I'm Out of Books to Read. Looking for a Novel That Gives Equal Weight to Plot and Romance 书荒，求剧情线与感情线并重的小说
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I Gave the Mute CEO Talk Therapy, and the Whole Family Was Stunned 我给哑巴总裁做话疗，豪门全懵了
“Chatty Little Sun Heroine × Mute Powerhouse in a High Position, Married First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Feel-Good Daily Life” Sang Lu awakened to the truth. In the original story, she was a vicious sister-in-law from a wealthy family. She despised her mute husband, teamed up with awful relatives to swindle her own family, and did every kind of wicked thing. Her husband ignored her, her younger brothers-in-law slapped her, and she met a tragic end. “Wait, was I the huge idiot all along?” Abs
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Perverted President Gu Keeps Biting Me, I Want to Run Off With Him and Steal a Kiss 变态顾总又咬我，好想拐走亲一口
Two-faced, hypocritical woman X calm, deranged, twisted man [Both virgins + sweet romance + flirtation + push and pull] Ji Xinghui discovered she was the vicious fake heiress in a rebirth novel. She and the second male lead, Gu Xian, were a pair of scumbags who teamed up to ruin the original heroine's reputation, leaving her to die in bitter resentment. Then the reborn heroine would return to humiliate them and take revenge. When Ji Xinghui awakened to the plot, the original heroine hadn't been
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
[Bright Flower Shop Owner × Cool, Distinguished Diplomat] [Devoted 1v1 First Love | Sweet Romance | Misunderstood Secret Crush | Love Returned | Flash Marriage] At sixteen, Shen Zhuying falls for a boy. He likes wearing white shirts, plays the drums, and gets dimples when he smiles. He's a blazing sun she can never reach. At eighteen, she repeats a year of school and gets into the same university as him, only to learn that he transferred to England half a year ago. At twenty-two, she sees him ag
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Spring Mountain in Uproar 春山喧
[Print edition now available] [Faithful couple + older-sister-younger-man romance + reunion after years apart + secret crush + healing + slow-paced travel variety show + happy ending] "Straightforward, loyal F1 driver x glamorous, gentle actress" - At the height of her fame, Wen Wanning was filming in Northeast China. On a snowy night with temperatures at minus twenty degrees, her van broke down halfway up a mountain. Not long after she hung up with the repair shop, a battered Santana came skidd
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
237.6kReads9.5Score34.2kShelves
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Mind Reading: Help! Your Father-in-Law Is Impossible to Woo, Crown Princess 读心术：救命！太子妃你爹太难撩
[Mind Reading + System + Transmigrate into a Book + Marriage First, Love Later + Devoted Couple] Jiang Fu transmigrated. The bad news: she became a cannon-fodder supporting female character. The good news: the female lead's father saved her. The bad news: the original cannon-fodder asked Jiang Fu to give her a different life. No more being cannon fodder: she wanted a lifetime of happiness and to marry well. The good news: Jiang Fu was rescued from the water by the female lead's father, making hi
25.2kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves
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After the Female Lead Was Stolen, I Set Out to Save the Obsessive Villain 被抢女主后，拯救偏执反派大佬
[One-on-one sweet romance, marriage first and love later, the leads dote on each other, everyday romance, gentle and delicate beauty vs. a ruthless, possessive villainous tycoon] The Duke of Zhenguo’s entire household was fiercely loyal to the crown. With them gone, only Yan Yu, their sole daughter, remained. Raised by her maternal grandmother, she was betrothed to the Fifth Prince. After Yan Yu came of age, she was about to travel to the capital for her wedding. At that point, the eldest dau
16.9kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
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The Beautiful Omega Lost His Memory and Clung to His Archrival, Demanding Kisses 美人O失忆后，抱着死对头要亲亲
[Two male leads + dating show + livestream + childhood friends + each other’s first love] [An aloof, chaste, yet deeply devoted and gentle Best Actor top who falls for a flop actor bottom, who switches freely between an arrogant little cat and a clingy puppy] Ruan Xingyao is a flop actor who pretends to be a beta despite being an omega. His sworn enemy is Pei Zhuo, a hot Best Actor in the industry. The night before, Ruan Xingyao was doing what he always did: scrolling through long posts trashin
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I Transmigrated into an Old-School Tragic Romance, and I'm Giving Everyone a Happy Ending 穿进古早虐文，本红娘要全员HE
[Both leads are devoted to each other + comedy + transmigrate into a book + female supporting character + sweet romance + System] (A silly transmigrated heroine × a crafty, clever hero) (This story doesn't vilify the original leads, break up the original couple, or steal the original protagonists' opportunities. Everyone gets along.) After spending eighteen years bedridden, she suddenly dies. When she wakes up, she has become Hua Qingsu, the third daughter of the Minister of Revenue's household
10.1kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
145.1kReads9.5Score18.2kShelves
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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
40.8kReads9.5Score5.3kShelves
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Sweet Everyday Life in the Prince’s Mansion 王府甜宠日常
[Past and Present Lives 1v1 + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] Wen Sisi was crown princess for five years. The crown prince appeared to be a loving husband, but in truth he loathed her. From their wedding night onward, he sought out his concubines, and in the end he personally caused her death before elevating the concubine he loved to the position of his principal wife. Reborn, Wen Sisi ignored the crown prince's flirtatious hints and chose to marry Liu Xuan, Prince of Jingjiang, a man o
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Can You Believe It? The Empress Wrote a Hundred Palace Rules 谁懂啊，娘娘写了一百条宫规
[Palace Intrigue + Ancient-Era Heroine + Reborn Supporting Female Character + Transmigrated Supporting Female Character + Everyone Is Clever + Clear-Eyed Heroine] From ordinary palace candidate to empress. Everyone believes the emperor is devoted to Ning Wanyin. Only Ning Wanyin knows how treacherous and perilous the journey has been. She has survived every step through sheer caution. Lady Tang, reborn: “She killed me in my last life. This time, of course I’ll… make her my friend! Do I really th
67.2kReads9.6Score10kShelves
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Unhinged? We're All Unhinged—and That's a Good Thing! 癫，都癫，癫点好啊
[Super-Sweet 1v1]+ [Silly Humor and Memes]+ [Showbiz]+ [Dating Variety Show]+ [Face-Slapping] [Unhinged Actress vs. CEO with a Mind of His Own] Betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend, she transmigrated into a book and was immediately stabbed and sent to the hospital by an extremist shipper. Xie Mi went berserk on the spot, spouting wild claims in the livestream. “Come on! Stab me! All of you, stab me! I'll blow up the Earth!” A passerby who had wandered into the livestream nearly fainted. Okay, okay.
367.6kReads9.8Score55kShelves
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Holding the Transmigration Trading Group in Hand, Wealth Floods the House 手握穿越交易群，泼天富贵进家门
"A Transmigration Trade Chat Group Brings a Fortune Beyond Imagination" Jiang Ruochu breaks into a chat group for transmigrators with a single punch. She helps a transmigrator embroiled in palace intrigue visit her grandmother in exchange for palace jewelry, giving her a collection worthy of a museum. She trades rice, flour, cooking oil, and other necessities with a transmigrator from the apocalypse for gold and silver jewelry that has become worthless there, making her rich in no time and leavi
11.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
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After Marrying the Sickly Crown Prince Who Practices Buddhism in Her Sister's Place, She Makes Him Break His Vows 替嫁给病弱佛修太子后，他破戒了
[Traditional Historical Romance + Household and Palace Intrigue + Rebirth Revenge Fantasy + Substitute Marriage + Powerful Hero and Heroine + Black Lotus] After jumping from the city tower, Jiang Nanzhi and her legitimate elder sister, Jiang Tanxin, are both reborn. In her previous life, Jiang Tanxin gave up her childhood sweetheart, the young lord Shen Che, to become the Crown Princess, and schemed to make Jiang Nanzhi marry Shen Che as her substitute. But who could have guessed that the Crown
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The Fake Heiress Stole My Fate, So After I Was Reborn, I Took Her Out 假千金夺我命格，重生后我嘎了她
[Rebirth + punishing scumbags + satisfying wish fulfillment] Ren Ran had an easy life for her first eighteen years, then spent the next eight plagued by bad luck. Her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother died one after another. Her scumbag father took over the company, and she was thrown out of the house to live on the streets. She’d be robbed just walking down the road, and flowerpots would fall from the sky when she approached a building. Whenever she got a job at a company, it w
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Exiled from the Start, I Become the Beloved Darling of Evil Valley 开局流放，我在恶人谷当团宠
[Strong heroine, pairing with Bai Yu] She was a test subject at a secret underground research facility in the twenty-first century, designation Zero. She could retrieve objects from thin air and had no empathy. One day, she was reborn and transmigrated to an ancient farming household. A natural disaster struck right after she was born, and her whole family was exiled when she was barely a month old. Everyone around her said she was a harbinger of disaster. Grandma Su let out a cold laugh, hoist
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Spring Robes in Disarray: Only to Unravel the Chancellor's Desires 春衫乱：只为奸臣解风情
[Traditional historical romance + reborn to change fate + devoted husband + political intrigue and revenge. The heroine is gentle yet resilient, kind and perceptive. The hero is a noble, powerful minister, beautiful and tragic. Many foreshadowed clues and twists.] Lin Shu was a noble young lady from the capital, raised without ever having to lift a finger. When disaster struck the Lin family, Lin Shu became a government slave. She was put to washing and dyeing cloth in the Imperial Household Dep
15.1kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
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Three and a Half Years as a Simp, Then the System Told Me I Had the Wrong Target 舔狗三年半，系统说我攻略错对象
[The physical edition of Abandon the Dark and Join Him, Volume One, is now available for purchase online] [The Second Male Lead's Redemption Arc] 1. Qiao Yin spent three years and eleven months fawning over Lu Jinzhi. Everyone in the capital knew she would marry no one but him, yet the System told her: She had pursued the wrong target. Qiao Yin: ... 2 Qiao Yin suddenly vanished from Lu Jinzhi's side. On the first day of her disappearance, Lu Jinzhi sneered: Just a little game of playing hard to
59.8kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
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After She Died, the Coldhearted Powerful Official's Hair Turned White Overnight 她死后，冷冰冰的权臣一夜白头
[Not an angst novel + heartwarming + no logic + read it to see if it suits your taste] After transmigrating into a book, Hua Zhao had her memories erased and became a tool whose job was to give the heroine a golden finger. To top it off, she was also the infamous, short-lived first wife of the villainous minister. Luckily, she regained her memories and cut her losses in time. The heroine’s golden finger? Sorry, that’s a family heirloom that came with me when I transmigrated into the book! Her in
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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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The Tiny Boss Is Everyone's Favorite, and She Coddles Her Scumbag Dad Like He's Her Placenta 小小老子当团宠，把渣爹当胎盘哄
The print edition of A Boat in a Single Thought is now available on all platforms. [Comedy + raising kids + everyone’s favorite + 1v1 romance + devoted couple + the adult heroine’s love interest is Lu Jinghuai] [A funny, sunny heroine who actually has eight hundred tricks up her sleeve x a saintly beauty who is really a sinister, venomous schemer] Ji Nian transmigrates into a novel where the heroine is adored by everyone, becoming the universally disliked biological daughter of the heroine’s pow
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The Manga Prophecy Murder Case 漫画预言杀人事件
[Comic artist X avenger] A flop comic Chen He had abandoned three years ago suddenly went viral because it had predicted a murder. Netizens trembled in the comic's comments: [Have you seen the news? Why is this scene exactly like what they're showing on TV?!] [Am I seeing things? They only just found the body, but the comic was published three years ago!] [How did the artist come up with a burial site like that? What are the odds?] [I have a pretty wild theory...] [Could the author actually be t
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The Delicate Mermaid Is a Master Baiter, and the Deranged Men Line Up for Her Embrace 娇软人鱼太会钓，疯批排队要她抱
[New book next door. If you love cute girls and cool guys, come hang out with me 😍😍] [Four male leads, but the ending is 1v1] [Male rivalry] [Adorable, lovable mermaid who charms everyone] [Alternate world] [The female lead is sweet, but not stupid] [Our girl is the cutest in the whole world, and nobody is allowed to defy her] Yue Ling transmigrates into a harem novel full of male rivalry, as a cannon-fodder supporting female character who is cruelly abused, both body and heart, by the original
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After Binding to a System, I Have Eighty-Eight Identities 绑定系统后，我有八十八个身份
[No romance + System + fake heiress] After returning from studying abroad, Lu You is told by her family that she's a fake heiress who stole someone else's place. They send her back to live with her biological parents. Their house is dilapidated and on the verge of collapse in the rain and wind. Her mother has suffered a mental breakdown, her father works hard but has his wages withheld, and her eldest brother has had his engagement called off. Lu You pats her chest in relief. Thank goodness s
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Daddy, Open the Door! Your Little One’s Ready to Scrub Your Back! 爸爸快开门，崽崽给你搓背背呀！
Qin Yi, head of the Qin family in the imperial capital, was forced to raise a baby. The little rascal, Gun Gun, was a chubby-cheeked, rosy little gas canister from a higher-dimensional planet. She was barely old enough to walk steadily, yet brimming with confidence about taking care of her daddy. She insisted on cooking for him, washing his clothes, and scrubbing his back! After all, if you’re the owner of a pet, how can you not give it a bath? But the pet her biological father had picked out fo
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The Nation’s Beloved Four-Year-Old Takes Her Soldier Brothers on a Transmigration 全国团宠：四岁宝宝带兵哥哥穿越
[Truly Adorable Child + Everyone’s Darling + Feel-Good Revenge + The Nation Is Her Real Dad + No Romance] Ever since her mother fell ill and passed away, Mu Chen has been a child with no one to love her. Her father married a stepmother and had a son, so he paid even less attention to Mu Chen. Mu Chen never gets enough to eat. Like the old man next door who collects scrap, she sneaks out every day to collect empty water bottles and sell them, just to buy a little food for her tummy. One day, Mu C
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A Little Lucky Star Falls from the Sky, and the Whole Marshal’s Household Spoils Her 天降小福星，帅府全家宠上天
[Republican-era setting + adorable little one + pampered by everyone + lucky charm + no romance] Mao Mao’s mother was going to marry Commander Lou as his fourth concubine, so she went with her into the military governor’s residence. Everyone said the Lou household was a den of dragons and tigers that devoured people. As a little tagalong, she surely wouldn’t last long, and sooner or later she and her mother would be thrown out. But Eldest brother, the young marshal: “I’ll take Mao Mao horseback
42.4kReads9.0Score4.4kShelves
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After the Maid Fled With Her Husband, the Mad Young Heir Snatched Her Away 丫鬟随夫逃离后，被疯批世子抢夺
[Beautiful young maid, forced possession, villainous hero, both leads are sexually inexperienced, no transmigration] Note: The heroine is delicate and soft, easily pushed around. She is not a powerful female lead, so please read with caution if that’s not your preference. Yun Shu and her husband, Chen A Niu, were fleeing a disaster when they were rescued by Shen Zhiyue, heir to the Marquis of Jing’an. To repay him, they stayed at the marquis’s estate, where he became a stable hand and she a maid
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Big-Spender Gifts: I'll Spoil My Best Friend! 神豪打赏：我的闺蜜我来宠！
[Two Female Leads] [Neither Has a Love Interest] [A Side Couple, with Limited Focus] [Two Storylines: Livestreaming and Gifts] [She Also Gifts Other Streamers] [Pure Wish Fulfillment!] One day, Shi Jin suddenly gets a tycoon gifting System! Question: What do you do when you get a System like this? Answer: Just start a livestream account and gift yourself! Double the pay, and you're off to the races! System: [...Get lost! I'm not giving you a chance to exploit a bug!] Her plan falls through, but
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Ascending to the Dragon's Heights 攀龍
A flirtatious widow with a child ✖️ a reserved warlord who becomes the founding emperor [Complete] Lou Mizhi was born a woman who never learned to accept her lot in life. If she wanted something, she took it by her own merit, even if she had to snatch it away. Her first husband was short-lived and ill-fated, and his family wanted to burn her and her child to ashes? Bah! As if I’d let you! She hid her savings and took her child away from her late husband’s family. With no one to protect them in t
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Could I Really Get Canceled in a Rules-Based Horror Game? 我还能在规则怪谈里塌房不成？
[Infinite-Flow + Rules-Based Horror + Horror Game + Strong Female Team + A Group of People With Questionable Sanity] Just before their debut, the group Shili belonged to was betrayed by a bandmate, who framed them for bullying. Their debut fell through, while the bandmate won netizens’ sympathy and relaunched her career to great success. To this day, Shili’s social media accounts are still flooded with abuse from the other girl’s rabid fans. As luck would have it, in the third year after the com
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Secretly Keeping a Sunny Day 偷藏晴日
[Purely sweet and dark × irresistibly charming bad boy] Fu Liuqi first met Chi Chuanqi at her brother's house. New to the place, she gazed blankly out the window at the unfamiliar streets when a lean, wiry young man deftly climbed over the wall. He wore loose gray clothes with a low neckline, had earphones on, and was stunningly handsome. He seemed to be one of her brother's classmates from vocational school. His voice was gentle, and he smiled as he complimented her name. Before she could blush
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We’re Not That Kind of Master and Disciple 我们不是那样的师徒
[Switching Seme and Uke] [Two Male Leads] [Original Characters Stay in Character] [Book Transmigration] [1v1] Tang Shanyu thought he had simply transmigrated, until his master, Qin Lanshi, who had also transmigrated, told him this wasn’t an ordinary transmigration. It was Book Transmigration, and the novel’s seme and uke were respectively Tang Shanyu’s senior brother and Qin Lanshi’s senior brother. The protagonists’ plot armor was invincible, so the two supporting characters gave up trying. “So
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The Good Parents' Guide to the Battlefield of Love 对抗路上的好父母守则
In small worlds, there are protagonists who are abused in body and spirit, betrayed and abandoned, and eventually turn evil and destroy the world, bringing about the collapse of their world and throwing its energy into chaos. To prevent the small worlds from perishing, the Good Parents System was created, along with a set of rules to guide parents’ behavior. The rules require parents to teach their children love, hope, and courage, helping them grow into kind and upright people so they won’t tur
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Playing a Life Sim in an Otome Game 在乙女游戏里做生活玩家
[Animated comic now available] [There are a thousand kinds of love] [Everyday cultivation + No CP + Cozy + Not a power fantasy] "Want to fall in love? Then come to [Die Without Romance]! Gentle, tsundere, alluring, aloof, gloomy, masters, senior and junior fellow disciples, half-demons... Whatever you like, we've got it! Come and win them over!" Su Tangxing: No, thank you. She'd rather live a good life and enjoy her cultivation. References: Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, Baopuzi, Classic o
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Your Highness the Regent, Is Your Assassin Missing a Few Marbles? 摄政王殿下，你家杀手缺根筋！
After Jiu Yue died, the System told her that once she completed her mission, she could return to the real world with a reward of ten billion. Jiu Yue, who had been grumbling about her identity as an assassin, smiled sweetly. “Who says transmigrating is a bad thing? This is amazing!” However, a time-space delay kept the System from transmigrating with her, and it hadn't had time to explain the mission in full. But Jiu Yue didn't think that mattered. She was an assassin, after all. How hard could
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She Stumbled Into a School for Nobles, but All She Wants Is to Make Money! 误入贵族学校，她只想搞钱！
[Sweet group-adored romance, a story of redemption, also known as: The Heroine Only Wants to Make Money] Santoria is a private aristocratic academy attended by the children of wealthy merchants, scholarly families, and politicians. While students at ordinary schools bury themselves in problem sets, hoping to get into a good college, these young masters and young ladies must learn how to expand their networks and uphold their families’ reputations. Power, money, connections, and resources are top
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