I've Been Asking for It Lately. I Want to Read a Tragic Story 最近有点自讨苦吃，想看虐文
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I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月
[The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian
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After She Died, Lord Bo Knelt Before Her Tombstone and Cried Like a Dog 她死后，薄爷跪在墓碑前哭成狗
Six years ago Qiao Yu was a pampered, spoiled heiress who had never lifted a finger around the house. Bo Hanshi was a poor, lonely, and aloof scholar from a humble family, wearing a cheap white shirt. Six years later Qiao Yu is a single mother struggling to make ends meet, humble and alone. Bo Hanshi is a distinguished figure on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, elegant and peerless. When they meet again, his eyes bloodshot, he presses close to her ear and says bitterly, “Qiao Yu, I
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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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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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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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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
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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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Uncle, Your Clingy Little Sweetheart Is Crying and Wants a Cuddle 大叔，你的娇气包哭了要贴贴
(Both leads are each other's first and only love + sweet romance + healing) Si Boheng, heir to the most powerful family in Kyoto, had never been in a relationship by the age of thirty. Outsiders speculated that either something was wrong with his body or he had the wrong orientation, until a very young Mrs. Si suddenly appeared in the family. Rumor had it that the young Mrs. Si was still in college. It was also said that she'd deliberately played the poor, pitiful victim in a bar to seduce Mr.
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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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Mr. Gu, Stop Tormenting Me! Your Wife Drank the Potion of Forgetfulness! 顾总别虐了，夫人喝了忘情水！
Gu Lancheng adopted a very obedient little thing. If he told her to go east, she wouldn't dare go west. She saw him as her whole world and loved him with all her heart. But for the sake of his moonlight, he took one of her kidneys. Years later, she stood at the top and met him again at the height of his success. He said, “I regret letting you leave me!” She said, “I’ve never regretted leaving you!”
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Ode to White Hair 白头赋
In a daze, she seemed to see that young man again, standing in the spring sunshine as he asked her: “Do you have feelings for me?”
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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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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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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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The Maid 丫鬟
!!! The heroine is an ordinary person. Although she transmigrates, she has no special abilities of any kind!!! Please bear in mind the differences between social classes in ancient times. Don't assume that a transmigrated heroine means this is a wish-fulfillment story. This is a tragic romance!!! [Tragedy warning, read with caution. The male lead really is cold and heartless. A warning for a deranged male lead!] He is the master, and you are a servant. Your stations in life are worlds apart. Wha
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Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠
She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back.
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Young Master, You’ve Got the Wrong Grave 公子，你找错坟了
Only that day did I understand: Zhou Qing married me solely as part of a scheme to claim the throne.
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I Once Promised You a Golden Age of Joy 我曾许你盛世欢颜
Ye Chen waits for his Mrs. Ye, from the days when youth was like a dream until her hair turns white as snow. But he will never know that his Mrs. Ye was buried long ago in that rotten, muddy grave...
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I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Waiting for You 余生只待你
In high school, Bai Zhi and Lin Yu became classmates. Back then, Bai Zhi was rebellious and willful, a troublesome student who gave her teachers headaches. After an encounter in a downpour, Lin Yu saw through her pain, and the two became close friends. They were accepted into the same university and promised to start there together. Before they could enroll, Lin Yu learned that Bai Zhi was the daughter of the mastermind behind a kidnapping case that had once shocked the entire city. He had been
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Quick Transmigration: Your Supporting Lady Has Died Again 快穿之你的女配又挂了
[The strongest System hands out rewards! Quick transmigration + System + sweet romance + one-on-one] Su Yue Bai was a prolific romance novelist barely known to anyone. She had always worked diligently, spoiling her heroines and tormenting her supporting women. But she never expected karma to catch up with her one day... What?! The supporting women had actually pooled their money to send her into the worlds of her own books, forcing her to experience their miserable lives and all the creative wa
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The Scumbag Can't Have Me, Quick Transmigration 渣男对我求而不得【快穿】
After a car accident leaves her in a vegetative state, Lin Ruo is forced to bind herself to the Scumbag System and begins a masochistic quest to cling to the scumbag’s coattails. First World The scumbag emperor destroys her family and leaves her to die in a sea of flames in order to seize military power. After she dies, the emperor undergoes a dramatic change in personality and spends more than a decade consumed by regret. Lin Ruo rolls her eyes in disdain. [Scumbag Experience: 10%] Second World
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Quick Transmigration: The Universally Disliked Fight to Become the No. 1 Fan Favorite 快穿：万人嫌争做人气角色No1
After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi
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Cool Spring Branches and Autumn Rain 春枝秋雨凉
To marry him, she lost her eyesight, only to be met with even greater hatred in his eyes. After losing their child, her heart finally died, and she decided to leave. She set him free and let herself go, but he went mad...
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The Hedgehog Principle 刺猬法则
Su Qing and Gu Ran end up living under the same roof because their parents absurdly decide to switch partners. The two stepsiblings, who aren't related by blood, discover each other and find themselves irresistibly drawn together. When they realize that they truly love each other, they also discover a chasm between them that seems impossible to cross. What will they do in the end? Will they be brave, or will they back down?
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Turns Out You Like Me Too 原来你也喜欢我
Ji Wanran had secretly loved Jian Yunxi for years. At last, her wish came true and she married him, but married life was so uneventful that it nearly wore away all her passion. But she never expected… Ji Wanran: “Jian Yunxi, does your face hurt? Weren’t you the one who said you saw me as a little sister?” Jian Yunxi: “…I was wrong.” Fine. For the sake of that face of yours, I’ll reluctantly forgive you. The most wonderful thing in the world is probably this: it turns out you like me too.
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Military Romance: The Ironclad Officer’s Uninhibited Love 军恋，铁汉军官的放肆宠爱
[Special forces soldier + cardiothoracic surgeon, told from both leads' perspectives. Both are inexperienced, she pursues him first, feelings grow over time, sweet romance] After a life-changing incident, Yan Yi became a different person. She later quit her job and moved to the deserts of the northwest. Half a year after arriving in Xicheng, she was still living a quiet, peaceful life. Then a handsome, stern-faced man moved into the apartment upstairs. Somehow, she got caught up in a storm of
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Mr. He, You Are My Forever 贺先生，我的余生都是你
At their first meeting, she felt her heart flutter. At their second, he felt sorry for her. At their third, his heart began to stir. After that, fate took its natural course. The red thread tied by the Matchmaker tugged them together, while his little schemes brought him to her side. [PS: This is a sweet, doting romance]
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I Got Pregnant, Then My Husband Returned After Three Years Away 怀孕后，三年未见的老公回来了
[Male obstetrician ✘ Female psychological counselor] Rekindled love ➕ He pursues her after driving her away ➕ Adorable child makes an appearance ➕ One misunderstanding after another... On the day Qiao Mo and Xiao Zheyan marry on impulse, he's urgently called back and spends the next three years in a laboratory. His mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she asks Qiao Mo to use the sperm Xiao Zheyan previously had frozen to conceive and have a child. But just after Qiao Mo becomes pregnant
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I've Secretly Loved You for Years 偷偷喜欢你很多年
[Complete] [Mutual secret crush + devoted to each other + eight-year age gap + extremely sweet romance + growing up together] Tsundere, celibate CEO uncle VS beautiful young jewelry designer (1) The first time they met, she was six months old and he was eight. She cried and drew a map on his pants. From then on, a little girl kept clinging to him. (2) Fu Jin's story: They realized their feelings when she was sixteen and he was twenty-four. He wanted to make that girl his and his alone. The love
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My Scumbag Ex's Uncle Spoils Me Rotten, So What's Wrong with Being a Little Arrogant? 被渣男小叔宠入骨，我嚣张一点怎么了？
[The real and fake heiresses + long-laid plans + the second male lead wins her heart + a groveling ex + marriage before love] Fang Li stayed by Gu Mingzhou's side for seven years, but he sent her to prison with his own hands over a single word from the fake heiress. On the day she was released, he came to warn her. “Has prison taught you to behave? From now on, be a decent person and stop competing with Yuxin. She's nothing like a woman like you.” Fang Li broke off their engagement and turned ar
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Nightfall 入夜
The door opened, and a tall, slender man stepped out. Lin Mian stared at him, dumbstruck, forgetting even to snap out of it. “What are you looking at, hmm?”
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Imprisoned by Love 困爱成囚
Rumor has it that Gu Yansheng, the adopted daughter of the Gu family, had loved the Ninth Master of the Lu family in the imperial capital for years. He couldn't stand her, and for the sake of the woman he cherished, he sent her to prison and had her tortured for five whole years. But no one expected that when the Ninth Master eventually married, his bride would be none other than Gu Yansheng, the woman with a prison record! Everyone eagerly awaited the spectacle, expecting to see how the Ninth M
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Young Master Ye, Stop Tormenting Me. Your Wife Is Already Gone 夜少别虐了，夫人已尸骨无存
[Elite Family Tragedy | Obsessive Love | CEO’s Regretful Pursuit | Faked Death and Rebirth]“Su Yan, a wicked woman like you might as well be dead.” Su Yan had loved Ye Xiaohan for twelve years, but Ye Xiaohan despised her in every way. Su Yan thought that one day, Ye Xiaohan would realize how good she was, but he continued to hurt her without restraint. After suffering endless humiliation and abuse, and even having the child they shared taken away from her... Su Yan finally understood that Ye Xi
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Madam, Lord Zuo Is Coming Home Tonight 太太，左爷今晚回来过夜
Two years into our marriage, his scandals kept piling up. I consulted all kinds of fortune-tellers, and every reading said I could only have a child with this man... So Shen An'an tried every trick in the book to seduce him, but nothing worked! At last, she resolved to divorce him and stopped hoping he would come home. As for having a child, if fate said she couldn't have one, she could always adopt! And yet... “Young Madam, Young Master will be home tonight...”
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After We Moved In Together, My Celibate Older Man Spoils Me Until I'm Addicted 同居后，禁欲大叔宠她日日上瘾
Pure love, sweet romance, healing, CEO Fang Lijiu was working at a bar when she got drunk and lost her virginity. She thought she would never see that man again. Who could have guessed that a month later, she would discover she was pregnant? As she struggled to decide whether to keep the baby, her mother fell ill. She worked hard to make ends meet, only to run into that man again. To her surprise, he wanted to marry her. He even helped find a kidney donor for her mother and gave her a sum of mon
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I Can't Take It Anymore: My Powerful Boss Is Bullying Me Again 顶不住了，豪门上司又要虐我
Fang Mian has been Gu Tingye's secret lover for three years. She thought she could slowly warm his heart. But in the end, he still abandoned her. She's always known when to take something and when to let it go. She turns around and walks out of his life for good. When she starts going on blind dates with other people... Gu Tingye pins her in a corner like a madman. “No one but me is allowed to touch you!”
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President Li, Your Wife Doesn't Want to Remarry and Secretly Had Your Baby 厉总，夫人不想复婚还偷生你的崽
Jiang Tong had just finalized her divorce when she discovered she was pregnant. [Di Jing Group CEO Li Jingchen has officially returned to Nandi City today.] In just a few years, her once penniless ex-husband had made it big. Jiang Tong hurriedly hid the little boy who looked exactly like his father. She couldn't keep him hidden, so she had no choice but to flee with her son. The man in a tailored suit blocked the doorway and grabbed her wrist. "Where do you think you're taking my kid? Hmm?!" - M
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Lord Huo, There's a Little Kid at the Police Station Claiming to Be Your Son 霍爷，警局有个小奶娃说是你儿子
[The adapted short dramas “Mr. Huo, There’s a Little Kid Who Says He’s Your Son” and “The Adorable Baby Is Spoiled Rotten” are now available on Hongguo APP] [Face-slapping satisfaction, two powerful leads, pure love] A soft, adorable little boy sobbed uncontrollably at police headquarters, accusing his parents of being heartless and neglectful, and even filing a complaint against his own mother and father. We’ve all seen kids throw their fathers under the bus, but never their mothers. Are you su
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Rapturous Bliss 酣欢
[Glamorous, pampered, willful heiress × wild, abstinent B-king bodyguard] Miss, can you tell me how you picked me out from among all those bodyguards? The Xie family's heiress was born into a life of luxury and splendor. Bold and uninhibited, she had a pair of seductive fox eyes that could captivate anyone. “He's handsome, he's got a great body, and he looks like my future boyfriend.” The handsome, stern man bent down on one knee and held her pale jade ankle as he put on her high heels. “Too bad
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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 Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇
[Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co
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Reborn as a Mad Princess: The Moon Shines Over the Western Tower 重生狂妃之明月罩西楼
In her previous life, Jiang Mingyue, daughter of a great general, took blows and shed blood for the Great Yin dynasty. She lived a passionate life and died a passionate death. So when she got another chance at life, she decided to stop making waves. She chose the rich, titled Zhao Xilou, a veteran slacker, as her husband, intending to while away her days with Lord Zhao, eating and waiting to die. But after becoming a Zhao, Jiang Mingyue discovered that her slacker husband might have no ambition
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If the Male Lead Is Out of Reach, the Villain Is a Better Deal 不是男主要不起，反派更有性价比
The short drama adaptation of Quick Transmigration: Spoiled and Cherished is now available on Fanqie, the comic is out, and a print edition is in the works. Please show your support. [Sweet romance + yandere, one-on-one] To stay alive, Sheng Nuan must transmigrate into different worlds, play doomed cannon fodder, and save the darkest villains. They're cold-blooded, obsessive, and ruthless, capable of leaving a million corpses in their wake with a laugh and destroying the world with a wave of the
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After Transmigration, Her Whole Family Are Villains 穿越之我全家都是反派
Content warning: Lots of crude bathroom humor. Don't read while eating. Version One: Jiang Mianmian transmigrates. Her father is a scheming scholar with the face of a kindly man. Her mother has the face of a bodhisattva and the heart of a ruthless killer. Her eldest brother looks simple-minded but is cunning at heart. Her second sister is selfish and sharp-tongued. They were born destined to be villains. To highlight the protagonist's justice, kindness, and greatness, they work hard to do all so
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About the Summer We Have Left 关于我们剩下的盛夏
[This is a tragic story. It starts out very sweet, but the latter half centers on an ending full of regrets. If you don't like tragic stories, please don't click.] Not everyone gets their wish. Shen Qingtang certainly didn't. The famous comic artist Shen Qingtang recently got a new neighbor across the hall: the person she had secretly loved in high school. Jiang Yanli. His name was so familiar, and to Shen Qingtang, their long-awaited reunion felt like a blessing. But at the same time, Shen Qing
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