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Books by 禄尔夫
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She Stands High Above the City Lights, While I Linger Low in the Sea of People 她在灯火高处，我在人海低处
Shen Yan has lived in this city for twenty-seven years. She has lived in partitioned rooms, eaten the cheapest takeout, been blamed for her coworkers' mistakes, and been berated by her boss until she hid in the restroom. She is used to making herself as invisible as possible, to never inconveniencing anyone, to carrying everything alone. That day in the conference room, she stood in the farthest corner with a stack of documents in her arms and watched Su Qingyuan walk in. A black suit, hair m
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The One Who Watched the Seasons Pass for You 替你看完四季的人
When Lu Zhiheng receives his diagnosis, he and Su Wan have already promised to spend all four seasons of the year together. Spring cherry blossoms, summer night breezes, autumn leaves on the mountains, tea by the winter stove: they have so many small, tender hopes for the days ahead. Illness cuts short his path to the future. Afraid to tell the tenderhearted Su Wan, he secretly records audio messages for an entire year and entrusts his childhood friend Jiang Yi to send them to her on schedule. S
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The Lantern by the Bridge Shines Only Until the Ghost Festival 桥边灯笼，只亮到中元
There's a Lantern Bridge over the old city river, and it lights up for just one night each year, during the Ghost Festival. When the lanterns glow, the barrier between the living and the dead briefly opens, letting the living meet departed souls once. At the hour of the tiger, the rooster crows, the lanterns go out, and the living and the dead part, never to meet again. Shen Yu has been waiting here for Wen Sui for three years. Wen Sui died in a car accident and went to the underworld, where sh
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Waiting for the Sunflower to Turn Toward Last Night 等待向日葵转向昨夜
On the western slope of a small southern town lies a field of sunflowers that turn the wrong way. Legend says that anyone consumed by an obsession can step into the sea of flowers and return to yesterday. Seventeen-year-old Shen Sui loses Chen Yan forever after a thunderstorm. She stumbles into the strange sunflower field and gets her wish, returning to the day before the tragedy. But time sets a cruel rule: she cannot change the outcome of his death. Each time she goes back, she gains only one
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The Cherry Blossom Postman Doesn't Deliver to the Afterlife 樱花邮差不投递来世
A secluded mountain shrine has, for generations, passed down the role of messenger of remembrance. A boy with spirit sight can see souls lingering in the human world. He delivers letters written by the living to the dead, carrying their love and longing across the boundary of life and death. The shrine has an ironclad rule: its messenger must never fall for a client. If he does, his spirit sight will gradually fade, and he will never see souls again, losing his calling as the ferryman of remembr
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August Tides, the Letter I Couldn't Send 八月海潮，没能说出口的信
Every midsummer, Lu Yu heads to the seaside town of Lanyu to spend a short summer vacation at his grandmother's house. At the fishing harbor, he meets Shen Zhixia, a girl working at a general store. The sea breeze, the rocks, the shallows left behind by the receding tide, and the seashells that hold their secrets become something uniquely theirs. The two teenagers understand each other without a word, quietly guarding their budding feelings and never confessing outright. They write their little
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The July Promise Between the Pages 书页夹缝里的七月约定
An old copy of Leaves of Grass, kept at the old city library, becomes a secret letter spanning seventeen years. In July 1998, Shen Yan, a high school senior, does poorly on a practice exam. In the blank pages of an old book in the library's literature section, he pours out his feelings, thinking no one will ever know what he wrote. In July 2015, Yu Li, a girl who has transferred schools, spends her summer in the library. She accidentally finds the writing from seventeen years ago and replies. Th
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When the Rain Stops, We Become Guests to Each Other 雨停之时，我们互为访客
Seventeen-year-old Su Wan has a secret that only comes into play on stormy days. Whenever the rain pours, she briefly travels to an apartment ten years in the future, where she meets twenty-seven-year-old Lu Yu. The rain is a bridge between two points in time. As soon as it stops, the passage closes abruptly, and she has to return the way she came. There are no exceptions. As a boy, Lu Yu was quiet and shy, and the two of them barely knew each other. Ten years later, he lives alone in this apar
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The Echo of Sin 回声罪
The municipal public security bureau's review team handles cold cases that have already been closed. Shen Yan is skilled at dissecting people's hearts and catching the lies hidden in their testimony, but tragedies can easily overwhelm her. Her partner, Yan Yu, is an expert in logical trickery, calm and meticulous, and always able to keep Shen Yan from sinking into despair. One seemingly ironclad murder case after another conceals a carefully woven trap: a stopped clock tower used to falsify the
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Silent 无声
Everyone knows how terrifying a thunderclap can be, yet few realize that the most putrid, most impossible-to-avenge evils in this world are all hidden in silence. In Lingang City, Changhuai Avenue cuts the city in two. The eastern district is prosperous, the western district run-down. Beneath the polished surface lies a tangled web of crimes stretching back decades. A string of murders, each marked by a mysterious ritual, erupts one after another. Every killing corresponds to the despairing fina
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The Jade of Ten Years of Reincarnation 十年轮回玉
The day I quit was exactly the tenth anniversary of the day I fell in love with her. I was born in 1990. She was born in 1969, twenty-one years older than me. Divorced, she raised her daughter on her own. I often wondered if, had I been a man, I would have found the courage to confess my feelings long ago. But I wasn't, so I could only quietly hide this love, watching her from afar in the office and never daring to cross the line. Even if I stayed at the workplace, she would retire in two years
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One Thought Beneath the Palace Lantern, and I’ll Stay by Your Side Forever 宫灯一念，终伴君侧
A Wan, a low-ranking palace maid in the Laundry Bureau, caught a glimpse of Shen, a serene and solitary Noble Lady, in the imperial garden one spring evening, and fell for her. The palace was a place of rigid hierarchy, and the two were worlds apart. Everyone laughed at A Wan for dreaming above her station, but she refused to settle for admiring Shen from afar. She kept her feelings hidden, quietly endured and planned, worked diligently, and secretly memorized everything Shen liked. Little by li
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A Receipt from the Abyss 深渊回执
Seven years ago, a car crash on a rainy night brought the Shen family to ruin overnight. After lying low for seven years, Shen Yan returned to Jiangcheng as a risk assessment specialist. She carefully laid her plans, determined to expose the truth behind the old case that capital had buried. Lu Shiyan, head of the Lu family and a ruthless financial tycoon in the eyes of the world, bore the burden of an old sin alone. Everyone believed that he had covered up the accident to protect his younger
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The Ashen Bones Know the Years 烬骨知年
Emperor Xiao Heng dies in remorse amid the flames engulfing the palace, only to return to ten years earlier, burdened by his sins and consumed by bone-deep regret. In his previous life, he was deceived by treacherous officials, personally annihilated the entire Shen family of imperial censors, and forced Shen Zhiwei, the only woman he had ever loved, to drink poison. Now he has been reborn before his terrible mistake is made, before any of the tragedies have happened. But fate is cruel: only he
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In This World, Every Scoundrel Is a Lord 人间无赖，皆是王侯
Shen Wulai, a streetwise orphan, was born in the most wretched Mud Alley in the capital. He has no peerless martial arts, no powerful family to rely on, and only a pair of eyes that can see through people and the ways of the world. Skilled at turning circumstances to his advantage, he finds a way to survive even in seemingly hopeless situations. When he saves an elderly couple in the alley, he incurs the wrath of Lord Tiger, a gang boss in the west of the city. He goes alone to a banquet that i
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Half-Sweet, Bitterly Cold Land 半糖苦寒地
Linjiang's long winters often last half the year. Wind and snow seal the doors, and making a living becomes a struggle. Shen Yan remains on this frigid stretch of black earth. A hard orange candy is the only sweetness left in her life. Finding work depends on connections and favors. At home, there is nothing but endless demands. The small city lacks medical resources, while day after day the wind and snow squeeze ordinary people out of the space they need to survive. Through her phone screen, sh
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When the Snow Clears, the Sea Appears 雪尽见海
At forty, Shen Yan is trapped in the long, bitter winters of Northeast China. For half the year, heavy snow seals the doors. Time has worn her edges smooth. As a girl, she was timid and withdrawn, daring only to keep her unrequited love tucked away in her heart. One deep sleep later, it wasn't just her who was reborn. Her whole family crossed into a parallel universe together. At seventeen, she and her family settled in a seaside villa in the south. There was no frozen earth beneath her feet, a
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Ten Years in Tonghua: The Secret in the Drawer 通化十年：抽屉里的秘密
This isn't a one-sided, years-long secret crush. It's a mutual, unspoken affection that can only be hidden in the light of day. In the snowbound office of a bitter winter, I work alongside Sister Su. Between case files and manuscripts, day after day, feelings take root that we cannot speak aloud. A metal bookmark etched with fine cracks, a brief moment alone in the sealed archives on the basement level, countless exchanged glances and brushes of our fingertips. Every tenderness and every flutter
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Disenchantment 祛魅
Shen Zhe, a solitary boy from the mountains, has long lived with other people's incomprehension. One autumn morning, he meets Lu Zhaolie by a cliff. Lu Zhaolie sees through the loneliness hidden beneath his silence at a glance, and is willing to sit with him and look at the mountains, giving him an understanding he has never received before. Lu Zhaolie is naturally dazzling, yet arrogant and selfish to the core. He never plans to hurt Shen Zhe, but lets him place his whole heart in Lu Zhaolie's
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Smoke City 烟城
The protagonist enters an unfamiliar city called Yancheng and gets into a taxi winding through narrow, crooked alleys. Something about every street in the city feels eerie. Cars never honk, pedestrians are rarely seen in the alleys, doors and windows stay shut, and the air is heavy with the damp smell of mold. Here, reality and illusion keep intertwining. The cracks in the walls, the shadows, even the mottled old walls seem to possess a consciousness. A pervasive sense of being watched lurks in
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Twilight Letters from Luxembourg 卢森堡的暮色来信
At dusk in Paris's Luxembourg Gardens, Eve meets Leon on a bench beneath an oak tree, the same book open across both their knees. Their encounter, beginning between the pages, slowly unfolds in the golden twilight. They wander through the old city's lanes, drive through the night waiting for dawn, and walk together through autumn frost and falling snow. The stars carry their feelings for one another. Even when the world is cold, the love hidden deep in their souls will never fade. A tender, endu
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Ghost Market in Dead Man's Ravine 死人沟鬼市
In a remote village in northern Anhui lies Dead Man's Gully, a desolate slope strewn with graves. Since ancient times, there has been a taboo: on the night of the lunar month's last day, at midnight, never enter the gully or look at the red lanterns that appear on the hillside. When he was twenty, a young man, angry and defiant, broke into the graveyard late one night, only to stumble upon a ghostly night market at the third watch. People walked through the air, spirits with no shadows flocked t
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The Ferryman of Duling 渡陵人
Only after settling the forty-eight life-and-death pacts from Beishan did Shen Yan learn that all the old objects entrusted to him were burial talismans from ancient underground tombs. A strange nine-star-swallowing-the-moon pattern appeared at the bottom of the box, breaking the seals on forty-eight long-forgotten and deadly tombs. Every underground palace in the realm opened its doors to him. He became the last tomb-crossing guide in the world. With a protective bronze thumb ring and a sandalw
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The Ghost Market Behind the Mountain 后山鬼市
On a moonless night, at the third watch, the desolate clearing behind the mountain opens for business. The living go to the day market; the spirits go to the ghost market. The long street paved with bluestone is hung with ghastly white lanterns. The stallholders sit silently with their heads bowed, and every antique on their stalls is entangled in old karma. One night, the young Shen Yan ventures into the mountains to gather herbs and accidentally stumbles into the hidden market, a place known o
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The Jade Market of Ghosts 墟玉鬼市
For generations, the Shen family has guarded the main underground Ruins. Shen Yan had hoped to live a quiet life in the town's Huichun Clinic, gathering herbs and treating patients as an ordinary young man. But a midnight ghost market suddenly opens in the old locust grove west of town, swallowing the living one after another. The ghost market lies in the shadowy divide between the main and subsidiary Ruins, and every Yin entity's schemes are aimed at the black jade of the Abyss of Return bound
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The Yin Coffin Returns to the Abyss 阴棺归墟
For generations, the Shen family has served as guardians of the coffins along the Yin Vein, sworn by ancestral decree to protect an ancient coffin from the Abyss of Return that must never be opened. When I was sixteen, my grandfather died mysteriously at the ancestral grave. A bolt of heavenly lightning split the earth, and an empty black coffin appeared out of nowhere. At the bottom of it lay a figure identical to me. The moment it opened its eyes, a thousand-year-old deception began to unravel
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Souls Preserved in Ancient Murals, Returning Along the Silk Road 古壁留魂，丝路归年
Shen Yan was born able to hear the thousand-year-old stories sealed inside ancient objects. During an archaeological expedition to the Tuyugou Grottoes, he brushes the dust from a damaged Tang dynasty mural, and a woman in the painting, asleep for thirteen hundred years, quietly opens her eyes. A thousand grottoes hold a thousand souls. The longing of countless women sent west in political marriages, wives of frontier soldiers, and merchants who traveled far away was sealed in the pigments on t
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An Ancient Relic Bears My Longing, a Thousand Miles to Yanmen 古物载相思，千里赴雁门
A stone chamber deep within Mount Beimang lay sealed for two thousand years, containing thirty-eight ancient objects that held the souls of the dead. During a bloody battle at Yanmen in the Yuanhe era of the Eastern Han dynasty, the men of Mount Mang marched north to guard the passes and died for their country. Back home, the women sealed their boundless longing inside objects, waiting in silence. After archaeologists excavate the chamber, Shen Yan and his companions escort the artifacts a thous
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An Ancient Jade Buried in Frost, Waiting a Thousand Years for One Person 古玉沉霜千年等一人
Lin Yan, an archaeologist, was excavating a strange late Tang tomb on a barren slope of Mount Mang when he found no coffin or remains inside, only an ancient piece of Hetian jade marked with a crack. The moment his fingertip touched its surface, memories from a thousand years ago flooded his mind. Su Qingshuang, a noblewoman from an illustrious family, fell in love at first sight with Shen Yanci, a young border garrison officer. He promised to return and marry her, carving a piece of jade with
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Empty Breath 空息
Shen Yan, a legal consultant temporarily assigned to headquarters, only wants to quietly finish her project and leave on schedule. But late at night, in the empty executive office on the top floor, she runs into Lu Shiyan again and again. He wields great power within the company and has always been aloof and reserved, yet he harbors a quiet fondness for her alone. The distance of half a step, fingertips brushing as they pass, a figure waiting late into the night, words of concern pressed deep in
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Back to the Dusty Countryside: The Orphan Girl Who Farmed Her Way to Fortune 山野归尘：孤女种田富甲一方
A modern career woman transmigrates into the Great Yan dynasty and becomes Shen Yan, the eldest daughter of the Shen family in Qingxi Village, who is treated cruelly. Her original self was abandoned in a dilapidated house by parents who favored sons over daughters, left to freeze and starve to death. When she opens her eyes again, the woman within is Shen Yan, a person seasoned by the world. With a written severance of family ties, she leaves with nothing but the clothes on her back and puts dow
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Next Time We Meet, Let's Sit Down and Talk 下一次再见坐下聊聊天
You Li kept his feelings hidden for ten years and never spoke of them, from beginning to end. On the day he left his job, he quietly completed all the formalities, then deleted his crush and all his colleagues and friends from his contacts. He chose to make a clean exit, preserving the last shred of dignity between ordinary acquaintances. If they ever met again in the vast sea of people, they would probably be strangers, their eyes passing over each other as they pretended not to notice. A burni
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Tales of Country Plants and Trees 乡土草木记
Across the countryside of China grow countless plants and flowers that never make it onto the list of the ten most famous flowers. Hibiscus blooms by day and falls by night beside farmyard fences, wisteria drapes a corridor in purple clouds, hollyhocks stand quietly by courtyard walls, and hostas wait for the moonlight to release their delicate fragrance. From irises dancing by streams and Chinese violet cress spreading like mist across hillsides, to dandelions sending their seeds flying across
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The Lone Axe on the Cold River 寒江孤钺
In the final years of the Great Jing dynasty, the imperial court crumbled and warlords rose across the land. The Yuntai Sect, hailed as the foremost sect in the martial world, wielded authority over the jianghu, committing all manner of hypocrisy in the name of vanquishing evil and defending the righteous. Young Shen Yan, the sole survivor of the massacre of his village in Hanjiang, carried a deep blood feud. After learning the Hanjiang Yue technique from his master, he returned to his homeland.
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Dragonblood Burns the Heavens 龙血焚天
Three years ago, Chu Chen was Tianfeng City's most celebrated cultivation prodigy. Then he was suddenly afflicted with a cold poison, his meridians withered, and he became a good-for-nothing mocked by everyone. The eldest daughter of the Su family publicly came to break off their engagement, while his own clan members looked on coldly. He suffered every kind of humiliation. At the brink of despair, the dragon-shaped pendant left behind by his father suddenly awakened. The remnant soul of the Bla
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Weightlessness 失重
A seventy-year-old woman in a small city in Northeast China has never left her hometown. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2026, her son, who had gone to Shenzhen to make a living, suddenly lost his job, plunging the whole family into hardship. Her monthly pension of two thousand yuan became the family's only support in a time of crisis. She searched through every fare and chose the cheapest flight, nine days after National Day. For the first time in her life, she was about to board a plane and trav
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As the Flowers Bloom 如是花开
His family pushed him into a blind date. He went along with it just to get them off his back, never expecting that the person who would capture his heart at first sight wouldn't be the girl his age, but the elegant, composed woman accompanying her daughter, with the commanding presence of a host. A flower bloomed in his heart. The age gap and their different social roles stood between them, as did the weight of the world's judgment. This sudden attraction was a forbidden desire that should neve
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The Night in Ulaanbaatar 乌兰巴托的夜
Lu Chen crosses thousands of miles to the Mongolian Plateau, settling in Ulaanbaatar, at 47°55′ north latitude and 106°55′ east longitude. Nestled at the foot of Bogd Khan Mountain, with the Tuul River flowing slowly through it, this solitary city has four sharply distinct seasons. The brief spring breeze carries fine sand, the grasslands turn deep green in high summer, the hills are suddenly dyed gold in autumn, and the long winter freezes the snowy plains for thousands of miles. Half city lif
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Ali's Story 阿里的故事
The Ali Plateau, where Mount Kailash stands in quiet majesty. Tenzin, a herdsman whose family has lived on this land for generations, has taken over his forebears' yak caravan. He travels the ancient, winding pilgrimage route, hoping to complete the hundred circuits around the sacred mountain that his father never finished. Lhazhen, a doctor from Lhasa, is stationed at the Tarqin health clinic. Riding her motorcycle from one nomadic settlement to another, she protects the health of the people ac
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Frozen Apocalypse: I Stockpile the Granary and Wait for Salvation 冰封末日：我囤满粮仓坐等救赎
An unprecedented super cold wave swept across the globe. Temperatures plunged to minus seventy degrees overnight, water and electricity failed, and society collapsed. Su Wan was reborn seven days before the disaster struck and awakened a temperature-controlled storage space. She sold everything she owned to stockpile supplies, reinforced her doors and windows, and turned her home into a warm, sturdy safehouse, planning to ride out the frozen apocalypse alone in peace. With snowstorms raging, re
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The Shopkeeper Picked Up a Young Scholar 掌柜的捡了个小书生
On a snowy night when the mountain passes were blocked, Shen Yan found You Li outside her tavern, badly injured and with no memory. She ran the tavern ten miles from town on her own. Seeing that he had nowhere to go, she let him stay and help with the books and serving customers. You Li was gentle and learned, and helped her manage every aspect of the tavern. As they spent day after day together, affection quietly blossomed between them. She thought he was just a down-on-his-luck scholar, and th
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He Only Cried the Day I Burned Our Wedding Photo 等我烧掉结婚照那天，他才红了眼
Su Wan loved Lu Chen for ten whole years. She was willing to give up her dreams of painting and stay in their enormous, lonely home. She endured painful nights alone, watched one anniversary after another pass without the celebration she hoped for, and silently swallowed every grievance, only to be met with Lu Chen’s casual neglect. When Su Wan calmly handed him the divorce papers and walked away for good, Lu Chen assumed she was just throwing a tantrum. After the divorce, there was no longer a
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Letters of Plague 霍乱信笺
Shen Yan works in Changde and is dating Lin Xiaoxiao, a passionate, outgoing woman. Everyone says they're a perfect match who complement each other. Until one dinner, when he meets his girlfriend's best friend, Zhiyu. With her short, slightly wavy hair and quiet, reserved nature, she loves bookstores, coffee, Liuyue Lake, and sitting in silence at ancient temples. She's practically the female version of him. With just one glance, Shen Yan falls hopelessly in love. This love is forbidden from th
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With My Foster Father's Support, I'll Win Over My Beloved Mentor 义父撑腰，助我追恩师
For three years, Shen Yan, a third-year medical student, has kept his secret crush on his pathology advisor, Su Qinghe, buried deep in his heart. Held back by their teacher-student relationship and age gap, he is too timid and insecure to do anything but admire him from afar, with nowhere to place the feelings swelling in his chest. By chance, Shen Yan takes a part-time job as a caregiver, looking after Chen Linshan, a blind, retired military doctor who lives alone at the end of an alley in the
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The Sound of Books at the Ancient Ferry 古渡书声
Young Wang Ying accidentally wanders into an old bookstore deep in the old street and meets Granny Su, who watches over a room full of yellowing books. The two travel together to Linjiang's ancient ferry crossing, forgotten by the world, to watch the great river flow and the old locust tree stand firm. Through the seasons, from summer weeds and autumn reeds along the river to migrating geese and wild ducks among the rushes, they gradually uncover the stories hidden in this land. The ancient fer
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Chronicles of a Young Taoist in an Infinite-Flow World 玄门少年录无限流
Lin Yan, an ordinary boy, lost both his parents when he was young and was raised by his mortal relatives. He always thought he was just an unsociable, ordinary person. At eleven, an invitation on a jade tablet from Yunxiu Academy disrupted his quiet life. He learned that the world held practitioners of mystic arts, talismans, and sword-riding cultivators who could fly through the sky. Yunxiu Academy is a school of mystic arts with a thousand years of history, where each of its four branches exc
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After Three Years in Hiding, I Stole the City’s Tenderness in Changde 蛰伏三年，我在常德偷爱全城温柔
After his finances collapsed under a mountain of debt, he fled in humiliation from the frozen Northeast and headed south, taking refuge in the small, misty city of Changde. Morning fog drifted over the lakeside path around Liuye Lake. Hidden deep among the willows, he quietly watched a young woman named Su Wan. With nothing to his name, he didn't dare approach. All he could do was watch from afar, keeping his surging love buried deep in his heart. He made a vow: He wouldn't see her until he s
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Hollow Tenderness 空壳温柔
Shen Yan was an only child at the Academy of Fine Arts, living a carefree life. After her parents died in an accident, they left her a house and savings, and she had no family left in the world. Gentle and innocent by nature, she was used to showing kindness to everyone. When she saw the quiet, shy Lu Shiyan, she couldn't help feeling sorry for him and reached out to him first. Lu Shiyan was a gifted student who had come from the countryside. Quiet and reserved by nature, he seemed timid and wit
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Tooth Decay 龋齿
Life is like a cavity: rotten and painful. Chen Shu lives in an old apartment building in a room with no heating. The long winter is a dull, unrelenting ache deep in his tooth's nerve. There is no sudden, explosive disaster, only a torment that goes on day after day. Cold wind seeps through cracks in the walls, a thin blanket can't keep out the bone-deep chill, and the heating bill he can't pay and the money that barely covers his expenses are all parts of the cavity slowly decaying. Pain does
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Late Evening at the Vermilion Tower 朱楼晚
In the Yong'an Dynasty, the Ningguo Duke's residence is a sea of red-lacquered halls, where banquets and flower-viewing parties are held day after day, a vision of aristocratic splendor. Yet beneath the profusion of flowers, the estate's accounts are already deep in the red, storms are brewing at court, and between every household and courtyard, even casual conversation is full of weighing and choosing. Shen Qingci becomes the second wife of Lu Jingheng, the eldest son. After marrying into the d
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