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1 戒 Diary from a Conversion Therapy Center Youthful Years, Thinking of the Brocade Zither29k WordsCompleted 15.2kReads8.2Score2.9kShelves

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It's super sad. It took me a long time to get out of it after watching it.

3 周 Dr. Zhou's Bai Yueguang Is About to Die Shixingque219k WordsCompleted 22.2kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves

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Wen Ci had advanced gastric cancer, and the doctor said that Wen Ci could still live up to twenty years old, and Wen Ci could live for Zhou Ying for thirty days. Wen Ci died on the twenty-seventh day. After his death, Wen Ci left behind twenty-seven unread letters, a rabbit, a book, and a crushed red maple leaf. This book is really cruel

4 任 The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times milieModern Romance20k WordsCompleted 9kReads8.6Score1.6kShelves

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It was so cruel that I couldn't leave for a long time after watching it.

5 用 I Risked My Life to Transmigrate into a Book, and the Whole Internet Begged Me Not to Die Bi Lian448k WordsCompleted 16.4kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves

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Sour and distressed.

6 飞 Flying Eaves and Fleeting Years Holding the Moon and Pillowing the StarsAncient Romance124k WordsOngoing —Reads—Score—Shelves

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My imagination is wide open and I can write wildly. Continue reading.

8 春 Spring Hides Joy Wen Dai Dai233k WordsCompleted 238.3kReads5.8Score5.4kShelves

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"The cruelest thing in the world is that I spend the rest of my life atone for my sins, but you don't even give me a chance."

9 你 You Broke Your Promise Shi QingyaoModern Romance138k WordsCompleted 72.1kReads9.5Score13kShelves

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You broke your promise 1·1. A two-way secret love will eventually become a regret! In high school, Xiang Yu and Song Huaishi made a promise to go to college. However, due to sudden changes in her family, she reluctantly broke up. Nine years later, he got married and had children, and she passed away while supporting the fight against the epidemic. When he stood in front of her grave and said "We are even", he realized that this miss contained the deepest love and pain. The suffocating be aesthetics has so much staying power! Palace Wall Liu 2: The young palace maid who was drafted into the palace originally wanted to be the emperor Bai Yueguang, but she became a "stand-in" trapped in the palace wall. Sisters died one after another, the emperor's favor disappeared, and a decades-long palace scam was revealed, only to be filled with heartbreak! From innocence to despair, watch how the girl spends the rest of her life in a cannibal palace wall as a desolate tragedy. The Branches of Sick Trees Come Again 3·The task was changed to guide Xie Chenzhou, otherwise he would dig coal. Sang Nian was full of confidence, but was decisively killed by Xie Chenzhou. I thought I was going to dig coal, but I didn't expect to be reborn three hundred years later. The new mission is to redeem Xie Chenzhou, who has turned into a villain, and to prevent him from destroying the world. After she died, Mr. Bo knelt in front of the tombstone and cried like a dog. It was only then that Bo Han was shocked to realize his deep love and searched for her like crazy. There was no one with a voice, appearance or personality like her. He only wanted Qiao Yu. He knelt in front of Qiao Yu's tombstone and cried heartbreakingly: "Qiao Yu, please come back. I am willing to make the same mistakes again. This time, you can play with me to death." A sadomasochistic love story that goes from sweetness to breakup to regret. It is so powerful that it is suffocating. Come and experience this ultimate love-hate entanglement!

13 系 System: The Host Is a Succubus, So This Round Is an Easy Win! Dust ChroniclerUrban1.6M WordsCompleted 68.8kReads9.2Score7.6kShelves

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When Prejudice Becomes a Bullet: On the Triple Strangulation of the Death of a Mockingbird On a sweltering summer night in Alabama, Harper Lee's The Death of a Mockingbird is haunted by stifling metaphors. The fall of this innocent creature was not the accidental trajectory of a certain bullet, but the collective trigger pulled by the entire town of Maycomb. When the venom of racial discrimination permeates the judicial system, when group indifference freezes the temperature of human nature, and when moral cowardice erodes individual conscience, the robin is destined to die in the triple rope of the gallows. 1. The Structural Noose of the Judicial System The oak benches of the Maycomb courtroom bear witness to the most absurd justice. When Tom Robinson's left hand shrank like a dead branch and was displayed in front of the jury, the truth had already been distorted under the filter of racial prejudice. The ghost of the Black Codes of the 19th century haunted the courts of the 20th century, and the collective unconsciousness of white supremacy reduced legal documents to fig leaves. Judge Taylor's symbolic gavel merely gave this modern witch hunt a veneer of procedural legitimacy. Prosecutor Gilmore's cross-examination was like a carefully choreographed dance of death. He deliberately emphasizes Tom's "dangerous attraction" to white women, substituting legal arguments for racial intimidation. Among the twelve white jurors, even Mr. Cunningham, who had had a friendly chat with Tom in the store, ultimately voted guilty under group pressure. When the gears of the judicial system turn, they crush not only a certain black worker, but also the moral backbone of the entire society. 2. The suffocation and strangulation of collective silence. The white housewives in Maycomb Town were still stirring sugar cubes elegantly at the afternoon tea party, their silk gloves stained with the blood of silence. The church bells rang as usual, and the cotton models in the shop windows were as white as new, as if the bruises on Tom's wife Helen from being beaten in the fields had never existed. This collective cognitive dissonance constitutes violence more terrifying than the Ku Klux Klan. When Mrs. Dubose curses Atticus with vicious words, the white camellias beside her sickbed bloom with false purity. Miss Stephanie's gossip grows like poison ivy in the hearts of the townsfolk. Even the seemingly upright Sheriff Tate chose to cover up the truth with the lie of "suicide" at the critical moment. These exquisite, decent people weave the robin's shroud with their courteous gestures. 3. The sinking and strangulation of the dark river of human nature. On the night when the mob besieged the prison, the shadow of bestiality danced on the face of the white farmer holding a kerosene lamp. One of them, who had asked Atticus about the land deed last week, was now holding a torch to carry out a lynching. This split personality exposes the terrible face-changing mechanism of human nature: when individuals merge into a group, the thin ice of civilization breaks instantly, revealing the barbaric magma at the bottom. Even Atticus, the symbol of hope, remains trapped in the myth of gradualism. He teaches Scout to use her mind to understand others, but fails to teach her how to fight systemic evil. This intellectual squeamishness evaporated into impotent vapor in the Maycomb heat. When he took off his glasses tremblingly in court, it reflected the powerlessness of the entire era. The robin's dirge never ceases. From Emmett Till to George Floyd, the rope around the neck has simply changed material. When group prejudice is still encoded in the system, when structural violence continues to wear suits and ties, every modern person who remains silent will become an accomplice on the gallows. The bells of the town of Maycomb travel through time and space, still asking every soul who thinks they are innocent: When prejudice becomes a bullet, whose hands are free of gunpowder?

14 乖 I've Been Good Long Enough. This Time, I'm Done Playing Along Success Is CertainModern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted 10.3kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves

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The bad thing is that when I was following up on the update, he felt heartache every time he published a chapter. I really felt sorry for Jiang Xin. The male protagonist also loved Jiang Xin, but he didn't say it. Then gradually, Jiang Xin became afraid of the male protagonist, and the author's writing style is very good [Sending Hearts]

15 二 Erha and His White Cat Master Meat Bun Won't Eat Meat1.4M WordsCompleted 116.7kReads9.7Score22.6kShelves

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Super sadistic, rebirth + secret love + master and apprentice, I really cried every time I watched it, two lives, two lives, and many twists and turns before they came together, you must watch it!

16 别 Stop Scrolling, Bro! This Streamer Isn’t Here to Perform Blue ChalkUrban1.8M WordsCompleted 157.9kReads9.4Score14.8kShelves

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It's a bit funny and the book is short of books. You can make a transition.

17 世 The World Sinks into Eternal Night, Civilization Drowns in the Light of the Stars Anti-StaticUrban1.7M WordsOngoing 23.3kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves

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Despite the low rating, it's really good.

18 乡 The Country Doctor’s Good Life A Stone BloomsUrban3.6M WordsOngoing 66.6kReads8.9Score3.8kShelves

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Realizing the true meaning of life is to constantly pursue dreams and happiness

20 陛 Your Majesty, What If You Go Through Fire and Water in Your Life? Courier BoyHistorical153k WordsOngoing 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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I highly recommend this book. The more it gets better, the better it gets. Later on it made me sad. I haven't felt this way in a long time.

21 大 Da Qin: Is This Rebellion? This Is Progress! Tiny Little Gray CatHistorical1.4M WordsOngoing 504Reads8.2Score101Shelves

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Books containing Qin Shihuang are always number one.

22 她 She Stopped Comforting Him Autumn ChillModern Romance308k WordsCompleted 89.5kReads9.6Score15.6kShelves

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The story of Jiang Qiao and Xu Si. Jiang Qiao was terminally ill and her life stopped at the age of 18. She knew that she was going to die, so she could only refuse Xu Si's confession. Their love ended before it really started, full of regret and helplessness.

24 嘎 I’m Going Wild Without a Care, Let Me Enjoy My Idleness in the Imperial Ancestral Temple Not Dim-Witted After Waking UpModern Romance2.6M WordsCompleted 117.3kReads9.6Score13.3kShelves

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Brother Yinzi, the eternal god! ! !

25 老 The Con Artist Ma XiaohuUrban3.2M WordsOngoing 53.5kReads9.5Score6.5kShelves

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It's a very nice book. I recommend everyone to read it.

26 深 Hidden in Late Winter Autumn ChillModern Romance351k WordsCompleted 3.3kReads9.3Score798Shelves

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I couldn't let it go for a long time after reading it. I cried so much that I cried like two packs of paper. This is definitely a sad ceiling article.

28 潇 The Sound of Rain Is Late Meng ZhiwanModern Romance120k WordsCompleted 115.1kReads9.7Score17.2kShelves

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The emotions are delicate and cruel to the extreme - Ye Xiao's secret love is resonant, and her regret is like a thorn that sticks in the readers' hearts for a long time. There are multiple versions of the story to satisfy different preferences - whether it is youth sadomasochism, fantasy fate, or real-life marital crisis, you can find a version that touches you. The characterization is profound - the protagonist's struggle, growth and helplessness make the story full of reality.

29 书 Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them Sunlight on the RiverHistorical834k WordsOngoing 36.3kReads9.4Score3.2kShelves

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This kind of book is especially suitable for people who are culturally literate and know some poetry. Quotes many famous quotes and poems.

30 蚀 A Love That Cuts to the Bone Qi Lao YouModern Romance753k WordsCompleted 168.4kReads9.2Score14.8kShelves

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This is really torturing you, believe me [cry][cry][cry]

31 悲 A Sorrowful Secret Crush Beimu LiuguangModern Romance135k WordsCompleted 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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1. "Sad Secret Love" belongs to the literature of redemption, secret love, and campus abuse 2. "Summer with Arbors and a Look at Heaven" Qu Weiran is a young man with excellent academic performance but suffering from domestic violence. He loves Xia Tong, but his half-brother Qu Ningyuan also likes Xia Tong. Qu Weiran takes revenge for love, and a conspiracy in the name of love begins. The story is full of helplessness and sadness. 3. "Blooming Pinellia" tells a story about a boy's past in 1999. Characters such as Ruhua and Rufeng experienced a series of complex emotions and encounters from birth to death, from pure love to original sin, and ultimately could not escape the lamentable ending.

33 梧 Wutong Lane Song Che Doesn't Eat FishModern Romance174k WordsCompleted 35.3kReads9.6Score7.8kShelves

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The first book [Bright and kind girl Ning Wan VS gentle genius boy Song Qingyan] Song Qingyan, you must be happy with Ning Wan in your next life! The author's writing is very good, and it's really easy to cry. In the second book, "The person I hate the most is Ruan Yusheng" and "The person I like the most is also Ruan Yusheng" the author writes about secret love very delicately. The third book "I have to do all the secret love scenes, so I fell in love with him year after year" is also very tear-jerking.

34 修 The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One Paper TigerAncient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted 215.8kReads9.7Score25.1kShelves

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When the modern venomous emotional blogger Lin Du was so enraged by the "Love Brain" novel that he had a heart attack, when he opened his eyes, he turned out to be the most talented and sickly uncle in the world of cultivation, but his life was hanging by a thread! The system forced her to save the group of nephews from her sect who "dig wild vegetables for love" in exchange for life-extending pills, but who would have thought that this system was actually a trap laid by her in her previous life?

35 开 First Day of School, and I Have a God-Tier Tycoon System. Seems Fair Papaya Who Likes Reading While Lying DownUrban3.7M WordsCompleted 40.8kReads7.7Score5.2kShelves

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It's so cruel [crying][crying][crying] I shed tears watching it

39 最 The Last Diary Entry SuiyingModern Romance13k WordsCompleted 30.3kReads9.1Score5.3kShelves

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The ultimate BE aesthetics: unable to love, a combination of circumstances, full of sense of fate, the tear harvester is a real hammer!

42 惹 Bewitching the Golden Branch Kong LiuAncient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted 230kReads9.7Score28.1kShelves

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Love and growth in the whirlpool of power and conspiracy, "Provoking the Golden Branch" is so enjoyable 📖"Provoking the Golden Branch" | Kongliu | Completed✅ 📚This ancient proverb about conspiracy is really too good! At the beginning of the book, I was attracted by the "disaster star" setting of the heroine who was unexpectedly born. She was born with lightning, thunder, and floods. It was said that the disaster star came to the world, and she "died young" at the age of three. Fifteen years later, her family was wronged, and she was determined to return for revenge. She joined forces with Yan Shi'an, the orphan from the previous dynasty, and embarked on a thrilling journey to seize the throne. 💃The heroine Shi Bu Yu is called Sa! Unparalleled in resourcefulness, live a free and easy life. She is not a weak woman in the traditional sense. She can not only strategize in the court, but also maintain a childlike innocence in life, and is a glutton for delicious food. The contrast is full of cuteness. Relying on her wisdom and courage, she planned step by step to help the male protagonist grow up and clear the grievances of her family. 👦The male protagonist Yan Shian, as an orphan from the previous dynasty, is burdened with a heavy mission of revenge and grows up in depression. The appearance of the heroine is like a ray of light shining into his dark world, teaching him to resist and demand, turning him from a revenge puppet into a flesh-and-blood person with a heart for the world. 💕The emotional lines between the male and female protagonists are really great! From the initial cooperation to mutual understanding and mutual redemption, there were no bloody misunderstandings and quarrels, but only a tacit understanding of working together and a long-lasting warmth. Especially the male protagonist's cautious attempts to get closer to the female protagonist, that kind of ambiguous pull, makes the girl's heart burst. 🎭This book is also a group portrait, and the supporting characters are also amazing! The heroine's eleven senior brothers all possess unique skills, and their appearance adds a lot of surprises to the story. There is also Master Whitebeard, who is cynical on the surface but is actually far-sighted. Twenty years ago, he was changing the layout of the country. 📜The novel has a large pattern. It not only contains wonderful power struggles, but also contains profound feelings about family and country, showing the idea that "the people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important". The author's writing style is excellent, and the plots are intertwined. Multiple branches such as court disputes, folk sufferings, and the friendship between masters and apprentices are intertwined to build a huge and realistic ancient world. Those of you who like Machiavellian ancient romances, heroine stories, and group portrait stories, don't miss "Messing Up the Golden Bough"! I read it in one go, it was really enjoyable! # Machiavellian # #AGNOOK NOVEL #jinzhi

43 找 When You Find Your Long-Lost Fiancé, He Has Become Someone Else's Lover Hot and Sour Rice Noodles16k WordsCompleted 53Reads5.8Score102Shelves

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Huge, huge, huge abuse, it doesn't count if you don't cry!

45 寒 Mr. Han, Your Wife Really Is Dead This Time Mu YinModern Romance778k WordsCompleted 3.8kReads8.6Score270Shelves

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The plot of this book is ups and downs and exciting. The emotional lines between the male and female protagonists are so stretched that people can't get enough of it

46 十 The End of Ten Days Pest Control Team MemberMystery3.2M WordsCompleted 1.8MReads9.9Score209.4kShelves

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My name is Qi Xia, and I started to lie. I am an old bookworm for more than ten years. It has been a long time since I read a book that made my eyes light up. Every character in it is very well portrayed. Qiao Jiajin, the red stick with double flowers, and Chen Junnan, the shit-stirring stick. I am the protagonist Han Yimo. Planning Chu Tianqiu... The story plot is very compact, which makes me feel the joy of chasing books again. This book needs to be read seriously, it is very interesting. Finally, Long live the Ji Dao.

47 无 No One Came to Save Her from the Deep Liang ShiqiModern Romance135k WordsCompleted 18.6kReads8.9Score3.9kShelves

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This was strongly recommended by my friend. My friend has finished reading it. She told me that it was very interesting, but since I have a low tear point, I took it lightly.

50 诡 The Haunted House The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted 693kReads9.6Score83.1kShelves

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"The Strange House" is a highly popular suspenseful thriller novel originally created by the Tomato platform and written by the author "The Sound of Storm and Rain at Night". Starting from "The Cursed Bus", the work integrates supernatural escape, team game and Micro-Cthulhu elements. With its dense high-energy reversal and immersive horror atmosphere, it has become a suspenseful phenomenon. --- ### **Basic information** - **Type**: Suspense, supernatural, infinite flow, micro-thriller - **Rating**: 9.7 Points (160,000 reviews, word-of-mouth explosion) - **Status**: Completed (2.093 Million words, super long) - **Reading volume**: 1.019 Million people are reading --- ### **Core setting and plot** - **The Curse Begins**: The protagonist group boarded "a bus without a driver" for different reasons, and were sent to a different space called "The Trickster House", and were forced to participate in a survival game where their lives were the bet. - **Unlimited missions**: - Each copy corresponds to a treacherous house (such as an abandoned hospital, a theater of the Republic of China, a deep-sea cruise ship, etc.), And you need to crack the rules, avoid supernatural pursuits, or complete specific tasks. - The dungeon combines folk customs and ghost stories (such as "Red Wedding Dress" and "Human Skin Lantern") and horror (such as the indescribable gaze), with rich levels of horror. - **Single female protagonist**: The identity of the female protagonist is a mystery, and she and the male protagonist go from suspicion to symbiosis, and gradually reveal her connection with the origin of the "Trick House", and the emotional line hides the reversal of life and death. --- ### **Highlights of the work** 1. **High-density suspense**: The dungeon design is interlocking, and the rules-based death and human game are intertwined. Settings such as "those who tell the truth will have their tongues cut off" and "closing their eyes will trigger a chase" are spine-chilling. 2. **Cthulhu Flavor**: Some scenes use "unable to look directly" and "indescribable" descriptions to create deep psychological fear, surpassing traditional jump scares. 3. **Group Portraits**: The supporting cast has distinct personalities (such as gamblers, psychics, antisocial geniuses), and multiple perspectives show the fall or redemption in desperate situations. --- ### **Reader evaluation** - **Positive feedback**: - "The setting is very interesting, I couldn't stop reading it halfway through!" - Most readers recognized the creativity and logical rigor of the copy. - "Horrifying and exciting, highly recommended!" - The horror atmosphere is well rendered, suitable for readers who pursue adrenaline. - **Controversial Points**: - The rhythm in the later part of the super long novel is slightly weak, and some copies repeat routines, but the overall shortcomings are not concealed. --- ### **Physical Book Features** - **Supplementary Content**: Added a new chapter "Origin of the Tricky House" to reveal the identity of the bus driver and the reasons for the formation of the space. - **Visual Design**: The cover uses the silhouette of a blood-fog bus and a shady house as the main visual, with a copy of the scene concept map included to enhance the immersive experience. --- ### **Suitable for the crowd** - Fans of unlimited streams and rules-based ghost stories, readers who prefer the styles of "Kaleidoscope of Death" and "Thriller Paradise". - Suspense fans who can withstand high-intensity thrillers and require rigorous logic. --- ### **Summary** "The House" begins with a creative start of "a curse bus" heading towards endless horror, using 2.09 Million words to weave a large web covering oriental folk customs and grammatical fears. It is not only a carnival of survival games, but also a microscope of the light and darkness of human nature. If you are eager to experience the pleasure of "numbing your scalp and being unable to stop" late at night, before you swipe left to read, please make sure that the doors and windows are locked and the lights are on.