A Book You'd Regret Not Reading, Worth Its Weight in Gold 不看会后悔的一本书，价值万金
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- 501 Beneath the Boundless Skies 苍茫之下 Under the Vast Sky is a long-form realist novel depicting life in local government and how ordinary people survive in the game of power struggles. Beneath the vast sky, everyone is a low-ranking official. Caught in the middle, they face pressure from above, turmoil below, and entanglements of human relationships on every side. With no powerful patron to rely on and no shortcuts to take, they can only endure to make their way and act cautiously to protect themselves. They struggle to survive in t 452Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 502 Thirty-Six Autumns in a Lonely City 孤城卅六秋 An isolated city perched on a sheer cliff held out alone for thirty-six years in an age when Mongol cavalry swept across Eurasia. The young swordsman Wu Xuanqing and the talented Shen Xiaoyuan meet amid the fires of a war-torn age. They witness and take part in the construction of Fishing Town, from its very beginnings. They share in the triumph of the “broken whip of the gods” and endure the despair of Xiangyang's fall and the tragedy of Yashan. When the entire Southern Song collapses, they be 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 503 The Wilderness Hunting King 荒年猎王 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.7kReads8.1Score12914d adds
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The Strange Tales of Mortal Life: Li Longbiao 浮生乱象之李龙彪
I'm the scum at the bottom of society, the trash you all talk about. I don't have much education, money, status, a house, a car, or a wife. I'm a single man, just some hoodlum. It's not my fault I ended up this way. When I was a kid, I had big dreams and ambitions, too. I wanted to study hard, get into a good university, then find work in the city and become a respectable office worker. But the cruel realities of life shattered every one of those beautiful dreams. Through its portrayal of Li Lon
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Chronicles of Burning Embers, Part One: Tang Embers: Smoke over Haidong 烬燃录第一部：唐烬：海东烟
During the Kaiyuan era of the Tang dynasty, Deng Zifeng, a transmigrator who knows how history will unfold, tries to prevent the golden age from collapsing, but becomes trapped in a perilous situation. He meets Kibi Sakurako, the daughter of a Japanese noble family torn by inner conflict, and the two become bound together by fate. They witness Japanese forces resorting to any means necessary to steal the Tang dynasty's “strength.” Hunted relentlessly by a mastermind working behind the scenes, th
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Journey to the West: Reborn, I Refuse to Become a Buddha 西游：重生归来不做佛
[Over a million readers of the original novel] + [Journey to the West + reborn for revenge + ruthless and decisive + schemes behind the scenes + thrilling, high-energy action] The Tathagata deceived him for five hundred years. He needed just one strike to bring down half of Spirit Mountain. This is the kind of backbone the Great Sage Equal to Heaven should have! It’ll leave you trembling all over, exhilarated to the point of tingling scalp! He didn’t come to become a Buddha. He came to reduce th
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- 507 The Rouge Spinster 胭脂剩女 Through the emotional journey of Yang Jingjing, a single woman past the age traditionally considered ideal for marriage, the story offers glimpses of every facet of society and the warmth and coldness of human life, exposing the ugliness and greed of human nature. Full of twists and turns, it paints a penetrating portrait of the realities faced by women like her. 2kReads—Score15014d adds
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History That'll Make You Laugh 笑翻文史
A one-of-a-kind approach to telling stories about history and literature, a “Swiss Army knife” for broadening your knowledge and enriching your inner life. History itself is a master storyteller. Come on, let's listen to five thousand years of stories!
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- 509 Seeing Through Half a Lifetime 看破浮生过半 Life is a journey of self-cultivation. As we keep moving forward, we correct our mistakes in time and gradually become better versions of ourselves. Life is full of suffering, and we can only save ourselves. If only we could live our lives over again. At the very least, we could avoid a lot of detours. 623Reads—Score—14d adds
- 510 I Became the Greatest of All Time by Courting Death 我靠作死，成了万古第一 [All kinds of reckless stunts] + [scheming opportunist swoops in] + [cultivation by stocking up] + [subverting expectations] + [unlimited imagination] Before a fight, he helps his opponent assess their “strategy,” turning high-level mockery into a scientific argument. His motto is “kill the body and crush the spirit.” Cultivation by stocking up: death isn’t the end, it’s a way to restock. The rule is simple: “Trade your life for an opening, and you’ll always come out ahead.” Bai Ye is a ruthless —Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Came to Work, Not to Run Errands 我是来上班的，不是来打杂的
I'm Here to Work, Not Run Errands
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- 512 Study Abroad: The Campus Queen Helps Me Unlock God-Tier Talents 游学：校花帮我解锁神级才艺 [Multiple Heroines + Extreme Contrast + Cheat System + Ruthless and Decisive + Conquering Women as a Daily Routine + One Heroine per City] Jiang Yiyang was bullied. On a study-tour bus, he awakened the [God-Tier Talent Bond System]. As long as he had physical contact with a heroine who possessed a special talent, he could draw her divine skill! So while the rich heirs schemed all day long to set deadly traps along the study-tour route, at night in the presidential suite, Jiang Yiyang took off hi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 513 A Godlike Debut on the Job: Who Can Keep Up? 入职即封神谁与同行 Ordinary office worker Lin Yanshu walks straight into a hell-level instance on his first day at work! Discovering that a designer with the same name mysteriously vanished three months ago is only the appetizer. The real drama lies in the fierce power struggles within Xingtu Group, while a blue mark that suddenly appears on his arm blows his cover wide open: he is a first-generation test subject from a human genetics laboratory! With forces at home and abroad closing in and the hunt at full throt 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Divine Realm Shatters: I Return to Earth to Cultivate Immortality Again 神境破碎：我回地球重修成仙
The Divine Realm shattered, and the gods fell silent! A once-mighty Void-Shattering Divine Venerable returns to Earth in the body of his nineteen-year-old self. Hell from the start: his father is gravely wounded and near death, loan sharks are at the door demanding his life, his special recruitment slot has been stolen, his childhood friend betrays him, and the goddess he admires humiliates him. Everyone sees him as a penniless failure, unaware that a timeless Divine Venerable lies hidden within
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- 515 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
- 516 Formatted Lover 格式化情人 A Programmed Lover 3Reads—Score—14d adds
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Scheming for Power in Northern Wei: This Xuande Is Too Powerful 北魏谋国：这个玄德太强了
(An alternate-history story, not based on official history) Liu Jing transmigrates to the city of Sishi in Northern Wei during its final years. There he unexpectedly meets the teenage Yang Zhong, still a farmer, and the rich young heir Gao Aocao. Thanks to the Liu family’s ancestral secret art, he successfully fools the two brothers into swearing brotherhood over chicken in a field of chrysanthemums. History would call them the “Three Chrysanthemum Brothers.” Later, Liu Jing becomes Er Zhu Rong’
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Stop Raising Me, or I'll Become Invincible 别养了，再养我就无敌了
[No System • Mortal cultivation • Not a power fantasy • No heroine • Coming of age] What if the opportunity to become an immortal had been a scam from the very beginning? What if the world's greatest martial sovereign were chained in the deepest part of the dynasty? What if the boy who would save all living beings carried within him the source of disaster that everyone coveted? When the truth is revealed, the so-called immortal opportunity is nothing more than a delicacy on a cultivator's dining
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- 519 The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫 Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm... 237.8kReads9.0Score16.4k14d adds
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From Construction Worker to Trillionaire CEO 从施工员到万亿总裁
Every word of this novel is steeped in the raw colors of everyday life. It tells the real struggles and growth of those of us born in the 1980s. The protagonist, Li Han, grew up in the kind of small city familiar to all of us. When his parents were laid off and the little stability his family had fell apart, he clutched a crumpled construction foreman's certificate and plunged into a dusty worksite. With no connections to back him and no resources to smooth his way, he relied on his own abiliti
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- 521 The Dominating Chaos Art 霸道混沌诀 Born with a Chaos Physique, he obtains a cultivation method formed from primordial chaos at the dawn of creation, inherits a thousand years of memories from the patriarch, and gains a divine ring containing a pocket world of blessed grotto-heavens. He is accompanied by a transformed ginseng doll. He crushes vicious thugs and arrogant young masters with a single move, and wipes out demons and monsters with one punch. He punishes evil and promotes good, restoring clarity to the world. Whoever offe 2.5kReads8.3Score19114d adds
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The Great Era: The Mystic Sect’s Military Strategist 大时代之玄门军师
In a nutshell: The wolves of Wall Street, the kingpins of Hong Kong, and the financial sharks of the mainland all thought he was a harmless little fox. Only after they lost everything, landed behind bars, and wished they were dead did they realize: this guy was an old celestial master in human skin. My name is Jiang Jianjun. On the surface, I’m a low-key financial analyst who returned from overseas, a small-time antique shop owner, and a traditional Chinese medicine doctor at a clinic. In realit
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The Horse-Riding Hidden Scheme 走马藏局
Geomancy and the Yin-Yang arts rule the world, while the Jianghu is full of schemes! At twelve, Shen Qianfan became an orphan and was cast adrift in the Jianghu. He grew up teaching himself from books scavenged from trash heaps, cleared his father's name, and pressed on through one Jianghu con after another, setting schemes and breaking them, navigating schemes within schemes. He cut a path through every obstacle, built a business empire, and leveraged his influence to establish a regional milit
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Across the Mountains 横断山
A new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read my story 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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- 525 Handsome Guys Have Good Luck 帅哥有好运 The day I got dumped and fired, a meteorite hit me. Lin Xiaoqiang was an unlucky office drone who couldn’t even get a seasoning packet with his instant noodles. His girlfriend of five years cheated on him with a rich second-generation heir, and his company kicked him out soon after. With nowhere else to turn, he climbed onto an unfinished building and leaped only to be hit squarely by a meteorite falling from the sky. When he woke up, the world had changed. His ex set him up and accused him of t 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Diary of Survival in the City 城市生存日记
[No Golden Finger + A Terrible Start from the Start + Self-Redemption + A Realistic Guide to Urban Homelessness] Watch a little waif scavenge and save money, making life a little better, one step at a time. He Qinghuan barely escaped her home deep in the mountains with her life, and now wanders the city. She must avoid being discovered as homeless and sent back, while making full use of the city's resources to feed herself and survive until she's old enough to work and support herself. Looking u
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- 527 My Name Is Zhu Chongba: A Bowl from the Start 我叫朱重八开局一个碗 Don’t let the title fool you: the story is even more ridiculous than it sounds. My name is Zhu Chongba, from Fengyang, Anhui. Occupations: cowherd, monk, beggar, rebel, emperor. Starting equipment: a chipped bowl. Completion reward: the whole world. When I was born, the whole room glowed red. Actually, the neighbor’s house was on fire, and my father had to pay him three chickens. When I was a monk, I rang the bell and came up with “The Tune That Wakes the Hungry.” The abbot said I had insight. I 24Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Female Feng Shui Master's Work Diary 一个女风水师的工作日志
The author met a feng shui master and exchanged contact information with her. After seeing her work journal, the author found some of its contents worth reading. They also carry on traditional culture, so the author is sharing them here with her permission.
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- 529 The Takeout Deliveryman Becomes an Emperor 外卖成大帝 He was a food delivery rider in an urban village, dumped, mocked, and ground into the dirt by fate. He gnawed on a cold meat bun in the rain, never knowing that a single time he had helped a stranger change a tire three years earlier was now barreling toward him in the form of five billion yuan. The Heavenly Dao Gratitude System awakened: the 3,021 acts of kindness you've shown over the past three years will be repaid with interest, in ways you could never have imagined. Overnight, he went from 13Reads—Score—14d adds
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Profiling Her, Prejudiced Against Him 侧写她，偏见他
He is a criminal investigation captain who puts evidence above all else. She is a profiler parachuted into the police force. When bizarrely executed copycat murders begin to reappear, she becomes the very sort of armchair theorist he despises. She calmly analyzes criminal psychology, while he trusts only hard evidence from the crime scene and mocks her profiling as fortune-telling. But he doesn't know that she risked everything to infiltrate the police force, all to investigate the truth behin
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A Widow Is Reborn, but Her Proper-Minded Brother-in-Law Insists on Spoiling Her 寡妇重生，守礼大伯偏要宠
The heroine is reborn. Both leads are devoted only to each other. The hero is aloof and proper, and pretends to be impotent despite being the heroine’s uncle by marriage. She falls for his seemingly proper act, and he pursues his wife. [The rating is slowly climbing] In her previous life, Jiang Wanshu was forced by her father to marry into the Marquis’s household holding a memorial tablet, where she was expected to live as a widow. To her surprise, her “deceased husband” returned with his belove
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- 532 Jiang Ziya's Memoirs 姜子牙回忆录 In a nutshell: A hundred-year-old good-for-nothing who can't do anything right is forced by Heaven to appoint 365 gods, yet somehow fails to secure a divine title for himself. Still, he thinks it was worth it. In a little more detail: At seventy-two, Jiang Ziya went up the mountain to study the Dao, but after forty-three years he still hadn't learned a thing. After coming back down, the wind blew away the flour he was trying to sell, a wolf made off with the mutton he was selling, and his butch 16Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Have an Immortal Mountain in the Countryside 我在乡下有座仙山
[Urban cultivation + rural underdog comeback + thrilling wish fulfillment] Zhang Wei, a poor young man from the depths of the mountains, was patient and devoted to his parents from childhood. But on his third-year college birthday, a rich classmate set him up and beat him to death. He thought his life had ended, but a gray stone slab that gathered souls, hidden in a cave in the backyard vegetable garden of his family home, pulled him back from the morgue. It also unexpectedly unlocked a vast tro
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- 534 I Think I'm a Robot 我应该是机器人 Synopsis A long novel blending science fiction, suspense, and everyday comedy, it tells the story of Jiang Qihua, a former programmer who wakes up in a strange world to find seven beautiful women beside him, all claiming to be his “wives.” And that’s only the beginning of a string of absurd events. As the story unfolds, Jiang Qihua gradually discovers the truth: he is a copy of a human consciousness implanted in a robot body. His relationship with his seven robot wives, each with a distinct pers 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 535 I’m Incomprehensible 我深不可测 A good-for-nothing office drone unexpectedly awakens the “Four Keeps” superpower: always leave yourself an out, hold back a little when you speak, keep a backup plan, and don't use up all your good fortune. He only wants to keep his head down and slack off, but the entire company mistakes him for a profound master. Thus begins his hilarious, forced rise to success. Li Buyi originally just wanted to keep being useless, but he discovers that the more he “holds back,” the more absurd things get: · 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 536 Stop Training, You Cultivate Immortality Slower Than I Level Up by Killing Monsters 别练了，你修仙没我杀怪升级快 From the start, a broken body. The ultimate slash slays a god! Every level you break through is a prelude to the Heavenly Dao trembling! Chen Baxian, a man from Earth, has his soul transported to another world, only to become a dying ant at the second level of Qi Refining. His skull is shattered, his spine broken, and as he teeters on the brink of death... “Ding! Game System activated!” Slay demons in the Green Bamboo Snake Valley, smash crocodiles in the Rotbone Marsh! Every battle can turn the 5kReads9.2Score55614d adds
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Awakening of the Soul: The Song of the Rift War 魂觉醒之裂合战歌
On the eighth day of the ninth month, in the autumn of the late Tang, chrysanthemums bloom and all other flowers wither. The setting sun drips blood, smoke from the beacon fires blots out the sky, and horses trample the cracked earth amid utter chaos. Everywhere, blades flash and refugees roam... A down-and-out young man with nowhere else to turn seeks refuge with a fellow townsman, hoping to make something of himself. Instead, he stumbles straight into his enemies' den and nearly loses his life
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I Have No Choice but to Fulfill My Parallel World's Self's Last Wishes 不得不为平行世界的我完成遗愿
After graduating from college, Lin Chao returns to his hometown and remains unemployed, plagued by recurring dreams in which he dreams of nothing. Then one day, he starts dreaming again and learns that he has been chosen as a “fixer of lingering regrets.” He must fulfill the various last wishes of his counterparts in parallel worlds to free them from their obsessions. From then on, Lin Chao is forced to embark on a journey where reality and illusion intertwine.
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- 539 The Handbook of Political Intrigue 权谋手册 If you think this is a serious political-strategy novel, you’re in for a laugh. Li Wudi, a low-level programmer ground down by the 996 work culture, finds a copy of The Handbook of Political Maneuvering beside a trash can. He thinks he’s about to reach the pinnacle of life, only to discover that everything in the book is true, but every trick comes with a catch! He “notices the small signs and predicts the big picture,” foresees his company going under, and spends all night making a ten-page Pow 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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Take Ten Husbands and Torment the Scum Who Ruined My Past Life 纳十夫虐前世渣夫
Tian Mei and her betraying husband, Ma Mingyang, fall together into a bottomless mountain gorge. Their souls travel into the bodies of a young couple in another world where men greatly outnumber women. The female lead is still called Tian Mei, while Ma Mingyang ends up in the body of Li Dashan, a man with a broken leg. From then on, Li Dashan’s life of misery begins. Tian Mei keeps bringing home more husbands, and Li Dashan has to cook for the whole family, wash Tian Mei’s clothes and those of
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When Clouds Tire, When Clouds Clear, the Colorful Clouds Return 云倦云舒彩云归
A former special agent secretly spat out Meng Po's soup out of professional habit and was reborn with memories of her past life. Unfortunately, she ended up with a scumbag father and a mother so lovesick that she pined for her husband and cried all the time. At three, she had to fend for herself, run the household, and care for her bedridden mother, all while looking after herself. She even slipped into a giant iron pot because she was so small and nearly got boiled alive...
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- 542 What If I'm the Savior? 万一我是救世主 An ordinary wage slave who loves saying “what if” is told by a trash-can robot that he’s humanity’s savior. Then, while traveling through time and space, he meets twelve women with wildly different personalities, from modern-day overworked office drones to ancient beauties, from alien princesses to AI goddesses. Some want to save the world, some want to destroy it, and one just wants to ask Wang Dachui, “When are you finally going to pay me back?” 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 543 Li Xiaoyao 李逍遥 My name is Li Xiaoyao. I’m a waiter at the Cloud Come and Go Inn in Yuhang Town, and my greatest dream in life is to make money while lying down. Then a drunken Taoist latched onto me, a fairy moved into my house, and a crazy girl started chasing me around and beating me up. That’s when I realized that fate, the bastard, had dug a huge pit for me long ago. After learning a few sword-flying techniques, I thought I was on my way to the top. But what happened? I escorted a girl home and got chased 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 544 Ji Gong and Yanzhi Join Forces: Solving Injustices Across the Land 道济携手胭脂：专治人间冤案 By the Buddha's decree, she descends to the mortal realm, clad in an elegant fairy gown and carrying a red handkerchief. Yan Zhi descends by imperial command to help Daoji punish evil and uphold good, earning merit along the way. When they meet again outside Lingyin Temple, the words “Yan Zhi is here” awaken the bonds of their past. From then on, Yan Zhi's handkerchief detects and purifies evil spirits and poisons, while Daoji's wine gourd foils sinister schemes and battles demons. A plot hidden 80Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Pen Pusher 笔杆子
Yu Bei, a young official selected for government service, runs into the county's most powerful woman on his very first day at work. She singles me out, and the whole county is stunned. Everyone is waiting to see me make a fool of myself. But I refuse to let her lose. A data discrepancy she couldn't resolve in three days, I found in a single night. I saw through her opponent's schemes before they could unfold. When she was surrounded, I stepped in front of her. “If you want to touch her, you'll
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- 546 The Legacy of the Roots 根的传承 A literary record of four decades of grassroots reform in China From disputes over water and the allocation of land to mining safety reforms and financial innovation, this work depicts how reform took shape on the ground. It is not a grand narrative from official documents, but a close look at concrete problems: a well, a plot of land, a human life. Building a bridge between theory and reality Jiang Qihua says, “I have to read two books at once: one in the classroom, and one across the land of 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 547 The Rise and Fall of Qingniu Town 青牛镇沉浮录 Qingniu Town may be small, but its waters run deep enough to drown a man. Jiang Lin has nowhere left to turn. He must claw his way up through these treacherous waters, stepping on his enemies and the women he loves. This is the story of an ordinary man who fights his way out of the mud, climbing over favors, political schemes, and the shoulders of women, one step at a time, until he reaches the pinnacle of power. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
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Adopted Son, Part Two 过继二
[Wealth + power plays] [Reality + perseverance] [Life + passion] [Love + living] A man must be as tough as iron, but also as resilient as steel. Only then can he face the harshness of reality and the twists of fate, and rise to meet new challenges. I'm Zhao Erhai, and here's my story...
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War God Dad: From the Start, His Daughter Can't Stand Him 战神奶爸：开局被女儿嫌弃
# Urban Fantasy + War God + Devoted Dad + Face-Slapping + Feel-Good Story + Tycoon # When his daughter tearfully said she hated him, Qin Fan, the mercenary emperor known as “Yama,” felt his heart shatter. He secretly returned to his homeland, vowing to make his wife and daughter the most cherished people in the world! The richest man's son tried to force him to his knees? By the next day, the family business was bankrupt and in liquidation! An underworld boss cut off his livelihood? That ver
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Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙
In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s
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