Novels like Northeastern Tales: The Marriage Swap
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Northeastern Tales: The Marriage Swap, best match first.
- 1 Author Jiang Bula's Tenth Book 作者姜不辣第10本书 She never dreamed that in just one morning, she and her husband would be parted forever by death! At thirty-two, Yu Changping became a widow. Being a widow is hard! Being a young widow is even harder! Being a young, beautiful widow is harder still! Being a young, beautiful widow with four children is practically eighty-one levels of hardship! Life is a journey, from beginning to end. Going around in circles, stumbling over hills and hollows. 792Reads9.1Score100Shelves
- 2 The Start of Spring 开春儿 In 1978, in a small county town in Northeast China, twenty-year-old Lan Xinhua crouched outside the radio station window, pressing her ear to the glass to listen to the people inside. She thought: Why can’t I be the one speaking through that loudspeaker? She hadn’t finished middle school, made countless spelling mistakes, and spoke Mandarin with a strong corn-country twang. But she had a beautiful voice and a heart that refused to give up. From a village girl to a county radio announcer, from lo 647Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Northeast China: Tales from 1975 1975年的东北往事 Adapted from a true story set in Northeast China, with a touch of romanticism. The characters are mostly drawn from real life, yet rise above it. They are ordinary people who work hard. In them, we see reflections of our grandparents, our parents, and even ourselves. 10.3kReads7.6Score721Shelves
- 4 The Nine Arts of Strategy: The Winning Chess Game 纵横九术之胜天棋局 Wang Shu is an ordinary young man who was raised by his grandfather after his parents died when he was little. He suddenly finds himself caught up in a bank robbery, but as he fights to save himself, he discovers that this seemingly unfortunate incident is more than a simple robbery: it is part of a plot targeting him. The calamity grants him an extraordinary inheritance and leads him to clues about his family's legacy, but it also draws him into even greater danger. To escape the hidden enemy w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Northeastern China in 1979 1979年东北往事 In the late autumn of 1979, twenty-year-old Liu Xiaocui was sexually assaulted one night. The news spread through every village for miles. Her husband’s family called off the engagement, rumors ran wild, and everyone said she was “immoral,” “ruined by a man,” and “no longer pure.” In an era when a woman’s reputation was worth more than her life, something like this could make it seem as if her whole life was over. 5.8kReads6.9Score332Shelves
- 6 The King of Pig Farming: The Most Beautiful Northeast Pig 养猪大王，最美东北农猪 [Spatial farm] + [Everyday food] + [Country life] Wang Dabiao found a treasure and unlocked a mysterious farm. He picked more vegetables and fruit every day than he could eat, but couldn’t sell them either. Wang Dabiao stamped his foot. “Forget selling them! I’m going back to my rural hometown to raise pigs!” His strawberry-fed pigs had tender, juicy, delicious meat, and people said eating it could even prolong your life. City folk desperately waved their money around, trying to buy his strawber 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Seventy Years in a Northeastern Family 东北人家的七十年 Based on real events, with artistic embellishments. In these people, we see our grandparents’ generation, our parents’ generation, and ourselves. This story of striving on the black soil is filled with the resilience and wisdom of ordinary people in a momentous era. 1.7kReads8.2Score125Shelves
- 8 Tales of Rural Northeast China 乡村东北往事 An accident leaves the family drowning in debt. Their eighteen-year-old daughter-in-law is bullied time and again, forced to grit her teeth and protect herself and her husband, who is barely clinging to life. Northeastern women may seem tough on the outside, but inside they are just as helpless. Holding on to her principles and protecting her family become her only resolve. 1.9kReads7.4Score155Shelves
- 9 Tales from the Northeast: Outwitting My Wicked Mother-in-Law 东北往事：和恶婆婆斗智斗勇 This is a true story. In it are the faces of our parents' generation, our childhood, our friends, our youth, and all the years we've lived through. 706Reads—Score101Shelves
- 10 Sparks Among the Waves of Wheat 麦浪里的星火 In 1983, in Liushutun, on the Jizhong Plain, the winds of reform swept into this isolated village. Seventeen-year-old Lin Qiusui was facing the hardest choice of her life. The household responsibility system brought more than the division of land; it also stirred up hidden currents within the three-generation Lin family. The sparks from Grandpa Lin Mancangs pipe as he tapped it against the edge of the kang, her father Lin Jianguo’s hunched back in the family’s assigned fields, and her little sis 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 1991: I Become the Richest Man in Coal City 年代1991：我在煤城当首富 In 1990, in a coal city in Northeast China, Bai Hongguang, a discharged reconnaissance soldier, returns home. His whole family is crammed into a tiny house. His father is an ordinary mine worker, his younger siblings are still hungry and needy, and they're so poor they can barely afford to eat! Then he unexpectedly activates his personal System. Protecting his family and following the rules unlocks enhanced combat skills and the ability to anticipate danger, while scarce coal coupons and connect 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Miser of Kudangba 裤裆坝的守财人 Their ancestors left behind a little-known fortune. With banditry on the rise and warlord conflicts, the War of Resistance, and civil war following one after another, the Luo family feared the money would bring disaster. For three generations, they quietly guarded this fortune for decades. Centered on protecting their wealth, this book explores family bonds, love, human relationships, and society during a turbulent period in history. Laughter, anger, and everything in between all find their way 759Reads—Score115Shelves
- 13 I Heard I'm Not Stupid Anymore, and Now Every Woman in the Village Is Acting Dumb 听说俺不傻了，全村女人都傻了 (Original title: Reborn as the Village Guardian, Doted on by Every Auntie and Sister-in-Law) A post-95 office drone finds himself in the body of Meng Daniu, a fool. Some people mock him, while others pity him. But he heads into the mountains to hunt and take revenge on his enemies, leading his whole family to a life of plenty. 4.5kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves
- 14 A Ridiculous Love Debt 荒唐情债 Traditional period setting + realistic daily life + family and village affairs + ensemble cast In 1985, Yang Yun was already a married woman, yet she lived a life purer than a blank sheet of paper. Her new husband already had an old flame, and the woman was well into her forties. Faced with such a disgrace, Yang Yun had to fight back while staying on guard against the village men with ulterior motives. The seemingly peaceful little mountain village had long been seething beneath the surface, hid 33.4kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 15 The Divine Archer Hunts the Ming 神箭猎明 [History / Late Ming Dynasty + Rise to Power + Farming + Military Epic + Naval Hegemony + Fleet Building] At Sarhu in the late Ming, mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. Yin Xiangjie, an archery champion, transmigrates into a desperate situation. Relying on sheer courage and unmatched marksmanship, he fights his way out of a fleeing army, gathers the remnants, and escapes into the vast ocean. Before he can gain a foothold, powerful enemies surround him, the imperial court eyes him with sus 2.8kReads8.0Score217Shelves
- 16 I Became a Rural Bride in the Nineties 穿成九十年代农村媳 Zhao Yan, an unmarried woman in her thirties and a modern-day corporate drone, found herself by a twist of fate as a newlywed young wife in Dongsheng Village, a rural settlement in Northeast China in the 1990s. This is the story of how she went from struggling to adjust to charging ahead toward a better life. From the male lead Li Jianjun’s perspective: He’d always thought his wife would remain indifferent toward him for the rest of their lives. He never expected her to start cherishing him. How 886Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 17 Snow Country Hunting God: Reborn in 1980, I Spoil My Wife Rotten 雪乡猎神：重生1980宠疯媳妇 One snowball from my sister-in-law sent me back to the Northeast in 1980. In my previous life, my adoptive parents had drained me dry. This time, I’d become the living King of Hell of Snow Country! Get rich through hunting and drive those ungrateful leeches crazy! The Hailang River is my money pouch, and Mount Tuoding is my bank! Bear gall, musk, wild ginseng, pearls... they’re all the keys to my fortune! Back in 1980, I bow to no gods and show no respect to officials. I’m king of the Zhangguang 5.1kReads8.5Score520Shelves
- 18 That's Called Keeping Your Wealth Under Wraps 这叫财不露白 I'm tired of those stories where the protagonist was inexplicably stupid and suffered one injustice after another in their previous life, then somehow became a god in this one. This book is different: a fresh take on the rebirth of an overworked corporate drone. The protagonist has no powerful family or influential benefactors. He grows by cheating, builds his career by bluffing, and is the sort to paint grand schemes with all his heart, work the leeks nonstop, start out in dropshipping, and dab 776Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 19 Tales of the Northeast: The Child Bride 东北往事之童养媳 At ten years old, Chun Ni was forced to become a child bride at the Jing family compound. There, she witnessed the tragic lives of the Jing family’s women with her own eyes... During a crisis in the Jing household, bandits captured her. The Long family’s fifth young master rescued her from the mountains, and from then on, she and Long Wu joined the fight against the Japanese... The two of them would be bound together for the rest of their lives. 13.6kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 20 Reborn in 1981: I Traded a Roe Deer for a Russian Wife! 重生八一：用傻狍子换毛熊老婆！ [1980s + hunting + laid-back slice of life + building a better life] Zhao Hao was reborn in the 1980s. Once his memories merged, he realized he was in a hellish situation from the start. As an educated youth sent to the countryside, he couldn't return to the city and became the village's live-in son-in-law. Then his father-in-law drowned, and his wife died of a heart attack... His former self couldn't take the strain and simply died... What! To save on resource allocations, the village wants me 1.5kReads7.3Score203Shelves
- 21 The 1980s: I Married the Right Divorced Man, with Meat and Grain Filling Our Home 八零：嫁对二婚郎，肉满缸粮满仓 Not reborn + not transmigrated + everyday family life + a fiercely protective stepmother (male lead is not a virgin; female lead is). In the 1980s, in the Su family’s humble home, Su Tang is branded the village’s most sharp-tongued “old maid” at twenty-eight, after putting off marriage years earlier to support her younger brother’s education. Su Tang is tough yet resilient. She keeps chickens and rabbits in the same courtyard and lives with quiet dignity, while secretly longing for warmth. Yu Mi 1.9kReads7.3Score154Shelves
- 22 A Gentleman Is Like a Pine 君子如松 The first time Bai Rusong saw Liu Guanghui, he mistook him for a girl and fell in love at first sight. When he found out Liu was a boy, he decided he wanted to be friends with him instead. As their friendship grew, Bai’s possessiveness toward Liu grew stronger and stronger. At last, he came to understand his feelings and realized he had fallen in love with Liu Guanghui. Born in the 1970s, Bai Rusong was upright and conservative in his thinking. Unwilling to face a love the world would never acce 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Smoke and Fire in the Northern Lands 北国烟火事 The winter of 2000 in Northeast China. He was Wang Jianjun, a laborer at the bottom of society, covered in dust but full of sincerity. She was Liu Jiajia, radiant and determined, from a well-off family. One chance meeting, and a love neither dared to hope for. Their families were worlds apart. Their relatives pressured them to marry, and reality weighed heavily on them. Forced apart, they loved each other with all their hearts but could only let go in pain. He swallowed his grievances and fought 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Northeast Tales: A Love That Never Wavers 东北往事之情深不悔 No transmigration, no System. A realistic romance set in the countryside of Northeast China. If you cry easily, don’t read this. I’m afraid you won’t be able to stop! Zheng Sichun had a life full of hardship. When she was born, her own grandmother had her thrown into Wolf Ravine, where she was rescued by the drunkard Zheng Bao. At a young age, she narrowly escaped a villain’s clutches. After her brother accidentally killed someone, the siblings fled the home they’d lived in for eight years! At t 11.9kReads9.5Score1.6kShelves
- 25 Secrets in the Rose Villa 蔷薇别墅里的秘密 Chen Xiaorong was born in the countryside. Her parents didn’t love her, and her prospective in-laws were all awful people. She was clever and decisive, beautiful and poised, and brimming with ambition. She earned top marks to get into university, but nobody supported her. She was willing to run away from her wedding and travel far from home to study on her own. The road ahead was difficult. When she faced endless darkness, the warmth he gave her became a ray of light that illuminated her heart. 12.6kReads8.8Score737Shelves
- 26 Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range 狩猎兴安岭 On the eve of the 2025 Lunar New Year, after a lifetime of ups and downs, Northeast China native Ran Weidong gets drunk at a class reunion and suddenly is reborn forty-two years in the past, to the day he secretly went hunting in the mountains. He easily takes down the wild boar, and everything gets off to the best possible start. He heads into the hills, goes hunting, and, when he has time, digs up a huge ginseng root in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Life in the 1980s isn’t so bad after all. T 492Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 27 Love Debts 情债【李幼斌主演的电视剧】 Also known as The Peach Blossom Luck of Sister-in-Law Jiang Qi. A lost paradise in Northeast China, a little mountain village in the Changbai Mountains: the Abandoned Village. Journey beyond a life of hardship and let this story sweep you away. The tangled affairs between men and women in the countryside, and the everyday love and hatred that bind them. So many debts of passion, so many heartbreaks. 7kReads8.4Score522Shelves
- 28 Stealing Her Fiancé? She Marries an Officer and Becomes the Most Beautiful Military Wife 抢她未婚夫？她嫁军官当最美军嫂 In her previous life, her cousin Fang Yan took her college acceptance letter and went to university in her place. She also stole Sheng Yao's childhood betrothal and married the military officer who was meant for her. Meanwhile, Sheng Yao was married off by her biased mother to a pig farmer in the neighboring village, becoming a stepmother to a three-year-old. With a mean, picky mother-in-law, an autistic son, a difficult sister-in-law, and a husband who always listened to his mother, things only 1.9kReads8.3Score234Shelves
- 29 With a Start This Bad, I'm Not Taking the Loss 开局这么烂，吃亏我不干 Born under a peach-blossom fate, where it’s me or him: flirtatious men and women, face-slapping, and putting scumbags in their place. On a snowy night, in an earth cellar, on a heated kang in the Northeast, in a remote mountain village, poor Liang Laonian sees something he shouldn’t. Under immense pressure and with no one to turn to, he can only keep quiet. Later, Liang Daqing is born, his bloodline a mystery. As a child, he was lazy, sly, greedy, and slippery. As a teenager, he was rebellious 747Reads8.4Score107Shelves
- 30 Reborn in the 1980s: A Female Spirit Medium Builds a Temple for the Five Immortals 重生八零：女出马仙建了个五仙庙 The ratings have just come in, and they'll slowly climb. [Period setting + rural life + Northeast China's Five Immortals + family squabbles + women fighting] Pure feel-good escapism. Ma Yumei wakes from a nightmare to find herself in the familiar, shabby house. The joy of being reborn and her hatred for her past life mingle in her heart. She silently vows that this time, she won't be a pushover for anyone to bully. Those who wronged her will pay! Family shame should stay private? Pah! The whole 2.1kReads8.8Score244Shelves
- 31 Jiang Zhu's 12th Book 江煮第12本书 Gen Zhuang grew up without parents, struggling to make it on his own! After a bet with the villagers led him into Demon-Hiding Ravine, he was struck by heavenly lightning. Luckily, Meier helped him undergo a complete transformation, giving him a tall, handsome, sunny appearance and extraordinary gifts! From then on, he had a special skill, And with this divine treasure, he conquered all and rose to the pinnacle of life! Under his leadership, the villagers embarked on a golden road to prosperity. 11.6kReads8.8Score876Shelves
- 32 Twin Sisters Take on the 1970s 双胎姐妹花勇闯七零年代 [Period Drama] [Light Ensemble Cast] [Family Life] [Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside] [No Female Rivalry] [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] In 1970, twin sisters Lin Xiaoyang and Lin Xiaoyue were forced to go down to the countryside to make room for their younger brother. They arrived at Baishan Village in Northeast China, where they earned respect through hard work and sincerity and fell in love with Zhou Jianjun and Zhou Jianguo, the village chief's sons. The four formed a study group, pori 3.7kReads8.4Score311Shelves
- 33 Life Afloat on the Riverbank 江岸浮生 [Contemporary realism + period chronicle + rural ensemble cast + women’s struggles] Spanning half a century of rural China, this book tells the story of three generations of women on the Jianghan Plain. Caught in the tides of history and the shackles of their families of origin, each struggles against fate in her own way and faces her inner demons, ultimately learning to live for herself. (I’m only here to tell the story as it is. I won’t give the characters perfect personalities. I’ll portray h 593Reads8.5Score106Shelves
- 34 Cordyceps Flower 虫草花 A woman with a bad reputation and an upright grassroots official: rumors cut like knives. Amid the scorn of the world, can they grasp the happiness that belongs to them? A forbidden love that breaks free of its shackles, and a flower that blooms in a woman's darkest hour. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Here We Come, Northeast China! 大东北我们来了！ Liu Sheng'an and her family of three inexplicably transmigrated to a dynasty that never existed in history. No pocket dimension, no System. Fine, we'll make a living through our own efforts. A big, warm, close-knit family, farming and doing business, living in peace: that sounds good enough. But the good times don't last. A severe drought arrives, the water runs out, and the fields can no longer be planted. Then floods strike the south. No problem, we'll head to the Northeast. Come on, everyone, 958Reads9.0Score112Shelves
- 36 Early Spring Frost 小春霜早 Xiaochun Shuangzao tells the story of the lives, changes, joys, and sorrows of the three Gu siblings at the end of the twentieth century. Through their story, the novel explores the profound impact of Reform and Opening Up on people's thoughts and lives, and the sweeping changes brought by the new era. [Print edition published] 1.1kReads8.5Score101Shelves
- 37 The Capitalist Heiress Who Took Her Place as a Bride Is the Commander's True White Moonlight 替嫁资本家大小姐才是首长白月光 Set up to take someone else’s place as a bride? The capitalist heiress is the commander’s secret love [Military marriage + revenge on scumbags + pocket dimension + an icy-faced tiger in uniform who’s tender as silk in private. A pampered, sweet-talking heiress with steel beneath her honeyed exterior, matched with a contrastingly gentle officer.] In 1966, Su Yin’s deadbeat father, who had married into the Su family, planned to flee to Hong Kong with his mistress and her family, taking the Su fami 3.8kReads8.1Score361Shelves
- 38 The Republic and the Qing: Thirty Years in the Brotherhood Underworld 民清：袍哥江湖三十载 The Book of Songs says: “How could I say I have no clothes? I’ll share my robe with you.” It speaks of loving one another and sharing a robe with one’s brothers in arms. From this grew a term, or perhaps an organization: the Paoge Society, a sworn brotherhood active during the Qing and Republican eras. The Paoge stand for loyalty, brotherhood, the world of martial heroes, and revolution. Revolution against corrupt politics, a declining society, failing education, and crooked thinking... They cal 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The 1970s Comparison Group Is Done Playing Nice! 七零对照组不干了！ Fang Panyan transmigrates into a novel as the female lead’s foil. Both are country girls who marry into a military district. Both are high school graduates, and both marry battalion commanders. But when their husbands propose adopting their fallen comrades’ orphans, the two women react in completely different ways. One reluctantly agrees and mistreats the children. The other accepts wholeheartedly and treats them as her own. In the end, Fang Panyan is abandoned by her husband and despised by 7kReads7.1Score369Shelves
- 40 Beneath the Splendor 繁华之下 In the winter of 1994, the third sister, Hao Xiaocao, drifted like a withered leaf into a snowy hollow on North Mountain. The police's conclusion: suicide. The truth was a fish in an ice hole, its scales glinting beneath the dark water. Three brothers' different memories of the same death formed a puzzle, all pointing to the same death before the body had even gone cold. In Northeast China, every person who freezes to death forms a unique pattern of ice crystals. Those "suicide" ice flowers in p 6.5kReads9.1Score815Shelves
- 41 San Biaozi 三彪子 In 1980, in Kaoshan Village on the banks of the Songhua River, the Gao family’s fifth child is born. Dubbed “San Biaozi” because he is a bit dim, he grows up amid poverty and gossip. His mother bears the painful memory of having been assaulted, while his father quietly shoulders the burden of their broken family. San Biaozi drifts through life in a daze, but after a string of fires, people begin to suspect him of arson. While working the night shift guarding the grain depot, he learns to smoke. 708Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Brash Stepmother from the Eighties Becomes a Nobody 八零泼妇养母成了路人甲 Liu Peiyun was ready to enjoy a quiet retirement, but instead transmigrated into a book as Lu Xuebi, a village girl whose engagement had been broken off in the 1980s. Since she was already here, Lu Xuebi decided to make the best of it. She studied for college entrance exams while leading her whole family to seize the opportunities of the times. Only later did she learn she had transmigrated into a book: she was the heroine’s shrewish adoptive mother, an obstacle on the heroine’s road to wealth a 646Reads5.8Score116Shelves
- 43 The River Snail Spirit Transmigrates to the 1970s 田螺精穿到七十年代 [Space + Everyone’s Favorite + Romance + Farming + Everyday Family Life + Transmigrate into a Book] Tian Tian, a river-snail spirit, survived the apocalypse by hiding inside her shell. But when she went out one day, a bomb fell from the sky and blasted her into the 1970s. Tian Tian’s eyes sparkled. “This world is great! Beautiful mountains, clear water, fresh air, and more fruits and vegetables than I could ever eat.” She had planned to lie flat, but then discovered she had transmigrated into a 261Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 44 The Four Fierce Ones of the Northeast 关东四猛 This novel is based on records in the family genealogy and true stories about our ancestors. During the Guangxu era at the end of the Qing dynasty, four brothers from the Wan family of Ma Village in Ninghe County, Shuntian Prefecture, Wan Long, Wan Hu, Wan Bao, and Wan Xiong, set out to seek a better life. They resolutely left their home in Tianjin and embarked on the arduous journey to Manchuria. They braved storms and hardship along the way, eventually putting down roots in Manchuria, where th 3.1kReads7.1Score178Shelves
- 45 Legend of the Countryside 传奇乡村 The poor village of Taohua, looked down on by everyone, changes completely after Chen Hao returns. He knows herbal medicine, is good at farming, and can turn barren hills into treasure troves. One after another, the pretty girls in the village start seeing him in a new light. He solves problems and builds up local industries. Tenderness hides in the green hills, and a legend takes root in the countryside. 3.7kReads8.8Score403Shelves
- 46 Transmigrated Into a Book Set in the 1980s: I Marry My Ex-Husband's Uncle and He Spoils Me Rotten 穿书八零，二婚嫁前夫小叔被宠上天 Su Tao transmigrated into a period novel as the male lead’s cannon-fodder mother. On the very night she became a widow, her mother-in-law forced her to drink a potion, and she got pregnant overnight. Su Tao planned to raise the baby on her own and live her best life, but unexpectedly, the entire Qin family came to drag her home and make her the pampered young madam of a wealthy family. Her younger brother-in-law spoiled her to the skies. 6.5kReads8.7Score555Shelves
- 47 I Accidentally Transmigrated into My Late Aunt 一不小心，穿成了我那早死的姑姑 Fang Qingqing transmigrates as an aunt who died young. She vows to help her family become among the first to get rich, and to give them hope. Somehow, she ends up catching the attention of a man who will become a bureau chief in the future. She feels bad about holding back his career, but he keeps pursuing her at every turn. Note: In her world, her aunt died young. 4kReads8.2Score381Shelves
- 48 Tales of the Pearl River Delta 珠三角往事 [Realistic fiction, adapted from real life.] No rebirth, no transmigration, no golden finger. Here, people get what they deserve in this life. Zhang Yang, a young stonemason with superhuman strength, a chivalrous heart, a manly good looks, and a body built like a rock. He catches his girlfriend cheating, beats up a corrupt official's son, and flees to the Pearl River Delta. But fate just won't let him escape the meddling of every rich young master surnamed Zhao. Southeast Asia, northern Myanmar, 471Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Northeast's King in the Nineties 九零：东北王中王 (No System, a passionate tale set in a bygone era! A fairly realistic farming story! This book was originally titled King of Northeast China in the 1990s.) [The bitter winter winds of the Northeast cut to the bone, but the passion of its underworld never dies.] In 1988, Li Mingyu and his brothers left school, full of ambition. They had bright futures ahead of them, but a series of unavoidable conflicts ultimately changed the course of their lives. Reckless youth, an unpredictable fate. A man car 1kReads7.7Score101Shelves
- 50 The Bizarre Murder at the Roadside Inn 大车店诡异命案 Bizarre murders, men and women in turbulent times, tangled love and hate, and the legend of the resistance. During the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, on the northern Manchurian frontier, stood a mountain called Big Butt Mountain. Two semicircular peaks joined together, and the locals were plainspoken: they named things exactly as they looked. For forty li in every direction, it was the only horse-cart inn around: the Big Butt Mountain Inn. Men and women shared the big northeastern kang beds 402Reads—Score100Shelves
