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Books by 子园居士
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From 1985 to 2025 一九八五到二零二五
(Original, 1980s, abuse, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, turning her life around) Mom's belly was so big it could hold me, yet so small that a little good food filled her up. After marrying into the Zhao family, Secretary Ma's daughter endured all kinds of torment from her mother-in-law. Every time the family divided its property, she was given the shabbiest house. At last, thanks to her own hard work and the help of her husband, Ping'an, she managed to open a restaurant. Just as life was sta
17.8kReads7.3Score334Shelves
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The Folk Fortune-Teller and Feng Shui Master 民间算命风水先生
Enter at your own risk! "Is that a rock?" Old Zhang bent down to poke around. What he dug out wasn't a rock. It was a stark-white object about as long as a forearm, thick at one end and thin at the other. The story began when the Li family started digging the foundation for their new house… "Good heavens!" Old Zhang dropped onto his backside, flinging his shovel far away. The people nearby crowded around and took one look. They all gasped: it was a human leg bone.
2.6kReads—Score106Shelves
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Yindi and Zhaodi 引娣和招娣
In a family that favors boys over girls, her harsh grandmother, cold grandfather, gambling-addicted father, and biased older sister all treat her with indifference. Only her mother secretly gives her warmth. Years later, when her younger brother is born, her situation grows even harder. From childhood, she suffers abuse and learns the bitter ups and downs of life. But hardship never breaks her spirit. Quietly persevering, she grows stronger, escapes the mire of her upbringing, and turns her life
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The Hard Luck of Zhang Xiaocao 苦命女人张小草
“You little bastard, with no father or mother!” Those were the words Zhang Xiaocao had heard all her life, ever since she was old enough to remember. She was the child Zhang Shun had picked up by the roadside. In a rural village in the 1970s, where boys were valued over girls, life was harder than bitter herbs for a bachelor raising a little girl he’d found by the road.
362Reads8.6Score115Shelves
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That Year, That Month, That Village 那年那月那村
In 1960, Shuangshui Village on the northern plains struggles through famine and upheaval. Third Master Liang refuses to yield an inch of land. Liang Dahe wrestles with the conflict between policy and conscience. Zhao Xiuyun awakens from her fervor, while Chen Mantun makes his way through life with his technical skills. Four generations fight, keep watch, and cherish one another on the field paths, telling the sweeping story of rural China in a turbulent era and the indomitable human spirit that
130Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Hard-Luck Grandpa and His Precious Granddaughter 苦命爷爷千金孙
Two generations lie buried in yellow earth, while the poor are bullied at every turn. Grandfather spent half his life bowing his head and enduring humiliation, going hungry and suffering cold stares, always at the mercy of others. Father lived his whole life feeling useless and stifled, beneath the scorn of others, with every generation ground into the mud. The elders say no family’s hardship lasts beyond three generations. I was born into the last generation of a poor family, having witnessed t
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The Heart-Stealing Woman 偷心女人
[Period] [Family life] [1980s] He Huan, a young woman who has suffered in silence, marries into the Bao family to spare her adoptive father trouble. After enduring countless hardships, she finally finds sincerity returned with sincerity, and turns barren earth into gold.
19Reads—Score132Shelves
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A Bandit Falls for a Crazy Woman 土匪爱上神经病
In a war-torn age, he was Yu Feihu, a ruthless bandit chief who robbed the rich to help the poor. In a remote mountain village, she was Ma Xiulian, the “dim-witted girl” everyone avoided. After he heroically rescued her, the purity in her eyes burned its way into his heart. Ignoring everyone’s objections, he forcibly married her and made her his bandit queen. His iron-fisted tenderness slowly warmed her closed-off world, while amid the flames of war and his protection, she became the light that
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Half a Lifetime as a Father, a Lifetime for Family 半生为父，一生为家
A father for half his life, a family man for all of it. Li Shoutian’s life is a portrait of millions of fathers: born in years of famine and raised in bitter hardship, he labors from boyhood and hustles through middle age, saving for his children’s wedding gifts and building them new homes, then caring for his grandchildren and worrying himself sick. He swallows his suffering and shoulders his exhaustion. After a lifetime of toil without a moment’s rest, his final words, “In my next life, I don’
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