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- 101 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 82.8kReads9.6Score7.8kShelves
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Forbidden Zone Hunter 禁地猎人
His parents favored his older brother, who took over Lin Mo’s assigned job after he graduated from high school. Lin Mo was forced to go to the countryside in Northeast China in his brother’s place. Hardship was everywhere. The lack of food and constant hunger tested not only their will to live, but also their humanity. Tales of ghosts and monsters were rampant in the village, and the villagers feared the nearby mountains, treating them as forbidden ground. The lame old principal of the village s
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- 103 Doing Backbreaking Labor with My Butt Sticking Out in the Sixties 我在六零撅着屁股干苦力 Qiao Mai, a young woman of the new era, accidentally travels back to the bitterly cold, impoverished Northeast in the 1960s. As soon as she arrives, she's in danger of starving or freezing to death, and can only struggle forward, doing her best to survive one step at a time... The heroine is hardworking and determined, with a modest golden finger. She and the male lead live an ordinary but hopeful life, full of everyday family matters and cozy, heartwarming moments. 8.4kReads8.7Score611Shelves
- 104 My Stepsister Stole My Wedding, So I Married a Hunter and Built a Wonderful Life 被继妹抢亲，我嫁猎户过红火日子 Cozy farming + devoted husband + no golden finger + no space + everyday family life An ordinary person transmigrates with no special abilities, relying on her wits to live a peaceful life. The daily life of a young couple in the mountains, with little family drama. The moment Zhang Juexia opened her eyes, her stepmother and stepsister had schemed to steal the marriage her family had arranged for her when she was little. For ten taels of silver in betrothal gifts, her stepmother married her off 10.1kReads8.8Score1kShelves
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The Gorgeous Educated Youth Was So Irresistible, the Rugged Man Carried Her Home to Spoil Her 娇美知青太招人，被糙汉扛回家宠
[No Golden Finger] After finishing middle or high school, educated youths struggle to find jobs. To address unemployment in the cities, the leaders make the important decision to send young people to the countryside. Under this policy, Xu Jinan is sent to Lujiagou to join the rural workforce. There, she meets Lu Zhouye, a taciturn man destined to be alone forever. But who is this person acting like a doting housewife now? In a nutshell: an old house catching fire, nothing can be done about it. W
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- 106 Over Thirty and Still Unmarried, Yet I Grumble About Finding a Pregnant Wife 三十多没娶亲，捡个孕妻还嫌亏 [No formulaic plot] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No cheat abilities] [Traditional] [Realistic] [Period] [Countryside] The first 100,000 words are slow-paced. Trust me, it gets more exciting as it goes on!!! Ma Youliang is a no-good drifter in his thirties who has never married. Hu Jinmei came begging for food and ended up building a home with Ma Youliang. Angry that she hid her past as a married woman with a daughter, he parted ways with her. She became another man's wife, and kindhearted Shu 122.3kReads8.8Score5.4kShelves
- 107 The Seven Daughters of the Zhang Family 老张家七个女儿 On the loess plateau north of the Wei River, a family without a son is called a dead-end household. Zhang Shouyi had seven daughters, and people moved his boundary markers, diverted his water, spread rumors about him, and took every chance to trample him down. The eldest stayed home to bring in a husband, the second went to the city to work, and the third raised chickens. Who says a family without a son just has to accept its lot? Those seven girls stood their ground and never let anyone take a 45.3kReads7.9Score2.5kShelves
- 108 Village Girl Su Hui: A Happy Life After Divorce 村女苏卉：离婚后的幸福人生 [Rural] [Period Setting] [Realistic Life] [Family Drama] [Emotional Needs] Su Hui has been married to Wu Daqiang for three years, but he can't even meet her most basic needs, and she still can't get pregnant. Every day, her mother-in-law makes cutting remarks at her. When Wu Daqiang finds out he can't father a child, he actually wants to get another man to impregnate her... Su Hui can't accept it. After enduring hardship to get a divorce, she discovers that happiness is waiting for her out in th 209.5kReads8.3Score10.4kShelves
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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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A Woman PhD Transmigrates to the 1970s and Becomes Everyone's Favorite 女博士穿越70年代成团宠
[Period setting + farming + two strong leads + sweet romance + love grows over time] Liu Wenyan discovers that the world she has transmigrated into is full of business opportunities. Growing watermelons in winter? No problem! Turning scraps of cloth into hair ornaments? They sell out across the city! But the bigger her business grows, the more she realizes that Huo Qing, the educated youth who has helped her so much, is no ordinary man. He can get his hands on scarce goods and open up every chan
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Wang Xiaoli's Sixties 王小荔的六十年代
Transmigration + golden finger + pocket dimension + period drama + rural Northeast China (Lu Huaijin is an important character, but not the male lead) When she wakes up one morning, modern-day office drone Wang Xiaoli has become the “chubby girl” of Wangjia Village in the Northeast in the 1960s. Her family is dirt poor, and from the start she's burning with a fever and on the brink of death. Luckily, her little pocket dimension has transmigrated with her! Life in Wangjia Village is lively: a tou
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- 112 I Transmigrated into a Book Set in the Seventies with a System, Only to Find Out I'm the Beloved One 穿书七零有了系统团宠竟是我自己 [Historical Setting + System + Transmigrate Into a Book + Educated Youth + Daily Gossip + Little Southern Potato + Northeast China + Beloved by All + Overachiever + Beautiful Female Friendship] Everything seemed to change after that “possessed” house appeared. Lu Xi woke up one day as the only girl in several generations of the Lu family in Qingshan Village in the 1970s. On the train taking her to the countryside, she discovered that she was the victim in a novel, destined to be bullied to dea 9.3kReads9.0Score937Shelves
- 113 Reborn and Cutting Ties: My Dogs and I Conquer the Mountains 重生断亲，我和狗子们闯山林 [1960s] [Northeastern Folk Customs] [Hunting in the Deep Mountains] [Hunting Dogs] [Reborn] [No Romance] Bai Dujuan has been reborn once more. In her first two lives, she died under mysterious circumstances because of so-called family ties. In her third life, she finally learned to let go. She cuts ties with her mother, follows her grandfather, who is over eighty, and heads into the deep mountains with her hunting dogs. Her grandfather is an old hunter of the mountains, armed with a rifle and a 16.3kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 114 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 32.1kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
- 115 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 146.7kReads9.7Score13.5kShelves
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Fifty Years of Bride Price: In 1974, It All Began with a Broken Engagement 彩礼50年，1974从悔婚开始
In the bitter winter of 1974, Zhao Shuangzhu publicly called off his engagement and was given three days to come up with a hundred yuan for the bride price. He swallowed his pride and borrowed from every neighbor he could, took the old folks’ burial savings, and went into the mountains at night to hunt rabbits and trade them for cash on the black market. Dodging the market inspectors, he stumbled through the hardest hurdle of his life. He spent the rest of his life marrying, raising children, an
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Reborn in the Northeast: Whatever, Let It Be! 东北重生之爱咋咋地！
[Northeastern period comedy + reborn + making a fortune + pure period fiction] (It’s just a fun, feel-good comedy. Get ready to laugh and don’t worry about anything else.) In his previous life, Hao Jian was hopelessly devoted to Zhang Qi. Then he was injured and became a eunuch! Zhang Qi suddenly married him, and he was endlessly grateful to her! In Hao Jian’s hospital room, just before he died: “Honey, I’m sorry I can’t be with you for the rest of your life. After I’m gone, find someone who’
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The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母
[A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw
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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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A Family by the Yishui River 沂水河畔一家人
This book tells the story of a large family over nearly a century, from the late Qing dynasty to the end of the twentieth century, through turbulent changes, banditry and warfare, twists and turns, and eventual reversals of fortune. Led and subtly influenced by the protagonist, several generations endure decades of hardship yet remain upright, united, and determined to improve. In different eras and historical circumstances, they do everything they can, persevering in their efforts to contribute
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- 121 Years of Quiet Reflection 沉淀的岁月 The story follows the lives of three high school girls from rural backgrounds. In the fall of 1964, the confident, ambitious “top student” Yu Hongying, the warmhearted and forthright “knight-errant” Li Chunfen, and the reserved, introspective lady Yue Shuqian unexpectedly meet in their first-year dormitory, along with the “campus belle” Yang Yuhuan and the “fake Marxist-Leninist” Wu Lihong. This sets off a series of stories, some serious, some amusing, some bizarre, and some full of joy and sorr 528Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Butcher's Fierce Wife Is My Third Sister-in-Law 卖肉悍妇是我三嫂
When Wang Xiuying was eighteen, she chased two men through the streets with a shoulder pole. Everyone in the village said she was too fierce. Who would dare marry her? And yet my useless third brother insisted on marrying her. On their wedding night, she laid down three rules: from now on, I make the decisions at home; don't let anyone bully you again; wherever I point, you hit. We all thought our third brother had married a tigress and that their life together would be impossible. But who could
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The Whole Village Mocked Me for Raising Fish, Then I Became a Tycoon 养鱼被全村嘲笑我反手成了大享
Reborn in the 1990s, I had a home with nothing in it and endured everyone's contempt. Everyone called me a dreamer and said fish farming would leave me dead broke. My family played favorites, my neighbors were mean, and everyone made things difficult for me. But I was determined to defy fate. With one fishpond, I could turn the tide! I proved the whole village wrong, made a fortune, and became the person they admired most!
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The Swapped Brides: Whose Fault Is It? 替嫁姐妹，谁的错！
This book has been adapted into two comic dramas: "The Swapped Brides, Whose Fault Is It?!" and the brand-new version, "Sisters Breaking Free." In a poor, remote village in the 1980s, the Tang family favors sons over daughters. Their three girls are nothing but bargaining chips for bride prices. One absurd bride swap and three exorbitant bride prices send the sisters into three difficult marriages. Struggling through the mud, bound by entanglements for half a lifetime. The long-suffering Tang s
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A Thriving Home 家旺
Set in Northeast China from 1964 to 2025, this story follows Ye Jiawang's struggle to survive. He leaves his rural hometown alone and heads to Linhe Farm to make a living. Along the way, he experiences the upheavals of frontier cultivation and defense, the Cultural Revolution, the reorganization of the Production and Construction Corps, Reform and Opening Up, and the restructuring of military-run enterprises.
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At 68, I Volunteered for the Dying and Reunited with the First Love Who Had Waited 50 Years for Me 68岁做临终志愿者，竟重逢等我50年的初恋
At 68, I Volunteered for End-of-Life Care and Reunited with the First Love Who Had Waited 50 Years for Me
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- 127 My Autistic Grandson Hadn't Spoken in Six Years, Until an Old Craft Made Him Call Me Grandpa 6年自闭孙儿不语，老手艺唤醒他开口喊爷爷 My 6-Year-Old Grandson with Autism Wouldn't Speak, Until an Old Craft Helped Him Say, “Grandpa” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 I Hated My First Love for 50 Years. The Truth Ten Meters into the Desert Made Me Weep in My Twilight Years 恨初恋50年，沙漠10米真相让我哭碎晚年 I Resented My First Love for 50 Years. The Truth Beneath 10 Meters of Desert Broke My Heart in My Twilight Years 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 At 68, I Tearfully Said Goodbye to My 18-Year-Old Cat, Only to Discover the Secret My Spouse Had Kept for Two Years 68岁含泪送走18岁老猫，竟发现老伴藏了两年的秘密 At 68, I tearfully said goodbye to my 18-year-old cat, only to discover the secret my spouse had kept for two years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 An Amnesiac Diplomat Forgot Half a Lifetime, Yet Clung to a First Love for 50 Years 失忆外交官忘尽半生，唯独执念初恋50年 An amnesiac diplomat forgets half a lifetime, yet remains fixated on his first love for 50 years 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The 40-Year Promise Came True, and at Last My Twilight Years Stayed True to My First Dreams 40年之约如期而至，我的晚年终于不负初心 The 40-year promise came due, and at last my twilight years stayed true to my original resolve 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Reunited at 80 in a Train Station, We Learned We Had Both Jumped Off the Train and Lost Half a Lifetime 80岁火车站重逢，才知我们双向跳车误了半生 We reunited at a train station at 80, only to learn that we had both jumped off the train and lost half a lifetime 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Broken Wooden Toy Gun I Threw Away on Children's Day Hid a Lifetime of My Father's Tenderness 六一儿童节被我扔掉的破木枪，藏了父亲一辈子的温柔 The broken wooden toy gun I threw away on Children's Day held a lifetime of tenderness from my father 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Gaokao: I Hated My Teacher for Changing My Peking University Application, Then Twenty Years Later the Truth Brought Me to Tears 高考，我恨老师偷改我北大志愿，二十年后来知真相泪崩 During the college entrance exams, I hated my teacher for secretly changing my Peking University application. Twenty years later, I learned the truth and broke down in tears 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Carrying Dried Sweet Potatoes to College in 1981: Four Years of Hidden Tenderness, Given and Returned 1981年背红薯干上大学，一场隐瞒四年的双向温柔 In 1981, I carried dried sweet potatoes to college: a story of mutual tenderness kept secret for four years —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 I Delivered a Love Letter to the Wrong Person in 1986 and Was Urged to Quit School. Thirty-Six Years Later, I Learned I'd Missed the Love of My Life 1986年送错情书被老师劝退，36年后我才知错过一生挚爱 In 1986, I delivered a love letter to the wrong person, and my teacher urged me to quit. It took 36 years to realize I had missed the love of my life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Alone at 68 with Death Near, My Love of 50 Years Arrived with a Ticket to Share My Remaining Years 68岁临终无人陪，50年旧爱携车票赴我余生 At 68, I lay dying with no one by my side, until an old love from 50 years ago arrived with a ticket to share the rest of my life 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 A 68-Year-Old Clung to an Old Basin. When Its Glaze Chipped, the Gold Characters Revealed a Face-Slapping Truth About His Ungrateful Children 68岁老人死守旧盆，掉瓷后露出的金字打脸不孝儿女 An 68-year-old stubbornly clings to an old basin. When its enamel chips away, the gold characters underneath deliver a face-slapping blow to his unfilial children 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Hospitalized with a Serious Illness at 68, I Watched My Children Plot Over My Estate. My Caregiver Became the Light of My Remaining Years 68岁重病住院，儿女算计家产，陪护成我余生微光 Seriously ill and hospitalized at 68, I watched my children scheme over my estate. Their care became the faint light left in my remaining years. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 A 70-Year-Old Clock Stopped, and Seven Notes Revealed My Ungrateful Children 70年老钟停摆，7张纸条看清不孝儿女 A 70-year-old clock stopped ticking. Seven notes revealed the truth about my unfilial children. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 An Old Kettle Hid a 40-Year Secret, Boiling My Heart and Chilling the Rest of My Life 旧水壶藏40年秘密，煮透人心寒透余生 An old kettle concealed a 40-year-old secret. It boiled the truth to the surface, chilling my heart for the rest of my life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 After 40 Years of Hard Work, I Retired with Honor. My Children Schemed over My Property and Pressured Me to Hand Over My Retirement Savings 辛苦40年光荣退休，儿女算计房产逼我交出养老钱 After 40 years of hard work, I retired with honors, only for my children to scheme over my home and pressure me to hand over my retirement savings. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Five Years of Tea for Two at 68: One Pot of Overnight Tea Revealed Whether My Children Were Truly Filial 68岁五年双人茶，一壶隔夜茶看清儿女孝心真假 Five years of tea for two at 68: one pot of tea left overnight revealed whether my children’s filial devotion was real or false. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 My Mother Married Me Off with Nothing but a 100-Yuan Bankbook. When the Truth Came Out, I Wept Uncontrollably 母亲空手嫁我只给百元存折，真相曝光我泣不成声 My mother married me off with nothing but a hundred-yuan passbook. When the truth came out, I wept uncontrollably. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 I Retrieved My Father's Discarded Wooden Box and Understood the Fatherly Love He Had Hidden for 30 Years 捡回父亲被丢弃的木箱，我读懂隐忍30年的父爱 I retrieved the wooden chest my father had thrown away and finally understood the fatherly love he had kept hidden for 30 years. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Walking with Cherished Memories 与惜行
[Historical Fantasy, Adorable Family Favorite, Beast Speech, Pocket Dimension, Getting Revenge on Scum, Growing Stronger, Patriotism] Entirely written by hand, an original work with not a single AI-generated character. Any similarities are purely coincidental. A short drama adaptation is out now, so go check it out! The unlucky and penniless Li family finally has its only baby girl in a hundred years. From then on, their bad luck ends, and Grandpa is made a noble. The moment little Xibao is born
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno
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Reborn: From the Start, I Can Hear the Young Intellectual’s Inner Thoughts 重生，开局就偷听女知青心声
[The rating just came out and will keep rising!] [Period rebirth, farming, pure romance, slow-paced and not violent] If you like this kind of story, come take a look! If you don't, head on over to Tomato Book City, where plenty of great books are waiting for you! Su Yun is reborn in 1974 as an educated youth sent to the countryside. From the start, the educated youths' dormitory collapses, so he has no choice but to board with a local family. By chance, he ends up under the same roof as Lin Qing
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At the Source of the Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源头
As Old Zhou Nian lay dying, he took Zhou Liye by the hand and told him, “Xiaoye, it's up to you to carry on the Zhou family line. If you trace our family back far enough, we go all the way to the Zhou dynasty, to King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Chang, and Ji Fa. Our ancestors were once members of the imperial family, and our original surname was Ji. It was only after the dynasties changed that our family took the surname Zhou! Here's our ancestral genealogy and the family heirloom, this ja
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