Books These Days Feel So Shallow. Any Stories With Unexpected Twists? 现在的书太没深意了有没有那种让人意料之外的书
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What on Earth Is This? Complete in Two Volumes (The Original Novel Behind the Hit Drama Starring Wang Churan and Cheng Lei) 成何体统:全二册(王楚然、丞磊主演热播影视剧原著)
What is it like to transmigrate into a web novel and become the tyrant's bedmate? After a few simple calculations, Yu Wanyin reached a conclusion: she would have to find another way. In this story full of villains, if she wanted to carve out a path to survival, she had to become the biggest villain of all. First, help the tyrant take down Prince Duan, then take down the tyrant and become empress herself. But when she met the tyrant and carefully considered the strange sense of familiarity in his
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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The Emperor and Empress Fight Every Day to See Who Dies First 帝后每天互殴,看谁先死
Feng Xing is the daughter of Chu Xi’s Grand Marshal, who commands an army of four hundred thousand. Shen Feng has been emperor for just two years. Shen Feng is utterly depraved, ruthless, and cruel. To secure his throne, he decides to marry Feng Xing and make her empress. First, he will fake her death to lure her father to the capital for the funeral. Then he will wipe out her entire family and take control of the Chu Xi army. Feng Xing is a fierce, accomplished warrior who takes whatever she wa
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The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘
That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared.
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I Could Live Off a Woman, Yet I Choose to Slay Demons 明明能吃软饭,我却偏要斩妖除魔
[No System] [Comedy] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain] [Living Off a Rich Woman] The popular-science streamer Lin the Fat Guy, The law-abiding Heavenly Master Qin, Who never gets curious about rich divorcee Xu. And only knows a tiny bit about housekeeper Chen. After twenty years of cultivation without ever encountering a ghost, modern-day Heavenly Master Qin Mo chooses to face reality and accept a beautiful CEO’s offer to keep him. Who could have guessed that ghosts
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Dark Embers: A Lone Blade at Dawn 闇烬:孤刃破晓
Before his graduation internship, Li Bohan was assigned to a small police station in a rural township. He had no family connections, and his grades and performance had been poor. At the station, he spent his days joking around and goofing off, until one call changed his path... (No golden finger. This is pure fiction; any resemblance is purely coincidental. You might want to turn your brain off while reading.) (No golden finger) (Slow-paced)
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Are We All Fated to Be Trapped by Someone We Couldn't Have When We Were Young? 人总会困宥于年少不可得之人?
Are people always trapped by the one they couldn't have when they were young?
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Quick Transmigration: When a Funny Girl Meets a Yandere 快穿之当搞笑女遇上病娇
[Warning: The yandere tendencies grow more intense over time. The first world doesn't count as yandere.] Jiang Zhi unexpectedly acquired a System, along with the chance to experience all kinds of different worlds. Each world came with its own missions and clear rewards and punishments. Jiang Zhi: Since I'm already here, what have I got to be afraid of? But nobody told her the main characters would all be this messed up, okay?! After going through all sorts of things, Jiang Zhi learned one thing:
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The Villainess Puts on a Show, and Makes Others Get Struck by Lightning 反派女配她装比,她让别人遭雷劈
[Ridiculous comedy + a cast of lovable idiots + lighthearted laughs + everyone’s favorite] [Complete] Tang Guo transmigrated into a book before she’d even taken off her pants. Good news: She comes from a prestigious family and can laze around. Bad news: She’s transmigrated as a villainess who’s destined to die. In the original story, she was supposed to grovel at the original male lead’s feet, only to have him run her through the heart with his sword. She wasn’t brain-dead, so of course she chos
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Too Many Goofballs in the Spirit Realm, So the Female Side Character Takes the Lead in Causing Chaos 修灵界太多沙雕,女配带头风骚
[Goofy Heroine × Cool Top Disciple, Comedy + Memes + Unhinged Antics + No Moral Boundaries] Just after her love letter reaches the male lead, Yu Li, Ruan Xin suddenly awakens to the fact that she’s become the wicked female antagonist in a novel where everyone dotes on the heroine. Looking at the male lead, who’s as cool and distant as an exiled immortal, Ruan Xin declares: “The first rule of staying alive is to draw your sword. So I’ll take out my crush first.” To avoid the fate of being disembo
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So Much for Brotherhood: It's Fine to Screw You Over, Right? 说好的兄弟情深,坑一下没事吧?
[Meme-filled, master-level trolls who never behave like decent people, setting traps and launching sneak attacks. A whole gang of ruthless thugs and bandits, for a lighthearted laugh!] [Funny from Chapter One! This is a ridiculous comedy, so come on in if you’re looking for a good time!] With the revival of spiritual qi, Awakened have become the absolute core of the world! Lin Beitian has always wanted to become an Awakened, but instead he gets the “Stop Acting Human” System. As long as he’s sha
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The Fake Young Lady Has Completely Given Up and Gone Mad! 假千金她直接摆烂发疯啦!
The physical edition of Alternative Brilliance goes on presale on the 18th! What should you do if you become the fake heiress in a story about a real and fake heiress? Lie flat when it’s time to lie flat, and go crazy when it’s time to go crazy! Yan Zhizhi met the real heiress, Ning Yue, on a variety show. Then everyone realized Yan Zhizhi wasn’t quite the same as the person they’d known before. She’d gone crazy! When faced with a setback, everyone else tried to work through it. She just lay fla
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The Goofy Female Side Character Can't Hang On Anymore. I'm Done, I'll Run You All Over 沙雕女配苟不住,麻了,创飞你们
[Absurd comedy + showbiz + mind-reading + everyone’s favorite + wealthy families + wild imagination + unhinged slacking] Gu You’an was devastated to discover that she was the villainess in a novel. She’d wanted to change everyone’s stereotypical view of villainesses, but the unhinged, lazy, clueless villainess was basically modeled on her. Just great.jpg Her motto was: If there are tigers on the mountain, don’t go there! Couldn’t she just stay away? Her scheme was as fierce as a tiger, but the r
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I Kept Up the Act for Two Years, Then They Suddenly Read My Mind 装了两年突然被读心了
[Signed for publication in print] Also known as When My Billionaire Husband Started Coughing [Brooding, secretly snarky CEO X quirky, 'fake' innocent flower] Qi Weiran was a CEO worth billions. Because he carried a rare gene, he had a body that never got sick. But he could only live to the age of fifty. After he died, half his estate would go to his contract wife. One day, Qi Weiran's body, which had never shown a single sign of illness, suddenly began to cough. His adoring young wife, who loved
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Two-and-a-Half-Year-Old Nailer Is Forced to Rule the Realm 奶乐两岁半,被逼坐江山
The three-year-old empress sat on the dragon throne and asked pitifully, “Do we get June 1 off?” The ministers were dumbfounded. What was June 1? Her father, who was ruling from behind the curtain, coaxed her, “No. Your Majesty, focus on court affairs and become a good emperor who works diligently and cares for the people.” The empress kept asking whether she could have June 1 off from the age of three until she was thirteen. Then she finally stopped. But a bigger question arose: “I’m not intere
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After Transmigrating, I Ascended to Immortality with My Cursed Tongue 穿越后,我靠乌鸦嘴飞升成仙
[No Romance + Lighthearted + Absurd] Other people when they transmigrate: Invincible luck + handsome men everywhere Liu Yipan when she transmigrates: A brutal beating from the start + a jinx’s mouth Luckily, an immortal master fell from the sky. But when she arrived at his sect, she saw: Endless volumes of Buddhist scriptures in Sanskrit, leaving Liu Yipan completely dumbfounded. “You went to all that trouble to bring me here just to make me a nun?!” She wanted to throw her head back and shout
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My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
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The Moment I Opened My Eyes, I Was Lying in a Pervert's Arms, Being Fed to My Heart's Content 刚睁眼,就躺在变态怀里被喂饱饱
Shi Ning and Qin Heyu had been married by contract for three years. On the day their marriage ended, she was ready to sign the divorce papers. Comments: If the villainess dares to sign the divorce papers, the dark villain who’s had a crush on her for ten years will chain her up in the attic and force her to love him! Comments: Villainess, all you have to do is give the villain a look that leaves him to figure it out for himself. You don’t even have to flirt with him or coax him. This lovesick vi
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Reborn as the Beloved of Everyone: The Movie Emperor's Wife Is Poor and Fierce Again 重生团宠:影帝夫人又穷又凶
[Print edition signed for publication] [Insanely outrageous wish-fulfillment + a few secret identities + savage online roasts + devoted romance with both leads’ first love + dazzling the world] In her previous life, she died with regrets. Now she has been reborn in the middle of a massive online hate campaign! If they’re going to hate on her anyway, she might as well stop pretending! Her scumbag fiancé gets shoved into a cold pool, then coughs and blames her? Sheng Wenyin: “What, caught a cold?
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Spring Tide over Beijing and Macau 京澳春潮
[Print edition preorders open August 7, 2026, at 7 p.m.] [Heiress vs. Men from All Walks of Life] Also known as Spring Tide in Jing'ao The first time Wen Ning saw Xie Zhiyu on Aodao, she knew he was a dangerous man. Even though he was merely sitting quietly in a dessert shop, eating a bowl of mung bean soup. The little shop was packed and noisy, yet no one dared share a table with him. A few meters around him, an island of solitude had been deliberately carved out. “Who is he?” “Xie Zhiyu. No on
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Weaving Whales 织鲸
Print edition signed [Reborn on campus * the second male lead gets the girl * wants to win his wife back but can't find the crematorium] [Clear-eyed, aloof heroine * sweet-on-the-inside hero pretending to be cool] The most rebellious and courageous thing Jiang Mingzhi ever did was marry Pei Jinyang, the son of Uncle Pei. In her pursuit of true love, she was shunned by everyone and despised. After marrying Pei Jinyang, she thought she was the heroine of a sweet romance. She never expected that af
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The Art of the Steal 捡漏
One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人
They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a
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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na
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Miss Shi Is Being Naughty Again Today 时小姐今天也不乖
Han Zhan is a notorious playboy in Beijing’s elite circles. His reputation is built on womanizing and having fun, while doing nothing productive is practically his other name. To rein in his personality, his parents pressure him to get married. Young Master Han has just one requirement: “She has to be obedient.” Shi Yin is the most well-behaved person Han Zhan has ever met. She was born with the face of a perfect good girl, gentle and harmless as a little lamb. They first met at a banquet hosted
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Livestream: Why Go to Peking University? Come to A University with Dad! 直播:上什么北大,跟爹上A大!
The apocalypse arrived, and Ai Chen was reborn. In his previous life, he drove his son away by being too strict. This time, he'll spoil him rotten. During the apocalypse, father and son stay home and play video games. Son: Dad, I want to get into Peking University! Ai Chen: Why go to Peking University? Come to A University with me! With that, he pulled his son into a two-player game. Son: Dad, I'm tired of gaming. I want to do homework for a while... Ai Chen: You finished your homework already.
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Starting with Ying Zheng: Emperors of Every Dynasty Arrive One After Another 从嬴政开始:历代君王陆续降临
[Lighthearted + humorous + adventure] History buffs, enter at your own risk After Qin Shi Huang died, he was transported to a walled city. One day inside equaled one year in the outside world. Each time the city gates opened, the setting was different, bringing all kinds of fantastical adventures. On the third day, Hu Hai arrived. “Father, you have to get justice for me!” Twelve days later, Liu Bang arrived. “Brother Zheng, don't tell me you still don't know your Qin has fallen!” Wang Mang arriv
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺,阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
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My Grandfather Is Zhu Yuanzhang 我祖父是朱元璋
I have the most illustrious name: Zhu Yuntong. I am the legitimate grandson of the founding emperor of Great Ming, and the legitimate son of Crown Prince Zhu Biao. My mother is the daughter of Chang Yuchun, and my maternal granduncle is Lan Yu. I am the most illustrious imperial grandson in Great Ming, and the most influential and legitimate heir to the throne. I will usher in a different Great Ming, magnificent beyond compare, its sun and moon shining bright. It will embrace all rivers and welc
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Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them 书圣?诗仙?首辅?没错,都是我
In his previous life, Cui Xian was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from a top-tier university. In this life, he transmigrates to ancient times into a poor family with humble origins. There’s a destitute household, a pregnant mother, older siblings still young, a father who has failed the imperial exams six times, and a grandmother whose obsession with her son placing high in the imperial examinations has driven her to delusion. And then there’s Cui Xian, who is only eight years old. Cui
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The Immortal Record of Ten Thousand Treasures 万宝仙录
[Mortal cultivation] [No System] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fast-paced] A young man comes into possession of a blank heavenly tome and discovers, by chance, that it can derive every immortal cultivation technique in the world and describe every rare treasure. From that day on, he knows everything there is to know on the path to immortality.
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The Commander Is Ice-Cold by Day, but Cries in My Arms at Night 白天冷冰冰的指挥官晚上在我怀里哭唧唧
Ying Yu, the federation empire’s chief commander, was calm, stern, and difficult to approach. That had always been Gu Weilan’s impression of her superior. Until a battle in space left Ying Yu in an unexpected predicament… The next day, Commander Ying was back to her usual aloof self, with no memory at all of what had happened the night before. As Gu Weilan routinely tied his tie, he lowered his head and held her fingertips. “Assistant Gu, find the woman who spent the night with me.” Gu Weilan: “
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After Losing Her Memory, the Childhood Sweetheart Became the Young General's Cherished Love 青梅失忆后成了少年将军掌中娇
[Clever, Cunning Foxlike Heroine VS Steady, Stern, Humble Hero] [One-on-One Romance, Sweet Pampering, Adorable Child, Childhood Sweethearts] [The Hero Suffers] The night before, Shen Zuihuan was still preparing for her engagement ceremony. The next morning, she woke up in shock to discover she had been married for five years already! Her fiancé was nowhere to be found, and her current husband was the childhood friend she had hated most of all. He was even holding a child who looked exactly like
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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
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Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女
[Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co
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Saving the Blind Supporting Male Character 拯救那个失明男配
[The male lead is a psychological counselor, and blind people can do the job too! The female lead isn’t the clever, strong-willed type, so don’t read if that’s not your thing. The male lead will recover later. Both leads are virgins, and it has a happy ending.] [A warm and sweet little story about an ordinary person stumbling through the effort to save someone else. This isn’t a wish-fulfillment rescue story or a tightly plotted, logic-heavy novel, so don’t read if that’s not your thing.] After
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Breaking News! The Fallen Princess Was Carried Off by the Villainous Overlord 爆!亡国公主被反派大佬扛走了
[The Most Beautiful Woman in the Three Continents] x [A Mad, Powerful, Miserable, and Ruthless Demon King] Reborn as a princess of a fallen kingdom in a tragic romance novel, Qiao Li tries to change her fate and escape the scumbag. But through a twist of fate, she is carried off by a notorious demon king whose name is feared across the Three Continents. His cultivation is peerless, and he looks down on everything in the world. Yet one misstep leaves him with a regret to last a thousand years: he
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After the Seductive Villainess Reads His Mind, the Cold CEO Turns Secretly Passionate 做妖女配读心后,冷漠顾总变闷骚
[Unlike typical mind-reading stories, the heroine can read everyone’s thoughts. One-on-one sweet romance + livestreaming + goofy comedy. A haughty, dramatic little princess VS a secretly passionate, puppy-like boyfriend. Readers say the story gets pretty wild later on.] Meng Zhaozhao transmigrates into a novel as the wicked fake heiress. To keep the plot moving, she diligently stirs up trouble and plays the pampered wife, determined to make the male lead hate her. Then she suddenly gains the abi
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You're Too Dazzling! 怪你太耀眼!
The print edition is now available. [Happy ending, both leads devoted to each other + healing + secret love becomes mutual] [Sunny girl X hearing-impaired boy] Jiang Er was killed by a tractor. Jiang Er was reborn. The bad news: she's now a high school sophomore with more resentment than a ghost. The worse news: Fu Tinghan, the not-so-familiar husband she'll have in the future, is in her class. In their previous life, they were married for two years, yet remained strangers. An arranged mar
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I Died from the Start, and the Mad Demon Cried Until His Eyes Were Red 开局我先死,疯批魔头哭红眼
Yu Zhen transmigrated into a book. From the start, the book's great villain stabbed her through the heart and killed her. With the last of her strength, she gave the villain the international hand gesture and cursed in a faint voice, “Bitch!” She died, but not entirely. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an insignificant cannon-fodder character who had hopelessly pursued the villain and was about to have her neck snapped by him. Yu Zhen had no choice but to grit her teeth and win the
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