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Books by Jian Zhengming, Who Likes White Sesame Seeds
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Reborn, I Chose a New Prince Consort 重生后我换了驸马
I was a princess sent away to marry for an alliance, and I was poisoned to death. Reborn at fifteen, I married the wrong man and was poisoned less than three years later. The Regent is not only powerful and influential, but also the man who gathered my remains and buried me in my previous life.
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Exiled from the Start? I’ll Use My Pocket Dimension to Care for My Foolish Husband 开局流放?我靠空间养傻相公
I transmigrated as a bride sent to bring good fortune to a fool, and thought I'd landed in a family-intrigue story. The bridal sedan had barely reached the gates when an imperial decree arrived: “The Jiang family has committed treason. The whole clan is to be exiled three thousand li!” As my mother-in-law fainted in shock and my younger brother-in-law burst into tears, my foolish husband grinned at me. “Wife, can you give me sugar cakes on the way into exile?” Calmly, I pulled a meat bun from th
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The Fortune-Teller Said I Was Bad Luck for My Family. I Became the Imperial Preceptor Instead 算命的说我克亲,后来我成了国师
My mother believed a fortune-teller who said my fate was so harsh it would bring disaster to my family. She abandoned me in a mass grave and left me to fend for myself. Ten years later, someone from the Su family of the capital suddenly came, saying their young lady was gravely ill and needed the blood of her biological sister as medicine. I smiled as I entered the Su residence, watching them eagerly draw my blood. No one knew that the master who raised me was the greatest practitioner of occult
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Reborn, I Sent My Wicked Mother-in-Law to the Enemy Camp 重生后我把恶婆婆送进敌营
On the night of my first marriage, my mother-in-law brought me a potion to prevent pregnancy. “The son of a widow, and you think you’re worthy of bearing a legitimate grandson?” I drank it through my tears. For ten years, I remained childless and endured endless humiliation. Only as I lay dying did I learn the truth: my husband had been poisoned to death by his own mother. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on my wedding night. The bowl of medicine was steaming before me. I grabbed my mothe
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A Cold-Blooded Assassin Reborn as the Marquis’s Castoff Daughter: The General Wants to Spoil Her 冷艳杀手穿成侯府弃女,将军求宠
Top modern assassin Qu You was carrying out an S-rank mission in the very last second before she was blown to pieces. When she opened her eyes again, she was the legitimate daughter of a marquis in the Great Jing dynasty, bullied by everyone and shoved into a bridal sedan. Her stepmother poisons her? She makes sure the woman’s own son ends up bedridden. Her half-sister tries to disfigure her? Oops, she accidentally splashes her with the disfiguring potion her sister loves so much. Her scumba
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I'll Examine You Tonight 今晚验你
“Dr. Wen, can you determine the victim’s time of death?” he asked in a strictly professional tone, then slipped her a candy when no one was looking. “Your blood sugar’s low again. Don’t push yourself.” Then, at a crime scene one day, she found the same kind of candy in his pocket. The wrapper was printed with the character for “joy.” It was wedding candy. “Captain Qin, aren’t you going to share your wedding candy?” He abruptly pinned her against the autopsy table. “Wedding candy is only for the
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A Supernatural Streamer Gets Hauled Away from a Haunted House Livestream by the Police Captain 玄学主播凶宅直播被刑警队长拎走
The livestream randomly selects a lucky viewer for a fortune reading based on Chinese characters. Smiling, I write the character “death.” The comments flood in: “Streamer, run! This is a warning about a serial murder case!” Just as I’m about to cut the stream, Detective Captain Gu Chenzhou suddenly bursts in. “Don’t move. You’re under arrest.” As the handcuffs click shut, I chuckle. “Captain Gu, the next victim will turn up at an abandoned factory south of town.” He sneers. “That’s quite a story
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Hiring a Bodyguard as My Live-In Husband 聘个暗卫当赘婿
I’m the daughter of the richest merchant in the capital, and I have just one condition for a live-in son-in-law: he has to be able to beat me. For three years, I challenged one martial arts school after another, until a masked swordsman showed up and knocked the saber from my hands in ten moves. On our wedding night, he took off his mask and revealed the face of the nemesis I’d been hunting for three years. “Wife,” he said with a grin, pulling out a stack of papers. “These are the challenges you
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Incense Ashes, Broken Souls 香灰断魂
At the scene, there was nothing but the victim, three copper coins, and incense ash scattered across the floor. Yun Qing pinched some ash and sniffed it. “The killer has worshipped Buddha for thirty years.” As everyone stared in disbelief, he suddenly hurled the coins at the Buddha statue. “Too bad he’s been worshipping a fake Buddha!”
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The Sickly Young Master Is Putting on an Act Again 病弱少爷他又装啦
Gu Jin, the son of the wealthiest man in the capital, had been sickly since childhood. More than a dozen doctors had examined him, only to shake their heads and sigh. Then our shabby clinic was forced to take on this troublesome patient, and I went to treat him myself. The first time I took his pulse, I could tell it was steady and strong. He was putting on quite a convincing act. So I prescribed the bitterest medicine and used the most painful needles, just to see how long he could keep pretend
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The Substitute Refuses to Become the Real Deal 替身她拒绝转正
My entire family thinks I’m crude and worthless, fit only to be a stepping stone for the fake heiress. At my engagement banquet, they forced me to drink wine laced with drugs, hoping to humiliate me in front of everyone. I smiled and raised my glass. “This toast is to the sixteen years of ‘care’ you’ve given me.” As the drug took effect, the real young master suddenly burst in and swept me into his arms. “Allow me to introduce my little sister, who disappeared sixteen years ago. Have you all bee
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Reborn in the 1960s: The Pampered Young Wife of a Rugged Soldier 六零娇宠:军旅糙汉的重生小媳妇
Reborn just before the famine of the 1960s, Lin Wanwan caught the eye of the poorest family in the village, the Lu family. Everyone said a face like hers belonged in the city, married to someone with a secure food ration. Yet she set her heart on a veteran soldier as hard and cold as iron. Her family panicked. “What do you see in him, girl? He’s dirt-poor!” She smiled lightly. “His abs are hard, his fists are hard, and everything else is hard too...” After they married, she moved into the milita
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After My Family Abandoned Me, I Built a City 被全家抛弃后我建了城
In my tenth year of the apocalypse, I transmigrate into the body of a peasant girl in ancient times. The System blares a warning: “Torrential rain in three days. Flooding is imminent!” I sneer, put my apocalypse stockpiling skills to use, and frantically reinforce the earthen house and dig drainage channels. The villagers mock me: “That crazy girl is daydreaming again!” On the night the floodwaters surge, only my courtyard stands firm. The family who once abandoned me pounds on the door, crying
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I Hunt Ghosts in a Sackcloth Cloak, and Even the King of Hell Says I’m a Breeze to Deal With 披麻袋抓鬼,阎王夸我好省心
My family has hunted ghosts for generations, but by the time it came to me, the craft was nearly lost. After all, these days the evil spirits are either getting into graduate school or passing civil service exams. Who would still want to linger in the mortal world and cause trouble? With our ancestral livelihood about to disappear, I gritted my teeth and burned a letter to complain to the King of Hell: “If you don’t come up with a solution, I’ll come down there, take the civil service exam, a
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Reborn, I Dumped My Jerk Husband and Married His Uncle 重生后我踹了渣夫嫁他叔
The moment the veil was lifted, I was reborn on the day I married Shen Yan. In my previous life, he tricked me into drinking poisoned wine, then held my half-sister as they watched me bleed from every orifice. “Did you know, Sister? You were standing in our way.” Amid the crackling wedding candles, I lifted my own veil and pulled out a gold hairpin, ready to stab myself in the throat. But as blood flew, I fell into a warm embrace. Prince Jing, Shen Jie, snatched away the hairpin and smiled. “Try
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I Became His White Moonlight After the Substitute Marriage 替嫁后我成了白月光
When my family forced me to marry Gu Chenzhou, a wealthy man paralyzed from the waist down, everyone waited to see me condemned to a loveless marriage. Every day, I bathed and massaged him, read Das Kapital by his ear, and even secretly painted his nails pink. One night, a large hand suddenly grabbed my wrist. “My lady...” “I've been reading Das Kapital for three months. Can we change the subject?” The day Gu Chenzhou finally stood up, he pinched my chin and laughed softly. “They all say you sch
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The Butcher’s Daughter 屠户女
The day Scholar Shen placed third in the palace examinations, he sent me a letter breaking off our engagement. “How could a butcher’s daughter ever be worthy of the third-place scholar?” The whole city laughed at my foolish daydreams. That night, I carried my bone cleaver into his residence. The tip of the blade traced his trembling face. “Have you forgotten, husband, where your scholarly honors came from?” “When my father was gored open by a wild boar trying to save you, you knelt and swore you
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Struck by Lightning by Mistake, the Pixiu and the Panda Are Now a Couple 被雷劈错后,貔貅和熊猫锁了
A thousand years ago, a heavenly lightning bolt went astray, trapping a Pixiu and a panda spirit in the same immortal bracelet and forcing them to cultivate together. The Pixiu scolded the panda: “Cuteness is shameful. Don't even think about siphoning my immortal energy!” The panda merely rolled over lazily and hugged him tighter. “Rule three of the dual-cultivation handbook: no domestic violence...” Then, one day in the modern era, the immortal bracelet unexpectedly shattered. The Pixiu laughed
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Living Off Her? I Turn Around and Marry the CEO 软饭硬吃?反手娶了总裁新娘
Reborn as a live-in son-in-law to a wealthy family, I was given a System that required me to spend one million of my wife's money every day. I scoffed. “As if a little money could corrupt my soul!” Until one night, my drunk CEO wife tugged open her tie and cornered me against the wall. “Who are you pretending to be so virtuous for...?” “You think I don't know you're spending a million from your account every day?” The next day, I stared at the twenty million newly deposited into my account and t
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The Substitute Bride Physician: The Cold-Faced General's Beloved 替嫁医女:冷面将军的心尖宠
On my wedding night, the red candles burned down, but the groom never came. Left alone in the bridal chamber, I lifted my own veil and used a silver needle to unblock my meridians. After all, I had married into the household disguised as a good-for-nothing concubine-born daughter just to steal the general's tiger tally. Three months later, I succeeded, only to find myself surrounded by a sea of armed guards beneath the courtyard wall. The general, famed for his bloodthirsty cruelty, rolled my si
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After Becoming the Heroine of a Miserable Sixties Drama, She Flips the Table 穿成六零苦情剧女主后她掀桌了
When modern senior engineer Lin Xiang wakes up, she has become the tragic heroine of a period novel, destined to be bled dry by her birth family and bullied by her in-laws. Faced with a family of vipers who want to sell their daughter for a bride price of fifty yuan and force her into marriage by threatening to jump into a river, she resolutely signs up to help develop the frontier. In the vast desert, she throws herself into her work, tearing across the landscape in a tractor and becoming the b
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The Mortician Kissed the Victim 收殓师吻了受害者
The newly discovered female victim had been neatly cut into twenty-seven pieces. The captain frowned. "A psychopathic killer. A meticulously planned perfect crime." But I noticed the cuts were unusually smooth. "No. The killer may work in the medical field." The cold, aloof male detective looked directly at me for the first time. "Why?" I put on my gloves and pointed to the pubic symphysis. "Here. He avoided every major blood vessel and nerve." "And..." I lifted the victim's left hand, pointing
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Reborn, I Tore Down My Hypocritical Sect 重生后我掀翻了伪善师门
In my previous life, my sect drained me of all my fortune, cut out my core, and burned my soul, all to secure my junior sister's path to immortality. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day we tested our spiritual roots. My junior sister pretended to stumble again, hoping to make me miss the appointed time for the test. This time, I walked right past her and let her fall into the mud. The best talent? A peerless immortal destiny? This time, I'll make you all pay back twice as much! Ye
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My Cousin Pushed Me into the River, but the Cold-Faced Officer Treats Me Like a Queen 被堂姐推下河,冷面军官宠我上天
The day I transmigrated to the 1960s, my cousin was showing off with my fiancé on her arm. “Little sis, Jianhua loves me. You should give up.” I kicked them both into the river, but accidentally fell in myself. As everyone cried out in alarm, a tall figure leaped into the water. After the stern-faced officer rescued me, he pulled out his military ID on the spot. “The organization has approved me to marry you. Do you want revenge, or do you want to get our marriage license?” I looked at the star
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My Brother’s Best Friend Used to Call Me His Little Shadow 哥哥的挚友曾叫我小跟屁虫
Whenever Gu Xizhou came to my house, he would ruffle my hair and call me his “little shadow.” For ten years, I secretly loved him and watched him date one girlfriend after another. Then, at my brother’s wedding, I deliberately got drunk and kissed him. The next day, I fled abroad and didn’t dare come back for three years. On my first day back, I ran into the company’s new CEO at the welcome party. He swirled his glass and sneered, “Shen Zhiyi, you were pretty bold when you sneaked a kiss, weren’
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Reborn to Marry the Eastern Wind 涅槃嫁东风
Princess Zhaoming of Fengyang died in the bitter winter of her twenty-second year. She remembered lying in the cold palace, listening to the north wind howl outside the window, the blood she coughed up staining her plain white handkerchief red. Her husband, General Qin Xiao, was at the bedside of the woman he loved, Su Wan'er. He never came to see her, not even once. As she drew her final breath, Zhao Mingzhu thought: If I have another life, I will never again be the villain who tears other peop
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Seven Years of Secretly Keeping the Moonlight 偷藏月光七年
On the night of her best friend's wedding, Ye Wan got drunk and slept with the powerful Huo Zhiting. When she fled at dawn, she left behind her employee ID, which had her photo on it. Seven years later, she joined a new company, bringing along her genius son. The CEO, Huo Zhiting, personally welcomed her. The boy tilted his head and studied the CEO, then suddenly took out a photo he'd been keeping safe. “Uncle, if you knew my mom, could you give this photo back to her?” Huo Zhiting stared at the
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Reborn in the 1970s: My Wife Is Beautiful and Daring 重生七零,娇妻又美又飒
Reborn in the 1970s, Su Nian decides she’ll never again be the pushover everyone could bully in her past life. She tears into the scumbag man and kicks the vile relatives to the curb, determined to live her best life in the best of times. As she throws herself into building a business, making a fortune, and face-slapping her enemies, that cold-faced man keeps hovering around her.
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The Fake Heiress Is a Transmigrated Argumentative Menace 假千金她是穿越杠精
The System told me to play the wicked supporting female lead and frame the true heiress. I turned around and started playing the Great Compassion Mantra for the System. “Work? Not in this lifetime.” I spend my days strolling around the marquis's residence, watching the birds and teasing the cats, waiting for the true heiress to return so I can give up my place.
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Reborn in the 1970s: The Military Wife Uses Her Space to Crush Her Enemies 重生七零,空间军嫂虐渣忙
Reborn on her wedding night in 1975, Lin Wanwan smiles as she looks at her stern military husband. In her previous life, she caused endless trouble, abandoned her husband and child to return to the city, and eventually died a miserable death in a basement. This time, she decisively wraps her arms around her husband's waist. “Let’s make a good life together!” Her scheming stepsister tries to drive a wedge between them? She’ll send her a one-way ticket to a labor camp! The fake-sweet military wife
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The System Forces Me to Be a Seductress, but His Majesty Insists on Romance 系统逼我当奸妃,陛下偏要搞纯情
I transmigrated into the body of an empress deposed and confined in the Cold Palace, and the System told me to bring ruin to the country. So I struck poses in the imperial garden and flirted with a passing general. The general was so startled that he fell straight into the lotus pond. Then I gave the chancellor a breathy, coquettish look, and the old chancellor suffered a heart attack on the spot and had to be carried away. With the mission about to fail, I decided to lie flat and set up a barbe
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The Crown Prince Saw Through My Imposture After the Bridal Swap 替嫁后被太子拆穿了
I was the Crown Prince’s consort, but the woman he loved was my half-sister. On our wedding night, he lifted my veil and sneered, “Remember, you’ll never measure up to her.” I nodded quietly and played my part as a pawn of my family. When he took my half-sister boating, I made all the arrangements. When he defied the Empress for her sake, I knelt and apologized. Then, at a palace banquet, my half-sister suddenly fell ill from poison. He grabbed me by the throat. “You poisonous shrew! I knew you
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The Land of Exile After the Bride Swap 换亲后的流放之地
After being reborn, my cousin begged me through tears to switch marriages with her. In our previous life, she married the General of the Northern Frontier and ended up exiled thousands of miles away. I married a poor scholar, who rose to become prime minister. I smiled and agreed, watching her climb into the scholar’s wedding sedan in high spirits. But she had no idea the general’s exile would lead him to a great achievement in aiding the emperor. Nor did she know that the scholar’s path to powe
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The Fox Substitute Slips into My Bed Every Night 替身狐狸每晚入我帐
The fox clan elder said human men were the easiest to tempt. She assigned me to sneak into the prince’s mansion every night and absorb the essence of that cold-hearted prince. But three months passed, and his expression remained cool and distant, while I gradually began to feel... strange. I started noticing the slight furrow of his brow as he reviewed memorials, and the tenderness in his fingertips when he stroked my true form. Then, one night, I deliberately revealed my human form and let him
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Seventeen Years of Holding an Umbrella for You 为你撑伞十七年
I had a crush on Jiang Ci for ten years, from the age of twelve to twenty-two. He always said I was only good enough to be his buddy, and that he’d date a pretty upperclassman. Later, he held the campus belle’s hand and announced their engagement. I finally gave up and moved south. Three years later, he suddenly appeared outside my office, his eyes bloodshot as he grabbed my wrist. “Why did you leave without saying goodbye? Do you know what these past three years have been like for me, ” He brok
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The Spicy 1980s Wife Has a Pocket Dimension 八零辣妻有空间
Before she was reborn, Shen Li died on a rainy night after being beaten by her husband. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to 1985, the day of her blind date. Looking at the handsome, gentle-mannered officer Zhou Shixiao sitting across from her, Shen Li nodded without hesitation. “I will.” Her relatives were distraught. “He’s so poor he can barely afford a pot to piss in, and he’s got three younger siblings to support!” Shen Li just smiled and rolled up her sleeves to start a busin
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The Coffin Lid Can't Hold Me Down, but the Prince Insists We Wed 棺材板压不住,王爷非要我洞房
I’m the strongest ghost hunter of my generation, yet I’ve been forced to marry the frail Prince Jing to bring him good luck. On our wedding night, I calmly pulled out a peachwood sword. “Your Highness, let me exorcise a spirit for you first.” Instead, he caught my wrist, his eyes dark and unfathomable. “Your Highness, I’m more troublesome than any ghost.” Only when I found a hundred soul-subduing talismans tucked beneath his pillow did I realize The greatest evil spirit in this prince’s manor wa
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My Lord Snake, Please Restrain Yourself 蛇君大人,请克制
On the day I came of age, my clan chose me as an offering to the Snake Lord. They said I would be torn apart and devoured, my soul denied even the chance of reincarnation. But when I awoke, I was lying on a jade bed covered in scales. The Snake Lord brushed my cheek with icy fingertips. “I’ve waited a long time for you, my bride.” Later, all of Southern Xinjiang saw the forbidden Snake God Temple light its eternal lamps for me. And the family that once cast me aside knelt outside the temple, beg
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Sister, I'm Tired of Wearing the Phoenix Crown in This Life 姐姐,前世凤冠我戴腻了
Gu Nian died the day before the new emperor ascended the throne. For three years in the Cold Palace, she watched her younger sister, Gu Lian, rise from a low-ranking consort to empress. Reborn at fourteen, she was still the eldest legitimate daughter of the marquis's household, while Gu Lian timidly tugged at her sleeve: “Big Sister, would this lotus-colored dress be all right for the Crown Prince's selection banquet?” Gu Nian gently caressed her sister's stunning cheek and smiled tenderly. “No.
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Stars Beyond the Deep Courtyard 深院望星辰
My family arranged a childhood betrothal for me. The groom-to-be is the second son of the Lu family, from the military compound. I hear he’s a spoiled playboy who spends all day hanging around with the children of high-ranking officials. I pack my bags that very night and make a run for it, but he and his men stop me at the train station. He leans lazily against a jeep, the collar of his army coat open. “Come back with me and get married.” After the wedding, we each do our own thing and stay out
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He Mourned His White Moonlight in a Wedding Dress, While I Married Someone with His Inheritance 他婚纱悼念白月光,我携遗产嫁人
The day he married me, his beloved white moonlight slashed her wrists in a suicide attempt. On our wedding night, he gripped my throat and said, “You’re only her replacement.” Later, when I was pregnant, he watched coldly as I fell down the stairs. “You don’t deserve to have my child.” Five years later, at my funeral, he clutched my portrait and laughed like a madman. But then someone slowly sat up inside the coffin I took another man by the hand and cheerfully tore up my death certificate. “Con
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The Soul-Scorching Tribulation of the Immortal Ancestor 长生老祖的销魂蚀骨劫
She had seen countless people meet tragic ends in their pursuit of immortality, so she was all the more pleased with the “short-lived” husband she had picked up. After all, mortals lived no more than a hundred years at most. Spending the blink of an eye accompanying him through his life would still make this romance complete. Until one day, she suddenly discovered that her husband had not only seen through her identity long ago, but was also hiding an even greater secret behind his easygoing fac
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He’s an Outcast to the Whole School, but He Only Talks to Me 被全校孤僻的他,只对我开口
I’m the liveliest person in class, but I’m assigned to sit with Jiang Xu, the quietest boy. Everyone thinks he hates girls, until I collapse from heatstroke at the school sports meet. In full view of everyone, Jiang Xu, who never lets anyone touch him, suddenly rushes over and scoops me into his arms. In the infirmary, he takes my hand, trembling. “Don’t smile at them... Just look at me, okay?”
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A Call from the Dead 死者来电
The newest lip rouge at the finest cosmetics shop in the capital was in such high demand that they couldn't keep it in stock. But the first noblewoman to use it was found dead in her bedroom the very next day. The courtesan who used it next died suddenly on the third day. And I was the third person to use the lip rouge. Late that night, bloody writing appeared in my bronze mirror: "Run. You're next." Trembling, I scraped out the lip rouge, only to find a piece of mole-marked human skin hidden in
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Married Off to the Crippled Prince, I Upend the Plot and Change My Fate by Digging Up Graves 替嫁残王,我靠刨坟改命崩坏剧情
The day I was transmigrated into the body of an abandoned daughter of a marquis's household, I was taking my elder sister's place to marry the dying Prince Jing and bring him good fortune. Before we could even drink the nuptial wine, the imperial physician had already shaken his head and prepared to lay him out for burial. I whipped out the epinephrine I'd made myself. “Your Highness, do you want to live?” I plunged in the needle, and he opened his eyes, coughing up blood. “My lady… what is this
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My Sister's Throne 姐姐的王座
My legitimate elder sister stole my marriage prospects, so I burned her phoenix coronet and wedding robes. She went crying to Father, only for me to splash a cup of hot tea in her face. “Am I supposed to suffer in silence just because I’m a concubine-born daughter?” I sneered. “I’ll turn this marquis’s manor upside down!” When Father called for the family discipline, I pulled out a token. “Recognize this? It belongs to the Princess Royal’s residence.” They had no idea I had already allied myself
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The Nightingale Never Crosses the Huangpu River 夜莺不渡黄浦江
That year, the snow and wind swept across Shanghai. He stood with his suitcase and said to me, “Wanyi, wait for me. I’ll come back and marry you.” Three years later, I was the hottest singer at the Paramount, and he appeared with his modern wife on his arm. Amid the clink of glasses, he asked in a low voice, “Why didn’t you wait for me?” I smiled and swallowed the bitterness of the whiskey. “Young Master Shen, actresses have no hearts. You actually believed me?” Through the haze, I heard him pou
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I Became a Cannon Fodder in the 1960s, Abandoned by the Poorest, Rugged Man in the Village 穿成六零炮灰,被全村最穷的糙汉
When Su Yao transmigrated into a novel set in a bygone era, she arrived just as the original owner was staging a fall into the water to force the military officer hero to marry her. According to the plot, he would despise her, the whole village would curse her, and she would eventually die miserably in a cattle shed. She spun around and plunged into the arms of the village’s poorest, burliest bachelor instead. “Don’t move. Let me hold you for a bit. What’s that smell on you?” The man stood there
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Well, Would You Look at That, I’m My Own Substitute 呦,替身竟是我自己
The day her parents bring home the orphaned child of a friend, Lin Wan disappears from the dinner table for three whole hours, and no one notices. They’re busy serving food to their new little sister and wiping her mouth, forgetting even that Lin Wan is allergic to seafood. Late that night, as she sneaks leftover food from the fridge, the boy next door, who’s always climbing over her family’s wall, catches her in the act. Zhou Jin swings the allergy medicine in his hand and chuckles. “Poor thing
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Little Plum Blossom, Why Did You Submit the Wrong Manuscript Again? 小青梅,你咋又投错稿?
Ever since I was a kid, I thought I was raising a wife. I never expected to raise a nemesis instead. When she fell into a mud pit at five, I fished her out. When she got into a fight at ten, I took the blame. At fifteen, she sent a love letter to the wrong person, and I spent all night chasing it down. After finally making it to college graduation, I decided to lay my cards on the table. “So, what do you think of me?” She blinked her big eyes, looking completely innocent. “Do you provide food
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