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Books by Feng Qinzi
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The Poor Wife 穷妻
Fengxia was pretty, but she was the most unruly girl in the village. She had no education, no family wealth, and no way to earn money. All she wanted was to marry into a good family and live a comfortable life. Relying on her looks, she saw marriage as her only way to change her fate, and married one man after another. She always thought the next man would keep her fed and warm and spare her more hardship. But fate had other plans: each man she married was poorer than the last...
8.9kReads7.7Score448Shelves
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The Shackles of Fallen Blossoms 落红枷锁
In the old days, the cruelest thing wasn't poverty. It was the chastity rules that devoured women. In the summer of 1952, Chunmei married into Shigou Village wearing a red jacket. On her wedding night, there was no blood on the white cloth. Her in-laws branded her unchaste, while her birth family treated her as a sacrifice... After enduring endless hardship and heartbreak, Chunmei finally awakens to the truth: A woman's chastity lies in her heart, not her body. Chastity has never been for men to
6.7kReads—Score633Shelves
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A Red Invitation in Hard Times 苦日子里的红帖
In a poor mountain village in 1968, Shanying, a shy and awkward girl, was cursed by the whole village for remaining unmarried at eighteen. Her parents endured endless gossip. For the sake of a bride price and their reputation, they cruelly forced her to marry Zhang, an old man from the neighboring village who was nearly fifty, hunchbacked, and buck-toothed! She fought back with all her might, but all she got in return was endless beatings and confinement. When a wedding contract three fingers wi
6.1kReads7.1Score484Shelves
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Bitter Mother 苦娘
In 1932, Sufen, a country girl, defied her parents to pursue freedom and love. She refused a dowry, skipped the wedding banquet, and eloped with her sweetheart, Chen Chunsheng, to the docks. They made a home in a shack. Chen Chunsheng carried sacks of grain to earn a hard-won living, while Sufen mended clothes and did laundry to help make ends meet. Even in their poverty, they had hope for the future. But once Chen Chunsheng had saved a little money, he grew restless. A flirtatious city girl cau
1.5kReads7.4Score265Shelves
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The Child Bride from Beggar's Ravine 讨饭沟的童养媳
From the moment a woman crosses the threshold into her husband's family, she's expected to wash clothes, cook, and serve her in-laws. Even getting a hot meal depends on their mood, as if she were born to be her husband's family's unpaid maid. In the famine of 1937, Fuying's father, who had gone to fight the Japanese, vanished without a trace. To survive, Fuying's mother remarried a regimental commander. She believed a household couldn't do without a man, and that her daughter would marry someday
879Reads7.2Score130Shelves
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The Chastity Room 贞洁房
On the second day after her wedding, Miantao becomes a widow and her husband's family locks her in the cold, gloomy chastity room. She becomes pregnant after a secret love affair, but her in-laws abuse her until she loses her child. Desperate to escape her miserable fate, she entrusts her plans to Er Zhu, a traveling peddler, hoping only to flee the village. But she gives her heart to the wrong man. He marries someone else, and she is still left with nowhere to go…
754Reads6.5Score—Shelves
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Borrowed Mother 借母
For a hundred taels of silver, her parents sold seventeen-year-old A Xiu to the over-forty Li the Lame, all to get a bride price for her older brother. She thought having a son would give her a foothold, but one dismissive “We can’t afford to raise him” later, she was sold to Master Qian as a concubine. The moment she gave birth to a daughter, the tiny, pink infant was thrown into the freezing river. When Master Qian grew tired of her, he gave her away like an object to a poor distant relative.
530Reads7.4Score100Shelves
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Imprisoned Marriage in Western Hunan 湘西囚婚
At nineteen, Aqiao was sent against her will by her family to an ancient, isolated courtyard in the name of bringing good fortune to a sick man. Beneath her red bridal veil, she couldn't see her groom's face. She only heard the heavy bolt slide shut. From then on, freedom became a distant dream. In this eerie courtyard, she must face not only a cold-hearted husband and a strange mother-in-law, but also the ever-present rules and rumors. Late at night, the sound of footsteps and faint sobbing fro
149Reads6.7Score—Shelves
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A Mountain Girl's Marriage 大山女孩的婚姻
At the foot of Cangqing Mountain, Li Qiaozhen, who finished elementary school, starts sewing at an early age to help support her family. When she is eighteen, her parents promise her in marriage to Wang Gang, a man ten years her senior from the neighboring mountain. She expects a secure home, but instead finds herself trapped in a marriage filled with emotional abuse and oppression. As despair closes in, can she break free from the mountains' constraints and the chains of fate, and find a way to
64Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Sorrow of a Working-Class Girl 底层女孩的悲哀
Can Li He, a country girl, rewrite her difficult life? Trapped in a cold, dark world, she is caught between impossible choices and tormented by material deprivation, emotional estrangement, confusion, and loneliness. To escape the scars of her past, she must endure a painful process of growth and reinvention.
42Reads—Score—Shelves
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Married in the Bamboo Grove 箐中嫁
The first marriage in the mountain village may have been where Yang Xiaolian’s tragic life began. At eighteen, the Miao village girl dropped out of school. Insecure and sensitive, she longed for a better material life, and step by step fell into the trap set by Huangmao, a local hoodlum. Swept along by village gossip and the wedding drums, she stumbled into marriage. But after marrying into the Huang family, she found no happy life as she had imagined, only endless pressure to have children and
30Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Phoenix's High-Status Marriage 凤凰女的高嫁
Zhao Pandi grew up in a family that favored sons over daughters, but her beauty and academic achievements earned her a place at Beijing Normal University. When her childhood sweetheart, Li Jianxu, offers her a wildflower and says he wants to marry her, she turns away and takes the hand of Wang Chen, the son of a wealthy Beijing businessman. Crystal chandeliers glitter at her lavish wedding, but only after marriage does she realize it is a gilded cage. Her mother-in-law’s icy glares, her husband’
7Reads—Score—Shelves
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Moliang, the Bride-to-Wait for Her Betrothed 等郎妹茉娘
In a Hakka mountain village in western Fujian during the Republic of China era, twelve-year-old Mo Niang becomes a Chen family's waiting bride. After years of bitter waiting, the husband she gets is a simpleton. In the side courtyard, she stumbles upon the shocking secret that Chen A-Mu has been hiding the body of a dead baby and having an affair with another man... A waiting bride lives without love or support, trapped for her entire life in a tiny household, with endless work to do and endless
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Rough Factory Heir Spoils His Delicate Wife 重生七零，糙汉厂二代独宠小娇妻
[Reborn + period setting + face-slapping the scumbag + rugged man, sweet romance + career comeback + feel-good wish fulfillment] As she bled to death giving birth, Sun Hongmei was filled with bone-deep hatred! Had she been blind in her past life? She'd turned down Wang Weiguo, the factory owner's son who truly cared for her, only to marry Zhao Youwen, the man who wrote terrible poetry! Wang Weiguo was rough around the edges, but he would quietly leave a lamp on for her after her night shift and
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