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Books by Seven-Colored Flame
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From the Fanqie books we index, matched on the author's name.
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Meat-Filled Steamed Buns 肉汁馒头
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, loading dock worker Chen Baoguo received two hundred yuan, his final pay packet. He had just 267.5 yuan in his pocket, and the old injury in his back throbbed dully in the cold. He told his daughter, “I’m working overtime this year. Triple pay.” The moment the lie left his lips, the New Year became a hurdle he had to clear alone. From the icy stench of the frozen-goods market before dawn to the warmth he couldn’t even mooch outside the mall;
112Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Schemer: Shanghai, 1936 暗算者：上海1936
Synopsis of The Schemer: Shanghai 1936 An agent who never carries a gun uses his mind to turn a city upside down. Autumn, 1936. The French Concession in Shanghai. After his fiancée is brutally murdered by Japanese ronin, renowned doctor Cheng Wangshu sees the law turn a deaf ear. He wipes away his tears, picks up a scalpel, and carries out a private act of revenge disguised as a perfect medical accident. “Old Huo,” a chief of the Special Branch, comes to see him. “Take revenge openly and you'll
38Reads—Score—Shelves
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Lord of the Hive: Building a Divine Kingdom in a Chaotic Age 蜂巢之主：从乱世开始建立神国
[Transmigration, System, family saga, farming, hegemony, convergence of myriad worlds, game interface, stats, rapid troop recruitment, play the pig to eat the tiger, revenge and face-slapping, gender-swapped combat, card progression, equipment, pets, life professions] After transmigrating, Chen Changsheng becomes the despised ninth son of a wealthy family at the end of the Daqian Dynasty, a notorious wastrel. In this low-martial-arts world, he warns his family that the Yellow Turban Rebellion is
5Reads7.7Score—Shelves
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Partners in Nightfire 夜火同谋
Shanghai, 1932. Professional assassin Gu Duanling uses a fire to carry out an execution, while the female assassin Shen Yuetang poisons her target through the art of tea. Two seemingly unrelated assassinations are linked by a pearl earring left behind at the fire scene. At a silver-dollar gambling game in the Paramount Ballroom, they feel the thick calluses at each other’s thumbs and realize they are cut from the same cloth. Their masters were both killed by the Japanese agent known as “Chessboa
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Zhu Ganglie: A Full Belly, a Heart Full of Light 猪刚鬣：肚子有食，心里有光
“This is the story of Tianpeng: when life knocks you back to square one, how do you laugh, piece yourself back together, and say, ‘What’s there to be afraid of? I’ll try a different way of living and keep going!’”
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