Great Books That Can Improve Your Skills in Every Area 能提升自己各种水平的好书
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- 51 How to Start from Nothing and Quickly Make a Million 如何白手起家,快速从0赚到百万 How to Start from Nothing and Make Your First Million Fast When I had just 63 yuan in my pocket, I crouched outside my apartment complex, eating a steamed bun. Rent was due in five days. I had no job, no connections, and even my friends turned me down when I asked to borrow 500 yuan. With nowhere else to turn, I ran errands for Auntie Zhang, buying and delivering groceries for a two-yuan fee. I made five yuan per delivery for a supermarket. Later, I joined relatives back home making pickled ve 57Reads—Score—14d adds
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Financial Freedom: The Secret to Making Big Money for Ordinary People 财务自由:普通人赚大钱的秘诀
This book offers a detailed guide to one question: How can ordinary people make money and build wealth? It’s aimed at ordinary people with humble beginnings and no connections, and breaks down the methods and paths to making a fortune in detail. No empty talk, no vague generalities, no unrealistic platitudes, and nothing fanciful. It’s practical and down-to-earth. The advice is actionable and easy to learn and imitate. It takes an in-depth look at a wide range of cases where ordinary people turn
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- 53 The Legend of Meiling: Three Years of Guerrilla Warfare in the South 梅岭传奇——南方三年游击战争 On October 13, the Central Bureau and the Central Government Office convened a meeting in Ruijin of the key officials from the former Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the central government departments who had remained in the Soviet Area, announcing the establishment of the Central Bureau and the Central Government Office. The Central Bureau initially consisted of five members: Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Chen Tanqiu, He Chang, and Qu Qiubai. Deng Zihui, Zhang Dingcheng, Tan Zhenlin 268Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 54 Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution (1937–1949) 毁灭的种子:战争与革命中的国民党中国(1937-1949) Why did the Kuomintang fail? This was a question that sparked long-running debate among international historians after the Kuomintang regime fell in 1949, and it remains an issue well worth reflecting on in the development of modern China. Drawing on a wide range of Kuomintang sources, Professor Lloyd Eastman applied a method akin to that used by geologists to study the formation of the Earth, selecting several representative cases to offer a penetrating analysis of the reasons. The author argue 208Reads9.3Score10914d adds
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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Notes from the Western Expedition 西征随笔
Notes from the Western Expedition is a collection of essays written by the Qing dynasty literatus Wang Jingqi during his journey west in 1724, the second year of the Yongzheng reign. The book comprises around 35,000 characters. Following the author's route from Hebei to Xi'an in Shaanxi, it weaves together his observations along the way, encounters with people, depictions of society, and accounts of historical events. Its scope is broad and its style meticulous, combining documentary value with
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- 57 After Divorce and Debt, I Make a Living Against the Odds Through Beauty 离婚负债后,我靠美业逆风谋生 At forty, Lin Wan receives her divorce decree and is left saddled with a mountain of shared debt. Her ex-husband took all their savings and refuses to pay child support. The tuition bill for her daughter's private high school weighs on her like a stone. Her once-secure job offered no future. After seeing through the beauty salon industry's endless scams, unregulated products, and high-pressure membership sales, she resolutely quits. With only a few thousand yuan in savings, no powerful backer, a 8Reads—Score314d adds
- 58 I Traded the Sincere Heart I Once Gave to the Powerful for a Knife to Make Money 我把喂过权贵的真心换成搞钱的刀 From a naive sweetheart to a self-made tycoon! The powerful man who kept promising to support me and take care of everything made empty promises for two years, then casually brushed me off with, “I’m too busy.” The boy fourteen years younger than me, who claimed he’d lost sixty pounds for my sake, said he couldn’t live without me one moment, then turned around and buried me in sordid lies. I gave my heart to two wolves before I finally woke up: a man's promises aren't worth a penny. The only thi 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Every Romance of Mine Is a Power Play 我的桃花皆是权谋局 Su Wan, thirty-six, is a key staff member at a provincial government agency. Divorced for ten years, she wields the sharp blade of auditing and has become impervious to attack in the struggle between government and business. Her suitors are all rich and powerful. Some promise to help her climb the ladder, while others offer to pave the way for her. But she has long seen through people’s schemes. Holding fast to her principles, she navigates the space between government offices and capital. Unt 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案,晚上地府当差
I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha
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A Final Wish 临终之愿
[Not for everyone: a niche novel with no harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincible hero, and no wish fulfillment. The storytelling is detailed, but the pacing is a little slow.] [Why I write: I'm not after money. I don't have much, but I have enough. What I hope for is understanding, and I sincerely look forward to thoughtful readers.] [Keywords: hard science fiction, rigorous logic, wit and humor, critical thinking, and knowledge from seventeen academic disciplines to broaden your perspective]
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Tales of the Han Dynasty: From Liu Bang to Liu Shan 汉朝那些事:从刘邦到刘禅
When talking about the Han Dynasty, it's impossible not to mention what an interesting and fascinating era it was. We people of later generations call ourselves “Han people,” and our ethnic group is known as the “Han Chinese.” These names are inseparable from the Han Dynasty. It can be said that the Han Dynasty not only established China's unified political order, but also shaped the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chinese people. This sense of identity took deep root in the hearts of the pe
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Wild History Isn’t Necessarily False 野史未必假
History is more than the rigid record preserved in official histories. The overlooked scraps at its edges often conceal truths that are livelier, more outrageous, and closer to human nature. Do you think Liao Hua was just a minor figure who rose to prominence because Shu had “no great generals left”? What pitfalls lay behind Zhuge Ke’s reputation as a genius? Wen Yang, dubbed “Little Zhao Yun,” had a life far more dramatic than you might imagine! Ma Chao was more than just the “Brocade of Xilian
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- 64 The Three Kingdoms Is Fascinating 三国很有趣 The Three Kingdoms era was marked by constant warfare and rival warlords, and it is widely known thanks to Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not history, and some of the famous stories we all know are not true! Did Zhuge Liang really borrow arrows with straw boats? Why was Zhang He called the “Three Kingdoms’ ultimate strength tester”? How did Fei Yi live a life worthy of the title “Master of Pacing”? Was Cao Zhi really in love with his sister-in-law? Why is it 16Reads9.2Score—14d adds
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Ten Socializing Techniques 十神社交术
This is an unconventional guide to the art of social interaction, inspired by the author’s insights into “Daoist Eight Characters fortune-telling” and “Western pickup artistry.” It is completely different from the books on relationships you see in everyday life: not only is it easy to understand, it is also highly practical. Let’s look at the true nature of human beings in social interactions from a different perspective…
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- 66 The Principles of Ternary Consciousness and Memory Mapping 三元意识与记忆映射原理 This book deciphers the secrets of human longevity through philosophical reasoning. Tomato's number one original philosophical masterpiece, The Threefold Consciousness and Memory Mapping Principle, explores ideology, human nature, the secrets of human longevity, the truth behind ancient history, the origin of the moon, the mystery of the Great Flood, reasoning about past-life memories, an analysis of homosexuality, depression, multidimensional worlds, the differences in how men and women are att 1.5kReads9.2Score47514d adds
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The School of Mind in the Ming Dynasty 大明心学
This is a sweeping historical novel starring Wang Yangming. The story begins with Wang Yangming’s birth in 1471, the seventh year of the Chenghua era, and ends with his death aboard a boat in Nanan, Jiangxi, in 1529, the seventh year of the Jiajing era. Spanning fifty-eight years, the novel paints a vivid, panoramic portrait of the extraordinary life of one of the Ming dynasty’s greatest figures: the omens surrounding his birth, his youthful ambitions, his enlightenment at Longchang, his campai
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- 68 The Fifteenth Year of the Wanli Reign 万历十五年 [Highly praised by Yi Zhongtian! Understand the fate of a single speck of dust in the vast sweep of time, and see the crashing waves hidden behind ordinary years. A classic that changed how Chinese people read.] In 1587, the fifteenth year of the Wanli reign of the Great Ming, the surface seemed perfectly calm, but this was a pivotal turning point on the empire's path to collapse. That year, the Spanish Armada was about to set sail, and world history was turning a new page. Meanwhile, the Ming e 4.1kReads9.4Score86314d adds
- 69 The Wanli Era 万历大时代 The three centuries of the Ming dynasty were a pivotal period in which China and the West rose and fell in turn, passing each other as they surged forward or fell behind. The Wanli Emperor, Zhu Yijun, ruled for forty-eight years, accounting for one-sixth of the Ming dynasty’s history and marking one of its most striking turning points. Drawing on authoritative historical sources, this book recounts the turbulent history of the Wanli era in lively prose, recreating a singular age of bloodshed and 138Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 70 The Wanli Emperor's Fifteenth Year: Explained in One Book 一本书读懂万历十五年 Following the framework of Huang Renyu’s classic work, this book closely examines a slice of history from the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, a time that seemed calm on the surface but seethed with undercurrents. Through the shifting fortunes of seven central figures, including the Wanli Emperor, Zhang Juzheng, and Hai Rui, it reveals how moral idealism and technical shortcomings worked together to strangle the prospects for reform. From the financial management flaws exposed by the collapse of Z 105Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 71 The 1911 Revolution (CPPCC Historical Records: The Library of Firsthand Accounts) 辛亥革命(政协文史“亲历、亲见、亲闻”文库) This is a major historical documentary work primarily composed of memoirs and commemorative essays. Set against the backdrop of modern Chinese history in the early twentieth century, it uses major events that took place across China around the time of the Xinhai Revolution as milestones. Drawing on historical materials including some of the revolution-related documents edited and published by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, materials compiled by 51Reads9.2Score—14d adds
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The Story in Pan Dudu’s Belly 盼杜肚里的故事
The blood-soaked earth of Forget-Husband Slope bears six sets of footprints, each pressed to a different depth. Strange energy clings to the red soil, leaving a sinister shadow that winds around the bones of anyone who steps on it. Sang Pandu clutches the wooden slip Kun Yu left behind. The divination marks have grown hot against her palm, and the light on the slip flickers, as if unseen hands are repeatedly rubbing it in the dark and throwing its divinatory energy into disarray. Thunder rolls o
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The Code Immortal Realm: I Am the Heavenly Dao 代码仙域,我即是天道
My name is Tian Yingxue, and this is the tenth time I've been reborn. The Heavenly Dao played a cruel joke on me. On one hand, it granted me a golden finger of an opportunity, giving me a natural fire spirit root, letting me establish my Foundation at ten, form my Golden Core and keep my youthful appearance at nineteen, and reach the threshold of ascension at a hundred. On the other hand, it made me perish in the tribulation lightning as I ascended, then sent me back to the day before I was to j
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How Children Can Learn to Write Well 孩子如何写好字
This book is complete nonsense, so just read it for fun. Don’t take any of the information in it seriously. If you happen to think something in it makes sense, that’s purely a coincidence. I didn’t mean to. Come on, come on! I wrote this book because I had nothing better to do.
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Soda, a Cat, and a Ten-Million-Euro White Whale 汽水,猫与一千万欧元的白鲸
He takes pleasure in torturing goldfish, then searches for the ultimate answer by trying to control everything. The AI beluga whale he built for ten million euros is his “perfect creation” for the world, and a mirror reflecting the darkness of human nature. While countless elites go wild over his tech empire, only I know that the “soda experiment” that began in childhood has never ended... This is a psychological thriller that delves deep into the soul, making you confront an all-pervasive desir
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- 76 Soda, Cats, and a Ten-Million-Euro White Whale 2 汽水,猫与一千万欧元的白鲸2 If you haven't read the earlier story, or have forgotten what happened, you can catch up by reading the first installment. Volume Three, Chapter Three; Volume Six, Chapter Two; “The Leverage Game” (continued); Volume Ten, Chapter Three, “Ensemble Mutation.” This is Lily's standalone universe, combining a prequel and a sequel. The timeline stretches from her sixteenth birthday at school to fifty-two minutes after her death. The narration no longer depends on A's perspective. Instead, Lily become 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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The Female Bank President's Last Resort 女行长的穷途末路
A teller's act of withholding checks toppled the first domino in the bank run at Yunhai City Commercial Bank. Though bank president Ma Yuquan fought desperately to contain the crisis, she ultimately could not counter the enormous fallout from the sudden disappearance of the bank's major shareholder and the head of its controlling rural bank. Ma Yuquan sensed the situation was full of hidden twists and turns, yet never revealed the secret of who she had been with during her brief disappearance, w
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A Young Woman in Full Bloom 花团锦簇小女子
Synopsis The Flower-Filled Life of a Country Girl tells the story of Shen Ru, a city girl who returns to the countryside after a disappointing career. Over ten years, she turns her grandmother’s three mu of flower fields into a sea of blooms spanning a hundred mu, leading the whole village toward shared prosperity. This is not simply a farming novel, but an epic coming-of-age story about the land, inheritance, and the power of women. After her boyfriend and boss dismisses her “frivolous ideas”
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- 80 A Tall Tree Catches the Wind 树大会招风 Su Tong, twenty-eight, quit her job in a major city and returned to her hometown, a small county town, where she leased two hundred mu of barren hills and began her life as a farmer. Everyone said she was crazy. Why would a graduate of a prestigious university turn down a job paying half a million yuan a year to go farm in the mountains? Three years later, the brand she founded, Tonghuayuan, had become the province’s largest supplier of organic produce, with annual sales exceeding one hundred m —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Cultivation Survival for the Nation's Fortune: I Can See Hidden Hints 国运修仙求生:我能看见隐藏提示
[National Fortune Survival + Livestreaming + Immortal Cultivation + God-Tier Hints] Blue Star’s resources are running dry, and the National Fortune Game has arrived! Two people from each country are randomly selected to enter the Cave Realm and cultivate immortality. If a contestant dies, their country’s national fortune will be deducted and a natural disaster will follow. Resources obtained by contestants in the Cave Realm have a chance of being returned to their countries with a critical bonus
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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The Legend of the Zhongnan Sword Immortal 终南剑仙传
Gu Zhaoran, the Sword Immortal Qingxuan, was reborn after surviving a tribulation. He braved a serpent's lair, battled demonic cultivators, and encountered an evil monk. His path was fraught with danger, and he narrowly escaped death time and again before returning to Zhongnan and rejoining his sect. When his immortal master ascended, Gu Zhaoran was entrusted with leadership in a time of crisis and became the sect's new head. He repelled enemies at the rear cliff, joined the Five Elders in elimi
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Screw You, Mr. NPD 去你的,NPD先生
The workplace is rife with hidden currents, and human nature can be far more chilling than political maneuvering. Yuan Di, an HR ace with company-wide experience, had earned a stable position through her own ability. But she was unlucky enough to become a pawn in the power games of her NPD boss, Liu Shao. He sent her away as a pawn, dragged her into factional infighting, planted spies around her, and deliberately undermined and manipulated her. Liu Shao schemed at every turn, determined to kee
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Learning to Read People in the Mortal World 我在红尘学心眼
[This book is not a novel, but its value far surpasses that of feel-good fiction!] The highest wisdom is hidden within these pages, and every page is like seeing with an enlightened eye! We recommend saving it and reading it again and again. Don't miss your chance to upgrade your understanding. This book covers love, marriage, the body, psychology, politics, economics, human nature, the workplace, social relationships, and much more. The younger you are, the more you should read this book! The s
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Romance of the Qing Dynasty 清史演义
Cai Dongfan's The Romance of the Qing Dynasty is an epic of sweeping grandeur. In a million words, it uncovers the century-spanning secrets of the Qing Empire, from its rise to its fall! From Nurhaci rallying his troops against the Ming with his “Seven Grievances,” to Kangxi outsmarting and capturing Oboi and putting down the Three Feudatories; from undercurrents stirring beneath the Qianlong Emperor's prosperous reign to the humiliating guns of the Opium War; then to Empress Dowager Cixi ruling
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- 87 The Matchmaker Is Offline: How Do I Survive 81 Trials of Love? 月老掉线,81难情劫如何过? The rules of Heaven can't stop someone from going mad with love. To find the 81 fragments of his beloved's soul, the male lead blunders his way through challenge after challenge, rewriting 81 classic tragic love stories! This isn't about gods falling in love. It's about wagering your life on an ending where “love can break every rule.” Eighty-one trials of love, eighty-one views of love: love with integrity, love with honor, love in unity, love that stays true, love built on mutual respect, lo —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Road Outside the Window and the Sea in My Heart 窗外的路与心中的海
If you have ever: · Struggled to balance your dreams and reality · Tried to understand your parents' silence while also making sense of the next generation's boldness · Worked to protect a little undying light amid an ordinary, or even difficult, life Then open this book. Here, you'll find a sea of your own.
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- 89 I Just Want to Retire on Time, but the Dean Is Making Me a Big Shot 只想按时退休,院长逼我当大佬 With a slacker's attitude, the protagonist takes down every task that stands in the way of his retirement! He turns a laid-back life into a path to greatness. Reborn at forty-five as a finance department head, his only goal is to coast until retirement, but the workaholic dean forces him to become a power behind the scenes. Watch him grumble to himself while wielding Excel to devastating effect. The thrills and laughs are off the charts! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Cast Aside, I Become Emperor: My Fate Is Mine to Command 弃子成皇:我命由我不由天 Yesterday, I was a discarded pawn. Today, I am the emperor. From pawn to player, and finally to the throne. This is the road of a ruthless hero, paved with mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Everyone who stands in my way will become a stepping stone on my path from “discarded pawn to emperor.” 23Reads—Score—14d adds
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Sealing the Heavenly Dao 封天道
The young master of a powerful family has his spiritual roots stripped away, leaving him crippled. Forced to honor a marriage contract and become a live-in son-in-law, he finds that the bride’s family has switched the bride, making her deaf-mute twin sister take her place. On his wedding day, instead of sharing the wedding night, he is thrown into the Spirit Beast Valley, where he must eat and live among spirit beasts. The moment the deaf-mute sister finds him, she is like a ray of sunlight pier
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- 92 A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士 One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world! 6.1kReads8.5Score61014d adds
- 93 A Heart Like Bamboo, A World as Vast as Mountains and Rivers 竹心自修,山河自阔 A Bamboo Heart Cultivates Itself; the Mountains and Rivers Stretch Far and Wide 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Good Fortune Must Be Guarded With Wisdom; A Righteous Heart Brings Lasting Blessings 福厚需智守,心正福绵长 Great Fortune Must Be Guarded with Wisdom; A Righteous Heart Brings Lasting Blessings 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Awakening at the Turning Point of Fate 命运转角处的觉醒 Lin Yue once thought life was a script that followed a set routine: a nine-to-five job and a life whose end she could see from the start. Then an accident pushed her to a crossroads. Would she keep sinking, or take hold of the faint light reaching out from around the corner? This isn't a wish-fulfillment story about an ordinary girl making a spectacular comeback. It's the story of an ordinary girl slowly piecing herself back together amid mess and missteps. It turns out that “awakening” isn't s 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Amid the Bells of Lingyin Temple: A Journey to the Heart of Zen 灵隐钟声里:叩问禅心之旅 Amid the Bells of Lingyin Temple: A Journey to Seek the Zen Heart 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Moonlight on Glazed Glass: A Record of Enlightenment Through the Six Roots 月映琉璃:六根证道录 Moonlight on Glazed Glass: A Record of Enlightenment Through the Six Roots 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Wilderness and Deserted Island 荒野荒岛
Distinctive and original, exciting and vivid, with sharply drawn, lifelike characters and lively, clear, concise prose. A story of survival and life on a deserted island, with an exciting plot and vivid characters.
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- 99 The Workplace Tough Guy 职场猛男 The male lead, He Jumeng, has a superpower: a very special energy inside his body lets him sense what other people are thinking to a certain extent. It also gives him immense strength, fast strikes, and lightning-quick reflexes. Style: Workplace drama, clear and accessible writing, witty and humorous, lighthearted and fun, with plenty of romantic tension. Emotional push and pull with antagonists, compelling conflicts, a twisting plot, setbacks followed by comebacks, and lively, engaging storytel 9.5kReads—Score35814d adds
- 100 Talk Trash and Win Prizes 对骂就有奖 Hao Tie was treated like a pack mule and was about to hit rock bottom because he refused to keep living like one. Then he suddenly got a System that rewarded him for trading insults! From then on, he used verbal sparring to reach the pinnacle of success! 24.5kReads7.1Score1.1k14d adds
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