A 1970s Story with a Male Lead Who Isn't a Soldier 男主非军人七零年代文
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Looking for a Long-Term Meal Ticket in the Sixties 在六零年代寻找长期饭票
A pampered young woman from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of Xu Mengting, an ordinary high school girl in the 1960s. Xu Mengting feels utterly hopeless. But life has to go on, and since laziness has become her life philosophy, she sets out to find a long-term meal ticket so she can live a carefree, comfortable life. Oh? Her aloof deskmate seems to have pretty good prospects. She'd better snatch him up quickly! (The heroine is a typical self-interested person with plenty of flaws.
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The Sixties: Newlywed from the Start 六十年代：开局就是新婚
[Period novel + everyday family life + devoted hero and heroine enjoying a peaceful life together + low-conflict + daily spectatorship + no saintly heroine] As a Chinese teacher at a technical secondary school, Wen Nuan enjoyed a happy routine, working from eight in the morning to five in the evening, with the occasional evening class. She didn’t have to worry about grades or deal with any teaching pressure. Sure, the students were a little unruly and getting all their homework collected was a b
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The Sizzling Days of 1970 七零滚烫日子
Yang Tao was born in a small mountain village to a family so poor they had nothing. She had two older brothers waiting to trade her for bride price, and her parents were already preparing to find her a match: a lame widower in the village behind the mountain, a good-for-nothing from the neighboring village... She didn't want to spend the rest of her life trapped in poverty. Then, suddenly, a young man came into view. The county of Lijiang was building a bridge across the river, and Song Yan, a p
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A Widow Remarries in the 1970s 七十年代之寡妇再嫁
At twenty-four, Qiao Dani became a widow with two children, known throughout the brigade as one of its poorest households. At thirty, Lin Hengjue fell from the heights overnight. The distinguished Professor Lin, once admired for his elegance and brilliance, became one of the notorious “Black Categories” whom everyone in the cowshed avoided like snakes and scorpions. People kept urging her to remarry. Qiao Dani finally hardened her heart, stamped her foot, and marched into the cowshed to ask Li
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The Good Life in the 1970s 七十年代好生活
Chen Xiangju left her hometown in the countryside and came to the city to stay with her good friend Chen Chunyan. She hoped to find a partner in the city, since she had no intention of returning to the village. Li Gang happened to be looking for a wife. They were introduced and hit it off at once, and Chen Xiangju began her life in the family compound.
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Child Bride, Gruff Commander: One Wrong Move and It's the Crematorium 童养媳，糙首长，一不小心火葬场
[Villainess Awakens + Male Lead Reborn + Female Lead Builds Wealth Through Technical Skills + Plot-Driven] Everyone knows that Shen Zhaozhao is practically a child bride to the wealthy and influential Fu family in town. Behind her back, people mock her for being a toad who wants to eat swan meat: she is the toad, and Fu Chengzhou is the swan. It isn’t until the System appears that Shen Zhaozhao learns that in her previous life, she not only harmed the Fu family, but also indirectly affected the
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Reborn in 1970: Divided from the Family from the Start 重生70，开局被分家
My new book, The Courtyard House: My Home Is Stolen from the Start, is now available. I hope both new and longtime readers will show it plenty of support... In the first half of his previous life, the protagonist lived recklessly and did every kind of evil, ending up with his family destroyed... In the second half, he worked hard and diligently. Just when he had finally managed to buy a house in the city, his nephew pulled out his feeding tube... Reborn just before the family split up, Chen Wein
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Transmigrated to the 1970s, the Obsessive Man Has His Eyes on Me 穿越七零，被偏执狂盯上了
[One-on-one romance] [Sunny heroine, outwardly gentle boy-next-door hero who is obsessive and dark at heart] Lin Jiahe transmigrated, landing in the resource-scarce 1970s. Her grandmother favored boys and doted on her eldest uncle’s family. When her cousin, her eldest uncle’s son, shoved her into a rock and badly injured her head, her grandmother said that even if the girl went stupid, they could still sell her. Then Lin Jiahe transmigrated into her body. She wasn’t one to put up with mistr
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After Breaking Off My Engagement to Hong Kong’s Richest Man, I Became His Eldest Sister-in-Law 和香江首富退婚后，我成了他长嫂
A feel-good elite romance, 1v1, both leads are pure, strong leads. Everyone knows being the original wife in a wealthy family is a high-risk job. The moment a man makes it big, he dumps the wife who stood by him through thick and thin! Gu Mingzhen returned from the apocalypse only to transmigrate into the original wife of an 1980s Hong Kong tycoon, the sort of character who wouldn’t survive past three episodes. Looking at the delicate, pitiful heroine standing beside her fiancé, Gu Mingzhen wave
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The Younger Uncle Who Went to the Countryside in the 1980s Is Back 书穿八零之下乡的小叔回来了
The 1980s: family squabbles and everyday life. Young intellectual Lu Guoan had gone to the countryside. To treat his daughter, who was trapped in a strange, unending sleep, he had no choice but to return to the city with his wife and child. The Lu family was crowded into a small home, and the family's sudden return sparked some unavoidable domestic conflicts. Yet Lu Qiaoqiao, the patient, recovered the moment she stepped through the Lu family door, without needing any treatment at all. She al
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Period: A Battle for Husbands Among the Children of High-Ranking Officials 年代：高干子弟夺夫大战
[Period novel + 1990s]+ [Family life]+ [No golden finger + native-born protagonist] Lin Daoxi was deliberately abandoned at birth, and her cousin Gao Qing took her place as the biological daughter of the family. With everything going wrong from the start, Lin Daoxi was penniless, plain-looking, and dealt a terrible hand. Her father was a gambling addict, her mother had broken the law, her younger brother was timid, and she had dropped out of school. When Lin Daoxi announced she was going to R
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Reborn, I Wish My Husband and Best Friend a Long and Happy Marriage 重生后，我祝老公和闺蜜百年好合
(Rebirth + revenge on scumbags + inspiration + the turn of the millennium + quietly building wealth + heart-melting romance) Tan Mingxin’s previous life was miserable. While pregnant, she was pushed down the stairs by her husband and best friend. She died and was reborn at seventeen, before any of the tragedies had happened. She remakes her mother, dumps her scumbag father, destroys her traitorous friend, takes revenge on the scumbag man, and builds her fortune step by step. Men and romance can
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Reborn in the Hong Kong Entertainment Industry of the 1980s 重生八十年代在港娱乐圈
Yin Xiao was reborn in Hong Kong in the 1980s. To find a job, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the crown, launching her career in show business. She attended training classes, took bit parts, and played cannon fodder, steadily rising to become the leading lady. In the end, she became famous across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, earning her place as an undisputed superstar. Even when Yin Xiao became the most influential film and television mogul of her era, people still call
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Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔
(Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil
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Dream of the Red Chamber: The Cloud Trail Chronicle 红楼梦之正副中册：云踪志
Picking up where the opening of Dream of the Red Chamber tells of the stone left over from Nuwa's patching of the sky, Yun Zong, a celestial maiden from the Western Pure Land, longs to see the marvels of the human world and experience its many ways of life. After reporting to the Bodhisattva of Devoted Love, she is reborn in the mortal realm as a descendant of the Qin family of Jinling. Her life intertwines with the original story and changes its course. Though she bears an immortal root, she mu
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Forced to Be Single 被迫单身
Forced to Stay Single
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I Really Didn't See That Coming 真的是始料不及
Truly Unexpected
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Meeting Again 再次遇见
Meeting Again
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Military Marriage in the Seventies: The Tough Woman Recruited by the Army 七零军婚：暴力女被部队特招了
The rating is low because it just opened. [1970s + Two soldiers + Strong heroine + Playing dumb while outsmarting everyone + Face-slapping] Chen Yuzhi, a highly intelligent special forces soldier, chokes to death while eating and is reborn in the 1970s in the body of a big, simple-minded girl. Her parents don’t love her, the whole production team thinks she’s an idiot, and from the start they want to marry her off to a lazy man... Things get off to a disastrous start. Watch her find a way to tur
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Transmigrated to the 1970s, I Became the Beloved of a Disabled Veteran 穿七零成了残疾退伍大佬心尖宠
[Period Setting + Marriage First, Love Later + Retired Military Powerhouse + Mischievous, Flirtatious Heroine + Blunt Hero + Both Each Other's First] Rural life in the early part, life in a military compound later Yu Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century genius of traditional Chinese medicine who mastered the field and brought it to the world, was sent back to the 1970s in a car accident. Unexpectedly, she got dealt a terrible hand from the start. She had a bad temper, her family couldn't stand her,
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A Substitute Bride in the 1970s: Her Paralyzed Husband Is an Elite from the Compound 七零替嫁：瘫痪老公竟是大院子弟
Shen Nanxing keeps having the same dream. She can never see the man's face, only his powerful build, sharply defined abs, and sweat pouring down his body... The dream leaves her unsettled. When she happens upon a mysterious pocket dimension, she doesn't hesitate to spend all her savings stocking up on supplies... When she opens her eyes again, she's Shen Nanxing in 1973. Faced with her family's unfair treatment, she chooses to leave her birth family behind and marry Lu Jingmo, a paralyzed milita
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A Little Zombie Went Looking for Brains, Ended Up in the 1970s, and Joined the Army 小丧尸找脑子找到七零后，随军了
[Island military romance + transmigration + super-brain genius + special abilities + real and fake heiresses] Zhou Shi is a zombie with brains. She pushes a shopping cart around looking for supplies. Because humans say that if you have food, you have nothing to fear. She uses her brain as a mouth to talk, because she’s heard that if you don’t use your brain, it’ll rust. Her goal in zombie life is to become the most high-class Zombie Queen. High-class means pretty and smart. So this little zombie
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Before Going to the Countryside in the 1970s, I Used My Space to Empty My Enemies’ Homes 七零下乡前，我用空间搬空仇家
[Military Marriage + 1970s + Pocket Dimension + Spirit Spring + Combat Skills + Gossip + Emptying the Original Heroine's Pocket Dimension] Luo Jingyan, a modern rich beauty, accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a short-lived cannon-fodder character in a period novel. After her parents are framed by their own relatives, she has no choice but to take her younger brother and head to the countryside as an educated youth. Before leaving, she gets revenge by clearing out her enemy's eno
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Joining the Army in the 1960s: Fleeing Famine and Marrying a Cavalryman in a Flash 六零随军：逃荒，闪婚骑兵哥哥
[Military Romance + Cavalry Commander + Tianshan Grasslands + Farming and Hunting + Sweet Everyday Life] My grasslands, my horse. I do whatever I want out here. A spirited military wife transmigrates to the 1960s, flees famine across five provinces, and finally reaches a cavalry regiment in the far northwest, where she begins life with the troops. She clears land, digs for caterpillar fungus, and hunts wild beasts. With fields to farm and meat to eat, life is good. Riding a Tibetan wild ass, lea
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The 1970s: The Wild Officer Is Wrapped Around the Finger of a Stunning Powerhouse 七零：狂野军官被绝美大佬拿捏了
Completed [Period setting + military marriage + space + sweet romance + doting husband + feel-good story + both leads are cherished by everyone + everyday life in the army] Jiang Zhizhi, a special forces soldier hailed as a peerless beauty and all-around genius, transmigrated into a book and became the beloved youngest daughter of a family of scientists. From the start, her parents were sent away for labor reform. Her choices were to go on a blind date with a six-foot military officer or pack he
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Reborn in the 1970s: I Won't Be a Good Girl, I'll Be a Special Forces Soldier! 重生七零：不当乖乖女，当特种兵！
Chen Nian was found by her family in her previous life. She thought she was coming home to a warm, loving family, but someone else had already taken her place. Her biological mother said, “You’re the older sister. What’s wrong with letting your little sister have her way?” Her biological father said, “Chen Nian, why can’t you ever amount to anything?” Her brothers said, “Chen Nian, how do you compare to Xiao Yun?” In the end, Chen Nian was tied down to the operating table so that her adoptive si
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Period: The Huo Family's Ninth Daughter Goes to the Countryside 年代：霍家的小九下乡了
[Period setting + comedy + gossip-watching + System + pocket dimension + rugged man] Huo Jiujiu rides the wave of the times, packs her things, and travels thousands of miles northeast with the rest of the group. She plans to eat her fill and wait for her family to bring her home, but who knew the educated youth compound would be full of such interesting people and stories? Before long, Huo Jiujiu no longer wants to go back... While the Huo family worries that their daughter doesn't have enough t
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Report, Commander: Your Grandson Took His Wife Out to Beat Someone Up Again 报告首长你孙子带媳妇又去打人了
[Complete + male lead takes the domestic role, female lead takes the career role + fussy, love-struck husband + daily face-slapping antics of the compound's little tyrant in the 1970s] Shen Xia transmigrated into an ongoing period novel and became a pitiful girl whose father didn't care for her and whose mother didn't love her. After transmigrating, Shen Xia accidentally discovered that something was wrong with her identity. She reported her adoptive parents, sent her adoptive father to labor ca
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The Wounded War King: You Want to Inherit Her Wealth? I'll Give You Twins and Humiliate You 兵王残！吃绝户？多胎打脸两不误
(Complete) (Period Setting + Superpowers + Inventory Space + Rugged Hero + Devoted Husband + Multiple Children + Family Life + Both Leads Are Faithful) Qiao Nianyao was a powerful superhuman in the post-apocalyptic world. When an energy explosion erupted as she fought a powerful enemy, she unexpectedly transmigrated five hundred years into the past, bringing her powers and the storage space her opponent had dropped with her. She landed in the 1970s, the very era recorded in history! She also bec
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The Hunter's Youngest Daughter Marries into the Military District, Shaking the Whole Family Compound 猎户幺女嫁军区，家属院里抖三抖
[Short Drama Now Streaming] [Period Setting + Youngest Daughter] [Reborn + Combat Prowess] Jiang Shiyue, the youngest daughter of a hunter’s family, was reborn at the moment a scummy educated youth tried to cheat her out of her recommendation for a workers’, peasants’, and soldiers’ university. She had a bow and a dagger. Tender and easygoing? Not her style. But when it came to fighting, she was the real deal. After exposing the scumbag, Jiang Shiyue turned around and accepted the marriage propo
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I Transmigrated and Got Arrested? The Scientist's Army Wife Turns the Tables 刚穿越就被抓？科研军嫂逆风翻盘
[Transmigration + 1970s era + period setting + advancing the nation through research + military marriage + alternate history + slow burn (not a power fantasy, includes awful characters)] // Twilight shines over the nine provinces, stars settle in my arms // A genius inventor from the interstellar era unexpectedly reborn in the year 1975 of the Xiazhou calendar. She opens her eyes in an interrogation room, in a dire situation, on the verge of being sentenced to death. Ye Mu is just about to show
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A 1970s Military Marriage: I Accidentally Won the Heart of a Shrewd, Dominant Officer 七零军婚，误惹腹黑霸道军官
[Period setting + military marriage + devoted couple + sweet romance] Chen Suihuan transmigrates with a pocket dimension to the 1970s. To escape her awful relatives, she sends her younger brother off to join the army and goes to the countryside herself as an educated youth. After stepping in to help someone on a train, Chen Suihuan meets a soldier. From their very first encounter, she can tell he is a formidable man who gives everyone around him an absolute sense of security. She never expected
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Sweet Military Marriage: The Little Foolish Army Wife Cheats Her Way to Success in the ’70s 军婚甜宠：小傻瓜军嫂在七零开挂
First married, then in love + Sweet military romance [Entirely fictional: Military marriage, historical setting, both chaste, satisfying story, devoted love, first married then in love] They say this seventeen-year-old girl is unbelievably stupid! And she has a crazy case of spring fever: every spring, she chases men all over the village! One day, a versatile, cool beauty wakes up in the body of Tian Yuzhu, a silly girl in the 1970s. Her family considers her a burden and dumps her on the Shi fam
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Dragon Head Supreme 龙头至尊
The campus beauty he'd loved for three years was brutalized and killed! Chen Xuewen, who had done nothing, was framed and sent to prison! His honest, hardworking parents both died horribly while seeking justice for him! After nineteen years of living by the rules and obeying the law, Chen Xuewen finally saw the true face of the world. “Those who kill and burn their way to riches wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no bones behind!” “If others can kill and burn, why
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Life, Fat and Thin 肥瘦人生
Obesity is not only an issue of appearance, but also affects mental and physical health. It is closely associated with many diseases and is a major risk factor for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high blood lipids, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and certain cancers. In June 2024, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and 14 other departments jointly issued the Implementation Plan for the “Year of Weight Management” Initiative. Through Zh
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The Legacy of Yanhuang: The Three Kingdoms Record of Little Qiao and Xuanyuan 炎黄遗风之三国小乔轩辕录
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, young Qiao seeks revenge for her father and fulfills the wishes of her husband, Zhou Yu, and her son, Zhou Yi. When the eighteen warlords campaign against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and Liu Dai murder Qiao Mao over the shortage of provisions. His fourteen-year-old daughter, young Qiao, flees for her life and enters Bingzhou with the help of the Yellow Turbans. After gathering some followers, she joins the coalition forces in Guandong and heads to the front lines. She m
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Tianjin Tycoon: I Become a Big Shot in Republican-Era China 津门枭雄：我在民国当大佬
Using Tianjin as a mirror, this book reveals how a “man of many faces,” pushed along by history, walks a tightrope between gangs, government, and the battlefield. From a boy who lost his father to an international spy, every choice he makes is balanced on the blade of his era. In the end, the waves of the Haihe River will wash away every identity, leaving only the blood and spirit of a Chinese man.
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Three Sisters-in-Law from the Start: I Rule the Mountain in the Old Forest 开局三个嫂子，我在老林当山大王
Lin Yuan, a special forces medic from the 21st century, was reborn in the 1960s. His three older brothers had died protecting him from a black bear, leaving him with three beautiful sisters-in-law. It was a time of famine, and people were starving to death every day. To keep his sisters-in-law fed, Lin Yuan drew on his previous life's medical and military experience, making the most of the mountains and rivers! Pheasants, crucian carp, ginseng, goji berries, giant lingzhi mushrooms... There was
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Kicked Out of the House, I Build a Home and Stockpile Grain and Meat 被赶出家门，我盖房囤粮肉满仓
Du Qingniang gives birth to five daughters in a row and is scorned by her husband's family. After divorcing, she takes her daughters and starts with a small business, gradually opening her own shop. She sends her daughters to learn embroidery and hires a female tutor to teach them. The wild country girls become refined young ladies and each goes on to a bright future. Her former in-laws regret their actions and try to swoop in and take the fruits of her labor, but Du Qingniang ruthlessly throws
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The Underworld: Ruling the World 黑道：雄霸天下
An honest man avenges his wife and mother, wiping out the killer’s entire family in a single night! Wang Chao: “You violated my wife and broke my mother’s leg. If I had another chance, I’d do it all over again!” Wang Chao: “If nobody will step in, if nobody dares to, then I’ll take matters into my own hands!”
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Rising Through the Ranks 火线提拔
Qiao Yan witnessed someone jump to their death and was urgently promoted to investigate the real culprit behind it. But the case led him to a vast network of vested interests and a fierce battle. Relying on his own strength, he brought down the powerful forces and rose steadily through the ranks...
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My Incredible Wife 我的极品老婆
A courier buried in debt becomes the contract husband of a female CEO through a twist of fate! From then on, in this glittering, decadent city, sparks fly between him and the CEO in an unexpected way...
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Zeng Guofan: A Distinguished Statesman Who Revived the Late Qing 曾国藩：晚清中兴名臣
Written in an accessible style, this book recounts the remarkable life of Zeng Guofan, the foremost statesman of the late Qing revival. It begins with a baby's cries in a farming household in Xiangxiang in 1811, then follows his grueling path through the imperial examinations. He fails four times but keeps studying until, at twenty-seven, he finally enters the Hanlin Academy. As a capital official, he adheres to the principles of self-cultivation and holds fast to his convictions amid court intr
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After Switching Lives, I Just Want to Be a Menace 互换人生后只想当祸害
Mu Xiaoxiao opened her eyes and looked at everything around her. She felt utterly defeated. Was Heaven out to get her? In her first life, she was born in the 1980s and her life ended in 2022. After living for over thirty years, she had somehow been reborn because of a casual complaint. In her second life, she was reborn in the 1970s, and that life ended in 2021. Although her actual age was over fifty, she had only truly lived for a little over thirty years. She had been a good person in both liv
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The Eerie World: I Seek Immortality in the Underworld 诡异世界：我在阴界学长生
[Mystery twists + horror-solving + deeply immersive] Have you ever seen a headless ghost knocking at the door? A ghost wife taking away a person’s three souls? A human-skin kite fluttering in the wind? A shrine where ghosts are worshipped? I was just an ordinary wage slave. After losing my job, I went to stay at a friend’s place, where I witnessed an utterly horrifying scene. I was cursed, and yet I realized that this world didn’t seem real. Everything seemed to be part of a scheme. The people c
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Zhuge Liang's Twelve Suspected Tombs 诸葛亮的十二疑冢
Zhuge Liang’s Twelve Suspected Tombs
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