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Books by 市井阿布
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The Lady Investigator of the Ming Dynasty 大明女提刑
[Female Investigator × Imperial Guard] Shen Zhiwei, a bondservant, is the county magistrate's darkest secret. A corpse from the canal and a handful of green salt force her into an uneasy partnership with Gu Changfeng, the feared Imperial Guard. He uses her as a pawn, while she relies on him for protection. From the salt case in Jiangnan to a regicide at court, every wrongful conviction they overturn becomes a blade aimed at the empire's most dangerous enemy. Until one day, Gu Changfeng corner
56Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Humble Origins Chef 寒门厨娘
After transmigrating into the body of the lowest-ranking palace maid in the Imperial Kitchen, A He only wants to slack off, lie flat, and survive to a ripe old age. But the head steward skimps on the palace rations with moldy rice, then serves spoiled food to the elderly maids. She quietly brings out the culinary skills she won in her previous life as “Little Master of Chinese Cuisine”: A dish of cabbage boiled in clear broth shocks the Imperial Food Bureau, while three spoonfuls of crab-stuf
48Reads6.1Score—Shelves
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A Swallow Leaves the Deep Mansion 深宅燕离
Shen Qinghe, daughter of an imperial physician, falls on hard times and is forced to become the secret concubine of the heir to the Marquis of Yongchang, confined to a country villa outside the capital. She appears docile, but secretly studies medicine and saves money, all so she can escape her cage one day. The heir, Lu Yanzhi, treats her like a plaything, but the principal wife, Lin Jingshu, sees the resentment in her eyes. Born into a distinguished family, Lin Jingshu married into the marquis
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Warmth Beneath the Kitchen Smoke 炊烟问暖
In the coldest season, she used the warmest cooking fires to keep a family alive and warm a heart. In Qinghe County of the Great Ning Dynasty, Shen Qinghe, daughter of a scholar, faces a cruel choice after her father dies and her family falls into ruin: cling to her “good name” and starve, or set her pride aside and find a way to survive? She chooses the latter. Drawing on the cooking skills her grandmother taught her, eighteen-year-old Qinghe starts beneath an old locust tree by the docks. S
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The Chu Family Cookbook 褚家食单
In Furong Town, Jiangnan, Chu Lanxin once thought her days would pass like a pot simmering gently on the stove, quietly cooking up an ordinary life. But when her family fell into decline and their former splendor faded, all she had left was her family’s culinary heritage and a small stove of her own. A plate of shredded pork and snow bamboo shoots with noodles in a clear, richly flavored broth was her first step toward making a living among the common folk; A serving of orange stuffed with crab,
23Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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Life Around the Hearth: Qin Niangzi's Culinary Journal 灶下人间：秦娘子美食手札
One stove fire reveals a thousand flavors of life; a pair of unadorned hands brings harmony to every season. After her father died of illness and debt collectors came knocking, twenty-two-year-old Qin Zhenyue clutched a battered copy of Kitchen Notes and set up her first stall in a lively alley in Qingshui County. The sweet fragrance of plum-blossom cakes was her first challenge to fate, her first demand for a life of her own. From a street-corner stall to Moonlit Retreat, from seasonal breakf
18Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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The Sealed Evidence 尘封之证
Every silent corpse is a life story violently brought to a close. We are the only ones who can read it. Forensic examiner Chen Mo and detective Lin Tao are partners with very different temperaments but perfect rapport. Day after day, they move between crime scenes and the autopsy table, searching for forgotten truths among cold physical evidence and inscrutable human hearts. The cases they face lie buried beneath layers of time and the fog of human nature. From the city’s poorest neighborhood
15Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Lone Loyalist of the Prince of Yong's Household 雍邸孤臣
A secret erased from official history, and a name mentioned only in passing in the historical records. In the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi reign, the Crown Prince is deposed, and the struggle among nine princes for the throne begins. I, Wu Siming, become the first pawn discarded by Prince Yong, Yinzhen, with his own hands. In the Ministry of Justice's prison, when my master's icy gaze cuts off the last thread of loyalty between us, I know the role of the faithful servant has come to an end.
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The Marquis of Zhenbei’s Mansion: Jin Zhi Yi 镇北侯府，锦枝弈
The century-old Northern Marquis’s estate appears splendid on the surface, but beneath it, undercurrents run deep. The legitimate eldest daughter, Xiao Jinwei, is poised and sensible, using her sunny disposition to dispel the darkness. The concubine-born daughter, Xiao Jinyue, is cautious and clever, enduring hardship to find a way forward. Though they should have been rivals, the two gradually grow closer amid the family’s crisis. When the second branch covets the family fortune, cousins concea
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Pomegranate Blossoms Shine Bright in the Deep Courtyard 深院榴花照眼明
The household of Chen Jingqian, a seventh-rank official in Jiangning Prefecture, is a miniature world of its own. The legitimate mother, Madam Zhang, runs the household with an iron hand, but behind her authority lies a hidden vulnerability. His legitimate daughters are dazzling, the pride of the Chen family. Chen Lingrong, a concubine-born daughter, is only a silent shadow behind that polished facade, cautious and timid, treading as if on thin ice. She knows that in the confined depths of this
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Where the Willow Catkins Fall Is My Home 杨花落处是吾乡
During the Yongxi era of the Great Zhou, officials rose and fell, noble families arranged marriages, and the lives of women in the inner quarters often hinged on the schemes and struggles within a tiny courtyard. Yang Wanzhen, the seventh-born concubine daughter of the Yang family, lost her birth mother at an early age and had no one to rely on. Treading carefully, concealing her intelligence and keeping a low profile, she used insight and caution far beyond her years to slowly plan a way to sur
8Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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A Guide to Slacking Off in the Harem: The Leisurely Retirement of an Idle Consort 后宫摆烂指南：闲妃的退休日常
On her seventh straight day of overtime, Li Wei toppled headfirst into her computer screen and woke up as a sixteen-year-old imperial consort in a harem novel, who had died of shame and heartbreak after trying too hard to win the emperor’s favor. Thinking back on her previous life, when she had worked herself to death, Li Wei gazed at the fresh-faced girl in the mirror and lamented: Working overtime at sixteen? What a calamity! Right then and there, she wrote down her new life plan: Don’t compe
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Admonitions Written in White Bone 白骨作谏
This age of prosperity is told through the testimony of bones. Shen Jie is a female coroner hidden away in the mortuary. She examines corpses and measures wounds, eavesdropping on the last truths the dead left behind in rotting flesh and withered bones. Everyone says that with eyes able to see through the underworld, she was born for this line of work. Until the “curse case”: the Crown Prince’s Tutor bleeds from all seven orifices and drops dead in his study. The entire court claims that ghosts
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The Little Farmhouse Chef: Growing Crops with a Pocket Dimension 农门小厨娘：带着空间种种田
Terrible!!! Absolutely terrible!! Run for it!!! Run!! Run!! Get out of here, now!! Run as fast as you can!!!! Run!!!!!!!!!
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The Transformation of a Contract Marriage 合约婚姻的蜕变
This is awful!!! Seriously awful!! Run away!!! Run!! Run!! Get out of there, fast!! Run as fast as you can!!!! Run!!!!!!!!!
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The Strange Casebook of the Chongzhen Emperor 崇祯诡事簿
In the fifth year of Chongzhen’s reign, the Ming Dynasty is beset by troubles at home and abroad, while sinister forces stir in the shadows. Su Yebai, a student at the Imperial College who is skilled in forensic techniques, is drawn into the bizarre and terrifying Lantern-Skin Case. He unexpectedly discovers that his family’s massacre is connected to a shocking secret involving the imperial court and the fate of the empire. To uncover the truth, he is forced to become a Night Watchman, walking t
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The Family Escort Agency: The Young Lady Carried Me Home from the Start 家有镖局：开局被大小姐扛回家
I wake up to find that I've become the bookkeeper at an ancient escort agency. I was planning to coast through life, but the head escort ran off in the middle of the night, leaving me with a complete mess. The heiress slams a huge, nine-ringed, gold-backed broadsword onto my desk. "Starting today, you're the deputy head escort!" I stare at the last copper coin wobbling on the blade's edge. "How about... we take a job first?" Later, the whole martial world knows that the agency has acquired a sch
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From Here On, We Keep to the Rules 至此，不逾矩
(Composed Surgeon x Steady Policy Researcher) She wore reason as her armor and, on the battlefield of love, performed the most perfect heart-removal surgery for herself. A marriage contract from her hometown in Jiangbei bound cardiac surgeon Zhao Moran to policy researcher Li Jin. It was a tacit "marriage of convenience," founded on the friendship between their elders. She was clear-headed, and so was he. She did her duty and played the part of a proper partner. Even when she ran into his ex, a
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Zhou's Food Shop 周记食肆
When Zhou Youwei opens her eyes, she faces utter poverty, a sick mother, and a younger brother still too young to fend for himself. She has no foresight from being a transmigrator and no cheat like a magical spring realm. All she has are the heavy responsibilities resting on her fourteen-year-old shoulders, along with a local’s keen appreciation for food and an unwavering dedication to it. The river crabs everyone else scorns become “crab roe butter,” worth its weight in gold, in her hands; Ord
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The Tough Wife from a Poor Family: A Legendary Rise to Wealth 寒门悍妻：逆袭致富传奇
This is the legendary tale of Lin Weiwang, a modern CEO and master chef who transmigrates into the past as a bride sent to bring good fortune. With her intelligence and abilities, she leads her struggling family to turn their fortunes around despite their poverty, ultimately finding success in both her career and love.
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The Evidence Puzzle 罪证拼图
On the boundary between crime and justice, evidence is the only light. Chen Yuan, captain of the city’s criminal investigation squad, has spent ten years failing to solve his younger sister’s disappearance. The case has become an unhealed scar in both his career and his life. When an unidentified woman’s body disturbs the quiet of the city moat, a mysterious snowflake tattoo and a bloodstained old cotton shoe draw him and his teammates into a vast criminal network spanning schools, mining distri
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The Laid-Back Legitimate Daughter: The Tyrant Prince Begs Me to Try Harder 摆烂嫡女：暴君王爷求我卷一点
After becoming the villainous female lead in a household-intrigue novel, Yun Wei decides to give up completely. The System wants me to fight for favor in the palace? I turn around and give the opportunity to my half-sister. My family wants me to marry for an alliance? I stay up all night writing a love letter to my sworn enemy. Just as I’m about to coast my way to victory, the tyrannical prince, rumored to have slaughtered countless people, blocks my way. He grips my chin, his gaze dangerous. “I
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The Qing Dynasty Imperial Weaving Bureau: A Nimble Hand Embroiders the World 大清织造：锦心绣手绘乾坤
Beneath the Hall of Golden Chimes in the Forbidden City lies another empire: the Imperial Weaving Bureau. It forges no weapons, yet oversees the royal family’s prestige and the economic lifeblood of the empire. Su Jinshu, daughter of the Suzhou textile commissioner, is forced to enter this splendid battlefield. Amid the stormy struggle among nine princes for the throne, armed with a ledger no one else can decipher and a flower-embroidered needle, she seeks a way to survive in the narrow space be
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Tales from the Imperial Kitchen: A City Enchanted by Pure Flavors 宫厨记：清味倾城
This is terrible!!! Super terrible!! Run away!!! Run!! Run!! Get out of here!! Run as fast as you can!!!! Run!!!!!!!!!!!!
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