Novels like Inelastic Collision
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Inelastic Collision, best match first.
- 101 Contract Lover: My Ex-Boyfriend Became My Sugar Daddy 契约情人，前男友成了我的金主 One-on-one, mutually exclusive, contract lover, rekindled romance To save her family's company, Luo Linyi has no choice but to turn to her ex-boyfriend, Zhou Yuchen, whom she abandoned five years ago. The only thing Luo Linyi has left of any value is her body, so she signs a one-year arrangement with Zhou Yuchen to be his kept woman. But when she stands naked in front of him and can only rub against him like a little kitten, Zhou Yuchen's temper flares. “Is that all Miss Luo can do?” When Luo 286Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 102 I Mistook My Future Boss for a Male Model, and Now He Wants Me to Take Responsibility 错把未来上司当男模，他要我负责 Xu Anzhi spent the entire night at the shop. The man asked her name three times. She didn’t answer once. Don’t ask. We’re strangers. We’ll never see each other again anyway. She ate and drank her fill, left a gold bracelet as a tip, and made her escape. The next day, she starts her new job. The operating-room doors open. The man from last night stands beneath the surgical lights in a doctor’s uniform: Lu Huaisheng, head of anesthesiology. She feels like her head is about to explode. “What do yo 1Reads—Score151Shelves
- 103 From Involution to Lying Flat: A Corporate Drone’s Path to Enlightenment 从内卷到躺平：大厂社畜修行记 This is a story with a healing touch. From overwork to lying flat: A tale of a corporate drone’s journey at a major internet company, chronicling the endless grind of modern laid-off tech workers! Will you choose a cat-like approach to finding a job, a dog-like approach to working, or a Buddhist approach and lie flat? Between striving to get ahead and simply showing up to work, what will you choose? Join the cool and aloof Chi Mai as she explores modern city life and the path to healing yourself 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Are You Kidding? Strangers in Public, Exes in Private 玩呢？【人前不熟，人后旧爱】 Sharp-tongued, shameless rogue x Smiling, fake innocent bunny | Rekindled love | Reunion after years apart | Adversarial romance | Intense push and pull | Rivalry for the heroine | Black-hearted heroine [Underground King VS Corporate Spy] Chen Xiwan never expected that when she reunited with the man from the reckless romance that nearly cost her her life five years ago, Xing Yuxu would be her fiance's best friend. The domineering boy who had once written "ownership" on her body looked at her wit 2.3kReads—Score235Shelves
- 105 With These Years, Until Our Hair Turns White 谨以岁月寄白首 Listen, the sound of the rain falling, like the bamboo grove gently swaying in the breeze. He closes his eyes and calls your name. It carries the colors and fragrance of falling blossoms, flowing with a lover’s longing and tender reminders. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 A Summer Night Just as It Should Be 理应如此的夏夜 School Days to City Life | Mutual Salvation | Reunited After Years Apart Cold, fierce guard dog x radiant, passionate girl | Architect x Su Mu Dyeing Intangible Cultural Heritage Successor At Licheng Middle School, Meng Tangli is the most popular girl: beautiful and radiant, surrounded by friends, bold and carefree. Chen Yinghuai has just transferred in. He sits in the back corner, his uniform immaculate and his manner quiet and withdrawn. Yet his handsome, stern features draw plenty of attenti 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 After the Divorce, I Made the Ice-Cold Mogul Regret Everything 离婚后，我让冰山大佬追悔莫及 [Clearheaded, Independent Writer x Gentle, Restrained Artist with a Hidden Dark Side x Arrogant, Icy CEO. He Pursues His Wife Boldly and Relentlessly | Second Male Lead Takes the Crown + Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium + Emotional Push and Pull + Long-Standing Scheme + Male Lead Has No Past Relationships + Cultured Villain of a Second Male Lead + Gentle, Cool-Headed, Career-Driven Heroine + No Getting Back Together After a Breakup + Multiple Men Competing for Her] Five years into her marria 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Drifting in Shenzhen 深漂 The brash young Lin Qiang comes to Shenzhen for the first time and happens upon Huaqiangbei. The gears of fate begin to turn for Zhang Ruoying, a female business owner… At the end of 2003, college student Lin Qiang and his girlfriend were facing their graduation internships. She went to Dongguan, while Lin Qiang headed to Shenzhen to build a career, and they gradually drifted apart. After their breakup, Lin Qiang gained a whole new understanding of relationships between men and women. In Shenz 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Shenzhen: The Wave Breaker 深圳，破浪者 This story pays tribute to the grand vision of “Made in China 2025,” with its plans for breakthroughs in new energy, smart cockpits, chips, and other fields. It also salutes all the brave souls on the road to starting their own businesses! 🫡🫡🫡 The sequel to "Shenzhen Drifter", "Riding the Waves": In 2010 Shenzhen, Gao'e Capital invests in Yingke Navigation Group, which has only just emerged from the financial crisis. Founder Lin Qiang feels that capital has stripped him of his power, so he reso 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Grind System Forces Me to Give It Everything 卷王系统逼我干到天花板 After binding to a System, workplace rookie Lin Xiao can quantify emotions, and her aesthetic sense becomes combat power. Once an invisible office nobody whose proposals were stolen by coworkers, she makes a stunning comeback and joins the group’s flagship project, competing alongside a design genius, a channel queen, and a marketing rival. But the real challenge isn’t proposals or design. It’s the games of human nature and the undercurrents of power lurking behind every decision. Rising from ex —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 My Years at a Foreign Company 我的外企岁月 On a battlefield without gunfire, enemies are everywhere. In a workplace without compassion, everyone is a schemer. And in a game of love where feelings have no place, who can find even a little warmth… Gao Ge is like a little lion, fighting her way through a foreign company, charging ahead and getting battered along the way. Only in the end does she realize she’s really a little deer, the one who can run wild in his heart. 734Reads9.3Score128Shelves
- 112 Rising Step by Step in Middle Age 人到中年：步步高升 Cheng Dawei has offended his beautiful boss and is constantly being targeted by her. He never expected that one good deed would turn his luck around and send him climbing the career ladder. From a nobody in the company whom everyone bullied, he rises to become the darling everyone fawns over and curries favor with... 813Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 113 Dancing Through the Galaxy 翩翩银河 (The rating is low because there aren't many votes. Please give it five stars!) [Rekindled love × unresolved tension × bittersweet romance × male lead humbly begging for love × sensitive, depressed female lead × both leads have only ever been with each other] A sensitive, depressed top lawyer × a humble, lovesick chief physician At Jingbei University, there was a golden couple. When they were dating, the whole campus became their biggest shipper, swooning over every sweet interaction. But the n 1.7kReads6.7Score137Shelves
- 114 He Was Poor Back Then, So He Pushed Away the One He Loved 当年他穷，亲手推开了心上人 [A realistic story with a slow burn] Three years ago, Jiang Zhou had nothing and was mired in self-doubt. Not wanting to hold back Bai Weiwei, who had come all that way for him, he hardened his heart and pushed her away with his own hands. He spent the next three years working hard, but there was always an emptiness inside him. He had never truly let her go. He gathered his courage and tried to win her back, hoping to use the joking “three-year pact” she had once made with him as an excuse to st 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Return to Tu from the Capital at Night 京夜回涂 The novel was just released, so the rating will go up. [A distinguished young man from Beijing's elite circles vs. a resilient small-town woman] [Reunion after years apart + rekindled romance + the powerful one finally gives in / both leads have clean romantic histories + angsty, melodramatic happy ending] They reunite after five years apart. Tu Zhi is delivering a cake for a friend's bakery when she ends up at her ex-boyfriend's address. He lives in a villa complex in the most expensive part of 5.6kReads8.7Score675Shelves
- 116 Reunited! CEO Cheng Turns into a Secretly Passionate Man! 重逢后！程总化身闷骚男！ [Reunion after years apart + both leads are devoted only to each other + sweet romance + a hint of coercion later on] In her first year of college, Jiang Yao was bright, lively, and thoughtful, with a popularity that made others jealous. Everyone at Yan University knew Cheng Wang. One day, she got drunk by accident and, through a twist of fate, kissed him. But no one knew that beneath his aloof, chaste exterior lurked a terrifying possessiveness. Once his disguise was torn away, she could take n 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Urban: This Concept-Level Office Supply Is a Must-Have 都市：这概念级办公用品，谁用谁 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Su Yang awakens the “Conceptual Creation System.” To clock out on time, he goes into full-on, crazy modification mode. [100% Apology Stapler]: Whoever gets stapled must kneel down and apologize sincerely. Side effect: The user must sway their hips and shout, “Big brother, I know I was wrong~” [Absolutely Punctual Employee Badge]: Once you put it on, no one can stop you from clocking out, not even God! Side effect: You must glide out of the building on sk —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Counterattack 反攻 [Fashionable, self-possessed beauty of an editor-in-chief & energetic male model with a great body] Lin An signed rising A-list male model Li Chengjue. Beyond their professional relationship, he was also her ex-boyfriend. They were seven years apart, but by a twist of fate, she ended up being talked into living with him as a couple. What is it like to date a young, vigorous guy? When another man approached Lin An, he said, “He’s too young. He’s not your type.” When Lin An turned down his unreaso 152Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 119 Wildfire's Kiss of Redemption: My Boss Spoils Me Day and Night 野火吻赎：顶头上司他日夜逼宠 [Wild, devoted business tycoon VS clear-eyed, gutsy engineer] [Reunion after years apart|Getting back together|Secret office marriage|Mutual salvation|One-on-one, both chaste|Happy ending|Male lead's secret identity|Intense romantic tension] Seven years after they parted, her scheming ex is now her boss, and he's determined to flirt with her, cling to her, and claim his place in her life! - Seven years ago, she was the one who left him. Seven years later, He Ye landed as her new boss and cornere 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Ice Locks the Warm Sun 冰锁暖阳 Amid the heavy snow in Harbin, Su Li dragged her suitcase straight into Lu Zheng’s life. This taciturn, hard-edged Northeastern man would stand in front of her when she was being followed, cling to her leg like a sloth to protect her on the ski slopes, and grip her hand when she was drunk as he promised, “From now on, no one will ever bully you.” But her parents’ disapproval, her grandfather’s objections, the tangled web of relationships in the Lu family, and all the practical problems standing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 The Yan Family's Precious Darling: Mommy Is Both Badass and Glamorous 阎家心尖宠：妈咪她又A又飒 Five years ago, Luo Wan was set up by her half-sister to spend a night with a strange man. Her family cast her out, leaving her disgraced, and she fled overseas. Only after leaving did she discover she was pregnant, and she resolutely gave birth to her son, Ruirui. Over the next five years, she endured countless hardships abroad and, through her extraordinary talent and hard work, built her own business empire or mastered an elite skill, such as hacking, medicine, design, or finance. She did it 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 President Gu, Your Beloved Has Returned with a Child 顾总，你的心肝带着娃回来了 Reunion after years apart | Running away while pregnant | Rekindled love | A cute kid plays matchmaker | Sweet, no angst When the brooding CEO finally cracks open the shell, the queen of tragic endings is forced to rewrite the story. The four-year-old little matchmaker has already prepared a complete “Plan to Get Mom and Dad Back Together.” This is a story about “when life gives me lemons, I make gallons of lemonade to gulp down.” It’s also a sweet romance about “I spent five years writing out e 5.4kReads—Score427Shelves
- 123 The Accounting Game 账目游戏 A transfer of 400,000 yuan dragged me into the dirtiest power struggle of a wealthy family. Gu Wan said, “You belong to me.” Gu Chengye said, “If you don't help me, I'll destroy you.” He Man said, “All you need to do is obey.” Only Shen Yu said, “Don't die.” They weren't fighting over me, but over that ledger. And all I wanted was to get my life back. A double agent, carefully plotting every step. No golden finger, just an information advantage. She isn't anyone's pawn. She's the one who flips —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Aching Tenderness 彻骨优柔 [Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Romance + Obsessive Hero + CEO + Mutual Healing + Angst Before Sweetness + Female Lead Is Not a Virgin, Male Lead Is] Six years ago, Xu You left without saying goodbye, leaving behind only a farewell letter. Jiang Che searched for her like a madman, even threatening to kill himself. All he got in return was her saying, “If you die, I’ll finally be free.” Six years later, they meet again at a charity auction. She deliberately loops her arm through another ma 566Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Designing Love: My Dream Guy Insists We Get Married 设计爱情！男神非要跟我结婚 [A designer's workplace romance and daily life + women's workplace story + escaping a small town] [Sweet romance + one-on-one pairing + no angst + no misunderstandings + no golden finger + no face-slapping] [Scheming architectural designer + naive newcomer to the workplace] Architectural designer Lu Yuan is known in the industry as an irresistible dreamboat of a designer. Every project he designs becomes a hit, and people never stop talking about his work. But nobody could have guessed that behi 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Beijing Dust, Held Close 京尘入怀 [The Ambitious Beauty’s Guide to Climbing the Ladder] | Female growth|Rags-to-riches comeback|Adult push and pull | Campus | Workplace | Jingbei Academy of Fine Arts, a prestigious institution where fame and fortune intertwine. Its students come from wealthy families. Shen Qingchen is the only one who has to make her way in with nothing. Born in a small city, with no connections or support, she is treated like a pawn in a power game. But she was never prey for others to manipulate. She has a hun 1.2kReads8.1Score102Shelves
- 127 Before Autumn 未秋 Time cannot wear away the memories we hold dear. This is a story about reunion. Shi Mo had imagined countless times what it would be like to see Kuang Xiubai again, yet she was afraid those scenes might actually become part of her life. When she saw Kuang Xiubai again, she still couldn’t help marveling at their miraculous fate. She had thought that such an abrupt departure would make her lose forever the warmth of someone she might never see again. But she had never dared to hope that he would s 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 A Heartbeat Beyond Calculation 算不尽心动 [A battle of equals + reunion after a long separation + love that goes unrequited] Lin Zhixu is a cool, beautiful, and brilliant quantitative trader who has made her own place in the highest echelons of finance. She spends her days navigating high-pressure rivalries and contests for fame and fortune, living with sharp clarity and never showing a weakness. Focused entirely on reaching the top of her career, she keeps her ambition hidden and shoulders every burden and lonely moment alone. Her pr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 September Has No Thirty-First 九月没有三十一 [Second-chance romance + mutual devotion + love at first sight in their youth] [A gifted writer whose pride has been shattered to pieces] × [A rebellious, deeply devoted heir to a powerful Beijing family] Feng Lingwan and Xie An met because of a misunderstanding. On New Year’s Eve, she was pushed into playing the hero and, in a daze, sent a certain Xie she had never met to the police station. When they met again, the crabapple blossoms at Yanyuan witnessed their heart-stirring encounter, as love 428Reads—Score100Shelves
- 130 How Long Will You Love Me? 你会爱我多久 How Long Will You Love Me tells the story of Xu Nanqiao and her first love, Qin Shiyue, who unexpectedly meet again many years later. Once high school sweethearts, they parted ways because of youthful insecurity and misunderstandings. Years later, Xu Nanqiao has become a simultaneous interpreter, while Qin Shiyue is a successful patent lawyer. When they reunite at work, old regrets and unresolved feelings resurface. Faced with past misunderstandings and the complications of the present, can they 813Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 131 Qiu Yi's Homecoming 秋一的归期 A Brutal Breakup ✖️ The Top Student Bows to Love Reunited After Years Apart | Mending a Broken Relationship | Nine Years of Waiting | Intense Push and Pull 1. On the first day of their freshman year of high school, he took the stage as the new students' representative. She stood below, her heart pounding like a drum. Back in the classroom, she sat behind him, with just one hallway between them. Afterward, through her repeated attempts to get closer, he finally let himself be drawn into her wor 1.4kReads—Score206Shelves
- 132 After Going Bankrupt, I Became the Female CEO's Special Assistant 破产后，我成了女总裁的特别助理 A bankrupt young master vs. an icy female CEO. He came to Yun Jing to investigate the cause of his father's death. She uses him to stabilize the boardroom. A partnership built on mutual exploitation, from the archives to the boardroom, from buried cases to life-or-death struggles, from testing each other to fighting side by side. Twenty-five years of old scores, two generations of grudges. He takes a knife for her, and she helps him turn the tables. Love between equals is the most moving of all. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Jing Ye Knows Wan 京野知晚 [Story Complete + Reunion After Years Apart + Mending a Broken Relationship + Sweet Romance and Push-Pull + Devoted, Monogamous Hero + Winning Her Back at Any Cost (Sweet Version)] Everyone in the capital knows that Zhou Chiye is the untouchable heir to the city's elite, arrogant and unruly, with powerful connections at the highest levels. He's always been the one others accommodate. The one exception is Tang Youwan, the obsession etched into his very bones. They fell in love when they were you 16.6kReads6.7Score2.1kShelves
- 134 I Can't Keep Being a Doctor, So I'll Flirt with a Rich Businessman for Fun 医生当不下去，勾引个富商来玩玩 (The rating has only just opened, so it’ll go up!) Who says becoming a doctor can help you break through the class barrier and join the upper echelons of society? The only way Cheng Yizhi can change her current situation is to win the lottery, with a prize worth millions… As if winning the lottery were that easy. Until Cheng Yizhi meets Qi Zheng. Isn’t he basically a walking lottery ticket? Win him over, and wealth, fame, and a bright future are all within easy reach… A carefully planned seducti 1.9kReads8.5Score164Shelves
- 135 No One Compares to You 无可比你 (The rating just came out, but it'll go up later~) Radiant, resilient moonlight beauty × principled, refined romantic [Marriage first, love later + the powerful one bows his head + male lead secretly in love] A high school classmate got married, and everyone gathered at a friend's house for a reunion. Somehow, the conversation turned to their school-day crushes. When the microphone reached Liang Jingchuan, he said, “Back then, just to see her, I'd drive from the south side of the city to the nor 13.6kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
- 136 Guan Yu's Marriage Troubles 关云长的婚姻大事 An everyday story, not a domineering CEO romance and not about a strong, independent heroine. The heroine has an ex-boyfriend, so don’t read if that bothers you. The male lead is sexually inexperienced. 1/ At twenty-nine, Guan Yuting was embarrassed to tell anyone that she hoped for love and marriage. These days, everyone champions strong heroines and condemns women who lose their heads over love, but that really was what she wanted. 2/ When you’re out and about, you get to make up your own back 5.5kReads9.1Score762Shelves
- 137 The One and Only Star in the Vast Cosmos 浩瀚星空里唯一的一颗星 A sweet urban romance about an older woman and a younger man is here! In the bustling city, Lin Xiaofei is like a stubborn little rabbit, determined to make her own way in the world, while Jiang Cheng is like a sunny, affectionate puppy who bounds right into her heart. He falls in love at first sight, sure he has found the one; she has built walls around her heart, and only time can melt them. Setbacks at work and painful partings are followed by a reunion blessed by Cupid. They vow to be each o 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 He Coaxes His First Love, Then Begs Her to Come Back With Red-Rimmed Eyes 诱哄白月光，他红着眼求她回头 [Reunion After Years Apart] [Instinctive Attraction] [Urban Romance and Marriage] [Redemption] [Realistic Fiction] [Happy Ending] [Sunny Girl vs. Obsessive Man] Also known as: Divorced? CEO Cheng Rushes to Claim His Title! * In their senior year of high school, a gloomy boy with exquisite features transferred into their class. Pale skin, long legs, and a haughty air, he treated everyone with indifference. His classmates kept their distance from the oddball, but Yu Anxia fell in love with him at 157Reads—Score104Shelves
- 139 Her Second Game: A Future Full of Promise 她的二次博弈：遥遥可期 An older, guiding lover, by your side every step of the way. A ten-year age gap. Love is a journey of healing, and a lighthouse that guides us as we grow. The best kind of love isn't rescue when you're down and out. It's walking side by side and helping each other become better versions of ourselves. She had been through a failed marriage. When love quietly began to appear, she was confused, retreated, hesitated, afraid, and too scared to take the leap... Shen Qiyu said, “Being good to you was n 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 You're Hidden Deep in Time 你藏在时光深处 That summer, cicadas buzzed noisily as she left with a heart full of worries, without giving him a single explanation. Five years later, she returned as a designer working with his company, and they met again at a project meeting. He was the aloof, untouchable president of a corporate group; she was a conscientious designer, cautious at every turn. They thought their paths would never cross again, but a design project forced them together. “Wen Ruan, you left so decisively five years ago. Now th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 After My Royal Bride Search Crashed and Burned, I Eloped with My Childhood Sweetheart 选妃翻车后，我和竹马闪婚了 [Marriage Before Love] [Childhood Friends to Secret Crush] [Funny and Sweet Romance] [A Straightforward Girl Learns About Love] My name is Xia Chuhe, a renowned lawyer in Jinghai City. I've never lost a case, but I've never won at love, either. The day my mother gave me an ultimatum, I did three things: 1. Went to a bar to pick out male models (but failed to find one I liked) 2. Got caught in the act by my childhood friend, Gu Chen (there was something strange in the way he looked at me) 3. Lost 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Perfectly Complementary 极致互补 [Short drama now streaming] [Emotion-led brand strategist Zhang Xinbei × rational investor Gao Jiawei] Modern romance / cerebral love / workplace maneuvering / mature push and pull A power couple who complement each other · One-on-one · Mutual salvation · (Those who mind a non-virgin heroine should proceed with caution. No rivalry between women, just a normal romance with sound values.) * She is a top-tier brand strategist who breaks through by understanding human nature; he is a capital markets 3.3kReads8.7Score352Shelves
- 143 The Rules of Urban Women 都市女人法则 Mi Lier never imagined that the manuscript she'd spent two years pouring her heart into would be deleted with a single click by her scumbag ex, with not even a backup left. With nowhere to turn for justice, she hid in an old Western-style house on Qiqi Street in Dalian and broke down sobbing. Her three roommates immediately gathered around her. Lin Zimu, a cool-headed producer with a warm heart, kept everyone at arm's length with her survival manual, yet found her own heart in disarray over Chen 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Wintersweet Heard the Thousand Paper Cranes’ Wish 腊梅听见了千纸鹤的愿望 Three years ago, Tao Lejin was determined to marry Li Jiayi. But three years later, Li Jiayi’s personality had changed completely, and their marriage shattered like thin ice. When Le Siyang heard what had happened, he rushed to Tao Lejin’s side and guarded her broken heart. After Tao Lejin divorced and gave birth, he returned to their hometown and fought fiercely for her, determined to give her a happy ending. He confessed his feelings, ostensibly to find someone to support her newborn child, b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 A Lingering Itch 迟痒 [Broken Engagement, Rekindled Love] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Both Chaste] [Long-Laid Plans] [The Ex-Wife Chase] Six years ago, Li Chengyan suddenly vanished without a trace. Soon after, news broke that he was about to enter an arranged marriage. Yun Mingyang thought their relationship had probably been nothing more than a game to him. Heartbroken, she married someone else while pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, hoping to bury her first love in the past. Six years later, they reunited. H 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Don't Talk About the Spring Tide 别港春潮 Fu Yanjing comes from one of Hong Kong’s most powerful families and controls assets worth hundreds of billions. He’s practically the lord of half the city. Wen Jin once spent three years with him as his legitimate girlfriend. But to his friends, she was always just “the little reporter who got together with Fu Yanjing.” Their relationship was unequal from the very beginning. On the day she broke up with him, the man’s figure was half-hidden in the dim light. Smoke curled from his fingertips as h 21.4kReads7.9Score2.6kShelves
- 147 North of Yuncheng 云城以北 [Reunion After Years Apart] [Rekindled Romance] At 27, single mother Jiang Yin takes her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter to Jingbei to see the snow. Just as their trip is about to end, her daughter suddenly comes down with hand, foot, and mouth disease. With hospital beds in short supply and nowhere to take her, Jiang Yin reluctantly turns to an old acquaintance for help. From him, she learns that her mother is gravely ill, and has no choice but to reunite with her. Meanwhile, Liang Xicheng, 2.9kReads8.4Score267Shelves
- 148 Consultation After Dark 咨询夜不眠 After graduating from Harvard with an MBA, Song Qiaoyi returns to Main, one of the world's top strategic consulting firms. There, he endures workplace bullying, being framed with nude photos, and being deliberately sidelined. He turns the tide in a crisis, only to take someone else's piece of the pie, and leads his team into a head-on clash with a competitor. Through it all, he and his colleagues and mentors hold fast to their professional principles. He rises from strategic consultant to partne 376Reads9.4Score103Shelves
- 149 The Road to Marriage: Choosing My Own Path 婚途：择行而往 Lin Zhou became invisible in a loveless marriage. Her husband’s indifference, cutthroat workplace politics, and her in-laws’ schemes drained every last bit of her enthusiasm. Only after resolutely signing the divorce papers did she realize that marriage was never the end of life, but just one part of a journey called “The Road Through Marriage.” She cast off her shackles and returned to the workplace. Through her clashes with powerful client Shen Yizhen, she rediscovered her own brilliance. True 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 There Was No Underworld in the Nineties 九十年代没有江湖 Years later, workers renovating Qinghe's old town unearthed a moldy ledger beneath an abandoned factory housing complex. The ledger listed laid-off workers, families of miners killed in accidents, women from dance halls, and several lines of numbers blurred by water. On the last page, there were only three words: Chen Qingshan. Some said he was the most loyal man in Qinghe. Some said he was the man who most deserved to die. Others said that if not for the times he lived in, Chen Qingshan mig 43Reads—Score—Shelves
