In a Reading Slump. Looking for Fresh, Original Stories With Smart Characters 书荒 求新颖不老套带脑子的
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Global Addiction 全球上瘾
[Wits and Strategy] [Survival] [Crime] [Wild Imagination] [Travel Between Two Worlds] My name is Cheng Ye. Ever since I can remember, whenever I fall asleep, my soul travels to the year 2170. What do I get up to over there? Street racing, robbing banks, blowing up buildings, and sometimes moonlighting as a phantom thief, a master con artist, or the king of snipers. Basically, every day I'm having a blast among all kinds of psychos, and I've unlocked quite a few bizarre skills along the way. I ga
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The Great Yong's First Empress and Medicine Merchant 大庸第一女皇药商
[Fictional ancient setting] [Strong female lead] [Soul transmigration] Tang Yiru, daughter of the Great Yong's famed physician and top scholar Tang Wenxu, transmigrates into a farming family. The original owner had a brown birthmark and was forced by her stepmother to marry a lame hunter. After enduring terrible abuse, she died beneath a fire poker. Now inhabiting her body, Tang Yiru awakens the Cloudmist Mountain realm her father left behind, accompanied by a thousand-year-old lotus spirit. She
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- 53 Reborn in a Desperate World, I Save Lives with Medicine! 胎穿绝境求生，我靠医术济苍生！ [Reborn in the womb] [Master physician] [Ancient setting] [Slow burn] In his previous life, Tang Wenxu was an unfulfilled veteran of traditional Chinese medicine. Handsome and talented, with superb medical skills, he refused to curry favor with the powerful and was always generous to others, yet lived in poverty all his life. His mother and younger brother died of tuberculosis. Though he had the medical skills to help them, he was powerless to save them. At the age of eighty-six, he closed his e 294Reads9.1Score148Shelves
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A Deliberate Swap of Fiancés 蓄意换婚
[Steady, protective, powerful man + fragile yet strong little fox] [Love at first sight + deliberate bride swap + coaxed whirlwind marriage + age gap + both inexperienced in love] [A guiding lover + a little angst, lots of sweetness + devoted and exclusive love + a slow, steady romance] When her younger aunt ran away from her arranged marriage, the head of the Yun family had to choose a new candidate for the alliance. With her psychological condition, Ruan Qingsui was naturally not on the list.
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- 55 Strangers in Public, but You Want Me to Soothe You to Sleep Every Night! 人前不熟？却要夜夜哄睡！ [Aloof, celibate hotel CEO & gentle, strong-willed wedding planner] [Love grows over time + Flirtatious push and pull + Age-gap pampering + Both physically and emotionally pure + Extra sweet and steamy] Luo Qianqian, an overworked wedding planner, caught the attention of Shang Chiyu, a man at the very top of the global luxury hotel industry. She also accidentally discovered the secret behind his recurring nightmares. He used a lavish salary to entice her into becoming his personal sleep companio 1.2kReads8.8Score103Shelves
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After I Went Mad, My Story Made the Whole Nation Weep 疯掉后，我的故事让全国人痛哭
[Anti-narcotics police] [Undercover agent] [Richly developed characters] [Vivid plot] [A nation in tears] Jin Youxia was a genius from the police academy, but just before graduation, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. The doctor told him he had less than three years to live. After that, Jin Youxia disappeared. In his place, the world gained a drug lord named Jin Xia. He committed countless atrocities and murders, earning the hatred of countless people across Daxia. Yet when Jin Xia was ar
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- 57 The Eerie Hotel: I Break Deadly Plots Through Endless Deduction 诡异饭店：我靠无限推演破杀局 [Horror Rules] [Light Infinite-Flow] Want a seat at the table? Then bet your life first! Lin Fan accidentally wanders into a bizarre restaurant, where the ingredients are actually the diners. Can he survive only by filling the menu? If every step comes with a rule, perhaps turning those rules against the restaurant is his one chance to stay alive... 120Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Fate-Changer of the Capital 京城改命师
The Fate-Changer of the Capital
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I Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Character, and the Divine Lord's Persona Crumbled! 穿书炮灰女配，神尊他人设崩了！
Jiang Yin transmigrated into a book and became a cannon-fodder supporting character who wouldn't survive halfway through the story. Her original plan was to lie flat and avoid trouble, staying far away from the main plot. But who could have guessed that the aloof Divine Venerable Bai Jing would completely shatter his image? He was supposed to marry Immortal Venerable Ruyue in a loving wedding, yet he took an unusual interest in a mere cannon-fodder character. To protect her, he was willing to
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My Phone Connects to Tomorrow 我的手机连明天
After his divorce, Xu Yan unexpectedly gets a phone that can connect to the internet of tomorrow, and begins a new life. From then on, wealth and women come pouring in. Love, family bonds... He discovers that having money can be a real headache too...
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The Day I Took a Job Out of Town, the Person I Was Flirting With Only Asked Which Weekend Train Was Fastest 我接下外地工作那天，暧昧对象只问周末哪班车最快
The day I accepted a job out of town, the person I was seeing asked only which weekend train was fastest.
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The Day the White Tower Fell 白塔倾倒之日
The author has fallen into a black hole. Signal lost, updates suspended, and the text has been replaced with filler. I've run off with the original manuscript. I'll come back and fill in the gaps once I've stolen some inspiration from a parallel universe. Farewell for now, fellow readers!
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Doomsday Rebirth: After 10,000 Kills, My Strength Doubles 末日重生：击杀万次我力量翻倍
Every thousand kills increase one's power by ten percent. Every ten thousand kills double it. At the limit, even human strength can shake mountains. But no one knows the price: the more you kill, the faster you lose your humanity, until you become a monster that knows nothing but slaughter. In this life, he sells all his assets to stockpile supplies, makes preparations in advance to save those he regrets losing in his previous life, gathers loyal and brave companions, and avoids one deadly trap
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- 64 Surviving in a Roadside Nest: Goblin Tactics from the Start 公路巢穴求生：开局哥布林打法 The story has just received its rating, which may rise later. [Global Survival] + [Doomsday] + [Unit Nests] + [Vehicle Upgrades] + [Traits] + [Western Fantasy] + [Conquest] + [A Partly Ensemble Cast] After transmigrating into a world where everyone must survive on the road, Chen Fan starts with a busted tricycle and a green goblin who can barely fight. Chen Fan: With a start this hellish, I might as well start over. [Ding! Trait Granting System activated!] [Available draws: 1. The Host is in dir 45.7kReads7.1Score6.7kShelves
- 65 Endless Apocalypse Loop: I Have Countless God-Tier Talents 末日循环：我有无数神级天赋 The apocalypse arrives, technology collapses, and humanity's living space shrinks to the limit. The remnants of humanity can only obtain the supplies they need to survive, and the power to resist apocalyptic threats, through the “Apocalypse Trials.” In just a few decades, the social order built on civilization and morality completely collapses. The strong have everything, while the weak are reduced to livestock. On the eve of entering the Apocalypse Trials, Qin Jin finally gets his cheat. Divine 5.5kReads7.6Score608Shelves
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Everyone Avoids the Troublemaking Girls, but I Take Them All In 世人皆避精神小妹我尽数收留
Spiritual little sisters, yoga pants: which one can make you stop in your tracks? ...Stop looking, this is the one! To give everyone a good show, I spent 6,000 yuan to live with a spiritual little sister for a month, together around the clock. What? You say that's still not enough? Then how about adding a System, too!? Gu Xingchen transmigrates back ten years and uses his System to turn his life around. Every spiritual little sister in the county follows him... Their world is on guard against th
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- 67 Women, Don't Go to Northern Myanmar. There's No One There. 女人不要去缅北那里没有人 The world is beautiful. I won't be coming back in my next life. Bailu (a pseudonym) said something after returning from northern Myanmar that I still can't forget. She said: "When Heaven was taking me apart, it got the balance just right. Any harder, and I'd have died. Any gentler, and I might have had a decent life." My so-called best friend tricked me into going to northern Myanmar. That's when I learned that women here aren't even treated as human beings. Beatings, imprisonment, being drained 21kReads7.4Score1.2kShelves
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A Three Kingdoms Man's Must-Read Guide to Raising a Magical Girl 三国猛男必看的魔法少女养成手册
A Magical Girl Raising Handbook for Three Kingdoms Tough Guys
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- 69 A Straight Man's Escape from the Fairy-Tale World 直男童话世界逃生记 A Straight Guy's Escape from a Fairy-Tale World 271Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 The Big Fat Orange Cat's Palace Intrigue: My Harem Has Started a Rebellion!!? 大胖橘宫斗日常：我的后宫闹皇帝了！！？ The Big Orange Cat's Palace Intrigue: My Harem Is Making the Emperor Lose It!!? 119Reads—Score—Shelves
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Burning House, Stolen Wife: My Enemy Is My Husband 焚宅夺妻—我的仇人是夫君
Burning Down the House to Steal My Wife: My Enemy Is My Husband
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Suspenseful Investigation 悬侦
The city is a vast chessboard, and all living beings are its pieces. He heard the sound of a chess piece falling: a taunt from hell, and a death knell leading to the truth. Every cold case has an ending. He used the dead as a mirror to reconstruct the sins of the living, and the chess game as a ruse to conceal a heart that devoured people.
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Lost in the Beast World, the Delicate Beauty Is Surrounded by Suitors 误入兽世，娇弱美人桃花朵朵开
[Transported in body + One female lead, multiple male leads + Soft and sweet heroine + Doted on by her beast husbands] [The heroine is fragile and stunningly beautiful at first, then awakens her powers and becomes beautiful, tragic, and strong, rising all the way to MVP] Flower Xiaoli was attending a comic convention, dressed as Su Daji, when she was transported to the beast world. She found herself hanging from a peach tree, only to be carried off to a den by a huge tiger with golden spots. In
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My Ex Fell for My Current Husband 我的前任喜欢上了我的现任老公
My ex fell for my current husband
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Tales of a Youngster from Haikou 海口少年旧事
Haikou, Hainan, 2011. A boy leaning on crutches walks into the high school division of Haixiu High. His mother leaves him with the words, “You can only rely on yourself,” then drives away in a Mercedes-Benz S350. He has no money, no reputation, and no one to back him. With a storm brewing, he’s determined to forge his own path despite the cold stares. But school is a battleground, where the weak are bullied and mocked. There’s no such thing as an easy youth. “I know exactly what I want, but the
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The Five Strokes of the Spirit 灵之五划
No one gets to define what web fiction should be! Within books lies a path to heaven; between the lines are the deeds of ten thousand ages. Three thousand great characters, each taking root; roots plunge deep into the earth, branches flourish and pierce the sky. Where does the mystery lie? Where does the fantasy begin? Hold a staff in either hand, swing blades with every stroke, hook your fingers around a cup, and join me for a drink.
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I Went to Pay My Daughter's Senior Year Tuition, but the School Said She'd Dropped Out Six Months Ago 我去交女儿的高三学费，学校说她半年前就退学了
I went to pay my daughter's senior year tuition, and the school told me she had dropped out six months ago.
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- 78 EN Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶 [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 969.1kReads9.5Score83.2kShelves
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Getting Addicted to You 予你入瘾
[The First Time] Lu Shiyan said to Su Wan with a cold expression, “This is the first time, and it'll be the last.” [Later] The second time, the third time... Su Wan cursed him furiously in her heart: What a bastard. Men really can't be trusted. Many years later, Lu Shiyan looked at Su Wan, asleep beside him, and sighed to himself: As expected, getting involved with the same woman more than three times really does lead to trouble. Su Wan thought she was just an unexpected episode in his life
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I Just Awakened My System, and Her Dad Told Me to Get Lost? 我刚觉醒系统，她爸让我滚远点？
[Physical book deal secured, enjoy with confidence] [Ultimate power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Absurd comedy] [One heroine] [Ensemble cast] [Unhinged] Year 529 of the Cultivation Calendar. Yun Mochen wakes from a nap and unexpectedly awakens a System. [Absorb qi and blood to grow stronger!] But there's one big problem: his girlfriend of three months is the daughter of the Zhu Clan's Emperor, one of the five great cultivation clans. Even worse, her emperor father comes straight to his door
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Dreamwalker 2025 梦行者2025
[Dreamcore psychological sci-fi] [Dreamcore] [Cyber fantasy] [Artificial reincarnation] [Unconventional infinite-loop story] [Aloof genius heroine] [No romance] [Psychological] [Niche] This book is an unconventional record of a cast of minds, a dream called “life” from which no one needs to wake. A slow burn with a touch of horror. No power-fantasy tropes, only people who pass each other by, and no true romantic pairings. In April 2025, dreamwalker Qian Ye arrives in Moshou City and stays wit
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I'm Reborn, So Why Would I Still Play Esports? 都重生了谁还搞电子竞技啊
To escape the suffocating pressure of facing his mother, Zhang Rui resolutely left home to pursue a career in esports. But fate dealt him a rough hand, and, consumed by obsession and thrown off balance, he eventually lost himself. Luckily, fortune smiled on him, and he unexpectedly came back reborn! Having finally come to his senses, he begins to enjoy life. With a carefree school life, a smooth-sailing entrepreneurial journey, and a beautiful woman by his side, life couldn’t be sweeter. Until t
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If There's No Way Forward in This World, Then I'll Take the Heavenly Path 既然人间无路可走，那就走天路
Li Xue was an architect. After losing his job, failing in business, and being abandoned by his wife, he was left with nowhere to turn. With the aid of the Immortal Light Sword, and after a chance meeting with his confidante Zhang Yingxin, he resolutely set off for an alien world. There, he navigated the star systems, battling demons, evildoers, and forces of darkness. After enduring arduous cultivation, he ultimately forged a legend...
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The Discarded Son Makes His Move and Turns the Tables at Work 弃子执棋，职场逆局翻盘
The plan Zhou Yuan had spent three sleepless nights working on was submitted under his colleague Zhang Xiaofan's name. The department director patted Zhang Xiaofan on the shoulder and said, "Well done." Then he turned around and transferred Zhou Yuan to the archives team, a department everyone regarded as marginal. Everyone thought he had accepted his fate. But he hadn't. From a corner of the archives team, he began to strike back, step by step: first taking down the credit-stealer, then forcing
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- 85 She Opened Her Eyes 她睁着眼 At 40, career powerhouse Yu Yaduo isn't someone who was "woken up by Su Man." She knew her marriage was dead long ago, but she kept putting up with it. Her body's awakening was only a catalyst, not the cause. A 40-year-old woman's body is reborn. Not by going back to age 20, but by waking up physically and then fighting back. How to balance career and family, and what to give up, has always been a puzzle to solve. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Reborn in Senior Year: I Tore Up My Engagement and Crushed It at the Military Academy? 重生高三，撕婚约考军校杀疯了？ In her previous life, Yu Yaduo froze to death on a snowy night after her husband gambled away everything they had. Reborn in 1992 in her senior-year high school classroom, she sees the words "92 days until the college entrance exam" on the blackboard. This time, she won't be anyone's pawn in a society ruled by connections. Her homeroom teacher tells her to give up her seat to a student admitted through connections? She uses school rules to make him back down. Her gambling-addict fiance comes to 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Contractor’s Son 包工头的儿子
My dad spent thirty years laying bricks on construction sites, then fell from a scaffold. Fifteen years later, I became the youngest general manager at the city's largest building materials group. In front of three hundred people, my father-in-law said, “He's like a son to me.” I thought the hard times were finally over. Three days after we signed a 320-million-yuan bulk procurement contract, the insulation on a construction site injured someone. My name was on every inspection form. The company
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Transmigrating to the 1970s: The One-Shot System Takes Me to New Heights 穿越七零：秒杀系统带我飞
The rating just came out, so it’ll go up later! 1970: I Have a Golden Finger and a Maxed-Out Family Ding! Your limited-time flash-sale System has been bound! Wen Jingshu, an English major in graduate school in 2024, was halfway through studying for the civil service exam when she transmigrated. When she woke up, she’d become a graduate student in trade and economics in 1970. Her father was a police bureau chief, her mother a section chief at the agricultural bureau, her eldest brother a battalio
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The Road Back to the Mountains 归山之路
The Road Back to the Mountain
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- 90 Transmigration Through the Worlds of Time 时界的穿越 Transmigration Through Time 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Where the Wind Leaves Its Trace, Beyond the White Line 风过留痕，白线之外
[Not a power fantasy, no System, realistic, action psychology, everyday mysteries] Bailing first met Chen Feng at a dinner her younger sister had arranged at the last minute. He was neat-looking and impeccably mannered, even keeping a carefully measured distance whenever he came close. But she soon realized this "temporary boyfriend" was no ordinary man. When she was hurt, he would pull his hand back. When she was wary, he would take half a step away. He always left every choice up to her, yet w
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On the Day of the Wake, My Sisters-in-Law Put Me on the Throne 守灵当天，我被众嫂嫂推上皇位
[Alternate Dynasty + Transmigration + War + Political Intrigue + Ensemble Cast + The Golden Finger Has Been Cut in Half] A high school boy named Tian Shu wakes up one morning in an ancient funeral hall. His widowed sisters-in-law swarm around him, showering him with care. In a feudal age of chaos, the powerful clans hold sway. The System is practically useless, and each sister-in-law has her own agenda. Born into a poor family, can he defy fate, change his destiny, command a vast empire, and mak
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A Woman in a Man's Body: The Concubine-Born Heir's Rise to Power 女穿男，庶房嫡子的逆袭
Now available as an audiobook with a full cast. [Alternate history] + [Woman transmigrates as a man] + [Born into this world] + [Imperial exams and business in the early story] + [Court politics later on] + [One female lead, with a relatively small role] + [A touch of ensemble cast] + [No golden finger] Xie Chengxi was born into another world as the sixth son of the Xie family, a minor family in Bianjing's Grain Transport Guild. His father was the clan's rejected son, kept under pressure for yea
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One Chapter of Quick Transmigration: The Great Demon King Never Misses a Kill 一章快穿大魔王一刀一个准
[Quick transmigration + strong heroine + no romance + revenge] The title couldn’t be changed because the book was already under contract. So the first part is one chapter, and the rest is several chapters. ❤️ The great demon king Su Ning was ambushed. As she lay dying, a System bound itself to her. If she accumulated enough merit, she could return to her original world and find the culprit who had tried to kill her, then take revenge. And so the great demon king Su Ning transmigrated into one tr
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The End of Martial Supremacy 武极之末
The pinnacle of martial arts breaks through the void. It is the end of the martial path, the threshold to a higher world where one can seek the Great Dao and pursue immortality! Only when Liu Muyun reached that endpoint did he discover that the path to martial supremacy had only just begun!
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- 96 The Doomsday Blade Abyss 末日刀渊 He begins with the game Blade Abyss and steps into the Myriad Worlds! From low-martial-arts jianghu to mid-martial-arts rivalries, then shattering the high-martial-arts firmament; next, sweeping through the Small Thousand Worlds and roaming the vast Middle Thousand Worlds, until he finally takes command of the Great Thousand Worlds' Heavenly Dao and reaches the supreme realm of the primordial chaos! 🌙 In the Gu Long world, he becomes Li Xunhuan's disciple! ⚔️ In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 23.3kReads7.9Score2kShelves
- 97 EN Something's Wrong with This Game: I Became a God by Mining! 这个游戏不对劲，我挖矿成神！ [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! 2.4MReads9.2Score310.6kShelves
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All Things Must End 皆有尽时
Everyone has a hurdle they can’t get over alone, and sometimes they need someone to give them a hand. Chen Yan knows his life has long been as rotten as his reputation, beyond saving. He has turned every hardship from his past into a cross on which to judge himself, carrying it on his back and refusing to let himself find even a moment’s relief. He can be someone else’s umbrella, even if he’s always standing in the rain himself. Thankfully, everyone who has taken shelter by his side wants to see
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- 99 Life Is a Rare Gift 人生难得 The National Security Ministry’s Fourteenth Division is a department created specifically to manage spirits. It oversees the work and daily lives of spirits living in secret among humans. Chang Xiaoying, an employee in the Fourteenth Division’s Benefits and Welfare Section, was injured on duty in an accident. She lost three years of memories, as well as her ability to feel hunger and dream. Once she recovered and returned to work, she was assigned to a post in Gongcheng, Yuesheng Province, as a 76Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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A Long Road to Reunion 重逢路漫漫
[The right people will find their way back to each other, no matter how many twists and turns it takes.] [One true pairing, both leads are each other's only ones + reunion after a long separation + winning back his wife and claiming his child + adorable kids playing matchmaker] Zhou Yuan met Qin Yue by chance and fell in love at first sight. After one passionate night together, an urgent assignment sent him overseas. Before leaving, he thought he'd arranged everything properly, never imagining t
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