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  1. 1 My 1979 我的1979 Haggling Over Every Penny in a Fancy Hat争斤论两花花帽Realistic Fiction4.0M WordsCompleted When you wake up, you’re back in that era. Facing the past once more, can you guess how it will end… 26Votes6.7MRecs2.2MFans
  2. 2 Chief Detective 警探长 Righteousness Across the World奉义天涯Realistic Fiction2.9M WordsCompleted One case within another, one scheme within another: twists and turns that are strange yet make perfect sense. Remember every detail. It could be the key to solving the case! Upholding justice across the Nine Provinces, settling grudges and enmities; roaming the ends of the earth with a sword in hand. The story of a police officer, with sharp wits from start to finish. There are plenty of clues planted throughout, and even more brilliant minds in the reader community and comments section. Leave a 26Votes421.8kRecs2.1MFans
  3. 3 The Silent Voice of All Things 万物希声 Lady Mei眉师娘Realistic Fiction4.5M WordsOngoing [Grand Prize Winner of the 10th Online Literature Contest for Realistic Fiction] [Selected for the China Writers Association’s 2025 Key Support Program for Online Literature] These people on this land live their lives just like this: coming and going, being born and dying. Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, grief, delight, parting, reunion. The breeze is silent, all things make scarcely a sound… Those people, those affairs: neither near nor far, both old and new. P.S. This one will be a long novel. 354Votes107.9kRecs51.3kFans
  4. 4 Climbed 1 places Twelve Years of Qingming 清明十二年 Let Bygones Be Bygones笑泯恩仇呀Realistic Fiction368k WordsOngoing Do you still remember the girl you regret losing the most? 14Votes50.1kRecs16.2kFans
  5. 5 Fell 1 places Merchant by Day, Doctor by Night 行商坐医 Mountain Woodcutter Guardian山樵守护者Realistic Fiction6.0M WordsOngoing A physician has a benevolent heart, while a merchant seeks profit. Combine medicine and commerce, use the healing gourd to aid the world, and benefit both others and oneself. The ideal sounds wonderful, but reality is harsh. Bian Mu, a small-town Chinese medicine practitioner, spends years struggling amid the tides of ordinary society, experiencing intertwined joys and sorrows as he works his way toward becoming a renowned physician. Then, quite unexpectedly, the God of Wealth pays him a visi 126Votes56.3kRecs158.8kFans
  6. 6 Ace Lawyer 王牌律师 Red Plum Blossoms Reflected in Snow雪映红梅Realistic Fiction1.6M WordsOngoing Shen Lang was born into poverty and has experienced the full range of human warmth and coldness. Money is his only faith. He is ruthless in pursuing his goals, sharp-tongued and caustic, and universally loathed at his law firm, yet he is also an exceptionally capable money-making machine. Chen Xia comes from a wealthy family and dreams of becoming a lawyer who can roam the world righting wrongs with a sword. To escape the future her parents have arranged for her, she makes a two-year wager with 74Votes9.4kRecs18.3kFans
  7. 7 Back to 1999: An Electrifying Era 重返1999激昂年代 Qu Ling渠凌Realistic Fiction5.1M WordsCompleted Ji Donglai, an ordinary man swept along by the times, had spent more than forty years running himself ragged. By chance, he returned to a small city in 1999. His parents were still alive, and he was facing the gaokao sprint and the lingering effects of the wave of layoffs. At last, Ji Donglai was no longer lost. Starting over, he had none of his old grand declarations about changing the world. All he wanted now was to improve his family's life, and he set out on the path to prosperity. Hebei is 0Votes23kRecs202kFans
  8. 8 Climbed 1 places Old Soldiers, New Cops 老兵新警 Zhuo Muxian卓牧闲Realistic Fiction2.1M WordsCompleted I never wanted to take off my military uniform upon retirement. I had never dared hope that I could become a police officer, yet I ended up wearing a police uniform. I resolved to put down roots at the border and guard the nation's gates, only to be transferred back to my hometown. Fate is truly wondrous. Come and witness Han Xin's extraordinary life, from olive green to navy blue! PS: Old Zhuo's reader group: 978418538. VIP group: 760351091, requiring 2,000 fan points. 0Votes405.7kRecs293.8kFans
  9. 9 Climbed 1 places The Roaring Years: Heading South, Heading North 奔腾年代——向南向北 Lady Mei眉师娘Realistic Fiction7.4M WordsCompleted [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 20Votes108.4kRecs102.3kFans
  10. 10 Fell 2 places I Restore Relics for My Country 我为国家修文物 Thirteen Idle Travelers十三闲客Realistic Fiction3.4M WordsCompleted (The new book "Falsely Accused for Doing Good: I Already Apologized, What More Do You Want" is now available. Please show your support!) Amid the interweaving of reality and history, who can uncover the secrets hidden within the nation's treasured cultural relics? I opened the Eye of Time and saw a world like this: schemes, art, war, pounding hooves, and firelight... Five thousand years of China's splendid civilization lay concealed beneath decayed paintings, bronze vessels covered in verdigris, 0Votes445.9kRecs327.4kFans
  11. 11 The Great Nation’s Military Reclamation 大国军垦 Big Qiang 67大强67Realistic Fiction9.2M WordsOngoing There is a group of people in this world who shed blood for their country in wartime, and sweat for it in peacetime. They devoted their entire lives to the northwestern frontier of their motherland, as did their children. It is because of them that our country can flourish and prosper! 46Votes103.7kRecs164.5kFans
  12. 12 One Million in Debt: I Turned My Life Around by Writing 负债百万，我靠码字逆袭人生 Prince of Dian滇王爷Realistic Fiction91k WordsOngoing Wang Xi's startup fails, leaving him a million yuan in debt. Utterly despairing, he is about to jump from a building when a call from his parents saves him. After returning to his hometown, he decides to write online fiction to earn money and pay off his debts... Back in his Bouyei hometown, he writes one chapter after another while living life earnestly, and meets many young people along the way. After earning enough to clear his debts, he develops the local agricultural economy, donates to his 30Votes8Recs0Fans
  13. 13 Great Nation, Great Mechanic 大国机修 Qu Ling渠凌Realistic Fiction2.9M WordsCompleted “Dongqing, you’re a college graduate. Isn’t it beneath you to fix cars with us?” In the small repair shop, a group of roughnecks teased him. Ji Dongqing wiped the sweat from his brow, a wry smile rising in his heart. It was 2002. Rather than spend years going in circles as a college graduate, he’d be better off taking advantage of the high wages in auto repair, earning money early, and paying off his student loans. If he could manage it, he’d buy a place in the city, find a good woman, get marri 0Votes43.9kRecs314.3kFans
  14. 14 I Have a Mountain 我有一座山 Old Street Banmian老街板面Realistic Fiction4.8M WordsCompleted Yu Fei got divorced. He left behind the fast-paced, high-pressure life of the big city and returned to his hometown alone with his daughter. He planned to farm a little, raise some fish, and live the same kind of life his parents had spent their whole lives living: the life of a farmer. Then came the day he tidied up the old house... 0Votes83.4kRecs272kFans
  15. 15 Not a Fairy Tale 非童话故事 Lola lola罗拉lolaRealistic Fiction191k WordsOngoing A factory girl parachuted into a job with a five-hundred-thousand-yuan annual salary, moving into a luxurious seaside mansion and playing the second daughter of a wealthy family! She gained a lady-of-leisure mother, a spoiled younger brother, a socialite older sister, and a "brother-in-law" so handsome he made her knees go weak. Yet her chairman father coldly tossed out a single sentence: "My children are merely positions, and the capable shall occupy them." One sentence sent her straight from t 36Votes2.5kRecs3Fans
  16. 16 Climbed 6 places Everything About Chen Mo 关于陈默的一切 Young Ginger Fat Goose仔姜肥鹅Realistic Fiction709k WordsOngoing Memory = maze, Ability = curse, Memory² + 2 Ability = an infinite abyss. The more Zhou Yang tries to solve it, the deeper he sinks. Standing at the bottom of the abyss, he looks up. The only way out is to find everything about Chen Mo. 2Votes18.6kRecs10.8kFans
  17. 17 Fell 1 places Silent Secret War 秘战无声 Long Wind长风Realistic Fiction3.7M WordsCompleted The third and final installment in the Secret War trilogy, Silent: During a massacre, Luo Yao narrowly escapes death. By a twist of fate, he enters the Linli Special Training Class. Using his exceptional hearing, he hunts down traitors, roots out moles, tracks Japanese spies, cracks the Japanese army’s top-secret codes, and lives a legendary life. A great spy’s deeds are written on his tombstone. Luo Yao, the greatest spy of the twentieth century (Titing) A Changfeng release is always a masterpi 0Votes186.8kRecs260.7kFans
  18. 18 Fell 1 places A Lawyer's True Colors 律师本色 Red Plum Blossoms Reflected in Snow雪映红梅Realistic Fiction2.3M WordsCompleted The new book The Little Lawyer is now available. Fang Yi reaches middle age only to face divorce and unemployment one after another. In order to reclaim the life he once had, he changes careers and becomes a lawyer. It is this legal career that allows him to witness all the different faces of life, while also seeing the conflicts between law and morality, love and betrayal, and money and ideals. In the end, he finds his own happiness. 0Votes27.6kRecs236.3kFans
  19. 19 Climbed 1 places The Ultimate Con Artist 超级大忽悠 Chang Shuxin常书欣Realistic Fiction2.0M WordsCompleted The simplified Chinese edition of The Super Bluffer has been published under the title The Expert by China Drama Press. It is available from online bookstores and major bookshops. 0Votes238.8kRecs98.8kFans
  20. 20 Climbed 1 places A Fateful Choice 失控抉择 Fake Earthfire冒牌土火Realistic Fiction161k WordsOngoing A used-car dealer is hired to retrieve an encrypted USB drive hidden in the spare tire of a Prado. It seems like a simple errand, but it costs him his life. The murder suspect is soon identified, yet the mystery only deepens: The suspect and his car vanish without a trace in a dense forest. The victim claimed he was being followed, but surveillance footage shows him following someone else. Before the crime, the suspect spent a long time lurking strangely at a certain unusual location. At last, t 20Votes1.3kRecs111Fans
  21. 21 Fell 2 places The Boss Retires to a Quiet Life in Changbai Mountain 大佬不当了，在长白山过小日子 You Baihu佑白乎Realistic Fiction35k WordsOngoing Tianchi Lake, the Jinjiang Grand Canyon, the Demon Realm rafting trip... The airport announcements kept playing tourism ads for Changbai Mountain as Lu Nanyao wheeled his suitcase toward the exit. He sold his company in Yanjing. Some said he was bankrupt, while others laughed and called him crazy. Who says you can't make a lively, fulfilling life for yourself in a village? 12Votes28Recs0Fans
  22. 22 Fell 4 places Master, Would You Take a Look? 师傅，您给看看 As Steadfast as a Mountain of Flesh不动如肉山Realistic Fiction68k WordsOngoing In old Tianjin, the officiant who presided over funerals was called a “Da Le,” someone who helped people settle their affairs after death. On the banks of the Gu River in 1992, a Da Le lived in an unassuming funeral home. Yun Zaitian, known as Master Yun, came from a family of Da Le officiants spanning three generations. He could read omens and faces. His main business was arranging funerals; on the side, he helped the neighbors expose scams. Bai Sumei was a traditional illusionist, with nimble 46Votes69Recs0Fans
  23. 23 Gone, Then Returned 去而复返 Unruly狷狂Realistic Fiction60k WordsOngoing Human civilization is on the brink of extinction. Ming Anzai is forcibly brought by a Returner squad to the Night Sequence Institute, where she finds her mother, whom she thought had vanished into a parallel world ten years ago. Her mother asks her to join the Returner squad and make six jumps through time and space, reaching the point before this world overlaps with the ordinary world, and changing everything. Everyone says the overlap between this world and the parallel world was caused by an 30Votes62Recs0Fans
  24. 24 Police Officer Chen Shu 警察陈书 There's a Bear in My Backpack背包里有只熊Realistic Fiction2.3M WordsOngoing This book is adapted from cases the author personally took part in, taking you into the little-known files of frontline police officers. A major kidnapping case spanning several provinces suddenly landed on the desk of Chen Shu, a community police officer at a local police station. Forced to take on the case, he began an extraordinary journey of investigation. If you live in peaceful times and want to learn about the stories of those who shoulder heavy burdens and press on, then follow me into t 8Votes22.9kRecs53.2kFans
  25. 25 Climbed 7 places The Incense Gatherer 收香人 The Stubborn Cangjie顽固的仓颉Realistic Fiction498k WordsCompleted One of the Holy Lord's subordinates is known as the Fragrance Collector. I am that Fragrance Collector. If you make crooked wishes and earn blood money, your body has already become withered incense, with karmic fire smoldering within. When I come, I carry no blade and spill no blood. I only light a stick of incense for you. As it burns down, your sins are revealed. When it is gone and the censer cools, your life returns to the underworld. Do not look back. Do not beg for mercy. When the smoke r 0Votes952Recs5.2kFans
  26. 26 Climbed 1 places Fatal Stand-In 致命代游 The Gods Are Seeing Red诸神红温Realistic Fiction66k WordsOngoing Qi Zhao, a Buddhist monk with a degree in anthropology from a top-tier university, was laid off by a major company and became a delivery rider. Then, on a stormy night, he fell and broke his leg, getting fired again. With just 16.99 yuan left in his account, he’d hit rock bottom. But just when all hope seemed lost, a huge windfall suddenly dropped into his lap: tens of thousands of yuan to “take a wheelchair-bound old lady sightseeing” on someone else’s behalf. But as the sightseeing went on, po 44Votes43Recs1Fans
  27. 27 Fell 2 places Building Cars 造车 Son of the Banyan Tree榕之子Realistic Fiction2.4M WordsCompleted “I want to build cars!” Han Hao said with complete seriousness. “You?” Everyone around him laughed, and someone sneered, “Other people build cars with money, but the cars you, Han Hao, build will have to be bought with your life!” In the face of all the doubts, Han Hao remained unmoved. “In that case, let me be the first to test-drive it. I, Han Hao, will stake my life on a future for China’s automobile industry!” 0Votes355.9kRecs150.4kFans
  28. 28 Fell 2 places Tales of Han Street 汉街往事 Picking Up a Pinecone拾一枚松果Realistic Fiction189k WordsOngoing In the early 1980s, several families, including the Chengs, Zhous, and Zhus, lived in an old alley on Han Street in Jiangcheng. As reform and opening up took hold, some shouldered their carrying poles and plunged into business, while others watched from the security of their iron rice bowls. Some became rich overnight; others lost everything. The older generation each sought a way to make ends meet. With a damaged leg, Cheng Gang carried the burden of supporting his family on a shoulder pole. Wu 6Votes247Recs6Fans
  29. 29 Climbed 2 places Black Gold, Rivers and Mountains 黑金山河 Bananas Aren't Parallel香蕉不平行Realistic Fiction166k WordsOngoing Lin Chen, the son of a coal miner, graduated from university and went into coal chemical engineering. Just as the industry hit a downturn, his project ran into setbacks, funding came under pressure, and his career collapsed. With nowhere else to turn, he left home and traveled far to Xinjiang in search of opportunity. Sandstorms sweep across the Gobi, while technical challenges and financial troubles keep cropping up one after another. With no miraculous cheat or lucky break, all he can do is gr 16Votes265Recs6Fans
  30. 30 Fell 1 places Go On, Tell Me a Secret 说吧，秘密 Lady Mei眉师娘Realistic Fiction572k WordsCompleted [One of the Top Ten Chinese and Foreign Genre Novels Selected by Spotlight Books in April 2024] Please don't let me get close to you. I will know everything about you. Others see the world's bright and glamorous exterior. He sees the world's true source code. The world is colorful in everyone else's eyes, but all he sees is black and white. QQ readers' group: 887043905 0Votes15.8kRecs28kFans
  31. 31 Climbed 7 places Wandering Through the Vast Daylight 茫茫白昼漫游 Lady Mei眉师娘Realistic Fiction1.8M WordsCompleted [Winner of First Prize in the Seventh Realistic-Themed Online Literature Writing Competition] (The new book Wandering Through the Long, Long Night has been released. You are welcome to read it!) His eyes are perfectly healthy, yet he makes his living as a blind massage therapist. Every day, he wears a pair of sunglasses, walks with a white cane, and travels through this dazzling, colorful city, experiencing scene after scene of joy and sorrow. QQ readers' group: 887043905 0Votes40.9kRecs27.7kFans
  32. 32 Fell 2 places A Real Estate Agent's Career Begins with a Layoff Crisis 房产中介从辞退危机开始 The Sky Is the Color of Despair天是沮丧色Realistic Fiction79k WordsOngoing Could living creatures beyond the moon have the same worries as people? This is a question Xie Jiaming, a real estate agent, has often pondered. A puppet on life's strings, he reluctantly accepts the bitter tug of reality, until he meets Song Yichen, a recent college graduate who brings him little moments of simplicity and joy. Song Yichen: “Xiao Xie, your surname is so great. Whenever you're nice to me, I can thank Xie Jiaming.” Xie Jiaming: “Then when you go home, I'll go see Song Yichen off.” 30Votes64Recs0Fans
  33. 33 Climbed 6 places Divination and Building 卜筑 Haggling Over Every Penny in a Fancy Hat争斤论两花花帽Realistic Fiction534k WordsCompleted By middle age, all things come to an end, yet one might still say, “What a lovely autumn chill.” If you haven’t made your mark by thirty, you won’t grow wealthy by forty; at fifty, even a high-ranking official might seek the end of the road. 0Votes389.7kRecs163.5kFans
  34. 34 Climbed 1 places A Trillion-Dollar Market Cap Is No Dream 万亿市值不是梦 South China Sea Dragon's Blood Tree南海龙血树Realistic Fiction1.9M WordsCompleted Ten years ago was the first year after Xifang Construction Co., Ltd. went public. The favorable conditions brought by the listing sent the company into explosive growth from its very first year. Its annual output value soared from 500 million yuan in the year before its listing to 2 billion yuan, and it maintained rapid growth for many years afterward. Starting from a market value of 10 billion yuan, and through the concerted efforts of its 10,000 employees during the company’s peak period, it g 0Votes453.8kRecs174kFans
  35. 35 Climbed 1 places Shenzhen Is Still Within Service Range 深圳还在服务区 The Prosperous Old Cat发财老猫Realistic Fiction67k WordsOngoing The world of pharmaceuticals, the ups and downs of Pengcheng. Xiao Shi carries the psychological burden of his past in pyramid schemes and a life he took. He flees his hometown for Shenzhen, a city full of both opportunity and temptation. With nowhere else to turn, he lands a job promoting pharmaceuticals. His remarkable memory and talent for public speaking catch the eye of his boss, Jiang Nansu. On his very first day, he leaps from grassroots promoter to training instructor. Just days later, h 36Votes40Recs0Fans
  36. 36 Fell 2 places The Golden Age 流金时代 Kun Hua坤华Realistic Fiction1.0M WordsCompleted (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 0Votes85.2kRecs209.2kFans
  37. 37 Fell 4 places Along the Way in 1995 兼程1995 The Velvet-Feathered Wanderer绒羽客Realistic Fiction1.0M WordsOngoing This isn't a wish-fulfillment story. There is no transmigration and no golden finger. This is a short story adapted from real events, a glimpse of the ups and downs of an era swept along by the tide of history. 2Votes59.4kRecs52.6kFans
  38. 38 Fell 10 places Back to 2000: The Nation’s Chief Pilot 重返2000：大国机长 Meizi Xu梅子徐Realistic Fiction2.9M WordsCompleted Xu Cang, chief flight instructor at the Civil Aviation Administration, is unexpectedly reborn in 2000, just before civil aviation enters its golden decade. At first, he only hopes to save his mother, who will soon die of illness. Later, he realizes he can do much more... From the legendary 737 to the Queen of the Skies, the 747, then the 777, the ultimate twin-engine airliner, and finally the dream aircraft, the 787; from the deregulation of civil aviation to the rise of private airlines, then l 0Votes26.4kRecs111.5kFans
  39. 39 Fell 2 places Clouds Drift Away, Mountains Like a Painting 云去山如画 Lady Mei眉师娘Realistic Fiction236k WordsCompleted [Winner of the Special Prize in the Ninth Realistic-Themed Online Literature Writing Competition] The nation has fallen, but the rivers and mountains remain. A school's wartime artistic journey. A long march through the heartland by a group of young artists. A pair of painting mounters' selfless devotion. QQ readers' group: 887043905 0Votes9.2kRecs3.3kFans
  40. 40 Climbed 1 places Desert Island Survival Diary 荒岛求生日记 Wandering Radish漂泊的萝卜Realistic Fiction525k WordsCompleted I was stranded on a deserted island by accident. I'm no Bear Grylls, and I know nothing about survival skills. I can't hunt, and I don't know how to make traps; I know nothing about plants, or which ones might be poisonous; I've never had any wilderness survival experience. But I have a will to live. That's right, so I won't give up. Reader group: [130898670]. Everyone is welcome to join and chat! 0Votes65.8kRecs58.1kFans
  41. 41 Climbed 1 places Goodbye, Hunshandake 再见浑善达克 The Little Tavern Under the Tree树下小酒馆Realistic Fiction61k WordsOngoing The life script Cheng Zhen had planned for himself was to make friends far and wide, build connections, and rise to the top in the world of social relations. But after one trip home, his script changed to this: Amid swirling sands and howling winds, he ate more sand than he could stomach, and became a desertification-control worker, with yellow willows below his gaze, Mongolian pines above, and checkerboard straw grids all around. The dramatic turn began with ten cows… 6Votes154Recs1Fans
  42. 42 Climbed 22 places No. 76 Jiankang Road 健康路76号 Writer Muzi Martin作家木子马丁Realistic Fiction104k WordsOngoing In an era when contemporary literature is growing ever more diverse, Muzi Martin's latest novel, *No. 76 Jiankang Road*, is a rare work that is both grounded in reality and full of warmth. A writer who has long focused on social issues, Muzi Martin turns their attention to elder care in an aging society, using literary prose to paint a profound portrait of our times. Set in a nursing home in Zhengzhou, *No. 76 Jiankang Road* tells the story of city and rural seniors living together. Faced with 0Votes278Recs0Fans
  43. 43 Climbed 9 places Eighteen Years of Legendary Waves 传奇浪潮十八年 Fan Jia樊迦Realistic Fiction1.9M WordsCompleted [Winner of the Fifth Network Literature Competition for Realistic Themes] After 2000, the rise of online games brought countless legendary figures and dreams to China’s internet. An eighteen-year gold rush. The protagonist, Su Qingyue, leaves a small southern city for Pingjing alone. Starting out as an ordinary department manager, he endures cold shoulders as well as love and hatred, burning incense and kowtowing, and severing ties with former allies. Treading on thin ice and constantly on edge, 0Votes3.7MRecs767.4kFans
  44. 44 Climbed 6 places Tales of the Railway 铁路往事 Qu Feng曲封Realistic Fiction1.2M WordsCompleted Su Mingyang is reborn overnight in the 1990s, back when he was a train attendant. Faced with the surging tide of reform and an era of rapid railway development, he throws himself into the movement, braves the storm, and uses his memories of what lies ahead to keep correcting the course of his life and make up for the regrets of his previous life. He carves out an entirely new path. Follow the career struggles and rise through the ranks of one lowly train attendant! 0Votes2.1kRecs4.9kFans
  45. 45 Climbed 50 places Returning Home to Start a Business, Dad Gives Me an Abandoned Elementary School from the Start 回乡创业，开局老爸送我废旧小学 Yang Ruhong杨儒鸿Realistic Fiction148k WordsOngoing Yang Jingxing, courtesy name Lizhi. In the year Dingyou, after completing his studies, he entered the civil service and joined Xueersi. Five years later, he was laid off and returned to his hometown. He then passed the civil service exam and became a schoolteacher. In the year Bingwu, after being rejected by a matchmaking prospect, he couldn’t accept it and began planning a business venture, seeking a new path. He discussed it with his father, who was the village head. A loyal friend said, “Ther 34Votes116Recs8Fans
  46. 46 Fell 6 places Red Circle Law Firm: The Road to Building a Fortune 红圈律所：铸金之路 Pray for the Morning Star祈铭晨星Realistic Fiction365k WordsCompleted [Winner of the Ninth Realist Online Literature Contest] [Best Newcomer Award, 2024 Qidian Autumn Realism Writing Contest] Lin Yi, a brother once hailed as a “genius,” failed at entrepreneurship and took his own life by jumping from a building overnight. All he left behind were the four words “Capital is ruthless” and two hundred million yuan in debt, plunging Lin Ling’s life into hell. A repurchase lawyer’s letter from a top red-circle law firm suggests there was more to her brother’s death than 0Votes785Recs1kFans
  47. 47 Climbed 2 places Rewind to 2006 倒带2006 Old Street Banmian老街板面Realistic Fiction34k WordsOngoing Zhang Yang had just turned forty, and his life so far could only be described as a complete mess. His job was nothing special, and his thoughtful wife had spared him the trouble of having to support her by running off with a fairly wealthy supermarket owner. Luckily, for one reason or another, they had no children. Otherwise, the poor kid would have had a miserable life. Just as Zhang Yang was preparing to make something of himself, his childhood friend betrayed him, and even his meager savings 0Votes112Recs0Fans
  48. 48 Fell 5 places The Enchanted Dream Parlor 浓情绮梦坊 He Xiao和晓Realistic Fiction387k WordsCompleted [A key supported work of online literature by the China Writers Association for 2025] [Selected for the second 2025 funding round of the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation] [First prize in Qidian’s 2025 Spring Writing Contest] [Selected for the January–February 2026 international and Chinese genre fiction shortlist by Spotlight on Good Books] [Recommended digital reading title for 2026] A story set in the shikumen lanes of Shanghai. #Qimengfang on Yongzhen Road in Shanghai’s Huangpu Distri 0Votes1.2kRecs68Fans
  49. 49 Fell 1 places The Path of the Soldier's Soul 兵魂行之路 Wang Yaotian Moxuan王尧天茉瑄Realistic Fiction377k WordsOngoing Set against the 1964 border defense of northern Saibei, The Soldiers' Spirit follows nine young men from the same hometown in northern Shanxi as they enlist together and join the engineering unit of the 168th Regiment, heading to the frozen wastelands of the Yin Mountains to hone their skills and build defenses. In the extreme cold, with temperatures below minus twenty degrees, they dig shelters, battle wind and snow, and build strategic fuel depots, wielding steel picks and iron shovels as weap 0Votes101Recs0Fans
  50. 50 Fell 6 places The Old Street Canteen 老街食堂 As Steadfast as a Mountain of Flesh不动如肉山Realistic Fiction545k WordsCompleted Cheng Tianle was born into a family of renowned chefs. After his grandfather's untimely death when he was a child, he and his father never got along. Even as an adult, he refused to work with him. Instead, he staked everything on taking over an old neighborhood canteen on the verge of bankruptcy, setting it against Zuichunju, his father's old Republic-era restaurant across the street. Li Menglan, the girl next door who had grown up with him, should have been his most capable assistant. But a mis 0Votes724Recs1.6kFans