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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Wild and Desirable! The Capital’s Heir Spoils Her Like a Little Princess 很野很欲！被京圈太子宠成小公主
[Male Lead Steals the Girl + Second Male Lead Chases His Wife to the Crematorium + Both Pure] [Rugged, Sensual, Wild and Wicked Suit-Wearing Bruiser x Slender, Soft, Fair and Beautiful Qipao Siren] Su Yanxi and Gu Yanze were betrothed as children. When she was nine, a major family crisis forced her to live with the Gu family. Under the Chinese scholar tree, a boy held a basketball and smiled brightly as he popped a White Rabbit candy into her mouth. “Little Crybaby, don’t cry. Big Brother will t
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Grandmaster Zun 大师尊
A seasoned old hand from the martial world transmigrates into the cultivation world. Thanks to his wife's connections, he gets into an immortal sect. Senior sisters, junior sisters, saintesses, grand elders, sect masters... Pure wish fulfillment, utterly invincible, but not brainless. Overwhelming combat power, a sharp mind, devious beneath a good-guy exterior, and full of schemes. He borrows the tiger's skin to wave a great banner, winning people over with virtue. He throws lime in their eyes a
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The Neighbor's Young Wife Schemed Against Me and Ruined Half My Life 隔壁小媳妇算计我，毁我半生
[Period drama] [Northeastern factory district] [Forbidden affair] [Deception and schemes] [Pregnancy troubles] [Long-buried secrets] [Redemption through guilt] [A painfully realistic tragedy] In a northeastern chemical factory neighborhood in the 1980s, the life of honest factory worker Jia Jun is ruined by the young wife next door! One act of misplaced trust draws him into the enormous lie Su Min has spun. One wrong step, and he's trapped in a forbidden affair, lost beyond redemption! An unexpe
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My Ninety-Eight Transmigrations 我的九十八次穿越
[Transmigration + history + wild imagination + ensemble cast + fantasy] One moment of carelessness led her to recite a spell from a book, reconstructed from the Xia dynasty. Then she transmigrated. Not once. Ninety-eight times. Every time, she thought she was going to die. The air in the Xia dynasty was so pure it felt like a vacuum, and she nearly suffocated. In a Shang dynasty market, she was mistaken for a monster and nearly seized for a sacrifice. In a palace of the late Tang, she watched S
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I Have an Immortal Mountain in the Countryside 我在乡下有座仙山
[Urban cultivation + rural underdog comeback + thrilling wish fulfillment] Zhang Wei, a poor young man from the depths of the mountains, was patient and devoted to his parents from childhood. But on his third-year college birthday, a rich classmate set him up and beat him to death. He thought his life had ended, but a gray stone slab that gathered souls, hidden in a cave in the backyard vegetable garden of his family home, pulled him back from the morgue. It also unexpectedly unlocked a vast tro
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Sunny Skies Above the Humble Life 鸡毛之上有晴天
[Marriage and love] [Heartbreak] [Betrayal] [Comeback] [Redemption] [The truth about marriage] [Urban romance] [Realistic relationships] [Healing] A broken marriage has worn away every last trace of warmth, leaving two lives utterly out of step! He fought his way up from being a low-level technician at a chemical plant, only to have his own brother steal his hard work and stab him in the back! His former lover suffers through pregnancy; old love and hatred entangle them, betrayal cuts deep, devo
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The Supernaturally Gifted 神通者
Among the living things of this world, some are born with strange bones. These bones can be inscribed with wondrous arts, granting their bearers immense power: conjuring fire and wind, summoning thunder and lightning, swallowing the sun and plucking stars, suppressing demons and imprisoning gods. These are Divine Ability Bones. Those born with such bones are called... Divine Ability Users.
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A Single Man Is a Flower at Fifty-One 单身男人五十一枝花
In middle age, Ding Changsheng unexpectedly discovered that his wife, whom he had loved dearly for nearly thirty years, had stayed in touch with her first love all along. Though she hadn’t cheated on him, he still decisively chose to divorce her. From then on, he began a very different life… This novel has been adapted into a short drama. Please check it out.
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Life Restart: Back to the End of Middle School 人生重启：回到中考结束后
Science has proven that the human body can be cloned, but can the soul be cloned too? Perhaps everyone simply keeps reincarnating in the long river of life, with all their memories disappearing at the moment of death. In 2039, Xu Ming, who had spent his whole life as a corporate drone, finally died of illness one year after retiring. When he opened his eyes, he hadn’t become a newborn baby. Instead, carrying all his memories, he had returned to the day he finished his high school entrance exams
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Red Sky: The Dynasty Cycle 赤霄：王朝周期律
Note: This is an epic war story. Don’t see that the protagonists are two men and assume it’s the sort of “two male leads” story some female readers enjoy. It isn’t! There are two male protagonists named here only because there isn’t room to list more than a dozen. Each subsequent volume will have its own protagonist, and the complete story will feature more than a dozen protagonists. Each protagonist belongs to a different historical period. Faced with the crises of their time, whether struggles
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Nest of Thoughts 思窝
As fake data on the internet spiraled out of control, a phenomenon in which bad money drove out good spread like cancer across major online platforms, spilling from the virtual world into the real one. When things reach an extreme, they must turn around. As the pendulum of history changed direction, the GeoNet, blending the virtual and the real, came into being and opened a new chapter in the age… This book portrays the vision of the creators of Siwo for the future.
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In 1975, I Went to the Countryside to Escape Disaster 1975年我下乡避祸
This is not a feel-good power fantasy. There is no pocket dimension, no System, no rebirth, and no transmigration. The times are turbulent, and the road ahead is uncertain. To protect Li Chengxiao, his family bears the pain of sending him to the countryside for an assigned rural posting, away from danger. Alone, he puts down roots in the village, enduring hardship and lying low with quiet resolve. With his unique insight and steady temperament, he establishes himself amid adversity, discreetly b
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The Guanshan Pact 关山契
On the western frontier, yellow sands bury the dead, and honor is as fragile as paper. The young Zhao Tianhao was merely a merchant’s son from Ping Wharf. With a heart full of sincerity, he kept his contracts, protected his family business, and brought peace to his neighbors. Yet the crushing might of the war-torn age destroyed his household, driving him to abandon trade and take up arms. He entered the death camp, managed military rations, trained a corps of death-defying soldiers, and defended
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Corruption in the Immortal Realm: I Use the System to Rewrite the Laws of Heaven 仙界反腐：我用系统重构天道规则
The protagonist, Shi Yongxing, was an upright, incorruptible junior inspector in the Immortal Realm. Because he refused to join in the corruption, he was framed for murder and cast into a perilous situation on the brink of death. At the very last moment, he unexpectedly bonded with the [Heavenly Dao Credit System] from a higher dimension. The System informed him that the current Immortal Realm, and even the rules of the Heavenly Dao as a whole, had been seriously corrupted. Immortal officials fo
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The Late 1990s: Women Are Everything to Me, and I'm Everything to Women 九十年代末，女人为我，我为女人
In the late 1990s, Wang Ershu, a college graduate with no connections whatsoever, got a job as a sales representative at a fertilizer plant. Two years later, he was laid off. By chance, he met several women who would change his life, and at last he found a goal worth striving for. They helped one another, grew together, and each found what they were looking for... His ex-girlfriend became his trusted assistant, his former sister-in-law became his current girlfriend, and a wealthy heiress became
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Medical Prodigy: A Legend Rises in the Mountain Village 医学天才，山村崛起传奇
A genius who stood at the pinnacle of modern medicine was accidentally reborn as a fool in a remote mountain village. Armed with astonishing medical skills, he is nevertheless trapped amid poverty, ignorance, and a web of mysteries. This is the story of his rise, using his miraculous healing hands to transform a village, a city, and an entire nation, until he influences an era. It is also a journey to uncover the mystery of his original body’s origins and find redemption for himself.
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Long Nights in the Village 村夜漫漫
[Rural Life] [Building Wealth] [Multiple Heroines] [Political Power Struggles] [Miracle Doctor] To protect the neighbor girl who had always looked after him from being bullied, the fool Chen Xiaobei was beaten up by the village bully. By a twist of fate, however, he learned an incredible martial art. From then on, with unparalleled medical skills in his left hand and peerless martial arts in his right, he became invincible. Who else could rule the world but him? He was destined for the pinnacle
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He Ended Up at a Widow's House 他穿到了寡妇家
Because of the wicked eldest uncle’s scheme, the original Wen Liang inexplicably died in a widow’s bed. Wen Liang from the apocalypse happened to transmigrate into his body, beat up the widow, then went back and gave the Wen family a thorough beating. But the people at the Wen family’s old home were like vampires, setting their sights on Wen Liang’s family. Later, the original’s younger sister, Wen Yu, was also framed by the eldest uncle and the widow, forced to become someone’s concubine, and d
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The Cunning Woman at Work 职场心机女
Born in the countryside, Jiang Xiaoyan enters the workforce after graduating from college. She stumbles through one setback after another, facing rejection wherever she goes. One night, she gets drunk and a kind stranger arranges for her to spend the night at a hotel. But she goes into the wrong room and spends the night with a man she doesn't know. She falls in love, marries into a wealthy family, and, in a dramatic twist, her best friend becomes her mother-in-law. From then on, she defies fate
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Tales of Xizhou in the 1980s 80年代西州往事
This is a story about youth, and a story about growing up. It is filled with passionate brotherhood, the innocent love of childhood sweethearts, clashes of steel in the streets and alleys, and the struggles and choices people face in the tides of a changing era. Most importantly, it captures the warmth unique to that time: the unreserved sincerity between people, a purity that seems almost like a luxury today.
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization 修真文明指南
With two feet, I kick open the road through this mortal world; upon my shoulders, I bear all the sorrows of ages past and present. Do not say that having no desires is the Dao. Even without desire, one barrier still remains. The path of cultivation is hard, so hard that it seems harder than climbing to the heavens. This is the common view people have of cultivation. But is overcoming hardship really all that fuels people's dreams of the world of cultivation? Perhaps, at the very beginning, what
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 1, The Prelude to the Mystic Thunder 修真文明指南——序章1，玄雷前传
A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 1, The Prelude to Xuan Lei
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The Meridian Healer 子午道医
No System, no harem, no mindless grandstanding, no brainless villains, no immortal fantasy cultivation, and no contrived misunderstandings. The story focuses throughout on treating the sick, saving lives, solving crises, exposing fraud, and spreading the teachings. Clean and compelling, it’s perfect for following over the long haul.
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Reborn and Awakened: The High Firmament Emperor System Helps Me Reach the Summit 重生觉醒：凌霄帝尊系统助我踏巅
The eldest legitimate son of the Su family, a second-rate clan in Xuanzhou, was born with an astonishing spiritual root and unmatched cultivation talent. A heaven-blessed genius the likes of which the Su family had not seen in a century, he was raised from childhood as the hope of the family’s rise, with a boundless future ahead of him. But he was blind to the truth and far too trusting, placing his faith in two ungrateful snakes: his stepmother, Liu Yuru, and his half-brother, Su Mingxuan. The
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A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, A Lonely Road to Immortality 修真文明指南——序章2，仙途陌路
A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 2, The Immortal Path Diverges
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A Wife's Revenge 妻子的报复
[Adapted into two short dramas] A torn-open condom wrapper shattered her faith in love and all her romantic illusions. In an instant, the beliefs she had clung to collapsed completely. Li Man discovered that her husband had not only cheated on her, but had also hidden their assets and even planned to frame her so she would leave the marriage with nothing. Faced with her husband's betrayal, Li Man began her relentless revenge!
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My Girlfriend Is Such a Drama Queen 我的女友是戏精
Gu Yan, a self-disciplined investment banker, has spent his whole life putting data first and being so rational he’s practically rigid. He’s lived like a perfectly precise clock, only to fall for the theatrical Su Xiaoye and completely lose his cool! A legendary scene unfolds at their blind date: Su Xiaoye arrives half an hour late, assumes her date has already left, flops down on the sofa, and starts scrolling through her phone. She sends a voice message complaining, "The guy my mom set me up w
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A Retired Football Star Goes to College: Who Dares Call Me Old? 退役球星上大学，谁敢嫌我老？
[Retired football star + sweet unrequited love + face-slapping comeback + realistic entrepreneurship + superstar team-ups] A retired football star goes to university, where the campus belle counselor is the woman of his dreams At 28, retired Serie A star Su Muyang teaches himself enough to get into university, hoping only to enjoy a quiet retirement. But the mysterious goddess who keeps appearing in his dreams turns out to be Lin Anning, his counselor! Their tender glances in class and walks s
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Cultivating Immortality in the City: I Rule the Universe 都市修真，我主宰了宇宙
Lin Chen, a top student in the computer science department at Huaqing University, is assigned to work as a security guard after being given a hard time by the vice president of the Su Group. He awakens the Urban Cultivation Sign-in System and teams up with his college classmates and close friends to start a business and cultivate. He defeats a host of villains, including the hypocritical elders of the Xuanqing Sect, the leader of the Western Dark Alliance, his cousin, and his uncle back home. He
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Reborn in 2005, She Dumps the Jerk and Marries a Tycoon 重生2005，她踹了渣男嫁首富
[Dual rebirth + no golden fingers + revenge + wish fulfillment] After Tan Qian is angered to death, she is reborn in 2005, on the day she was wrongly accused of murder. She settles every score and takes revenge on every enemy. Not only does she reclaim what belongs to her, she also sends her scumbag boyfriend and third sister to prison. “Girl, aren't you in love with my husband? He's all yours!” ~ After her mother is imprisoned, Qin Yiyi's life falls from heaven into the depths of hell. Her fami
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The Feast at Hongmen 楚汉鸿门宴
A new story is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Carefree Young Prince Rises 逍遥小世子崛起
While carrying out a special mission for China, Song Yang was killed in action. Fortunately, he transmigrated into the body of a good-for-nothing official’s son in a different time and place in ancient times. Armed with his modern memories, he lay low until he had learned the rules of this world, then began his journey to turn his life around: crushing the Xiongnu, pacifying Jiaozhi, and rising to marquis and chancellor...
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Unemployed at 30, I Revitalized a Century-Old... with the System 30失业，我靠系统盘活了百年老
At thirty, Chen Yu’s life hits rock bottom. After seven years with the company, he’s laid off in the name of “optimization.” His boss, Zhang Tao, steals the old-town revitalization plan he spent half a year developing. His girlfriend of many years thinks he’s a loser and turns around to date the enemy who took everything from him. With nowhere left to go, he moves back to the old stone-paved alley his grandfather left him. He accidentally cuts his finger, and his blood drips onto an ancestral co
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After the Divorce, Her Springtime Begins 离婚后，她的春天来了
After Tang Ning got pregnant, she quit her job and became a full-time housewife. She thought she would live an ordinary life, but a single condom shattered her peaceful existence. Faced with her husband's affair and his mistress pressuring him to marry her, should Tang Ning stay in a loveless marriage for the sake of her child, or divorce her husband for her own sake?
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Peaceful Days in the Siheyuan 四合院岁月静好
In a courtyard in 1965, there are no petty squabbles, no shrews screaming in the street, no scheming, and no affairs. Everyone is simply doing their best to get by. Here, life is peaceful and the years are serene!
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Nonlinear Breakout 非线性突围
This is a long realist novel about the workplace and life. Through Wang Yao's three major career changes, it portrays work and daily life in different periods. It captures every bitter and sweet moment, every joy and sorrow. Come read it on Tomato Novel; I hope you enjoy it. I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions
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My Sixteen-Year-Old White Moonlight 我的16岁白月光
Modern city romance, pure love, slice of life, feel-good male-oriented fiction, campus romance, campus belle, first love, mother-in-law, fiancée, heiresses from Beijing's elite families. Contemporary romance, the husband-chasing crematorium trope.
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After Being Driven Mad, She Took Revenge on Her Whole Family 被逼成疯批后，她报复了全家
[Revenge] [Both Leads Are Each Other's First] [Redemption] [Feel-Good Story] [Happy Ending] To seize the Su family's wealth, Chen Wei, a man who married into the family for money, plotted to kill his father-in-law and mother-in-law, then pushed his wife down the stairs. His daughter, Su Ying, had the surname Su, not Chen. To him, that was a disgrace. Her very existence constantly reminded him of the humiliating days he had spent in the Su family. So he wanted to get rid of her as soon as possibl
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Ten Scumbags and a Woman Who Hates Cilantro 10个渣男不吃香菜的女人
The story of a young woman's growth and her ten men. At its heart is the story of how one woman navigates her way among men, exploring how women in modern society view marriage and love!
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Liu Siyue's Life of Love and Passion 刘思悦的风月人生
That summer, Liu Siyue left the endless mountains and boarded a long-distance bus bound for the south. She thought the cities ahead were brimming with opportunity, unaware that an elaborate trap awaited her. From a rented room to a nightclub, from an innocent young girl to a nightclub floor manager, she encountered tenderness and endured blades. In this sleepless city, she gradually saw through the rules, even as she gradually lost sight of herself. When protection became imprisonment, and admir
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The Young People of Chemen Courtyard 车门院里的年轻人
This is a symphony of destinies spanning generations. In a small courtyard in northern China in the 1970s, several families struggle and drift with the tides of the times. Lei Shaxiao, an orphan whose parents died young, falls in love with Aiai, another orphan from the neighboring courtyard. They were an ordinary couple, but amid the raging currents of the era, Shaxiao rises to become a renowned lawyer who commands the room. Money, power, and desire come one after another. He loses himself in th
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Picking Up a Wife on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway: My Story with a Budget Traveler 川藏线捡媳妇：我和穷游女的故事
I’m well into my thirties, out of work, and my wife has left me. I watched outdoor vloggers on short-video apps making money while cuddling up to women, and slapped my thigh: Why shouldn’t I be able to do that? I gritted my teeth and bought a secondhand camper van. I called it chasing poetry and distant horizons, then hit National Highway 318. Really, I just wanted to see if I could find myself a wife along the Sichuan-Tibet route. Who would have thought I’d find all kinds of stories instead
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This Chaotic Life 这混沌的生活
Zhang Tingting and her mother, Su Yuqing, depend on each other. For her daughter’s sake, Su Yuqing gives herself to her first love. And in her own quest to get ahead, Zhang Tingting betrays her marriage. All character names were chosen to suit the story. Any resemblance to real people with the same names is purely coincidental, so please don’t assume it’s about you.
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The Sinful Sea of the Capital 京门孽海录
The enmity between the Zhao family and the Emperor, the Chancellor, and the Empress has always been a thorn between them. They must trust and work together, yet they keep rubbing against that thorn. Can a unity born of pain endure into the next generation?
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Something's Wrong with This Game: I Became a God by Mining! 这个游戏不对劲，我挖矿成神！
[The Divine Realm descends upon the entire world] Yang Ling, a professional gold farmer, only wanted to relax in the game Divine Realm, but discovered that the environment was harsh and logging off was impossible. With no other choice, for the sake of his own safety, he could only start mining constantly, grinding levels, assigning stat points, and fighting to stay alive!
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The Corruption of Power 堕落的权利
Zhao Qiming, Qian Xiaotong, Qian Xiaoxia, Xu Shou, Xu Wei, He Yali, Han Baihe, Jiang Yan, Wang Dongcheng, Xiao Hua, Bao Yanhong, Bao Yanqing, Duan Yuxin, Shen Peijuan, and many, many others. All the names are fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental, so please do not assume they refer to real people.
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My Scrap Recycling System: It Turns Out to Be a Mouth 我的废品回收系统：竟然是一张嘴
[Comedy + Dumpster Diving + Everyday Life + System + Urban + Wild Imagination + Realistic + Hilarious + Tycoon + Scrap Collecting + Recycling + Getting Rich + Multiple Heroines] Everyone else's Systems are lifeless, but my System, Li Ran's, is alive: a pair of bright red lips. Ever since she came into my life, things have gradually started getting better. Comedy, a System, everyday life, dumpster diving, and meeting all sorts of women: that's Li Ran's daily life. I'm a handsome 32-year-old guy w
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The Herbalist's Jianghu Chronicles 本草江湖录
One flavor, one world of martial arts; one herb, one universe. This book explains all 365 herbs in the Divine Farmer's Classic of Materia Medica in the language of the martial world, one flavor at a time. Each herb gets its own chapter, breaking down its nature and flavor, meridians entered, effects, combinations, and contraindications. Cold, hot, warm, and cool are like four kinds of inner cultivation. Rising, descending, floating, and sinking are like a set of palm techniques. The sovereign, m
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In the Kingdom of Women, I Almost Became King 女儿国，我差点成了国王
By a twist of fate, Jin Xiaofan finds himself in the Daughters’ Kingdom from Journey to the West. He never expected to find romance at every turn. From the queen and princess to the maids and Taoist nuns, they all submit to him.
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