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The Golden Age 流金时代
(Winner of the Fourth Real-Life Writing Contest, one of the finest works selected by hundreds of websites, a premium work with over ten thousand subscribers) This is the story of me, a highly accomplished master's graduate from Southeast University and an IT elite, and how my wife, a professional online fiction writer and perennial flop with only an elementary-school education, managed to bamboozle me into marrying her. It is also the story of how, amid fifteen years of upheaval in Chinese onli
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The Splendor of Shanghai 上海繁华
The story follows an outsider's struggles in Shanghai over the decade from 2005 to 2015, covering his work and personal life. A highly realistic guide to working and starting a business for young people, it offers an illuminating portrait of real life and is well worth reading.
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Tender Mercantile Ways 商道柔情
Building a business and saving lives, love and family, greed and responsibility. Good and evil, right and wrong, gratitude and grudges: nothing is predestined, so cherish what you have. It won't come just because you call, yet it won't leave you alone either, bringing both troubles and surprises.
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Life Is Pretty Sweet 生活挺甜
[This book’s screen adaptation rights have been signed, and it has also been published in print.] [Special Prize, Fourth Online Literature Realism Writing Competition] People born in the 1980s were the first generation labeled rebellious. They came of age in a peculiar era: watched by some and looked down on by others, indulged by some and condemned by others... The “rebellious youths” of the past have somehow become “oily middle-aged adults,” worn down by the combined pressures of work and life
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The Rise of a Small Town in Shoe Country 鞋乡之小镇崛起
A story of social change since Reform and Opening Up, the rise of a small town, the prosperity of a town famed for its shoes, and the inspiring success of a young man from a farming family.
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Men Are All Children 男人都是孩子
It is not easy for a man to grow up. He does not become an adult until forty. Growing up is a one-way game that cannot be paused, nor can you choose a different career. Scientific research has proven that women reach psychological maturity at the age of thirty-two, while men mature eleven years later. Marriage is a joint-stock company with unlimited care and limited liability. This is the first work to comprehensively portray, from a male perspective, the growth of little boys and big boys into
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The Story of Officer Yang Qianfeng 警官杨前锋的故事
Yang Qianfeng served in the military, fought in battle, and survived a brush with death. He loved the army, his big family. But the widely watched million-strong military downsizing disbanded his unit. Reluctantly, Yang took off his uniform and transferred to civilian life in 1986, becoming a people's police officer. Some people see the same job as nothing more than a paycheck; others consider it a profession; and still others devote their lives to it as a calling. Different attitudes lead to di
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The Mountain Village Chicken-Farming Tycoon 山村养鸡大亨
Now that I’ve been reborn, what is there to hesitate about? If there’s something you love, go do it. Zhao Qingshan thinks there’s no need to live for other people. If he likes raising chickens, then he should happily go raise chickens! One day, as he looks at modern high-tech chicken sheds stretching as far as the eye can see, free-range chickens roaming across the hills, and orders shipped all over the world, he’ll proudly say that raising chickens has a bright future too. Do you like chicken?
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