Tomato’s Twenty Best Masterpieces of 2026: 9.9-Rated God-Tier Reads! 2026年番茄二十部巅峰佳作评分9.9分神书系列！
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The Power Struggle of Officialdom 官场之权利博弈
Officialdom: The Struggle for Power is a novel set in the world of contemporary Chinese politics. It follows the protagonist as he navigates political intrigue and struggles against corruption, facing both graft and conspiracy while making difficult choices about his career and his humanity. It exposes the darkness and complexity of officialdom, showing how the protagonist changes and fights back in the game of power.
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Three Years into Our Marriage, I Discover My Husband Is a CEO Tycoon 结婚三年后，发现老公是霸总
Three Years into Our Marriage, I Discover My Husband Is a CEO Overlord
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A Love Born of Ill Fate 孽缘之爱
A Fateful, Ill-Starred Love
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I've Put Up with It for Five Years. Tonight, I'm Done 忍了五年，今晚我不忍了
I've Held It In for Five Years. Tonight, I Won't Hold Back
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After Being Reborn, I Went to My Ex-Wife's Home 重生后我来到前妻家
Reborn, I Move Into My Ex-Wife's Home
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Loved the Wrong Man, Carried the Wrong Baby 爱错人，怀错种
Loved the Wrong Man, Conceived the Wrong Child
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Game Invasion 游戏入侵
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨
The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back
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Aren’t You an Evil God? Why Does Seeing Me Lower Your SAN? 不是邪神吗？见我怎么降SAN值
[Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes
153.9kReads9.6Score17.6kShelves
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After a Breakup, I Found Out My Best Friend Was the Cool School Beauty 失恋后，发现好兄弟是清冷校花
[Not reborn] + [No System] + [Youthful campus life] + [Romantic comedy] + [One heroine] + [Everyday life] After chasing his unrequited love for two and a half years, Lu Yibei was still secretly mocked by her for being a simp. Once he finally let go, Lu Yibei received a call from his gaming carry, who had never once used voice chat. The cool, clear, lovely female voice on the phone left Lu Yibei silent for a long time. Lu Yibei: “Bro, don’t we have a younger sister at home?” The reply: “I don’t h
106.6kReads9.6Score12.5kShelves
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My Junior Sister Is Overpowered, Yet Ridiculously Goofy 小师妹明明超强却过分沙雕
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
260.5kReads9.6Score28.1kShelves
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Wise Men Avoid Love, and the Noble Consort Wants No Responsibility 智者不入爱河，贵妃不想负责
Being a beggar would be better than being in the harem. Shen Qing is despairing over her current identity. The female lead won't appear for another two years, and Shen Qing is the lowest-ranking consort in the male lead's harem. Her father is useless, and she has neither money nor power. It seems her only option is to wait for the emperor's favor. To make matters worse, she has a face that attracts trouble. If she fights for influence, she has no leverage; if she doesn't, she'll just get bullied
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The Chaos of Zhaohua 昭华乱
[This novel has been contracted for publication] [Strong female lead + high-IQ palace intrigue + heroine schemes against the entire harem + psychotic villain personality] Song Zhao has always been a woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals, and she is also more clear-headed than anyone. From the moment she learned that Xiao Jingheng had chosen her to enter the palace as a consort, her goal was perfectly clear: “I’m entering the palace to become Empress. Otherwise, what would I go there fo
119.1kReads9.5Score14.2kShelves
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂
[Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and
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I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Waiting for You 余生只待你
In high school, Bai Zhi and Lin Yu became classmates. Back then, Bai Zhi was rebellious and willful, a troublesome student who gave her teachers headaches. After an encounter in a downpour, Lin Yu saw through her pain, and the two became close friends. They were accepted into the same university and promised to start there together. Before they could enroll, Lin Yu learned that Bai Zhi was the daughter of the mastermind behind a kidnapping case that had once shocked the entire city. He had been
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Spring's Joy, Year After Year 岁岁春欢
[The print edition of Years of Spring Joy is now available on all platforms] [Heroine and scumbag reborn + male lead transmigrates + mutual salvation + play the pig to eat the tiger] At seventeen, Shen Jiasui married Lu Yunzheng. The Shen and Lu families were both military dynasties, making them a formidable match. Two years into their marriage, Lu Yunzheng defeated the enemy kingdom and won renown across the land. But the Shen family was condemned for treason and executed to the last member. On
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The Pure and Sweet Campus Belle Flirts with Me, but Every Move Hits Like a Knife 清纯校花傻白甜，撩我却刀刀暴击
[Everyday romance] [One female lead] [Mutual healing] Because of a promise made in childhood, Chen Lu spent seven whole years pursuing the girl he’d grown up with. In the end, all he got was a cold rejection. Chen Lu smiled in acceptance, but his heart had turned to ash… until he met the sweet, clumsy girl who’d come to thank him. The girl was lovely and innocent, standing alone in the rain right where the two of them had agreed to meet. “Why haven’t you left…?” The girl slowly lifted her head.
154.2kReads9.7Score19.4kShelves
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You Asked Me to Be a Concubine, So I Killed the Lord? 让你当小妾，你把主君杀了？
(A full-cast audio drama has been produced) (The short drama adaptation, A Kiss Beneath the Spring Moon, is now online) [Quick transmigration + femme fatale + palace and household intrigue + revenge for every grudge + villainess fiction + no fixed male lead + growth-focused heroine] As a newly created System, Erdan only wanted to choose a gentle, charming Host who knew how to humble herself, so they could complete the concubine survival missions. But it turned out Erdan had misjudged her. A low-
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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
131.3kReads9.6Score17.2kShelves
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Bewitching the Golden Branch 惹金枝
(Film and television rights have been sold. The physical book will be available for preorder on July 10 at 19:00.) Shi Buyu was born smiling. At that moment, lightning flashed and thunder roared, collapsing a row of outbuildings in the Shi family compound. Days of torrential rain brought devastating floods and countless victims. Rumors soon spread through the capital that she was a disaster star sent into the world. But she was as precocious as a demon, with a photographic memory, and learned bo
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
181.5kReads9.5Score22.5kShelves
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The Claiming the Throne Series: Historical Romance Collection 《夺嫡》系列古言套装
[Sweet Historical Romance + Mutual Devotion + Palace Intrigue] Popular author Yueluo's trilogy of sweet romances: lighthearted and hilarious, with sweetness turned up to the max! "The Fight for the Throne": A feisty young lady who always gets even × the scheming, lovesick Ninth Prince. A laugh-out-loud, sugar-sweet battle for the throne! "Joy with You": A venomous, calculating king × a clever and decisive queen. A perfect match who will conquer the world together! "A Fine Day Bestowed upon You":
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Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女
[Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co
42.4kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
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High-IQ Masterminds of Revenge: They Call Me a Madman 高智商复仇家，他们叫我疯子
[No Female Lead] [Mad Protagonist] [Elegant] [High-IQ Crimes] [No System] Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by a mysterious organization known as the Alliance. Shen Feng was beaten to death and left in the wilderness. Now, Shen Feng’s soul has returned from hell. That day, the criminal investigation squad received a call from a mysterious person claiming he would kill the famous CEO Liu Ruxu at a shareholders’ meeting. The nightmare began at that very moment. Shen Feng planned one per
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Reborn, I’m Taking Shortcuts to Help the Nation Get Ahead 都重生了，让国家走点捷径怎么了
Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his
232.2kReads9.5Score26.5kShelves
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Stone Gambling: A Life of Power and Desire 赌石：权色人生
Just after graduating from college, Xia Feng was dragged by relatives into a company running an illegal investment scheme. His deceived relatives and friends poured all their fury onto him. With no other choice, he fled his hometown in a panic and went into hiding, until he arrived in a small town on the southwestern frontier…
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A Useless Martial Soul? I Defy Heaven's Will, Evolve, and Shock the World 废武魂？我，逆天进化，震惊世界
[Multiple heroines + shocking, passionate action + fairies and demons with unexpected sides + hilarious, outrageous “filial sons”] The thrills never stop after he leaves the mountains, and neither do the schemes. Luo Fanchen, a legendary heartbreaker and “playboy,” transmigrates and is dragged back to a village by his demoness wife from the very start. He awakens two heaven-defying, mysterious martial souls, encounters fairies and demonesses, and pulls one outrageous stunt after another… In this
244.3kReads9.5Score19.4kShelves
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
359.7kReads9.5Score32.1kShelves
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When Doctors Get a Cheat 当医生有了外挂
Chen He, a surgeon at the height of his career, was sent to prison after a surgical accident. After his release, he found himself back in court. His wife divorced him, and he lost custody of their child. With nothing left, Chen He activated the “Modifier” System! In no time, his surgical skills were upgraded, medical equipment underwent a revolution, rare drugs were developed, and one difficult condition after another was treated… This was how Time magazine described him: “When the King of Hell
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Code Name: Greedy Wolf 代号：贪狼
A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Underworld Turmoil After Prison 出狱后的江湖风云
(Original title: The Tiger Emerges from the Mountain) The short drama based on The Tiger Emerges from the Mountain is now streaming on Hongguo. After accidentally killing a sleazy old thug, Li Hu spends three years in prison. When he gets out, underworld boss Hong Weijun seeks him out and immediately gives him a bar. At the same time, the police approach him, hoping he’ll help send Hong Weijun to prison.
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Reincarnation: Trapped in a Single Lifetime 轮回人生：被困在一世时间里
He had once been an explorer, a war correspondent, a business genius, and the king of investment. He had also been a notorious war profiteer, a world-famous charlatan and prophet. He was also the greatest composer and novelist of the century. And a materials scientist, a physicist, a giant in the history of science... Countless times, in countless different ways, he had stood at the pinnacle of the world. Only he knew any of it, however, before he broke through the limits of a single lifetime. U
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I Descended into the Matrix Universe 我降临在矩阵宇宙
A young man arrives in this Matrix Universe, carrying a lantern. Inside it are his twelve manifested personalities. They weep, and they shine. He sets the lantern on the ground, lighting a small space around him. Before him, the continent falls, flames soar into the sky, and sixty million people plunge into the abyss. I am both the destroyer of this universe and its savior.
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After My Wife and Daughter Died, I Was Reborn in the 1980s 老婆女儿去世后，我重生八零
[Urban life in a bygone era + one heroine + teacher]“In our next life, let’s not be husband and wife again!” His wife called him, her voice hollow and lifeless, utterly devoid of emotion. It felt as if his soul were being torn apart. He shouted into the phone, “Don’t do anything foolish! I’m on my way to the hospital!” The next moment! His daughter lay in a hospital bed, a white sheet covering her face. His wife sat beside her, calm and despairing. “We did everything we could. Your daughter pass
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The Wind Rises in Longcheng 风起龙城
Sixty years after global disaster, the Little Freeze has ended. Governments across the living zones begin reclaiming large stretches of unadministered land awaiting development, reorganizing resources and ushering in a full-scale recovery. These twenty years are also known as the “Golden Twenty Years.” It's a dazzling new age: new zones rise one after another, politics sets the stage while capital puts on a show, and ambitious schemers are everywhere. Heroes and strongmen, treacherous warlords a
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The Grand Tutor, the Great Liar 大国师，大骗子
Song Xuan was once a charlatan who made his living swindling people. But fate had other plans: he happened upon the down-and-out prince Ji Yunxi and fooled him into letting him cast a few fortunes. Every single prediction came true. When Ji Yunxi ascended the throne, he installed Song Xuan as the Imperial Preceptor. In full view of the court, Song Xuan had to deal with ministers taking turns making things difficult for him, political and harem intrigues, and an emperor who watched him like a haw
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Life with the Goddess: I Feel Like I've Seen You Somewhere Before 女神同居往事，我好像在哪见过你
Li Huangxuan was a recent college graduate, stuck in a miserable nine-to-five job and always broke. Like every young person just starting out, he felt lost and uncertain about the future. He longed for a love that would leave a lasting mark. He had a crush on his coworker, Xu Wanqing, but was too timid to approach her. Then one day, his roommate moved out, and a goddess named Lin Ximeng moved in next door, turning his life upside down. A month of living together gradually drew the two of them cl
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This Uncle Is No Good 这个大叔不正经
(Originally titled Agent Yi Leng) Huang Pi Hu, the cook at Yumei Restaurant, is a greasy, lecherous middle-aged man who likes to drink, smoke, and fiddle with his beads. He also often follows female students around. No one knows his true identity: retired agent Yi Leng, a godlike heartthrob to countless beautiful women. He has hidden himself among ordinary people only to quietly protect his daughter, who no longer recognizes him.
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Saving the Qin Dynasty: Become a King Who Rules Heaven and Earth 拯救大秦：做主宰乾坤的王
A stunt double is accidentally electrocuted and wakes up in the Great Qin dynasty as Fusu. At court, powerful eunuchs and treacherous ministers persecute him; in the martial world, practitioners of yin-yang arts hunt him down. Within the empire, remnants of the Six States are stirring, while beyond its borders, the Xiongnu cavalry watches like a pack of hungry wolves. Can Fusu escape these dangers? And how will he save Great Qin?
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While My Childhood Friend Is Still Naive, I Talk Her into Becoming My Wife 趁青梅懵懂，忽悠她做老婆
[Reborn + Childhood Friend and School Beauty + Everyday Romance + Sweet Couple Moments + One Heroine] Yi Feng, who is terminally ill, is reborn in the year 2000. That year, his childhood friend and school beauty, Gu Muxi, is eighteen. “Yi Feng, lend me a pen!” “...Didn’t you borrow one yesterday?” “Yesterday was yesterday, today is today. Things have changed, get it?” “...You win. Fine, here.” “Yi Feng, tear off a sheet of paper for me!” “...Why tear mine? Don’t you have your own?” “I do, but I
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The Tang Dynasty’s Pearl-Repelling Record 大唐辟珠记
All-New Bonus Story Edition [A pampered princess, reborn with a seemingly delicate, teary-eyed exterior but the abilities of a six-sided warrior]✖ [A defiant, pure-hearted, devoted top underworld boss with little time left to live] [Their CP is so sweet it makes you cry] The Ten Thousand Longevity Princess, who had been blessed and adored by the Tang court, died of illness at just seventeen. A petty thief secretly opens a gloomy underground tomb, only to discover that the princess was buried ali
190.1kReads9.7Score30.6kShelves
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Prisoner of the Divine Realm! 神域囚徒！
[The Divine Realm descends upon the entire world] Yang Ling, a professional gold farmer, only wanted to relax in the game Divine Realm, but discovered that the environment was harsh and logging off was impossible. With no other choice, for the sake of his own safety, he could only start mining constantly, grinding levels, assigning stat points, and fighting to stay alive!
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Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者
[Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide
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Exiled from the Start, I Become the Beloved Darling of Evil Valley 开局流放，我在恶人谷当团宠
[Strong heroine, pairing with Bai Yu] She was a test subject at a secret underground research facility in the twenty-first century, designation Zero. She could retrieve objects from thin air and had no empathy. One day, she was reborn and transmigrated to an ancient farming household. A natural disaster struck right after she was born, and her whole family was exiled when she was barely a month old. Everyone around her said she was a harbinger of disaster. Grandma Su let out a cold laugh, hoist
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He Stole a Kiss When No One Was Looking 他悄悄地亲吻过
On the first day Su Nan returned to the country, he cornered Gu Ran, who had vanished six years ago, under a table. The next day, he dragged her straight to the marriage registry... On their wedding night, he kissed Gu Ran and said, “I’m going to keep you trapped in my arms, where you won’t be able to go anywhere.”
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After Her Body Was Dumped, She Became the Villain Legion’s Cherished Darling 被抛尸后，她成了反派军团家团宠
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家
[Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to
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