took over her mother's job at the state-run supply and marketing cooperative, avoiding the mass campaign to send young people to the countryside. In 1973, eighteen-year-old Zhong Wenshu married a young police officer from the neighboring courtyard and started a home with just th
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A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人
This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute
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Through the Trials 走过劫难
Disaster strikes a once-happy family of five. After suffering a heartbreak so piercing it feels like ten thousand arrows, how will a mother who has only just reached middle age, and is already frail and sickly, lead her three underage children through hardship and toward the future...?
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A Sent-Down Youth's Return to the City with His Wife in the 1960s 六十年代知青携妻返城记
[Steady Educated Youth vs. Beautiful Village Girl / Entire Cast Are Locals, No Golden Fingers or Black Markets / Everyday Life / Marriage First, Love Later / Flawed Characters / Leads Grow Together / Sweet Romance] Lin Yuan goes to the countryside at eighteen. As the youngest child in his family, he gets first pick of all the food and drink, giving him a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, long-legged frame that stands six feet tall. It doesn’t take long for someone to set their sights on him as s
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The 1980s: A Cherished Darling Rushing Toward Wealth 八零捷报团宠娇娇向钱冲
[Period setting + building wealth + doted on by everyone + native-born heroine + social butterfly + powerful figures + one-on-one romance] Before she turned fifteen, Shi Xiangxiang was stolen as a newborn. Her adoptive parents were denounced and sent down to the countryside, leaving her, though still so young, to shoulder the burden of feeding the whole family. After she turned fifteen, her adoptive sister, who had been reborn with a golden finger, returned in defeat after struggling her way t
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Born to Follow the Sun 向阳而生
[A new book from a veteran author] [Daily life] [Romance] [A little heartbreak, then overwhelmingly sweet] He Zhicheng gave his son He Shu a perfect demonstration of what a scumbag looked like, leaving He Shu terrified of marriage before he was even an adult. The little tree, withered before it had even grown, was chased by another stubborn little sprout who kept urging him to stand tall. Well, maybe it takes going through all that pain to appreciate the happiness of an ordinary life. Life comes
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A Great Beauty Raises Kids in a Beijing Courtyard, 1980s Style 八零大美人四合院养娃日常
(Slice of life + sweet romance + raising children + family life + career) Zhao Jinshu was in her sixties. Her children had grown up and started families of their own, and she had seen her parents-in-law off. She was just about to travel around the country when she was reborn. She returned to the time a few months after she had first moved to the city. Back then, she knew nothing. A young bride from the countryside, she was shy, too embarrassed to speak up, and insecure. Even though her husband
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The Campus Belle’s Diploma Is Torn Up? Her Devoted Officer Won’t Back Down 校花毕业证被撕?痴情军官死死磕
"Young Master Xiao, Who Has Kept to Himself for Years..." Era, modern romance, sweet romance; school life, campus belle, business and entrepreneurship, urban life, military, equally matched leads, technology and research. Thank you, readers, for your reviews. The book has received a rating. It may not have shot straight to the top, but every review you leave helps raise its overall score. Thank you for your support. I also hope new readers will give it a few chapters. You won't regret investing
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After Four Years of Stupidity, I Became the Beloved Wife of a Rough Village Bully 磕傻四年,成了糙汉村霸的娇媳妇
When Hu Yao woke up, she found a mischievous yet well-behaved son and a scoundrel of a man beside her. Shocked and bewildered, she heard from the neighbors she knew that four years earlier, she'd hit her head so hard she was left simple-minded, and her mother had sold her. Over those four years, she had not only gained a husband but also a mischievous child who fiercely protected her. The bastard of a man was always putting his hands on her, and he was exceptionally fierce and unreasonable. Terr
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Wearing a Period Novel: The Cunning, Scheming Man Has Me Wrapped Around His Finger 身穿年代文:被心机腹黑男拿捏了
[The protagonist has no System or golden finger; transmigrates into a book in her own body; a touch of ensemble cast; sweet romance; both are each other’s first and only; love at first sight; imperfect characters, each with their own flaws] [Fair-skinned, beautiful heiress VS deep-thinking, calculating man] Most likely, it’s a story about two people who look like a perfect match but aren’t in sync at heart: he’s after a man with a great body and impressive abilities, while she’s after a man with
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After the Cannon-Fodder Sister-in-Law Is Reborn, the Lucky Female Lead Suffers 炮灰大嫂重生后,锦鲤女主受难了
[Period Setting + Reborn Revenge + Sweet Romance + Satisfying Read + Building a Fortune + Everyday Life] Only when she was dying did Bai Xiuxiu discover that the world she lived in was actually a period novel about a lucky heroine! In the book, she was the lucky heroine's shrewish older sister-in-law. She was mean, lazy, greedy, and did every kind of evil! After the heroine married into the family, Bai Xiuxiu made life difficult for her at every turn. Because she bullied the lucky heroine, she “
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The Yangyan Opera House 阳宴戏园
In North City stands a famous opera house called the Yangyan Theater. It is home to a man just as famous, known as Third Master. Third Master Yang Zhi is a sickly beauty. Though he is a man, he has an exceptionally handsome face. Even the slightest cough can make people’s hearts skip a beat. He has few interests: listening to opera, sampling the peach blossom pastries from the most famous shop on Dazhang Street, and, above all, snatching things away from the military governor’s son, Master He, o
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Lost in the Night: A Educated Youth's Escape 情迷夜色:知青逃亡之路
During the years Liu Haibo spent in the countryside as an educated youth, he fell in love with Yang Xiuqing, a girl from the village. When he eagerly asked Yang Xiuqing's parents for her hand in marriage, they refused. He fled Shibantian Village and returned to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he married a woman named Wu Jie and prepared to start a new life, Yang Xiuqing came to his door...
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From Sent-Down Youth to Political Leader: My Career in Officialdom 从插队到主政我的年代仕途
This is not a feel-good power fantasy. There is no pocket dimension, no System, no rebirth, and no transmigration. The times are turbulent, and the road ahead is uncertain. To protect Li Chengxiao, his family bears the pain of sending him to the countryside for an assigned rural posting, away from danger. Alone, he puts down roots in the village, enduring hardship and lying low with quiet resolve. With his unique insight and steady temperament, he establishes himself amid adversity, discreetly b
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零,搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Reborn, I’m Taking Shortcuts to Help the Nation Get Ahead 都重生了,让国家走点捷径怎么了
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
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The Little Bridge Cave Family Compound 小桥洞家属院
[Period Setting + Ensemble Cast + Everyday Life] Zhang Yan and Deng Yang were born in the Xiaoqiaodong Factory Compound and grew up beneath the smokestacks of Zhouhua Factory. There was no glamour here, only the bustle of daily life, sweat, arguments, and warmth. In 1997, as firecrackers erupted to celebrate Hong Kong’s return, they still thought their parents would wear their work uniforms for the rest of their lives and life in the compound would always be peaceful. But no one could escape the
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A Country Girl Marries a City Man Just to Get Ration Coupons 农村女嫁城里人,只为吃商品粮
(The heroine does not transmigrate, though she has some memories from a previous life. There are no truly awful characters in this story; everyone has their own strengths and flaws. The focus is on an unhurried life.) Jiang Xinbai was born in the countryside and dreamed of marrying into the city one day so she could have access to rationed food. So when she first met Yang Jinsheng, she knew her chance had come. She made her move without hesitation, flirted with him, and married him. At first sig
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Somebody Somewhere in the Crowd 行走在人海中的某某某
There is only one true heroism in the world: to see life as it is and still love it. Whether it’s the wind blowing through a valley, clouds drifting over the sea, poplar trees by the roadside, foxtail grass on a hillside, or people, Zhao Xiaoqiu thinks they’re all much the same, aren’t they?
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The Seventies: The Adored Educated Youth Chases His Wife 七零娇宠:知青大佬追妻忙
In the 1970s, at the Qingshan Production Brigade. Gu Wanqing is one of a kind in the village. As the only daughter, she is adored by her parents, doted on by her grandparents, and indulged by her brothers. Her life is simple and beautiful. Pei Xingye, who comes from the capital, has a prominent family background and an unruly nature. He's the kind of man who can make the entire capital tremble with a stamp of his foot. Being sent to the countryside is just a formality, a way to pass the time.
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The Young People of Chemen Courtyard 车门院里的年轻人
This is a symphony of destinies spanning generations. In a small courtyard in northern China in the 1970s, several families struggle and drift with the tides of the times. Lei Shaxiao, an orphan whose parents died young, falls in love with Aiai, another orphan from the neighboring courtyard. They were an ordinary couple, but amid the raging currents of the era, Shaxiao rises to become a renowned lawyer who commands the room. Money, power, and desire come one after another. He loses himself in th
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Granny Su Is Reborn in the 1980s: Days of Teasing Cats and Dogs 苏老太重生八零:招猫逗狗的日子
[1980s] [Reborn grandmother’s comeback] [Strong female lead] [Metaphysics] Grandma Su raised three sons and a daughter, struggling through a lifetime of hardship. In her old age, she was lonely and had no one to rely on. Her second son, who had been cursed, seemed to have forgotten her, leaving her the poorest and loneliest ghost around. In the second year after her death, the offerings she received in the underworld were either rotten fruit or a few tiny pieces of meat and filthy clothes. Furi
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From Farmer’s Wife to Chairwoman 从农媳到董事长
[Period drama + everyday family life + marriage + building a career + personal growth] I married a state-owned enterprise worker, and after years of trying, I finally had a son. Then, just as my husband was sent to prison, my mother-in-law branded me a bringer of bad luck and threw me out of the house. Qiu Yue, widowed and bullied, and Wang Feng, tormented by domestic abuse, shared my fate. The three of us hard-done-by women joined forces, working, doing business, and opening a factory. We neede
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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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The Second Secretary 二号秘书
Chen Mo is an ordinary man who studies hard and earns a civil-service post. Starting with routine work at the municipal government, he stands out thanks to his excellent writing skills and tact, eventually becoming the mayor’s secretary. The book is practically a survival manual for government secretaries, offering a detailed look at everything from drafting documents and coordinating meetings to managing relationships with superiors and subordinates and liaising on projects. As the protagonist
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Reborn in the Eighties: First, I'll Buy a Courtyard House in Kyoto! 重生八零,先在京都买套四合院!
The Gu family has no sons, only four daughters. Plenty of people in the village are waiting to laugh at them. But they wait and wait, only to watch the Gu family build a two-story house and buy a car. They hear the family has even bought a grand home in the capital. The Gu sisters are each more successful and more devoted to their parents than the last. The villagers: What are you waiting for? Go home and have daughters! After being reborn, Gu Siqing discovers that her sisters are nothing like t
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Wang Family Village in the Famine Years of the Seventies 七零荒年王家村
[Period Fiction + Rural Life + No System or Pocket Dimension] This book tells the story of Wang Fugui and his family, villagers in Wangjia Village in the 1970s. Wang Fugui is timid by nature. When the family runs out of food, he forces his wife, Jiang Xiurong, to ask the production team captain, Wang Xiaoyang, for grain. Wang Xiaoyang has been lusting after her for ages. When Wang Xiaoyang tries to assault her, their eldest son, Wang Peng, steps in. Again and again, he exposes Wang Xiaoyang's sc
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An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母,亦如父!
[A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing...
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Smiling as I Ask the Pagoda Tree About the Past 笑向槐花问前事
(Sweet romance in the 1970s, cherished by everyone, educated youth sent to the countryside, traditional family medicine, special missions, upright values, deep love for the country and its people, childhood sweethearts, brothers who watch each other's backs, a golden finger used only for survival and convenience, viewed from the sidelines, not a strong female lead) A pair of watches became her space train car. After waking from a dream with seven days' worth of hazy memory fragments, she headed
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The Sun and Moon in the Steamer 蒸屉里的日月
Set against the changes sweeping the northern countryside in the 1990s, this story follows an ordinary rural woman as she spends half her life juggling household chores, conflicts with her sisters-in-law, small business ventures, and her children’s education. With only an elementary-school education, she supports her family with her skill at making steamed buns, putting her son through college and helping him build a life of his own. She lives through the transition from earthen houses to brick
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A Couple of Fake Partners' Everyday Gossip After They Transmigrate into a Book Set in the Seventies 穿书七零塑料夫妻的吃瓜日常
(A sharp-tongued heroine with eight hundred schemes, queen of the courtyard and village, who loves watching the drama unfold × a male lead who seems aloof and untouchable but is really a childish boy who gets bullied by her and tries to fight back) Jiang Nuan transmigrates into a book. In this 1970s romance, she, Jiang Nuan, is a hopelessly lovesick fool who pines for the male lead, gets face-slapped again and again, and still keeps throwing herself at him. She’s nothing but a disposable side ch
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Wild Chrysanthemums in the Storm 风雨中的野菊花
“The eldest gets doted on, the youngest gets spoiled, but the one in the middle suffers most!” In the late 1970s, under the weight of son preference and the pressure of family planning, Xiaojü was born in the middle. Her tragic life began from the moment she was born: an unwanted child, abandoned by both Heaven and Earth! When Xiaojü was four, the grandmother who had raised her passed away. In her final moments, Grandma told her that she had been born in a season when wild chrysanthemums were i
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A Life Full of Vigor 昂扬的生命
I dedicate this book to the first generation of only children, and to the teachers’ college graduates who devoted themselves to education in this land. Each person has only one life. How should we live this one and only life? Looking across history and around the world, many inspiring books have explored this theme. I, an unknown nobody, hope to join their ranks and have chosen the same theme. I hope my work won’t be lost among the masterpieces of celebrated writers. This work will focus on Ji
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The Blood-Tear Tung Blossoms 泣血油桐花
In the 1970s, Zhao Zhicheng was an older bachelor. Because he had one disabled leg and came from a dirt-poor family, the women from the surrounding villages all refused to marry him. In the end, he married Yan Wenyin, a woman of similar age who also had one disabled leg. From then on, the fates of these two determined people, each with a physical disability, were bound tightly together! That year, he said, “My left leg is lame, and Xiaoyin’s right leg is lame. Put us together, and don’t we make
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Reborn Tour Guide Strikes It Rich! 重生导游来吸金!
Tour guide Ji Luoyi’s tour bus plunges into a reservoir on the way back from dropping off her group. When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn as Luo Yi, a high school student in 2002. The thought of going through high school all over again gives her a headache. Her parents were tricked into going abroad for work and haven’t been heard from in years, while her relatives are constantly picking on her, unable to stand seeing her do well. Ji Luoyi thinks, “I had a house, a car, and a cat-son, an
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Reborn in the 1960s: I Find Myself a Stepmother 重生60年代:我给自己找后妈
When Chen Guoping died of lung cancer, his mother was busy having a grand old time gossiping with the neighborhood women! In his previous life, she had kept him under her thumb since childhood: she wouldn’t let him take the college entrance exam, forced him to hand over his wages, and criticized every woman he wanted to marry. Ignoring the nature of his work, she insisted that he and his wife risk having a third child. In the end, he was fired for exceeding the birth quota, and his family of fiv
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After Her Whole Family Was Wiped Out, She Was Reborn 全家死绝后,她重生回来了
In her previous life, Yu Popo lost her entire family. Now reborn, she returns with her three sons to change their fate... Opening…: Yu Popo had three sons. After her eldest son and his family of four died that winter, her two remaining sons began avoiding her… Her second son's daughter was clever. She opened a restaurant and took her parents to buy a house in town. She only sent Yu Popo a little rice and grain each month to get by, then kept her distance… Her youngest son's child was g
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Shi Shun's Growth 石顺的成长
About Growth At the foot of the Dabie Mountains, a young man named Shi Shun journeys forward, one step at a time. Over the first half of his life, he experiences sincere family affection, treasures friendships forged through hardship, encounters tender love, and strives to build an ordinary career. He grows from a naive, awkward youth into a steady and responsible man, tempering his character amid the everyday bustle of life and coming to understand what life means through the companionship of
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Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年,1974从悔婚开始
In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an
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Back to the 1950s: The Female Lead Goes on a Rampage 重回五零,女主杀疯了
Given another chance at life, Xie Yuluo refused to be a pushover. She secretly cleaned out her in-laws’ home, then took her children to confront the good-for-nothing man before anyone noticed. You piece of trash! This time, I’m striking first...
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Years of Quiet Reflection 沉淀的岁月
The story follows the lives of three high school girls from rural backgrounds. In the fall of 1964, the confident, ambitious “top student” Yu Hongying, the warmhearted and forthright “knight-errant” Li Chunfen, and the reserved, introspective lady Yue Shuqian unexpectedly meet in their first-year dormitory, along with the “campus belle” Yang Yuhuan and the “fake Marxist-Leninist” Wu Lihong. This sets off a series of stories, some serious, some amusing, some bizarre, and some full of joy and sorr
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Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年
The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature.
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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