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- 251 The Curse of Along the River During the Qingming Festival 清明上河图的诅咒 [Mystery + imaginative twists + mild horror + jaw-dropping reversal + true love was all part of the plan] An ancient painting sparks a deadly crisis! Jiang Feng’s friend gets him a job forging Along the River During the Qingming Festival, But rumor has it the painting is cursed, and fourteen artists who took the job have already died one after another! Still, this job pays three hundred thousand yuan! To save up for the bride price his girlfriend asked for, Jiang Feng takes the job anyway. From 6Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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Thirty Years in the Jianghu (Seven-Volume Set) 江湖三十年（全七册）
Dai Gou spent his life roaming the martial world. Over several decades, he witnessed all kinds of scams and cons. In his later years, he gave up that life and revealed its tricks and rules to the world, hoping to keep future generations from being swindled. These scams include human trafficking, fortune-telling, artificially aging antiques, theft, card sharping, beggar gangs, cheating at games, confidence schemes, and honey traps... After decades of hard knocks, Dai Gou finally became the boss o
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The Beacon Fires Chronicle: Saving the World 烽火济世录
[Miracle Doctor] [War of Resistance] [Wulin] [History] [Period] [Taoist Priest] [Special note: The prescriptions, medicinal ingredients, and their effects in this book are included for the purposes of the story. Do not use the prescriptions to treat illnesses.] The story begins in 1939, with the First Battle of Xintang. Zhang Dong follows the Taoist master Xuanzhongzi through a world in turmoil, wielding silver needles as blades and herbs as weapons to save lives on the battlefield and fight the
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Chronicle of the Nine Netherworlds' Investiture of the Gods 九幽封神记
[Living Human Yin-Difference] [Dream Cultivation] [Primordial Spirit Awakening] [Mortal Body Ascends to Sainthood] [Mystery and Political Intrigue] [Adorable Spirit Beasts] [Karma and Retribution] [Godhood in the Underworld] Huang Xiaomi, an ordinary young woman from the mortal world, was little more than a drudge, until a blood-red nightmare sent her down the path of cultivation in the netherworld. She braved secret realms where death awaited at every turn, passed selection after selection by b
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A History of Prostitution in China (A Republic-Era Masters’ History Collection) 中国娼妓史(民国名家史学典藏文库)
This book is divided into six chapters: Introduction; The Era of Shaman Courtesans; The Emergence of Slave Prostitutes and Official Courtesans; The Parallel Rise of Household Courtesans and Slave Prostitutes; The Golden Age of Official Courtesans; and The Era of Privately Run Prostitution. Topics include names and definitions, distinctions between periods, when the history of Chinese prostitution began, and shaman courtesans in the Shang dynasty, among others.
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Scheming in the Three Kingdoms 谋算三国
[Political Intrigue] + [Passionate Action] + [No System] In a chaotic age, the world is a game of chess, and every move hides a blade! The battlefield runs red with blood while schemes churn behind the scenes. From within the command tent, strategies unfold, and with a laugh, enemy ships are reduced to ashes. The highest form of warfare is to defeat an enemy through strategy, without spilling blood. But if anyone dares defy me, I’ll leave them strewn across the land, with rivers of blood flowing
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- 257 A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史 For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval 7.2kReads9.6Score1.1kShelves
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This Kid Can Turn Invisible 这小子会隐身
[Rural Folk Abilities + Culinary Arts + Global Wonders + The Unorthodox Path to Wealth + Passionate Heroism] Ever felt a sense of closeness to someone you have never met? Do you find yourself staring at the stars whenever you feel hurt or wronged? Yang Dashi, a country boy from the mountains, retired from the army with a heavy heart to raise money for his terminally ill mother’s medical bills and step into the real world. Instead, his brothers betrayed him and his lover humiliated him. Heartbrok
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I Was a True Immortal, Yet I Never Knew 我本真仙不自知
The Five Aggregates and Four Kinds of Form Revealed in the Pure Nature The form of self, the form of others, the form of sentient beings and those who live through their allotted years, My own experience, others' experience, the experience of sentient beings across time and space, My thoughts, others' thoughts, the countless thoughts of sentient beings, My attachments, others' attachments, the myriad attachments of sentient beings, My transformations, others' transformations, the transformations
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- 260 The Book of Enlightenment: A Guide to Beating the Game of Life 开悟神书，人生游戏通关指南 A divine book, a divine book, one that can enhance your wisdom, unleash your imagination, fill you with energy, awaken you to life, and make you invincible with a cheat! Coming in hot! The Path to Awakening and Growth A seven-year-old Dragon Girl became a Buddha in an instant, realizing her true nature upon hearing the true Dharma. She immediately gave up her thousand-year dragon pearl, and her greed and attachment vanished in an instant. Her mind opened and grew clear, serene at last, and she g 503Reads8.7Score100Shelves
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Ten-Dimensional Space 十维空间
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Night Walkers (Two-Volume Set) 夜行录（全二册）
Day gives way to night, the very hour when demons roam. The crowds fade, and a hundred ghosts take to the roads. Humans and demons once shared the same world: by day, voices fill the streets and markets bustle; when night falls, ordinary objects and plants all turn into demons wandering the narrow lanes, making for a world with its own peculiar charm. Japan’s Heian period was the heyday of demon culture, when demons transformed from mere legends into objects of genuine belief.
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After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后，她的人生开挂了
[Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr
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- 264 Reborn with a Child, I Married a Cold Military Doctor from a Prestigious Family 重生后，带娃嫁世家高冷军医 [Reborn + adorable child + military marriage + true love + revenge + face-slapping] After being reborn, Su Ying’s first move is to divorce her husband. Her scumbag husband, Du Zhenyong, wants to have the best of both worlds and refuses to let her go. She takes her 38 yuan and chases after him to the military base, where she meets the aloof military doctor Gu Nanchen. With his help, Su Ying gets away from her scumbag husband. But the prestigious Gu family refuses to let Gu Nanchen marry a woman w 23.6kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
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The Little Taoist Comes Down the Mountain: My Love in the Mortal World 小道士下山之我的红尘情缘
[Fortune-telling + urban life + multiple heroines + martial arts] The day Zhang Qingfeng was born, his maternal grandfather took him away and abandoned him. His master later brought him back to a Taoist temple, where he learned martial arts and a little fortune-telling and character analysis. At seventeen, his master sent him down the mountain to resolve his own entanglements in the mortal world.
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- 266 Reborn, She Became a Woman No One Could Hope to Reach 重生后，她成了摇不可攀的女人 (Rebirth + modern romance + sweet pampering + revenge + past and present lives + face-slapping + strong heroine) After falling from a building and waking up, Song Qiao discovers she has returned to ten years ago. Before her are the child her lover had with his mistress, and the scumbag husband she had loved with all her heart, sacrificing everything for him. She knows she was wrong, blaming her poor judgment and blindness to the truth. After being reborn, she discovers that the daughter bullied 119Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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Wasn’t It a Three-Minute Trial? How Did I Become a Deadbeat? 不是试用三分钟吗，我咋成老赖了
Wasn't it supposed to be a three-minute free trial? How did I end up as a deadbeat?
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- 268 On My Seventh Day at Work, HR Congratulated Me for Surviving Probation: The Company Has No Probation Period 入职第七天，HR说恭喜你撑过了试用期——公司没有试用 On his seventh day at work, HR congratulated him on making it through probation. The company had no probation period. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 269 The VIP Lounge 大户室 This is not a story about how one person got rich through stocks. It's a story about how an era turned countless ordinary people into gamblers, winners, swindlers, heroes, and corpses. 205Reads—Score438Shelves
- 270 My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍 After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an 214.1kReads9.3Score21.3kShelves
- 271 The Sellout 出卖者 This is a stark tale of betrayal. The undercover agents' webs of deception and betrayals become a precise art, while the cycle of the mantis and the oriole remains an eternal game within a game. The feast is ready. Take your seats. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 272 The New Life Experience Center, Trial Period Limited 人生重开体验馆，但限时试用 A life-restart experience center, but with a limited-time trial. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 273 The Fundamentals of Making Money from the Ground Up 底层赚钱逻辑 Starting a business, making money, and building a life from the bottom up. May you use your own two hands to make life a poem, one step at a time, and build your wealth into a mountain. This is the most reliable and sustainable way for ordinary people to make money. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
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Survivalist: The Doomsday Prepper 生存狂：末日准备者
[Apocalyptic disasters + hardcore survival + shelters + no rebirth + no pocket dimension + no System + no mutations + no superpowers + no zombies + no fantasy + no harem] Solar storms, food crises, super typhoons, biological warfare, earthquakes, tsunamis, asteroid impacts, supervolcanic eruptions, and an ice age: the disasters grow ever worse. As the world falls apart, Shen Cun is an ordinary man who can rely only on his own hands and mind to protect himself and his family. (The protagonist is
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- 275 Is My System Just a Trial Version? 我的系统是试用版？ Underworld HR: We're hiring interns. Room and board included. Complete three hundred years of service for priority reincarnation. Lin Xiaotian: I'm in! On his third day at work, the Heavenly Dao vanished. The Six Paths ground to a halt, the Book of Life and Death glitched, and souls went berserk. Half of the Ten Yama Kings fled, while the other half tried to seize power. The things crawling out of the rifts looked even more abstract than the clients. Lin Xiaotian cowered in a corner, trembling, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 276 Wasteland Survival Maniac: A Scientific Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse 废土生存狂：科学的末世求生指南 Apocalyptic disaster + hard-core survival + realism + no fantasy + on-the-run survival + educational nonfiction. When a genuine doomsday disaster strikes, how long can an ordinary person without a golden finger survive? What should you do to make the right choices? When faced with harsh realities, does turning the tide depend on luck or ability? Follow a seasoned survivalist as they plan carefully, step by step, and hang on until the very end of the apocalypse. 9.7kReads8.7Score768Shelves
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The Official and His Charms 官人官色
The road to becoming an official is narrow, so narrow that if you want to climb it, you can only step on other people's shoulders. Yet it is also broad enough to encompass everyday life and the people's hardships. Along this road lie intrigue and shifting fortunes, ruthless decisions, and love and hatred...
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AI Overlord AI霸主
[The Horrors of the Apocalypse + Interstellar War + Quantum Weapons + Advanced Technology + High-Octane Sci-Fi + Earth’s Core + The Truth About the Moon + The Solar System + The Milky Way] A conversation with an untraceable IP address reveals the horrific state of the world thirty years in the future. The protagonist is entrusted with the mission of saving the world and drawn into a thrilling battle to defend Earth, as well as a conflict engulfing the entire universe.
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- 279 I Tried a Life Experience Pod for Free, but Had to Get Every Customer to Leave a Five-Star Review 我免费试用了一款人生体验舱，但必须满足所有客户好评 I tried a life-experience pod for free, but I had to earn positive reviews from every customer. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 280 She Asked Me to Wait Until Her Career Was Stable, So I Ended My Indefinite Trial Period 她让我等到事业稳定，我结束了无限期试用 She asked me to wait until her career was stable, so I ended my trial period that had no end date. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 281 About Getting a Trial Cultivation System After Breaking a Bone 关于骨折后绑定了试用版修仙系统 Wang Xiaoyu is a workaholic who spent eight years working herself to the bone, grinding away every single day with no days off. Then she stepped on a loose patch of ground and fell, landing herself a long vacation and forcing her to stay in bed while she recovered. The day after breaking a bone, she unexpectedly bound herself to a trial-version cultivation System! While everyone else cultivates by meditating and enduring hardship, her cultivation rule is simple: lie flat and level up! Rest quie —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 282 The Quality Control Scales 质控天平 Quality Control Balance: Set against a decade of development in China's biopharmaceutical industry, this novel offers a sweeping portrayal of an innovative pharmaceutical company, from building its facilities and validating its equipment to earning GMP certification and beginning commercial production. The emotional entanglements and professional clashes among Qin Feng, Su Qing, and Cheng Mo tie together the real-world challenges of research and development, production, and quality control. Thro 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 283 The Workplace Wordsmith 职场执笔者 The protagonist, Su Wan, graduated from an ordinary second-tier university with a degree in advertising. In the early stages of the industry's recovery after the pandemic, she joined Xingmang Communications, a mid-sized advertising and PR firm, driven by her love of words and creativity. The industry was only just struggling to its feet after the pandemic's long winter. Shrinking budgets, clients pushing down prices, volatile public opinion, and ever-intensifying competition had become the norm. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 284 A True Entrepreneurial Journey 一段真实的创业历程 How did he go from starting with just 20,000 yuan to becoming a millionaire business owner? Set in a small city in the 1980s, this novel tells the story of Gu Mingyuan, a handsome, sunny young man who spends his middle school years getting into trouble and causing mischief. His dream is to go into business and become a tycoon one day, and he has no interest in studying. After his family suffers a major upheaval, he has no choice but to leave school before coming of age and venture into the world 236Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Dongguan Dream: Sister Mei 我的东莞梦：媚姐
Sister Mei's advice to me: The women at entertainment venues are just for looking. Don't get serious with them. Sister Mei also said: Don't get any ideas about me, either. [A story about working for a living, perhaps with a little of me, you, and him in it.]
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The Book of Fortune-Telling 算命簿
I am a fortune-teller in real life. I was 83 years old when I wrote this book. No one knows what sort of writing an 83-year-old man might produce, and neither do I. I just want to write a book while I still have time, and finally put one matter to rest... Synopsis: A wandering fortune-teller speaks of hidden mysteries, yet has a past unknown to all. This forbidden volume records a century's worth of secrets about practitioners of the occult. In the instant when dark arts clash with fate, the mys
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Who Awakes First from the Great Dream: 0202 大梦谁先觉：0202
At the start of the Gengzi year, disaster fell from the sky. A reporter who claimed to come from a “civilized country” looked down on this “barbaric land” mired in calamity. He was given to sneering and distorting the truth, making no effort to hide his biting sarcasm. His words laid bare his arrogance and contempt. He turned a blind eye to the locals’ suffering and cared nothing for the harm his remarks caused them. In his eyes, they were no more than ants struggling to survive. Yet no one expe
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The Battle of Lake Changjin: The Turning Point of the Korean War 长津湖战役：朝鲜战争的拐点
Discover the true story of the Battle of Lake Changjin, a desperate clash of wills and faith. We salute the great soldiers. Those faces hidden beneath the ice, those who died under the bombs: they deserve to be remembered! More than seventy years ago, the Langlin Mountains were rugged and buried beneath heavy snow. The wind howled into people's ears, as loud as an exploding shell. Many lay in the snow. The charge sounded, but they could no longer move. Snowflakes settled on their eyelashes, and
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- 289 Career Leap: A Guide to Going from Rookie to Expert 职场跃迁：菜鸟到大神的认知法 Three months into the job, Ling Che has become the company's most miserable “office tool”: he takes the blame, works overtime, and gets dumped on by other departments. Colleagues steal credit for his hard work, connections get the promotion he deserves, and he earns an entry-level salary while doing core work. He's nearly laid off! At his lowest point, he unexpectedly awakens a Workplace Insight System and unlocks eight smart tools: The Entropy Reduction Engine sorts messy materials in three mi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 290 Day of the Beastly Disguise: A Plan to Reset Humanity’s Knowledge 异兽伪装日：全人类认知清零计划 The Day of the Disguised Beasts: A Plan to Erase Humanity's Understanding follows Lu Ming in an inverted world where “humans disguise themselves as beasts, while beasts infiltrate humanity.” He goes from an “ordinary student kept in the dark” to someone who “awakens supernatural powers, sees through disguises, and uncovers the truth about the world.” At the beginning of the novel, Lu Ming lives in “seemingly ordinary Qingteng City”: he goes to school every day, jokes around with his classmates, 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 291 The Bottom-of-the-Barrel Dictionary 底渣词典 The CEO’s Contract Wife: His White Moonlight Turns Out to Be Me To save her gravely ill younger brother, Pei Yuwei signs a contract and becomes a stand-in for the late wife of business tycoon Jiang Hanzhou. Thirty million yuan, three years: she must live as the shadow of another woman, copying her smile and preferences, even wearing the earrings she left behind. Jiang Hanzhou is cool and cruel. He sleeps beside her every night, yet gazes through her at his lost white moonlight. Day after day, 7Reads—Score—Shelves
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Escaping Through Time and Space 逃离穿越的时空
After an unexpected transmigration to 1972, he became an educated youth sent to the countryside, where life was harsh and impoverished, and the future bleak. At his lowest point, he unexpectedly awakened an ancient cultivation legacy. From then on, he defied fate and embarked on the path of cultivation. Making his way through a difficult era, he took down vile villains, protected his loved ones and friends, and quietly built up his strength; traveling between the modern world and the past, he c
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- 293 Cultivating Immortality Begins With Artificial Intelligence 修真从人工智能开始 Deng Qi transmigrated to another world, bringing with him advanced AI chat technology. His arrival sparked a palace coup, and the prime minister hunted him down, forcing him to flee. By chance, he learned that beyond the Divine Wall lay the Immortal Spirit Realm. After countless hardships, he crossed the wall and entered the realm, joining a sect to study cultivation. He started as a servant and eventually mastered his art. When he returned to his original world, he discovered that his enemies w 214Reads—Score—Shelves
- 294 Idiom Cognition Dictionary: Unlocking the Algorithms That Shape Your Life 成语认知词典：解锁人生底层算法 A contemporary urban romance about a woman's growth and rebirth. The story begins on the night of her former lover Lu Chenzhou's lavish engagement party. Su Wan, a jewelry designer, chooses to stay alone in her studio, setting fifty-seven chips of diamond into a platinum base as she begins creating a pair of earrings called “Breaking Free.” Eight years of waiting and the collapse of her family's business have not crushed her. Instead, they have forged a quiet, resilient brilliance within her. W 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 295 Break Free of the Prison City and Awaken 斩破牢城，悟了 In the otherworldly Great Xia, Bai Mifan of Great Xia Medical University steals an ancient medical formula to save his mother, who is suffering from a terminal illness. But someone frames him, landing him in a situation where he faces the harshest punishment. After dying, he is reborn. Torn between family ties and the law, he takes the wrong path, but at last comes to his senses... 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 296 The Archaeology of Thought: A Handbook of Conceptual Dissection 思维的考古学：概念解剖工具书 This is an unconventional “dictionary,” as well as a precision tool for the mind. It offers no standard answers, only a scalpel called the “Three-Layer Archaeological Method,” used to dissect core concepts that shape our understanding and emotions, even though we use them every day without thinking about them, such as “I,” “love,” “perspective,” and “value.” Starting with outrage over the plot of an anime, readers will follow the author’s deeply thought-provoking and practical guidance to treat 162Reads—Score—Shelves
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Questions of the Uncanny 诡异问
Through the coming-of-age story of “me” (Meng’er), this novel traces the transformation of the Chinese countryside from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The brutality of family-planning policies, the rise of the migrant-worker boom, the unraveling of traditional clan ties, clashes between old and new ideas, and the rough-and-tumble world of small towns... It captures a microcosm of an era in transition, with a realism and density of detail worthy of anthropological study. Through my perspectiv
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Tales of the Han Dynasty: From Liu Bang to Liu Shan 汉朝那些事：从刘邦到刘禅
When talking about the Han Dynasty, it's impossible not to mention what an interesting and fascinating era it was. We people of later generations call ourselves “Han people,” and our ethnic group is known as the “Han Chinese.” These names are inseparable from the Han Dynasty. It can be said that the Han Dynasty not only established China's unified political order, but also shaped the cultural and ethnic identity of the Chinese people. This sense of identity took deep root in the hearts of the pe
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The Secret Arts of Chinese Feng Shui and Divination 华夏绝学堪舆术数
The ancient arts of Huaxia: the I Ching and Bagua, yin-yang arts and divination. Every article is based on practical experience, with the aim of reviving Huaxia culture. Along the way, I'll share many details and secrets. Don't use them to commit evil, or Heaven will punish you. Good done without ulterior motives will be rewarded; evil done with intent will be punished.
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Crossing the Mortal World: No Regrets After the Move 渡尘：落子无悔
Urban Life + Life Philosophy + Business Warfare He can see through everyone, except the truth of her death. After his wife passed away, Shen Wuya buried himself in the old alley’s “Shoreless” teahouse, washing seven cups every day. The extra cup was for someone who would never return. Then Lu Qingyin walked through the door. Her father’s company had lost its supply chain, its stock had surged abnormally at the close, and someone was driving it step by step toward the brink. “They say you’re the
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