THE THING YOU EARN
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MatureComplete Wed, May 27, 20262h 50m
She grew up stealing crackers from her grandmother's store because she was hungry and no one was looking.
Thirty years later, Lu Yuxiao is one of the most respected international lawyers in Asia. Her own apartment. Zero debt. The life she promised herself at eleven years old.
She has everything she earned.
She just didn't expect it to be this quiet.
Then she meets Hou Minghao. And quiet, for the first time in thirty-eight years, becomes the most complicated thing she's ever had to navigate.
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