Any Books That Could Be Used as Writing Material? 有可以当作文素材的书吗？
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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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One Sentence Is Worth Ten Thousand, If It's a Blurb 一句顶一万句，如果这句是文案
In our lives, there are joys and hardships. Words sometimes give us strength and sometimes encourage us to keep going. Here you'll find plenty of beautifully written lines worth collecting, in all kinds of styles. (Note: The content comes from the internet.)
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China's Sea of Stars 华夏的星辰大海
Countless figures have left their mark on the scroll of Chinese history. The Yellow Emperor fought Chiyou; Shennong tasted a hundred herbs. The First Emperor unified the six states... From the Tang and Song to the Yuan, Ming, and Qing, every dynasty has had figures worthy of admiration. Let's speak with them heart to heart and experience their appeal. Let's embark on a journey through time and space together! If there's anyone you'd like to learn about, feel free to leave me a message. (●'◡'●)ヾ(
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Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
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Fourteen Sentences 十四句
[The print edition of Fourteen Lines, bearing the same title, is now available on multiple platforms.] Life is like duckweed on the water, so why doubt that people will meet and part? Morality and ethics clash with matters of the heart. A realistic story. If that’s not your thing, don’t read. The greatest regret isn’t that people enter your life at different times, but that you’re meant to meet without being meant to be together. A remorseful husband tries to win back his wife. Written as realis
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧
A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome
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Don’t Mess with His Little Darling 别惹他的小可怜
[Print edition now available] [Published under the title Blazing Sun] [Cocky, unruly, flirtatious young master from Beijing’s elite circles x delicate yet resilient top student who’s been bullied] [Campus Romance x Healing x Top Students x Mutual Devotion] Tang Yu is the top student at Qingyuan High School, but she has endured years of bullying. When she’s driven to the brink, she sets her sights on the new transfer student. He’s cocky enough and wild enough. That day, bruised from head to toe,
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I Only Took a Peek at Him 我只偷看他一眼
During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli
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The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟
Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred
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Qingqing: The Aesthetics of Unrequited Love Tragedies, Part 3 清清（暗恋BE美学三部曲03）
Back in middle school, Xie Zeyang met Shen Bingqing. Their names were almost the opposite of their natures: he was as cold as ice, while she burned bright as the sun. He could still vaguely recall every time they parted when they were young. At thirteen, beneath the lights at the entrance to an alley. She waved with a radiant smile and said to him, “See you tomorrow, class monitor!” At seventeen, on the beach on a midsummer night. She poked her head out of the tent, eyes crinkling as she called
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
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Stardust Falls into a Long Dream 星霜入长梦
Set in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The main storyline follows the little-known Red Turban Army’s northern expedition against Goryeo and the rival warlords vying for power at the end of the Yuan dynasty, alongside a fictional character who navigates the shifting alliances between the lords. The story also touches on ancient legends of immortal cultivators and tales from the Classic of Mountains and Seas that date back to antiquity. See how the protagonist makes his way through a troub
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Steel Thorn Rose 钢刺玫瑰
She was the sharpest blade in the entire military region. He was the wolf no one dared to provoke. At the special forces selection camp, Shen Lie and Lu Zheng got into a fight the first time they met. She thought he was arrogant; he thought she was conceited. Everyone in camp was betting on which of them would be eliminated first. No one expected these bitter rivals to fight their way from the training grounds to the battlefield, from a five-kilometer march under full gear to a hell week where
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The Silent Blade 刀不语
Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu.
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Offending the Imperial Daughter 惹金枝
(Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo
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The Sang Method of Secretly Loving You 桑式暗恋法则
[Physical edition now available] Sang You transmigrated, landing back on the first day of her freshman year of high school. The three years of high school she'd finally made it through had suddenly been reset to square one. Thinking about going back to a high school life where she had nothing, not even a full head of hair, made her want to die. Later, she stopped wanting to die, but everyone else said she was crazy. She was a freshman, yet not long after the term began, she skipped ahead to seni
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A Run of Bad Luck 运势不顺
Unlucky, aloof master X lucky, cheerful puppy disciple Yun Yichen: I transmigrated into a book to save my master. Who else could do it? I don't care, the whole world can wait, my master comes first. My master can do no wrong. This poor high school student is saving his master right now. I'm my master's lucky charm!! Side couple: Gu Wanzhou vs. Lan Xiyun Loyal, reborn prince X scheming, reborn master Lan Xiyun: What, my master was reborn too? Then I don't have to pursue him all over again!! Gu Wa
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After Being Kidnapped, I Kidnap the Western Regions' Young Lord and Bring Him Back to the Central Plains 被拐后，我反拐西域少主回中原
[Young lord of the Western Regions × Princess of Sheng'an] Ye Zhaoyu was born into the imperial family. She figured she'd surely been dealt the pampered darling's script in life, so she wisely decided to coast. But she never expected to take a wrong turn and be kidnapped to the Western Regions. By a stroke of bad luck, she was sent to the bed of a deranged young lord known as a demon's lair and a living Shura. She immediately switched into survival-and-escape mode, determined to flee back to the
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Ding! With an Immortal Achievement, the Cousin Miss Starts Reading 叮，成就流芳百世，表小姐开卷了
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
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Listening to Spring Rain All Night in a Small Tower 小楼一夜听春雨
A critically acclaimed historical romance ensemble that topped the annual charts! A calculating, lovesick beauty versus a dark, scheming top scholar! A historical take on Pride and Prejudice: life in the inner household isn't all scheming and rivalry, but also deep sisterly affection. The clever and capable Second Madam Lou takes the greatest pride in her life in having three beautiful daughters. To marry her three marriageable girls into “good” families, she travels a great distance to the capi
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With Jin Chang’an (Based on the Screen Adaptation Starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei) 与晋长安（宋轶、丞磊主演影视原著）
The hit drama starring Song Yi and Cheng Lei is now airing! A beloved historical romance by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang! Female general vs. puppy-like boy. The child she casually picked up turns out to have two sides? A cold little gentleman by day, a loyal black knight by night. Is he a puppy turning into a wolf, and which side is the real him? A tale of love and hate between a female general and the heir of an enemy state! Li Shuang, the adopted daughter of a great general, guards the borders of the Grea
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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
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Dear Mr. Lu, I Really Want to Be Madly in Love With You 亲爱的陆先生，我好想跟你热恋呀
Already signed for print publication [secret crush becomes mutual, from the heroine’s perspective + marriage first, love later, from the hero’s perspective] [Independent, resilient, A-list lawyer vs. devoted, possessive CEO] When Meng Tingyu was sixteen, she met a young man named Lu Suizhou. She would never forget that day. He came into her life carrying light, bringing hope to her as she was on the verge of drowning and rescuing her from the abyss. Years later, the sunny, handsome boy had grow
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Seven Parts Sweet 清甜有七分
[Rebellious bad boy X spoiled little drama queen] The first time Lin Shixi met the school bully everyone talked about, she immediately got on his bad side. But with her survival instincts kicking in, Lin Shixi still obediently apologized Lin Shixi: “I’m sorry.” Jiang Ye: “I can’t hear you.” Lin Shixi: “…” From there, they kept finding new ways to mess with each other. The formidable Jiang Ye also secretly swore that if he ever paid attention to Lin Shixi again, he’d be a dog. Then, who knows
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Come Here and Give Me a Kiss 过来亲一下
[Print edition now available] [Published as Summer's Lucky Charm] ☆Cool, gentle boy × world-weary, listless girl☆ [One-on-one sweet romance | School life, comedy, doting romance, redemption, healing] Wen Jibai always sincerely believed her new deskmate was a handsome, aloof heartthrob who took advantage of his looks and treated everyone coldly. Until one day, she saw this search in his Baidu history: [This is so annoying. What should I do if I've fallen for my deskmate?]
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The Empress Dowager's Retirement Life 太后的退休生活
[Palace intrigue + female lead is the mastermind behind the scenes + no romance + plot-driven + ensemble cast] After transmigrating to the Great Jing dynasty, Su Minqing entered the palace as the empress. She worked tirelessly at palace intrigue for over a decade and finally fought her way to becoming the Empress Dowager. The only catch was that there was another Empress Dowager in the palace besides her. As the emperor’s adoptive mother, she was named the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces. The
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮
Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant
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Spring Deepens in Bianjing 汴京春深
[Audio version now available, welcome to listen] Madam Rongguo, Wang Fu, devoted herself to her family until she fell gravely ill and died. She was reborn in the body of Meng Jiuniang, a foolish illegitimate daughter who was only seven years old. In her previous life, her husband became her uncle in this life, and her son became her cousin. In this life, Meng Wan had a simple wish: to live peacefully and watch her son, her cousin Su Fang in this life, grow up safe and sound. But as she and a gro
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I Have Both the Starlight and Him 星光与他皆得
[Reborn + top student + sweet romance] In her previous life, Mu Fuxin was a well-behaved girl, but her family background made her insecure and sensitive. Because she was pretty, people spread rumors about her. She fell into depression, tormented herself with overthinking, and could never let herself be at peace. After her mother remarried, other people stirred up trouble, making her already sensitive nature even gloomier. She failed to see her stepfather’s kindness and thought she was standing u
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Notes from Youth 青春札记
[Traditional Campus Life + Young Love + Life + Reflections + Distinctive Storyline] Sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds always seem to shine. There’s something captivating about carefree young people; when they run, it’s as if they’re racing through time. Sunlight spills down, and the evening glow filters through the window lattice onto yellowed paper, where the words speak of youthful recklessness. The classroom suddenly falls quiet. Everyone instinctively looks toward the door, then, seeing no si
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Reborn: I Crush the World with Beauty and Brains 重生后我靠美貌和智商吊打全世界
(New book now available: From the Start in the Famine Year of 1960: The Lottery System Takes Me to the Top) (Complete) [Reborn on Campus] + [Charming, Sweet, and Obedient Campus Beauty vs. Cool, Noble Academic Ace] + [A Little Golden Finger] + [One-on-One Sweet Romance] At twenty-five, unlucky Lin Yumo is suddenly thrown back to her high school days at fifteen after an accident. In her previous life, her dream of attending A University fell apart, and she spent all three years of high school in
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My Younger Boyfriend Is Way Too Good at Flirting 年下弟弟太会撩
[One-on-one sweet romance + younger man + childhood friends + love that grows over time + love triangle] [High-EQ, secretly cunning top student younger brother X dashing, tomboyish school-bully older sister] At an age when Ding Ye should have been a graceful young girl, she instead grew up a tomboy. The day Cheng Yuhang was sent back to his hometown by his mother, he looked at Ding Ye and said: “Big Sis, you look a little like a big brother.” What an obnoxious little brat, Ding Ye thought. At fi
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Lost in the Depths of Spring 误入春深
Prince Yu, Yu Huaiji, believed he had spent his life acting decisively, plotting every move, and leaving himself no weaknesses. He was sure he was invincible. But Heaven was about to show him that there was always someone greater! It sent him a delicate young lady from the Song family: Song Nao. She looked so fragile and soft that anyone could bully her, but in truth she was clever in her own way. After meeting him only twice, she had already found and firmly grasped his one fatal weakness. Yet
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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Fallen 堕
That year, I was twenty-nine, and Mo Huai was thirteen. When I, someone who no longer wanted to live, met him, someone else who no longer wanted to live, we somehow found the strength to keep going, at least for a little while. So we decided to rely on each other and make it through together.
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Defective Product (Original Novel for the Short Drama Beyond Order) 残次品（短剧《秩序之外》原著小说）
[The original novel behind the hit short drama Outside the Lines, directed by Xia Qiji and starring Deng Lingshu and Yang Pengcheng~~~] [Elite engineer Wei Liang x problem robot Wei Nanfeng] [Modern romance + acclaimed novel + devoted love interest + artificial intelligence + imagined future + pure-love enthusiast] On the day Wei Liang quits her job, she finds a service robot that failed its tests and is about to be sent for destruction. Service robots must follow three fundamental rules. First,
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Nothing More Than That 不过尔尔
Er’er is a weak little immortal. She can’t fight monsters, and she can’t meditate either. With barely eight hundred years of cultivation, she loses it all the moment she ascends to the Ninth Heaven. But she has the gift of foresight. She knows that one day, the man before her will destroy heaven and earth and slaughter every living thing. Before he turns demonic, she must bind her little life tightly to his. Li Ye is a powerful High God. He ranks first at fighting monsters, first at meditati
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Snowflake Town 雪粒镇
[Ji Handeng, a fragile, sickly, dark-minded younger brother x Xu Qiongqiong, a kind, resilient older sister who loves money] [Modern romance + mutual salvation + healing + older woman/younger man romance + revenge + cover-up + high-stakes twists] Xu Qiongqiong and Ji Handeng are siblings with no blood ties. In a small, poor town full of secrets, they rely on each other and keep one another warm. Their days hold happiness and pain, darkness and budding affection. Their shared goal is to leave Xue
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The Tribulation of the Forgotten River 忘川劫
[“Cold and ruthless God of War” Moxi VS “Heartless Stone Spirit” Sansheng] “If you can catch me, I’ll be yours!” She is the Three-Life Spirit Stone by the River of Forgetfulness, beside the other shore’s flowers, guiding souls through the consequences of their deeds. He is the renowned God of War of the Nine Heavens, with no room for personal feelings, devoted only to all living beings. A stone has no heart, and a warrior no tenderness. Though they are worlds apart, a casual remark binds them to
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
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Small-Town Romance 小镇风月
This thousand-year-old town prospered and declined with its shipping trade. In the 1990s, dance halls sprang up, bringing with them a case of stolen tax silver, a midnight murder, a police officer killing someone, and the murder of a dance hostess. As people fight over money, power, and love, the story also uncovers the heroic deeds of resistance fighters from the town fifty years earlier. The warmth and coldness of human life are distilled in the town's tales of love and desire...
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Love Must Be Sincere: The Two-Faced Lover 爱要真心来告白：双面恋人
1v1, both pure, instant physical attraction. Elegant lady? No! Fast and furious? Yes! Pretend to be a lady while living with the CEO? No! Two sides to her, hiding in plain sight: pushing limits, go go go! Don’t worry… The CEO is totally into it!
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Love Takes a Sincere Confession: Love at First Sight 爱要真心来告白：一见钟情
Her one-night stand turns out to be the CEO! One is a handsome, wealthy playboy who drifts from one romance to the next; the other is a quiet, unsociable design graduate. Their lives were meant to run parallel, but a chance act of heroism brings them together. Su Ruo: I only found out after starting the job that my one-night stand was the CEO! Mu Shijun: The person I like keeps avoiding me. What should I do? Asking online, urgent!
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Institute for Supernatural Science: The Dragon-Sacrificing Altar Arc 超自然科学研究所之祭龙台篇
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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