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A Pragmatist’s Love 实用主义者的爱情
The final installment of the print edition of "A Pragmatist’s Love" is now available for preorder, with an additional 8,000-word bonus story. A preview of the bonus story appears at the end. If you’re interested, you can purchase the book from online retailers. To Fei Ni, a house was far more dependable than love. If marriage hadn’t been the only way to get assigned an apartment, Fei Ni would never have married Fang Muyang. Those who didn’t know the full story assumed Fei Ni had chosen Fang M
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The Military Industrial Compound in the 1950s 五十年代军工大院
Ye Manzhi’s view of herself: the prettiest flower in the military-industrial compound, and the glue that keeps her family harmonious. That is, until she sees a line of text above her third sister-in-law’s forehead: [When is this home-wrecker finally marrying into Director Zhou’s family? I’m ready to throw hands!] Ye Manzhi rubs her eyes. ??? When she discovers that she’s living inside a novel as the heroine’s co
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Children of a Major Factory in the 1960s 六零年代大厂子弟
Gorgeous Little Rascal VS Beauty-Obsessed Heiress This novel is also known as: "I Reached the Pinnacle of Life Through My Good Looks," "The Journey from Pop Idol to Mechanical Engineer," and "How to Become a Great Dad" Recently, a huge piece of gossip has been making the rounds in the machinery factory's residential compound. Zhao Xuejun, the "pride of the compound," confessed his feelings to Xia Lu, the "untouchable beauty"! But she actually turned him down!!! And her reason was explosive: Xia
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After the Eldest Sister Awakens [1990s] 长姐觉醒后[九零]
[Complete] [My author page has several completed stories set in the past, including food stories. Follow me if you're interested.] In her previous life, Yuan Tang was a dutiful eldest sister who put four younger siblings through college; a devoted daughter who cared for her seriously ill parents until they passed away; and a generous elder who exhausted herself looking after her siblings' children after her parents died... Even when she died alone from an illness on New Year's Eve, Yuan Tang ne
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The Spendthrift Wife of the Nineties 九十年代败家媳妇儿
Coming soon: The Materialistic Woman of the 1980s and The Fake Heiress Who Became Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel. Please add them to your reading list. Li Jing was famous in the compound for being a spendthrift. She loved shopping and bought things every day. Her family could barely afford to keep her, so they married her off to a nouveau riche man. Her nouveau riche husband was handsome and wealthy, and he didn't stop her from shopping. Li Jing had no complaints. This was great, and she wa
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Back to Before My Whole Family Lost Their Jobs in the 1990s 穿回九零全家失业前
Li Xia's eldest brother, sister-in-law, and second brother all work at the paper mill. Her second sister-in-law is a sales clerk at the supply and marketing cooperative. After graduating from high school, Li Xia also joined the mill as a technician. The work is easy, and the commute is short. Her father is a retired accountant at the mill, and all his children found work nearby. In the 1960s and 70s, they were living the dream. By the 1990s, the whole family had been laid off, turning their sto
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Everyday Fortune-Making in 1990s Shanghai [Live Comments] 九零沪上发家日常[弹幕]
[Preorders: Please add The Lovely Cousin Arrives on the Island in the 1970s and In the 1980s, I Got Bound to a Rich Heir System to your reading list~] In 1992, the state-owned factory where Ye Wei worked was on the brink of closure due to a mistake in the management's decision-making. Wages were already three months behind. With her iron rice bowl about to shatter, Ye Wei had no choice but to start thinking about whether she should learn to wait tables at a restaurant or learn to perm hair at a
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A Left-Behind Mom in the Nineties Has Seen the Light 九零留守妈妈想开了
At sixteen, Liu Suqin graduated from junior high and followed her cousin south to find work. Like most young women in the factories, she met a male coworker around her age who shared her interests, fell in love with him in no time, and married him. Then she went back home to have a baby, raise her child, and manage the household. Her husband continued to work away from home. Because they lived apart for years on end, their relationship was neither especially warm nor especially cold. Fortunatel
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A Little Restaurant in an Eighties Alley 八零胡同小饭馆
I have all sorts of period-piece novels in my profile's upcoming works, so feel free to browse! You can also add "Back to the Nineties to Open a Restaurant" to your favorites. In the 1980s, during the early years of reform and opening up, a brother and sister moved into an alley near the knitting factory. The sister was supposedly named Song Mingyu. She had a fiery personality and had actually managed to wheedle a courtyard house out of the knitting factory's stingy Party secretary.
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After the Engagement Was Annulled, I Married a Boss From Shiwen 被退婚后我嫁给了年代文大佬
Xia Shao had had enough of her life as an overworked corporate drone and was planning to quit and retire in her hometown. To her surprise, when she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to the 1960s, an era of shortages, and found herself saddled with a cuckold's hat. By the time she traveled thousands of miles to the Northeast to confront her fiancé, he had already married a local woman and had two children. Afr
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[The 1970s] Remarrying My Ex's Childhood Friend 七零之改嫁前夫发小
In her previous life, Lin Wangshu was the envy of everyone, a woman blessed with good fortune. She went to the countryside once and found herself a husband from a family with a courtyard house. Her in-laws arranged a job for her, and her husband was successful. Who wouldn’t envy her? But in that courtyard lived her in-laws and her husband’s aunt, and they were always underfoot. Only she knew what it was like to be a young wife living under someone else’s roof. She endured it all, but who could h
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Marrying a Coal Boss in the Nineties 九零之嫁给煤老板
[Novel blurb] Cong Qi’s parents were from the class of 1978, having fought their way through countless obstacles. Unfortunately, good genes were not on her side. She didn’t inherit her parents’ intelligence or talent, but at least she got a face of incomparable beauty. Beautiful, with a steady job and open-minded, loving parents, Cong Qi thought her life was wonderful. But lately, one thing had been bothering her: after her best friend fell into the water, she suddenly became obsessed with findi
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A Sweet Couple in the Seventies 七十年代甜蜜夫妻
[Please add my upcoming novel, Arranged Marriage in the 1970s, to your reading list!] 1. As a minor character in a period novel, Cheng Man was fairly satisfied with her life. She was born into a family where both parents worked. There were three children, and she was the only girl, so she got to finish primary school and go on to high school. After graduation, she landed a job as a waitress at a state-run restaurant. From then on, she had a respectable job and never had to worry about food or d
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Everyday Life in an Oilfield Compound in The 1980s 八零年代石油大院日常
[Author's column: Multiple completed stories set in the past, including food-focused stories] Qian Qing married into an oilfield community, and on the second day of her marriage, she had a dream. In the dream, her best friend Wan Zhenzhen, who lived next door and had gotten married on the same day, had been reborn. And not only had she been reborn, she had also gained a golden finger: by binding herself to someone, she could siphon off that person's luck. The more misfortune that person suffere
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The Phoenix Girl of the 1990s 九零年代凤凰女
Coming soon: The Darling of the 1980s, part of the Compound series. Blurb 1: The Xia family has four daughters, each more beautiful than the last, and all top students. But because they have no son, the villagers mock them as a family doomed to die out. The heroine wakes up as Xia Qing, the third daughter of the Xia family in a novel. She saves her mother, who tried to kill herself by drinking pesticide, helps her maternal uncle get his medical expenses and compensation, and opens a small shop
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Raising Kids as the Eldest Sister-in-Law, 1970s 七零之炮灰长姐养娃记
[Check out my author profile for several completed stories set in the past, including food stories.] Le Wan transmigrates into a book, becoming a disposable character in a period story about a beloved family. There are six other disposable characters like her in the book. Unfortunately, they're all her siblings. Her mother, Wang Guihua, gave birth to a whole string of gourd babies. They suffer domestic abuse, have their admission notices stolen, are driven to their deaths by rumors, disappear a
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