Short Stories, New Writers and Works, Recommendations Wanted 短故事，新人新作，求推荐。

1. 101 地 Two Menaces from the Underworld Have the Whole City Eavesdropping on Their Gossip 地府两祸害，惹得全城偷听八卦 The Fishpond Owner Likes Fishing鱼塘主要钓鱼Ancient Romance662k WordsCompleted [Eavesdropping on Inner Thoughts + Golden Finger + Everyone’s Favorite] Note: There is a male lead! The Underworld has two great nuisances: one is a flower, and the other is a book. After the Book of Life and Death, which governs all things in the world, gained sentience, it took advantage of its innate gifts to gossip all day and do no work. After a thousand years, a Manjusaka flower took human form. The King of Hell saw that she had potential and made an exception, appointing her as Granny Men 30.7kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves
2. 102 长 Eldest Son: My Siblings Simulated My Life, and I Broke Down in Tears 长子：兄妹模拟我人生，泪崩 Flight Captain飞行团长Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Anti-drug trafficking] [Narcotics officer] [High IQ] [Mastermind] [Undercover] The Wei family has five children. The second is a wealthy businessman, the third has an impressive background, the fourth is a research professor, and the fifth is a pop star. Only the eldest has amounted to nothing. He’s notorious and despised by his siblings. Because he sold off his younger siblings and drove his family away! He’s done every kind of evil, and his siblings loathe and spurn him! Then, on the day the 19.6kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
3. 103 让 You Asked Me to Modify Your Mecha Girl, and Now You’ve Got Her Climbing Walls 让你改装机娘，你让机娘上墙 Universe's Invincible Tyrannosaurus Roast Goose宇宙无敌暴龙烧鹅Urban2.4M WordsOngoing [A fresh concept you definitely haven't seen before] [Racing competition] [Sweet romance and growth] [War God mecha] [Catgirl] [The Goose Sect's rebirth] Also known as: You were supposed to modify the mecha girls, so why are you making them cling to the wall?! A white-haired catgirl is forced onto the streets because her performance is too poor. But I'm the only one who can see her hidden talents... This is a strange world where human-shaped girls can transform into supercars built for the racet 232.1kReads9.5Score20.5kShelves
4. 104 惊 Jinglan: The Realm as My Dowry 惊澜：江山为聘 Northern Night北夜Fantastical Romance5.6M WordsCompleted [Film and TV Rights in Development] [Revenge + Historical Romance + Strong Female Lead] She was the greatest assassin of the 21st century. After transmigrating, she became the useless, foolish eldest daughter of the Feng family, and was sold to a brothel… Enough is enough! When her starry eyes flash and her edge is revealed, she will rule the entire world! But even a woman as formidable as her meets a monstrous man! At times, he is aloof and domineering; at others, bewitchingly seductive! “My de 8kReads9.2Score821Shelves
5. 105 风 King of Feng Shui 风水之王 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.1M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 809.3kReads9.4Score43.5kShelves
6. 106 诡 The Haunted House 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 755.3kReads9.6Score95.6kShelves
7. 107 相 On Our Blind Date, the Heir to a Wealthy Family Took Me to Register Our Marriage 相亲当天，豪门继承人拉着我领证 Gu Lingfei古凌菲Modern Romance5.8M WordsOngoing [Sweet romance + Marriage Before Love + male lead pretends to be a pig to eat the tiger] On the day of her blind date, Hai Tong impulsively married a stranger. She thought married life would be ordinary and built on mutual respect. Instead, her new husband turned out to be a clingy human piece of glue. What surprised her most was that whenever she ran into trouble, he would step in and resolve everything with ease. Whenever she asked about it, he always said he was just lucky, until one day she 191.1kReads9.5Score7.2kShelves
8. 108 我 I Set My Trap with Fortune-Telling, and He Offered Me His Empire 我以相术做局，他以江山为聘 I Met My Beloved我遇良人Ancient Romance676k WordsCompleted [Reborn + clear-eyed heroine + love and hate + wielding him as a weapon] Nan Zhi is the emperor's legitimate daughter, a princess adored by all. She can stir up trouble right under the emperor's nose and pull hair right off the crown prince's head. A year after their wedding, she uses her status as a princess to help her husband rise to the top. But when the kingdom falls apart, he pushes her off the city wall just to appease his sworn enemy, whose troops are at the gates. When she opens her eye 6.4kReads9.0Score683Shelves
9. 109 先 Love After Marriage, Day After Day 先婚后爱朝朝暮暮 North Half River北半川Modern Romance615k WordsCompleted Marriage Before Love, Sweet Romance After breaking up with her boyfriend of four years, Zhang Tong turned around and got involved with Qin Chuan. At first, she was only looking to have some fun and get back at her ex. Who knew she'd take things too far and get pregnant! After getting pregnant, Zhang Tong somehow ended up marrying Qin Chuan. Then she followed him to live in the countryside, only to discover that it was nothing like the pastoral life she'd dreamed of. There was endless farmwork! T 215Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 110 梦 Dreaming Drunk in the Mortal World 梦醉红尘 Dreams Take Flight梦想飞翔Eastern Fantasy137k WordsOngoing What is the jianghu? Once you enter it, it's as deep as the sea. Some say the jianghu is about fighting, brotherhood, love, hate, and revenge. Others say it's about navigating human relationships: you have to build connections to get things done, and you have to offer favors to get your foot in the door. Ning Yuan steps into the jianghu, where wine and meat go hand in hand. Food and drink bring plenty of brothers, but when trouble strikes, not one is there. The jianghu... is just drinking, eatin 2Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 111 顾 Young Master Gu, Did Your Little Zhizhi Blow Her Cover Today? 顾少的小栀栀今天掉马了吗？ Fish with Zhajiang Noodles炸酱面吃鱼Modern Romance121k WordsOngoing The proud and clever heiress of the Shen family, paired with the eldest son of the Gu family, a playboy on the surface but a man of deep thoughts underneath. Matched in wits and united in strength, they go from testing each other to entrusting their lives to one another amid a crisis. Gu Jinchuan's repeated, affectionate yet provocative nickname for her, "Little Zhizhi," is both sugar and a knife. —Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 112 方 Fang Xiaoxiao 方晓晓 Don't Turn Off the Light不关灯Mystery134k WordsCompleted After an impulsive moment, Fang Xiaoxiao, a girl still in eighth grade, accidentally killed a classmate who had bullied her. Terrified, she decided to hide the body. To evade the investigation, Fang Xiaoxiao was forced to cover up the traces of her crime and convince herself that it was all an accident, just a coincidence. People can choose to believe lies, but they can never escape reality. The mind can pretend nothing happened, but the rotting body is real. On the seventh day after the deat 677Reads9.2Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    A super shocking short story. The author's writing style is very distinctive and he captures the good and evil of human nature just right.

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