So Many Terrible Characters in Slice-of-Life Stories Set in the Past. Looking for a Female Lead Who Stands Up for Herself and Builds a Career 发现吃瓜年代文很多极品，求不受气女主发展事业的
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Transmigrated Into a 1970s Novel: A Bystander's Guide to Staying Out of Trouble 穿书七十年代吃瓜群众的自我修养
Have you ever transmigrated to a different scene just by blinking? Lin Yuzhu has. She transmigrated in a daze to the 1970s. No, she transmigrated into a book. She has a System, and the female lead is there too. There are also supporting female characters, but she isn't one of them. She's just an onlooker who wandered into the story by mistake. As an onlooker, she gets to watch the drama unfold every day. She doesn't want other people's dogs, and she doesn't get involved in other people's busines
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The 1990s: Why Date When I've Transmigrated into a Book? 90年代：穿书了谁还谈恋爱啊
Lin Ting had just secured funding when she transmigrated into a romance novel where everyone was eight hundred percent love-brained. From the start, she was stuck in an icy wasteland with a talkative male lead threatening to kill her. Lin Ting: “Date you? I'd rather get a dog.” The original male lead: “...?” No space, no System, no mind-reading ability... Luckily, she still had a business brain running at full speed. “I'm never dating anyone. Not in this life.” “If I run out of money, I can earn
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The Supporting Girl in the Period Novel Rolled Her Eyes 年代文女配翻了个白眼
[The blurb is misleading. This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel, and the leads are ordinary people. If you only like mindless wish fulfillment, please don't read this. Thank you.] Qiu Bailu transmigrates into a period novel as a clownish, supporting villainess, destined to scheme her way to a lifetime of poverty. She's so angry she laughs. She's unapologetically hypocritical. When she read the book, she sided with the protagonist and thought the villainess was awful. Now that she's the villainess,
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My Mother-in-Law Is Sick, My Husband Is Dead, and This Lazy Daughter-in-Law Has Woken Up 婆婆病，丈夫死，懒媳妇她觉醒了
(This novel features a large ensemble cast.) [An incredibly strong, lazy, top-notch wife + a younger, chatty husband, taking down scumbags + making money] Jiang Yiqing had a wonderful married life! She didn’t have to clean the house or look after the kids, and her father-in-law, the factory director, had her back at work. All she had to do was clock out on time and go home to lie down. Life was so perfect she could see the good times stretching endlessly ahead! Then one day, she dreamed that
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Reborn in 1994: A Happy Life Begins with Selling Porridge 重生94，幸福生活从卖粥开始
[Starting a Business and Making Money+Top Student+No Romance+Feel-Good Female Lead+Period Piece] Jiang Yu is reborn in 1994. In this life, she refuses to follow her mother to the city for school. She'll stay in the county, sell porridge, and open a food court. With her foresight and skills as a food blogger, watch her turn 250 yuan into a hundred billion... She'll make money and study hard, both at once!
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Redwood Gu Huiling's Fifth Book 红木顾慧玲的第5本书
This book was originally titled The Stock Market and Its Stories. It doesn't promote getting rich overnight or urge anyone to jump straight into stock trading. Instead of dry textbook explanations, it breaks down all kinds of stock-market jargon through everyday language and little stories. Candlestick charts, chips, being trapped in a position, gains and losses, position sizing... All those daunting financial terms are woven into the real experiences of ordinary people and explained in detail.
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Explanations of New Internet Slang 网络新词解释
These stories use simple, straightforward fables in novel form to explain the new terms appearing online, making them easier for everyone to understand by breaking them down and explaining them step by step.
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When the Plum Blossoms Stir 风起青梅时
When the Wind Stirs Among the Green Plums
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The Rose Sword Tassel: The Martial World’s Greatest Female Legal Sage 蔷薇剑穗：江湖第一女律圣
Rose Sword Tassel: The Jianghu's Greatest Female Legal Sage
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The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty: A Thousand-Year Battle of Wits Over the Enfeoffment Edict and the Right to Inherit 汉祚浮沉录：推恩令与继承权的千年隔空对弈
The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty: A Thousand-Year Duel Over the Enfeoffment Edict and the Right of Succession
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Interstellar Marriage Assessment Shock! Six-Month Compulsory Growth Camp for Two 28-Year-Old Man-Children 星际婚检暴击！28岁巨婴夫妻的6个月强制成长营
A Shocking Prenuptial Exam in Space! A Six-Month Boot Camp to Make a 28-Year-Old Baby Couple Grow Up
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The Strong Female Lead Breaks Through 大女主强势破局
A Powerful Female Protagonist Breaks Through the Deadlock
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The Mending World's Nüwa 织补界的“女娲补天”
The Nuwa of the Mending World
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A Glimmer on a Button: Finding Myself Through 2025 Workwear 纽扣微光：2025职场穿搭里的自我救赎
A Button's Glimmer: Finding Myself Through 2025 Office Fashion
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Lu Ban: A Thousand Years of Echoes in Mortise and Tenon 鲁班：榫卯里的千年回响
Lu Ban: A Millennium of Echoes in Mortise and Tenon
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Evening Breeze Chronicles: Thank Goodness I Found True Love 晚风纪事：幸好遇真爱
In this fast-paced age, when people fear giving their hearts to the wrong person, these stories capture little moments of sweetness and let readers experience romantic love stories. Each story preserves romantic imagery while highlighting the healing sweetness of feel-good romance. They also fit a structure where each chapter stands alone, yet the stories connect to form a longer narrative. Every story stays true to the heart of romantic sweetness and warm, genuine love, leaving readers feeling
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Starlight in My Arms, Stars in the Evening Breeze: My Reader and I Met in Person 星火入怀，晚风遇星：我的读者奔现了
Sparks in My Arms, Stars in the Evening Breeze: My Reader and I Met in Real Life
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Pet Owner! Your Chubby Orange Cat Is a Galactic Secret Agent 铲屎官！你家胖橘是星际特工
Cat Owner! Your Chubby Orange Cat Is a Galactic Agent
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Pet Owner! The Chubby Orange Cat Agent Slipped Back from the Galaxy to the Old Neighborhood 铲屎官！胖橘特工从星河溜回老街了
Cat Owner! The Chubby Orange Cat Agent Slipped Back to the Old Street from the Galaxy
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A Farewell to Mountains and Rivers: Reborn as the Heroine of My Own Story 笔底山河别：重生做自己的大女主
Mountains and Rivers Between the Lines: Reborn as the Heroine of My Own Story
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Clear-Eyed in the Online World 网海清醒纪
A Clear-Eyed Chronicle of the Online World
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The Line: No Reconciliation Between Black and White 界线：黑白之间无圆融
The Line: No Reconciliation Between Black and White
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Is Love Like the Stock Market? I Lie Flat on the Sidelines, Yet the Stock God Goes All In on Me 恋爱像炒股？我空仓躺平，却被股神重仓了
Is Love Like the Stock Market? I Lie Flat on the Sidelines, but the Stock God Goes All In on Me
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I Transmigrated into a Book, but I’m in the 1980s 穿书了，但人在八零
[A Real Married Couple Transmigrates Together + Period + Slice of Life + Family Matters + Has a Pocket Dimension] Jiang Wan transmigrates to the late 1970s and discovers that she's the cannon-fodder supporting female character who coveted the male lead. And this character is the female lead's younger sister. But her part in the story is already over. The female lead and male lead have returned to the city and moved on to a new setting, while she has been left behind in the countryside. Barely tw
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Getting Rich and Raising Kids in the 1970s 在七零年代暴富养崽崽
[Military marriage + transmigrate + space + spirit beasts + raising kids] Xiao Bao’er is a beautiful CEO in the 21st century who inherited billions from her grandfather. By chance, she awakens the space and spirit beasts hidden in a keepsake left by her grandmother, then transmigrates into the body of Xiao Bao’er in the 1970s. The 1970s Xiao Bao’er was spoiled rotten by her family and grew up spoiled and willful. At eighteen, she married Shen Zhensheng, the third son of the Shen family, who had
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The Seventies' Sweetheart: The Brooding, Rugged Man Has His Eye on Me 七零娇娇，我被阴郁糙汉惦记了
[Completed + black-lotus sickly beauty + professor + perfect nemesis + healing] Xiao Niannian is frail and delicate, with skin as fair and smooth as jade. She looks easy to bully, but never lets an insult go unanswered. One day, she transmigrates into a rebirth novel set in the 1970s, becoming the male lead’s fiancée. In the book, not only will she die young, but the male lead will use her connections to rise to success. The heroine is reborn. After seeing the male lead prosper in her previous l
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Reborn with Mind Reading, I Wake My Husband, a Comatose Military Officer 重生读心把植物人军官老公撩醒了
A short drama and comic adaptation are now available. [Reborn + married first, fall in love later + mind-reading + spatial storage + punishing scumbags + doting on his wife + building wealth] Qin Wan, the daughter of a capitalist family, is reborn on an operating table. Seeking protection, she climbs into bed and hastily marries an officer who is in a vegetative state. Unexpectedly, she can hear his thoughts. On their wedding night, she accidentally scratches his arm, and his blood stains a jade
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零，搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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Reborn in 1974: I Take My Space with Me to the Countryside 重生1974年，我带空间去下乡
Li Feng, a wage slave working a 996 schedule, accidentally activated the pocket dimension in the jade pendant his grandfather left him before he died. As a devoted fan of web novels on Tomato, how could he not know what opportunity was coming his way? “Grandpa! Bless your grandson with a chance to transmigrate to an awesome world. I’ll make sure our Li family has plenty of descendants.” The newly unemployed wage slave gathered what little money he had and stockpiled some supplies. Now he waits f
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The 1960s: I'm a Telephone Operator 六零年代：我是电话接线员
The moment she opened her eyes, the System said it had made a mistake, left her compensation, and disappeared?! Xia Shu had become a sickly little maid in the 1960s, sold off by her own mother! The capitalist fled and emptied the mansion! She was sent back to her hometown to find her family, but her home was gone! Her younger brother was a good kid, so she took him in and only hoped he would grow up well! She joined the post office and became a switchboard operator with access to information fro
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Xu Nan’s Story: She Remarries a Butcher and Becomes a Millionaire 许南的故事：改嫁杀猪匠成万元户
[Period Setting + Mature Romance + No Getting Back Together + Close Quarters + Intense Push and Pull] Xu Nan spent ten years as a wife in name only, honoring her in-laws and raising her younger brother-in-law. Then her husband returned home in glory, bringing along a younger city wife and a pair of twins. Her in-laws turned on her and tried to kick her out, expecting her to become their servant. Xu Nan neither cried nor made a fuss. She simply bought the two acres of melon fields and the shabby
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A Short Novel Set in a Bygone Era, with Three Fierce Heroines 小小一本年代文，狠人女主就有仨
[Alternate history + Period setting + Transmigrate into a book + Pocket dimension + Everyone is a villain + Ensemble cast + No romance + Mystery?] After dying in an apocalypse novel, Xu Qinglan transmigrates into a book again. This time, she's a sacrificial nobody forced to go to the countryside in a period novel! If she resists being sent away, she'll be trapped in an endless loop. After dying countless times, she finally gives in. The protagonist seems like a delicate, innocent white lotus wit
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Why Help Others Get What They Want? I’ll Choose Myself 成全别人？不如成全自己
In the book, Xu Jing'an spent her whole life helping others and putting them first, yet in the end, no one even said a kind word about her. This time, she's going to look after herself first and do what's best for her.
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Mysticism: My Junior Sister Is Incredibly Strong, but Way Too Gossipy 玄学：小师妹她超强却过分八卦
[Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Feng Shui + Powerful Lead + Episodic + No Romance] Her master said that monsters and demons were running rampant in the human world, so Chu Yun rode down the mountain on her bicycle, carrying her three swords and taking her time. As soon as she got down the mountain, someone reported her. Her cute swords were confiscated, and she was accused of spreading feudal superstition. Chu Yun could only take the initiative. She brought a red-haired man to the police stat
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You’re Forcing Me to the Countryside? This Scientist’s Wife Will Empty Your Whole House 逼我下乡？科研军嫂搬空你全家
[Military Marriage + Period Setting + Powerful Lead + Face-Slapping + One-on-One Romance] Xia Li, a powerful wielder of both thunder and space abilities, had just come through the apocalypse. She became the founding general entrusted with the New World's Omniscient Eye System, ready to enjoy a quiet retirement. She only took a short nap, but transmigrated instead. After transmigrating, she faced two choices: Either marry a self-important mama's boy who expected her to put up with his mistress af
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The Fake Heiress Strikes It Rich with Seafood 假千金靠海鲜暴富了
[Fishing + Food + Fake Heiress and Real Heiress + Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance] A fake-and-real heiress story had come to life, and Su Junhe was the fake heiress who had usurped another girl’s place. “The real heiress is back, and she still has the nerve to act like a young lady of the Su family!” “Maybe her parents were the ones who switched her and Su Ruan in the first place!” At a banquet, elegantly dressed ladies and young women sneered at her. “You’re just my sister’s stand-in. What give
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The Days I Happily Enjoyed Gossip in the Crowded Compound 我在大杂院快乐吃瓜的那些日子
[Period] [The Sixties] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Book Transmigration] [Pocket Dimension] [Feel-Good Story] [Everyday Family Life] [No Going to the Countryside] Cheng Ying discovers that she has transmigrated into a Period novel. She has four older siblings, some sharing only her father and others only her mother. The whole family is set up as a foil to the female lead, who lives with them in the same crowded compound, and they all meet tragic ends. Known throughout the compound as the tigress who c
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The Folks of Suhe River 涑河人家呀
[Not a wish-fulfillment novel] [No formulaic tropes] [Getting rich in the 1980s and 1990s] [A big sister who can take on the world] The eldest sister came home with emergency relief grain, only to discover that Little Seven had been given away. The second sister’s place in medical school had been stolen. Little Five and Little Six had been beaten so badly they sat huddled in a corner, too afraid to raise their heads. Little Eight was being led around in circles by the neighbor’s children. Their
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She Woke Up Pregnant in the Seventies 七零睁眼肚子揣了个崽崽
Synopsis: [Transmigrate + pocket dimension + face-slapping + sweet romance + family life + turning a husband into a success] Lin Fan transmigrates into the eldest daughter of an ordinary working-class, divorced single-parent family in a period novel, and becomes a young woman who is pregnant before marriage. No, she has to find the baby’s father and make him take responsibility. Whether he loves her or not doesn’t matter. As long as he has money, a job, and can provide a secure life, that’s enou
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Reborn to Move the Family Fortune with the Army: The Fearsome Officer Falls for Her 重生搬家产随军，面凶军官沦陷了
[Military Marriage + Pocket Dimension + Triplets + A Bold, Passionate Heroine + A Hero Who Complains but Cares] She worked hard her whole life, only to learn on her deathbed that her adopted children were actually her husband's and her best friend's! She was nothing but a cannon-fodder "cash cow" in a period novel, stuck raising someone else's children. They drained her dry and built their wealth on her back, only to make sure she died a miserable death! Luckily, she gets a second chance on her
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Transmigrated to the 1980s: The Military Bigwig Spoils Me and My Quadruplets 穿越八零，一胎四宝被军区大佬娇宠
(Transmigrate into a book + period setting + military marriage + love after marriage + devoted couple + adorable babies) Ye Shuang, a preschool teacher, was hit by a car and killed while saving a student. When she opened her eyes, she had become the male lead’s ill-fated former wife in a stepmother-era novel, a cannon-fodder character who died in childbirth. Her surname was Ye, and her fate was to die giving birth to quadruplets. Just as she was about to give up and accept her circumstances, a c
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A Young Educated Youth in the 1970s Becomes a Master Physician with a Silver Needle 七零小知青，一根银针扎成大国医
[1970s + alternate history + educated youth sent to the countryside + hearing the thoughts of all things + communicating with all things + adorable pets + pocket dimension + master of traditional Chinese medicine] After dying suddenly, Shen Mingyue transmigrates into the body of an orphan from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. The moment she wakes, she discovers she can understand the thoughts of all things. The mirror box on the table, the cat passing by, and the great w
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The Heiress Unlocks Beast Speech and Is Spoiled Rotten in the Military 资本大小姐解锁兽语，随军被宠爆了
Song Jin transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes the eldest daughter of a capitalist family. Her scumbag father wants to seize the family fortune, her stepmother schemes against her, and her stepsister steals her fiance. Now that Song Jin has arrived in this world, she decides to tear off their masks herself. Her stepmother plays dirty, so Song Jin turns the tables and catches her father in the act. Her stepsister thinks she's found a good match, but Song Jin sends the Chen family off to face a f
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Traveling Through the Eras with My Pocket Dimension: Cool Beauty, Take a Look at Me 带着空间穿年代：清冷姑娘看看我
This is a slow-burn story, with an exceptionally powerful golden finger! The plot moves slowly, and so does the story. I hope it can offer you a little freedom to do as you please amid the fast pace of modern life. Thank you for giving it a chance! A lifetime of deep affection: love, family, and friendship! Leng Qingru rubbed her blood onto a family heirloom and opened up a space. She used it to accomplish many of her goals. Then the space warned her that in a hundred days, she would transmigrat
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Portable Space: A Military Marriage in the Sixties 随身空间之六零军婚
(Period setting + space + cold-faced military officer + devoted husband) As an orphan, Li Mengqi worked hard to be a competent 996 office drone. But she had the misfortune of being dragged back to the 1960s by Black and White Impermanence. It was all because the original owner had spent her life in a marriage where she was widowed in all but name, and didn’t want to go down that same road again. Well, the original owner had merit protecting her. What could a poor unlucky soul like Li Mengqi do?
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Stealing the Heroine's Space? I'll Join the Army and Have a Super-Blessed Baby 抢女主空间？我随军送崽超好孕
[Period Setting] [Military Marriage] [System] [Transmigrate Into a Book] [Foil] [Bringing Good Fortune to Others by Having Their Babies] The moment Qiao Manman opens her eyes, she finds herself in the icy waters of a lake. Before her is an old widower baring his big yellow teeth. Behind her is a cannon-fodder female supporting character watching her like a tiger eyeing its prey. Qiao Manman hardens her heart and decides to root them out completely. “Ding! Plane Sign-In System successfully bound.
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First Dig Up a Grave, Then Deliver a Coffin. Why Are You Celebrating My Going to the Countryside? 先挖坟再送钟，我下乡你庆祝什么
[Period setting + reborn revenge + making money and causing trouble + born to stir up chaos] In her previous life, Ruan Xianxian took her cousin's place in the countryside, then returned to the city and married the fiancé her cousin no longer wanted. She thought she'd found salvation, but what awaited her was endless patience and scheming. A heartless grandfather, a cousin who stole her golden finger, and a husband who outsourced his affection made for one bizarre family. Only when a speeding tr
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What! The Compound's Factory Beauty and the Neighborhood Troublemaker Fell in Love 惊！大院厂花和二混子相亲相爱了
[Period Setting, Beautiful but Miserable and Powerful Tycoon's Son + The Factory's Most Beautiful Woman, Friends with Benefits to Lovers, Face-Slapping and Striving in the Factory Compound, The Villainous Family's Loving Everyday Life] Bai Xiaotong finally found a chance to sleep with her childhood sweetheart. Only afterward did she realize she'd slept with the wrong man, and that this world wasn't real at all. It was merely a novel set in a bygone era. In this fictional world, her cousin was th
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The Old Madam Is Reborn and Goes on a Killing Spree 老夫人重生后杀疯了
It wasn't until her sixtieth-birthday banquet that she learned all her efforts had been a joke, and her forty-four-year marriage had been nothing but exploitation. Now that she had another chance at life, she would make them all pay...
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My Half-Sister Trades Away My Fate as a Marquis’s Daughter, but I Thrive in the Crown Prince’s Residence 嫡姐换我侯门命，我在太子府躺赢
[Reborn and switching betrothals + household battles + raising children + adorable babies + doted on exclusively later] Chu Mingyun and her legitimate elder sister, Chu Mingxi, were both reborn. In their previous lives, Chu Mingxi became the Crown Prince’s secondary consort and lived in splendor. She married an old man from the marquis’s household as his second wife and had to raise someone else’s children. The whole family’s hopes rested on her elder sister, but who could have expected this? Th
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