A Book That Makes You Examine Human Nature and Desire 人性和欲望你不得不研究的一本书

1. 401 丝 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Destiny as an Undercover Agent in Chang'an 丝路玉鉴：李烬宿命之长安卧底 White Prism LEE白棱镜LEE35k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: Li Jin's Fate as an Undercover Agent in Chang'an 4Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 402 丝 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Good Fortune, the Stunning Beauty 丝路玉鉴：李烬幸事之绝色佳人 White Prism LEE白棱镜LEE37k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: Li Jin's Good Fortune and the Peerless Beauty 2Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 403 丝 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin’s Secrets and the Triangle Star Pattern 丝路玉鉴：李烬秘事之三角星纹 White Prism LEE白棱镜LEE34k WordsCompleted Silk Road Jade Chronicles: Li Jin's Secrets, the Triangular Star Pattern 2Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 404 新 After Our Wedding Night, My Wife Asked for a Divorce 新婚夜后，老婆提出离婚 Fragrance-Chasing Youth追香少年8k WordsCompleted After Our Wedding Night, My Wife Asked for a Divorce 4.3kReads—Score104Shelves

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   Human nature is always more terrifying than you can imagine, just as Sister Wan said.

5. 405 娱 Godfather of the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈教父 Heading North向北Urban3.0M WordsCompleted A down-and-out keyboardist breathes his last in a hospital bed. From playing accompaniment in dance halls at sixteen to scraping by in Sanlitun at thirty-two, he'd tasted every sweetness and hardship life had to offer. When he opens his eyes, he's back in Northeast China in 2002. His young body houses a heart weathered by life's vicissitudes, along with classic melodies that shouldn't exist until the future. No System or cheat ability, just a lifetime's worth of musical talent and experience. In 50.6kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
6. 406 中 Lu Xueqi, Vocational School Student 中专生陆雪琪 Bright Sunny Day灿烂晴天Marriage & Romance81k WordsCompleted Lu Xueqi, the Vocational School Student 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves

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   The first book features a female protagonist who, in the mid-1990s, graduated from a teachers' college but gave up her assigned job to work in the south, as did the male protagonist, who also gave up his job in his hometown to work in the south. Together, they create a future.

7. 407 村 Village Girl Series: Starting in Willow Tree Village 村女系列：从柳树村开始 Big Brother Xiao Mo小莫哥哥Urban604k WordsCompleted [Short Story Collection] Nineteen women who stayed in the village: a housewife, a female doctor, a woman past marriageable age who refuses to marry, a streamer hoping to make it big, and more. Each has a different story and a life of her own. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 408 我 My 23-Year-Old Northeastern Chinese CEO 我的23岁东北女总裁 Old Jiu's Records of History老九史记Urban809k WordsCompleted Multiple heroines, wish fulfillment. A true top-tier hunter always appears to be the prey. Who’s the real prey? After his girlfriend cheats on him, he plans to get revenge on the rival who stole both his patent and his girlfriend. His target is Su Qing, a university professor. But the professor turns the tables and “gets revenge” on him instead. His phone rings. It’s the woman who treated him like a pawn and sacrificed him at the negotiating table just that afternoon, Lin Zhixia. “Come work with 11.3kReads8.5Score927Shelves

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   Amazingly recommended! [Admiration][Admiration]

9. 409 如 Clinging Like a Maggot to Bone 如蛆附骨 An Yining安亦宁Modern Romance887k WordsCompleted [Please read the content warnings on the first page.] “Hatred congeals into an ugly scab that cannot be torn away. This ‘grudge scab’ may grow on different people, within different relationships, or in the shared memories of an entire family.” This book consists of X bizarre, strange, chilling, and dark short stories, including “Melted into Bone and Blood,” “Who Knows Who Sleeps at Night,” “The Red Thread Binding the Face,” “A Summer No One Mourned,” “The Intermediate State,” and “A Love Story o 433Reads8.8Score111Shelves

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   [Already added to my wishlist]

10. 410 一 A Loser’s Godforsaken Life 一个屌丝的混账人生 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Urban728k WordsCompleted This book follows a loser who starts out as a penniless wage laborer and, through the twists of fate, makes a comeback to become a wealthy man. But then, with a great hand in his grasp and a winning card to play, he falls into a trap meticulously laid by those in power. In the end, he loses everything, leaving only chaos in his wake 275Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A few books that fully explore human nature and desire!

11. 411 水 Fickle as Water 水性杨花 Feng Yuqi冯玉奇Historical74k WordsCompleted In the chaotic years of the Republic of China, Xu Fangqing of Peach Blossom Village and Li Xiaoming, a fisherman, had known and loved each other since childhood. Their feelings were mutual, and with her uncle’s help, they became engaged, believing they would spend their lives together in peace. But fate had other plans: Fangqing’s uncle suddenly died, and her greedy mother-in-law secretly seized the family’s savings. For money, the mother-in-law joined forces with relatives and cruelly sold Fang 497Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    It contains kinship and affection, but also depth and reflection.

12. 412 惊 A Case That Shook the Nation 惊天巨案 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Urban299k WordsCompleted This is an anti-corruption novel about an interest group that abuses its power to fabricate wrongful convictions and seize the assets of a local private company. The story follows the people’s police, represented by Gao Fei, as they investigate this miscarriage of justice, uphold social fairness and justice, defend the authority of the law, and protect the lives and property of the public. Undaunted by sacrifice or hardship, they pit their wits against the interest group in a grueling struggle, 31.9kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
13. 413 生 Life and Death at Full Throttle 生死狂飙 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Mystery293k WordsCompleted In the 1990s, two shocking murders took place in a row in Hannan City, in a certain province. Both victims were men, local officials and entrepreneurs, and both were found at the crime scene missing their lower parts. Was it a crime of passion? Or revenge? Thus begins a gripping story of political power struggles, the darkness of human nature, the hand of fate, and the helplessness of life in this world... The ending is mournful and beautiful, deeply moving and heartbreaking. All one can do is s 789Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 414 命 Fate: A Woman’s Redemption 命运，赎罪的女人 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Modern Romance19k WordsCompleted Fate: A Woman's Atonement 76Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 415 我 My Strange Neighbor 我的诡异邻居 Qizai Who Loves Electronic Instruments喜欢电声乐器的七仔Mystery18k WordsCompleted My Eerie Neighbor 254Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 416 人 A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史 Mark P. Donnelly马克·P.唐纳利Historical151k WordsCompleted 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 7.6kReads9.6Score1.1kShelves
17. 417 曾 Zeng Guofan's Methods of Scholarship 曾国藩治学方法 Hu Zhefu胡哲敷Historical77k WordsCompleted This book explores three dimensions: self-cultivation, managing affairs, and reading. Its discussion of self-cultivation advocates integrating “resolve, insight, and perseverance,” building a foundation for body and mind through meditation and a regular routine. Its approach to managing affairs reveals, through practical examples such as running a household and leading an army, the unity of hands-on action and institutional innovation. Its discussion of reading emphasizes “mastering one field” a 342Reads9.0Score159Shelves
18. 418 那 The Happy Years I Spent in Dongguan 那些年我在东莞的幸福往事 Sparse Shadows in the Courtyard疏影庭前Urban299k WordsCompleted [Urban everyday life] + [multiple heroines] + [first person] My name is Hao Jian. I'm a college graduate who left a small inland county to make a living in Dongguan. A female classmate who'd been quite a flirt back in school introduced me to the city. I thought I'd find a factory job and earn some money, but things didn't go as planned. I ended up in a bar, and that's where my life took an unexpected turn. 5.6kReads6.0Score510Shelves

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    A super good book^*

19. 419 这 What a Clever Adultery Bust 这奸，捉得妙 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊21k WordsCompleted What a perfect time to catch them in the act 344Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Lin Musheng never imagined in her life that at 1:30 in the morning, she would be standing in the corridor of the fifth floor of the teachers' dormitory, wearing a Pikachu-print nightgown, being yelled at by a man through a megaphone as a "lovers in adultery." Even more outrageous, the man was her ex-husband. And most outrageous of all, her so-called "lovers in adultery"—was standing half a step behind her, one hand on the doorframe, the other slowly adjusting his shirt collar, his face showing not a trace of panic, but rather a calm "I'll see what tricks you have up your sleeve."

20. 420 那 That Night, She Made Me Remember Her for a Lifetime 那一夜，她让我记一辈子 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted That night, she made me remember her for the rest of my life 602Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 421 禁 Forbidden Surrender: Monday Through Thursday, I Belong to Him 禁忌沉沦：周一到周四，我是他的 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊7k WordsCompleted Forbidden Descent: Monday to Thursday, I Belong to Him 304Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 422 她 She's My Underling and My Wife 她是我小弟，也是我老婆 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊27k WordsCompleted She's My Little Brother, and Also My Wife 962Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 423 爸 Dad, I’m Not Going 爸爸，我不去 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊7k WordsCompleted Dad, I Don't Want to Go 342Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 424 狗 You Bastard, You Win This Time 狗男人，算你厉害 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊13k WordsCompleted You Bastard, You Win This Time 3.1kReads—Score—Shelves
25. 425 五 Five Years with a Contraceptive Ring, and He Knelt in the Ancestral Hall on the Day We Parted 五年避子环，和离当天他跪穿祠堂 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance15k WordsCompleted Five Years Wearing a Contraceptive Ring, He Knelt Until His Knees Bled in the Ancestral Hall on the Day We Parted 2.6kReads—Score—Shelves
26. 426 除 On New Year’s Eve, After My Mother-in-Law Opened the Door Three Times, My Wife Said Our Marriage Was Fake 除夕夜，岳母三次推门后，老婆说我们是假结婚 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance10k WordsCompleted On New Year's Eve, After My Mother-in-Law Opened the Door Three Times, My Wife Said Our Marriage Was Fake 570Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 427 耳 Starlight by My Ear: Deaf for Ten Years, He Heard Only Her Name 耳畔星光：他聋了十年，只听见她的名字 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊9k WordsCompleted Starlight by the Ear: He Was Deaf for Ten Years, and the Only Thing He Heard Was Her Name 101Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 428 十 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 Lu Ban Banban鲁班班班Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.6kReads9.4Score5.6kShelves
29. 429 乡 The Countryside Is Beautiful Beyond Measure 乡村无限好 Earn a Billion a Day 99日赚一亿99Urban178k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 467Reads—Score109Shelves
30. 430 唐 Nine Beauties of the Tang Dynasty 唐朝九个美女 Blockbuster-Level Mastery爆款高境界Historical171k WordsOngoing Style: Clear and easy to understand, witty and humorous, lighthearted, with plenty of romantic tension. System: Tang Dynasty Get-Rich-Quick System. Male lead: Wang Jumeng Female supporting characters: Nangong Qian, Murong Ying, Li Jiaojiao, and others Language: Concise and straightforward. 17Reads—Score125Shelves

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    A rollercoaster of emotions!

31. 431 情 The Emotional Account Bank 情感账户银行 User26182811用户2618281117k WordsCompleted The Emotional Account Bank —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Four scalpels piercing the absurdity of the workplace, four emotional parables that will leave you laughing and then speechless. Have you ever experienced these moments—working late into the night, staring at your boss's "Thank you for your hard work" on the computer screen, and suddenly a thought pops into your head: How much is this "Thank you for your hard work" really worth? A colleague asks for your help, you agree, but an uncontrollable thought flashes through your mind: Will he reward me in my performance review later? You're in a terrible mood, but before entering the office, you still practice a standard workplace smile in front of your phone's front camera, because you know that the emotion monitoring camera at the end of the corridor is already recording you. If these moments seem familiar, or even send chills down your spine, then congratulations—you're standing at the threshold of the absurd system of "emotional economics," just one step away from pushing open that door and entering a world that will make you laugh until you pound your fist on the table, and then leave you speechless for a long time afterward. Behind this door lie four independent yet interconnected workplace stories. These aren't career guides to get promoted and earn more money, nor are they motivational platitudes on emotional intelligence management. Instead, they're a set of modern fables that use absurd humor as a scalpel to precisely dissect the truth of workplace emotional alienation. Each story revolves around a fictional "emotional management system"—from a "favorability exchange rate market" that treats goodwill as currency, to an "emotional investment advisor" that examines interpersonal relationships using return on investment, from an "emotional value accountant" that keeps track of every relationship, to "emotional bankruptcy protection" that marks emotional fatigue as bankruptcy and implements legal isolation. Four systems, four iterations, each more absurd than the last, yet each closer to the truth we are experiencing. Now, let me tell you about them one by one. The first story: "Favorability Exchange Rate Market" Core setting: Everyone's goodwill can be traded, exchanged, shorted, and even bankrupted like currency. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is an ordinary employee of Huiheng Group. The company launched a system called the "Goodwill Exchange Rate Market," turning everyone's kindness and patience into quantifiable points—300 points for helping a colleague with a PPT, 500 points for covering someone's weekend shift, and 2,000 points for accepting a clearly fraudulent project at an all-hands meeting. Sounds fair, right? You're kind to others, the system remembers, and you can use those points to redeem coffee, time off in lieu, or even an excellent performance review at the end of the year. But this didn't last long. The system soon launched a "negative emotion short-selling mechanism"—frowning, sighing, complaining—points were deducted; even secretly crying in a toilet stall would be detected by the emotion sensor and pushed to the entire company's homepage. The entire office became a giant casino, with everyone betting on someone else's emotional breakdown so they could profit from the difference. The most absurd and thrilling part of the story is: when the system crashed and everyone's goodwill evaporated by 70% overnight, eight strangers, each burdened with debt, were forcibly bound together by the system into a "mutual aid group"—one person's emotional points were deducted, and the entire group was implicated. Forced to sit in the same conference room, facing an electronic screen on the wall flashing a blood-red negative number, they made a decision that surprised everyone: since the rules were unfair, they would play the rules to their death within the rules themselves. This story will show you: • What is the standard arc of a workplace smile? (Answer: 15 degrees; Chen Mo practiced in front of the mirror for an entire weekend.) • How long will it take to repay the "smile" owed to HR? (Answer: equivalent to reciting "A Grateful Heart" forty-seven times.) • In an environment where everyone wears a mask, what will the first person to remove their mask experience? Second story: *Emotional Investment Advisor* Core setting: The system analyzes your social data, telling you who is "profitable" to be nice to and who is "lossable." After the favorability exchange rate market collapsed, the company switched to a gentler, more covert system. It no longer forces you to trade favorability, but instead acts like a "caring advisor," sending you emotional investment advice weekly: "Your emotional investment in your colleague Lin Xiao to your left has a return rate of only 0.37%, It is recommended to cut your losses immediately." "Recommended candidate: Marketing Operations Director Ma Hongda, historical return rate is consistently above 21.5%." Sounds like a joke, right? But think about it carefully—is the system wrong? Being nice to Lin Xiao won't get you a promotion or raise; being nice to Ma Hongda will definitely affect your performance rating. The system is simply helping you make "rational choices." But the problem is—when everyone starts allocating their goodwill according to "return on investment," what will happen to those marked as "low-return" by the system—the new intern at the front desk, the soon-to-retire senior employee in the logistics department, the taciturn technical support staff—? They will become an "emotional desert," everyone will avoid them, because the system says "investing in these people is not worthwhile." Chen Mo and his team did something the system couldn't understand at all: they deliberately sowed goodwill like seeds in those "deserts," and then used a month's worth of real data to prove that those emotional connections deemed "unprofitable" by the system could actually weave a network denser and more resilient than any "high-return investment portfolio." This story will make you think: • Does goodwill require a return? If so, can the phrase "not seeking reward" still exist in the human dictionary? • When a system can accurately predict "who you will develop feelings for next" and warn you in advance that "this feeling is unprofitable," can you still distinguish which feelings are your own and which are induced by the system? The third story: *Emotional Value Accounting* Core setting: The system records every social interaction you have as an emotional ledger. The debit side is the emotions you consume, and the credit side is the emotions you gain. At the end of the month, the net emotional gain or loss is settled. This is the most covert of the four systems. It doesn't force you to do anything, doesn't recommend anything, and doesn't even make any judgments about you. It quietly records your emotional fluctuations after interacting with everyone—you get criticized, points are deducted; you get praised, points are added; you hear a negative rant in the break room, points are deducted as well. Then it sends you a weekly emotional asset report, detailing your "net profit and loss" in each relationship. It's a mirror. But the problem is—this mirror only reflects the surface, not the core. It can see the moment Chen Mo frowns when Lin Xiao criticizes him, and then deduct 2.3 Points in that relationship. But it can't see—because Lin Xiao pointed out the data logic error, Chen Mo got an A in his quarterly report, and his performance bonus increased by 3,000 yuan. It can see the "high emotional consumption" of two programmers arguing about technical solutions in the break room, but it can't see that afterwards they solved a concurrency problem that could have caused a major failure. It only records the ripples, not the river; it only sees the instantaneous expenditure of costs, not the long-term accumulation of value. And the scariest thing is: the longer you look in this mirror, the more you'll start to genuinely believe that those who criticize you are draining you, and those who give you treats are the ones who truly care about you. You'll unconsciously distance yourself from "low-return" relationships, retreating into a superficially harmonious, data-beautiful emotional comfort zone—no longer experiencing the clashes and challenges that truly help you grow. This story will give you a striking detail: Chen Mo and his team used a three-yuan handwritten ledger to fight against an entire algorithm system worth 240 million yuan. The handwritten ledger didn't record scores, but rather "things the system missed"—like handing a pack of tissues to a crying stranger in a fire escape stairwell. Which ledger do you think is closer to the truth? Fourth story: *Emotional Bankruptcy Protection* Core premise: When your emotional debt is negative for three consecutive months, the system will suggest you apply for "emotional bankruptcy protection." Once approved, you will receive debt forgiveness, but at the cost—you will be assigned an "emotional trustee," and from then on, everyone you work with will receive the system's advice: "Please communicate indirectly through the trustee." You are protected, but you also disappear from the organization's social network. This is the most somber yet warmest chapter in the tetralogy. The heaviness lies in the fact that "emotional bankruptcy protection" is not essentially protection, but a legal, systematic, and disguised form of social isolation. It tells you in the gentlest tone: you are too vulnerable, you need protection, you are no longer suited to directly communicate with those who exhaust you. Then it helps you sever all uncomfortable relationships—including those who criticize you but truly care, those who understand you better after arguments, and those who make you feel bad now but are good for you in the long run. The warmth lies in the fact that Chen Mo stood in the arbitration tribunal, facing five arbitrators, and said something that silenced the entire room. He said the system gave his relationship with Lin Xiao a score of -451.2, But he knew that every point in that -451.2 Was evidence that Lin Xiao truly cared about him—because someone who doesn't care wouldn't carefully read your PowerPoint presentation and tell you that the data logic on page three is flawed. He said that if the price of "emotional bankruptcy" is leaving those who are truly good to you, then he would rather not be protected. This story will resonate with you because: Do you have someone in your life whom the system classifies as "high-consumption" but you know in your heart is incredibly important to you? When the world uses terms like "stop-loss," "decluttering," and "emotional management" to advise you to distance yourself from all relationships that exhaust you, do you have the courage to say—I don't need protection, I just need understanding? Why read these four stories? Because they are the stories of you, me, and everyone else. We've all practiced smiling in front of the mirror at some point, felt a mix of emotions when receiving a "thank you for your hard work" from our boss, chosen to care for someone even when we were too exhausted to speak, and silently asked ourselves: Is it worth it to be this good to them? These four stories push this question to its extreme with an absurd premise—what if one day, kindness is put on a price, smiles are scored, care is converted into a return on investment, every relationship is recorded in an emotional ledger, and when you're exhausted, the system doesn't embrace you but suggests you "apply for bankruptcy isolation"... What would you do? Chen Mo and his team in the stories don't provide a standard answer. But they offer a direction: kindness doesn't require a return, emotional value cannot be defined by any algorithm, and those relationships marked as "losses" by the system are often your most valuable assets. And when someone advises you to give up depth for comfort, say no. These four stories will make you laugh—because the absurd details are so real, so real that you'll be moved to tears if you don't laugh. These four stories will also leave you speechless—because when you close the last page, you'll find that the fictional "emotional management system" isn't far from you. The emotion-tracking apps on your phone, the "recommend your rating of colleagues" in company satisfaction surveys, the ads on social media that are precisely targeted at your emotional lows—they're all doing something similar to the system in the stories: turning your emotions into data and then telling you how to live. But the story also gives us a warm response: that three-yuan handwritten ledger, that Hunan restaurant private room filled with countless genuine laughs, that small team on the rooftop where the cold wind blew but it was warmer than anywhere else, that kraft paper notebook that recorded moments that the system could never capture—these insignificant things are precisely the most indestructible resistance. The four-part series' core keywords, story titles, core metaphors, most absurd settings, and most heartwarming moments: * **Favorability Exchange Rate Market:** Kindness is traded as currency; sighing deducts points, frowning deducts points, even crying in the bathroom is monitored. Eight heavily indebted strangers are forced to bind themselves together and then decide to rebel. * **Emotional Investment Advisor:** Interpersonal relationships are treated as investment portfolios. The system advises you to "cut your losses" on Lin Xiao and recommends you curry favor with your boss. They ironically direct their kindness towards those deemed "unworthy" by the system. * **Emotional Value Accounting:** Emotions are recorded as accounting ledgers. Every chat has a net emotional gain or loss, and at the end of the month, a three-yuan handwritten ledger records everything the algorithm misses. * **Emotional Bankruptcy Protection:** Emotional exhaustion is marked as bankruptcy and isolated. The way to "protect you" is to make everyone avoid you. Stand in arbitration and say, "I don't need protection, I only need real relationships." They have embarked on this journey of emotional freedom. Chen Mo—a six-year veteran of Huiheng Group—from a "people-pleasing personality" practicing smiling in front of the mirror to an "emotionally free person" standing in arbitration refusing emotional bankruptcy protection. Every transformation of his is clumsy yet real. Lin Xiao—the mysterious woman who single-handedly shorted the entire favorability market and earned 68,000 points. She understands the system better than anyone, and distrusts it less than anyone. She teaches you the rules, but ultimately lets you transcend them. Su Min, Da Liu, Xiao Zhou, Sister Zhang, Zhao Mingyu, Yang Fan, and Lawyer Ding—the seven members of the Seventh Mutual Aid Group, eight unlucky strangers who became comrades raising their glasses in a Hunan restaurant private room. Sister Zhang's braised chicken feet, Da Liu's cat in a plaid shirt, Xiao Zhou's fishtail braids, and Lawyer Ding's always clear and logical legal opinions—each of them resists being defined in their own way. Zheng Zhun—the former risk management committee inspector, a man who wrote in his resignation letter, "I want to do something that makes humans more human." From auditor to arbitrator, every choice he makes is moving. Wen Yining and Wen Yicheng—the two brothers of EmotionQuant, one spent fifteen years building the system and then began to question it, the other walked into a Hunan restaurant with a handwritten ledger and sat quietly for an entire night. Their appearance made this resistance no longer a lone battle fought by lower-level employees. A little secret for everyone: These four stories are part of our own author, Mr. Fu Shuiheng's "Emotional Economics" four-part series. Drawing on decades of life experience and workplace insights, Mr. Fu transforms the emotional dilemmas we face daily but struggle to articulate into four captivating stories that will make you laugh and cry, finding truth in absurdity. The stories aren't pretentious or preachy; instead, they allow you to discover the "truth" within the laughter. As Mr. Fu often says: a good story isn't didactic; it lets the reader find the answers themselves. --- Attention everyone! These four stories are now available on the following platforms: Tomato Novels, Tomato Music, Toutiao Lite, Toutiao, Danhua, Changdu Free Novels, Wukong Browser, and other mainstream platforms. Open any of these apps and enter the story titles—"The Favorability Exchange Rate Market," "Emotional Investment Advisor," "Emotional Value Accounting," and "Emotional Bankruptcy Protection"—into the search bar to instantly find our exclusive works. Please make sure you're reading user 26182811; this is our author, Mr. Fu Shuiheng. Don't go to the wrong place! After reading, please remember to leave a message for Mr. Fu below his work. Your comments like "Well written," "I laughed so hard," "I cried," or "That's me!" Are his call to action to continue creating. Let's build a bridge with words, letting him know that his hard work is being read, waited for, and touched. And here's a little secret—Mr. Fu is a prolific writer despite his advanced age! His novel, *A Man Should Be Self-Reliant*, is already completed—a passionate and inspiring work that depicts a man's struggles and perseverance in the face of societal changes. His ongoing novel, *Not a Single Japanese Soldier Can Be Left Alive*, has already reached two million words, a grand narrative that subtly portrays the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. For those who enjoy long novels, these two monumental works are waiting for you to read them. The four-part series consists of short, exquisite stories that linger in the mind after a single reading; the two longer works offer grand narratives, accompanying you through countless late nights and commutes. Short stories have their sharp edge, and longer ones their rich depth. There's bound to be something for you in this author's repertoire. Finally, a sincere thank you to everyone who took the time out of their busy schedules to read the works of our own author, Mr. Fu Shuiheng. In this era of endless short videos and perpetually scrolling information feeds, the fact that you're willing to stop, read a story of tens of thousands of words, and then see this recommendation here—that in itself is a rare and precious thing. It's a blessing that Mr. Fu's writing has met you. Your attention and comments are a response to his earnest expectations. Creation is a solitary journey, but being read is heartwarming. Every word you leave in the comments section is a reason for Mr. Fu to continue telling his stories. So—if you've already read any of these stories, leave a comment. Tell Mr. Fu which character reminded you of yourself, which scene made you laugh out loud late at night, and which moment left you speechless for a long time. If you haven't read it yet—go search for it now. Four stories, four entry points. Choose one, push open that door, and step into this absurd yet real world. You'll see colleagues, leaders, yourself, and the workplace truths that happen every day but are taken for granted. And when you emerge from the stories, you might bring something different—perhaps a new way of looking at those around you, or perhaps the next time you smile at a colleague, it's less calculating and more sincere. That's probably the meaning of a good story. Go for it, everyone. See you in the search box. The old man's pen awaits your call to arms.

32. 432 爱 Love Inflation 爱心通货膨胀 User26182811用户2618281114k WordsCompleted Love Inflation —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 433 好 The Affection Exchange Market 好感度汇率市场 User26182811用户2618281142k WordsCompleted The Favorability Exchange Market —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 434 情 Emotional Investment Advisor 情感投资顾问 User26182811用户2618281125k WordsCompleted Emotional Investment Consultant —Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 435 情 Emotional Value Calculator 情绪价值计算师 User26182811用户2618281120k WordsCompleted Emotional Value Analyst —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 436 必 The Theory of Necessary Error 必要误差理论 User26182811用户2618281111k WordsCompleted The Theory of Necessary Error —Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 437 纠 The Compulsive Corrector 纠错强迫症 User26182811用户2618281119k WordsCompleted Error-Correction Obsessive —Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 438 很 Sorry! I Can't Follow You Back 很遗憾！我回关不了您 User26182811用户2618281110k WordsCompleted Sorry! I Can't Follow You Back —Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 439 我 I Accidentally Verified Myself as an Online Author? I'll Play Along and Become an Influencer 我手贱认证成了网络作家？将计就计成网红 User26182811用户2618281124k WordsCompleted I Accidentally Verified Myself as an Online Author? So I Played Along and Became an Influencer —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 440 须 The Sumeru Ring: My Road to a Comeback 须弥戒，我的逆袭之路 Turning the Tide of the Mortal World逆转红尘Urban1.4M WordsOngoing I was reborn on a rainy night in late autumn. Not far away, my second uncle and his son were digging a pit for me, preparing to bury me in a graveyard. In my previous life, I woke up and escaped, never to return. I drifted through life, and just before I died, I came across a news report. On this very day, my second uncle sold my newlywed wife to human traffickers, leading to her being abused and killed. This time, I won't run away. Whoever digs the pit will be buried in it. 8.5kReads7.4Score783Shelves
41. 441 容 Error-Tolerance Anxiety 容错焦虑症 User26182811用户2618281121k WordsCompleted Error-Tolerance Anxiety —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 442 红 A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士 Tianchen Xingyu天辰星语Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsCompleted One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world! 6.1kReads8.5Score589Shelves

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43. 443 误 The Error Art Movement 误差艺术运动 User26182811用户2618281120k WordsCompleted The Error Art Movement —Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 444 土 The Potato Oracle’s All-Purpose Comeback Theory 土豆万能接话神棍论 Tao's World涛视界8k WordsCompleted The Potato: An All-Purpose Conversationalist and Mastermind 435Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 445 炮 Blasting the Secondhand Bride Who's Still a Virgin 炮轰二婚黄花大闺女 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤Urban28k WordsCompleted The story unfolds amid a bride-price dispute between the Gao and Sun families and absurd details involving a pig and a ceremonial cannon car. It portrays the harsh realities of bride prices in rural courtship and the complexity of human nature. The tragedy of Gao Jun and Sun Xiaocui also serves as a warning to all rural young people: marriage is not a business deal; love is what matters most. 25Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The unpredictable nature of human nature.

46. 446 四 A Forty-Year-Old Woman Falls for Me and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! 四十阿姨恋上我，让厂长喊叫爹！ Liu Zixian刘子羡Urban638k WordsOngoing Original Title: A Forty-Year-Old Aunt Falls for Me, and Makes the Factory Director Call Me Dad! After graduating from college, Chen Yu went out to gain work experience and found a job as a management trainee at a small factory. He finally made it through the hard years and was preparing for a promotion into management, only to unexpectedly end up living off a woman. Though, on second thought, that made sense. After all, Chen Yu had seen a doctor who told him he could only live off a woman. At th 2.7kReads—Score122Shelves

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    The rich older sister is the true love

47. 447 合 The Hehuan Sect's Number One Cauldron? More Children, More Blessings, Until I Become a Demonic Elder 合欢宗第一鼎炉？多子多福成老魔 Liu Zixian刘子羡Eastern Fantasy199k WordsOngoing Does having a pure Yang body automatically make you a cultivation furnace? Why can't you just be good at alchemy? His master taught Chen Changsheng the Everlasting Spring Technique, helping him cross the divide between mortal and cultivator. Chen Changsheng began his pursuit of immortality. Along the way, he met many charming women, but his resolve to attain immortality never wavered. Gradually, he became known as a member of the demonic path. What exactly happened to the former Sword God of Bal 6.1kReads—Score325Shelves
48. 448 我 I Have a Wuling RV for Transporting Supplies in the Apocalypse 我在末日有一辆五菱房车运送物资 Liu Zixian刘子羡Sci-Fi & Apocalypse186k WordsOngoing After graduating from college, Chen Shu couldn't find a suitable job, so he started delivering food. He began making deliveries in a Wuling Hongguang, and one day, without realizing it, he found himself in a parallel apocalyptic world. Chen Shu was just about to go to the bathroom when a woman began frantically pounding on his window. When he rolled it down, the woman, dressed head to toe in designer labels, climbed straight into the car and urged him to drive. In his panic, Chen Shu floored i 2.2kReads—Score100Shelves
49. 449 校 The Campus Belle Graduated Without a Single Rumor, Until I Went to Prison 校花零绯闻毕业，直到我锒铛入狱 Liu Zixian刘子羡Urban154k WordsOngoing In 2025, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, where I worked, became the largest exchange in the country. I made an indelible contribution to that achievement. I ended up in prison after making the same mistake as my senior schoolmate. Before that happened, I also met the woman who changed my life... Also known as: "Don't Be Afraid, Senior Sister. I'll Protect You." "Don't Fear the Campus Belle's Flirting, Just Beware the Forty-Year-Old Sister" "Campus Belle, Please Guide Me Through the Rest of My Life" 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
50. 450 表 My Cousin Got into Harvard and Had Me Committed to a Mental Hospital 表姐考上哈佛大学，将我送进精神病院 Jing Jiuzhe荆九折12k WordsCompleted My Cousin Got into Harvard and Sent Me to a Mental Hospital 17.8kReads—Score108Shelves

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    A very realistic story, worth reading.

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