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- I Tear Up the Switched-at-Birth Script 我手撕换子剧本 Maternity ward, 1:15 a.m. I had just been born. In a little while, a nurse named Zhou Guifang would come in, steal me, and switch me with someone else's baby. She succeeded in my previous life. I suffered for twenty years in a rented room. After discovering the truth, I came back to reunite with my family, only for the impostor to send me straight back to the underworld with a cup of poisoned tea. This life would be different. I had worked in the underworld for ten years, finally saving enough m 4Clicks3Favorites0Recs
- Don't Come Near Me, True Heiress Only Wants to Build Her Career 别来沾边真千金只想搞事业 I'm the real heiress who was switched at birth. In my previous life, I died in a carefully planned car crash. In the final moments before my consciousness faded, I saw through the shattered car window Lin Youwei, the fake heiress who had taken my place for eighteen years, standing not far away. Only then did I finally understand. I'd swallowed my anger and kept quiet, hoping to win that affection that had come too late. I'd treated the favoritism my biological parents and older brother showed he 4Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- A Little Girl Named Lu Arrived at the Reincarnation Office 投胎处来了个姓陆的小姑娘 I've worked as a low-level official in the underworld for fifty years, and I've always thought it was a steady job. I showed up on time, clocked out on time, and occasionally worked overtime escorting a few evil spirits. Life was uneventful. Until today. A little girl arrived at the reincarnation office. Her file read: Cause of death: abuse. Age: ten. I frowned. Then I read on. Father: Lu Yuheng. Grandfather: Lu Jianguo. My blood pressure shot right through the roof. Lu Jianguo? Wasn't he my own 2Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- I Reincarnated as My Wife's Child to Repay Her Kindness 我投胎成老婆孩子报恩啦 My wife, Su Qing, and my best friend, Jiang Chao, are getting hot and heavy in my car. And I, Chen Feng, have already filled out the paperwork at the underworld's rebirth office. “Brother, are you sure you want to go with this family?” The ghost guard points at the pair of scoundrels in the mirror of life and death, kindly trying to talk me out of it. “They made your previous life so miserable, and you have so much resentment. If you reincarnate as their son, I'm afraid it will affect your fortu 2Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- He Is as Cold as Falling Snow 他似大雪凉 The fifth year after I divorced Fu Sihan. We ran into each other in the hospital emergency corridor. He was carrying his adopted daughter, who had a high fever. Sweat covered his face, and his shirt was stained with the child's vomit. He looked a complete mess. I was wearing my white coat as a specially appointed expert, with delicate makeup, on my way to pick up my fiance after work. As we passed, he instinctively grabbed my wrist tightly. His voice was hoarse, urgent, and full of entitlement. 1Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Madam Fu Refuses to Be a Savior 傅太太不做救世主 My husband, Fu Guanlin, is a top financial genius in Beijing's elite circles, best known for rebuilding business empires from the ruins. He has a childhood friend, Meng Yanshan, who is even better at creating those ruins. One "rescues the market," the other shorts it. They've been battling it out in the financial markets for ten years. And my Jiang Group is their latest battlefield. This time, Meng Yanshan has set her sights on the Jiang family's core assets, and my family business is on the bri 1Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Made Her a Talented Lady, but She Wants to Be a Hussy 我把她捧才女她却想做贱妮 On the eve of the graduation ceremony, the daughter I had raised for eighteen years called to remind me that I absolutely had to attend. She said she had something very important to tell me. I sat in the front row, watching her shine beneath the spotlight, tears filling my eyes. The host asked her to thank the person she was most grateful to. Her gaze passed through the crowd and landed squarely on me. Smiling, she said, "I want to thank my adoptive mother, Ms. Mu Li." I was just about to stand 1Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Love Has Burned Away, So I Take My Children and Leave 爱已焚尽，我携儿女远走 I was once the most famous courtesan at the Drunken Moon Pavilion in the capital. Seven years ago, Shen Xiuzhi, heir to the Marquis of Pingyang, gave up everything to marry me and live as an ordinary man. Now we have two children, and our life is full of happiness. I thought things would go on this way forever. Until one day, a masked man kicked down the door to our home and pointed at me, shouting at Shen Xiuzhi: “Your true wife is Wen Wan, the daughter of the Minister's household! You two are 1Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Reborn After My Adopted Daughter Took Everything from Me, I Had Triplets 被养女吃绝户重生后我三胎 In my previous life, my husband and I spent twenty years as a childless couple. At forty, on a whim, I adopted an eight-year-old girl from an orphanage. I changed her household registration, bought a home in a good school district, hired the best tutors, and signed her up for the most expensive extracurricular classes. Then, when I was fifty-five, she stood in court with a psychiatric evaluation in her hands. She claimed that my husband and I had Alzheimer's and applied to become our legal guard —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Formula for Reversing Time 逆转时间的公式 My wife was hit by an out-of-control truck on her way to pick up our daughter from kindergarten. She died on the spot. I have witnessed that scene 98 times. During the first ten loops, I tried stopping the truck, taking a different route, and pretending to be sick so she wouldn't leave the house. Every attempt failed. No matter what I did, the ending was always the same. Now I opened my notebook. Inside were records of all 98 failed attempts. The last line on every page was the same: [Failure. C —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Bad for Husbands? My Mother's Deceased Husbands Disagree 克夫？我娘的亡夫们不同意 My mother is the unluckiest woman in the capital. She marries one man, and he dies. She has been married three times, and all three husbands died. The whole city says she's a jinx, doomed to bring death to her husbands and children, with no family to rely on. No one dares marry her. Until the fourth man appears. He is the top scholar of the imperial examinations, gentle as jade and every inch a gentleman. He says, "Jinyao, I'm not afraid of fate. I'm only afraid I'll miss the chance to be with y —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After Closing the Corpse's Eyes, I Saw the Killer 给尸体合眼后我看见了凶手 The funeral home has an unwritten rule. When doing makeup on a corpse, never look into the deceased's eyes. My mentor said that after people die, their pupils hold on to things. He didn't say what they hold on to. I didn't ask. Until my third day on the job, when I closed the eyes of a young woman. The moment my fingers touched her eyelashes, the makeup room disappeared. I became her. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Think a Yacht Is Too Expensive? Then the Whole Class Can Go Feed the Fish 嫌游艇贵？那全班出海喂鱼 After the college entrance exams, our class organized a graduation yacht party. I spent three days haggling with my dad and got an inside rate of 3,800 per person. A professional catamaran, a licensed captain, standard life jackets, GPS tracking, and marine insurance. Nothing was missing. The market price was 12,000. I posted the plan in the class chat. The class beauty, Zhong Yuan, was the first to speak up. She shared a video from Douyin with 1.87 million views. "A yacht party for just 580 per —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Impoverished Student Isn't Impoverished 贫困生不贫困 I spent four years in college raising an ungrateful backstabber. I secretly topped up her meal card, slipped her textbooks, and draped a "misdelivered" down jacket over her shoulders. She hugged me and cried, "Thank you, Nuanhe." At the junior-year scholarship defense, she accused me in front of two hundred people. "Chen Nuanhe uses money to humiliate me." "She isn't helping me. She's keeping a dog." I was disciplined and lost my chance to pursue graduate studies. My parents' noodle shop was dox —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Spent Three Million on an Elevator, and They Won't Let Me Ride It 我花三百万装的电梯不让坐 I spent three million yuan to install an elevator in a thirty-year-old apartment building. My parents' knees were in bad shape, but they couldn't bear to leave the neighbors they'd known for years, so they refused to move. I felt sorry for them and even hired someone specifically to maintain the elevator and take care of the shared facilities. But one day, when I went back to the old neighborhood to visit my parents, I saw my mother leaning against the wall, bent over as she climbed the stairs o —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After My Sister-in-Law Secretly Used My Mom's Membership Card 小姑子偷刷我妈会员卡后 After learning that I had a private-dining gold card worth hundreds of thousands, my sister-in-law, who earns just 3,000 a month, suddenly decided to treat all fifteen members of the family to a private dining meal costing several thousand per person. Wagyu, 980. Abalone, 1,280. King crab, 1,680. She picked up the all-English wine list and pointed at something at random. A Grand Cru Burgundy, 24,000 a bottle. She even posted a nine-photo grid on her social media with the caption: "The most impor —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After I Died, My Family Was Still Waiting for Me to Apologize 我死后，全家还在等我道歉 My older sister was frail from childhood. When she had a fever, Mom made me kneel by her bed and coax her, saying a younger sister should make her older sister happy. She couldn't eat spicy food, so there wasn't a pepper in the house for over a decade, not even on my birthday. Her heart was weak, and the night before my college entrance exams, I was sent to study in the hallway because Mom said the sound of me turning pages would disturb her rest. Later, my sister's kidneys failed, and the docto —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Mother-in-Law Has Been Paralyzed for Seven Years, and No One Will Take Care of Her 婆婆瘫痪七年没人管 Seven years after my husband, Chen Jianguo, died, I finally learned the last secret he had left me. For seven years, I cared for his paralyzed mother, aging from thirty until my hair turned white. His older brother's family lived in a big house in the city and never even called during the holidays. His younger sister married a rich man and posted pictures of bags and watches on her social media every day, but never paid a cent toward their mother's medication. Then news came that the demolition —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Sinking Boat, Delayed Crossing; Wentang Falls Silent 沉舟迟渡，温棠无声 Three years after I disappeared, my husband, Lu Chenzhou, became the country's youngest celebrity forensic pathologist. During an open lecture, he explained an unidentified woman's corpse to an audience of three million. The camera swept over the bones of the left wrist. His voice was calm. "The deceased's left wrist shows repeated injuries. Given the state of the old wounds, a long-term tendency toward self-harm cannot be ruled out." The comments flooded the screen. [She obviously had psycholog —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Secret in the Cremation Furnace 焚尸炉里的秘密 I'm a corpse makeup artist at the county funeral home. For three years, I've secretly taken real gold and silver from the dead and replaced it with cheap market-stall jewelry. The families won't find out. They're going to be pushed into the cremator and burned to ashes anyway. I've saved nearly 200,000 yuan from the jewelry on the dead. I spent it all on the life-prolonging medicine my daughter needs for her congenital heart disease. I planned to save enough for the surgery next month, then quit —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After Taking In My Heartbroken Coworker, She Changed the Password 收留失恋同事后她换了密码 After breaking up with her boyfriend, my coworker cried and begged to stay at my place for a couple of days. I softened and agreed. Two days later, she still hadn't left. A week later, she brought her boyfriend over too. Half a month later, I came home from work and discovered the door lock code had been changed. When I called to ask her about it, she said: “I was worried it wasn't safe, so I changed it. I'll send you the new code.” I stood outside my own home, phone in hand, staring at the six- —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Deliver Takeout in the Underworld to Save Up for Rebirth 我在地府送外卖攒钱重生 I was only twenty-two when I died. My cause of death was a glass of milk laced with slow-acting poison, handed to me by my dear older sister, Shen Yue. She was an orphan whom the Shen family had taken in and supported. After I died, she wore my dresses, lived in my room, married my fiancé, and inherited my hundred-billion fortune. After waiting in line for three days in the underworld, a staff member pointed me toward a recruitment notice in the corner. Underworld Delivery Service, hiring year-r —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Twelve Years of Support Raised Three Best Actresses 十二年资助，养出三个影后 The night I signed a three-billion acquisition deal, the two sisters from the mountains whom I'd anonymously supported for twelve years were denouncing me in a livestream. To build their personas and rake in views in the entertainment industry, they dragged my name through the mud. They invented a tragic story about an old man sexually abusing and psychologically controlling them for twelve years. The comments poured down like a waterfall, every one of them repeating the same name. Shen Jiming. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Immortal Tricked Me into Keeping a Lamp Lit for Ten Years 仙人骗我点灯十年 The year my son died, he was only five. A bitter winter fever burned for three days and three nights. Holding his tiny, fever-hot body, I knelt at every medicine shop in town. No one could save him. Just before dawn, an immortal in white descended from the sky and stopped me. He said he had a way to bring my son back. All I had to do was use my own heart's blood to light ten thousand soul-returning lamps. I didn't hesitate. Ten years later, on the night the final lamp was lit, a pillar of light —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Gods Stole My Family's Good Fortune 神仙偷我全家福报 On my wedding day, red silk hung everywhere. But the childhood sweetheart I had married suddenly went mad the moment he lifted my veil, declaring that he was going to become a monk. He said the mortal world had led him astray, and that he must renounce love and worldly attachments. He didn't know that his departure would leave my in-laws so furious that they fell gravely ill and coughed up blood, and that our once-prosperous family would fall into ruin. The whole village called me a husband- —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Where Did the Forty-Seven Packages Go? 四十七个快递去哪了 I've delivered packages for three years, through wind and rain, 120 a day. When I got back to the depot today, the station manager slapped down a sheet and said I'd lost 47 packages and owed her 15,000 yuan. I asked which packages were missing. She said to check the System. I asked where the System records were. She said I had to pay first. So I paid. Then I called 110. “Officer, 47 packages I was responsible for delivering were stolen at the depot.” The station manager's face went white —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After I Killed a Pig, My Whole Family Dropped Dead 我杀了一只猪后全家暴毙了 My entire family was wiped out. All because I killed a pig. My father died beside the pigpen, blood flowing from all seven orifices. My mother died in front of the stove, scalded from head to toe by a pot of boiling water. My older brother died on the road to town when his three-wheeled vehicle toppled into a ditch. His neck was bent at an impossible angle. As for me, when they found me, I was sitting in the middle of the courtyard, clutching a pig's head and repeating the same words over and ov —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Mother-in-Law Secretly Sold My Son's Formula 婆婆偷卖我儿子的奶粉 My eight-month-old son kept convulsing in my arms, his lips turning purple. The emergency room lights stabbed painfully into my eyes. The doctor cut open Xiaotuanzi's clothes. When he saw the bruises covering the baby's belly, his expression changed drastically. "These bruises weren't caused by bumps or falls. They're symptoms of long-term poisoning." My mind went blank with a buzz. Poisoning? Every day before work, I measured out Xiaotuanzi's baby food and formula and explained everything clear —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After Being Reborn, I Became My Mom's Best Friend's Daughter 重生后我成了我妈闺蜜女儿 The last words I heard before I died were my mother's, spoken to empty air. “System, I want to be reborn.” “In this life, I want Jiang Tian to be my daughter.” Her voice was filled with a joy I had never heard from her before, as if she'd won the lottery. I stood outside her bedroom, holding the ginger soup I'd just made. Jiang Tian, Aunt Jiang's daughter. Ever since we were little, Jiang Tian had been the other people's child my mother always talked about. “Look at Jiang Tian. She passed Grade —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- They Stole My Fate, but I Was Reborn and Struck Back at the Full-Moon Banquet 偷我命格重生满月宴我反杀 My full-month celebration. Noon. I just woke up. In ten minutes, my uncle will walk in carrying his daughter. His daughter, Jiang Xueru, is seven days older than me and bears a calamitous fate. No one knows that just by getting close to her, she can devour my lucky koi fate. In my previous life, my uncle paid two hundred thousand to hire an evil cultivator, who struck during my first-birthday celebration. He succeeded. From that day on, my family's restaurant went bankrupt, my mother fell gravel —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- She Smiled After I Took Her Place on the Guillotine 我替女儿上断头台后她笑了 Before I transmigrated into this book as the matriarch of a marquis’s household, I was just a street vendor selling jianbing. My daughter had a congenital blood disorder. I worked three jobs by myself and saved for five years, finally scraping together one million yuan for her surgery. But the day before the operation, I transmigrated. The System said that if I defeated the vicious female supporting character within a year, I could not only return to the real world, but also receive ten million —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Stepdaughter Calls Me Mom to My Face, Then Calls Me Her Stepmom Online 继女当面叫妈网上骂她后妈 In the third month after my mom remarried, I came across a short video. It had 2.3 million views and 180,000 likes. The title read: [Stepmom is pretending to be nice again. Let’s see what she’s up to today.] In the video, a middle-aged woman wearing a floral apron was cooking in the kitchen. Her spatula flipped through the air, and six plates were laid out on the counter. The caption read: [Ever since my dad remarried, my stepmom has been making huge dinners every day. Think she’s just a good wi —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Long Aotian Won’t Let You Off 龙傲天不会放过你 My half-sister, Lin Zhining, is dead. She jumped from a building, taking two lives with her. Everyone at the funeral was crying. I stood in the back row, expressionless. They said, "See? Lin Zhiyi really is heartless, just like everyone said." They're right. I have no heart. After all, we were enemies from childhood. I took everything from her and bullied her for over a decade. But they don't know that she was the only person in this world who ever healed me. On the forty-ninth day after her dea —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Daughter Begged Me for Help on Livestream 女儿在直播里向我求救 My daughter is a top-tier star streamer with thirty million followers. During a livestream, she suddenly smiled at the camera and said: "Chat, help me look for A Huang. I haven't seen him in ages. I miss him." The comments flooded in at once. [Is A Huang Nuan Nuan's dog?!] [Everyone, help Nuan Nuan find A Huang!] The hashtag hit the top of the trending charts in twenty minutes. I was the only one sitting in my rented room in the county town, staring at my phone screen, ice running through my vei —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The On-Screen Comments Said the Apocalypse Was Coming, So I Spent All My Money 弹幕说末日要来我花光了钱 I’ve been reading a lot of apocalyptic novels lately. Extreme cold, extreme heat, zombies, meteor impacts. I’ve read every kind over and over. Until that day. June 17, a little after two in the afternoon. I was sitting at my desk, staring blankly at my computer. The air conditioning was blasting, my coworkers were chatting about lunch, and the sun was beating down outside. An afternoon as ordinary as any other. Then a line of text appeared before my eyes. [In one month, an extreme cold wave will —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Neighbor's Voice 邻居的声音 I emptied my family's savings to buy an old, run-down apartment on the fifth floor, Unit 502. For the first month after I moved in, everything was fine. Then, one night in the second month, at midnight, I heard a steady thumping from behind the wall. At first, I thought the neighbors hadn't finished renovating. Then I thought there was a problem with the pipes upstairs or downstairs. Later, everyone in the building started saying that the sound was coming from my apartment. They called me shamel —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Secret Under the Poor Student's Pillow 贫困生枕头下的秘密 The poor student I supported had a notebook hidden under her pillow. It was filled with dates. At first, I had no idea what they meant. Only after I died in an accident did I realize that every date marked with a check corresponded to an accident I had suffered. When I opened my eyes again, I was reborn on the first date: March 7. She was standing beside my desk, holding a bottle of medicine and smiling at me. "Sister Shen, you're almost out of your allergy medicine. I put a new bottle in your d —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Formatted Myself, and My Ex-Husband Went Crazy 我格式化了自己，前夫疯了 A car accident three years ago left me in a vegetative state. My husband, Lu Yubai, was one of the country's top AI engineers. Using his technical access, he connected my brain waves to a small robot. From then on, I continued to live in the form of a robot. He married me in front of our friends and family, telling everyone: "This isn't a robot. This is the person I love most, Song Zhizhi." I believed him. I desperately massaged my own body in the hospital, gave myself acupuncture, and pored ove —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After I Turned into a Ghost, I Possessed My Mom's Favorite... 变鬼后，我附身了我妈最爱 When I was twenty-two, a runaway dump truck crushed half my body. When the hospital issued a critical condition notice, Mom only replied coldly, "If you're going to die, hurry up and do it. Don't waste my time." Then I really did die. In my fourth year as a ghost, the Underworld Reincarnation Office's System crashed spectacularly. I volunteered and spent three straight nights fixing the bugs all by myself. To reward me, the King of Hell told me I could ask for anything. I said I didn't want a go —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- When the Wine's Fragrance Fades, Love Is Hard to Keep 酒香散尽情难留 The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the New Year's goods market. I crouched by the roadside beside half a folding table and thirty jin of homemade rice wine, my hands frozen red. When I looked up, I saw Jiang Ruibai. He wore a dark gray cashmere coat, with two assistants at his side. He stopped at a stall selling osmanthus cakes. One assistant asked how many boxes to buy. He said, "Five. Lingyi's been craving these lately." Lingyi. Shen Lingyi. His current wife. The crowd was packed —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Daughter Called Me Auntie in Front of Everyone 女儿当众喊我阿姨 At my in-laws' 60th birthday banquet. I stood by the kitchen door, my apron covered in grease, holding a platter of freshly cut fruit. In the living room, my daughter had her arm linked through my son-in-law's as she smiled and toasted the relatives. My daughter's mother-in-law sat in the seat of honor, her face glowing as she accepted everyone's congratulations. A woman in a qipao came over and asked my daughter, "Xu Meng, why isn't your mother here?" My daughter's hand paused around her winegl —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Two-Yuan Porridge Stall at the Neighborhood Gate Is Gone 小区门口的2元粥摊没了 For three years, I've run a two-yuan breakfast stall at the entrance to my residential complex. Today, the management put a closure notice on it. The person who reported me was Lin Miaomiao, a new resident who'd moved in three months ago. She said my stall was filthy and messy, dragging down the status of the whole complex and lowering her home's value. I looked at the shutdown notice stamped in red, then at the more than twenty white-haired seniors lined up behind me for porridge. I didn't cry —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Mom's Tin Box 妈妈的铁盒子 My mother lived for fifty-three years, thirty of them as a workhorse for the Lin family. She did the laundry, cooked, raised the children, and tended to her in-laws, even cleaning up after them. She handed over her pay card and had to report every purchase to her mother-in-law, even sanitary pads. When she gave birth to me, she was beaten. When she gave birth to my younger brother, Grandma set off a string of firecrackers. When she died, my father signed the papers without hesitation. Everyone t —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Fell Out with Them Over a 68-Yuan Takeout Order 因为68块钱的外卖我翻脸了 "Mom, when are you going to pay back the 68 yuan you owe our family?" The family group chat was discussing plans for after the Spring Festival when my daughter-in-law, Fang Yutong, suddenly tagged me. I froze. Three days earlier, my grandson had come home from school hungry. My phone was dead, so I used my daughter-in-law's account to order takeout. Sixty-eight yuan. Before I could pay her back, she was demanding the money in front of more than thirty relatives. I didn't say a word. She tagged m —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- After Leaving the Mountains, I Returned with a Camera 飞出大山后我带摄像机回去 I invited everyone from my village to the premiere of my first documentary. Qingya Village, a century-old poverty-stricken village and a national model for poverty alleviation, had seventeen pennants hanging in the village committee hall. And I, Shen Nian, was the only golden phoenix to have flown out of this village. A documentary director with thirty million followers, and the internet's unanimously acclaimed most beautiful girl who never forgot her roots. On the day of the premiere, the villa —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- My Husband's Secret Is Hidden Among the Dead Man's Belongings 死人遗物里藏着老公的秘密 My name is Su Nian, and I work as a personal effects organizer. Put simply, I take care of the affairs left behind by the dead. I've been doing this for three years. I've seen elderly people die alone in rented apartments, and teenagers forgotten by their families after jumping from buildings. I thought I'd become immune to death long ago. That was until the day I took on a new job. I was hired to clear out the apartment of a young woman who had died in a car accident. The client was the propert —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Lose 24 Hours Every Birthday 每年生日我都会丢失24小时 Ever since I turned eighteen, I've fallen into a deep sleep for exactly twenty-four hours on my birthday every year. My parents told me I had a rare neurological sleep disorder that flared up on a specific date. I believed them for ten years. I took medication for ten years, saw doctors for ten years, and underwent tests for ten years. Every time I woke up, my family would be gathered around my bed, with a half-eaten cake on the table. Mom would say with red-rimmed eyes, "You fell asleep again." —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Breaking Family Ties for Two Yuan 两块钱的断亲 It was my birthday. My mom slammed a bowl of plain noodle soup with no egg down in front of me. She pointed at my nose and cursed me out. She said that if I didn't agree to give my younger brother 300,000 yuan for his bride price, I could get out of the house. My brother sat beside her, cracking sunflower seeds as he rummaged through my bag. Then he found a lottery ticket worth fifty million in the grand prize. In that moment, the whole family's breathing stopped. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Poor Student I Sponsored Wants to Be My Mom's Daughter 资助的贫困生想当我妈闺女 My mom supported Shen Yao for a full ten years. Over those ten years, my mom's care for her had long gone beyond what you would expect from a sponsor. There were even many times when I felt like I was the outsider who didn't belong. It started when Shen Yao entered middle school. My mom personally oversaw every tuition payment, every study guide, and even a single ice cream for her in the summer. When Shen Yao graduated from college and entered the workforce, that care didn't diminish. It only g —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I've Eaten This New Year's Eve Dinner Forty-Four Times 这顿年夜饭我吃了四十四次 This was the forty-fourth time I died on New Year's Eve. Cause of death: gas explosion. Time: exactly eight o'clock. The killer was at this very dinner table. But I had no time to be afraid. Because the moment I opened my eyes, the clock on the wall pointed to exactly seven fifty-five. There were only five minutes left until the explosion. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs