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Spirit Mountain 灵山
Mei Xi, an undergraduate at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, had wandered the world from a young age. After struggling his way into university and reaching his second year, he transmigrated through an extraordinary chance encounter and arrived in the prosperous Tang dynasty. To his surprise, the world he found was not quite like the one described in history books. Things that existed only in myths and legends were right there before his eyes. How should he make his way in this world? Were
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- 2 A Clever Bride and Her Happy Days 巧媳妇好日子 Shen Feiyang, a woman born in the 1980s, worked hard all her life, only to suffer a car accident after turning fifty. When she opened her eyes again, she saw neither the white walls of a hospital nor the underworld. Instead, she had transmigrated into the body of Shen Yunfang, a young woman born in the 1950s. She had transmigrated to an era when people barely had enough to eat or wear. Hmph, none of that could stump a clever woman who had spent half her life fighting her way through society. Jus 0Votes387.2kRecs156.2kFans
- 3 So It Was Zhen Yuan 原来是镇元 It took me an entire primordial epoch to figure out that I was Zhen Yuanzi. Since that's the case, let me ask you this: what does Zhen Yuanzi lack? I was born from the essence of the Five Elements, am of the same generation as the Three Pure Ones, and am a top-tier primordial godfiend. I have the top-grade spiritual treasure Earth Book as my companion treasure, and a top-tier primordial spiritual root came with me from birth. So why can't I become a sage? My old friend Hongyun is honest, so does 0Votes33.1kRecs41.1kFans
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The Great Tang’s Number One Young Master 大唐第一少
Born and ennobled, he lives through the magnificent upheavals of the Great Tang. The prosperous splendor of the age supports the Great Tang's splendid realm. To the east lie the Three Han States and the Japanese islands, sweet-tongued but treacherous. To the west are the plateaus and deserts, full of wolfish amb
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The Reborn Perfect Era 重生完美时代
Li Mu, a veteran programmer, was kicked by fate back to the eve of the 2001 college entrance exams. Delighted, he brushed himself off and set out on a path destined for greatness. Given a second chance at life, Li Mu has ambitions of his own. Making money is only the beginner’s stage of greatness. As for gracing the cover of Time, dominating the IT industry, and making it onto the Forbes list, those barely count as the intermediate stage of life. So what does the highest level of greatness look
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- 6 My 1979 我的1979 When you wake up, you’re back in that era. Facing the past once more, can you guess how it will end… 8Votes6.7MRecs2.2MFans
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The Immortal Mortal 不朽凡人
In this world, only those with a spiritual root can cultivate immortality. Those with ordinary roots are destined to remain ordinary people. Mo WujI has only an ordinary root. He is nothing but an ordinary man!
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Riding the Tide of a Pure-Hearted Era 逆流纯真年代
Time is a ship. Some people like to think of those few years in the early 1990s as the final voyage of a once-innocent era. Jiang Che, long since changed by the passing years, returns against the current and starts over in 1992, writing a brilliant youth that can finally be laid to rest properly. [Welcome to the second VIP group for Reversing the Current of Innocent Days: 497283806 (You must provide a screenshot showing you’ve purchased the whole book to join. This time, I’ll try to talk more.)]
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- 9 When Dreams Awaken, Silence Lingers 梦醒细无声 Reborn to Dive into Dreams and The Southern Song Doesn't Cough are completed novels, and their characters are connected to those in this book, so you can read them together. From the end back to the beginning, Hong Tao has returned to the era before his first rebirth, but he has lost all the memories of his three rebirths and transmigrations. What would he be like if he had never been reborn, without the golden finger of his memories? During the surging tide of reform and opening up, would he st 0Votes569.6kRecs113.7kFans
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