Recommended by a 20-Year Veteran Reader: Mainly Urban and Historical Fiction! 20年老书虫推荐,都市,历史为主!
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The Roaring Years: Heading South, Heading North 奔腾年代——向南向北
[Grand Prize Winner, Fifth Realistic-Themed Online Literature Writing Contest] [Featured in the Top 100 Chinese Online Literature Works of the New Era’s First Decade] [Among the Top Ten Chinese and International Genre Novels in the “Searchlight Books” October 2022 List] (The print edition was published by CITIC Press under the title Northbound, Southbound.) This is the story of a generation. A not-so-distant era, and a group of familiar “strangers.” The story begins in 1990. Much of what they di
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I Really Don’t Want to be Reborn 我真没想重生啊
Who could have imagined that Chen Hansheng, a successful professional and eligible bachelor, would be reborn and wake up as a high school senior? At a crossroads in his life, Chen Hansheng is torn between the treasure of a girl, Shen Youchu, and his first love, Xiao Rongyu. Who should he choose? The pinnacle of urban rebirth fiction, and an essential romance guide for young people!
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My Father Is Emperor Gaozu of Han 家父汉高祖
The new book The Court Does Not Move South is now being serialized. Your support is appreciated! A great empire has just been born, and a new era is about to begin. Liu Chang once wondered whether he should compete for the throne and lead this brand-new empire himself. But then he looked at the people around him: Liu Bang, Empress Lu, Liu Ying, Liu Heng... Well, isn’t it better to stay alive? And so Liu Chang earned himself the title of the most shameful transmigrator and settled into
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My Wife Came from a Thousand Years Ago 我家老婆来自一千年前
[The comic adaptation of Please Be Sensible, My Wife is now available on all platforms. Check it out!] “I want to go home.” “You might not be able to go back.” “Why not?” “Because your home is very far away.” “How far?” “About twelve hundred years.” Xu Qing looked at the young woman from the Tang Dynasty before him with a hint of sympathy. “Everything you know has become history.” Family, friends, enemies: they all vanished more than twelve hundred years ago. A slice-of-life story with one fema
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Reborn to Ride the Wave 重生之我要冲浪
Back in the past, Yao Yuan has only one thing on his mind: goofing off… Ahem, I mean surfing!
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I, the Emperor 朕
Back in the late Ming, reduced to slavery. If an emperor can be a beggar, a Manchu invader, a rebel, or a household slave, why can’t a household slave become emperor?
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The Qin Empire's Bailiff 秦吏
(My new book, “New Book,” is out. Set at the end of the Xin dynasty, it follows a transmigrator battling the Son of the Plane.) At the end of the Warring States period, China faced an upheaval unlike any in a thousand years. Some were born into hereditary nobility. Some were princes of noble rank. But he was reborn as Heifu, a lowly Qin soldier and an obscure figure in the Qin bamboo slips from Yunmeng. To avoid dying in a ditch and take control of his own fate, he fought his way up. Fortunately
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The Commoner's Second Chance 俗人回档
At 33, Bian Xuedao, a newspaper editor who reviews articles, wakes up in his high school classroom. The middle-aged man had planned to buy up houses and live off the rent, but his years of reading newspapers and accumulating information help him achieve dazzling success. After making his fortune, Bian Xuedao establishes an education fund, supports young entrepreneurs, encourages technological innovation, promotes positive values and good deeds, and devotes himself to public service. He becomes a
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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…
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