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Books by 晶禾静
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The Stubborn Chef of East Third Ring Road 东三环的倔厨子
This novel is a companion piece to A False Life: The Landlady’s First Half. Synopsis: A stubborn cook, an overlooked restaurant, and fifteen years of scraping by in Beijing. When ideals collide with reality, skill meets capital, and an ordinary man faces a changing age, he uses a bowl of braised pork to preserve the last shred of conscience in a city.
544Reads6.9Score102Shelves
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Temporary Residence Permit 暂住证
In 1995, Chen Pingyuan, a young man from Henan, arrived in Beijing with a crumpled train ticket in his pocket. He settled on Jiufeng Street, in Haidian’s urban-rural fringe, where he met a group of outsiders speaking in different accents: Li Hongmei, a fiery Sichuan woman; Zhao Guoqiang, a loyal Northeastern man; and Zhao Xiufen, a reserved young woman from Anhui. A temporary residence permit was the only identity they had in this city. They were robbed, cheated, investigated, and denied their w
170Reads—Score117Shelves
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Hey, Buddy, You Doing Okay? 哥们儿，还好吗
In 1994, a crowd of outsiders poured into Beijing. They scraped by on construction sites, sang for a living in karaoke bars, and gambled away their futures at card tables. They all started at the same line, but as they went along, their paths split apart: some got rich, some went to prison, and some disappeared. Years later, you want to ask, “Hey, how have you been?” This is sixteen years of joy and sorrow, and the story of a generation scattered.
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Beautiful at Thirty: A Full-Time Wife’s Journey into the Workplace 三十而丽：全职太太的职场之旅
[Workplace romance + women’s growth + business rivalry + family] [A financially independent woman is more confident. This is a book well worth reading!] Han Xiaoxiao has been a full-time housewife for two years. Suspecting that something is wrong with her marriage, she decides to return to work. A chance opportunity brings her into an unfamiliar workplace. She overcomes her naivety and sensitivity, constantly growing and changing along the way. Through various means, she wins her clients’ cooper
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The Third Kind of Intuition 第三种直觉
The "third kind of intuition" is neither rational deduction nor emotional guesswork. It is an instinctive "sense" of one's own fate, felt by someone caught in a tangle of blood ties and ethics. Zhao Yifan has always felt an inexplicable distance from his older brother. It isn't dislike, but a primal warning at the genetic level that they are not blood relatives.
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Trust Amid Hidden Currents 暗流涌动的信任
A family upheaval puts trust to the test. A worthwhile read! While living far from home, Yiying learns of her mother's difficult circumstances and realizes how tight money is for her brothers. Hoping to give her mother a comfortable old age, Yiying takes over the family restaurant by chance. She persuades her two brothers to join her and leads them into unfamiliar territory. As new business ideas, family conflicts, and tangled feelings emerge, Yiying holds fast to her convictions and tackles ea
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The Midlife Equation 中年方程式
Marital Crisis | Mystery of Her Birth | Memory Transplant | High-IQ Revenge At 42, architect Qi Mingyuan hits a career wall, demoted and sidelined, while his 39-year-old lawyer wife, Meng Yu, reaches the peak of her career. Suffocated by a midlife crisis, Qi Mingyuan reunites with Lin Yan, his college sweetheart, and seeks comfort in her embrace. But when his mother-in-law, Wang Fengjuan, suddenly falls ill, it tears open a bloody secret this family has kept buried for twenty-six years... When e
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The Shattered Jade Pivot 璇玑破
Shen Zhiwei, the illegitimate daughter of the Jiangnan Salt Commissioner, was forced to take her elder sister's place and marry into the Eastern Palace as a Secondary Consort. On her wedding night, she discovered that the crown prince had been poisoned with a deadly toxin, and she herself was caught in the traps of the imperial palace. Armed with her late mother's Shennong's Notes on a Hundred Herbs and an embroidered Xuanji diagram concealing secrets from a former dynasty, she used her medical
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