Two Powerful Leads, Healing and Redemption 双强，救赎

1. 151 绻 A Pale-Hued Morning 绻色清晨 Mingquan明圈Modern Romance200k WordsCompleted Currently being adapted for publication; a short drama of the same name has already been released A refined, self-controlled Beijing power player x a gentle, sweet-natured translator A touch of redemption + age gap + devoted, principled male lead + powerful Beijing family Xu Zhiyi first meets Li Tingfeng on New Year's Eve. She tentatively borrows the man's lighter, kindling the New Year fireworks that are hers alone in that lonely night. “Happy New Year, sir.” She meets Li Tingfeng again ami 10.5kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
2. 152 五 It's Been Five Years, and the Campus Heartthrob Still Won't Leave Me Alone 五年了，校草还不肯放过我 Jin Kui金葵Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted Su Mi was the daughter of the richest family in the country, but she was suddenly bound to a poverty System and forced to switch identities, becoming a country bumpkin at her school. The System told her that if she could make Xiao Xuanjin, the chosen one of this world, fall in love with her, then dump him cruelly and trample on his sincere feelings, she would get her identity back. Otherwise, she would remain poor forever. Just listen to that. What a spiteful, mean-spirited System, jealous of th 1.4kReads9.1Score146Shelves

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   Super nice system

3. 153 重 The Reborn Empress Is Not to Be Trifled With 重生皇后不好惹 Molten Honey Candy流心蜜糖Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted This book was originally titled The Empress Is Reborn to Plot Her Revenge. The short drama adaptation is titled The Reborn Empress Is Not to Be Trifled With. In her previous life, she used her medical skills to win people over for him, and her maternal grandfather lent him troops to help him seize the throne. In return, her entire family was massacred, and she met a tragic end. Given a second life, she will never let herself become a laughingstock again. With five years' worth of memories and he 3.8kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves

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   Rebirth + Medical Skills + Double Power

4. 154 栀 Gardenia's Deadly Scent 栀杀 Wait Until the Eighth Day of the Ninth Month且待秋来九月八Modern Romance144k WordsOngoing The entire novel is being revised chapter by chapter! An untouchable, powerful beauty versus a gentle yet mad island heiress [Revenge + Intense Push and Pull + Lovers Turned Enemies + Unrequited Love and Coercive Romance + The One That Got Away + Childhood Friends, Mutual Healing Through Love + Clear-Headed Heroine] —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   She was his only moonlight and the love of his life. The moonlight at the end of the night, the eyes when she was blind, the hand that pulled her out of prison and the deep sea - the best childhood sweetheart, two-way redemption. The sister she adopted when she was a child, a delicate little princess who stayed by her side when she was down and out. The pure white girl who made birthday cakes for her and sang happy birthday to her - the best sister, two-way redemption. The cold eldest lady recognized the wrong benefactor and pushed her into hell with her own hands, but inadvertently saved her younger brother. Later, when the truth was revealed, the eldest lady, who always had a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority, broke her leg in order to save her younger brother, and lowered her head in front of her - the eldest lady who dared to love and hate, and her little bodyguard, two-way redemption.

5. 155 赦 Forgive the Moon 赦免月亮 Lu Wu陆雾Mystery375k WordsCompleted [Classic Whodunit + Case-of-the-Week + Locked-Room Murders + Multiple Twists + Power Couple + Mutual Pining] To get revenge, Du Qingci kills two people, but runs into her old classmate Chu Dongping and has no choice but to become his partner. Together, they solve five cases in seven days. As they grow closer, their feelings heat up, and the killing intent draws nearer. Du Qingci: “Why does he keep looking at me? Did he spot my weakness? Is he going to silence me?” Chu Dongping: “Why does she kee 599Reads8.2Score123Shelves

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   Two strong characters solve the case, see how the male and female protagonists solve the case

6. 156 大 A Top Student in His Junior Year Becomes a Mercenary 大三学霸却跑去当雇佣兵 The Civet Cat Who Doesn't Eat Fish不吃鱼的狸猫Urban761k WordsCompleted [Urban + Mercenaries + Transmigrate + High Martial Arts + No System] During a counter-infiltration operation to wipe out foreign troops entering the country, he tragically gave his life for his nation. His soul transmigrated to a parallel world and possessed a university student with the same name. He is now a third-year student at Qingzhou University, but he loves taking on “part-time jobs” during school breaks. He calls it casual work, but in reality he goes abroad to work as a mercenary and e 269Reads7.2Score155Shelves

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   Other people's junior year is a fulfilling daily life intertwined with libraries, classes and clubs, but his junior year is a war-torn mercenary career on the line of life and death. As a top student, he should have continued to swim in the ocean of knowledge, but suddenly he turned around and stepped into a battlefield filled with blood and gunpowder smoke. In the strange and dangerous world of mercenaries, he faces a crisis of trust, deadly traps and brutal fighting. Can he find a way out in this dark world, and can he find his original self? All the answers lie in this gripping novel.

7. 157 大 After the Senior Brother Was Reborn, His Junior Brother Pursued Him Relentlessly 大师兄重生后，师弟他疯狂追妻 Bestow赋予Two Male Leads556k WordsCompleted [Main story complete] [Master-brother who has lost all hope, the receiver x cold-hearted junior brother, the pursuer] - Love is the hardest thing to understand. Yan Jin used to think it was just an excuse made by people whose resolve in the Dao was weak. That was before he met his junior brother, Duan Weizhuo, a sword cultivator who followed the merciless path. They were entangled for years. Yan Jin even became obsessed, eventually falling into demonic cultivation. But in the end, it had all bee 7.6kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves

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   I really recommend this book.

8. 158 坏 Bad Dog: Moral Decay 坏狗：道德沦丧 Kongdu Thirteen Forks空渡十三叉Two Male Leads263k WordsOngoing [Younger Man, Two Strong Leads + Angsty Romance + Over-the-Top Urban Drama + The Ex-Chasing Crematorium] Fake-sweet, scheming, unhinged dog-type gong x short-tempered, sharp-tongued, beautiful, strong, tragic queen-type shou In a nutshell: The stray dog I've raised for eleven years suddenly says he loves me. I call him insane, only to find myself... getting screwed and ending up on the bottom??? Yan Chuan grew up without a mother, and his father died when he was eight. Jun Dui took rough care of 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A very satisfying book, it looks good and fits my taste for this type of story.

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