The Books We Chased Together Over the Years
I want to take a moment to commemorate those books that have led me to a reading drought over the years. I fear forgetting the journey that brought me here. If you've read through them all, you probably find yourself in a similar situation.
Novels on this list
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- Zhou Peiyu is a poor junior at Jingyang University, abandoned by his divorced parents and forced to work part-time jobs to pay for tuition and living expenses. To earn quick money, he volunteers as a drug tester at the City First People’s Hospital, receiving an injection of an experimental antibody called “Mei Li Ting,” designed to provide immunity against syphilis. The payment is five...
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- Zhao Xingyue, the youngest daughter of the Zhao family in Qingyuan Town, helps her father Zhao Baogui sell pork at the market. She is known for her loud voice, enormous strength, and generous figure, the result of a lifetime of eating meat from the family's pig slaughtering business. Despite her plumpness, her features are beautiful. She has been engaged for five or six years to Sun Qi...
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- Jiang Xinli, an actress from modern Earth, dies after being struck by lightning during an audition and transmigrates into the body of a villainous supporting character in an interstellar beast world novel. The original owner, a nineteen-year-old with F-level mental power, is the true heiress of a wealthy planet but was swapped at birth and later discovered, only to become cruel and abu...
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- After her fall, Nian Shilan woke with memories of her previous life—a lifetime of scheming as a concubine in the Fourth Prince's manor, losing her child, and witnessing her entire family executed. She was sixteen again, before she had ever met Yinzhen. Determined to avoid the same fate, she initially planned to stay far from the prince and marry an official to live a stable life. But t...
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- When Mu Fenghua regained consciousness after her fall, she was reborn as an unborn infant in a world brimming with spiritual energy. She discovered she shared the womb with a twin brother who frantically absorbed her nutrients and life force, threatening her survival. She used her spiritual sense to examine him and began beating him with her tiny fists and feet to stop his stealing. Af...
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- In Tai'an Year 12, Shen Xingnong, a sixteen-year-old peasant girl from Plum Blossom Village, lies on a long bench in the Futai County yamen, receiving five strokes of the board for daring to file a lawsuit against her great-grandmother, Li Shi. Li Shi, along with her granddaughter Shen Mingzhu, insists that Xingnong and her mentally unstable mother are "vile bastards" whose presence in...
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- Yuan Ziyou opens her eyes after a three-day fever to find herself back in her twelve-year-old body, in her old room in the general’s mansion. The moment she sees her maids Qingying and Qingzhi alive, and her mother and grandmother rushing to her bedside, she understands: she has been reborn into the past, carrying every scar of her previous existence. In that former life, her cousin Yu...
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- Yun Xi, a research scientist in her previous life who grew up in an orphanage, dies from overwork and transmigrates into the body of a Snake Blood Vine in the novel Yuanyue Continent. The novel's original plot features Shen Qingqing, a Daughter of the Heavenly Dao with a Divine Grade Lightning Spiritual Root who is the beloved junior sister of Qingyun Sect, and Mo Chen, a Demon Race Yo...
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- In 2012, Wu An, a university dropout expelled for fighting, returns to his small fishing village and becomes a delinquent. He smokes, drinks, steals, and fights, bringing shame to his father, a village cadre. One day, he steals a sea bass from two fishermen, Lin Bin and Lin Hu. While running away on a rocky beach, he slips and falls, hitting his head. The fishermen think he is dead and...
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- Jiang Li transmigrates into a novel as the real daughter of the wealthy Jiang family, a role that in the original story ends in tragedy. In that story, the fake daughter Jiang Nian is cherished by the family, becomes a famous actress at eighteen, marries the powerful Gu Xun, and causes the Jiang family's bankruptcy; on the day of their marriage, the eldest Jiang brother slits his wrist...
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- Jiang Yuxi was an outstanding graduate from the First Comprehensive Academy on Emperor Star, an A-level Mental Power Purification Master who ranked first in her major for seven consecutive years. After graduation, she offended an A-level female from a major family, causing her mental power to drop to E-level. Though she still obtained the title of Lower Nobility based on her past resum...
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- In a deep rainy night, Li Wei finds himself in the aftermath of a violent truck accident. Having been struck and thrown by the truck, he struggles to rise, his memory flickering with the image of the driver's face. Suddenly, a mysterious figure in a red coat appears on the overturned truck, his clothes untouched by rain. This figure, radiating an eerie familiarity, turns to face Li Wei...
