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  1. 51 The Rules of the Children's Home 儿女家的规矩 Modern Romance178k WordsCompleted To help their children raise the grandchildren, a couple in their sixties were forced to live apart. From the day Zhao Youlin moved to the city to help care for his son's child, he became a “guest” in his son's home. A man from a small town, he couldn't fit into life in the big city. He had to speak softly, keep the TV muted, and even watch his son's expression before giving his grandson a piece of meat... Though Zhao Youlin was careful about everything, he still couldn't avoid falling into conf 11kReads8.6Score53414d adds
  2. 52 Fireworks on the Islet, Where People Make Their Homes, Starting in the 1970s 洲上烟火有人家,从七十年代开始 Modern Romance593k WordsCompleted [Rural Romance] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Teacher] [Neighborly Disputes] [Eerie Shadows in the Village] [Country Living and Laughs] This book has no pocket dimension, no System, and no transmigration or rebirth. It tells only of ordinary people’s rural lives and the hard-won warmth and bustle of everyday life through years of hardship. The story begins in the 1970s and follows several families living in the countryside. Among them are educated youths sent to work in the villages, militia mem 109Reads8.3Score—14d adds
  3. 53 What's Got You So Proud? 你牛什么牛 Urban100k WordsCompleted Also known as The Yueyue’s Terrible Mother-in-Law. Through the story of an unusually strong-willed woman’s life, this novel offers a profound look at the dialectical relationship between personality and fate. From many angles, it examines the rise of extreme feminism in contemporary society. It also gives serious thought to marriage and romance, raising children, and human relationships in the modern world. It offers important guidance for a new generation in the twenty-first century on developi 12Reads—Score—14d adds
  4. 54 Things That Happened When I Was a Kid 我小时候的事 Modern Romance158k WordsCompleted I really don't have much talent for writing novels. I simply pieced together people and events from my childhood, along with scattered fragments of memory and everyday trivialities, as best I could. It's like sewing a patchwork garment out of scraps of floral fabric: from a distance it looks colorful and busy, but up close the seams are obvious, and it never quite comes together. Even so, I weighed every word and poured my passion and love into it, because I wrote it for my daughter. 52Reads—Score—14d adds
  5. 55 Starting with a Demon Possession, I Become a Legendary Demon Hunter 从恶魔附身开始,成为传说猎魔人 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted “Time’s just about up. Your soul belongs to me now.” “And you say you’re not a demon!” … Yu Jin, who transmigrated into this world, unexpectedly gained the power to make contracts. By fulfilling a contract, Yu Jin can obtain fragments of souls to strengthen himself and forge all things. Determined to keep his body from decaying, Yu Jin sets out on the path to immortality. Evil spirits, witches, vampires, werewolves, colossi, Leviathans, Old Gods… Anyone who stands in his way is reduced to dust. 5.9kReads8.0Score50914d adds
  6. 56 The Freezer 冰柜 Modern Romance142k WordsCompleted In today's restless society, people's innate kindness can easily be lost amid rampant materialism. Sometimes, love and devotion are repaid with betrayal, or even death. Based on real cases, this book warns readers that the dark side of human nature is always present, and that desire and dissatisfaction can corrode even the deepest bonds. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 57 The Night Is Hungry, and There’s No Escaping His Possessiveness 夜色贪婪,逃不开他的占有 Modern Romance134k WordsCompleted After her fiancé and best friend joined forces to take everything from her, Su Xiaoran fell from the clouds into the mud. In her moment of despair, she stumbled into Gu Haifeng's arms. The man gripped her chin and said in a low voice, “From today on, you're mine.” The scumbag and the bitch? She'll make sure they lose everything and end up disgraced! As for this powerful tycoon? Su Xiaoran only wants to run, but he pins her in a corner, possessiveness overflowing. “Running? Where do you think you 614Reads—Score—14d adds
  8. 58 A Woman Named Chunxiu 一个叫春秀的女人 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period drama + everyday family life + marriage + building a career + personal growth] I married a state-owned enterprise worker, and after years of trying, I finally had a son. Then, just as my husband was sent to prison, my mother-in-law branded me a bringer of bad luck and threw me out of the house. Qiu Yue, widowed and bullied, and Wang Feng, tormented by domestic abuse, shared my fate. The three of us hard-done-by women joined forces, working, doing business, and opening a factory. We neede 9.3kReads8.1Score78414d adds
  9. 59 A Romance at a Shenzhen Factory 深圳工厂情缘 Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3kReads8.9Score22514d adds
  10. 60 The Guanshan Saber 关山刀 Historical86k WordsCompleted On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascended to Heaven. Yan Feilong's father did not come home. Three days later, his mother was found dead in the village temple, a wound in her stomach. The twelve-year-old boy slipped a chipped knife into his clothes and walked into the salt flats, looking for a man: tall and thin, with a mole on his chin. He found him. Three strikes. One for his father, one for his mother, and the last so he could go on living. His revenge was d 46Reads—Score—14d adds
  11. 61 The Fearless Frontier Soldier: From Death Row Camp to Marquis Champion 边军悍卒:从死囚营到冠军侯 Historical1.6M WordsOngoing Lu Chen was once a low-ranking soldier in a borderland death-row camp, someone who would not live to see tomorrow. He is forced into the tangled conflict between the Hexi frontier army, the grassland tribes, and the imperial court. With no illustrious background and no powerful patron to protect him, all he can do is climb up from the mud with a blade, sheer grit, and one military achievement after another. Snow and wind batter the border city, royal banners whip in the gale, and old debts and n 41Reads—Score10114d adds
  12. 62 The Great Pagoda Tree at the Village Entrance 村口那棵大槐树 Modern Romance374k WordsOngoing The 1960s: too few clothes and too little food! In remote Tianshui Village, everyone was struggling to stay alive! Every character is a vivid reflection of that era. They have no golden fingers and they don't transmigrate... so they can only fight tooth and nail against life and fate just to survive! Girls especially had a harder time of it in those days. Listen to the names: Dai Xiao, Huan Xiao, Zhaodi... You can tell at a glance they were named by parents hoping for a son. Back then, many girl 62Reads—Score—14d adds
  13. 63 Old Liu and His Daughter 老刘和他的女儿 Modern Romance108k WordsCompleted Lao Liu is an ordinary, down-and-out farmer with nothing to be proud of. But his ideas about raising his children are completely at odds with the mainstream. After 18 years of perseverance, his daughter has given him his proudest reason of all. Is he happy or unfortunate? Everyone probably has their own answer. 504Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 64 From the Start, I Had Bogang's Recipe, and Became the Hannibal of the Ghost World 开局波刚食谱,我成鬼界汉尼拔 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Supernatural]+ [Comedy]+ [Talismans]+ [Madman]+ [Unhinged antics]+ [Ensemble cast]+ [No female lead] Are supernatural beings scary? When you're up against the mountain demon Po Kong, getting eaten is pretty much inevitable. Can't get a bite out of them in human form? How about using the Monkey Talisman to turn them into animals? Too many ingredients to handle? No problem, I've got the Shadow Army to help out. The other side is too strong? No problem, I can still transform into a demon. Or one o 1.9kReads6.6Score16614d adds
  15. 65 Water Willow 水性杨花儿 Modern Romance2.4M WordsOngoing (The rating was just added and will rise. It's already going up!) Neighbor Guo Hongmei ran off with another man? What? That man is Yang Hua'er's husband, Zhao Dashan? Talk about gossip coming right back to bite you. They say nine out of ten people born in the Year of the Sheep are fated to have a hard life, but Yang Hua'er doesn't believe in fate. Even without a man, she can still make a warm and happy life for herself. 10.1kReads8.2Score65814d adds
  16. 66 The Newlywed Young Widow 新婚小寡妇 Modern Romance636k WordsCompleted In the winter of 1976, Li Yanmei was newly married when her husband died. Branded a “husband-killing” jinx, she was pregnant when her cruel in-laws threw her out with nothing. On a stormy night, she gave birth in a melon shed. Starving and freezing, she swallowed the slur “loose woman” along with her tears. For the little one in her arms, she wiped away her tears and turned humiliation into a stepping stone. She went from selling goods at a black-market stall to reclaiming land for farming, from 1.6kReads6.5Score11014d adds
  17. 67 The Plains' True Colors 平原底色 Urban116k WordsOngoing Beginning in the twenty-first century, this novel follows Fang Lizhu, a child of the post-80s generation growing up in the rural Jianghan Plain of central China. Through Fang Lizhu's education, work, and the many people he meets and events he experiences, the novel portrays how life has changed for people across the plains since the start of the new century. It also depicts the many ways ordinary people respond to sweeping changes in a new era and a shifting social landscape: the choices they ma 17Reads—Score11414d adds
  18. 68 Bankruptcy Is No Big Deal: I Still Own a Male Model Agency 破产不要紧,我名下还有家男模店 9k WordsCompleted Going Bankrupt Is No Big Deal. I Still Own a Male Model Club 13Reads—Score—14d adds
  19. 69 My First Love 我的初恋情人 Modern Romance164k WordsCompleted I met Yu on an early spring day. It was overcast and windy. He was passing by my house just as I came out of the yard. Our eyes met, and his lit up at once. He stopped in his tracks. My face flushed, and I lowered my head to look at my old cloth shoes, with my toes poking out. My family was so poor that my clothes were covered in patches. Yu didn’t seem to care about my shabby clothes. He kept walking, glancing back at my face. I didn’t know who he was or what he was doing in our village. But a 137Reads—Score714d adds
  20. 70 Online Game: My Health Bar Can Grow 网游,我的血条能成长 Sports922k WordsCompleted Kill a player, and your maximum HP increases by 5. Kill an NPC, and your maximum HP increases by 10. Take down a boss, and your maximum HP gets an extra 100. When Qin Wu finally beat the divine beast Phoenix to death after it had revived nine times in a row, the Phoenix couldn’t understand why this guy’s health bar was longer than all nine of its lives combined! 1.6kReads8.7Score11814d adds
  21. 71 A Ghost Knocked at Midnight, So I Tore Down the Door 半夜鬼敲门,我把门拆了 Urban162k WordsCompleted In an age of supernatural horrors, a knock from the ghost known by the codename “Knocking Ghost” suddenly sounds at Li Zhen's door. Trembling with fear, Li Zhen faces the System binding. “Ding! The best way to overcome fear is to face it!” Option One: Hide and tremble. Reward: None. Option Two: The best way to eliminate the supernatural is to face it head-on! Reward: Gain all of the Knocking Ghost's abilities! A gleam flashes in Li Zhen's eyes. With no way back, he bursts through the door to fac 7.3kReads8.8Score66314d adds
  22. 72 Green Vine 绿萝 Modern Romance201k WordsCompleted This book is for everyone who has ever waited. This is a novel about all the things left unsaid: not saying you like someone, not saying you are waiting, not saying whether it was worth it. But all those unspoken words are tucked inside candy wrappers, hidden in a tin box, and buried in the beeping sounds of a phone booth. The bravest thing Lin Dong ever did was not repairing that imported machine or saving enough for a down payment on a house with a courtyard. It was telling Su Xiyue, “It's t 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  23. 73 Shi Shun's Growth 石顺的成长 Modern Romance320k WordsCompleted About Growth At the foot of the Dabie Mountains, a young man named Shi Shun journeys forward, one step at a time. Over the first half of his life, he experiences sincere family affection, treasures friendships forged through hardship, encounters tender love, and strives to build an ordinary career. He grows from a naive, awkward youth into a steady and responsible man, tempering his character amid the everyday bustle of life and coming to understand what life means through the companionship of 4Reads—Score114d adds
  24. 74 Simulated Universe: I Became the Creator God in the Cultivation World 模拟宇宙:我在修真界当创世神 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse299k WordsCompleted Have you ever suddenly forgotten what you were about to do? Do you sometimes feel that someone is watching you from beyond the world? Have you ever felt, for just a moment, that your own name or the names of your loved ones were unfamiliar? Have you ever given something your all, only to always fall short at the very last step? Don't be afraid. It may not be your imagination. Your world might just be an AI simulator. And your life is a bug written badly by some lazy agent, which hasn't gotten ar 14Reads—Score—14d adds
  25. 75 Childhood in the Old Days 旧时光里的童年 Urban134k WordsCompleted The author recalls a rural childhood in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, during the 1970s and 1980s. The book describes rural life and the changes brought about by the household responsibility system in the early days of reform and opening up, along with the joys and hardships of the author’s childhood before the age of ten, major family upheavals, and the warmth and coldness of human nature. 39Reads—Score314d adds
  26. 76 At Dusk 人到黄昏 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Family love, romance, friendship, and neighborly affection. The ordinary, uneventful lives of everyday people; the changing times reflected in rural life; the differences between two generations in their views on elder care; and how the elderly and children of the new era should face the twilight years of life. 45.8kReads9.1Score4.2k14d adds
  27. 77 My Man Cheated with My Best Friend, and Now He’s Desperate to Win Me Back 男人出轨闺蜜,我转身他追疯了 7k WordsCompleted My Man Cheated with My Best Friend. I Walked Away, and Now He’s Desperate to Get Me Back 329Reads—Score414d adds
  28. 78 Demon Pill Elementary Schooler, Blows the Homeroom Teacher’s Mind from the Start! 魔丸小学生,开局炸懵班主任! Urban345k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted] [Funny] [Meme-filled] [Pure little devil] [No female lead] [Little Devil Squad] [The rating just came out, it'll go up later!] [New book: Little Devil High Schooler, Bullying My Dream Girl from the Start!] Jiang Feng is reborn in his elementary school days and is currently livestreaming a show called [Back to School]. But the viewers have noticed... Your childhood and mine don't seem to have been the same...? [Holy crap! This kid made explosives, blew up the hill behind his school 19.3kReads8.5Score2.1k14d adds
  29. 79 Northeastern China’s Absurd Cultivation: Nobody’s Reliable 东北沙雕修仙:全员不靠谱 Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsOngoing [Northeastern China Comedy Cultivation] [Lighthearted Humor] [Fantasy Xianxia] [Sword Cultivator] [System] [One Female Lead] [Nobody Has It Together] While everyone else cultivates by flying through the sky on swords, Lu Qingheng's very first day of cultivation ends with his ancestral sword case ordering him to go patch a wall. The old case won't give him divine arts, spirit stones, or an invincible cheat. It only smokes, spits out notes, assigns chores, and shifts the blame. [Beginner Quest: Pa 135Reads—Score—14d adds
  30. 80 An Elder Sister Is Both a Mother and a Father! 长姐如母,亦如父! Modern Romance1.4M WordsOngoing [A story set in a bygone era, with no transmigration, rebirth, or golden finger. Family life, rural romance, and a hard road to growing up.] Zhou Zimei thought she would soon marry her childhood sweetheart and fiancé. Then an accident happened, and she became what people called an old maid. Her younger siblings' tuition taught her everything she hadn't known how to do. The hardships of rural life, the warmth and coldness of human nature, and the struggle to keep growing... 42.8kReads8.2Score1.7k14d adds
  31. 81 Rust and Blossoms 铁锈与繁花 Modern Romance136k WordsCompleted 1990s + inspirational realism + female awakening + a determined comeback + making a life far from home + workplace transformation + family ties + sincere romance + friendly neighbors At seventeen, she never imagined that the peachwood talisman her mother pressed into her palm would accompany her through so many storms: from the crowded sleeper cars of a green train to the fluorescent-lit workshop of an electronics factory; from an old night-school building overgrown with ivy to the desk in her o 609Reads—Score—14d adds
  32. 82 The Spirit Medium’s Here! A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Flick It on the Forehead 出马!黄皮子讨封,我弹它脑瓜崩 Urban746k WordsCompleted A mostly story-driven tale, slightly spooky and a million times hilarious. [Spirit Mediums] [Humorous and Hilarious] [One Thrilling Moment After Another] [Not a Dull Moment in the Whole Book] After a breakup, the brash young Zhang Shitou gets drunk and runs into a weasel asking him to grant it a title. He thinks it’s just a big yellow dog. “Damn it, a good dog doesn’t block the road.” He goes right up and flicks it hard on the head. “Kid, quit flicking me. Look carefully, I’m the Yellow Immortal 15.3kReads8.8Score1.4k14d adds
  33. 83 Reborn in the 1960s: I Became Grandma’s Little Sister 重生六零:我成了外婆的妹妹 Modern Romance73k WordsOngoing [When an ordinary person is reborn in a rural village in the 1960s, forget about getting ahead or making grand plans. First, stay alive.] [1960s rural life + family and neighborhood affairs + education and growth + ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story, not a wish-fulfillment story. Please don't read if that's not your thing. Thank you.] When Zhu Yan wakes up in the body of her grandmother's second-youngest sister, who died young, she vows to change her grand —Reads—Score—14d adds
  34. 84 Middle Age, and My Marriage Is an Empty Shell 人到中年,婚姻只剩空壳 Modern Romance406k WordsCompleted From innocent young love to an unexpected pregnancy before marriage, she blundered into a marriage she’d never truly wanted. Before the wedding, her mother-in-law schemed constantly and was stingy, refusing to give even a penny in bride price. From the moment she entered the family home, she felt wronged and began to harbor resentment. After the wedding, her husband proved to be a complete mama’s boy: mediocre, unambitious, and incapable of taking responsibility. He did whatever his mother told 3.4kReads—Score16814d adds
  35. 85 A Servant with Heaven-Defying Comprehension: I Can Dismantle Every Cultivation Technique 杂役悟性逆天:我能拆解天下功法 Eastern Fantasy456k WordsCompleted Lin Yuan transmigrates to a world of cultivation and becomes the most inconspicuous menial disciple of the Tai Xuan Sect. While others painstakingly cultivate their techniques, he can spot their flaws at a glance. While others fight over inheritances, he can take fragmented texts, formation diagrams, alchemy recipes, and magical artifacts apart and rebuild them layer by layer. From the servants' quarters to the inner sect, from secret-realm palaces to the grand debate across the Nine Provinces, 127Reads—Score—14d adds
  36. 86 High Martial Arts: From the Start, Devour Everything to Become Invincible 高武开局:吞噬一切便可无敌 Urban195k WordsOngoing With the spiritual qi revival, ferocious beasts run rampant and cities enter an era of high martial arts. Ordinary teenager Chen Fan unexpectedly awakens the Devouring System and gains mastery of the Lightning Five-Strike Whip and Kun Fist from the start. The Lightning Whip is swift and crackles with thunderous force, its chained attacks impossible to defend against; Kun Fist is powerful and domineering, with explosive strength at close quarters. While others toil to master basic techniques, he 17Reads—Score—14d adds
  37. 87 I Just Wanted to Work Out. How Did I Become the Terminator? 我就想健个身,怎么成终结者了? Urban203k WordsOngoing [Scheming] [Face-Slapping] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Urban Fantasy] [Funny and Lighthearted] [Urban Superpowers] Others awaken superpowers: controlling fire, controlling electricity, making clones, flying. Jiang Sen awakens the power to turn you back into an ordinary person. Then he uses the muscles he has trained for years to have a “friendly” talk with you about life. Jiang Sen: “Powers? They’re nothing in front of me. Prepare to face my Lion’s Fist!!!” Awakened superpowers? All flash 55Reads—Score—14d adds
  38. 88 After I Transmigrate, I Talk My Way to a Trillion-Dollar Fortune 穿越后,我靠一张嘴忽悠万亿资产 Urban327k WordsOngoing [Humor] [Hilarious] [Comedy] [Ridiculous] [Pure wish fulfillment] [Later-in-life marriage] [Romantic farce] [Laugh till you drop] This book is also known as: "Hilarious Transmigration: Making a Trillion in Assets by Bluffing"! This is a no-brainer wish-fulfillment story that doesn't get hung up on logic or common sense. It's here to help busy working readers unwind, shake off fatigue, and add a little fun to life. Niu Xiaotian, a trillionaire CEO, transmigrates into the body of a low-level food 25Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 89 1980s Military Marriage: The Madcap Days of Jiang, the Cannon-Fodder Chef 八零军婚:炮灰江大厨的发疯日常 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period setting + pocket dimension + witty heroine + straight-man hero + scene-stealing kid Xie Yuanqing: Whatever you need, leave it all to me. Jiang Chang: Brother, you're such a great guy. How about we become sworn brothers? Xie Yuanqing: Why are you covering your nose? Jiang Chang: Bro, there's such a strong smell of the red-light district on you, it's choking me. Xie Yuanqing: You mean the smell of someone who's been traveling all day? Xie Yuanqing: Is my back smooth? Jiang Chang: That's 3.3kReads9.0Score41514d adds
  40. 90 The Dust of Mortal Life 尘事 Modern Romance194k WordsCompleted This book chronicles a family across a hundred years. An illiterate country woman is forced to abandon her newborn child, then wanders from place to place amid the chaos of a turbulent era, struggling to survive in the cracks. Told as a work of documentary fiction, this story depicts the joys and sorrows of several generations of an ordinary family, bringing a long-buried past to light. Let posterity decide who was right and who was wrong! 2kReads8.9Score18014d adds
  41. 91 The Old Grandmother of Yue Family Village 岳家庄的老祖母 Historical107k WordsCompleted [A grandmother builds a business + Yue Fei's family teachings + brotherhood] A mother's love makes her strong, and she becomes the soul of her clan. One mother's thirty-year flight lays the foundation for her family's six-hundred-year legacy. During the Hongwu reign of the Ming dynasty, Yue Guangyong, the thirteenth-generation descendant of Yue Fei, dies young in Tangyin County, Henan Province, where his family has lived for generations. He leaves behind his widowed wife, Yue Yushi, and their tw 610Reads9.3Score10414d adds
  42. 92 An Eighties Gofer Marries into a Family of Lovers 八零工具人嫁入恋爱之家 Modern Romance906k WordsOngoing I was one of the heroine’s many useful sidekicks, the one who walked three thousand kilometers to bring back a stone for her. If the heroine thinks it looks nice and wants it, she can have it. If that’s not enough, I’ll go pick up more. The heroine wants to use me as a foil, claiming city folk can’t compare to country folk, and educated people can’t compare to illiterates? Fine, you win! When my mother tried to brainwash me into being a sucker, I put a stop to it with one clean strike. My abusiv 5.3kReads8.0Score30914d adds
  43. 93 The Woman with Five Marriages 五婚女人 Modern Romance394k WordsCompleted Among contemporary Chinese literature's portrayals of rural women's lives, Zheng Guozhen's story grips readers with its astonishing realism and tragic depth. Through an ordinary rural woman's five failed marriages, this novel sketches the hardships of rural women's lives and inner worlds during China's social transformation in the 1990s. From an arranged marriage imposed by her parents to a self-serving union built on dependence on power, from an emotional wasteland scarred by violence to a brie 1.9kReads7.9Score24514d adds
  44. 94 Rural Sisters-in-Law 农村妯娌 Modern Romance739k WordsCompleted This is a story of war and peace between two women, and also a miniature epic chronicling the transformation of rural China from collectivization to the modern era. When the well in Liuxi Village was filled in and running water reached every home, the women who had once argued, wept, and whispered secrets beside that well proved through their lives that time can bury old grudges, and that a resilient spirit can blossom in the soil. 2.3kReads7.1Score26214d adds
  45. 95 Love Among the Mountains and Rivers 山水情 Urban2.7M WordsCompleted (Urban slice of life, inspirational growth, a nostalgic era, rich in detail) The beauty of mountains and rivers, the many faces of humanity, the fickleness of the world. The protagonist, Jiang Nan, knows right from wrong and values loyalty and affection. He grows from a poor boy who suffers humiliation into a fine young man admired by everyone. This story is grounded in real life, with family bonds, friendship, romance, and a deep love for his hometown. He leads the villagers to prosperity, ris 14.1kReads9.1Score1.5k14d adds
  46. 96 The Sun and Moon in the Steamer 蒸屉里的日月 Modern Romance324k WordsCompleted Set against the changes sweeping the northern countryside in the 1990s, this story follows an ordinary rural woman as she spends half her life juggling household chores, conflicts with her sisters-in-law, small business ventures, and her children’s education. With only an elementary-school education, she supports her family with her skill at making steamed buns, putting her son through college and helping him build a life of his own. She lives through the transition from earthen houses to brick 307Reads—Score—14d adds
  47. 97 The Human Feast: A Horror Banquet, Nine Heavens for a Corpse 人体盛宴:恐怖宴会——一个尸体的九重天 31k WordsCompleted A Feast of Flesh: The Terrifying Banquet: A Corpse's Ninth Heaven —Reads—Score—14d adds
  48. 98 The Rise and Fall of Boss Fan 范老板的沉浮人生 Modern Romance736k WordsCompleted This story follows 1980s entrepreneur Fan Chenhui through the ups and downs of the business world in Shenzhen. It explores real-world issues including financial crises, family conflicts, workplace rivalries, and tangled relationships, portraying human nature and the changes of the times in vivid detail. 116Reads8.2Score—14d adds
  49. 99 The Swallow Who Crawled Out of the Dark Abyss 从黑暗深渊中爬出的燕子 Modern Romance509k WordsCompleted Tell me, just how unlucky can one person be? Her own father married four women, and her stepmother treated her like a thorn in her side. In the prime of her youth, she was tricked by a villain and taken away. At long last, she found a little warmth and thought she’d found love, only for it to turn out to be another ill-fated relationship. She got married, thinking she’d found a home, but her life became a complete mess. And that wasn’t the end of it! One by one, all her loved ones disappeared... 95Reads—Score1114d adds
  50. 100 Tales of the Northeast: Women Who Climbed Over the High Walls of Grand Estates 东北往事之翻过深宅高墙的女人们 Modern Romance870k WordsOngoing In 1946, on the black soil of Northeast China, Chunxiang, daughter of tenant farmer Wang Mazi, marries Liu Laogen, the landlord's son. Her father receives several acres of good farmland and dozens of silver dollars as a handsome betrothal gift. She thinks she has married into wealth and will live a secure life as a young madam, but Liu Laogen has a hidden ailment, and their marriage proves to be one in name only. Chunxiang is determined to escape the prison that has trapped her, but her greedy f 55.2kReads8.7Score3.1k14d adds

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