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Books by Hu Jipai
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Dragon Gate Noodle House 龙门面馆
Shi Gang, a forthright mountain herb seller, is forced to flee and settles in a small town, where he clashes with Su Qing, a spirited and clever noodle-stall owner. A bowl of hot noodles and her words, “I’ll make you noodles,” become their private code. When a local bully sets his sights on her and corrupt officials oppress them, the two go from bickering to standing side by side, using their wit and courage to protect their home and business. No matter how fierce the storms of the martial world
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Murder Beneath the Qipao: Three Beauties' War of Resistance Chronicles 旗袍下的杀机：三位美女的抗日记
Shanghai in 1940 is a city of shifting fortunes. Su Zimei, Lin Qinglian, and Shen Qingmeng, three women from very different walks of life, come together through their shared beliefs and mission. With wit as their blade and courage as their shield, they navigate the turbulent times, unravel enemy plots, and protect their homeland. From mistrust to standing together through life and death, they must face not only dangers from without but also difficult choices between love and duty. This is a stor
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Orphaned Brothers, Bound by Loyalty to the Bitter End 孤儿兄弟，亡命天涯不相负
Shanghai, 1937. In the narrow spaces between the foreign concessions and the Chinese-administered districts, countless people at the bottom of society struggled simply to survive. Orphaned brothers Chen Xiaoyong and Chen Xiaoming made a living in the alleys with a battered tricycle. They had no one to rely on but each other, and the copper lock their mother left behind was their only keepsake and comfort through years of drifting. One autumn night in Old Pagoda Tree Lane, a sudden act of violenc
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Springtime Stirs the Heart 春色惹情人
Nineteen-year-old art student Shen Yu moves into the Qingcheng Community for a part-time job. Clean-cut and handsome, he is like a new sprout appearing in spring, and without meaning to, he captures the hearts of three women. Wen Xingran, a gentle and long-suffering housewife, tries to fill the emptiness in her marriage with everyday acts of “soft seduction,” like bringing him eggs and fixing his balcony light. Meng Wanqing, a polished and confident beauty salon owner, uses “looking for a model”
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A War in Red: The Life of a Female Spy 红妆暗战，一个女间谍的一生
In 1941 Shanghai, tensions simmer beneath the struggle between the foreign concessions and the occupied districts. Su Yan, a gifted foreign-language student at St. John's University, unexpectedly takes up her father's unfinished "Cocoon-Breaking Plan" after he is assassinated. He was a member of the underground Communist Party, and the plan is to destroy a Japanese military intelligence relay station. Seeking revenge and driven by her beliefs, she sheds her youthful innocence and becomes a top s
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Those Flowers on the Green Lawn of Youth 青春草地上那些花儿
Those Flowers on the Meadow of Youth
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The Beautiful Landlady: A Love Story with Her Tenant 美女房东：与男租客的感情史
She is Chen Fangfei, a beautiful divorced landlady who owns several properties. Tenants come and go, but she has a well-practiced playbook: she pinpoints each man's weakness and draws them in one by one with tenderness, affection, or even money. The cash-strapped college student, the manager whose career has hit a rough patch, the heartbroken designer, the lonely musician, the rational divorce lawyer... They have all been her prey. She never gives her heart, much less steps into marriage. She si
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Half a Window: Rekindling an Old Flame 半扇窗：再续前缘
In a modern city, on the third floor of an old building, a sliding window separated by a brick wall quietly connected the lives of two strangers. Zhou Bo, an IT programmer, and Qing Xia, an illustrator, shared a sliver of sunlight and the same evening breeze through half a window, though they had never met. They left cat food, tea, and notes on the windowsill, and spent three whole years chatting online as “Half Moon” and “The Window Painter.” An unexpected face-to-face encounter left them with
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Stars Adorn the Grapevines 星子缀满葡萄藤
Gu Yan, an architecture student in the city, meets Wanxing, a village schoolteacher, on campus. She points at the returning geese and smiles, saying, “The wild geese carry letters.” He insists they are simply migratory birds. She looks up at the Milky Way and exclaims, “The waves of stars on the Magpie Bridge!” He merely remarks that they are galaxies light-years away. On Qixi Festival, the wind on the hill tears open the folds of reality: she believes that “true love winds tight like a grapevin
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The Two Spy Beauties 谍海双姝记
On a snowy night in Suzhou in 1938, a Japanese sweep separated twin sisters Wen Zhiwei and Wen Zhixia. As their mother lay dying, she entrusted them to Old Wu, who ran a grocery store in the foreign concessions. Five years later, Shanghai's concessions are rife with undercurrents. The elder sister, Wen Zhiwei, goes undercover as a cool and refined art consultant. Her composed manner draws Matsumoto, head of the Japanese Special Higher Police, close, giving her a chance to steal intelligence abou
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D-Day: Triple Agent 诺曼底登陆：三重谍影
Synopsis of Normandy Landings: Three Shadows of Espionage In 1941, as the flames of World War II swept across Europe, the Normandy landings became the key to turning the tide for the Allies. Three covert fronts, three spies bound by intertwined fates, stake their lives on a secret mission aimed at the dawn. Inside Berlin's V-2 missile factory, Chinese engineer Lin Yan assumes the identity of an Allied intelligence agent, infiltrating the heart of the German weapons program. He must steal missile
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Bai Le Men: Blades Beneath the Neon, Songs in a Turbulent Age 白乐门：霓虹藏刃，乱世弦歌
In the early days after Shanghai fell in 1937, the Paramount Ballroom in the French Concession was a strange fixture of a world at war. Neon lights and music gave it the appearance of carefree revelry, with Western music mingling with Suzhou storytelling songs as celebrities and tycoons came and went. In truth, it was an intelligence hub for four forces: the Chinese Communist Party's underground network, the military intelligence service, the Japanese Kempeitai, and the Wang Jingwei regime. Behi
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Holding Hands Doesn't Last Forever, but Letting Go Leaves Regrets 牵手没有永远，放手又有遗憾
Design assistant Luo Lan and senior designer Zi Han meet by chance at a cafe during a torrential downpour, brought together by a collection of Petofi's poems. Their feelings quietly blossom through a shared appreciation for poetry and design. When Luo Lan receives an invitation from a design studio in Paris, she is torn between love and her dreams. Haunted by regrets over his mother's death, Zi Han becomes intensely possessive of their relationship, and the distance between them grows. Caught be
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Dustbound Fate, Firework-Splashed Sorrow 尘缘劫，烟火殇
Focusing on the lives of migrant workers from the mountainous areas of northern Guizhou after 2000, the story follows two intertwined plotlines, depicting ordinary people’s struggles, bonds, and regrets as they are swept along by the tide of reality. In the first, Chen Bing, a young migrant worker, returns to his hometown and meets Xu Jing, a kindhearted young woman. Under pressure from Xu Jing’s family to set a wedding date, her cousin Xu Man becomes the couple’s go-between, but their Lantern F
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My Deskmate, Luo Lan 我的女同桌罗兰
My Deskmate, Luo Lan
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Hand in Hand, Never Letting Go, Yet Still Regretful 牵手没有永远松手又有遗憾
We held hands, but never let go forever. Still, there are regrets
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When the Gardenias Bloom, I'll Wait for Your Return 栀子花开，等你归来
When the gardenias bloom, I’ll wait for your return
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Youth's Road, Lush with Fragrant Grass 青春路上，芳草菲菲
Youth's Road, Fragrant Grass in Bloom
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A Night Passing Through the City of Chongqing 路过重庆城市的夜晚
Passing Through Chongqing on a Night in the City
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After College Graduation, Where Do I Go? 大学毕业后，路在何方
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Shenzhen Love Apartment 深圳爱情公寓
In an old residential neighborhood in Futian District, Shenzhen, there’s a small building converted into a “shared apartment” called Deep Love Apartments. Lin Chen, an internet operations specialist fresh out of a three-year relationship, moves in to escape the shadow of his ex. Xia Wan, an outgoing new-media writer, becomes a new tenant because she “wants to live closer to the business district.” They first meet while “fighting over the last burner in the communal kitchen,” then keep running in
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Fate: The World Is Not Equally Cold to All 宿命：人间并非同此凉热
My new story is here! Head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Old Shanghai's Great World: A Shadowy Conspiracy 旧上海大世界：谋影迷局
In the neon gloom of Shanghai amid turbulent times, Su Yufen, an artist, uses pingtan storytelling as her shield, quietly passing along anti-Japanese intelligence amid the bustle of the Great World. By chance, she reunites with Yang Liren, a comrade she had believed died in action. The two renew a promise left unfulfilled and form a steadfast team with Chen Mosheng and Xiao Jiu. A candy-painting spoon carries secret signals, while a magic wand conceals vital clues. Through the flames of war, the
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The White Moonlight at Dusk 暮色中的白月光
In 1937, Suzhou fell. Shen Zhiyi, the daughter of a successful examination candidate, pawned her wedding dress to bury her father. Beneath the city gate, a wounded young man mistook her for a comrade. He pressed a bloodstained codebook into her hands, said only, “This matters more than life,” and collapsed into her arms. She could have thrown away the trouble, but she didn’t. She wanted to know what kind of person could consider their own life less valuable than a sheet of paper. When Gu Muzho
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Turbulent Waves over Xiangjiang 香江浊浪
In 1941, Hong Kong was a floating city beneath the lights of colonial rule. Chen Aman, a Chaozhou refugee, carries sacks of rice through Central’s alleyways to survive. A wood plane hidden under his bed is his last link to his homeland. Su Manqing, the daughter of a Chinese-language schoolteacher, crosses the University of Hong Kong campus clutching her English textbooks, while anti-Japanese leaflets printed by her father lie hidden at the bottom of her schoolbag. A dockworkers’ strike brings th
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The Nightingale of 1937 夜莺一九三七
Shanghai, 1940. Gu Manjun, a red-dressed dancer at the Paramount, has two secrets: first, she is an underground agent for the Chinese Communist Party, codenamed “Nightingale”; second, she is not the real Gu Manjun. Ten years ago, the real Gu Manjun was murdered in France, and the organization arranged for her to assume that identity and go undercover. The secret should have stayed buried forever, until she receives an order to assassinate Tang Xiaocheng, deputy director of the Wang Jingwei regim
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Sweet Campus Days: Finding Each Other Through Time 校园清甜：时光里的双向奔赴
Lin Qingyan is a celebrated top student and an unnoticed artsy girl. At the opening ceremony of her first year of high school, she falls in love at first sight with Jiang Yuchuan, who shines like the sun. What she doesn’t know is that the school’s most popular boy has already been watching her, his attention quietly fixed on her through countless moments when she’s bent over her homework or reciting poetry onstage. From tentative little tests to accidentally walking side by side during morning e
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Moonlight Falls: Vermilion Tears Burn Hot 月光落：朱砂滚烫
“The one true love belongs high in the heavens, while the cinnabar mole is the burning blood in your heart.” At their class reunion, one casual joke from him condemns Lin Zhi’s six-year obsession to death. She was once the pure moonlight everyone at school knew belonged to Zhou Xuyan. Now she has fallen completely, worth less than nothing. Before the banquet is over, she leaves and catches him with his new “cinnabar mole,” his fiancée, a stand-in whose features closely resemble hers. In a shadow
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The Lone Soul of Qingya's Calamity 青崖人孤劫
I. Story Overview Su Li, a white fox from Qingya Mountain, saves Lin Yanqiu, a scholar who falls ill while traveling to take the imperial examinations. The two fall in love, but are torn apart by Gu Yanzhi, a powerful noble from the capital. Lin Yanqiu is forced into marriage with the Gu family, goes mad on his wedding night, and is abandoned with all his ribs broken. Su Li searches the human world for her beloved, brings him back to Qingya Mountain, and gives birth to their son, Lin Wangshu. Ei
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Weaving Dreams in Jiangnan: The Merchant's Soul in a Time of Turmoil 江南织梦：乱世商魂
In the turbulent Republican era, warlords carve up the land, foreign goods flood the market, and the silk industry of Jiangnan teeters on the brink. Zhang Li, daughter of a Suzhou silk merchant, grew up inspired by her father's belief that industry could save the nation. But her family falls into decline: her father's silk mill is driven into bankruptcy by the malicious tactics of Hengchang Trading Company, backed by Japanese capital, and he dies with bitter resentment. At eighteen, Zhang Li is
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The Tale of Jingyun's Sword Shadows 靖云剑影传
Synopsis During the Jiading era of the Southern Song, Mongol cavalry invade the south. A fragment of the Dark Iron left behind by Guo Jing appears, and rumors that whoever possesses it can control the nation's destiny plunge the jianghu into bloodshed. Su Jingyao, a girl abandoned by the Beggars' Sect, seeks to clear her father of the false charge that he collaborated with the Mongols. Gu Yancen, an orphan of Peach Blossom Island, seeks revenge for his family's massacre. A clue to the Dark Iron
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Old Shanghai: A Search for Family in Troubled Times 旧上海：乱世寻亲记
Twelve years spent searching for family, then one day the mystery breaks open and the truth comes to light. Guo Nian'an, a watchmaker separated from his parents as a child, has only one keepsake: a mysterious copper gear. As an adult, he follows the clues into danger, only to discover that his parents were anti-Japanese intelligence agents who had been undercover for years. Because they possessed vital intelligence about the Japanese army's arsenal, the Military Statistics Bureau had secretly ke
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Fox Spirit’s Immortal Path: The Years I Guarded the Three Realms 狐胎仙途：镇守三界那些年
Gu Nianxi had barely been born when he was left alone in the grass deep in the mountains. His father, Gu Yunzhou, the top scholar of the imperial examinations, was carried off by a black bear demon while searching for a lifesaving drink of water for him. His fate is unknown. His mother, Su Qingwan, princess of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, was seized by soldiers immediately after giving birth and imprisoned in the Chancellor’s dungeon, where she endured endless torment. Unable to drink human milk or end
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