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  1. All Things Hope Eyebrow Master NiangRealistic Fiction4.3M Wordsongoing [2025 Chinese Writers Association Internet Literature Key Support Works] This is how these people in this land live: there are comings and goings. There is life and there is death. Happiness, anger, sadness, joy, sorrow, joy, separation, and union. The breeze is silent, but all things are silent... Those people and things are neither close nor far, old yet new. PS: This is a long story. QQ book club group: 887043905 648Votes31kRecs49kFans
  2. She Rules the Ups and Downs Frontier FortressRealistic Fiction472k Wordsongoing From "vixen star" to costume queen, my sisters and I turned a bad hand into a king. 92Votes261Recs15Fans
  3. Qingming 12Th Year Laugh Away the GrudgesRealistic Fiction339k Wordsongoing Do you still remember the girl who made you regret the most? 53Votes8.2kRecs15.1kFans
  4. The Pentium Era - South to North Eyebrow Master NiangRealistic Fiction7.4M Wordscompleted [Won the special prize in the 5th Realistic Theme Internet Literature Essay Contest] [List of 100 Chinese Internet Literature Books in the New Era in the Decade] ["Searchlight Good Books" Top Ten Chinese and Foreign Genre Novels in October 2022] (The physical book has been published by CITIC Publishing House, titled "Going South to North") This is the story of a generation. A group of familiar "strangers" in a not-so-distant era. Many of the stories that began in 1990 may seem vulgar, childish, 35Votes49.1kRecs101.6kFans
  5. Bodyguard: Building a Factory in Africa with a Beautiful Boss I Roam and See the WorldRealistic Fiction41k Wordsongoing Lu Qiming, a disgraced and debt-ridden former boss; Gu Ruoruan is the youngest daughter of a wealthy family who is not favored by her father. One was kicked out of the poker table and went to Africa to work as a bodyguard in order to pay off his debts; In order to prove himself, a man took a makeshift team to build a factory in Africa. Foreign political and business relationships, transnational capital, family power struggles... In Africa, a land where danger and opportunity coexist, two underdo 22Votes76Recs1Fans
  6. Inside and Outside the Customs People Need Emotional StabilityRealistic Fiction299k Wordsongoing In the late 1970s, the small fishing village of Nanguo was transformed into a special zone. A three-meter-high barbed wire fence divides Shenzhen into the inner and outer customs. Machines roar outside the customs and there are many high-rise buildings inside the customs. "Urban immigrants" from all over the world have dreams of gold rush. They hold the border guard station and go in and out of the customs, weaving dreams. After the millennium, the barbed wire fences have corroded, checkpoints 18Votes687Recs47Fans
  7. Past Events on Han Street Pick up a Pine ConeRealistic Fiction70k Wordsongoing In the early 1980s, several families including the Cheng family, Zhou family, and Zhu family lived in an old alley of Han Street in Jiangcheng. During the reform and opening up, some people carried poles and went to the sea, some people waited and watched with their iron rice bowls, some people became rich overnight, and some people lost all their money. The elders each find a way to survive. Cheng Gang dragged his disabled leg and used a pole to support his family's livelihood; Wu Qifang went a 7Votes119Recs2Fans
  8. Concurrent Journey 1995 DownerRealistic Fiction1.0M Wordsongoing It's not a cool novel, there's no time travel, there's no golden finger. This is a short story compiled and adapted from real people, a microcosm of the ups and downs under the torrent of the times. 4Votes21.6kRecs52.6kFans
  9. Watch the Tide He XiaoRealistic Fiction298k Wordsongoing [Shanghai Writers Association signed online literary works in 2026] A story about a group of children in a village. The development of the times is like a surging tide, especially in Shanghai. Standing at the fork in the road ten years later and looking back, Xu Manman, who is as strict as Xu Manman, can't help but sigh: the footsteps of their generation coincide with the urbanization process of rural areas in Shanghai's suburbs. They are history. #Love #groupimage 1Votes122Recs21Fans
  10. Erect a Tower Eleventh PostmasterRealistic Fiction382k Wordscompleted Chen Guodong was framed and expelled. Faced with the pressure of survival, with humiliation and unwillingness, he and his brother started making their own electrical wires. They survive in the cracks of the times, break out in the wilderness of the rivers and lakes, rush into the surging tide, fight against fate, and constantly compromise with fate. They are like the wires in their hands, connected to the current, climbing up the tower, and they will surely face their own storm at the top of the 1Votes127Recs21Fans
  11. There Are Embers in the Distant Mountains In High Spirits 998Realistic Fiction7k Wordsongoing "Ashes in the Distant Mountains" is a realistic work of era group portraits that spans thirty years. It uses cold and restrained writing to record the complete ups and downs of a generation from its primitive intentions to the end of its prosperity. It removes the legendary filter and only writes about the most authentic human nature, choices and costs in the torrent of the times. In the 1990s, the grass was rising, and a group of young people joined the game with sincerity. Some people believe 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  12. A Dictionary Takes Me Out of the Jinsha River ShanjiangkeRealistic Fiction24k Wordsongoing A young Yi boy living by the Jinsha River used a dictionary, a kerosene lamp, and an endless mountain road to transport himself from the river to the coast of the East China Sea. 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  13. The Cow Comes Classmate Xiao Ming and IRealistic Fiction42k Wordsongoing This is the story of a newly graduated college student who first entered the workplace. Influenced by his colleagues, he came into contact with the stock market. He specialized in value investing and became an ultra-short-term player. He believed in the leading strategy and became a big player with a small amount of money. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  14. Cen Shang Changfeng Ning HanRealistic Fiction21k Wordscompleted Fifty-three-year-old Lu Guancen is a senior construction technology manager in Chongqing. He spent half his life climbing up the stairs in a mountain city, working his way up step by step from a young boy at the bottom, overcoming the mountains of survival and respectability, until he reached middle age, but his career was gradually marginalized. He harbors career ideals and hopes to preserve the fireworks of the old city through a micro-renewal project in the old city. At the same time, he also 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  15. Lu Yuangui and Fu Zhilan Lu YuanguiRealistic Fiction4k Wordsongoing In the 21st century, the story of Lu Yuangui and Fu Zhilan at university, after a man and a woman stayed alone, they developed ups and downs alone! 0Votes76Recs0Fans
  16. The Rest of My Life Is Numbered Old Man by the FiresideRealistic Fiction10k Wordsongoing Zhou Xu, 32, was an account manager at a branch in Linchuan. After a dispute over the fund arrangement of an elderly customer, he left his original position and entered the Silver Age Service Station, where he began to check contracts, quotations and service boundaries for the elderly. Long-term care insurance assessor Shen Yi believes that every box on the assessment form must withstand review. Grandma Wu's dispute over the level of care, the renovation package of Cotton Spinning North Hospital 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  17. Let You Surf on the Sea, Not Cross the Ocean Alibaba SurgesRealistic Fiction3k Wordsongoing Two people and a rubber boat crossed the Guiyi Strait and went shopping on the streets of Danggui. The rubber boat was discovered by a fisherman. As a result, the situation in Angelica was in chaos. 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  18. Hometown Road Home Genius CarrotRealistic Fiction7k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  19. Cave Family Ming PuppyRealistic Fiction6k Wordsongoing Come to Yuewen's website to read more of my works! 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  20. Pentium Era Angry BrotherRealistic Fiction9k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  21. Rebirth 1960: I Support My Family by Driving Mountains Like a ZiRealistic Fiction6k Wordsongoing In his last life, Lin Fengmian lived a life that was despised by everyone in the country. He used despicable means to deceive his beautiful wife Tang Yurou into marrying him. He drank heavily, gambled, and became violent at home. He stole the life-saving money for his daughter's medical treatment and personally forced his wife and daughter to commit suicide by taking poison on a cold winter night. After losing everything, he suddenly woke up and joined the army to become a special soldier. He 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  22. Rebirth 1987 I Changed My Life by Chasing the Sea and Going Against the Will of Heaven Can't Eat Mushrooms 996Realistic Fiction27k Wordsongoing Zhang Feng, an office worker, suffered from depression in the workplace. When he woke up, he was reborn and returned to his hometown on the seaside in 1987. Tired of being involved, he chose to stay in his hometown and catch the sea, accidentally activating the fish search system. The tide ebbs and flows, and rare seafood is collected. Seize the trend of the 1980s, rush to catch fresh fish, open up sales, make up for all the regrets in the past life, protect your family, start from scratch, ride 0Votes42Recs0Fans
  23. Asked About the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Plateau TravelerRealistic Fiction46k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes39Recs0Fans
  24. Zhuoyuan's Three Years Master of YiyunzhaiRealistic Fiction22k Wordsongoing Time is worthy of it A high school, three years. Some teachers are fettered by fame and fortune and fall into a deep pool of involution and internal friction; some are troubled by their families and are exhausted physically and mentally; most of them focus on teaching and shaping the future. Teenagers are chased by dreams and troubled by growing pains. In the new semester, some people are silent; some are arrogant; some make plans in advance; some realize it later. Three years later they discove 0Votes344Recs0Fans
  25. Zhang Zhengyou, a College Student Village Official Eight Hundred Mountain PeopleRealistic Fiction14k Wordsongoing "College Student Village Official Zhang Zhengyou" is a novel written by contemporary writer Pan Shiyuan. The main content of the book is centered on the growth process of the protagonist Zhang Zhengyou, and is divided into three parts: the first part describes the difficulties faced by the countryside such as shortage of funds, lack of technology and conservative ideas; the second part shows the story of Zhang Zhengyou's struggle to lead the villagers to overcome difficulties and promote industr 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  26. Winter in Vladivostok Lu XiyiRealistic Fiction18k Wordsongoing The factory closed down, he got divorced, his mother was hospitalized and he owed 150,000 yuan - Zhou Lidong was drained by life. Lao Yang called from Russia: "There is a way for sea goods here, can you come?" He went. The principal of 200,000 yuan was turned into a pile of rotten fish in the cold storage by Lao Yang. A Russian woman named Natasha helped him find a buyer - Boss Wang, who was in the defective goods business, and took away the goods for 70,000 yuan. He took the 70,000 yuan, bypa 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  27. Moonlight on the Fifth Floor I Have to Rely on MyselfRealistic Fiction32k Wordsongoing Baishizhou is going to be demolished. But he decided not to leave. Chen Mo is twenty-eight years old and a member of the "optimization" list of major Internet companies. When he dragged his suitcase back to the five-story old building in Baishizhou, Shenzhen, he just wanted to sell it as soon as possible to get capital for starting a business. But Sister Zhao in the barber shop downstairs has been cutting with a pair of scissors for fifteen years and cut out the entire street's favor; Aqiang a 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  28. Jiang Shuiyi, I Originally Wanted to Run Away. Asparagus AsparagusRealistic Fiction88k Wordsongoing This is a ridiculous book: a killer who has never killed anyone is like a leaf falling on the water, floating for twenty years and finally sinking. It is also a tender book: in the silence of the river, in the sweetness of the orange jelly beans, in the ritual of a woman placing two pairs of shoes side by side under the bed, in all the passages where "I want to laugh but can't" - there is a person who used his short and failed life to prove that kindness is a very expensive thing. So expensive t 0Votes11Recs0Fans
  29. Buying a House Life Non-Mainstream ViewsRealistic Fiction1k Wordsongoing "Life of a House Buyer" is a novel that records the experiences of house buyers. From 2016 to 2023, Wuhan's property market is booming, high-rise buildings are rising from the ground, and the city's appearance is changing day by day. Not only did they gather a lot of wealth, but they also left mortgage loans all over the place; there was both ecstasy and sadness at being safe. How can you understand it unless you experience it yourself? There are several types of people involved in creating th 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  30. Forty Years of Xuefeng Medicine Town Moon Hanging Book WindowRealistic Fiction91k Wordsongoing The male protagonist Chen Xianjun graduated from the Provincial Agricultural College majoring in Chinese medicinal materials in 1980 and was assigned to a county seed company. While accompanying his team to the countryside to collect improved seeds, he discovered that wild Polygonatum odorata, Polygonatum odorifera, and Gastrodia elata were scattered all over the mountains in his hometown of Xiaoshagang, but no one knew about them, but the villagers relied on food relief to survive. In 1983, he 0Votes40Recs0Fans
  31. There Is No Way Back from Hormuz Fleeting Fay SlangRealistic Fiction78k Wordsongoing On October 7, Hamas launched the "Aqsa Flood" operation. Zhou Yuan was negotiating with a Greek shipowner in his office in Dubai about a escort contract in Yemeni waters. The news feed came across on his mobile phone. The two parties looked at each other but said nothing. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  32. How Warm Is This Life HuanyuRealistic Fiction13k Wordsongoing I once remembered what happened in the grasshopper field when I was young. People are running through the east streets and west alleys, and they are talking loudly. The general horn tells the atrium, and the thorns accompany the moonlight. Cardamom picking green plums, bamboo horses running around. There are also moments of tears, bearing the sorrow of youth. But looking back, I saw that the two children were innocent. I only wait for you to reach the crown and marry you into the candle ro 0Votes2Recs0Fans
  33. Lam Kee Cake Shop Year-Round Code WriterRealistic Fiction57k Wordsongoing Come to Yuewen's website to read more of my works! 0Votes11Recs0Fans
  34. Returning to the Village: Redrawing Huai County Thunder InfantRealistic Fiction36k Wordsongoing In 2012, three young people from Huaibei left the city and returned to their hometowns due to their worries. They took root in the land to pursue their dreams, and spent ten years of hard work redrawing a magnificent picture of prosperity. It contains the passion of youth, suspenseful exploration, grassroots struggle, and feelings of family and country. It is full of concerts and symphonies of grassroots young people in the new era who dare to dream, pursue their dreams passionately, and realize 0Votes22Recs0Fans
  35. The Middle Game of the Trend: the Ups and Downs of Love and Hate in the Car-Making World Looking at Sumeru from a DistanceRealistic Fiction19k Wordsongoing When car manufacturing and entrepreneurship encountered repeated epidemics, hardware research and development was trapped between the workshop and home. Founder Shen Jingzhi struggled to negotiate among financing partners, investment institutions, and supply chain manufacturers. Online due diligence, closed-loop factory presence, risk games, voting in the capital conference room, and oil-stained prototype cars in the workshop jointly reveal the cruel and true industry truth of new energy entrepr 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  36. Daguo Construction Site Sha LiangRealistic Fiction55k Wordsongoing "Construction Site of a Great Country" is a realistic novel with the background of China's reform and opening up and the internationalization of engineering companies. The story spans more than forty years and takes the growth and destiny of a generation of engineers as the main line. From domestic construction sites to overseas deserts, from thermal power construction to international EPC, from the rise of cities to corporate globalization, it tells the story of a group of builders' struggles, 0Votes19Recs0Fans
  37. Fucha Lonely Guest Original Writer Deng SanRealistic Fiction4k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  38. Small River Big River Too Hot to SleepRealistic Fiction14k Wordsongoing 1983, Linjiang City. The year Lin Xiaohe was born, his father, Lin Jianguo, was catching up with the first train of reform - getting approval, setting up a small factory, and his family's wealth rose from abject poverty to a well-known household worth ten thousand yuan. Xiaohe's primary school composition was "My Dad from a Household of Ten Thousand Yuan". Many years later, when Lin Xiaohe once again stood with nothing under the plane trees on Linjiang Road, he would think of that New Year's Ev 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  39. Fluid Frenzy One Singapore DollarRealistic Fiction68k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes16Recs0Fans
  40. On the Other Side of the Mountain, the Counterattack of the Mountain Village Boy The Wild Child Beyond the MountainRealistic Fiction19k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  41. Poor but Thinking About Change Lao Le Storytelling ClubRealistic Fiction99k Wordsongoing This book uses a first-person autobiographical perspective to record the true life trajectory of an ordinary person born in the 1960s. He grew up in an era when material resources were scarce and experienced poverty and hardship. In his early years, he worked as a rural substitute teacher and went to work in other places to make a living. He also went to the sea to do business and was frustrated, and went to a mining area to pay off debts. He always had the tenacity not to accept his fate under 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  42. Rebirth 1979: the Era of Criminal Law That I Witnessed Pillow RhythmRealistic Fiction11k Wordsongoing The rebirth of modern legal practitioners goes back to 1979, which coincides with the official implementation of the first criminal law in New China and the difficult start of the construction of the rule of law. At that time, the rules had not yet been perfected, human feelings were entangled with legal principles, severe punishment thinking was prevalent, and the rule of man and the rule of law collided fiercely. After resurrecting his life, he took root at the grassroots level and faced cases 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  43. Sixty Art Troupe: I Sing About the Prosperous Years Tracing the TruthRealistic Fiction43k Wordsongoing Traveling back to 1965, Chen Nian, a modern music lover, became a precarious trainee of the street art troupe. His job is on the verge of collapse, he has very few bills in his pocket, and his old mother in his hometown is still looking forward to his help. Surviving, earning allowances, and saving food stamps and meat stamps were his most simple thoughts. In the ups and downs of the times, he took root in the factory workshop and traveled through the fireworks world. Relying on the music theor 0Votes37Recs0Fans
  44. My First Half of Life Writer's GiftRealistic Fiction5k Wordsongoing This work is written based on my own personal experience growing up. Its main purpose is to give myself a gift and recall my past childhood days. Except for the changes in the names of people and places, other things in this book are real events. I hope you will like it. 0Votes10Recs0Fans
  45. Yishan Zhixia Uncut Jade FlourishesRealistic Fiction32k Wordsongoing New book: In Yishui, a thousand-year-old county, Jiwanggu Changfeng circulates year after year, blowing the local fireworks and personnel, but it cannot dispel the half-life regrets buried deep in the bones and blood of the world. Xu Qingyi, who was born in a scholarly family in Yimeng, has been immersed in Qilu culture since childhood and is deeply familiar with the philosophy of Lao and Zhuang. After six years of deep cultivation in his hometown, he devoted himself to studying the ancient sit 0Votes13Recs0Fans
  46. Jiangzhu Sinks to the Bank SiheRealistic Fiction21k Wordsongoing An oil lamp and a stack of earthen paper once illuminated the young man's dream of traveling far away. Crossing the river to take the exam, I have great ambitions, but the tide of the times is rolling forward. There is no way out for both civil and military affairs, and ideals are in ruins. I have tasted the cold eyes of the world and been discouraged several times. Even though fate has dealt with me in all kinds of ways, I still maintain a gentle and kind-hearted character in my heart. 0Votes1Recs0Fans
  47. I Buy Braised Pork in Siheyuan A KnifeRealistic Fiction63k Wordsongoing Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! 0Votes15Recs0Fans
  48. Tateyama Tianma ChuanzongRealistic Fiction70k Wordsongoing "Lishan" uses Erlong Mountain in Laoshan Mountain as the narrative field, takes Shennong Lianshan Yi's "establishing roots, establishing life, and establishing heart" as the spiritual core. It inherits Yu Hua's calm and restrained folk narrative style, completely dissolves Yi Li into daily fireworks, and writes about the life resilience of ordinary people to hold on and stand firm in the suffering of survival. Jiang He, a doctor of psychology from Peking University, fell into severe insomnia du 0Votes69Recs0Fans
  49. Xitian Charcoal Bone Writerynpb3mRealistic Fiction14k Wordsongoing There is no love or golden finger in the century-old development history of the small town of Benxi in Northeast China. Although they are all legends passed down by mouth, it is not the experience of several generations. 0Votes0Recs0Fans
  50. Tenth Marriage Poet in SlippersRealistic Fiction280k Wordsongoing Everyone is moving forward and finding their place. The light that had shined in each other's lives in those years, in the end, became the arc of the corner of the mouth when we occasionally think of it. 0Votes3Recs0Fans