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You Seduced My Husband, I’ll Seduce Your Son. Fair’s Fair 你吊我夫君，我诱你儿子，不能亏
Song Xuwan had the husband everyone envied: he was chaste and had never even taken a concubine. But his handsome facade was ripped away in bloody fashion after one drunken night... Zhou Minghai was hardly chaste. He simply had a first love in his heart and wanted to remain faithful to her. Now he had even hidden his first love at a hot-spring villa, sneaking off to meet her every few days. Enough was enough! Whoever wanted that old geezer in his thirties could have him. She had no interest i
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The Young Master Hid Under the Bed, Only to Find It Already Packed 太子爷躲床底，发现里面挤不下了
Heaven was fair to Li Shu. It gave her the most stunning beauty, then gave her the humblest origins. Because of her beauty, she caught the eye of the capital's most powerful young heir. Because of her background, she fell into the mud. "A woman who doesn't even know who her own father is thinks I'm going to marry her?" He thought she was a rose with thorns, and that if he pulled out those thorns, she could remain his secret lover forever. But she wasn't a rose. She was wild grass, impossible to
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Reborn and Married Off: I Become the Mistress of the Prince's Manor 重生换亲：我在王府当主母
Shen Wantang's reborn elder sister stole her engagement and pushed the Prince of Ning's heir, who had become a monk, on her. “The prince's residence is grand and splendid. Little sister, go enjoy your good fortune!” Shen Wantang laughed. “Then thank you, Sister.” Was she not reborn too? In her previous life, her elder sister married the Prince of Ning's heir and drove the woman he loved to her death. He would rather die for love than live as her husband. After he died, her sister was imprisoned.
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Life Simulation: As Long as I Play It Safe, I Can Become Invincible 人生模拟：只要够稳，我便能无敌
[Life Simulation + Cautious Protagonist + Old Fox + Defying the Master + Yandere Master + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] Jiang Chen is born into the world of immortal cultivation and becomes the young master of a long-lived immortal clan, only to end up a slave after an accident. Fortunately, on the day he turns sixteen, the Time Simulator activates. [Characters in simulated lives are created by the simulator itself. Their memories may differ from the Host’s. Please proceed with caution.] [
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The Asura Heiress: The Good-for-Nothing Young Lady Slaughters Her Way Through the Immortal Realm 修罗嫡女：废柴小姐她杀穿修仙界
Female lead (Ling Yue): On the surface, she is the legitimate daughter of a powerful clan, with her spiritual roots completely crippled and everyone bullying her. In truth, she is a top modern mercenary codenamed "Night Phoenix," cool-headed and ruthless, skilled in killing and tactics, and carrying a pocket dimension connected to a modern weapons arsenal. A sniper rifle takes down Foundation Establishment cultivators with a single shot. A bomb pack blows up the cave abode of a Golden Core elder
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The CEO's Substitute Turned Out to Be Me 总裁的替身竟是我自己
Leng Tingxiao is a ruthless, obsessive tycoon whose heart belongs only to his late first love, Su Wanqing. To indulge his fixation, he threatens an orphaned young woman, Lin Wei, with the life of her gravely ill younger brother, forcing her to sign a contract to become his substitute, a shadow for him to control as he pleases. Forced to live as someone else, Lin Wei endures his mercurial moods and endless cruelty. Just as her heart turns to ash, his supposedly “late” first love makes a stunning
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The Tang Dynasty’s Pearl-Repelling Record 大唐辟珠记
All-New Bonus Story Edition [A pampered princess, reborn with a seemingly delicate, teary-eyed exterior but the abilities of a six-sided warrior]✖ [A defiant, pure-hearted, devoted top underworld boss with little time left to live] [Their CP is so sweet it makes you cry] The Ten Thousand Longevity Princess, who had been blessed and adored by the Tang court, died of illness at just seventeen. A petty thief secretly opens a gloomy underground tomb, only to discover that the princess was buried ali
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The Concubine’s Daughter Laughs in the Face of Adversity and Becomes a Marquis 庶女小妾逆风笑终成女侯爷
She had just turned her father’s wedding into complete chaos when she opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated into the body of a pretty but useless woman. Worse still, she was the concubine sent along as a dowry when the legitimate daughter married. With a vicious stepmother, an indifferent father, and a philandering husband, she had no golden finger or pocket dimension. Relying solely on modern knowledge, she plotted her way forward, from establishing her own household to becoming a fem
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Chinese Paladin: The Five-Spirit Fist Emerges, and Ling'er Hears My Thoughts 仙剑：五灵拳现世，灵儿听我心声
[Sword and Fairy 1 TV Series Fanfiction + Male Lead Grows Without a System + Mind Reading + Yao Yue CP + Happy Ending] Su Yunyi transmigrates into the world of the Sword and Fairy 1 TV series after an accident, and ends up stranded on Fairy Spirit Island. Zhao Linger kindly takes him in and treats his injuries. But to his surprise, after Su Yunyi wakes up, Zhao Linger can hear his thoughts. What’s more, while on the island, Su Yunyi unexpectedly awakens the Five Spirits Fist, a power that does
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Underworld Tyrant: Those Who Follow Me Prosper, Those Who Oppose Me Perish! 黑道暴君：顺我者昌，逆我者亡！
[Class Belle, I'm out of prison, and you'll pay for what you did!] After being framed by the class belle he loved, Wang Erchui was wrongfully imprisoned for three years. The misery of prison transformed the once gentle boy into a hardened man. Only after getting out and taking revenge, making the class belle pregnant in his fury, did he gradually realize there was a terrifying truth behind it all. It turned out that what had ruined his life was never this love affair, but a vast web of conspirac
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Mad, All of You, Mad. Being a Little Mad Is Good! 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.
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Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师
Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he
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I Came to the Capital to Break Off the Engagement 我来京城退亲的
Pei Xuan returned to his residence after court, and the steward hurried to report, “Miss Jiang from Jiangnan has arrived with her mother. They’re in the reception hall speaking with the Old Madam.” He stepped through the moon gate and saw his mother and grandmother seated in the main seats, their faces displeased. A woman in plain clothes stood in the hall, her back ramrod straight. “Old Madam, Madam,” she said, her clear voice shattering the heavy silence, “I am Jiang Hailan of the Jiang family
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The Empress in Commoner's Garb 布衣皇后
She was an empress, yet dressed in plain clothes and worked the fields in the imperial palace gardens. The people adored her, and even the emperor, who had never liked her, fell for her. Yet one autumn, she suddenly passed away! Who was it? Who killed this young empress, whose heart held all the people under heaven? After the empress died, the emperor spent every night singing and reveling with his consorts. Had he truly moved on, or was there something else behind it?
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Xia Suofangyan 夏锁芳妍
His father, the Marquis of Pingnan, has been sentenced to death, his mother, Commandery Princess Haiyan, is under house arrest, and he has been banished to a remote land. Does their marriage contract still stand? She breaks off their engagement when he falls on hard times. Is she kicking him while he's down, or does she have her reasons? To escape the royal marriage bestowed upon her by fate, she accompanies a princess to a distant land as a bride. Amid boundless snowy plains, Eagle Sorrow Ravin
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Xiaoci Xian's Collection of Novellas About Love 小辞仙中篇爱情小说合集
I highly recommend the sixth story, "Who Does the Lilac Bloom For?" She said, “The Ding family was wrong to substitute a daughter born of a concubine for the legitimate heir to save face. Your Highness was wrong to accept this marriage under pressure. This mistake began in the capital and must end in Qianzhou. Now that Your Highness has reclaimed your rightful place, this mistake should come to an end as well.” Her gaze was clear and candid, without the slightest trace of resentment, only the lu
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When the Pear Blossoms Bloom 梨花绽放时
She has almond-shaped eyes, peachy cheeks, and a delicate, adorable look; He wears plain clothes, with dark hair and an exceptional air about him; Her life has been full of hardship, yet she remains kind and good-hearted; He has won countless honors on the battlefield and commands awe wherever he goes; What sparks will fly when these two meet?
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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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Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Original Wife Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书之炮灰原配摆烂记
[Not a tragedy, clever heroine, principled male lead, formidable female supporting character, no artificially dumb characters] Song Ci, a modern independent woman, transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder first wife who is destined to be executed by being cut in half at the waist at just twenty. She read the whole book and knows the male and female leads are people she can't afford to cross. With no way to escape, she can only lie low. What should Song Guanzhou, the fourth young mad
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The Lantern-Bearing Chronicles 逢灯纪
(Signed for publication, with screen adaptation rights sold) You're the daughter of a marquis. You want to take your mother's dowry and remains with you? Done. I'll take the dowry and remains, and bring you your mother's divorce papers as well as your own severance papers cutting ties with your family. You were declared dead and became an invisible person behind your brothers. You want to live like a normal person again? Done. I'll restore your name and identity, and make sure you receive the en
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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The Flower-Pinned Young Man 簪花少年郎
When they first met, Qiao Yanan mistook the young man's sex, taking the breathtakingly beautiful youth for a girl. Thinking they were both fellow sufferers in this world, she treated “her” with great warmth, stirring the young man's heart. Once his identity was revealed, Qiao Yanan asked him to pose as her fake fiancé for her own safety. Having fallen for a beautiful young woman, the boy's heart beat faster and faster. He gladly accepted his new fiancée and did everything he could to turn their
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Entwined Pearl 缠明珠
[A seemingly sweet-faced, emotionally detached woman vs. a gloomy, love-starved, clingy human flytrap] Shen Yuanzhu, who loves money more than life itself, gives the only bit of sincerity she has to Xie Xuchuan, only for him to turn around and have a child with someone else. He says, “Yuanzhu, you can raise the child. He can have the family fortune. I’ll make it up to you in other ways.” Shen Yuanzhu thinks he’s lost his mind. Their marriage contract, bound by mutual interests, can’t be dissolve
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A Soul's Journey Through the Great Chu Dynasty 魂穿大楚王朝强国记
In a parallel universe, the Great Chu Dynasty is nearing its end. Bandits ravage the interior, border troubles are constant, and the Northern Di and Western Rong threaten from outside. The protagonist, Yang Minxiong, is a 21st-century doctor at a naval equipment research institute. After an accident while testing a new electromagnetic armor, his soul transmigrates into the body of Yang Minxiong, a seventeen-year-old boy and the only son of the Yang family, living outside Yingtian Prefecture in t
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The Ninth Empire 第九帝国
[Alternate Empire + War Among a Hundred Races + Supernatural Powers + Battles Across Different Worlds + Hunter Guilds + Slow-Burn Opening + Ensemble Cast + Both Thrills and Heartbreak] God gave life to all things and created the world. As God lay dying, humanity betrayed the divine, seized greed and wisdom, and founded an empire. The successor inherited the gods' power, swore to destroy the world, and founded the Church. From then on, the Empire and the Church waged war for ten thousand years. T
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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Di Wuyou 帝无幽
In the chaotic age of the strange, ten thousand years ago, the saints of the world lit up the land with holy fire, building the Great Wall of Holy Fire to drive back the darkness... Ten thousand years later, a young man with a sword on his back set out from the Great Zhou Sacred Dynasty for the Great Wall of Holy Fire. He pacifies the wilds, subdues the eastern sea, slays the Nethernight, and claims the throne of the Emperor! Watch as I wield my sword for the sacred dynasty and make my moves acr
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First Rate! 第一流！
[No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De
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Heaven’s Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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