Novels like Life in a Hutong: Zhang Min Doesn't Want to Be the Foil
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- 1 The Hidden Dragons and Crouching Phoenixes of Our Alley, Torn Apart 小巷之卧龙凤雏拆啦 In 1977, the cotton mill began assigning apartments again, and the lanes grew livelier by the day. A note from the author: This story reimagines the friendship between Song Ying and Huang Ling, and introduces new characters. I've watched the TV drama many times and have my own interpretations of some characters. A thousand viewers means a thousand perspectives. If you see things differently, it simply means we're looking from different angles. I will not whitewash Wu Shanshan. 1.2kReads—Score10914d adds
- 2 Film and TV Crossover: A Retired Workhorse Back on the Job 综影视之退休牛马在就业 Ning Xi, a retired former corporate wage slave and a star employee of the “Male Protagonist Department,” has barely started living a laid-back life when the Lord God resorts to threats and inducements to force him back into service. He is now the “Film and TV Department Supervisor.” With System 10083, nicknamed Xiao 33, he travels through various small worlds based on film and television shows. World 1: A Lifelong Journey (Wu Shanshan’s older brother) World 2: Empresses in the Palace (Wenyi) Wor 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 A Lane-Side Family: Stealing My Best Friend's Brother 小巷人家之撬走闺蜜他哥 This is a story inspired by the hit drama A Lifelong Journey, continuing the original story: a warm tale set in the 1980s in the staff housing compound of a cotton mill in Suzhou, centered on the Lin, Zhuang, and Wu families and the people around them. Original character: Lin You'an (In the original story, Zhuang Tunan always cared about his mother and younger sister early on, but when he got to high school, he suddenly became “cold”? I don’t think that’s the Zhuang Tunan I had in mind. So I’ve 227Reads—Score10114d adds
- 4 Life in the Alley: From Bus Driver to Business Tycoon 小巷人家：从班车司机到商界大亨 Under the blazing summer sun, wood shavings fly everywhere! The moment Xiang Pengfei opened his eyes, he discovered he had transmigrated into the world of A Lifelong Journey, where he was currently working for free for Foreman Liu! His good friends Zhuang Tunan and Lin Dongzhe had both become college students, while he could only be bullied by the foreman! Just as Xiang Pengfei was lamenting his lot in life, a prompt suddenly sounded in his ear! “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have bound the S —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Eldest Son of the Zhuang Family in the Old Neighborhood Is Different Now 小巷人家之庄家长子不一样了 On the day Grandpa died, Grandma was still trying to cause trouble. She said I was the eldest grandson of the Zhuang family and should help Zhendong and Zhenbei. Fine, if sucking my dad dry wasn’t enough and they wanted to suck me dry too, then let’s get straight to it: I’ll flip the table. Then a flash of white light suddenly appeared. Holy crap, I’d actually gone back to the bus ride from my childhood, when we were getting ready to celebrate Grandpa’s birthday. Well, this is great. They want m 1.6kReads—Score14114d adds
- 6 Life in the Alley: Cast Off by the Zhuang Family, Adopted by the Lin Family 小巷人家：庄家弃女，被林家收养 Lin Nian'an opened her eyes and found she had transmigrated to 1977, becoming the eldest daughter of the Lin family in A Lifelong Journey. But the Lin family had taken her in, and her adoptive parents and younger brother put her first in everything. They treated her even better than if she were their own. Then Lin Nian'an saw the woman who had abandoned her all those years ago: Grandma Zhuang! That was when she learned the truth. She was actually the daughter of Zhuang Chaoying and Huang Ling, a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Neighborhood: Childhood Friends in Love 小巷人家之竹马绕青梅 The cotton mill converted an alley into dormitories for its workers, and three families moved into the far end of the lane. The resumption of the college entrance exams, reform and opening up, family squabbles, and the everyday bustle of life in the alley. And also... him. In an era of both opportunity and challenge, the three families weathered the ups and downs of the changing times. The older generation each sought their own way forward, while the children worked hard to build a future. Famil 842Reads—Score10314d adds
- 8 The Girl from the Alley: Shanshan’s Daughter 小巷人家之姗姗的女儿 This novel is a continuation of the TV series A Lifelong Journey. The heroine is Liu Tong, Shanshan's daughter, and the hero is Xiang Yang, son of Xiang Pengfei. Childhood friends who grew up together, they overcome the grudges between their parents' generations and ultimately marry happily. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Alleyway: A Sequel 小巷人家续 A continuation of the family stories of the Zhuang and Lin families from the television series The Longest Promise. After marrying, Zhuang Xiaoting and Lin Dongzhe are busy with their careers. They constantly argue over all sorts of family matters. How will they manage the balance between work and home? Although Zhuang Chaoying has changed a lot in his unquestioning obedience to his parents, their unreasonable demands still force him to find a way to balance his family and his parents. Can he ha 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 10 The Lane: Getting Rich by Taking Down Scumbags in a Period Novel 小巷人家：我在年代文里虐渣暴富 [A Little Alleyway Family + period setting + fan fiction + face-slapping + System] Zhuang Tuyuan transmigrates with a System that lets him punish scumbags and get rich, becoming the eldest grandson of the Zhuang family in A Little Alleyway Family. He is a character who doesn’t exist in the original story: the foolish son of Zhuang Chaoying and Huang Ling, and the foolish older brother of Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting. In that extraordinary era, he experiences the warmth and kindness, love and —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Lane: A Fresh Start 小巷人家：全新开始 She thought she had simply transmigrated to the end of the 1970s, but it turned out she had entered a TV drama. What kind of story will Shen Yunqian, a character who never appeared in the show, bring to the alley? What kind of bonds will she form with the characters? Join us in the alley as we savor the many facets of the protagonist’s life, experience a different kind of everyday warmth, and embark on a brand-new story... 1.2kReads5.3Score—14d adds
- 12 The Half-Closed Door at the Lane's End 小巷人家半掩扉 My new work 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! 384Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Perfect Life Across the Worlds of Film and Television 综影视之圆满人生 A collection of stories set across various TV dramas, written for my own amusement. I always have lots of ideas while watching shows, so now I want to try writing them down. My writing is still rough. If you don't like it, feel free to move along. You can skip the first two worlds, since they aren't very well written. Tentatively planned: The Story of a Noble Family, The Return of the Condor Heroes, The Legend of Sword and Fairy, Boys Over Flowers, My Sunshine, Romance in the Alley... 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Alley: From the Start, I'm Flipping the Table 小巷人家开局就要掀桌子 Zhuang Peifeng glanced at Zhuang Tunan beside him. “Get down on your knees. An elder brother is like a father.” Zhuang Tunan didn’t want to, but he was intimidated by this brother, who was only a few minutes older than him, so he obediently knelt down. Zhuang Peifeng wasn’t from this era. He had transmigrated here, so why should he be afraid? He didn’t bother showing the old man of the Zhuang family any respect. If Zhuang Chaoying tries to hit me, my mom will divorce you. Let’s see what you can 313Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Transmigrating into the Alleyway: Zhang Min 穿越小巷人家张敏 (A story about Zhang Min from My Own Swordsman, rewritten after she transmigrates ✍) Modern office worker Zhang Min wakes up one morning and discovers she’s transmigrated into My Own Swordsman as Zhang Amei’s daughter, Zhang Min. What should she do? Make the best of it. I don’t like the Zhuang family or Wu Shanshan in the original story. There’s a reason some people suffer misfortune. Wu Shanshan may have lost her mother when she was young, but Zhang Amei never mistreated her. She didn’t leave h 128Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 The Enchanting Splendor of the Little Alley 小巷人家之灼灼其华 [Screen Adaptation + Rebirth + Original Male Lead] What should you do if you transmigrate into a TV drama? Yao Hua will tell you: do whatever you would normally do. Who cares if it’s a TV drama? It’s your life. In her previous life, she was born with an incurable illness and died far too young, at fourteen or fifteen. Reborn with a healthy body, she decides to enjoy life to the fullest and make up for all the things she missed in her previous life. 264Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Lane: I Become Huang Ling, Starting with Her Confinement 小巷人家：穿成黄玲从坐月子开始 (A Little Alleyway in the South + period setting + storage bracelet + everyday life) (Huang Ling tears the Zhuang family apart) You good-for-nothings of the Zhuang family, just watch how I deal with you! You think you can push me around, Huang Ling? Dream on! You want me to wait on you? Not a chance! Come see how this new Huang Ling brings the old Zhuang family to heel! A different Huang Ling, living life with a whole new flair!!! This story will show you a different side of Huang Ling!! It’s go 1.4kReads8.0Score10914d adds
- 18 Quick Transmigration: Billions of Splendor, a Wage Slave’s Solo Quest 快穿之亿亿生辉：牛马的独美任务 You only lost a leg, while Ziling lost half her life and the love of her life. Lin Mai was an overworked modern-day wage slave who died suddenly from working overtime. This is the first world the wage slave transmigrates into. As soon as she receives the memories, she finds herself confronted with something this explosive. Modern workers transmigrate to various small worlds to fulfill the wishes of their protagonists and supporting characters. After the fifth world, she returns to real life, the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Transmigrated Into a Melodrama: I Turn the Whole World Upside Down 穿进狗血剧：反手掀翻全世界 Lin Qing transmigrates into all kinds of melodramatic TV dramas, from Huang Ling, the mistreated wife in Romance in the Alley, to the orphaned child of a martyr adopted in The Love Story, and then to the long-suffering sister-in-law in A Mother Should Marry. But who is she? A modern, independent woman who believes that kind people get bullied! As Huang Ling, she exposes the family's favoritism in front of everyone, leaving her husband and in-laws eating out of her hand. As an orphan, she is show 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Little Alleyway Family: I Am Song Yi 小巷人家之我是宋怡 My new work is out! 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 each story well! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Across Film and TV: The Male Leads, Look This Way 综影视之男主看过来 Chen Chen is always waking up in different scenes: hot cocoa on a snowy street in a Korean drama, an evening breeze in the alleys of an old TV series... She has met Min Min, the perfect male lead, and Lin Dongzhe, whose eyes hold nothing but her. Whether love or companionship, both are warmth steeped in time. This quick transmigration journey has no fixed script, only sweetness slowly unfolding in each world. The male lead changes, and the romance takes different turns. Heartwarming and healing, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 In the Old Alley, Childhood Sweethearts Come of Age 小巷人家，青梅熟了 The Lin family doesn’t support the Zhuang family, and the two families aren’t particularly close. I’m breaking up the Wolong and Fengchu pairing. It feels like the Zhuang family looks down on Lin Dongzhe. I really like this drama, so I’ve decided to write my own version. 5.3kReads5.7Score43214d adds
- 23 Lane House: My Dream of a Perfect Life 小巷人家：圆我美满梦 [Original male and female leads!!] [The canon pairing will stay together! The more I watch, the more I feel the show already had a very happy ending. I will definitely change what happens along the way!] [Wu Shanshan doesn't like Zhuang Tunan! She won't turn evil!] Synopsis: Yue Shi, an orphan from the twenty-first century, dies while bravely helping someone and transmigrates to the 1970s. It turns out she has earned enough good karma to be chosen for a second life. This time, she has friends by 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Lane: I Became Huang Ling and Chose to Live Alone After Divorce 小巷人家：穿成黄玲离婚自己单过 [A Little Alleyway House fanfic + period setting + face-slapping + System + pocket dimension + daily life + invincible protagonist + feel-good power fantasy] Huang Ling, a modern woman, transmigrates into Huang Ling from A Little Alleyway House, on the very day after she marries Zhuang Chaoying. Heavens, am I supposed to make life hell for the Zhuang family? Since I’ve been given the chance, I might as well torment the Zhuang family a thousand times over! You think I’ll cook and wait on you? Dre 319Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Lane's Neighbors: Reborn, I Completely Transform My Life 小巷人家：重生后我爆改人生 Wu Shanshan opened her eyes and found herself back in the familiar alley by the cotton mill. In her past life, she never fought for anything and only wanted to study hard and leave home with her younger brother. She let her biased stepmother bully her, never imagining that her college application would be changed and her life would hit rock bottom. Heartbroken and despairing, she could only throw herself into the river. Thankfully, fate had left her a way out. She had returned to the time before 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Quick Transmigration: Starting with Life in a Small Alley 快穿，从小巷人家开始 An independent female lead, an independent female lead, an independent female lead! It bears repeating three times!!! The heroine may be a different person in each world, and the worlds may also be connected. World One: An original heroine in A Lifelong Journey, paired with Lin Dongzhe. World Two: An original heroine in The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, paired with Zhang Qiling. 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Alley: The Six-Year-Old Lucky Charm Silences Her Biased Grandparents 小巷人家：六岁锦鲤怼懵偏心爷奶 Zhuang Xiaoming transmigrated to the 1980s and became the youngest son of Huang Ling and Zhuang Chaoying, as well as Zhuang Xiaoting’s twin brother. In this era of scarcity, Zhuang Xiaoming realized he was incredibly lucky: every day, he found small-denomination bills and ration coupons on the road. When his grandparents bullied his mother and squeezed the family dry, Zhuang Xiaoming refused to put up with it and chose to fire right back at them. From then on, a lucky charm appeared in the house —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 A Neighbor’s Tale: The Zhuang Family’s Daughter Is a Total Oddball 小巷人家：庄家女儿是颠精 [The blurb may lack flair, but the story makes up for it with satisfying payback] Zhuang Xiaoting spent three years in a sanatorium. At long last, she regained her freedom and got to go home. After enjoying just three days of bliss, she unexpectedly transmigrated to the 1970s, into the body of a quiet, timid little girl with a mind of her own. Her father blindly obeyed his parents, her grandparents played favorites, and her older brother stayed neutral. There was hardly a decent person in the fa 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 29 A Family of Four Transmigrates into The Lane House 一家四口穿越到小巷人家里 [The whole family transmigrates + takes on the old man + dotes on his wife] The story follows the TV drama's plot, though it won't be exactly the same. If that's not to your liking, please leave. Thanks. A family of four is watching the hit TV drama A Lifelong Journey in the Alley. They are furious with Zhuang Chaoying, and after falling asleep, the whole family encounters an unreliable System that lets them experience life in the show. Before Xiao Qi can finish explaining, it disappears... The —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Lane Called Home: I Became Huang Ling and Took Down the Zhuang Family 小巷人家：穿成黄玲，我干翻庄家 Huang Ling is a sanda coach who loves binge-watching dramas. One night, she stays up late watching A Lifelong Journey, cursing at the screen as she goes. The lack of sleep and the stress prove too much, and she suddenly dies. Her soul leaves her body and gets bound to a Face-Slapping System. She transmigrates into Huang Ling, rewrites the ending, and sets everyone’s minds free! 97Reads—Score12014d adds
- 31 A Lane: I Got a Life Script and Started Cheating 小巷人家：拿到人生剧本后开挂了 Transmigration + feel-good fiction + face-slapping + awakening A girl doesn’t need to eat so well? I, Zhuang Xiaoting, refuse to be anyone’s doormat. I’ll flip the table and take charge! “If you don’t behave, your dad will leave your mom? Who wants your family anyway? If she gets divorced, I’ll be glad to take a different last name!” On the road to success, they try to use “filial piety” to blackmail her into sharing the spoils? Zhuang Xiaoting smiles sweetly as she strikes back, leaving a group 174Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 32 The Alley: Creating a Happy Family of Five Through Comics 小巷：从画漫画开始创造五好家庭 A modern comic artist with a terminal illness dies and transmigrates into the TV drama Romance in the Alley, becoming Zhuang Ganmei, a character with little screen time who nevertheless left a strong impression on the audience. As the saying goes, parents are the dragons of the household, and the one they favor most is usually the biggest coward. In the TV drama, Zhuang Ganmei is exactly that: the biggest coward in the family. He's the youngest son and his parents' favorite, with the entire Z 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The People of the Alley: Twice the Happiness 小巷人家：幸福加倍 A fresh start to the new year: no violent streak, just a laid-back story about everyday life and raising a family. No pocket dimension, no System. After being reborn here, asking for those too would be shameless. One more thing: this book is about cultivating virtue within and ruling with strength without. So don't go on about whether Lin Wufeng is a bleeding heart. To him, it's just charity. No matter how awful this person is, he's still closer than an outsider! He shows compassion to his own, 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 A Lane in the City: I Became Xiang Pengfei 小巷人家我成了向鹏飞 He transmigrated to the early 1980s and became Xiang Pengfei, a tragic figure from the small alleyway. With over forty years of knowledge ahead of his time, in an era full of opportunities, Xiang Pengfei rode the winds of change, with money in his left hand and a beauty in his right. 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Life in the Alley: Reborn as Wu Shanshan, I Rise to the Top 小巷人家：穿成吴珊珊开启逆袭 At the family compound of a cotton mill in Suzhou, Old Wu had been raising a son and a daughter by himself. At the urging of his coworkers, he married Zhang Amei, turning a family of three into a family of five. Blended families always have more conflicts than ordinary ones. As the saying goes, once there's a stepmother, there'll be a stepfather too. But Zhang Amei was especially domineering toward her stepchildren. Wu Qian was so enraged by Wu Shanshan's ungrateful behavior that she accidentall 218Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Alleyway Lights and the Time We Shared 巷巷烟火与我的时光 The rating just came out. I don't know if it'll go up... It probably will. A note before we begin: Lin Dongzhe will not end up with Zhuang Xiaoting. The female lead will have her own pairing later on. This world runs on personal connections, and when certain matters involve the Zhuang family, they can affect the female lead's own interests too. In my view, some of her actions are proactive, not simply a matter of always taking the Zhuang family's side. Now for the actual synopsis: After an accid 1.7kReads6.8Score11314d adds
- 37 The Lin Family of A Lane, Unlike the Rest 小巷人家不一样的林家 A transmigration sends Dong Xin to a world where she becomes Dong Zhe’s twin sister, a character who never existed in the TV series. Watch her change the lives of Dong Zhe and Xiao Ting, that pair of troublemakers, in the 1970s, and help her parents join hands to build a bright future. This is Caicai’s first time writing a book, and I typed every single character on my phone. If you don’t enjoy it, you can always stop reading. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand readers’ eyes, and everyo 418Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Alley: Wu Jianguo's Extraordinary Life 小巷人家：吴建国的妖孽人生 No System + a strong nation through science and technology + helping a daughter succeed + courtyard life. He transmigrates into Wu Jianguo from A Lane in the Alley. When he wakes up, his daughter Wu Shanshan is about to take the high school entrance exam. Wu Jianguo firmly supports her going to high school and then college. Zhang Amei disagrees, so they might as well get divorced. After the divorce, Zhang Amei watches Wu Jianguo’s life flourish. First, he becomes a self-employed business owner, 95Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Alley: With Jiaoyang by Dongzhe's Side, I'll Avoid the Same Mistakes This Life 小巷：骄阳伴栋哲，今生不覆辙 Lin Zhiyao, a top-ranked space-time mission agent, receives an unusual request for an unpaid mission. It comes in the form of a tear-stained letter from Lin Dongzhe, now old and frail, in the small world of A Home in the Alley. After reading his regret-filled letter, Lin Zhiyao agrees to take on the mission and identifies three things she believes matter most. First, Lin Dongzhe wants someone to become the love he can never let go of before Zhuang Xiaoting does. Second, he wants to change himsel 503Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Alley: From Small-Town Adopted Son to National Academician 小巷人家：从小镇养子到大国院士 Zhuang Fan transmigrates to A Lane for Families in the late 1970s, where Huang Ling takes him in as her adopted son. “Make my mom or my little sister unhappy, and I'll make your life a living hell, you old geezer!” “What? You threaten me and still won't let me study?” “I've got the top-student System, and I already wish I had more time to read!” Luckily, he awakens the [Super Top-Student System]. As long as he studies, he earns rewards. [Ding! Read The Four Great Classical Novels: literary talen —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Alleys: Secretary Zhang Is Eager to Rise Through the Ranks 小巷人家：张书记太想进步了 This is too funny! I transmigrated as an insignificant secretary, and when I couldn't slack off, I had no choice but to become a big shot. Can you believe this, folks? Zhang Tiezhu only stole a little meteorite, hoping to make a fortune. But before he could spend a single cent, he transmigrated. At first, he just wanted to coast through life, eat well, do a few good deeds, and wait to go back. Then he realized that in this era, they won't let you live in peace! They bully you! They beat you with 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Alleyway Family: A Lovely Daughter in the Lin Family 小巷人家：林家有姝 A fanfic of A Love for Dilemma The Lin family has a daughter now, and Lin Dongzhe has an older sister. Song Ying no longer has to pour all her love for a daughter into the girl next door. This is a different kind of warmth and bustle in the little alley. The Lin family won’t be supporting the Zhuang family. The Wolong-Fengchu pairing has been broken up, so please read at your own risk if that bothers you! 1.5kReads5.0Score10114d adds
- 43 Everyday Life in a Little Alley 小巷人家家长里短 In the early 1980s, in Jixiang Alley in Songpu Town, on the banks of the Songhua River, lived a group of ordinary people whose lives were full of everyday warmth. Liu Shucheng and the Yang family, the He family, and the bachelor Sun Mufeng all shared intertwined lives filled with laughter and tears. Liu Shucheng’s family had mixed feelings about moving after being assigned a new home, while Yang Ying was displeased by the arrival of her husband’s elder sister. He Xiu raised her child alone; life 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Our Lane: My Lovable Childhood Nemesis 小巷人家：我的冤种竹马 When Zhuang Xiaoting first learned the meaning of “childhood friends,” she and Lin Dongzhe were already at each other’s throats. They avoided one another whenever they could, and the slightest provocation was enough to start a fight. Lin Dongzhe was half a year older than her. One was born at the tail end of spring, the other in the height of summer. You would think their personalities would be as different as gentle and passionate, but she never imagined Lin Dongzhe would turn out to be such a 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Huang Ling Marries Lin Wufeng and Is Spoiled Rotten After the Wedding 黄玲嫁给林武峰，婚后被宠上天 After being reborn, Huang Ling decisively leaves Zhuang Chaoying, the dutiful son who blindly obeys his parents, and throws herself into Lin Wufeng’s tender embrace. This senior engineer pampers her like a princess: he carries her through puddles on rainy days, always brings her hot milk tea when he picks her up from night shifts, takes care of every chore so she never has to lift a finger, and even makes sure the pastries she casually mentions wanting are on the table the very next day. No cold 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 A Little Alley House: The Summer of 1979 小巷人家之1979年的夏天 Pairing: Lin Dongzhe In the summer of 1979, Gu Qingning had to stay at her maternal uncle’s home in Suzhou because her parents had been assigned to work elsewhere. In this city, she found family, friendship, and love. P.S. The original work’s timeline is somewhat muddled, and its school system differs from today’s. A few changes: 1. Primary school lasts six years, middle school three years, and high school three years. Tunan attends high school for two years. 2. Xiaoting is three years older tha 1.2kReads—Score10314d adds
- 47 After Becoming Huang Ling, I Worked Like a Pack Mule in A Place Called Xiaoxiang 穿成黄玲后，我在小巷人家当牛马 A Little Alley fanfic + major rewrite + period drama + slice of life + a little comeuppance + food In 2025, Huang Ling, a corporate drone, worked overtime at the company for a whole week straight. Then, on the day she was supposed to collect her paycheck, she suddenly died at work. When she woke up, she found herself in a cramped room with two skinny kids calling her Mom. She asked their names and learned they were Zhuang Tunan and Zhuang Xiaoting. Oh no, the sky had fallen. It had really fallen 220Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Life in the Alley: Becoming Zhuang Tunan's Younger Sister 小巷人家之成为庄图南的妹妹 A little courtyard in the family housing compound of a cotton mill in Suzhou: two households, three meals a day, and the changing seasons bringing everyone together. Wisps of cooking smoke rise, filling the air with the warmth of everyday life. Zhuang Xiaoyu, a recent college graduate with no job and nothing to do, was at home after staying up until four in the morning, furiously commenting on her phone about Zhuang Tunan’s family after watching A Love for Dilemma. Her body couldn’t take it anym 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 A Shanshan Glimmer: A Little Alley Household Fanfic 小巷人家同人之珊珊微光 An ordinary woman from the 21st century transmigrates into the neighborhood of Xiaoxiang Alley and becomes Wu Shanshan, where she finds a beautiful love. The heroine isn't assertive; she's an ordinary person with an average IQ. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Lane House: Another Kind of Life 小巷人家：另一种人生 A fanfic of Homes in the Alley Amid the bustle of everyday life and the changing times, new choices await, along with another kind of warmth and growth in the alley. Content warning: breaks up the Wolong and Fengchu pairing; not for readers who dislike the Zhuang family. I'm a new author, so please feel free to share your suggestions! 36.2kReads7.9Score2.9k14d adds
