Any Books That Hook You Right from the Start?! 有没有开篇就超级吸引人的书？！！

1. 201 此 Journey West 此去西行 User36859979用户36859979Urban46k WordsCompleted Also known as Journey to the West in the Military. This novella explores marriage, love, faith, character, filial piety, perseverance, and development. Through the story of a young man from the countryside who joins the army and endures a half lifetime of hardships as he grows up in western China, along with his tangled relationships with three women, the novel reveals the profound impact of national policies on people's faith, livelihoods, love and marriage, childbearing, elder care, and the ru 111Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Contemporary military and police novels, realistic biographical literature. A military wedding in a military academy, a date between a soldier and a beautiful woman. Romantic love story, poignant and touching plot. The beginning is fascinating, the ending is heart-wrenching!

2. 202 旧 Old Stories, New Beginnings 旧故新长 Poetry Without Tea诗无茶Two Male Leads102k WordsCompleted A hugely popular, tearjerking yet heartwarming novel about two men, death and rebirth, falling and redemption. The vulnerable young man with depression, Li Chishu × the gentle, devoted Shen Baoshan For years, Li Chishu’s attempts to take his own life failed, thanks to me pulling him back from the brink time and time again. But I never imagined his resolve to leave this world was so absolute. At last, on a night when I wasn’t watching closely enough, he jumped from the building. I couldn’t reach 25.3kReads9.8Score2.2kShelves

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   This is a novel that travels back in time and heals people's hearts. It's so beautiful. I felt warm after reading it.

3. 203 别 Stop Calculating, You Little Brat! I’m Begging You on My Knees, Isn’t That Enough? 别算了活爹！给你跪了还不行嘛 Xia Tianbao夏甜宝Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Fortune-Telling Livestream + Pampered by Everyone + Going Wild at Any Moment, Anywhere + The Siblings Who Chased Her Are Left to Burn in Ashes] In her previous life, Chu Jiaojiao went to great lengths to win over the Chu family, all so they would say “Happy birthday” on her fifteenth birthday, completing the System's task and allowing her to live to a hundred. But they wouldn't even say those four words. Chu Jiaojiao failed the task and was sent to another world to do backbreaking labor. Reborn 8.1kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
4. 204 穿 Transmigrated to the Beast World: After Binding to a Childbearing System, I Became Everyone's Darling 穿兽世：绑定生子系统后被团宠了 Luo Luobing洛洛冰Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Sweet romance + adored by everyone + comedy + multiple male leads + 1v21 + childbearing System Lin Qingqing transmigrates into the body of a white fox and is forcibly bound to a childbearing System. To earn enough points to return to the cultivation world and save someone, Lin Qingqing decides to throw her shame out the window. What's so scary about taking a mate and having cubs? When she returns to the fox clan, Lin Qingqing gives birth to more than ten cubs in one litter, shaking the entire be 2.5kReads8.6Score305Shelves
5. 205 天 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 Long Life and Prosperity寿比南山Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 139.6kReads9.2Score14.1kShelves
6. 206 玄 The Mystic Girl Says You’ll Die at Three in the Morning. Pay Up to Change Your Fate 玄学少女说你三更死，打钱改命 Brown Sugar Cake红糖糕Modern Romance540k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + satisfying read + lighthearted + sweet romance + CEO + wealthy family + no angst] After enduring a tribulation, Wu Yin is struck by lightning and sent back to the twenty-first century. With no money to her name, she can only set up a fortune-telling stall online. She tells fortunes, catches ghosts, and treats illnesses. If you can pay, she’ll take the job. “Master, if you’re really any good, tell me where my daughter, who was kidnapped years ago, 67.4kReads9.4Score84.7kShelves
7. 207 团 The Jiang Family's Beloved Little Daughter Can Work Immortal Magic 团宠之蒋家小女会仙法 March in Fragrant Bloom三月含芳菲Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Space + Cultivation + Farming + Beloved by the whole family + Medicine Big news! Big news! The people of Qingzhou spread the word far and wide. The Jiang clan of Xijindu, where no girl had been born in two hundred years, had welcomed a baby girl. They say the little girl was born blessed with tremendous good fortune. On the day she was born, rain fell from the heavens upon the land, which had suffered a prolonged drought. A few days after her birth, the family elders went hunting in the mountain 45.3kReads9.5Score5.9kShelves
8. 208 玄 The Young Lady of Metaphysics Reads the Fortune of the Entire Capital 玄学大小姐，算翻全京城 Liu Qicheng柳七橙Ancient Romance432k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + harem intrigue + regret arc + punishing scumbags] Ji Xingnian transmigrates into the body of a pitiful girl abandoned by her family. The girl has been reborn, too, but her last life was so miserable that she gave up on being reborn and chose reincarnation instead. In exchange, Ji Xingnian must avenge her. Going over the poor girl's memories of her past life, Ji Xingnian thinks, Oh dear, this revenge is going to be a little difficult. Her mother favors her maternal cousin, her fat 1.5kReads8.5Score176Shelves
9. 209 七 The Lucky Little Girl of the 1970s: Three Years Old and a Master Fortune-Teller 七零福宝三岁半，能掐也会算 Lotus Root Starch藕粉Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Beloved child of the era + adorable young mystic] The Zhang family of Dawa Village longs for a grandson, so they abandon their own granddaughter, Fubao, deep in the mountains. But little Fubao is rescued by a Taoist temple, where she learns mystical arts. Two years later, she returns... Her biological father has remarried, her unconscious mother has been married off, and her grandmother stands with hands on hips, yelling, “Get lost, you bringer of bad luck!” Without a second thought, the Gu fam 544Reads9.2Score143Shelves
10. 210 吃 Everyday Gossip: My Fortune-Telling Is Spot-On 吃瓜日常：我算卦很灵 Northeastern Cicada Nymph东北知了猴Modern Romance728k WordsCompleted [Mysticism + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Episodic Stories + All Kinds of Gossip + No Romance] Ever since Song Ci got hit by something thrown from a high-rise, a whole lot of knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind. Fortune-telling, face-reading, avoiding misfortune and attracting good luck, dispelling negative energy and boosting prosperity, attracting wealth, feng shui and geomancy… Everything he’d once thought mysterious and unfathomable came to him as if by instinct. From then on, a little 15.7kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
11. 211 我 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 Super Big Tank Kobe超级大坦克科比Urban2.1M WordsCompleted After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem. 125.7kReads9.7Score14kShelves

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    When idealists meet "atypical" shared living. An old house brings together the collision of two worlds. She lives under his roof with a 26-year-old secret. One is a designer who is beaten by reality but clings to her feelings, and the other is a "ghost" tenant who stays around day and night, and whose whereabouts are a mystery. From mutual dislike to late-night conversations, from the rules of urban survival to the unfinished poetry of life, this unexpected cohabitation healed whose loneliness, and what kind of past events was revealed?

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