Looking for an Age-Gap HE with Plain, Down-to-Earth Writing and Normal-Sounding Character Names 我想要写文风朴实+主角名字正常一些的年龄差he
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The Not-So-Dominant CEO and His Lazy Stepmother 不霸气总裁与咸鱼后妈
The short drama The Not-So-Domineering CEO and His Laid-Back Stepmom is now streaming on Hongguo. [Sweet romance + comedy + marriage first, love later + straightforward leads + both leads speak their minds] [Content warning 1: The son is the male lead’s biological child. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] [Content warning 2: Around twenty chapters feature variety shows in the entertainment industry. They’re just a side story where the heroine watches the drama unfold! She never enters the e
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Big Sister Is Too Sweet, and Her Younger Boyfriend Is a Little Wild 姐姐喊太甜，年下弟弟有点野
[Complete] [Clear-headed, dazzling traditional Chinese painting teacher × elegant, privileged playboy college student] [Younger man + playboy reforms + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + happy ending] Qin Suyue and Liang Youjing have been married for three years. Liang Youjing is considerate and protective of her in every way, and everyone envies their relationship. She never expected another woman to show up at her door. “Qin Suyue, I’m pregnant with Liang Youjing’s child.” “How long has this
2.2kReads9.2Score194Shelves
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Loving the Wild 喜欢野
Sharp-minded, brooding club owner vs. hot-tempered, arrogant CEO of a wealthy family [Sweet romance + marriage before love + devoted to each other + mutual healing + secret crush becomes reality] Beautiful, strong, and tragic vs. carefree and unruly She is the beautiful owner of the Chaoge Club and the big boss of Shengtang Capital, known as “Sister Xi.” He is a powerful tycoon from a wealthy family with a terrible reputation, notorious for doing every kind of evil and ruling with an iron fist.
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Yaoyao, to You 窈窈于你
[Born to Shine + Wealthy Families + Devoted Love + Secret Crush Comes True + Everyone’s Favorite] Esports heartthrob Ling Yanchen embodied the passion and spirit of an entire generation. With his god-tier gaming talent and impossibly handsome looks, he amassed millions of male and female fans, rivaling any top-tier star. He was the undisputed untouchable idol of the esports world. Then one day, fans spotted him passionately kissing a stunning beauty at a bar. His girlfriend fans were devastat
10.8kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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Quick Transmigration: After Going Crazy, the Sickly Obsessive Big Shot Pretends to Be Good Again 快穿：病娇大佬他疯完后又在装乖
[Two male leads] [Immersive] [Slow-burn quick transmigration] [Episodic worlds] [Obsessive and possessive love interests, both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one] (If you don't like this world, why not check out the next one?) After getting into trouble while drunk, Jiang Xiyu demotes himself to the three thousand worlds. Before long, one unhinged, possessive man after another comes sniffing around. [Fake sweet-and-innocent, really a violent-aesthetic Alpha (Alpha x Alpha)]: “Big broth
8.3kReads9.0Score870Shelves
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Love at First Sight with a Doctor: I Picked Up a Princess and Brought Her Home 医见钟情，捡个王妃带回家
As a junior disciple of Lingtai Mountain who studies medicine instead of swordsmanship, Mu Qing masters the basics and heads out to gain experience. Never in a million years did she expect to be hopelessly directionless. Even more surprising, she finds a person on a crooked tree growing out of a cliff. More accurately, she finds herself a powerful backer. Determined to find her way and make it out of the forest, Mu Qing travels far and wide with her powerful backer. On the battlefield, she's a l
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Hold Them Off, Darling, I’m Getting Out of Here! 夫君你断后，我先跑！
[Brothel Owner]× [Boy Emperor] Shen Qingwan was accidentally swept by the Weakwater River to the bottom of the abyss. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn as a brothel madam. The first time they met, Shen Qingwan was soaking in a medicinal bath when the young emperor, Jiang Wuhuai, fell into the tub while fleeing assassins, badly wounded. His blood ruined an entire tub of extremely expensive medicinal water. The medicine’s conflicting effects left him burning with heat, and then J
3.1kReads9.0Score391Shelves
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Her Wild Bones 她的野骨
[Sweet, fiery, and boldly direct heroine X fierce, unrestrained hero with wildness in his very bones] [She pursues him + nine-year age gap + sweet romance] [Adapted drama Your Island Has Arrived has aired] The day Shen Qi was kidnapped, a man drove an off-road vehicle straight into the warehouse. He took down the kidnappers with his hard fists, then looked at her nonchalantly against the light. “I’m Chi Ye, a friend of your brother’s. I’m here to rescue you.” After starting university, Shen Qi
8.2kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
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The Relationship Between Day and Night 昼夜关系
Nan Zhi saw Fu Hanzhou again at her boyfriend’s party. What began between them was reckless, and what kept them together was surrender. A game for adults, a duel between two players. A dark game where no one makes it out alive. "Day and Night"
36.3kReads9.4Score4.4kShelves
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A Deeply Devoted Temptation 深情诱引
A novel in the Niaosongmi Universe: Deep Affection and Allure. The short drama The Height of Summer, a special story about the eldest brother and sister-in-law, is now online. [Love after an arranged marriage, a regretful husband’s pursuit of his wife, one-on-one romance, both devoted only to each other] [Gentle, cool-headed ophthalmologist vs. devoted, wayward young master] Lin Yuxi used to think Zhou Yanjing was a carefree playboy with a fickle heart. Only after they married did she learn just
112.9kReads9.2Score10.5kShelves
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Life After a Whirlwind Marriage to the Boss 与老板闪婚后的日常
In talks for a print edition [Noble, Cool-Headed Corporate Tycoon * Beautiful Newcomer] [Love at First Sight + Marriage First, Love Later + One-on-One + Devoted Couple] [Second Male Lead’s Regret + Childhood Friends + Teacher and Student] . . An accident brings Rong Yan together with the refined and aloof Chi Jingyuan. Afterward, they make a deal: payment settled, no strings attached. She thought they would never meet again, but to her surprise, he suddenly becomes her boss’s boss’s boss. Still
12.7kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
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A Sweet Married Life 偏偏宠爱婚后日常
[Sweet and gentle national sweetheart] X [Devoted real-estate up-and-comer] Jiang Ren and Meng Ting got married in their junior year of college. After graduating, Meng Ting became a good lawyer, and she and Jiang Ren lived a peaceful life. Then Shu Lan was released from prison, stirring up the calm waters once more. This time, Shu Lan didn't seem so naive and carefree... Jiang Ren's violent temper had never really gotten better. Meng Ting would have to spend her whole life healing him.
9.4kReads9.1Score990Shelves
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I'm Panicking as a Consort, but Your Highness Wants to Kiss Me 穿成嫔妃很慌张，殿下欲吻我
Softhearted, pitiful beauty-loving heroine x unhinged hero who loves to play the victim [Only each other + slightly coercive romance + six-year age gap + no golden finger + father-and-son romantic rivalry] Historical fantasy, happy ending (Note: They are not biologically related, and the heroine is weak.) Jiang Zhao has been a fresh-faced office drone for just a year since graduating college. After cursing out her boss during the day, she goes home, falls asleep, and transmigrates into a sweet r
7.6kReads9.0Score1.1kShelves
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I Went to Teach in the Countryside, but the Rugged Farmer Took Me Home and Spoiled Me 下乡支教，却被糙汉娶回家宠
[23 cm Height Difference + Size Difference + Intense Romantic Tension + Sweet Romance + Healing] (The male lead is utterly devoted to his wife) Ji Tao was born into poverty and hardship. She worked hard to get into college because she never wanted to live that kind of life again. At first glance, Zhou Lu seemed poor and nasty. He was absolutely not her type. But the man clung to her like a vine in the mud, wrapping himself around her so tightly that she couldn't escape or fight him off. All she
14.9kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
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Madam, Why Are You So Sweet? 夫人你为何如此甜？
The rating is low because there aren’t enough reviews yet. New readers, don’t pass this one by! [A gentle, scheming, highly intelligent doctor × an earnest, ambitious, sunny little anime fan] [Love at first sight, eight-year age gap, doting husband, only ever loved each other, sweet everyday romance] The first time Xia Yucheng sees Ye Tingwei, she thinks that a man as exceptional as him could never be within her reach. She’d better stick to loving her anime idols. But he tells her, “I’m the high
7.1kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
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The Gray Lotus 灰莲花
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
35.4kReads9.4Score4.6kShelves
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Who Takes Whom Seriously? 谁把谁当真
One is a fickle playboy who lives life as he pleases. The other has been through countless trials and puts reason before emotion. A relationship that began with “living in the moment” gradually turned into a bloodless battle of wits, where each tried to win the other’s heart. They distrust each other, yet feel drawn to one another, constantly testing each other’s limits with suspicion and probing. They knowingly fall into the trap, surrendering to feelings in confusion, until they’re caught in a
39.4kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves
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The Gray-Haired Uncle and the Mixed-Race Prince 灰大叔与混血王子
Ding Xiaowei is a single father who works himself to the bone to give his daughter a better life. One moment of greed leads him to bring home an injured, seemingly wealthy unlucky guy he found by the sea, hoping for a classic tale of a rich man falling on hard times and rewarding his rescuer with a fortune. Who knew the unlucky guy would be handsome, considerate, a great cook, and good with kids? Apart from not being a woman, he seems pretty much perfect. Their peaceful days look as though they
7.7kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
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Additional Inheritance 附加遗产
Yaya was gone. She had killed herself. Though they weren't related by blood, she had been his older sister for over ten years. Now she had vanished just like that, leaving him a sizable inheritance and... a child. He was only nineteen that year, still a child himself, yet somehow he had to look after a teenager. The kid wasn't difficult to care for. The moodiness and rebelliousness of adolescence were nowhere to be seen. He was brilliant, far more mature and levelheaded than his age suggested, a
56.5kReads9.5Score16.7kShelves
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Drunk for a Hundred Years 一醉经年
A secret crush is like a flask of strong liquor. You know that drinking it will leave you dizzy, make you lose control, and bring you pain, yet you still throw yourself into it like a moth to a flame, all too happy to suffer. You only take a sip, while I drink until I’m drunk. But everyone who drinks has to sober up one day. A calm, aloof engineer bottom VS a selfish, cold-hearted celebrity top
20.4kReads9.4Score6.3kShelves
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I, Sun Shan, and the Imperial Examinations 我，孙山，科举
“Imperial exams + transmigration + farming + exams + no space System” “Romance included, devoted male lead. The female lead is his childhood sweetheart, but she appears infrequently. Romance is not the main plot.” “The male lead rises step by step through hard work and good luck.” “The male lead is no good at scheming, but he gets things done and has technical skills.” “The imperial examination system is based on the Ming and Qing dynasties.” After an accident, he is transmigrated into the womb
51.2kReads8.8Score3.3kShelves
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Mr. Shang, Take It Easy on Our Wedding Night! 商先生，新婚请节制！
(Marriage first, love later + A gentle, slow-burn sweet romance) (Signed for publication) At twenty-seven, Wen Xi accidentally learns that she isn’t her parents’ biological daughter. Overnight, she has new parents, and even her fiancé changes. Her new fiancé, Shang Chen, is renowned in Beijing for being stern, cold, and taciturn. Everyone holds him in awe. People in their social circle all say that this newlywed couple, brought together halfway through life, probably won’t amount to much and won
64.8kReads9.1Score7.2kShelves
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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
16.6kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
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No Eavesdropping on the Emperor 不许偷听朕说话
An Jiu transmigrated into the body of a young palace maid who wanted to climb into the emperor’s bed. The moment she opened her eyes, the tyrant ran his sword straight through the maid who had tried to seduce him. The next day, the tyrant killed a senior maid who served one of the consorts. On the third day, a maid who tasted the emperor’s food died from poison. Being a palace maid was a high-risk job. An Jiu decided to work hard, save up, cherish her life, and stay away from the tyrant. But the
84.8kReads9.4Score15kShelves
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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!
110.6kReads9.6Score12.1kShelves
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1972: The Youthful Years of the Red Flag 1972，红旗招展的青春年代
[Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Sent-down youth] [Great Northern Wilderness] [Scheming male lead] [One heroine] [Pure romance] [Smart characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Black market] [Political career] [Countryside] [Special historical era] In the spring of 1972, as Chu Miaohong rode a train to the Great Northern Wilderness to join a rural work team, she casually tossed an old envelope into the wind. Meanwhile, in 2024, Zhang Hongcheng happened to come into possession of an old, worn-
114.9kReads9.3Score11.9kShelves
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
139.3kReads9.8Score15.9kShelves
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Why Not Sail Together 何不同舟渡
"The print edition under the same title is available to buy online" [No golden finger, no transmigration, no rebirth. A pure historical romance about family and country, with high-IQ espionage and political intrigue] [A double agent undercover + a petty thief who grows: a lone wolf plays a game of raising a rabbit, gives her fangs, then insists they run away together] In a chaotic age, she is a thief worth less than a blade of grass, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive. She steals ten
152.5kReads9.7Score61kShelves
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Bound by Spring 缚春情
[The print edition is available on the homepage; film and television rights have been sold] The Jiang and Song families have been close for generations, and Song Wan was betrothed to Jiang Xingjian before she was even born. They grew up together, but she was confined to the inner quarters, where everything she learned was meant to prepare her to become a Jiang family wife. The young man was dashing and ambitious. Before he had even turned twenty, he went off to the frontier to make his name. Bef
114.5kReads9.6Score15.8kShelves
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Climbing the Ranks and Proving the Way 升官证道
Synopsis: Lu Haoming's son-in-law said, “At government offices in the city, reaching director-general level is already the ceiling for people from farming families like us.” Lu Haoming refuses to believe it. The road to office is beset by countless obstacles. He's too handsome, attracting one beauty after another, and his outspoken nature brings him repeated setbacks. Watch how he breaks through and rises straight to the top.
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The Moon Over Guanshan Shines Bright, Too 关山月也明
Reborn, she returns to a family in exile, outsmarts a crisis, and shines with dazzling brilliance. Moonlight, silver as frost, streamed into a bedroom from twenty years ago. Tan Yue jolted awake from a nightmare that chilled her to the bone. She had returned to the night before the Tan family’s downfall in the Spring Examination leak scandal, carrying the agonizing memories of ten years of confinement, losing her child, and being separated from her loved ones in her previous life. Back then, her
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Transmigrating Across the Galaxy to Build the Nine Provinces 穿越星河筑九州
The whole family transmigrates. There’s family life and everyday squabbles, ups and downs in the business world, exhilarating adventures in the martial world, turmoil at court, and the smoke of war as they defend their homeland. Join Lin Yuexi and her family, along with a group of passionate young men and women, as they find their own way to raise the entire dynasty to the pinnacle of the world, leaving their own indelible mark on this extraordinary era.
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