Pretending to Be Reluctant
Time easily casts people aside, turning cherries red and bananas green.
Novels on this list
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- Shen Wan, once the legitimate daughter of the Left Prime Minister of the Great Gan Dynasty, was renowned in the capital for her insatiable greed and tyrannical temper, universally despised by noblewomen. Her marriage was to the crippled Prince Xiao Jingheng, the former God of War whose legs had been broken, whom she viewed as a burden and wished dead. The narrative begins with the impe...
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- Ning Nuan, the eldest daughter of the Ning family's main branch, suffers from the grandmother's favoritism toward the younger branches. Her cousins Ning Qing and Ning Xin constantly steal her fabrics, incense, and jewelry. Her father insists on yielding for harmony, and her mother, the gentle First Madam, has always endured and compensated privately, leaving Ning Nuan without support....
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- Wang Xuan wakes to find himself in a dilapidated thatched hut, his head throbbing with unfamiliar memories. He has transmigrated into a world where demons stalk the land and martial artists wield godlike power, a world where human life is cheap. His new body belongs to a frail eighteen‑year‑old hunter named Wang Xuan, called Stones, from Shishan Village on the border of the Great Yuan...
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- Wang Dong, a high school senior living an ordinary life on Earth, suddenly finds himself transported to a barren desert under a sky dominated by a colossal blue planet and two moons. He is disoriented, surrounded by the wreckage of massive starships partially buried in sand. Believing this to be a recurring dream, he forces himself back to sleep. This is the eighth time he has experien...
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- Xu Yi found himself in a parallel world where one hundred and forty years ago, Zombies descended globally through spatial rifts, bringing humanity to the brink of collapse. Unlike traditional zombies, these hopping monsters, starting from Green-faced Fanged Hairy Zombies, proved nearly impervious to modern weapons, with advanced forms like Flying Zombies and Unmelting Bone Zombies capa...
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- Yi Qianqian, eighteen years old, is forced by her parents to stay at the villa of her fiancé Tan Mobai after they trick her into believing they are going on a trip. She and Tan Mobai have been childhood sweethearts but despise each other due to a forced engagement arranged when they were eight. Arriving at the villa in winter, she finds no one answers the door and eventually yells for...
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- Chen Wen lived his entire life in a hospital bed, confined by an incurable congenital disease, only able to glimpse the outside world through television, books, and a window, longing to step outside but never able. His death came with the long beep of medical monitors. When consciousness returned, he found himself in total darkness; he pushed against a surface, heard a crack, and emerg...
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- Lin Meng, an orphan whose parents died three years prior, returns to her deceased grandfather’s ancestral home in Lin Family Village, facing hostility from villagers who label her a jinx. Her uncles covet the house, believing it should not belong to a woman. One night, she receives a vivid dream from her grandfather, who complains of poverty in the afterlife and instructs her to burn p...
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- The story follows a woman who reincarnates as Emeria, the Empress of Emperor Guilford, aware of the original novel's tragic plot. In the original tale, Emeria is a neglected wife whom Guilford only consummates with on the wedding night, leaving her alone afterward. She becomes pregnant, but Guilford cruelly questions the child's paternity, saying, "Is it my child?" Emeria gives birth t...
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- Liu Wenying transmigrated from a modern nursing professional into the body of a destitute widow during a famine era. The original owner was sold as a child bride, married, gave birth to a daughter, and then lost her husband in a fall. Her in-laws called her a jinx, resented her for not bearing a son, and threw her and her infant daughter out during winter confinement. Penniless and hom...
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- Xu Yuan was trapped in a marriage to Lu Ling, a man who loved her older sister Xu Ying. Their union was the result of a drunken mistake that branded Xu Yuan a scheming woman. She spent five years as the ignored wife, living in Donghu Villa while Lu Ling returned only to announce his desire for a divorce. When Lu Ling was critically injured in a war zone, Xu Yuan rushed to see him. Xu Y...
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- Du Yu, a 26-year-old state-owned enterprise worker, dies when a runaway truck crashes into the bus he is riding, killing him instantly while everyone else remains unharmed. His soul floats outside his body, confused and alone. Two women in black and white work uniforms arrive in a battered flying minivan—Xie Jin of the Xie family and Fan Xiaoguo of the Fan family, the Black and White I...
