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  1. 1 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
  2. 2 Climbed 36 places The Class Rep Has Gone Bad! 学委大人学坏了！ Sijia Jili斯嘉吉利Realistic Fiction1.3M WordsCompleted Lately, Zeng Luoyuan hasn't been able to figure something out. He's just a failed writer, disliked by his parents, working a temp job in Shanghai for a take-home salary of three thousand yuan. A total loser. So why does his former class committee member keep coming around to bother him? Even if she says she likes his writing... surely she can't be that free, right?! Hmm... I just don't get it... Maybe I should ask Brother Piao? He's an experienced web novelist. He'll definitely know why! Right! 0Votes2kRecs371Fans
  3. 3 Climbed 27 places The Gray Line 灰白线 Lord of Tigers and Wolves虎狼之君Realistic Fiction396k WordsOngoing In 1937, the Battle of Shanghai was lost, Shanghai fell, and industry was relocated inland on a massive scale. Friends with differing agendas; The murky Green Gang; A treacherous world of politics and business. The Lu family's shoe factory was surrounded by wolves and tigers. Framing, assassination, seduction, and every other tactic followed one after another. She stepped into it alone, confronting suspicion, going undercover, and infiltrating the enemy as she searched step by step for a way to 0Votes132Recs22Fans
  4. 4 Climbed 1 places Ten Cases, One Heart 十案观心 Patrick派屈客Realistic Fiction258k WordsOngoing Criminal Investigation Captain Chen Mo has an unconventional approach to solving cases. Alongside meticulous evidence gathering and uncovering the truth behind crimes, he is driven to use psychological profiling to unravel the secrets hidden deep in people’s hearts. This obsession stems from an incident in his youth that he has never been able to put behind him. It has left him struggling to reconcile the choices people make, though he rarely reveals the true reason to anyone. Nine bizarre murde 2Votes321Recs23Fans
  5. 5 Fell 3 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
  6. 6 Fell 3 places 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
  7. 7 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
  8. 8 Climbed 11 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
  9. 9 Climbed 9 places The Old Factory Neighborhood 老厂人家 Clouds Rise Over Tingzhou云生与汀洲Realistic Fiction601k WordsOngoing She is a wife, a mother, and a daughter, but above all, the protagonist of her own life, using her resilient hands to part the mists of time. 6Votes2.5kRecs52Fans
  10. 10 Climbed 4 places Within and Beyond the Pass 关内关外 The World Needs Emotional Stability人间需要情绪稳定Realistic Fiction430k WordsOngoing In the late 1970s, a small fishing village in southern China was transformed into a special economic zone. A three-meter-high barbed-wire fence divided Shenzhen into the areas inside and outside the border. The factories roared outside the border, while skyscrapers rose inside it. “Urban migrants” from all over the country carried dreams of striking it rich, border passes in hand, crossing back and forth as they spun their dreams. After the turn of the millennium, the fence rusted and the checkp 24Votes4.9kRecs50Fans
  11. 11 A Shanghai Woman's Guide to Making Money 沪上女子生财记 Mi Duojin米多金Realistic Fiction139k WordsOngoing In 1994, the stock market is in turmoil, with opportunity and risk going hand in hand. Xu Ling graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, but resolutely gave up the respectable state-owned enterprise job assigned to her back in her hometown. She threw herself into the male-dominated stock market, becoming an account manager for major clients. By day, she hustled to find new clients; by night, she immersed herself in market analysis, determined to make money at the crest of the 2Votes629Recs22Fans
  12. 12 Fell 2 places 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
  13. 13 Climbed 29 places The Abandoned Prodigy 丧家神童 Where Is Penglai Mountain?蓬山何处Realistic Fiction188k WordsCompleted “Child prodigy” is what people called Yang Yu more than twenty years ago. In the 1980s and 1990s, a nationwide craze for human psychic powers swept the country. The “Gagdaqi Prodigy” appeared out of nowhere, seemingly capable of anything from mind reading to hypnosis, and quickly rose to fame. But overnight, the prodigy became an uncontrollable monster and brutally killed his adoptive parents. The upbringing and supervision of children with psychic abilities became a hot social issue. Ten-year-o 0Votes701Recs9Fans
  14. 14 Fell 10 places Only What Is Right and Proper 天经地义 Idle Man of Guanzhong关中闲汉Realistic Fiction155k WordsOngoing In Xi’an in 2015, the subway line from the High-Tech Zone only went as far as Xiaozhai Station. To get to work, you first had to squeeze onto a local bus, then squeeze onto the subway. That autumn, the gold iPhone had just come out, and all the girls loved it. But the average monthly salary for new graduates across the city was still under 2,800 yuan. Campus and society were two completely different worlds. Girls were no longer just so-and-so from class such-and-such, majoring in this or that. T 0Votes341Recs4Fans
  15. 15 Fell 7 places There Was a Valley 有个山谷 Classmate Ling Lan凌岚同学Realistic Fiction75k WordsOngoing Lu Yao, a “career woman” who left home to make it in the capital, jumped on the short-drama bandwagon. In two years, she burned through her savings and racked up a mountain of debt. She had hoped to turn things around with the scripts she had on hand, but a car accident sent her straight back to her hometown. Gu Zheng, the “overbearing CEO” of a real estate company, struggled to pivot as the industry became a sunset business, but had no idea where to turn. At home, his wife was demanding a divor 0Votes21Recs3Fans
  16. 16 Fell 3 places Soaring Over the Cliffs 飞跃悬崖 Big-Headed Quan大头荃Realistic Fiction5.2M WordsOngoing Lin Fan was a standard member of the post-1980 generation. Unable to enter the establishment, he worked in planning and was married with children. The pressures and reliefs brought by his wife, children, money, house, and car alternated like the tightening and loosening of a magical headband, binding him tightly. Yet his pursuit of his ideals had never stopped. During a family vacation at the seaside, he discovered an unwanted cliff behind a small coastal village. His imagination running wild, h 0Votes266Recs63Fans
  17. 17 Fell 11 places The Ming Dynasty's Uncanny Case: The Eighteen Rat Holes 大明诡秘案：老鼠十八洞 Wen Dao Liu Liu文刀刘刘Realistic Fiction428k WordsOngoing [A game of cat and mouse that seems to change fate but actually wagers lives sparks a string of murders in the capital. Its cruel rules conceal human greed, but how can the players beat it?] During the Chenghua era, the unexpected death of Wang Shiyuan, a lame clerk with the Eastern City Garrison Command, entangles the fates of four people: archer Zhang Cheng, who wants to turn his life around; Jinyiwei officer Gan Feng, who seeks the truth; Tang Yunong, a widowed woman with two sides to her; an 12Votes245Recs22Fans
  18. 18 Fell 3 places Harbin Before Dawn 黎明前的哈尔滨 The Poor Scholar of Guandong关东寒士Realistic Fiction137k WordsOngoing In August 1945, after the Japanese Kwantung Army surrendered, Harbin in Northeast China entered a power vacuum, with no one in control. The Central Special Operations Division sends its intelligence operative Tang Xiaoning to Harbin to work under the cover of being the heiress of the Tang Group. Wang Yaozu, a senior official sent by the Nationalist government to take over the region, also arrives in Harbin. He takes the opportunity to seize a great deal of gold, silver, and jewelry, but Tang Xia 0Votes30Recs3Fans
  19. 19 Fell 3 places 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
  20. 20 Fell 3 places The Folded Road Home 折叠的归途 Just Call Me Frost叫Frost好了Realistic Fiction382k WordsOngoing On the day Zhang Cheng was diagnosed with ALS, he tucked the medical report into a hidden compartment and decided to climb an unknown peak to end his life. He had done the math: treatment was neither necessary nor possible. However, the appearance of a crashed alien warship interrupted his plans. Blue light devoured everything. When Zhang Cheng awoke again, three years had passed, and the world had changed beyond recognition. An unfamiliar celestial body had replaced the sun, and Earth was packe 0Votes6Recs4Fans
  21. 21 Fell 12 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
  22. 22 Fell 10 places The Chosen Sister-in-Law 天选嫂子 Spicy Kimchi Rice Noodles辣白菜米线Realistic Fiction94k WordsOngoing Was she really destined to be the ex-idol's sister-in-law and help raise a rapper from the ground up? A beautiful, easygoing doctor meets a wild, unfiltered underground rapper. Back in school, Ding Lingxi was warmhearted and sincere. She did everything she could to help her obscure boyfriend make it big, only for him to dump her without a second thought. She didn't even get to keep the title of “sister-in-law.” A windfall from a sudden demolition turned her life around. With money and time to sp 0Votes195Recs2Fans
  23. 23 Fell 3 places The Solitary Wild Goose of Jiangnan 江南孤雁 Purple Diamond Mirror菱花镜紫Realistic Fiction1.5M WordsOngoing He was forced to be adopted by his aunt and left his hometown for the distant, rugged mountains of Jiangnan. From then on, like a stubborn lone goose, he drifted through a foreign land, with no control over his own fate. This is both a memoir and a tale of legend. 6Votes1.2kRecs3kFans
  24. 24 Fell 3 places A Gentle Mountain Breeze 山风微澜 The East Wind Comes东方浪来Realistic Fiction3.7M WordsOngoing Fleeting years, a colorful life, busy figures, and dreamlike struggle: protagonist Yin Andong presents you with an entirely different life experience. How does one adapt to a complicated and ever-changing environment? How does one change one's attitude toward handling affairs? How does one become better step by step? All of this can be found in this ever-enriching record of life. Life is so small. In the long river of history, a person is no more than a fleeting moment. Those who can leave their 0Votes758Recs2.4kFans
  25. 25 Fell 3 places 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
  26. 26 Fell 3 places The Suspended Lake 悬湖 Rose Islet蔷屿Realistic Fiction500k WordsOngoing In the summer of 1992, two women went missing from the machinery factory. One was lucky and was found. The other met a terrible end, half-buried in the woods. Xia Lin'nan counted herself as the third, though she was only six that year. No one took her seriously. Yet she was the one who crossed the woods and found her mother. Later, her mother disappeared again. This time, Xia Lin'nan was sixteen. Female-led, immersive, multiple storylines, ensemble cast 0Votes342Recs9Fans
  27. 27 Fell 3 places Professional Title II 职称二 Thoughts Like Rain Blossoms思路雨花Realistic Fiction1.2M WordsOngoing He gives everything to teaching and works miracles at his job. Modest and humble, he never stops striving to improve. He handles conflicts with skill and is unafraid of any provocation. He cares little for titles and has become a nationally recognized teacher devoted solely to teaching! 0Votes38Recs458Fans
  28. 28 Fell 3 places Bound by Luoyang 洛阳缚 Hai Zhili海支离Realistic Fiction477k WordsOngoing Li Fu only wanted to stay alive, but an imperial decree dragged him into a treacherous whirlpool. The glint of Tibetan assassins’ blades, the hidden currents of royal intrigue, and the empress’s secrets all begin to surface with the disappearance of the dancer Wu Wang. In just two days, amid the blood-soaked streets of Luoyang, the divine capital, Li Fu must choose between survival and duty, kinship and truth, power and freedom. But on this vast web, woven with painstaking care, tugging at any s 0Votes73Recs7Fans
  29. 29 Fell 3 places The Eldest Daughter's War 长女的战争 He Ximo何惜墨Realistic Fiction219k WordsOngoing No one expected that on the seventh day after the chairman of the Gu Group fell into a coma, his eldest daughter, who had been living away from the family for years, would suddenly return and seize the acting chairmanship that had originally been meant for her younger brother. But for Gu Zhiyi, this brutal war over identity, power, and love has only just begun. “Dad, you didn't leave me a place at the table, so I'll claim one for myself.” 0Votes624Recs15Fans
  30. 30 Fell 3 places A Killer's Vacation 杀手的假期 Zhu Xiaoshu朱小树Realistic Fiction228k WordsOngoing Du Yu is the company’s top assassin, though by day he poses as the owner of a secondhand bookstore. Tired of it all, he decides to retire. The company assigns him one final job: complete one last hit alongside Bu Zi, a rising star in the assassin world whom he has never met. But an assassin’s retirement is never that simple… Their target plunges to his death right before Du Yu and Bu Zi’s eyes, and sirens blare all around them. The two lone assassins are now wanted criminals. 0Votes39Recs11Fans
  31. 31 Fell 3 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
  32. 32 Fell 3 places Saying Goodbye Is a Spicy Affair 告别是一件很热辣的事情 Jiang Manman蒋蛮蛮Realistic Fiction143k WordsOngoing A Sichuan-style light comedy about a bunch of good-for-nothings who’ve drifted to Chengdu. They make anime while cooking hot pot in a ramshackle two-story building in Tiaodeng Village, and turn their lives around through sheer passion amid all the chaos. 0Votes22Recs0Fans
  33. 33 Fell 2 places The Truth Out of Focus 失焦的真相 Astronomy nod天文nodRealistic Fiction164k WordsCompleted It’s been several years since Feng Guo went from investigative journalist to running a private investigation studio, and he’s been scraping by on the bare minimum. With no clients for nearly six months and his savings almost gone, an unexpected visitor suddenly knocks on his door. Offering a million yuan, far above the market rate, the visitor demands that Feng Guo immediately investigate the suicide of an influencer whose case is trending online. Feng Guo initially thinks it’ll be easy money, b 0Votes631Recs11Fans
  34. 34 Fell 2 places The Spiritual Mongolian Plateau 灵性蒙古高原 Mongolian Prairie Eagle蒙古草原鹰Realistic Fiction1.3M WordsCompleted It took nearly five years. Along the way, I stopped updating many times because I could not keep my emotions in check enough to continue writing. Only I know the hardship and trials I endured. Writing this book felt like living my life all over again, tasting and revisiting every joy and sorrow. My soul was hammered between the words as if in purgatory, in unbearable pain. I dedicate this book to my youth, my love, and my hometown, and to the person who gave me the greatest love of my life. This 0Votes15.4kRecs2.5kFans
  35. 35 Fell 2 places Kill Me 杀我 Wen Qiyun温栖云Realistic Fiction100k WordsCompleted Fan Ying died, lost part of her memory, and became invisible. She had originally intended to return to her daughter and quietly watch over her, only to learn that she had not died of natural causes but had been murdered. The prime suspect was actually her daughter! Yet Fan Ying remembered that the relationship between mother and daughter had been excellent, with no major conflict between them. Amid her confusion and bewilderment, fragments of her memory gradually surfaced, and she also became ce 0Votes94Recs5Fans
  36. 36 Fell 2 places A Fateful Bond with the Stage of Life and Death 生死戏缘 Jian Qiang菅强Realistic Fiction327k WordsOngoing The people’s miserable lives under the Japanese invaders’ iron heel. Two generations bound by national disgrace, family vengeance, and life-and-death enmity. The fates of lovers in a time of raging war and bloodshed. War, resistance against Japan, martial arts, romance, Cinderella, transmigration… The story is packed with thrilling twists. Please enjoy A Fateful Romance. 0Votes11Recs0Fans
  37. 37 Fell 2 places She Rules the Rise and Fall 她主沉浮 Frontier Fortress边塞Realistic Fiction516k WordsCompleted From “fox spirit and bringer of bad luck” to queen of fashion, my sisters and I turned a terrible hand into a royal flush. 0Votes1.4kRecs16Fans
  38. 38 Fell 2 places Rain and Mist over Jiangnan 雨雾江南 Storm118风暴118Realistic Fiction1.6M WordsCompleted South of the lower Yangtze River lies a plain, with hills farther south. Rain is plentiful there, and for much of the year the days are damp and shrouded in mist. The eighth volume, “Princess of the Moonlight,” will soon unfold. The heroine of this volume has an eye disease and comes from the northern shore of Dajiao Lake, deep in central Anhui, Jiangnan. In her everyday world, everything is a vast blur of white. Only in the soft glow of the moon can she see the world. Later, she marries and mov 0Votes6.9kRecs2.4kFans
  39. 39 Fell 2 places Becoming Dorothy 成为桃乐茜 Three Feet Above the Well井上三尺Realistic Fiction178k WordsOngoing Dorothy, a university student, finds an anonymous note in the library. It tells her to meet a mysterious person by the artificial lake on campus that evening. But the mysterious stranger leaves Dorothy unconscious on the spot. When she wakes up, she is shocked to discover that the stranger has taken over her body and identity. Her soul and consciousness jump from one person to another, setting off a chain of bizarre consequences. She must find the culprit as quickly as possible and reclaim her o 0Votes278Recs1Fans
  40. 40 Fell 2 places Criminal Investigation Notes 2: Bodies Buried at Song Lake 刑侦手记2：松湖埋尸 Zhang Yeliang章叶良Realistic Fiction206k WordsCompleted At midnight, the police station in Songhu Town was filled with the relentless barking of Simba, the police dog. Deputy Chief Cheng Linhai woke from a dream and found a man at the station entrance, both feet crippled and his body covered in blood. He had crawled there from a grove two kilometers away. Robbers had stolen his truck, dragged him into the woods, severed the tendons in his feet, and buried him in a pit. But his desperate will to survive drove him to claw his way out and crawl all the 0Votes207Recs111Fans
  41. 41 Fell 2 places Stardust 星尘 The Snowman Does Not Melt雪人不融化Realistic Fiction101k WordsCompleted The distance between us is farther than the distance between life and death. 0Votes71Recs13Fans
  42. 42 Fell 2 places Settling the Score 清账 Master of the Eleventh Floor十一楼主Realistic Fiction386k WordsCompleted Lu Jian never imagined he would one day become the kind of person he despised most. His banking career was shattered, and his reputation in the industry was ruined. Faced with family troubles and the pressure to survive, he had no choice but to become the very thing he'd always looked down on: a collector of bad debts. From then on, he dealt with countless delinquent accounts and every kind of debtor. 0Votes741Recs286Fans
  43. 43 Fell 2 places Happy New Year 新年快乐 Sun Chujiu孙初九Realistic Fiction123k WordsCompleted During the Spring Festival, college student Chen Nian returns to her hometown at her grandfather's deathbed request to compile the family genealogy, only to accidentally fall into a vortex in time and space and arrive twenty years in the past. A burning spirit procession, a childhood friend who vanished, a family feud that spirals into madness... As she peels back the layers of fog shrouding the island, a family curse spanning a century is closing in on her... 0Votes358Recs5Fans