China Chic 1980
国潮1980
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- Ongoing
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- 7.4M Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
- Updated
- 2d ago
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Three Flavors Book House
Three Flavors Bookshop
A Reading Slump Is the Norm
2026 2024: Another difficult year-end, but at last, a new year 2023: A new year, a new chapter 2022: Hit a wall and went in circles looking for a door. Guess I'll need an axe. 2021: Stepped in a pile of crap in real life during the first lunar month. Sigh, at least the world of web novels is safe. 2021: Stay safe. It's 2020, and it's so hard to find anything readable these days. Either the male lead grovels over a woman, or a bunch of women grovel over the male lead... And the mindless panderi
Urban Fiction, Entertainment, and Transmigration: The Best Picks
1. My main focus is urban and entertainment-industry fiction, with some historical, sci-fi, and spacefaring stories, as well as the occasional indescribable masterpiece. Xuanhuan, cultivation, and immortal-demon fiction rarely make this list. That’s just my personal taste. 2. I often browse other people’s lists too. Whenever I see a book I love recommended by lots of readers, I’m happy, but also a little intimidated. I can only work harder to avoid repeating the great books already on everyone e
Chinese and World History, Plus Urban Fiction Gems
A list dedicated to urban fiction, featuring both polished gems and promising new works. The one thing they all have in common is that they're good reads. Most titles are over 500,000 characters long, and you'll find both romance and masterworks here. Recommendations for great urban novels are welcome, too.
Recommendations to Suit My Taste (Ongoing Series Only)
🌟 My tastes are varied. Read the notes carefully: whether there's a female lead, whether it's an advantage-focused story, and whether it has ships to root for. 🌟🌟 Two stars usually means it's okay to read when I'm out of books. From the Start, I Wanted to Leave the Jianghu Clothes and Ceremony Do Not Cross the South The Holy Roman Empire The Unexplained (I like the female lead) I Am Cthulhu in Tokyo Spy Shadow in the Storm Monsters Die When Killed The Old Day's Records The Incredible Shanhai Fou
Like Erguotou: Drink It and Forget Your Troubles
When I’m bored or have some free time, I read. Books may not hold treasures, but they’re still good company.
The Reading Drought Relief Station!
Every book on this list has been carefully selected. Many include experiences drawn from the author's own life. I don't like simplistic stories. I read mainly to broaden my experience and discover different worlds. Urban and historical novels test an author's life experience; without enough of it, it's hard to write a story with real flavor! I've read hundreds of novels, and they've ruined my prospects. Now I want nothing at all! I've also developed some opinions of my own about fiction. Thanks
🌸💙👑Books I've Fully Read and Loved👑💙🌸
Every book on this list is from my fully paid collection and personal shelf. I've read each one at least once, and genuinely love them. I'm sharing them with fellow readers, and keeping a record of what I've read for myself. Books must meet these standards to make the list: first, the writing has to be good; then, the logic must be rigorous; and the values should be sound. Most importantly, the story must be compelling enough that I can return to it years later when I'm out of books to read. Onl
As If an Old Friend Had Come
In the bloom of youth, I dream without knowing. When I wake, I must return.
Three Flavors Bookstore
Sanwei Bookshop
A Happy Shut-In's Reading List
Selection criteria: enjoyable novels with enough satisfying moments and a strong update pace; slice-of-life novels with steadily progressing plots and a warm atmosphere; and traditional novels that focus on telling a complete and coherent story. The standard for inclusion and evaluation is simple: I like them!
Books for Rainy Days
Tired of fantasy and cultivation stories where people kill and level up? Come check out some fresh, distinctive niche reads.
A Sword, a Blade, a Jug of Wine, and a Book: My Only Companions on the Road
Travel ten thousand miles, read ten thousand books, explore countless worlds. I've added the good books I've read over the years. Some may have been written a long time ago, but they're still classics today. In the early years, reading novels was truly intoxicating and addictive. I'd stay up all night reading, dreaming of them over and over. Fortunately, I was young back then. Reading was such a thrill: strange and fantastical worlds, heroes leaping across rooftops, powerful figures soaring thro
Keeping Track of the Books I've Read
Looking for books I've read in the past and ones I'm reading now
A Little List from a Ten-Year Book Fan
Discovering web novels that are a little different!
Personal Reading List
Good books I've found over the years
A Collection of Well-Reviewed Books I've Read
I've been an avid reader for 20 years, starting with hefty novels when I was a kid. I've read all kinds of books, but my memory is gradually fading, so I'll leave a few notes here.
Recommendations Between Kindred Spirits
What I thought I thought was what you thought.
Books for Growing Old Alone
Looking for novels that are fresh and creative, seeking an exceptionally distinctive writing style and reading experience, and hoping for something truly different. Most of the books on this list have received favorable reviews. The promising and recommended works I found through the weekly book-list rankings and various new-book rankings are all packed with potential and recommendations, recognized by the general readership. Otherwise, they could not have been newly added to so many lists. I al
Currently Reading
They’re all pretty decent, readable books.
Caicai's Bookshelf
Genuine recommendations, every book personally tested.
Reborn Every Day
Most of these are reborn stories
Liangzi's Niche Reading List
This list is based solely on my personal taste, not on the authors’ overall quality.
Worth Getting Into Lately
Great reads, definitely worth checking out. If you're out of books to read, come find me. Your friends won't tell you what it means. That was the time when you could add me, right? I mean, back then, come back... whatever, whatever, whatever.
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Reborn in 1987: My Girlfriend Is from 1907
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Symbiotic Panel: Farming for Immortality in the Cultivation World
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Back to 1977: Farming and Raising Kids
They Said We'd Convert the Military to Civilian Use, So What's with This Gas Canister?
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I Want to Become a Hong Kong Tycoon
Reborn in 1990: A Twist of Fate
Reborn as a Great Architect
The Way of the Commoner Is King
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The Empire: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
The Boundless Great Physician
Chinese Showbiz: Starting by Bonding with a Contract Beast
Hong Kong, 1978: A Tycoon Who Started by Growing Vegetables
Conquering America by Opening an Apocalypse Shelter
Blazing Red, 1975: My Wife Wants Me to Take on a Whole Row of Them
A Literary Master in Ancient Greece
Hello, 1983
Four Decades of Turbulent Times
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Infinite Terror: The Rise of an Ordinary Reincarnator
Restarting Life at Twenty
Back to the Prosperous Years to Live an Ordinary Life
Reborn in 1993
From Chinese-Style Lighters to Industrial Hegemony
Subway Survival: Matched with Nine Stunning Goddesses from the Start
Peninsula: Reborn, Forced to Play All-In from the Start
Chinese Showbiz: It Started with Moving in With a Taiwanese Girl
Hollywood in Shock: You Say You're Only 17?
America: Starting Out as a Wall Street Intern
In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu's Brother-in-Law Is Ya Zhu
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I Really Don't Want to Be a Simp Anymore
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I Just Want to Lose Money, So Why Is My School the World's Best?
American Showbiz: No One Understands the Entertainment Industry Better Than Me
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Reborn in 2008: The Public Enemy of My Competitors
My God, His Cooking Glows
The Tale-Tale Trainer
Fishing and Hunting for Survival in a New World
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1977, Come here... I really like the stories you write... Keep it up! 1977 Has always been on my bookshelf, even though I can't read them now, just to keep them as a memento.
Perhaps because of my engineering background, I believe that only production, whether in agriculture or industry, can truly create wealth. I have never been able to admire hoarding and speculation. Of all the careers Xiaominzi has achieved so far, my favorite is his role in helping the neighborhood establish a small textile cooperative and in helping various handicraft factories save endangered techniques and expand production.
Lan Lan is a supporting character, and I've figured out a bit of Lao Huang's (the author's) formula for writing female characters, or rather, his preferences. How exactly does it work? First, the protagonist will definitely marry the female supporting character.
Writers' online novels
Good books are online novels by authors, not online novel authors! It can be understood as a carefully crafted online novel by a traditional author. My decades of reading experience tell me that this may be a milestone, marking the perfect combination of tradition and the internet!
I've read up to chapter 1080, and I can't take it anymore. I have to rant. The author's explanations, factual information, and even the protagonist's thought processes, why he does what he does, and what the effects are... There's just too much of it. It takes up at least a third of the whole book. It doesn't feel like reading a novel; it feels like reading a narrative.
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
I've been following this book for five years now, and the story has only been going on for eight years! Keep it up, author!
It was a bit tiring to read. I don't even know what I was reading. The plot developed too slowly, with endless explanations throughout. How worried is the author about our cultural literacy? The beginning was okay, but it got increasingly difficult as it went on. I was reading a novel, not a novel reading guide. I hope the author will reconsider!
I've been following this author's books for a while now, and this is a great one. The author has realistically recreated Beijing in the 1970s and 80s. Unlike some time-travel novels where the events of that era are purely fictional, this one is a delightful read. 👍
Just rambling about my thoughts on the main character and the plot.
I'm curious, the author seems quite knowledgeable about food in the section, so could you give some reviews of restaurants that are currently open? Hmm, maybe a food section? I really like the protagonist, and I think his values and character are impeccable, and his emotional intelligence is beyond reproach.
This is my first time subscribing to the entire book! While there are many more online novels now, few are as high quality. I've been a bookworm for over ten years, reading from middle school through my master's degree and into my working life. Online novels shouldn't just be "exciting"; the descriptions of local customs and traditions are key to depicting the background of an era. While being "exciting," they still need to feel realistic. I hope the author keeps up the good work and updates!