What Do Books for Middle-Aged Men Actually Look Like? 适合中年大叔看的书到底长什么样
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Period: Pretty Educated Youths Have All Come to My Backyard 年代：漂亮女知青都进了我家后院
(No System, no space, a satisfying period novel, a new work from a veteran author) Chen Junsheng wakes up and finds himself back in 1981, at the turning point of his fate. He comes first in the county in the college entrance exam preliminary selection, only for someone else to take his place? He’ll take it back! His family has four female educated youths with powerful connections, and you expect him to start from nothing and keep his head down? No way! A man won’t grow rich without a windf
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- 2 Reborn, My Goddess Counselor Wants to Have My Baby 重生后，女神辅导员要给我生孩子 Chen Jianghe leaped from the 89th floor and, against all odds, was reborn. It was 2006. The stock market was booming, the property market was thriving, the economy was hot, and opportunities were everywhere. That year, Chen Jianghe had just started his freshman year of college. “Chen Jianghe, your courage in confessing your feelings last night was admirable. But you’ve only just started college, and it’s too soon to be dating. I hope you’ll focus your energy on your studies. Once you enter the 35.7kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
- 3 The Little Country Doctor 乡村小神医 Ma Xiaojian’s older brother, Ma Dazhuang, was tricked into going to Southeast Asia. For three years, there was no word from him. When news finally came, he had been detained at a casino and couldn’t get away. When his sister-in-law, Hu Guilan, heard what had happened, she became so distressed that she fainted on a field path. In desperation, Ma Xiaojian used the “Nine Heavenly Physician Needles” taught to him by an old master doctor and did everything he could to revive her. With his family i 5.1kReads9.2Score703Shelves
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Thunderous Crackdown on Black Crime in the Political Arena 官场之雷霆扫黑
The chessboard of power, every move calculated, every step taken on thin ice. No matter how cautious you are, you can never guard against everything. Li Yan, a community officer at a local police station, starts from the very bottom. He refuses to buckle under pressure and fears no powerful figures. With thunderous force, he uproots every criminal gang and underworld faction. Step by step, he rises to the pinnacle of power!
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The Begonias Bloom for You Again 海棠今又为君开
[Historical Romance + Sweet Romance + National and Family Feuds] In her previous life, Xiuyi trusted a scumbag and agreed to marry him, only to be pushed into a pond by a scheming white lotus and drown! Reborn, she opened a clinic, saved her father and brothers, kicked the scumbag to the curb, and schemed to have the white lotus die a gruesome death in prison. The cold-faced marquis, whose power held sway over the realm, drew her into his arms: “Don't worry! With me here, everything will be your
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Spiritual Qi Revival: Starting to Slay Evil in a Mountain Village 灵气复苏，从山村斩邪开始
As spiritual qi revival swept the world, night grew unnaturally dark and ghostly flames spread across the land. A hundred ghosts roamed at night, and myriad races descended upon the world. Lin Fan happened upon a rusty sword that passed on its power to him. He unearthed ancient cultivation manuals and shared them with his village companions. Wild boars mutated, skeletons crawled from their graves, and ghosts attacked at night. A hundred ghosts slaughtered the village as the myriad races fought f
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The Foolish Lad’s Country Romance 傻小子的乡村情缘
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Me, a Menial, Cultivating into an Immortal Through Lies and Scams 我，杂役，靠坑蒙拐骗修成仙
No System, no transmigration! This book is absurd and hilarious! Li Ergou, a shameless country boy, stumbles upon immortals fighting in the back hills. He avoids getting mixed up in the killing and settles for looting, scoring a space stone that can hold living creatures and a storage ring for free. From then on, he becomes hooked on cultivation. A fortune-teller tricks him into going to the Yihong Brothel to sell himself as a servant. Instead, he meets a down-and-out immortal maiden and learns
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Sixty-Year-Old Lovers: The Past of Maitreya 60岁恋人：弥勒往事
At the age of sixty, he jumped into a shallow pool where the water barely reached his thighs. The water was shallow, but he didn't know that. Just as he didn't know that this jump would bring him together with a thirty-seven-year-old divorced woman, that they would have a child, and that he would pursue her from Hefei to Nanjing, then on to Shenzhen. Later, someone asked him, "Why jump when the water was so shallow?" He said, "Because that person was about to fall in." What matters isn't how d
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Spring Winds in Winter 冬季有春风
[Female Growth] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Turning the Tables Against the Odds] [Realistic] A girl battered by her dysfunctional family wants nothing more than to save the naive young boy who loves her. Life in the cramped alleyways is always the same, while the surging tide of the times takes everyone by surprise. In the winter at the end of the century, the gears of Xu Chunfeng's fate quietly began to turn.
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- 11 Late-Night Delivery, Roadside Ghost 深夜外卖，拦路鬼 Late-Night Food Delivery: The Ghost Blocking the Road —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Taoist Came Down the Mountain to Give His Heart Away, Then Got Scammed Out of 98,000 Yuan in an Online Romance 道士下山把心搭，网恋被骗九万八
(Fast-paced, light comedy, no horror, packed with laughs from start to finish, no memes) On his first day down the mountain, he got swindled out of 98,000 yuan by his online girlfriend. On the second, his landlord kicked him out. On the third, he was drugged on a blind date. His name is Nan Feng, a trainee in the Daoist sect. To earn enough merit to return to the mountain and receive his ordination certificate, he gritted his teeth and started taking jobs in the city to exorcise spirits and perf
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Star Martial Firmament 1 星武苍穹1
In the future Solar System, humanity colonizes the stars, only to accidentally awaken a slumbering martial civilization. To save his younger sister, who suffers from a genetic disease, young Lin Fan resolutely embarks on a perilous journey into astral martial arts. As technology and martial arts converge among the stars, the story takes readers on a tour of the Solar System’s magnificent vistas, lets them experience the boundless allure of martial arts, and shows them the light and darkness of h
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Tales of Nanyang’s Old Town 南阳老城往事
Memories of a bizarre and absurd era, somewhere in the 1980s and 1990s. A girl vanishes into thin air; two murders over a pair of corneas, with a condemned woman repaying her debt at the execution ground; a thousand-year-old pottery shard traps a rich heir for life; a murder in a narrow alley shrouded in mystery; a disfigured old man fishes for ghosts by the river; a family’s secret history spanning half a century... These stories offer more than an eerie atmosphere. They focus on the suffering,
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- 15 True Love Can’t Stand the Light, So She Married a Fool 真爱见光死，她嫁给傻子 At nineteen, He Yang met Chen Mo for the first time. Her card got swallowed, and she grabbed him by the sleeve. The restraint of a middle-aged man and the recklessness of a young woman threw everything into chaos from that day on. She married a fool as a cover, just so she could stay by his side. Years later, when she had everything, she finally realized that the person she loved had never been him. It was the respectable life that man represented, a life beyond her reach. Amusingly, the fool wh 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Southern Border Witch Is So Possessive, She Wants to Marry Me the Moment We Meet 南疆巫女太偏执，奔现就要定终身 Lu Yan, a second-year college student, meets an online friend named A-Wu on an anonymous social platform in his spare time. They hit it off chatting through the screen. Lu Yan is only looking for a bit of entertainment, and casually says plenty of sweet, affectionate things, never imagining anyone would take them seriously. He never could have guessed that the girl on the other side of the screen came from an ancient Nuo-witch village in southern Xinjiang, cut off from the outside world. The vil 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Late-Night Delivery: The Old Pervert 深夜外卖之老色鬼 Late-Night Food Delivery: The Old Lecher —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Great Tang's Number One Menace 大唐第一祸害
His Majesty Li Er was furious. “My machine-gun company has been lured away by that little menace again?!” A minister replied carefully, “Your Majesty, the Japanese envoy was a month behind on his liquor tab at Wangfujing, so the Crown Prince… the Crown Prince just…” Li Er looked disdainful. “Nonsense! Japan is a friendly neighbor of our Great Tang. They’re only a little behind on payment. Would he really go that far?” The minister answered cautiously, “Your Majesty… the debt is 108,000 strings o
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A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生
This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake
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- 20 I Held It In for Thirty Years, Until My Daughter Said, 'Dad, You Should Leave' 我忍了三十年，直到女儿说：爸，你走吧 I Endured for Thirty Years, Until My Daughter Said, "Dad, You Should Go" 140Reads—Score—Shelves
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Choose a Hero to Change History? Hold On, Let Me Try First 选英雄改变历史？等等，我先逝逝
When a major figure of an era runs into serious trouble, history is left with regrets. To set history right, the protagonist, Xi Zixin, is basically useless, so he has to rely on historical figures summoned from other eras to turn the tide and resolve those lingering regrets. The White-Haired Army of the Tang Dynasty, the Battle of Baoning in the Southern Ming, the First Emperor burning books and burying scholars...
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- 22 A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案 This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle, 31.9kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 23 After Three Years in Retirement Back in the Village, I Lost but Was Not Defeated 退休回村三年，我输了但没有败 After retiring, I was sent back to my hometown to serve as the village's First Secretary. I had barely reached the village entrance when someone smashed a jar at me: “Huai Shu Village doesn't welcome you!” An old flame brought me a bowl of fish soup, with a letter at the bottom that had never been sent, forty years ago. Someone sent an anonymous report to the disciplinary inspection committee, accusing me of misconduct. Three months on the clock. Nobody believes me. Three years later, the person 97Reads—Score—Shelves
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Transmigrating to the Warring States: Two Rice Balls in the Second Year of Eiroku 穿越战国：永禄二年的两个饭团
Sengoku Japan, in the second year of Eiroku. Two rice balls save a life. No System, no golden finger. Only increasingly hazy knowledge of the future, a bold yet cautious way of handling affairs, and a man from a later age who rises from humble beginnings. Starting with nothing, he survives the chaos, stands tall, and fights his way to prominence, eventually vying for supremacy in the Sengoku era. He studies medicine and builds castles, trains in swordsmanship and spearmanship, and learns the p
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Reborn in 1958: Grandpa and Grandson Stockpile for the Famine Together 重生58爷孙空间联动囤爆灾荒年
Peng Yi built his fortune from nothing, amassing billions, only to have his own children pull the plug and abandon him in his final years. He died full of hatred. Kneeling before the grave of his beloved Su Wanqing as he drew his last breath, he learned that she had once carried his child. At just twenty-three, she had died in a famine, and mother and child had suffered every hardship life could bring! Heaven had shown mercy: Peng Yi was reborn in 1958, on the eve of their flight from famine! A
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- 26 Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙 In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s 789Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Days as a Bandit at the End of the Ming 我在明末当贼寇那些事儿
(Farming, contending for supremacy, slow burn, no System, not a single female lead.) Transmigrated into the body of an impoverished scholar in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Wendong faces a choice when bandits overrun his county: Die by the blade. Or join the bandits. In troubled times, it's better to be a bandit who holds territory than one who roams. Other rebel armies seize grain, money, and women, sweeping up starving peasants and using them to snowball their forces. Li Wendong does th
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The Heavenly Kingdom: The Rise of an Imperial Dynasty 天国王朝：帝朝崛起
This is the legendary life of God's agent, entrusted with shepherding His flock! From a modern transmigrator to a medieval infant, he relied on the Mount & Blade System and his own strategic brilliance to break free from constraints, defend the Holy City, establish an empire, and change the course of history for both the Crusaders and the Islamic world. (Early game: using Mount & Blade to break through; mid-game: political scheming; late game: cyberpunk space opera)
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- 29 I’m Being Hunted Across the City for Pursuing an Old Guy 为追老登，我被全城搜捕 I Went on the Run from the Whole City to Pursue an Old Geezer 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Soul of Tang Returns to the Righteous Cause 归义唐魂 To the west, he allied with his uncle’s Yutian Kingdom; to the east, he reclaimed eleven prefectures of Helong. He drove the Uyghurs north and secured the Tianshan Mountains; looking south toward Chang’an, he reclaimed the old frontiers. Gunpowder shattered the Tibetan ranks; iron cavalry trampled the Khitan camps. The Three Stars Banner swept across Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the Han realm’s sky was opened anew beneath the sun and moon. 1.6kReads—Score144Shelves
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A Thousand Roads of Turmoil 千路风云
Let this book serve as a warning: the only way to win is not to gamble! A true look at the methods used by Qianmen card cheats, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Games and Seventy-Two Earthly Games, and the tricks used to rig them! The plain and simple way is always best!
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- 32 Arriving in Southern Ming, an Engineering Student Crushes the Qing and Restores China 来到南明，工科生横扫满清复华夏 In the first year of the Hongguang reign, Jiangnan is on the verge of falling. The realm is shattered, and the people are displaced. A modern engineering expert unexpectedly arrives in the storm-tossed chaos of the Southern Ming. The land is divided among warlords, powerful enemies press at its borders, and the old and new dynasties take turns on the stage. He has no peerless martial arts, but he possesses engineering, manufacturing, and scientific knowledge far ahead of his time. He gathers dis 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
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The Reservoir of Returning Waters 回流之坝
Does surviving tribulation have to mean facing a lightning tribulation? It could also mean a trial of love! In a world of spiritual energy, every stale cultivation trope is cast aside. A middle-aged man steps into a secret realm in his mortal body, exploring it one step at a time until his soul and body are completely set free. As he investigates the spiritual energy beneath heaven and earth, he uncovers the ultimate truth hidden from the world.
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- 34 My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居 My Eerie Neighbor 254Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 On My Last Day, I Was Called in for a Talk 最后一天，我被喊去谈话 On My Last Day, I Was Called in for a Talk 633Reads—Score—Shelves
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Hell's Watchdog 深渊看门狗
The city gates open at night, the living face certain death, kin turn against kin, and corpse slaves storm the city. Do you know what it means when all four happen at once? It means the prefectural city you depend on for survival has become a living coffin. The world has gone rotten. Those who wear human skin but act like monsters are waiting to hammer the final nails into it. The old folks say that when calamity strikes a whole family, you either die on your knees or live like a madman. Others
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- 37 An Engineering Student Ventures into the Late Ming 工科小伙闯明末 A middle-aged bachelor, beaten down by society and thwarted at every turn in the modern world, with no connections to his name but plenty of knowledge and ability, is accidentally transported to the Chongzhen era at the end of the Ming dynasty. Relying on his modern knowledge while adapting to the era’s actual technological and industrial capabilities, he works hard to quietly change history and prevent China’s decline. 2.8kReads7.8Score196Shelves
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I Became a Billionaire, but They Sent Me to a Mental Hospital 成了亿万富翁，我却被送进精神病
In the early 1980s, Dugu Feng's father lost his iron rice bowl, and the family was so poor they could barely put food on the table. With no other choice, Dugu Feng gritted his teeth and took his whole family out to do backbreaking labor, starting by taking on the small construction jobs no one else wanted from contractors. He was an honest man who never cut corners, and his work was excellent. Little by little, he made a name for himself in the trade. From a small-time contractor to founding a
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- 39 Folk Customs Record: Chen the Paper Effigy Maker 民俗录：纸扎陈 There's an old saying in western Hunan: “Better to walk through a mass grave at night than cross the Paper Effigy Chen family.” When Chen Ming woke up, he found himself lying in a thin-walled coffin. Paper figures all around the room were smiling at him. He was the last living member of the Paper Effigy Chen family. For three generations, his ancestors had made paper effigies for a living, but the Chen family didn't just make paper people and horses... They shaped souls. They shaped rules. They 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人 Fate: A Woman's Atonement 76Reads—Score—Shelves
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Childhood Friend Vs. School Belle: Let This Old Man Feel Young Again 青梅vs校花且让老夫聊发少年狂
[An Ordinary Path for an Ordinary Man] Meng Bo, a middle-aged has-been, is reborn and returns to that summer when even eating meat was a luxury. In his previous life, despite his kind heart, he was a complete and utter failure!!! Given the incredible good fortune of getting another life, the first thing he does is resolve to take a path completely different from the one he took before. He grabs his childhood sweetheart’s hand: “Xiao Zhao, this time around, I’ll make sure you eat well and drink y
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Heading to the Northeast: Lin Erni's Bumpy Road to Happiness 闯关东：林二妮的颠簸幸福路
[No contrived twists] [No cheat powers] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Rural] [Hardship] [Inspirational] Lin Erni was born in Heze, Shandong, and married into Harbin in the Northeast. She struggled to get by amid the freezing snow in the mountains, then later had no one to rely on and went alone beyond the mountains to make a living. The first time, she was tossed from one place to another like a bag of steamed buns, made a child bride, and beaten and cursed. The second time, her father sol
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- 43 Peninsula: My Girl Group Exorcism Diary 半岛：我的女团驱魔日记 In a modern world where spiritual energy has run dry, Chen Ming, who has cultivated to the peak, goes on a trip to the peninsula, only to stumble into a story about a peninsula teeming with ghosts and monsters! Obsessions and starlight intertwine as he gently protects those around him! (This is a story about helping girl idols drive out evil spirits while falling in love with them! Multiple heroines! A harem novel!) 1.1kReads—Score131Shelves
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The Void Dream of the Dao Source 道源虚梦
They seek the Heavenly Dao and trace everything back to its source. Is it all an illusion, or does it truly exist? The humans living in the world today are so weak. They have no control over birth, aging, sickness, or death. Mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas are impassable barriers, and they need outside tools just to travel. Yet who could have imagined that humans were not native to Blue Star? It is almost impossible to believe... In the Primordial Era, humans crossed countless starfields to a
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- 45 1970s Space: A Transmigrated Daughter and Her Reborn Mother 七零空间：穿越闺女重生妈 [Period] [The 1970s] [Transmigration] [Space] [Reborn] [Mutual devotion] [A touch of ensemble cast] [Educated youth] [Two worlds connected] She opens her eyes and has transmigrated into a book set in the 1970s. Even the paper character's slap across her face hurts like hell. She has become a short-lived cannon-fodder character. Damn it! This woman is going to defy fate and change her destiny! 46.5kReads8.9Score3.4kShelves
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On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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- 47 Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年 My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt 1.9kReads8.9Score163Shelves
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Dual Transmigration: From Mortal to Immortal 双穿：从凡人到仙人
[Comedic and Lighthearted] [the Myriad Worlds] [Multiple Heroines] [Spatial Powers] Which matters more, bone structure or bloodline? Some say bone structure, since possessing an unusual bone can grant supernatural abilities. After Wang Wen got a ring, he learned that all supernatural abilities came from bloodlines, and only those with bloodlines could become mighty cultivators of supernatural powers. Thanks to his bloodline, he inherited the legacy of Dong Wang Gong from the Primordial World, an
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After Winning a Hundred Million, I Became My Company's Savior 中奖一个亿后，我成了公司救世主
[The rating just came out, but it'll slowly improve! No risk in getting on board!] Shen Yanshen casually bought two lottery tickets and won a hundred million. His miserable working life was over for good, and from then on he lived in a mansion and drove a Mercedes. His ex-girlfriend, who had once looked down on him for being poor, came back in tears, begging him to take her back. Shen Yanshen kicked her a hundred meters away. “Get as far away as you can. Can't you see I'm washing my wife's feet?
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The Age of Turmoil 折腾时代
Life is all about taking chances! In that restless age, Li Anran works in a big city, and her dream is about to come true. But when she returns to Qinzhou for a funeral, she's practically put under house arrest and told to stay and work in the small city. Zhang Huifei has the talent to get into one of China's top universities, but he unexpectedly fails the college entrance exam. To make sure his sister Li Anran can stay in Qinzhou without worries, he starts stirring things up... As a result, Li
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