Quality Fiction Set in a Bygone Era, Well Worth Reading. 年代文作品中的优质文学，看了不亏。
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A Bandit Queen Reborn in the Seventies, Determined to Become a Tycoon 女土匪魂穿七零野心勃勃做富豪
On their wedding night, the bride decides to come clean. “I wanted to whisk you home in my last life, and this time I finally got you.” The groom replies, “What a coincidence. I’ve loved you since my past life, and I’m more than happy to let you whisk me home!” The bride says, “In that case, let’s celebrate by having three children in a row. I have a super dimension where I can grow crops and raise livestock, with a spiritual spring too, so we won’t have to worry about supporting them.” The groo
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Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Trading System Is Split Between Us 穿越七零：交易系统一人一半
[Stockpiling supplies + transmigration + historical era + pocket dimension + trading System + cultivation + love that grows over time] [Not a traditional historical-era novel! The story will involve travel between planes in the middle and later stages, and the awful relatives are dealt with quickly!] At eighteen, Qiao Mingxi unlocked the pocket dimension her grandmother had left her. She thought she had the sort of pocket dimension that would be useful in an apocalypse, so she worked diligently
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The Sixies’ Worst Old Lady: You, You, and You, Get Down on Your Knees! 六零极品老太：你你还有你跪下！
[Period Setting + Ensemble Cast + Golden Finger + Everyday Life] Young Qihong Dou wakes up in the 1960s in the body of a troublesome old woman. She has a huge brood of descendants and endless family drama, and every morning she opens her eyes wondering why she still hasn't died. After becoming the awful Old Madam Zhao, Qihong Dou fails to die and has no choice but to accept her fate and start fighting to survive. Fortunately, Heaven hasn't treated her too badly: it gave her a golden finger. A t
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I Reunited with a Big Shot in the Seventies 我与大佬重逢在七十年代
[Dual transmigration + bygone era + both leads have been faithful + powerful leads] Jiang Ruomeng insists she really only wanted to kiss her brand-new boyfriend, really just a kiss, nothing else. But before she can even kiss him, she transmigrates into the body of a young woman named Lu Siyu in the 1970s! The girl was adopted by the Lu family, and with supplies scarce, Jiang Ruomeng assumes she’s in for a hard life. But her new life turns out like this: When someone bullies her, her grandmother
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Transmigrating into the 1960s as a Young Educated Youth 穿越六十年代小知青
(Complete) (Parallel world + spoiled younger man + military marriage + devoted husband + raising kids) Xu Ning transmigrated into a book, ending up as a minor character in a period novel, a young woman who had gone to the countryside with her younger brother to become an educated youth. Lin Miao, another educated youth, was an internet celebrity from the 21st century, while the male lead was an educated youth from the capital. Their tangled love story made life miserable for everyone in the educ
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A Woman in a Man's Body: Living Off Women in a Period Novel 女穿男：我在年代文里吃软饭
[A woman transmigrates into a man’s body, with some fantasy elements] When Zhou Shan transmigrates to the 1960s, she opens her eyes to dizziness and weakness in all four limbs, experiencing firsthand what it means to be starving to death. She doesn’t feel the slightest thing about having become a man. Just as she’s so hungry she can barely keep her eyes open, she hears a father and daughter nearby, picking over their choices: “Is there anyone you like?” “Too ugly. Black and skinny, like a charre
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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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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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From Ancient Times to the Present: A Legitimate Daughter Is Born into the 1950s 古穿今：嫡女胎穿五零年代
The story begins in 1967. A seemingly delicate heroine with incredible fighting skills versus a crazy, insecure hero Su Yue, the legitimate daughter of the General’s Mansion, was confined to its grounds by her scumbag father and stepmother from a young age. They gave her drugs to turn her into a beauty, intending to offer her to the emperor. The drugs’ side effects meant Su Yue would live only until the age of twenty. After the emperor took an interest in Su Yue, she used his power to reclaim he
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The Great Beauty Runs Away, and the Commander Goes to the Island to Win Her Back and Marry Her 大美人偷跑，首长下海岛追妻领证
[Period setting + everyday family life + island + invisibility ability + pocket dimension + sweet romance + devoted couple] An Yue transmigrated! An Yue opened her eyes. She kicked away the hooligan who had tried to assault her. Her ability suppressed the drug's effects, and she took every last thing the hooligan had. An Yue jumped into the water. Just as her mind began to grow hazy, An “antidote” fell from the sky. Qiao Haoyu and An Yue were in the same predicament. An Yue was dazzled by his lo
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Reborn as a Tycoon's Wicked Ex-Wife, I Became the Whole Family's Darling 穿成大佬恶毒前妻后，被全家团宠
[Transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s + personal space + sweet romance and raising kids + love grows over time + transmigrated heroine vs. reborn heroine] When she opens her eyes, Jiang Yuman finds herself transmigrated into a book as the male lead’s wicked ex-wife, who is six months pregnant. In the book, the original owner dreams of becoming an official’s wife and tries every trick in the book to marry into the Fu family. But when the Fu family is falsely accused, stripped of their positi
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My Ex-Husband Always Protects His Childhood Sweetheart. I Remarried After Being Reborn, and Now He's Panicking 前夫处处护青梅，重生改嫁他急了
[1970s, reborn and getting revenge, educated youth sent to the countryside, pocket dimension with a spirit spring, building wealth] In her previous life, Su Qingran came from an educated family. When faced with being sent away or sent to the countryside, she chose to marry beneath her station. She thought she had found a lifeline, but instead faced endless grievances and had to keep giving in. Her husband outsourced his filial duties to her, her mother-in-law was constantly causing trouble, and
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Transmigrated into a Seventies-Era Trouble-Making Sister-in-Law, She Stirs Up Trouble and Makes Money 穿成七零极品小姑子，她搞事搞钱
[Historical setting + socially fearless female lead + punishing scumbags and face-slapping + building wealth + turning her life around + one-on-one romance, both leads have no prior relationships] Extra, extra! The military compound in the capital is in an uproar. Word is that the eldest young master of the Fu family, a top soldier, has been won over by a country girl... Su Xiaoman worked all night and died from overwork. Then she transmigrated to the 1970s, a time of food and clothing shortag
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The Seventies Military Wife Is Sweet and Fierce, and Her Navy Husband Spoils Her with His Life 七零军嫂娇又凶，海军老公拿命宠
[Sweet romance, love of country and family, later becomes a leading female researcher] Su Xiaoqi accidentally transmigrated into the body of a cannon-fodder supporting female character in the 1970s. Faced with a horrible in-law family and the blessed heroine, she thought, heh… why not embrace a shameless life? From the start, she was up against her terrible in-laws. A good fight is good for your health. She thought she’d be fighting alone. Then her naval officer husband came home. The two of th
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Reborn in the Apocalypse, I Cling to My Ex’s Leg 末世重生抱紧前任大腿
Two male leads, 1v1, both devoted to each other, sweet and satisfying romance. In his past life during the apocalypse, Jiang Nian was imprisoned in a basement. When a zombie horde arrived, his family abandoned him, and he died miserably in the arms of his ex, Cheng Jing, who had come to rescue him. When Jiang Nian opens his eyes again, he's reborn half a month before the apocalypse. To stay alive, he immediately decides to shamelessly get back together with his ex. First, he asks his ex for some
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Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Wife, I Stole the Show in the Military Compound 穿成炮灰原配后，我惊艳军区大院
Also known as: Before I Lost My Virtue, I Rewrote the Life of the Cannon-Fodder First Wife [Period setting + military marriage + face-slapping + no golden finger + sweet romance + devoted couple] Xia Qingning unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel written by a classmate who envies her. She becomes the original wife, who shares her name and is framed into losing her virtue, then jumps into a lake and dies tragically. The moment she opens her eyes, she’s at the scene of her violati
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Back to 1970 Before I Lost My Chastity: Husband, I Was Wrong 七零回到失去清白前，老公我错了
Everyone in Yonggan Village knew that the newly arrived Shen Jiaojiao was a little temptress. She dressed in flashy clothes every day and chased after men. Later, a scumbag chopped off Shen Jiaojiao's legs, threw her in a basement, and tortured her until she wished she were dead. When she was critically ill, the man she'd personally sent to prison, Xu Mo, bought her for a million. Shen Jiaojiao thought Xu Mo had bought her to humiliate and torment her. But he put their past behind them, marri
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The Sweet Military Wife Is on Top, and Her Officer Husband Can't Take It 娇娇军嫂在上，军官老公顶不住
The short drama adaptation, Sweet Years, is now streaming~ The second short drama adaptation, Let Me Dwell in Your Heart, is now streaming~ [Military marriage + food + supermarket space + devoted couple + everyday life + love after marriage] Ye Muqi had just become a seven-star chef when a car accident transported her to the 1980s. From the start, she was married, and her husband was a soldier with a slim waist and long legs. For Ye Muqi, who had been single for 29 years, that was a huge plus! T
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Reborn as a Doctor, She Ruined Her Husband’s Family 医女重生，她把夫家玩废了
In her previous life, Xia Lanzhi spent eight years as a widow in the Weiyuan General’s manor, using her dowry to keep the sprawling household afloat. She honored her mother-in-law and cared for her sister-in-law. While searching for her husband, she adopted a young boy as her legitimate son, devoted all of the Xia family’s resources to raising him, and taught him with care, hoping he would restore the General’s family’s former glory. Little did she know it was all wishful thinking. The general r
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The Farmer's Widow: Growing Crops and Raising Little Ones 农家寡妇：种田养包子
A shut-in is struck dead by lightning and transmigrates into a widow whose husband died in battle and whose in-laws abandoned her while she was pregnant with his posthumous child. Even though her face is ruined and she looks hideous, she has a magical pocket dimension, so at least she can get by. She can farm and farm, and maybe even grow a super-rich family... Just as Yue Lanxin has more silver than she can count and dreams of it with a smile on her face, her husband, who supposedly died in bat
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No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话
An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the
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Period: A Sweet Kid-Raising Diary 年代：养甜崽记事本
[Period setting + alternate history + farming + raising kids + devoted husband + cozy daily life + making a fortune] Shen Anning raises children, geese, and fish. She wears so many hats she never gets a moment's rest, and sometimes she goes around the village with a bamboo switch, “chasing” people. Chasing what? The kids! The geese! Daily life: Shen Anning, holding a bamboo switch: “I heard someone was causing trouble.” Hao: “We didn't do anything!” Yao: “It definitely wasn't me!” Zhou Mingze: “
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The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表
{The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The Legitimate Daughter Is a Super Mom 穿七零，嫡女当妈超会养
[Ancient Times to Modern Day + Military Marriage + Period Setting + Island + Grasslands + Mutual Devotion] After taking revenge for her mother, Song Shuqian, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household, arrives in 1968 and becomes the daughter of a capitalist family. She thought she could enjoy life without a care, since her family was wealthy and she was an only child. But in 1968, being a capitalist’s daughter meant danger. To escape her predicament, she impulsively marries Wei Jianguo, a
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The Sixties: Newlywed from the Start 六十年代：开局就是新婚
[Period novel + everyday family life + devoted hero and heroine enjoying a peaceful life together + low-conflict + daily spectatorship + no saintly heroine] As a Chinese teacher at a technical secondary school, Wen Nuan enjoyed a happy routine, working from eight in the morning to five in the evening, with the occasional evening class. She didn’t have to worry about grades or deal with any teaching pressure. Sure, the students were a little unruly and getting all their homework collected was a b
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Working at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative: My 1960s Buying Spree 就职供销社，我在60年代搞代购
With a loud crash, Xu Jiaojiao, from the twenty-second century, survives an air disaster and transmigrates to the resource-starved 1960s, with three years of famine looming. Luckily, she has the “Buy-It-All Shopping Group” golden finger. She lands a job through a supply-and-marketing cooperative recruitment drive and gets a secure government job for life. Brown sugar, meat buns, milk, chocolate... While everyone else chews grass, I snack on dates. I’ll stockpile the good stuff until the warehous
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On My 1980s Wedding Night, I Transmigrate and Marry a Poor, Rough Man with a Pocket Dimension 穿到八零新婚夜，带空间嫁穷糙汉
Jiang Mi is a catering magnate. She brings a warehouse space stocked with billions’ worth of supplies back to the 1980s, where she marries an impoverished man with two younger siblings in tow. They can barely manage one meal to the next, and their ramshackle house could collapse at any moment. Everyone thinks Jiang Mi has drawn a terrible lot in life, saddled with a man like this and doomed to misery forever. Jiang Mi rolls up her sleeves and sets about helping them grow into their potential. Sh
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Reborn into a Sweet Military Marriage: The Fire Chief Wraps an Arm Around My Waist 重生军婚甜蜜蜜，消防队长揽腰宠
[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Rebirth + Mutual Devotion + Sweet Romance] Entrepreneur Tang Xiaoxiao lived to the age of eighty. After she died, she was told that the firefighter who rescued her during an earthquake had spent the rest of his life disabled by a leg injury he suffered while saving her. Was she going to help her lifesaver heal his leg, or be reincarnated? What a question. Of course she'd help him heal! After being reborn, Tang Xiaoxiao goes to the countryside in her lifesave
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The 1970s: After Reclaiming Her Golden Finger, the Female Supporting Character Refuses to Go to the Countryside 七零：夺回金手指后女配不下乡了
[Period setting + spatial dimension + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + family life + no going to the countryside + medical skills] Medical student Xia Yan pulled an all-nighter studying and suddenly died in her school dorm. When she opened her eyes again, she discovered that she had transmigrated into a period novel she had read recently. She had become the dim-witted supporting character who gave the female lead money and a golden finger. Worse, after a few words of persuasion from the fe
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Wife Is a Little Spicy 重生八零：媳妇有点辣
Her parents died young, her family was poor, and she was plain-looking. Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a terrible hand, but after nearly twenty years of hard work, she became an executive at a multinational corporation and finally put her life back on track... Then she wakes up to find herself reborn in the 1980s, as another Xia Xiaolan, this time with a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. The original Xia Xiaolan had been dealt a winning hand, but chose to take her own life under the pressu
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Cordyceps Flower 虫草花
A woman with a bad reputation and an upright grassroots official: rumors cut like knives. Amid the scorn of the world, can they grasp the happiness that belongs to them? A forbidden love that breaks free of its shackles, and a flower that blooms in a woman's darkest hour.
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The 1970s: After an Arranged Marriage Swap, I Became a Winner in Life 七零：被换亲后我成了人生赢家
In her previous life, everyone said that her cousin Han Lili had married better than Jiang Wan! Her cousin married the younger brother of Factory Director Lu. The groom was tall, handsome, and rich. Jiang Wan, on the other hand, married an educated youth sent to the countryside. He was plain-looking, and his family was dirt poor. Later, the Lu family fell on hard times and their fortunes declined. Han Lili's husband was away from home year-round, leaving her to endure lonely nights until she die
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A Sweet Romance in the Eighties: The Wife Is a Lucky Charm 八零宠婚：甜妻太旺夫
Reborn on the day she called off her engagement, Xiao Ying turned and ran straight back. The rakish man behind her stopped her and sneered, “Why aren’t you breaking it off now?” Xiao Ying called out boldly, “Because I like you!” Yuan Bo, whose skin was usually thicker than a city wall, blushed for the first time in his life. In her previous life, Xiao Ying trusted a bunch of snobs who fawned on the powerful and trampled the weak. After being reborn, she face-slapped them one by one. “Honey, ther
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Reborn in the 1980s: A Wife’s Path to Prosperity 重生八零：佳妻致富忙
In her previous life, she fled the Cheng family not long after their wedding, only to meet a tragic and miserable end. Blessed by heaven, she is reborn on her wedding night. The stern, handsome man sitting at her bedside is still the same. From then on, Xue Ling's biggest goal is to win over her husband, who is cold on the outside but warmhearted within, build a good life with him, and have him father a whole troop of little monkeys with her!!
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The 1970s Stepmom: Raising Kids and Keeping Her Husband in Line 七零后妈，养娃御夫有一手
After dying of an illness, Yu Hui woke up to find herself in 1978, in the body of a young stepmother who shared her name! She had just been branded the most evil stepmother in the compound. In an era of relative scarcity, before the economy had fully opened up, she had no steady job, but decided to keep playing the stepmother for now. Her stepson was too unruly? She would set him straight. Her husband was too easily swayed, handing over belongings and money whenever his former in-laws came aroun
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Sponsored Grandpa's Underworld Startup 直播算命：开局赞助爷爷地府创业
[No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Showbiz] A metaphysical master fails her tribulation and wakes up in the body of a universally hated, C-list villainess. To pay off her breach-of-contract fees, Ji He starts livestreaming fortune-telling. A viewer with dark circles under his eyes calls in: “Streamer, why do I dream every night that my grandpa is telling me to burn joss paper?” Ji He: “Your grandpa's starting a business down below. He's short on cash.” Viewer: “...” On
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The Playboy Won Me a Noble Title, and the Reborn Matriarch Went on a Killing Spree 纨绔为我夺诰命，重生主母杀疯了
[Signed for publication] [Clear-headed, independent true heiress x play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger fake wastrel] [Female-oriented fiction + heroine reborn + hero transmigrates + political intrigue] After more than ten years as the wife of the Ningyuan Marquis's heir, managing the household and dutifully serving her parents-in-law, Shen Tangning believed she had done nothing wrong. Not until the usually distant heir began an affair with her half sister, now married to his younger brother, and they
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Reborn and Married to My Ex-Husband’s Older Brother, I’ll Send Him to the Crematorium 重生嫁给前夫他兄长，让他火葬场
[Ex-Husband Begs for Her Back and Gets Crushed + Substitute Bride + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Feel-Good + Strong Heroine] The moment Shen Qingtan opens her eyes, she is reborn on her wedding day. In her previous life, her childhood sweetheart and fiancé, Zhao Jue, burned her alive so she would give up her place as his wife for her half-sister. She swore that if she ever got another life, she would make them pay in blood! This time, when her bridal sedan arrives, she takes the
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The Black Lotus Is Reborn, and She Slaughters Her Way Through with the Ailing Young Lord 黑莲花重生，和病弱小公爷杀疯了
Shen Wan is the model of an aristocratic young lady: equally skilled in the literary and martial arts, and a peerless physician. Her parents and five older brothers adore her and treat her like the apple of their eye. Before these very relatives hunt her down and kill her, she too believes she is the beloved young lady everyone dotes on, and the Crown Prince’s sweetheart. Only as she lies dying does she learn the truth: she is not the legitimate daughter of the Shen family at all. The true daugh
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Empress of the Xie Family 谢家皇后
In her first year in the palace, she is a Talented Lady. In her fifth, she is a Jieyu. In her tenth, she wants to become empress. As empress, she can hold on to everything she treasures and keep it from being taken away. She can protect herself and her child, and she can... stay by his side. This is a road with only one direction: take a single step back, and all will be lost. The bright yellow ceremonial parasol moves forward, and the emperor's procession slowly enters the city gate. A yellow p
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After the Breakup, the Movie Emperor Regretted It Too Late 分手后，影帝他追悔莫及
After the Breakup, the Movie Emperor Regrets It Too Late
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