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Memes to Movements

How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power

By: An Xiao Mina

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Memes to Movements

How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power

By: An Xiao Mina

A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline, and how they will save or destroy us all. Memes are the street art of the social web. Using social media–driven movements as her guide, technologist and digital media scholar An Xiao Mina unpacks the mechanics of memes and how they operate to reinforce, amplify, and shape today’s politics. She finds that the “silly” stuff of meme culture—the photo remixes, the selfies, the YouTube songs, and the pun-tastic hashtags—are fundamentally intertwined with how we find and affirm one another, direct attention to human rights and social justice issues, build narratives, and make culture. Mina finds parallels, for example, between a photo of Black Lives Matter protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, raising their hands in a gesture of resistance and one from eight thousand miles away, in Hong Kong, of Umbrella Movement activists raising yellow umbrellas as they fight for voting rights. She shows how a viral video of then presidential nominee Donald Trump laid the groundwork for pink pussyhats, a meme come to life as the widely recognized symbol for the international Women’s March. Crucially, Mina reveals how, in parts of the world where public dissent is downright dangerous, memes can belie contentious political opinions that would incur drastic consequences if expressed outright. Activists in China evade censorship by critiquing their government with grass mud horse pictures online. Meanwhile, governments and hate groups are also beginning to utilize memes to spread propaganda, xenophobia, and misinformation. Botnets and state-sponsored agents spread them to confuse and distract internet communities. On the long, winding road from innocuous cat photos, internet memes have become a central practice for political contention and civic engagement. Memes to Movements unveils the transformative power of memes, for better and for worse. At a time when our movements are growing more complex and open-ended—when governments are learning to wield the internet as effectively as protestors—Mina brings a fresh and sharply innovative take to the media discourse.

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Beacon Press

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080705660X

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9780807056608

Self-Healing Nanotextured Vascular Engineering Materials

By: Alexander L. Yarin,Min Wook Lee,Seongpil An,Sam S. Yoon

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Self-Healing Nanotextured Vascular Engineering Materials

By: Alexander L. Yarin,Min Wook Lee,Seongpil An,Sam S. Yoon

This book gives an overview of the existing self-healing nanotextured vascular approaches. It describes the healing agents used in engineering self-healing materials as well as the fundamental physicochemical phenomena accompanying self-healing. This book also addresses the different fabrication methods used to form core–shell nanofiber mats. The fundamental theoretical aspects of fracture mechanics are outlined. A brief theoretical description of cracks in brittle elastic materials is given and the Griffith approach is introduced. The fracture toughness is described, including viscoelastic effects. Critical (catastrophic) and subcritical (fatigue) cracks and their growth are also described theoretically. The adhesion and cohesion energies are introduced as well, and the theory of the blister test for the two limiting cases of stiff and soft materials is developed. In addition, the effect of non-self-healing nanofiber mats on the toughening of ply surfaces in composites is discussed. The book also presents a brief description of the electrochemical theory of corrosion crack growth. All the above-mentioned phenomena are relevant in the context of self-healing materials.

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Springer

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3030052672

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Loess Landform Inheritance: Modeling and Discovery

By: Li-Yang Xiong,Guo-An Tang

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Loess Landform Inheritance: Modeling and Discovery

By: Li-Yang Xiong,Guo-An Tang

In geomorphology, landform inheritance refers to the inherited relationship of different landform morphologies in a certain area during the evolutionary process. This book studies loess landform inheritance based on national basic geographic data and GIS spatial analysis method. It reveals the Loess Plateau formation mechanism and broadens the understanding of spatial variation pattern of loess landform in the Loess Plateau.

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9811364044

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Baby Comes: Remarried Mommy is Sweet

Volume 6

By: An Jiu

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Baby Comes: Remarried Mommy is Sweet

Volume 6

By: An Jiu

Her brother went missing because of her ex-husband, who didn't know what was good for her, and planted a gentle prairie above her head?! Hmph, if that's the case, then don't blame her for hugging someone else's thigh to take revenge on you! Geng Bao helped her attack. What was there to be afraid of?

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Funstory

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164857677X

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Princess In Prosperous Age

Volume 3

By: An An

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Princess In Prosperous Age

Volume 3

By: An An

Seventh Prince, do you see the smoky makeup I drew for you today?""Hongliang, Miss Qiao has an eyesight ailment. Take her back to the residence. I request that you accompany me to treat Miss Qiao.""Hey, Seventh Prince, don't go away yet. There's nothing wrong with my eyes, and I haven't slept for the whole night. I wrote a few poems for you, you can listen to them.""The seventh prince is the sky, the seventh prince is the earth, and the seventh prince is the radish and vegetables." Small cool is a flower, small cool is a treasure, small cool is that day fairy. "Ah — the flower and the radish with the fairy, a natural pair!"Just as she finished speaking, the purple-clothed servant girl stood beside the pink-clothed lady with big strides and also held up the cloth in her hand. She recited: "You are the number one marshal in the world, I am the prettiest in the world, you and I love each other and have a fat child to kiss!

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Funstory

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1648844219

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Modern Computational Aeroelasticity

By: Min Xu,Xiaomin An,Wei Kang,Guangning Li

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Modern Computational Aeroelasticity

By: Min Xu,Xiaomin An,Wei Kang,Guangning Li

The book provides a state-of-art overview of computational methods for nonlinear aeroelasticity and load analysis, focusing on key techniques and fundamental principles for CFD/CSD coupling in temporal domain. CFD/CSD coupling software design and applications of CFD/CSD coupling techniques are discussed in detail as well. It is an essential reference for researchers and students in mechanics and applied mathematics.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110576627

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9783110576627

Milky Way Ever-Flowing

Volume 1

By: An Ni

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Milky Way Ever-Flowing

Volume 1

By: An Ni

Rotan!" he cried. "The Howling Wind Sect! innately born Special Ability! The Purple Demon Eyes!" He had been born with a divine ability — the Samsara cultivation method. Accompanied by it was a natural, bizarre escape technique, 'Flaming Evasion'. In addition, Luo Teng's physique was a powerful physique that had never appeared before in all of history — — Huang Gu Sheng's physique. A single body of cultivation was enough to suppress all the heroes! Blue Lotus, East Emperor Bell, a top-notch Divine Artifact in the world. The might of the Reincarnation Halberd shook the four directions, sweeping everything before it. The White Tiger Sable followed by his side with a smile on its face."The many ancient gods followed behind him, watching to see how Rotan would become an overlord of his generation. He would become the overlord of this world, the Celestial Emperor Luo Teng. Di Shitian, the unparalleled ruler of this world, would be reborn, and the Venerable One of Shakyamuni would be reborn ...

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Funstory

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1647878756

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Phoenix Duchess

Volume 2

By: Tao An

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Phoenix Duchess

Volume 2

By: Tao An

Whether it was true history or wild history, the books did not seem to use any good words to record the first female regent of the dynasty, Dong Lingwan. Her youth had also been meek and modest, renowned far, but later on she had been ruthless, willful, and willful, leading to her authority over the court, her charms. However, people had to admit that this extremely bad woman had benefited countless people during her reign. She was the most controversial woman in the entire history of Da Ye in the past few hundred years. The position of Duke of the Phoenix of the first rank, and the power of the current Regent of the dynasty. Fourteen words, a portrait of a woman's life. The first time they met, she had been scared to tears by him and had been tricked out of the most important things. How many years had it been since she could not look for him; when they met again, she had not recognized him. He had held the knife to her throat, but she had smiled faintly and warned him haughtily. She thought that her fates with him had started because of his deliberate proximity to her. She didn't know that ten years ago, the heavens had already brought about a whole lifetime of conflict and conflict between her and him ... Join Collection

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Funstory

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1649209487

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9781649209481

Painting Faith

Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture

By: An-Yi Pan

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Painting Faith

Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture

By: An-Yi Pan

Drawing from previously untapped Buddhist sources, this book contextualizes Li Gonglin's Buddhist faith and art through the Chan environment in his hometown (Longmian) and the prevailing Tiantai, Pure Land, Huayan and Chan schools of the Northern Song Dynasty.

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BRILL

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9004160612

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9789004160613

Women in the New Taiwan

Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society

By: Catherine Farris,Lee Anru,Murray A. Rubinstein,An East Gate Book

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Women in the New Taiwan

Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society

By: Catherine Farris,Lee Anru,Murray A. Rubinstein,An East Gate Book

Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan expands and new gender roles are explored. The contributors represent a cross section of different disciplines - history, anthropology, and sociology - and different generations of China/Taiwan scholars. They place the issues facing Taiwan's women's movement in social, political, and economic contexts. The book examines gender relations, the role of women in Chinese society, and issues related to women in China throughout history. Feminism and gender relations are also viewed from the context of film and literature. The authors look at the contemporary roles that women play in Taiwan's work force today, how the sexes perceive each other in the workplace, and more.

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407

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Routledge

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1000122735

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9781000122732

Braised Pork

By: An Yu

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Braised Pork

By: An Yu

A Chinese woman embarks on a dream-like journey through Beijing, Tibet, and mysterious worlds beyond in this novel of “startlingly original imagination” (Guardian, UK). One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure next to the tub. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, from its high-rise apartments to its hidden bars, as her path crosses some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender who may be able to offer her the kind of love she had long thought impossible. Unencumbered by a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia travels into her past in search of unspoken secrets. Her journey takes her to the high plains of Tibet, and even to a shadowy, watery otherworld. An atmospheric evocation of middle-class urban China, An Yu’s Braised Pork explores the intimate strangeness of grief, the indelible mysteries of unseen worlds, and a young woman’s empowering journey of self-discovery.

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159

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Grove Press

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0802148735

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9780802148735

Endless Love From Her Mysterious Husband

Volume 5

By: An XiaoYu

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Endless Love From Her Mysterious Husband

Volume 5

By: An XiaoYu

In her previous life, her family members were taken away and she lost her family members. That lowly man, Sis Fen, burned her to death. Mu Lele swore that if there was an afterlife, she would definitely send all of these people to hell! After her rebirth, she made money from gambling with stones to open a company. However, who could tell her who the heck was this arrogant man with a venomous mouth? She just accidentally met him, and ...

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405

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Funstory

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1649488521

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9781649488527

Immortal Martial Sovereign

Volume 2

By: An ShengFou

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Immortal Martial Sovereign

Volume 2

By: An ShengFou

Yi Hao was originally a peerless expert of the Everlasting Continent, but he was schemed to death by disciple Gong Yangjun. A thousand years after his rebirth, Gong Yangjun dominated the mainland. In this life, I will change my fate and take back what belongs to me!

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Funstory

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1648463991

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9781648463990

Death Class

Volume 1

By: An WuZhi

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Death Class

Volume 1

By: An WuZhi

Originally, a normal class was always a matter of money and benefits. But now, even a meal would be eaten up by them, and their classmates would become enemies.

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Funstory

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1649487568

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Passive RF Component Technology

Materials, Techniques, and Applications

By: Guo'an Wang,Bo Pan

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Passive RF Component Technology

Materials, Techniques, and Applications

By: Guo'an Wang,Bo Pan

Focusing on novel materials and techniques, this pioneering volume provides you with a solid understanding of the design and fabrication of smart RF passive components. You find comprehensive details on LCP, metal materials, ferrite materials, nano materials, high aspect ratio enabled materials, green materials for RFID, and silicon micromachining techniques. Moreover, this practical book offers expert guidance on how to apply these materials and techniques to design a wide range of cutting-edge RF passive components, from MEMS switch based tunable passives and 3D passives, to metamaterial-based passives and on-chip passives. Supported with over 145 illustrations, this forward-looking resource summarizes the growing trend of smart RF passive component design and serves as a guide to the performance improving and cost-down solutions this technology offers the next generation of wireless communications.

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Artech House

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1608071995

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9781608071999

The Marshes of Mount Liang: The broken seals

By: Nai'an Shi,Guanzhong Luo,Alex Dent-Young

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The Marshes of Mount Liang: The broken seals

By: Nai'an Shi,Guanzhong Luo,Alex Dent-Young

When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the rivers and lakes-the mixed company of heroes and vagabonds who live by their wits and their fighting skills. The story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, following first one hero, then another, as their paths converge and part, until finally 108 brave-but not entirely admirable-men are united at the outlaws' stronghold in the Marshes of Mount Liang. The story takes us through the vast landscape of imperial China. We hear of epic duels, gargantuan feasts, and cunning ambushes, and we witness injustice, betrayal, murder and revenge. We are told also of the beauty of the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival or of the snow, crisp underfoot on a stormy night in the country. This volume consists of the first twenty-two chapters of the full 120-chapter version of the classic Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version and including much of the verse. It offers the English reader something of the liveliness and humour of a work which has delighted generations of Chinese readers.

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Chinese University Press

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9622016022

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9789622016026

Atmosphere-ocean Modeling: Coupling And Couplers

By: Carlos Roberto Mechoso,Soon-il An,Sophie Valcke

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Atmosphere-ocean Modeling: Coupling And Couplers

By: Carlos Roberto Mechoso,Soon-il An,Sophie Valcke

Coupled atmosphere-ocean models are at the core of numerical climate models. There is an extraordinarily broad class of coupled atmosphere-ocean models ranging from sets of equations that can be solved analytically to highly detailed representations of Nature requiring the most advanced computers for execution. The models are applied to subjects including the conceptual understanding of Earth's climate, predictions that support human activities in a variable climate, and projections aimed to prepare society for climate change. The present book fills a void in the current literature by presenting a basic and yet rigorous treatment of how the models of the atmosphere and the ocean are put together into a coupled system. The text of the book is divided into chapters organized according to complexity of the components that are coupled. Two full chapters are dedicated to current efforts on the development of generalist couplers and coupling methodologies all over the world.

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World Scientific

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9811232954

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9789811232954

The Huainanzi

A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China

By: An Liu

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The Huainanzi

A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China

By: An Liu

Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation and mental discipline, brilliantly synthesizing for readers past and present the full spectrum of early Chinese thought. The Huainanzi locates the key to successful rule in a balance of broad knowledge, diligent application, and the penetrating wisdom of a sage. It is a unique and creative synthesis of Daoist classics, such as the Laozi and the Zhuangzi; works associated with the Confucian tradition, such as the Changes, the Odes, and the Documents; and a wide range of other foundational philosophical and literary texts from the Mozi to the Hanfeizi. The product of twelve years of scholarship, this remarkable translation preserves The Huainanzi's special rhetorical features, such as parallel prose and verse, and showcases a compositional technique that conveys the work's powerful philosophical appeal. This path-breaking volume will have a transformative impact on the field of early Chinese intellectual history and will be of great interest to scholars and students alike.

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1004

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Columbia University Press

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0231142048

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9780231142045

Dominating The Universe

Volume 1

By: An YeXingMang

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Dominating The Universe

Volume 1

By: An YeXingMang

In AD 200 thousand, the universe was almost explored, and in this vast world, there were two types of people who could dominate over others. One was the person who had mastered the strongest technology, and the other was the person who had reached the peak of the Cultivation Level.Family Wu originally had the strongest technological ability recorded in the A.I. Chip, and after obtaining the strongest Cultivation Methods in the world of cultivation, what kind of waves would he create in this universe?

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Funstory

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1648465935

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9781648465932

Peaceful Life

Volume 1

By: An LianBiAnHua

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Peaceful Life

Volume 1

By: An LianBiAnHua

Transmigration was something that made one feel sorry for themselves even if they didn't survive it. Gu Qishao decided to let her down once. She said: In this era, it's better to be safe as a woman! Being dragged along by an angry aunt to marry him, Gu Qingcheng thought for a bit. All the brides in the novels and TV dramas were happy in the end. Then, I'll marry her! But no matter what, he had to find some benefits for himself before getting married!

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Funstory

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1649755333

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